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Adults are too embarrassed to take food from children, but they can't help but ask a few questions whenever they see how well the children are eating.
There's nothing they can do, they're just craving it.
But they can't really take food from children, can they?
Even though many things are public these days, there are still some things that are tacitly understood.
As Little Peach Blossom ate, she looked at Lin Yuqing beside her and said, "Big Brother."
"Um?"
"Shall we go see the educated youth later?"
Lin Yuqing frowned, unhappy: "What's so interesting about them?"
Little Peach Blossom opened her eyes wide and asked in a soft, sweet voice, "Big brother, is it alright?"
Lin Yuqing, unable to bear it any longer: "Okay!"
Little Peach Blossom smiled, her eyes crinkling: "Big brother, you're the best!"
Lin Yuqing laughed, revealing her gap-toothed smile.
“Little Peach Blossom, you’re going to visit the educated youth? We’ll go too!” The other children who heard this quickly chimed in.
“Okay, let’s go together.” Little Peach Blossom nodded.
She had just seen several educated youths on Uncle Niu's truck. Uncle Niu said he would work for them, and Little Peach Blossom was still curious.
So just as the educated youth finished tidying up their rooms and were about to go to the village to ask around, they saw several children's heads crowding around the gate.
The children didn't go inside; they just peeked through the door.
Several educated youth: ...
One of the female educated youths, with braided pigtails, smiled and said, "Hello everyone?"
No child responded, so Xiao Taohua straightened her clothes and walked out formally: "Hello."
When the others saw Xiao Taohua step forward, they followed suit. Goodness, there were about twelve or thirteen children in total.
"May I ask what brings you here?" The one who asked the question was still the educated youth with braided pigtails. Her name was Li Xiu, and she was sixteen years old.
Little Peach Blossom tilted her head: "Where did you come from? Why are you working for us?"
this……
The others looked at each other.
"We're from outside. What does 'working' mean?" Li Xiu asked.
"Outside?" Little Peach Blossom thought for a moment. She didn't know where "outside" meant, but "Uncle Niu said that the educated youth were there to work for us."
"Nonsense! We're here to support rural development!" one hot-tempered male educated youth couldn't help but say.
"Support?" Little Peach Blossom didn't understand.
The hot-tempered educated youth scoffed, "The vast countryside needs us intellectuals to build it up. We are actively responding to the call, and it's an honor for us! We're not here to do the work!"
"But Uncle Niu said that educated youth are just there to do manual labor, right?" Little Peach Blossom looked up, her face full of confusion.
Uncle Niu wouldn't lie, and this person in front of me doesn't seem like a liar either, so who's right?
"fart!"
"Alright, Yang Jianbing, why are you using such foul language with a child?"
"Qian Sun, I don't believe you won't be angry!"
"I am a little angry, but why are you getting angry with a child?" Qian Sun said helplessly.
"Even kids know we're here to work, I don't believe the adults say otherwise!"
After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
Reality and imagination are once again laid bare before everyone.
"Forget it, let's just make the best of it. What? Are you still thinking about going back? Given the current situation, it's definitely not going back for the time being," said Shi Ke, the last male educated youth, rationally.
“Alright, everyone here is new here. Little friend, can you tell us about the production team?” another female educated youth, Xiao Juying, said with a smile.
Of course, her gaze was fixed on Little Peach Blossom, since the group of children were subtly gravitating towards her.
“We are from Xiaolin Village.” Little Peach Blossom looked at the other person with her clear eyes.
"Oh, anything else?"
"The adults have work to do."
"Um."
"So what exactly did the educated youth do?"
Little Peach Blossom is still struggling with this question.
Xiao Juying was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Educated youth are those who are educated young people. People like us are educated youth. We used to study in school, but now we've come to your production team to support rural development, which means we've been sent to work in the countryside."
Little Peach Blossom nodded thoughtfully: "So I'm here to do some work."
Five educated youth: ...
That statement seems to make perfect sense...
"Little Peach Blossom, let's go, this place is no fun at all."
"Yes, Little Peach Blossom, let's go."
Little Peach Blossom felt there was nothing more to ask, so she waved goodbye to the five educated youths: "Goodbye, big brothers and sisters."
They left so cleanly and decisively that the five educated youths even wanted to ask them to stay.
"Looks like we really are here to work," Xiao Juying said with a touch of bittersweet humor.
"Alright, let's go, let's go find the captain and ask him." Shi Ke shrugged.
"Little Peach Blossom, are they really here to work?" A child asked curiously as they left the educated youth settlement.
"That should be true." Little Peach Blossom nodded.
"I thought the outsiders had three heads and six arms, but they look just like us, with two eyes and one mouth."
"People all over the world are the same."
"I thought it was different."
It's understandable that these kids were curious about the educated youth; the production team had already received a notice before the educated youth arrived, otherwise there wouldn't be an educated youth settlement now.
This educated youth settlement was converted from an old house; the production team worked on it for three days straight.
Such a big event naturally aroused the curiosity of a group of children, and after seeing the educated youth today, the previous questions naturally followed.
Now that their curiosity had been satisfied, the children went off to play on their own.
As for what the educated youth said to Lin Guangyi and what they planned to do next, it really had nothing to do with the children. Oh, no, it still had something to do with them.
For example, it has been a month since the educated youth came to Xiaolin Village. The five educated youth had a relatively easy first day, but they started working in the fields from the second day onwards. The following days were simply unbearable for them.
They were exhausted, extremely exhausted, so exhausted that they even considered running away.
But they couldn't run away, and they came voluntarily, without being forced by anyone, which made them grit their teeth and persevere even when faced with difficulties.
They have to finish the path they chose, even if they have to crawl on their knees, unless they have connections to get back to the city on their own.
The first one to give up was Li Xiu with braided pigtails. She really couldn't take it anymore. She was busy with farm work every day, her feet barely touching the ground, but she couldn't earn many work points a day. Even when she came back, they still had to take turns washing clothes and cooking. Don't underestimate these seemingly insignificant things, but all of them were the last straw that broke the camel's back.
When Little Peach Blossom returned from outside, she heard someone crying over the haystack. This was a rare time when she was all alone.
Driven by curiosity, Little Peach Blossom peered over and saw the older girl with braided hair crying miserably.
"Big sister?"
Li Xiu was so crying that she didn't even notice Xiao Taohua's arrival.
"Big sister." Little Peach Blossom walked even closer.
Li Xiu finally heard her this time. She raised her tear-streaked head and wiped her face. "Little Peach Blossom, what are you doing here?"
(End of this chapter)
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