Xie Zhuo found it a bit strange.
Since noon yesterday, this female educated youth surnamed Xu has been staring at him intently from time to time, making it hard for him not to notice.
Could it be...?
Has the river really damaged his brain?
Xie Zhuo glanced at Xu Yan again, and when she looked away, he gently shook the sunflower in his hand and closed his eyes again.
The educated youth at the settlement finally ran out with their farm tools. Forget about eating breakfast, many of them didn't even have time to wash their faces.
The captain looked at them, then at Xu Yan, who was already dressed and ready, and his anger intensified.
“Look at Xiao Xu, the educated youth, and look at you all! I don’t know what you’re doing at night! Out of thirty days a month, you’ve been late for half of them. If you do this again, each of you will have one work point deducted!”
The educated youth dared not speak out against their anger, but some secretly glared at Xu Yan.
In the past, they would have given Xu Yan a severe scolding.
Don't you know to wake us up after you get up?
See how you feel after the captain yelled at us!
If we really get our work points deducted next time, then you don't need to eat breakfast. You can save the food for the people who do the heavy work!
But now...
Having just experienced what happened last night, Xu Yan's words and gaze seemed to be deeply imprinted in their minds, and no one dared to provoke her at this moment.
well!
How could a perfectly healthy person have their brain damaged by the river?
Xu Yan didn't have mind-reading abilities, so he didn't know what the educated youth in front of him were thinking. If he did, he would probably soak their brains in the river to wash them clean.
Let them see if there's anything wrong with their brains.
“Little Xu, the educated youth,” Song Guangming called out to Xu Yan. Seeing that she looked energetic but was obviously still very weak, he said, “Rest for another day today, and go to the fields with us again tomorrow.”
“Okay,” Xu Yan agreed. She wasn’t really mentally challenged; why would she insist on doing chores when she could avoid it?
After saying that, she smiled gratefully at Song Guangming, "Thank you, Captain. I need to go get my medicine from Doctor Qian in a bit."
Seeing how well-behaved she was, Song Guangming felt a bit better and nodded, "Okay, you still need to take care of yourself and rest when you need to."
Turning his head, he saw the other educated youths with long faces, and he felt a surge of anger. But he had already lost his temper once that morning, so he suppressed his temper, picked up his shovel, and walked ahead, calling out, "Let's go."
A large group of people followed suit.
Xu Yan glanced at their backs a few times, and just as she was about to step into the yard, she caught a glimpse of the sunflower that Xie Zhuo had been shaking in his hand earlier, which was now stuck in the haystack.
It was as if a flower had miraculously bloomed on a haystack.
Xu Yan glanced at the flowers, then looked back at the tall, lazy figure in the crowd, before entering the courtyard without looking back.
The courtyard of the educated youth settlement was not large. Besides the kitchen and dormitory, there was only an outhouse. Xu Yan had walked around the entire courtyard in just a few steps.
The thought of having to live with that group of people in this small courtyard for at least two and a half years gave Xu Yan a headache.
Who knows what kind of trouble those educated youth will cause in the days to come?
I wish I could leave here sooner.
A thought suddenly popped into her mind.
But in those days, it was easy to go to the countryside, but extremely difficult to return to the city.
Of course, the policy on educated youth returning to the city has been much more relaxed in the past two years compared to previous years, but unfortunately, the original owner did not meet any of the conditions for being transferred back.
Another way is to be recommended by the commune to attend the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, which also allows one to return to the city.
but……
Putting aside the limited number of places, the village would never recommend educated youth to attend this university. Even if the college entrance examination were to resume in two years, the situation of worker-peasant-soldier university students would become very awkward.
Xu Yan didn't want to attend a worker-peasant-soldier university; she wanted to take the college entrance examination.
In her previous life, she also graduated from a prestigious 985 university in City B. However, when choosing a major, she was not able to freely choose the one she liked, but instead chose a popular major that would lead to good employment.
She doesn't want to be as tired in this life as she was in her last.
Besides, although she died in a seemingly absurd way in her previous life, it was actually because she was under high pressure and tension for a long time, and her body couldn't take it anymore and she died suddenly.
That day was the third day that she had been working overtime non-stop and had less than four hours of sleep in total.
She lived like that for several years.
But a new problem arose...
She had never known anything about the college entrance examination in this era before. The original owner of this body had passed away long before the college entrance examination, so how to review and where to find review materials was a big problem.
Furthermore, even if she did solve the problem of study materials, the thought of studying at this educated youth settlement was already incredibly troublesome.
So we've come full circle back to the starting point of the problem: how exactly can we leave the educated youth settlement?
As Xu Yan pondered, she took out the peach shortbread left over from last night from her suitcase, went back to the kitchen to boil some water, put the peach shortbread in a bowl and soaked it in the boiling water until she finished eating. Then, before the sun had fully risen, she headed towards Doctor Qian's house.
"Third Brother, where's that little sunflower head?"
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng huddled together and exchanged a few words before leaning closer to Xie Zhuo.
Seeing that the sunflower in Xie Zhuo's hand was gone, Liu Mancang turned around and looked around the ground behind him, but couldn't find it, so he asked Xie Zhuo.
Xie Zhuo yawned and ignored him.
"Hey, you didn't throw it away, did you?" Liu Mancang looked at the ground again. "I ran to the field early this morning to pick it up, and I finally found a stub!"
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