Li Fang was at fault and was taken directly to the train police station. As soon as she sat down, facing three square-faced, stern-faced police officers, her heart jumped into her throat.
"I...I did nothing wrong! Why were I brought here? I'm a former educated youth sent to the countryside. I want to leave! Let me go!"
"Sent-down youth? You're supposed to be educated, don't you know the rules for getting off a train? Don't you know that someone almost died just now?!"
"I, I... I was just joking with her. I know her, you can ask her if you don't believe me."
Gu Qing, on the other side, said, "I don't know her."
Li Fang from next door: "!!!"
"Impossible, we go to the same school, how could we not know each other?"
"So you're in the same class?"
Faced with the heartfelt question from the train police officer, Li Fang was somewhat speechless.
The matter is simple: in the end, Grandma Wu left with Gu Qing, but Li Fang still hasn't come out. She needs to pay the price for her actions that endangered public safety at the train station.
Because he was a sent-down youth, and the whole country responded to the "Down to the Countryside Movement," the railway police also punished him by detaining him for a day and a night.
"Mom, are you okay?"
Upon seeing Grandma Wu, Huang Xiaoqiang first looked her up and down, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's nothing." Old Mrs. Wu was very calm. They weren't the ones with problems, so what was there to worry about?
The educated youth group split up as soon as they arrived in Nanshi, each forming their own groups and going their own way.
The other educated youth from the same place as Huang Xiaoqiang had already left, leaving Huang Xiaoqiang and his brother outside with a large pile of luggage, waiting for Old Lady Wu.
After thinking for a moment, Grandma Wu realized that when she bought the tickets, she only knew that Gu Qing was also going to Nanshi, just like her. She didn't know if the rest of the journey was the same.
"I'm going to Shanyao Village. Aunt Wu, where are you going?" Gu Qing's eyes widened, afraid that the old lady Wu and the others were going the same way as her.
Grandma Wu clapped her hands, "Same here, so are we."
Gu Qing swallowed hard. "I want to go with you."
"Okay, what's the big deal? Let's go ask around and find out where to go and how to get there by public transport."
Huang Xiaofu scratched his head. "Shanyao Village is in Xishang Town. To get to Xishang Town, you need to take a bus and then transfer to a tractor."
Grandma Wu looked at him in surprise, not realizing that her second son had some talent.
"Okay, let's go."
After leaving the station, I went to the bus station and bought a ticket to Xishang Town. After a long and leisurely three-hour bus ride, I finally arrived in Xishang Town.
As Grandma Wu's feet touched the solid ground, she felt alive again.
With sharp eyes, he scanned the surroundings and found a large group of people gathered not far away. He then pulled the two Huang brothers, who were suffering from motion sickness, toward them.
Despite her petite stature, Gu Qing has excellent physical fitness.
"The educated youth from Shanyao Village, come this way!"
The one who started shouting was a young man with dark, shiny skin. After shouting a few words, he would look down and ask the old man next to him.
"Dad, educated youth are coming to our village. I wonder how these young people in the big city are different from us?"
The village Party secretary of Shanyao Village took several puffs of his pipe. "Two eyes, one nose, one mouth, what's the difference?"
A large group of people got off the bus. The village secretary looked at this one and that one, thinking, "These don't look like school kids at all; they all look wrinkled and dry."
As soon as Huang Xiaofu and Huang Xiaoqiang got out of the car, their tall figures and energetic appearance immediately caught the village secretary's eye.
"Then, that must be it."
"What?"
As soon as Old Lady Wu stood still, she saw a strange pair of father and son staring straight at them—no, they were staring at Huang Xiaofu and Huang Xiaoqiang behind her.
"The educated youth from Shanyao Village!"
Huang Xiaoqiang peered over and said to Old Lady Wu, "It seems to be the village I helped build."
What do you mean "seems like"? That is it.
Gu Qing was overjoyed to hear Huang Xiaoqiang's words; they were together again.
After everyone on the bus had disembarked, the village secretary walked around and spotted two suitable candidates.
What about others?
They received five educated youths.
That's still not enough.
"Hello, my name is Huang Xiaoqiang, and I am an educated youth from Shanyao Village."
The village secretary had just nodded when his next words stunned him: "The others didn't come? No way, they left even earlier than me."
As soon as I finished speaking, an absurd thought inexplicably popped into my head: what if we get lost?
The village party secretary and Huang Xiaoqiang looked at each other, feeling inexplicably awkward.
The village secretary felt a chill in his heart. He couldn't even find the way; he wasn't sure if he could even manage the work in the fields...
"Let's wait together. It's still quite a distance from our village. Let's take the tractor back together."
After another silence, Gu Qing, seeing that no one spoke, timidly raised her hand, "I am also an educated youth from Shanyao Village."
The village secretary looked Gu Qing up and down, and his heart sank. What could this small frame possibly do? Was she even an adult? And she came here already?
As if knowing what the village secretary was thinking, Gu Qing quietly added, "I'm sixteen, I'm an adult."
Grandma Wu was now somewhat surprised. She had imagined the girl to be thirteen or fourteen, with delicate eyebrows, big eyes, fair skin, and not very tall. It was a preconceived notion.
During the conversation, the next bus arrived.
Looking through the glass windows, all I could see were young, spirited faces, and the village secretary now felt confident.
This time it should be right.
Finally, the village party secretary received the remaining three educated youths and said, "Alright, everyone's here, let's go."
Before we knew it, it was noon by the time we got on the tractor.
The village party secretary had a strange look in his eyes. He sat in the front and glanced back every now and then. The difference between them seemed to be on completely different levels.
The four women, including Grandma Wu, looked energetic, as if they had gone out for fun, while the other three looked wilted like eggplants.
"Dad, can those three stay in our village?"
The village party secretary was also worried. Now everyone gets the same food from the same pot, and there were already a few lazybones in the village; now with these few more added to the mix, it's a real headache...
Gu Qing sat next to Old Lady Wu, but her eyes couldn't help but dart towards Huang Xiaoqiang across from her.
Grandma Wu shook her head and sighed, "These young girls, they're all about looks."
No, there is one exception: Miao Fengying is an exception.
In the Qiao Family Compound in Changping City...
Qiao Zhenjun's work looks simple—no! It's rudimentary!
"Mom, I'm getting married, and you're only inviting this few people? Xiaoyue's wedding was so much better, it was so lively and fun."
Jia Hua gave him a cold glance. "She comes from a respectable background. What kind of background did you marry?"
"They're mutually attracted, but you're just a one-sided guy."
Qiao Zhenjun twisted his neck and said, "Fengying is also from a respectable background, and we are kindred spirits."
Jia Hua coldly replied with a laugh, too lazy to say anything else.
Since the marriage was already arranged, she had given up.
Who cares about them? Should they throw a huge party like Xiaoyue? She can't afford to lose face like that!
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