Chapter 22: Wolf ambitions, must be guarded against
Liu Changqing turned to look at him standing coldly not far away, his eyes like spitting fire. He was stunned for a moment, then let go of Wen Wan: "If you can't, then go back first. I can help you grind this little bit of food."
Wen Wan waved her hand: "It's okay, it's okay. You go and do your own thing. I'll take my time. I'm just a little uncomfortable and dizzy." These things have to be learned one way or another. It's not advisable to bother others every time.
After saying that, he glanced at Lu Dongping who was not far away and smiled: "You're here so early?"
Lu Dongping couldn't hold back the smile on her face for a moment: "It's getting late. Didn't we agree yesterday that we'd help you grind grain today?"
Agreed? When did they agree on this? Wen Wan was confused, but when she saw the two snakeskin bags in his hands, she realized, "Oh, right, I thought you weren't coming today. Aren't you going to the commune?" It was said that he was an officer from the armed forces department and was going to train with the militia.
Liu Changqing was also stunned for a moment: "Secretary Lu and Comrade Wen Wan have a very good relationship!"
Lu Dongping walked over and said with a forced smile, "As a new comrade, I naturally have to help out a little." After that, he took the grinding bar from Wen Wan's hand without any hesitation and patted Wen Wan on the head, "Go ahead, go play over there, I'll take care of this thing."
A big hand easily lifted the person to the side.
Liu Changqing looked at him thoughtfully, said hello to Wen Wan, and returned to the educated youth point.
They are all adult men, and he knows very well what Lu Dongping wants to do, because he also has the same ulterior motives.
He has been here for five years. All the female educated youth who came here with him have left, leaving only him and Wang Jianmao. They can neither go back to the city nor find a partner.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to date, but he always feels that he can’t stay here forever. He didn’t like those two female educated youth at the time, and he looked down on the ones in the production team even more, and he couldn’t like them.
Once you find a partner and settle down here, it will be difficult to go back with your family.
What's more, he is an educated and cultured person, and he doesn't want to find someone who is illiterate and has such a big generation gap with him.
Wen Wan came at the right time. He had been here for a few years and had already integrated into the life here. It was not as difficult as it was at the beginning. The moment the little girl pushed the door open, he heard a thump in his heart, as if he had been hit by something.
Wen Wan is good-looking, educated, and has a good temper. She comes from the city. If this can work out, that would be great. In the future, no matter whether he or Wen Wan returns to the city first, he will always be able to find a way to bring her back.
If, if I can't go back here for the rest of my life, then it would be nice to find a lovely partner like this to spend the rest of my life with.
He is not a man with a good temper, and he is only so patient because he is somewhat interested in Wen Wan.
But now it seems that it is not so easy. Wang Jianmao seems to be a little interested in it, and Lu Dongping obviously also has that intention.
He calculated that if it was just him and Lu Dongping, the odds of winning or losing were 50-50.
The other person is a local and may be able to take care of Wen Wan more conveniently than him at the moment, but he only has an elementary school education, which is only slightly better than an illiterate person.
He'd heard that he'd been a jerk since childhood, always wandering around the mountains and rivers, never doing anything serious. Even if he was now an officer in the commune's armed forces department, so what? He was careless and undisciplined, and today's female comrades didn't like that.
Cultured lesbians like men with cultural background and like romance.
The careless comrade Lu Dongping was now busy helping Wen Wan grind corn. Wen Wan was watching from the side. Her face had turned red from trying so hard before, and the blush had not yet faded.
Lu Dongping looked at her secretly while pushing the mill. He always felt that her blushing face was particularly adorable. He felt as if a claw was gently scratching his heart, a little itchy and very uncomfortable.
"Little educated youth, you're getting along well with those educated youth. Liu Changqing, relying on his education, is so arrogant that he's actually willing to help you grind the millstone. Okay!"
Wen Wan was squatting on the side, drawing on the ground with a branch. When she heard him say this, she looked up and said, "Hey! The people in our educated youth group are all very nice. How could they have such bad eyes?"
Then he continued, "Comrade Liu Changqing cooked for me on my first day here. Then, when it was my turn to cook, I couldn't get up, so Comrade Wang Jianmao helped me. In the evening, while I was cooking, he taught me and told me a lot of things I didn't know. He is a very enthusiastic person."
Lu Dongping chuckled. How come he didn’t know that the two male educated youth in the team were such enthusiastic people?
It's obvious that he is just attracted by her beauty and has evil intentions, so we have to be on guard.
It doesn't seem easy to prevent it. The young educated youth live next to them and eat from the same pot. It seems that they have much more convenience than him.
The simplest and most effective way is to get her over as soon as possible. Even if you can't get her directly into your bed, it's good to establish a relationship with her so that you don't get noticed by others.
Wen Wan chattered for a long time, but Lu Dongping said nothing. He pushed all the corn onto the millstone and poured the rest of the corn in the basket onto the millstone.
While pushing the mill and chatting with Wen Wan, I felt that the mill seemed to have no weight at all.
"After working for a few days, how do you feel? Is the countryside better or is your city better?"
Wen Wan lowered her head and rolled her eyes, thinking, "Isn't this nonsense? If the countryside is good, why are so many people trying so hard to move to the city?"
But he opened his mouth and said, "Everything has its own merits! The countryside has beautiful scenery."
Lu Dongping sneered. He finally realized that this little guy was the best at speaking insincerely and telling lies.
"It's winter, and except for the wheat fields, which have some green, everything is bare. How can there be any good scenery? If you want to talk about good scenery, you have to wait until spring comes, when the rape flowers in the vegetable fields are in bloom, and the pear and peach trees in the team are in bloom. That's when it's beautiful. The mountains are even more beautiful, with patches of winter jasmine and forsythia. I'll take you to see them then!"
Wen Wan looked at him with stars in her eyes: "Really? Then let's go, I haven't seen so many flowers!"
Lu Dongping felt excited, thinking that the young educated youth were actually very easy to coax!
"I was thinking you should go find a bamboo craftsman and get some tools. Look at you, you don't even have a basket to carry your grain. Soon after the rations are distributed, we'll have to hibernate and go up the mountain to chop firewood, and you don't even have a backpack. In the spring, when we go back to work, we can dig wild vegetables, but you don't even have a basket. What are you going to do with nothing?"
"Isn't it in the warehouse?"
"The farm tools in the warehouse are collectively owned and can only be used when working. If you need to cut pig grass or chop firewood, you have to find a way to get farm tools yourself. There are stonemasons, blacksmiths, and bamboo weavers on the team. If you need them, you have to ask them in advance to make them."
"That's going to cost money, right? Isn't private trading prohibited now?"
Lu Dongping patiently explained to her, "Private transactions are prohibited, but this is a production team, and neighbors should help each other. When someone helps you, you should always give them some thanks. You can't let them work for nothing, right? Anyone who can breathe in the house has work to do all day long. There's very little free time, and making those things isn't easy."
"Who is the bamboo craftsman in our team? I'll go find him after work this afternoon. It won't be long before you get your rations."
Lu Dongping stopped, poured the remaining corn from the basket onto the table, and said, "That Wang Mingfang from the sky who accused you of being a slacker and slacker, and that old man from Lu Changfa's family, know how to do this."
Wen Wan was stunned for a moment: "Oh, then where do they live?" Then she said: "Ah, forget it, I'll ask in the fields when I go to work."
Lu Dongping glanced at her and said, "Have you forgotten that Wang Mingfang is looking for trouble in heaven and on earth? How dare you ask?"
"Then can I ask her instead of her man? I don't believe she'll cause trouble for me after I give her money."
Lu Dongping glanced at her, touched his back teeth with his tongue and smiled. He was quite smart.
"Okay, I'll do it for you here. Go back and eat and do whatever you need to do. Don't be late again, or those nagging women on the team will start complaining."
Wen Wan didn't bother to be polite with him. She stood there for a while and then walked back. She thought that this had happened several times and she had to ask someone for help every time, so she should thank them.
When I got back to the educated youth's restaurant, the meal was almost ready.
Wang Jianmao took a spoon and scooped half a spoonful of porridge into her bowl. "You're eating too little, and there's not much oil or water. How can you endure it? I've buried some sweet potatoes under the stove. You can dig them out later and eat them while walking. The sweet potatoes here are soft and sweet, you should like them."
Then he asked, "Have you ground the rations?"
Wen Wan lifted the porcelain jar and stirred it with a spoon while answering him, "It's almost done. Lu Dongping is grinding it for me. It will be ready soon."
"Lu Dongping? Isn't Liu Changqing helping you?"
Wen Wan said, "At the beginning, it was Comrade Liu Changqing who was helping, but then he left!" Then she walked out, took the porcelain jar and the rice into her room, then opened the lunch box and saw that she had eaten almost half of the dried meat. After thinking about it, she put two more pieces into her lunch box. She covered the remaining half box, held it in her arms, and ran out to the stone mill.
She had already eaten, and it was time for Lu Dongping to eat too. It was getting late, and he could probably finish the unfinished work another day.
She could push the mill, but she wasn't used to it and felt dizzy. Maybe pushing it more and feeling dizzy a few more times would help? After all, she couldn't always bother others, right?
When she ran to the stone mill, Lu Dongping was already ready. He got a brown brush from somewhere and was sweeping the mill. The millstone and the edge of the mill were swept clean by him. A basket of corn was just enough to fill a snakeskin bag.
"Lu Dongping, are you going to the commune today?"
Lu Dongping nodded: "Yes, we will go. The militia camp needs to open up wasteland and train every other day in the winter."
"Isn't it too late now? You haven't eaten yet!"
Lu Dongping tied up his pocket and threw it over his shoulder, saying, "It's okay. I'll take you to your room and then go back to eat. I'll go there after dinner. I walk fast and won't be late." In fact, it was already late. The training would start at dawn, and he usually set off before dawn. It was already this late, not a moment or a half a minute late.
In the past, if you make huge sacrifices to pursue a partner, you will definitely be criticized.
I wonder if I can write a report and ask for leave, so that I can continue to open up new land at home. That way, I can see the young educated youth every day.
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