Chapter 020
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan spent half a day to finish drawing the blackboard newspaper.
Although he did not contribute much, Chuxia was quite satisfied with the results.
She collected all the unused colored chalks, not even leaving behind a single piece of chalk head.
Then she looked at Lin Xiaohan and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so talented and draw such a good blackboard newspaper."
Lin Xiaohan didn't seem proud of her praise. He just glanced at her and said, "When we were in school, I was the one who made the bulletin boards for our class. Don't you know?"
Chuxia looked at him and blinked, saying nothing.
She really didn't know, she had never paid attention to him.
Lin Xiaohan didn't say any more about this and didn't want to reminisce about school days with Chuxia.
Although they are in the same class, they seem to live in two different worlds and have nothing to talk about.
The only topic they could talk about was Han Ting.
Because they both pay attention to Han Ting, Chu Xia likes Han Ting, while Lin Xiaohan hates Han Ting very much.
He and Han Ting seemed to be born to be incompatible and were the people who hated and resented each other the most.
But neither of them really wanted to talk about Han Ting.
Lin Xiaohan washed his hands with the water in the bucket and went straight back to the office to get his schoolbag.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan leave, Chuxia hurriedly washed her hands, poured water from the bucket, and returned to the office. She put on her schoolbag and followed him out of the school, going back to the educated youth point with him.
Because Lin Xiaohan drew the blackboard newspaper and wrote the words, Chuxia colored them, so she said to Lin Xiaohan: "You put in more effort in drawing the blackboard newspaper and you are more tired than me, so I will help you heat up the steamed buns at noon today, how about it?"
Lin Xiaohan walked forward and said, "You have calculated it clearly."
Chu Xia followed his steps and said, "Of course. I hate taking advantage of others. Don't worry if you work with me. I won't let you suffer any loss."
Lin Xiaohan said: "If I don't want to, no one can make me suffer."
Chu Xia thought for a moment, looked at him and asked, "So you lent me water to drink before, drove the donkey cart back and forth yesterday, and put in a lot of effort to draw the blackboard newspaper today. You were willing to suffer losses, right?"
If these things happened to other men, Chu Xia would definitely not ask, because these are things that cannot be any smaller, and no one would take them to heart.
But when these things happened to Lin Xiaohan, she couldn't help but be curious.
If he did all this voluntarily, could she just not worry about it?
Lin Xiaohan was subconsciously stunned by Chu Xia's question.
Then he looked at Chu Xia and said, "Thank you for reminding me that I suffered so much from you. You don't need to heat up my steamed buns for me at noon today. I'll eat your steamed buns."
Chu Xia: “…”
He is still that stingy man!
***
After returning to the educated youth point, Chuxia heated up two servings of steamed buns.
After she and Lin Xiaohan finished their meal, they did not stay at the educated youth center to rest, but went straight back to school to prepare their speeches for the afternoon meeting.
Not long after they left the educated youth site, Han Ting and the other ten people came back noisily.
When entering the courtyard gate, Han Ting said: "I asked, but I can't borrow it. Those fellow villagers are very stingy and are reluctant to give us a dried radish. I asked a lot of people, and two of them said that we should take things to exchange, and then they could give us some in return."
They were talking about the pickles mentioned yesterday.
When he reached the water pump, Guogai took the handle and pumped the water, and asked, "What do you want in exchange?"
Clean water was pressed out of the well, and Han Ting was the first to reach out to wash his hands.
He washed his hands, straightened up and said, "It's not so clear. As long as they haven't seen anything they can exchange for food or other things, I guess."
Han Ting washed his hands and went into the kitchen first, and the others washed their hands and went into the kitchen one after another.
Some people were lighting the fire, scooping water and cooking, some were sitting and talking, and the ten people continued to talk about this.
Chaozi glanced at everyone and asked, "Do you have anything you can exchange?"
Li Qiao has always been positive and was the first to answer, "In fact, exchanging food for food is the easiest, but we didn't bring much from home, and we finished it a long time ago, so we don't have anything else to eat."
Chaozi asked again: "What else?"
What else can you come up with? It seems like there is nothing to come up with.
Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke.
After a moment of silence, the educated youth Hu Yang said, "When you girls first went to the countryside, you brought so much luggage with you. How come you can't even take out a little stuff now? If you really can't, just take your clothes and change. These country folks don't have any good clothes."
Gu Yuzhu was the first to disagree and immediately said, "Why do you want to exchange our clothes? Why not yours? If you exchange clothes, won't we wear them?"
Hu Yang said, "Isn't it because you girls brought too many clothes? We boys didn't bring many clothes to the countryside. You girls have so many clothes, so what's wrong with one less?"
Gu Yuzhu continued to be unhappy and said, "Who told you that we brought too many clothes? The clothes we brought are just enough to change, there is no surplus at all. It doesn't matter if you guys wear the same clothes for ten days, eight days or half a month. Why don't you take your clothes to change? Isn't leaving one enough?"
Look at what she said, it's so disgusting.
Hu Yang wanted to retort, but was stopped by Han Ting.
Han Ting looked at the two of them and said, "What are you two arguing about again? Every time something happens, you two argue the most. Can arguing solve the problem?"
After hearing what Han Ting said, both of them suppressed their emotions and tempers.
Gu Yuzhu lowered her voice and said, "Then what do you want in exchange?"
Han Ting thought for a moment and said, "If you can't come up with anything, then exchange it for food."
That's a good idea.
Li Qiao raised his hand first again: "I think it's okay."
Then everyone else agreed and agreed to exchange for food.
Since everyone had no objection, Han Ting decided to go all out and directly asked Chaozi to get the food. The two of them took the food and went out together to go to a fellow villager's house to exchange it for pickles.
***
School.
In the office.
Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia sat at their respective desks, writing their speeches carefully.
When I finished writing the revision, I suddenly heard the loudspeaker of the brigade headquarters outside: "Hey! Hey, hey!"
The voice belonged to the team leader Liang Youtian. After he finished feeding the children, he raised his voice and said, "Dear members, please pay attention. All production teams will stop working for half a day this afternoon. We will hold a village-wide meeting at the brigade's threshing ground. At least one person from each household must be present. Bring your own bench and find a place to sit. All children who have registered for school must be present, as well as the educated youth in the educated youth points. No one is allowed to be absent..."
For fear that some people might not hear him, Liang Youtian would repeat his notifications several times each time.
After the notification was given, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan’s speeches were also revised.
Lin Xiaohan put away his pen and asked Chu Xia: "Have you finished writing?"
Chu Xia also put away her pen and said, "Well, I'm done."
After saying this, the two of them put away their speeches and went to the classroom next door together.
According to Liang Youtian's instructions, they went to the classroom and picked out three relatively clean desks. Two people each lifted one end of a desk and carried all three desks out and placed them on the threshing floor.
These desks are all double-seaters.
Three desks put together can seat six or seven people.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan moved the desks outside and put them together. Liang Youtian just came over with the brigade's red silk cloth and a microphone wrapped in red silk. The microphone was connected to a very long wire.
With red silk spread on the desk and the microphone placed there, it looked very realistic.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan moved three long benches out of the classroom.
As soon as they put down the long bench behind the rostrum, the most energetic children in the village rushed to the threshing ground and started chasing and playing around the rostrum.
Amid the children's noise and play, the adults came over one after another, carrying stools.
When people get together, they have endless things to talk about. Once they sit down, they start gossiping about the Zhang and Li families. More and more people sit down in the threshing ground, and it becomes more and more lively.
The villagers had no objection to the meeting; they just did whatever the village cadres told them to do.
But the ten educated youth present looked more depressed and frustrated than each other.
Gu Yuzhu complained quietly, "Why did the school call us all to the opening ceremony?"
Should we let them sit in the audience and applaud, congratulating Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan for becoming teachers, so that they will never have to work in the fields again? Is it necessary?
Just now at the educated youth site, they were quite happy when they heard the notice that they didn’t have to work in the afternoon, and they couldn’t help but cheer. Unexpectedly, they were called to attend some crappy meeting.
It is not enough for just one person to come, we specifically call upon them all to come.
Other families only need to send one person, I don’t know why they have to call them all over.
Those villagers were happy to see Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan show off in such occasions, but they didn't want to watch it.
None of the ten of them is worse than Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, so why should they be teachers?
Su Yun sat next to Gu Yuzhu.
Hearing Gu Yuzhu's complaints, she took a deep breath and lowered her head to pinch her nails.
She was already feeling uncomfortable enough, but Gu Yuzhu touched her with her arm and asked her, "Su Yun, aren't you uncomfortable? I still think that you should be the teacher."
Su Yun: “…”
She forced a smile at Gu Yuzhu and said, "Stop talking nonsense."
Gu Yuzhu added: "I'm not talking nonsense, you are more suitable to be a teacher than Tang Chuxia. It's them who don't know how to choose people. If we were to choose, we would definitely choose you."
Su Yun forced a smile at Gu Yuzhu again, lowered her head and said nothing more.
She didn't know why, but she always felt that everything in front of her was extremely wrong.
In today's occasion, she should be dressed up beautifully and sitting on the podium speaking into the microphone.
Chu Xia, who is inconspicuous no matter where she is, should be sitting in her current position.
This feeling is very strong, more like a plot arranged by fate.
As for why she felt this way, she couldn't explain it clearly.
Anyway, it made her feel extremely depressed and uncomfortable.
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