The captain had already sent two shipments of hay, and this batch is just enough to get them all.
After Xie Zhuo and the others finished packing the sacks, they noticed that there were still a few people in the field.
Several female educated youths at the educated youth settlement.
Zhou Jingjing and the others were moving at a decent pace; they were less than five meters from the edge of the field, so it would probably only take them ten or twenty minutes.
But Ye Wei is far behind; if she doesn't go home for lunch today, she probably won't finish her work.
"I really suspect that the captain is deliberately targeting us."
Ye Wei suddenly raised her voice and said something.
There were only five of them in the field. Hearing her words, Wang Wenwen turned around and glanced at her.
Zhou Jingjing, who was next to her, was covered in sweat, but she didn't dare to stop. She wiped her face haphazardly with her sleeve and continued to work with her head down.
Ye Wei lowered her eyelids, but her mouth didn't stop.
“He deliberately assigned the land with more grass to us educated youth, while the land with less grass to the Qingshan Brigade.”
"Now they're pretending to be waiting for us, trying to make us think they're nice people."
Ye Wei snorted coldly, "If you were really a good person, why didn't you come down and help us?"
“A fellow villager of mine lives in a village not far from ours. She said that their production brigade leader takes good care of them. Knowing that they are all educated people and can't do much work, he usually gives them a little bit of work as a token gesture.”
"They lived such an easy life back then."
Ye Wei sighed with a hint of envy.
"On sunny days like this, they don't have to go to work. They just stay indoors reading, chatting, and playing cards."
"The food isn't very good; I only eat one meal a day."
Apart from Ye Wei, the other four female educated youths, although their hands were constantly moving, were noticeably slower.
Hearing her say that, Zhou Jingjing immediately replied, "How can you go hungry if you just sit in the house all day without doing any work? One meal a day is good enough, unlike us, who have to do so much work even though we only have two meals a day!"
“Exactly,” Liang Qian added.
"I've been in Qingshan Brigade for less than half a year, and my skin is already much rougher than before from the sun. If you asked me not to work or come out to sunbathe, I'd even go without eating!"
“I can’t go without eating, but I can accept not working even if I only eat one meal,” Wang Wenwen said.
“But such good things don’t happen to us,” Qin Li added.
“Hmm,” Ye Wei nodded, then said softly, “It’s just that I have no choice now, otherwise I really want to go to their village so I don’t have to suffer unfair treatment.”
"Putting everything else aside, at least they respect intellectuals."
Her words were undoubtedly the spark that ignited the fire at that moment.
They were already exhausted, and the sun was blazing. Now, only a few of them were left in the field, while everyone else was resting in the shade. Not a single one of them stepped forward to help them.
Zhou Jingjing exploded.
He threw the shovel he was holding on the ground, jumped up, and shouted, "I quit! Whoever wants to do it can do it, but I'm not doing it! Song Guangming is too biased!"
“That’s right,” Liang Qian also stood up.
He loosened his grip on the sack, and the grass inside spilled onto the ground. "Why should we get the land with more grass? They can do the easier work themselves!"
The people outside are still waiting.
Originally, they could have left after loading the truck, but the team leader glanced over there and thought it would be easier to wait twenty minutes and haul it all away at once, so everyone hid under the shade of the trees to wait.
But as they waited, they noticed that two female educated youths, for some unknown reason, suddenly stood up and started walking out.
They didn't even bring out the straw bags.
Everyone found it strange.
Zhou Jingjing and Liang Qian walked away aggressively, as if they possessed something that could judge Song Guangming. When they saw Ye Wei still squatting there weeding, her hands stained black with the sap of the grass, they called out to her.
"Ye Wei".
Ye Wei looked up.
“Let’s go,” Zhou Jingjing said. “We are educated youth sent to the countryside to receive re-education, but no one has said that we have been ostracized or bullied. We should just swallow our anger!”
"Yes, no one can bully us!"
Liang Qian's eyes started to blaze with anger after hearing Zhou Jingjing's two sentences, as if she had really been wronged by the Qingshan Brigade.
"If all else fails, we'll go to the town's commune to file a complaint. If the town doesn't care, we can go to the city! I refuse to believe that no one can control this Song Guangming!"
Ye Wei glanced at the two of them, then at Wang Wenwen and Qin Li who were following behind.
Finally, he put down his things and followed them.
The group walked very quickly and soon arrived right in front of Song Guangming.
To be honest, Zhou Jingjing and Liang Qian were the loudest and most like firecrackers full of gunpowder when they were in the field, but now that they were standing in front of Song Guangming and facing his dark face, their momentum immediately weakened.
"Finished hoeing?" Song Guangming asked, looking at them.
Others were also watching them.
Liang Qian stood at the very front, pursing her lips.
"Why didn't you bring out the straw bag?" Song Guangming asked again, his voice much louder than before.
Liang Qian was startled.
She was genuinely afraid of Song Guangming; she had always been afraid. So now, with his dark expression and loud questioning, she couldn't bring herself to say what she had just said.
“Speak,” Song Guangming frowned, “everyone is waiting to go back for dinner.”
Just then, Zhou Jingjing suddenly stepped forward and squeezed in front of Liang Qian.
"Captain," she called out to Song Guangming.
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