Chapter 4 The Laziest Man in the Countryside 70 (4)
Ji Huaizhi nodded, and when he went over, the saleswoman was knitting and chatting away without even looking at him.
"Comrade, I've come to get the cloth. Here are the tickets." Ji Huaizhi handed them to her.
The other person glanced up at him, then ignored him and continued talking to the person next to them.
"Comrade!" Ji Huaizhi raised his voice.
People around looked over, and the woman knitting put down her things: "Why are you making such a loud noise?"
After grabbing the ticket, I went inside the counter to get him a cloth.
“I thought you were deaf, so I spoke a little louder,” Ji Huaizhi said in a cold tone.
The sales clerk, seeing he was a grown man, shrugged and said nothing more.
Ji Huaizhi frowned as he watched her measure the fabric, his tone cold and hard: "If you don't know how to measure fabric, call your boss out. Let's see if you can measure this fabric properly today!"
"What's wrong with you?" the saleswoman said impatiently. "Where did I not measure you correctly?"
She was just upset and gave him a small amount.
Ji Huaizhi: "I paid for the ten feet of cloth, what do you mean by giving me such a small amount? You are undermining us, the working class."
"The fact that you're giving me such a small amount today proves that you used to do this kind of thing all the time. Did you also give smaller measurements to the people who came to buy fabric before?"
People gathered around to watch the spectacle.
She pointed at the salesperson after hearing what the man said.
“I’ve bought fabric before, so they must have given me a small amount.”
"I also think it's going too far; it's blatant poaching! It's damaging our interests!"
The woman panicked when she heard his words: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Don't slander me!"
The manager inside heard the commotion and came out to check, fearing that the sales clerk and the customer were fighting again.
"What happened?"
Everyone started talking at once, and the leader looked at the sales clerk's cloth and asked, "Is this true?"
"I didn't." The sales clerk was terrified; this was a grave offense. "I just measured it wrong."
"You measured it wrong, so why didn't you correct it when I reminded you?"
The leader severely criticized the saleswoman in front of everyone, and gave another person a look, telling her to go and get the fabric for Ji Huaizhi. That person understood and deliberately loosened her grip when measuring the fabric for Ji Huaizhi.
"Comrade, I'll make her write a self-criticism. I'm really sorry." The leader could tell from the young man that he was not someone to be trifled with.
That person was also oblivious to subtle cues.
Do you think everyone is a country bumpkin who's easy to scare?
"This sales clerk has a very problematic mindset! This is an erosion of the interests of the working class and peasantry!"
Upon hearing the man's phone call, the leader knew he was difficult to deal with, so he apologized profusely and escorted him to the door, saying, "I'm really sorry, we will make her realize her mistake."
"Come here and apologize!"
The woman stepped forward, crying, and bowed deeply: "Comrade, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong."
Ji Huaizhi took his belongings and left.
That made it clear he hadn't forgiven her, but he didn't want to waste any more time here.
When they arrived at the agreed location with their things, the eldest and second eldest brothers were already waiting.
Besides the two of them, there were five other educated youths, three men and two women.
Ji Huaizhi, a female educated youth standing at the very edge, glanced at it casually.
The two were surprised to see that Ji Huaizhi had bought so much stuff: "Why did you buy so much? Where did you get the money?"
The eldest brother frowned when he saw there was still so much cloth left.
"Let's go back and talk about it. Let's go back quickly, I feel sleepy again." Without thinking, Ji Huaizhi climbed onto the oxcart, intending to take a nap.
"Hey! Didn't you say we couldn't sit? How come he's lying down?" The man was indignant, feeling that these peasants were targeting them.
"My brother isn't well, so this oxcart can't carry too many people," Ji Laoda explained. "Let's go, it'll still be at least an hour's walk."
The second brother rolled his eyes and ignored them.
He looked down on these educated youth; they couldn't do any work except distribute their grain.
waste.
When everyone heard that it would take another hour to walk, their annoyance was written all over their faces.
Ji Huaizhi closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
The unassuming girl from earlier was named Li Zhenzhu.
The original owner felt guilty about her nephew's situation in her previous life and always wanted to jump into the river but didn't dare to. She often went to the riverbank at midnight and met Li Zhenzhu.
The girl was sent to the countryside because her parents were sent down to their village.
The original owner was contemplating suicide when the river water was almost up to her waist, but she was pulled up by Li Zhenzhu's father.
When she was delivering something to her father, she witnessed the original owner jumping into the river. The original owner also learned about their relationship but remained silent.
Li Zhenzhu and her father comforted the original owner of the body, and the next day, Li's father even reminded the village secretary, but the original owner still secretly drank the medicine behind their backs.
I didn't expect she only went to the countryside today.
"I'm exhausted, how much longer until we get there?"
"Yes, can this poor, remote place really be used to build our country? Can I go back now?"
"I'm so tired, I regret it."
Ji Lao Er rolled his eyes; he and his brothers didn't care about these people at all.
They looked down on their village, but the villagers looked down on them, the educated youth.
Li Zhenzhu remained silent, while the other girl was too tired to speak.
"Let's rest for a while, I really can't walk anymore." The girl couldn't help but cry out, "Waaaaah, I'm so tired."
"I'm not leaving either."
"Really, why won't we ride in the oxcart?" One of them pulled out five cents: "Let me ride, here's the money."
Old Ji was impatient; he wanted to go back up the mountain to collect firewood as soon as possible.
"Alright, there's a tree over there, go rest in the shade for a while." Old Ji felt uneasy seeing them like this: "Our village is already a relatively wealthy village, we even have tractors."
“Some of the places where educated youth were assigned required a three-hour walk, but here it only takes an hour at most.”
"Why didn't you use a tractor to pick us up?" He Yingying looked at her feet, which were already blistered.
"You need a tractor to pull you? Do you know how expensive tractors are?" Ji Lao Er was speechless: "You delicate people, why don't you stay in the city and eat your government-subsidized food? I don't know what you're doing here."
"You're just causing trouble instead of building up the motherland."
The others rested for a while and regained their strength.
Now that I realize it, it's best not to offend the villagers.
"We're just not used to it yet, but we'll get used to it."
Li Zhenzhu ignored their lawsuit, her face pale, and quietly popped a White Rabbit candy into her mouth.
Ji Huaizhi, with a blade of grass in his mouth, squinted and raised an eyebrow as he saw this scene.
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