Chapter 10 Thanking the Old Educated Youths

After Su Mo finished writing the letter, she came out and saw that no one had returned yet. She guessed that they were helping the new educated youths with work again.

There were a total of 5 new educated youths in their batch, 2 men and 3 women. They arrived at the time of autumn harvest and had no time to adapt, so they often couldn't finish their work. The old educated youths would finish their own work and then help them.

There are currently 11 educated youths in the educated youth station, 6 men and 5 women. Everyone gets along well for the time being, and the educated youths are united and often help each other.

Thinking of the care that the old educated youths had given to the original owner some time ago, Su Mo prepared to cook a delicious meal for everyone.

After the entire autumn harvest, everyone has lost weight.

Su Mo took out the bag of rice left over from the end of the world, about 2 jins of rice, and poured it all into the basin, then scooped two bowls of corn grits into the basin, preparing to cook rice and corn porridge.

After rinsing it twice, Su Mo poured the rice into the pot, added most of the pot of water, and started a small fire to let it simmer slowly.

She went to the vegetable garden outside and picked three large cabbages and a few tomatoes. She took out a piece of bacon weighing about a jin from the space and prepared to make bacon and cabbage stir-fry.

There were two pots in the educated youth camp, and everyone did not eat together on weekdays, but only during the autumn harvest. Now one pot is used to cook porridge, and the other pot can be used to cook vegetables.

The tomatoes were cut raw, and then sprinkled with some white sugar as a cold salad.

Such a shared meal was already considered good in that era. There was rice porridge, meat, and some sweets, which was pretty much how most families spent the New Year.

When the educated youth came back, they could smell the aroma of meat from afar. They were all hungry, so they quickened their pace and rushed to the educated youth's place. They

saw Su Mo cooking in the kitchen, and the aroma made them drool.

Ma Xiaojuan, who had the best relationship with Su Mo, ran over and shouted happily: "Su Mo, you're back? Are you making braised pork? It smells so good."

Ma Xiaojuan was Su Mo's roommate, and there was another one named Chen Lan.

"It's not braised pork, but some bacon I brought from home before, and I took it out to give everyone a supplement. I really troubled everyone some time ago." Su Mo smiled.

The original owner was really the last one to work, and basically everyone worked for her.

The old educated youths felt much better after hearing this.

Ma Jianmin, the person in charge of the educated youth site, smiled and said, "We are all revolutionary comrades, and we should help each other."

In fact, the old educated youths were not very willing to help the new educated youths.

But the educated youths are one body, and the villagers are somewhat xenophobic to the educated youths. If they are not united, they will be at a disadvantage in the brigade.

Moreover, after the autumn harvest, it will be winter soon. If the new educated youths can't finish the work, they won't have many work points, which means they won't get much food.

Everyone is in the educated youth site, and if the new educated youths have no food, they will definitely ask the old educated youths to borrow it. They only have enough to eat, and if they lend it to the new educated youths, they won't be able to survive until the next distribution of food.

Therefore, they could only hold their noses and help them, so that they could earn as many work points as possible and get more food.

They did the work, but they still had some complaints in their hearts. Now that Su Mo was sensible and took out good things to thank them, they felt much better.

"Su Mo, I didn't expect you to be so good at cooking." Chen Lan swallowed her saliva, staring at the pot. There was quite a lot of meat.

Before, I saw her so coquettish, and thought she was a person who didn't touch women's water, but I didn't expect that she had some good points.

Su Mo smiled and said nothing. In order to be able to cook vegetables well, she did a lot of research on cooking in the end times. How could her cooking skills be bad?

The dishes were quickly cooked, and Su Mo took the large basin that she usually used to hold vegetables, put them on the table.

Su Mo's knife skills are good. She cut the bacon into thin slices, and paired it with tender green cabbage, which made everyone unable to take their eyes off.

"Oh my God, Su Mo, how much meat did you put in?" An old educated youth named Zheng Caiping exclaimed.

"Not much, I guess more than a pound."

"You fried more than a pound in one go?" Zheng Caiping almost screamed, looking at Su Mo with a look of looking at a loser.

"I just saw that everyone has lost weight after the autumn harvest, so I just made more so that everyone can have a good meal."

"Okay, Zheng Caiping, they invited you to eat meat, why do you have so many opinions? Hurry up and eat, you are not hungry, but we are." Zhao Guoping scolded.

He was really exhausted. After doing his own work, he still had to help others. It was really fucking.

"Yes, yes, yes, let's eat." Some educated youths have already returned to their rooms to get their lunch boxes.

Another educated youth lifted the lid of another pot and exclaimed: "Rice porridge!"

Now, no one said anything, and they all returned to their rooms to get their lunch boxes in unison, fearing that others would finish them if they were late. The old educated youths have been here for a year or two, and they only eat rice porridge during festivals or when they are not feeling well. They

ate the whole meal in silence. It was so delicious that if they hadn't remembered that they were still educated youths, they would have wanted to grab it like the rural aunties.

Of course, the main dish was porridge and fried cabbage with bacon, and tomatoes were completely ignored.

It was not until the end of the meal that someone picked up a piece of tomato to eat.

"Sweet! Did you add sugar?"

Su Mo nodded, "I added some white sugar."

Everyone picked up the tomatoes in a row. After eating, they found that the sweetness was more than just a little bit. Everyone didn't say anything, but silently quickened their eating speed.

Su Mo added the white sugar early, and when everyone came back, it had already melted, so no one else noticed.

The white sugar in later generations has small grains and is snow-white in color. Su Mo didn't know what the white sugar now looks like, so in order to avoid being discovered, she sprinkled the white sugar on early.

Needless to say, it was delicious, but it was also eaten up. Even the sugar water was divided by several male educated youth and poured into the porridge.

After the meal, everyone thanked Su Mo politely, then boiled water, washed up, and went back to their rooms to rest.

As for ideological and political studies, let's talk about it after the autumn harvest. Everyone is almost exhausted.

Su Mo sat for a while and then returned to her room.

At that time, there was no electricity, so people used kerosene lamps for lighting. Chen Lan brought the kerosene lamp that Su Mo and her friends had, and there was only one lamp, and the kerosene was borrowed from an old educated youth.

With only one lamp in such a large room, you can imagine the light, which was barely enough to see things.

Su Mo saw that there was nothing she could do, so she spread the blanket and prepared to go to bed. Tomorrow she would get up early and go to the county town.

Ma Xiaojuan had just come back from taking a shower, and approached Su Mo, and suddenly asked in confusion: "What did you apply? It smells so good."

Su Mo's heart skipped a beat, because she had used shampoo to wash her hair. The fragrance of daily necessities in later times is not comparable to that of today's products.

"I applied some hair oil, bought from the Friendship Store." Su Mo simply said it.

Ma Xiaojuan did not suspect anything, because they lived in the same room, and she had noticed when Su Mo took clothes before, and those clothes were obviously imported goods.

Ma Xiaojuan's family was not bad, and she had also bought things from the Friendship Store, so she still had a good eye. It's just that there are many children in the family, and one of them has to go to the countryside, so she volunteered to go.

Her family would give her money every month, so she was not afraid. If she could do the farm work, she would do it, and if she couldn't, forget it. Among the educated youth, Su Mo was the last in work, and she was the second to last.

"Are you okay? I wanted to take a leave to take care of you, but the team leader wouldn't let me, saying that labor should be active. It really pissed me off." Speaking of this, Ma Xiaojuan was angry, and she was thinking of taking the opportunity to slack off.

Ma Xiaojuan was different from Su Mo. Su Mo really couldn't do anything, but Ma Xiaojuan was the type who was used to being lazy.

But the team leader hated this kind of person the most, and he directly refused Ma Xiaojuan's request for leave. If other hardworking educated youth had gone, he would have approved it.

But the other three female educated youth were reluctant to give up their work points and did not say anything about looking after Su Mo. The captain had no choice but to ask Lu Changzheng to visit her occasionally. After all, there were doctors in the health center and the doctors would take care of her.

"I heard some rumors from the aunties in the village these two days. You are not really going to marry that soldier, are you?" Ma Xiaojuan was a little worried.

Her mother is a doctor, and she knows that this is a normal first aid measure, but these ignorant villagers don't understand.

"Well, I'm dating him now."

"What?" Ma Xiaojuan was shocked, "Are you being coerced? We can go to the commune leader together. This is a very normal measure."

Su Mo is so beautiful, maybe the soldier has lusty intentions towards her.

"No, he's a nice guy."

"But you can't marry him. If you really marry him, you might end up living in the countryside for the rest of your life..."

"The countryside is nice sometimes." Su Mo didn't want to say more, and changed the subject. "The autumn harvest should be almost over, right? What are you doing now?"

"We're picking peanuts. I heard from the aunties that after picking the peanuts, they basically just need to dry them in the sun and store them in the warehouse, and then wait for the public grain to be delivered." Ma Xiaojuan answered.

"Do you think I should buy some meat after the autumn harvest and treat everyone to a meal?" Seeing that Su Mo didn't want to say more, Ma Xiaojuan didn't ask any more questions and changed the subject.

"If conditions permit, I think it's okay. After all, we've troubled the old educated youth a lot during this period of time." Su Mo replied.

"That's

fine. After the autumn harvest is over, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some meat and some egg cakes, and treat everyone to a meal." "Xiaojuan, how about we treat everyone together?" Chen Lan just happened to come in and spoke up immediately.

Her family conditions were average, and she couldn't afford to treat everyone individually.

"That's fine, then we can treat everyone together." Ma Xiaojuan agreed straightforwardly.