Chapter 16: Get Together
"Indeed, it's better for us to live together. I'll go back and ask the captain if I can build a room next to yours. I also want to live alone. By the way, how much does it cost to build a room?"
Qin Wan has already made up her mind to move out. Only by moving out and having an independent private space can she practice her supernatural powers properly.
If you want to live well here, you must never lose the ability to protect yourself.
Li Ruolan said, "It's not expensive. It's an adobe house. The team leader said it cost about 40 or 50 yuan."
Qin Wan nodded: "I can still come up with this little money. I'll talk to the captain when I get back. Then I'll build houses around you and we can be neighbors."
"Okay." Li Ruolan nodded with a smile.
The three of them had just finished their meal when they saw Zhou Shengnan, Zheng Fanghua, Liu Kunming and others coming over to eat. After a few words, the two groups separated.
In addition to the state-owned restaurant, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao went to the supply and marketing cooperative to see if there was anything they needed, and they kept walking around like this until the time to gather.
Uncle Wang and his son had been waiting here for a long time. Many women from the village had also returned from shopping, holding large and small bags in their hands.
Seeing Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao, all of them looked at them with interest.
"You two know each other, right? You look so familiar and walking together. Are you dating?" A round-faced woman in her thirties or forties teased Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao with a smile.
Li Ruolan smiled and nodded openly: "Yes, we are both from Beijing. We were high school classmates and got together after graduation. Later, we signed up to go to the countryside together, and then came here."
Deng Minghao was also very understanding. He took out a handful of candies from his pocket and gave one to each of them. "We are all new here and don't know how to work in the fields. When we start working tomorrow, the sisters and ladies must help me take good care of my partner."
The round-faced lady happily took the candy and said, "Okay, okay, after eating your candy, I will definitely help you take good care of your partner."
"You two are a perfect match. The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful."
Li Ruolan just smiled and thanked him.
Deng Minghao was a man who knew how to deal with things. Li Ruolan had been with Deng Minghao for so long that she naturally learned a lot. Soon, she became friends with the older women in the village.
When Qin Wan and the others came back, they were very surprised to see this scene.
When they were on the carriage before, the older women in the village, although not hostile to these newly arrived educated youth, were somewhat wary of them.
Who would have thought that after only a short time of not seeing each other, Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan would become good friends with these older ladies when they came back?
Qin Wan, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua were not stupid either. They knew this was a good opportunity to get closer to their fellow villagers, so they immediately went up to them and started a conversation.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao acted as middlemen and introduced all these people, so that the newly arrived educated youth could become familiar with the fellow villagers.
On the way back, Deng Minghao sat next to Uncle Wang and handed him several cigarettes along the way. The two of them had a very happy chat.
"Your partner is really amazing. He can chat with anyone." Qin Wan gave Li Ruolan a thumbs up, her face full of admiration.
"Maybe this is talent." Li Ruolan is no longer surprised.
It was just past four o'clock when the carriage returned to Victory Brigade. After delivering the things they had just bought back to the room, they found that Li Yingying was not in the room at all.
The four of them didn't care and went to Carpenter Zhao in the north of the village with the male educated youth and Guo Xiaoya.
Carpenter Zhao knew that there would be new educated youth arriving soon, so he made a lot of cabinets and boxes, all of which were ready-made and could be taken away.
Li Ruolan asked for a big box and a small box. Seeing that there were woven kang mats in the yard, Li Ruolan also asked for one.
In addition, I also bought a woven bamboo basket, a backpack, and a straw hat for sun protection.
Qin Wan and the others wanted the same thing as Li Ruolan. The male educated youth only wanted a box, a backpack, a straw hat and other things.
Because there were a lot of things needed, the male educated youth helped to move them back, and it took two trips back and forth to finish moving.
Put the box on the kang, next to the window, then put all your things in it and lock it with a small lock.
Except for Li Yingying, all four did the same.
After the boxes were brought back, the work in the fields was completed, and the old educated youth came back one after another, including Li Yingying.
It seems that she didn't go to town today, but went to work in the fields with the old educated youth.
As soon as Li Baoguo came back, he took them to collect the food that the new educated youth were supposed to have, 40 kilograms per person, and all of it was coarse grains.
"Forty kilograms of food, if you live frugally, it will probably last for more than two months. The busy farming season will begin in another month, and after that you will be able to get new food.
Of course, if you have a big appetite, you can also go to the villagers to exchange some food. It is best to exchange a little, otherwise you will not be able to earn many work points if you are not full during the busy farming season. "
Li Baoguo helped the new educated youth carry the food back and talked to them a lot on the way.
After the food was brought back, everyone wrote their names on the bags and then locked them in the cabinet in the public kitchen.
The girls' cooking arrangements had been made yesterday, and they were paired up in pairs, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua, Li Ruolan and Qin Wan, Li Yingying and Guo Xiaoya.
Today it was the old educated youth who cooked again, but the food was not as good as yesterday. It was a thin grain porridge that was enough to make people sunburned, and coarse grain pancakes made of someone unknown.
After taking a bite, you need to drink three or five mouthfuls of porridge to swallow it, which is really sore in the throat.
The old educated youth ate with gusto and quickly, finishing their own food in no time.
As for the new educated youth, they are still struggling with the hard cake and eating it so slowly.
After finishing their meal, the educated youth washed their dishes and put them away, then took turns fetching water to wash their faces and feet, and then went to bed.
At that time, there was no electricity in the countryside, and oil lamps consumed a lot of oil, so most people ate before it got dark, and after dinner they washed up and went to bed when it got dark.
They will start work tomorrow, so Li Ruolan and the others naturally need to have a good rest and recharge their batteries.
Li Yingying didn't have much money on her, and she hadn't found a man who could support her. Fortunately, she had been working for many years and still had some strength.
Today, Li Ruolan and her friends went to the town to buy things, but she went to the fields with the old educated youth. She worked all day and earned six work points.
One centimeter is ten cents, which means Li Yingying earned sixty cents today. She was very tired on her first day at work and she was the one who fell asleep the fastest among everyone.
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