Everyone worked together all day and became more and more familiar with each other. Li Chuang felt excited every time he saw Lian Xiaomin wielding a hoe vigorously to open up wasteland.
"Xiao Min, now I know what you meant when you said you were strong. How come you are so good at working? You are better than all of us male educated youth. Even if the three of us were tied together, we are still not as good as you."
Li Chuang straightened up and spoke loudly to Lian Xiaomin who was five or six meters ahead.
It is very tiring to reclaim wasteland. There is a large area of wasteland to the south of the village, and the weeds are more than one meter high.
In the past few days, a lot of people from the first team were assigned to this area to open up new land, and many of them found it extremely difficult.
But seeing Lian Xiaomin working is really inspiring.
Lin Youshu also waved his arms, raised his hoe and tried hard to cut the weeds.
He stopped and looked at Li Chuang next to him: "What are you competing with Xiaomin for? You can only compete with me."
"Xiaomin, let alone the three of us tying one together, even if we tie up two more, it won't be enough to tie up that girl, Sister Shi, and Xiao Pei Zhiqing."
Shi Weihong, who was working over there, heard this and burst out laughing: "Big Lin, who wants to be tied up with you? Just do your job!"
Li Xianghai, who was sitting next to Lian Xiaomin, was also amused when he heard the young people chatting.
He said to Li Chuang, "Hey, little educated youth Li, you've done well. You may look thin, but you're quite strong. You new educated youth from Shanghai are all quite capable, not like freshly graduated students."
Li Chuang wiped the sweat from his forehead and raised his face. Although Li Xianghai was Lian Xiaomin's uncle, he was only 26 years old and he usually called him "big brother".
He said, "Brother Xiang Hai, we are not all fresh graduates."
He pointed at Yu Lei in the distance and said, "Yu Lei is already 22 years old. He just looks younger because he wears glasses. Besides, he is not from Shanghai. It's just that you northerners can't hear the difference in accent. You think we are from the same place, both from Shanghai."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
After hearing this, Lian Xiaomin felt that it was a little unusual, and asked casually, "He's so old, I can't tell from his face. I thought you two were together."
"No, the other six of us new educated youth all came here on the same train. We sat together on the way and got to know each other. Yu Lei joined us after we arrived in Jianye County."
Pei Ziqiu on the side also explained to Xiaomin.
She is not very old, but she comes from an extraordinary family. After experiencing many changes, she is good at observing people's words and expressions and has a delicate mind.
Having lived in the same courtyard for more than half a year, Pei Ziqiu always felt that Yu Lei was a little elusive. When Lian Xiaomin asked her, she just said whatever she wanted.
She whispered a few words to Xiaomin and mentioned that she felt this guy was a little strange.
Once, she and Sister Shi went to the toilet together in the middle of the night, and saw Yu Zhiqing leaving the Youth League Home alone.
Pei Ziqiu is a man of many thoughts, so he tells Sister Shi not to say anything.
Out of curiosity, after the people left the courtyard, they gently opened the door and looked out. They saw a black shadow heading towards Daqing Mountain.
We can't say that he went out to steal in the middle of the night, but who would go to the back mountain in the middle of the night for no reason?
Xiaomin's home is at the foot of the mountain, and it's a single house. It's not close to other people's yards, so Pei Ziqiu's words were also a kind reminder for her to pay attention to safety precautions.
Lian Xiaomin listened, became thoughtful and paid close attention.
But the other person didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and since it had nothing to do with her, she wouldn't do anything.
If any petty thief really dares to harm her family, he would be asking for death.
Lian Xiaomin began her life of going to work day after day and got to know more people in the village.
The village has also undergone many changes. The first major event is that after the Chinese New Year, the commune organized a second road repair before the spring ploughing. This time it lasted for a month and finally opened up a closer road from Sandagou to the commune.
In the past, due to its geographical location closer to the mountains, Sandagou was the least convenient place to get to the commune among the nearby villages. The roads were winding and winding, and it took nearly twenty miles to reach the commune.
This time we put in a lot of effort and opened a shortcut that is almost a straight line. We don’t have to take such a detour, and the distance has been shortened by more than half. Now we can reach the commune in just seven or eight miles.
Another big thing is that the village has opened a formal primary school. This is something Zhang Shengli has wanted to do for a long time, and he finally got it done.
There was a school in the past, but one day there was a heavy snowfall and the roof collapsed in the middle of the night, so the school was interrupted.
It turned out that the female teacher was a girl from this village, but later she married and moved to another village. For various reasons, the school was never reopened.
This time, the new primary school was not far from the brigade headquarters, behind the granary. It had a separate yard and built a few sturdy houses. Carpenter Xue and his men made some tables, chairs and benches. Of course, these were counted as work points.
Every family with children of school age sent them there to continue their studies.
The teachers also had to be re-selected, so the village cadres held a meeting and directly decided on three people.
Among them, one place was given to the educated youth, and Wang Zhen was chosen.
This was proposed by the old branch secretary Xu Fengmin, who said that Wang Zhiqing was a high school graduate, 21 years old this year, and quite stable. Whenever there was a big or small event in the village that needed a pen, he would often come to the team headquarters to help on a voluntary basis.
He looks down-to-earth and will be a good teacher to teach children.
The other two teachers were both from the village. One was Wang Yunqing, the little girl from Wang Erzhu’s family at the entrance of the village.
Another one is Xie Jiao, the eldest daughter of Xie Shuangping, the second brother of Xie Shuangxi.
Wang Yunqing and Xie Jiao are both sixteen years old this year, seventeen in lunar age, and have graduated from junior high school.
There are not many girls who have graduated from junior high school in the village. There are only two of them. They are the tallest among the short ones and they have both been selected.
The middle school was in the commune, and in the past, you had to live on campus to study in junior high school.
Later, the school was in chaos for a while, and it has not recovered yet. These two are the only ones who graduated and are still unmarried.
Wang Yunqing's family was not well off, but she had a good older brother whose words were influential at home and who insisted on supporting this honest younger sister until she finished junior high school.
As for Xie Jiao, as her name suggests, she is a bit spoiled.
Lian Xiaomin had heard Xiao Lingzi mention that this cousin from her second uncle's family was two years older than her and was not easy to get along with.
The Xie family has good genes. Xiao Lingzi is quite energetic, and Xie Jiao is even more handsome, but she has a bit of a domineering personality.
Normally, relying on the fact that she is the first child of Xie Shuangping and Zhou Daqiao, the couple dotes on this eldest daughter especially and therefore she takes care of everything at home.
But Xiao Lingzi was just a teenager with a bit of a boyish personality, and she ignored her altogether.
Lian Xiaomin never said a word to the arrogant Xie Jiao. As an old lady with a mental age of 33, she would not take such a little girl seriously at all.
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