Chapter 339 Sharing the News
In fact, Chen Jiashu had to go because his rations were not enough to last until the spring. He hinted to Wu Lianyi several times, but the other party never offered to help him. He already had some opinions about Lianyi.
After all, he didn't need to ask before. As long as he looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated, Wu Lianyi would take the initiative to ask. When she learned that he was hungry, she would feel very distressed and give him some of her own things. Malted milk, canned food, snacks and candies always kept his pockets full. But now she acted as if she didn't see anything.
He had to save face and took the initiative to bring up the topic of borrowing food. After all, Pan Nuannuan had attacked Wu Lianyi because she couldn't borrow food.
Ever since Lianyi recovered from her injury, he had tried to show his affection to her several times, but she had always ignored him. Furthermore, the remaining three female educated youth always acted together, leaving him no chance to be alone with Wu Lianyi, let alone confess his feelings.
In order to avoid going hungry, he had no choice but to respond to the call of the village captain and go into the mountains to hunt with experienced hunters in the village. Because the hunt would take three days and three nights, everyone took out their own food and asked the female educated youth to help prepare some dry food that was easy to carry.
Wang Xiufen and the other two discussed it and decided to provide the male educated youth with some food and let them exchange it for their prey when the time came. No one had any objection.
Zhao Jingcheng is the leader of the team this time. Three generations of his family were hunters. After three years of natural disasters, he is the only one left. It is because of his hunting skill that he avoids starving to death.
The last time he was so miserable was because he had a cold and stayed in the cold house for three days. Finally, he was so hungry that he went up the mountain to catch rabbits, but he was intercepted by Lianyi.
Lianyi felt that Zhao Jingcheng's chances of catching prey were definitely much higher than those of the educated youths, so she adopted the approach of casting a wide net and prepared some dry food and biscuits for him as a deposit for the prey.
The entire Hongqi Commune became busy. All the people who were bragging under the elm tree disappeared. Three days later, led by the old hunter, more than 80 young and strong men from the village, carrying hunting tools, set out for the mountains in a mighty procession.
The educated youth became quiet immediately after being clicked, except for the three female educated youth, who did not want to go out and stayed in the house sewing clothes.
"Lianyi, I see Chen Jiashu is always looking for opportunities to talk to you recently. Is he interested in you?"
Zheng Xin asked carelessly.
"He is interested in my food."
Lianyi looked helpless and told the two of them directly.
"Did he borrow food from you, too?"
Wang Xiufen was not surprised at all. After all, it was Wu Lianyi who took the initiative to give money to the other party before. Ever since she experienced the hurt from Pan Nuannuan, she started to keep a tighter eye on her food pocket.
"He didn't say it explicitly, but he hinted at it. I didn't respond."
"Lian Yi, don't blame me for being blunt. You took the initiative to lend it to him before. Why are you ignoring him now?"
Zheng Xin pricked her hair twice with a needle.
"Before, I thought he was special to me, and I couldn't bear to see him hungry, so I helped him. But after what happened with Pan Nuannuan, I've seen through him."
Lianyi said with some disappointment.
"I was injured and bleeding, and the people at the educated youth camp sent me some food, two eggs, a handful of noodles, and I don't know where you two found some red dates, just to help me get better and replenish the blood I lost. I, Wu Lianyi, will remember this favor.
But Chen Jiashu, who got the most help from me on weekdays, picked a bunch of yellow wild flowers and gave them to me, saying that it would make me feel good to see them. I couldn't eat or drink. I was stupid and didn't see that he was just being perfunctory and only wanted to get benefits from me without giving anything in return. "
Lianyi's face was full of sarcasm and disdain at this moment.
Wang Xiufen and Zheng Xin looked at each other. Actually, when they first saw the bunch of flowers in Chen Jiashu's hand, they also looked down on it. However, Lianyi was lying on the bed with a head injury at that time, so they didn't say anything to avoid people thinking that they were trying to sow discord. No matter how good the relationship is, there must be a certain sense of boundaries.
"It's okay! It's okay! You can see that I wanted to make fun of him at that time, but Sister Wang stopped me."
Zheng Xin said with relief.
Obviously she still cares about Lianyi.
"You are bystanders who see things more clearly. I am the only one who is in the middle of this situation. You are afraid that you might say something that will make me uncomfortable, so you don't want to remind me. I understand. If I make a mistake again in the future, you two must remember to remind me."
Ripple said with a smile.
"Okay, we two sisters will remember this."
The two of them agreed with a smile.
Lian Yi then lowered her voice and said to Wang Xiufen and Zheng Xin:
"Sister Xiufen, Zheng Xin, after I recovered from my injury, I went to town and called home. My family told me good news."
"What good news?"
"It has something to do with you two, too!"
Lianyi kept the secret.
Her words immediately attracted the attention of the two men. They stopped what they were doing and looked at Lianyi curiously.
"The higher-ups have already discussed this issue, and it won't be long before the college entrance exam is resumed."
"real?"
"Ripple, you can't fool people!"
Wang Xiufen and Zheng Xin both looked surprised and delighted.
"Of course it's true. My mom said it only happened in the past one or two years. She has already found high school textbooks and exercises for me and will send them to me next time.
You two should contact your families as soon as possible and have the textbooks sent to you. We need to start reviewing now. Otherwise, once the news spreads, it will be hard to find textbooks and the time for review will be limited."
Lianyi gave some advice.
"That's easy. My siblings at home have high school textbooks. I can ask them to send me a set."
Zheng Xin is a person of action. She had already taken out the letter paper and was ready to write back, but was stopped by Lianyi.
Wang Xiufen on the other side was more stable. She was the first to ask:
"Lianyi, can educated youth like us who went to the countryside also apply for the exam? Is there an age limit?"
"Yes, this is our way to leave in an upright manner. Because the college entrance examination has been suspended for so many years, there is no age limit for applying after it is resumed. Everything will be based on grades."
"That's good!"
After Wang Xiufen got the promise, she looked at the pressed letter paper and waited for Lianyi's explanation.
"This news has not yet been made public nationwide. If it leaks out from your letter paper, what if you catch me leaking information? Wouldn't that mean my mother would be implicated?"
Lianyi said helplessly.
"Lianyi is right. We can't cause trouble for Auntie."
"So, it would be best to call and tell them that the village is planning to let us educated youth teach the children to read during the winter, so we need books. You can bring textbooks from elementary school to high school and review them from the beginning. This way, you can have a solid foundation. What do you think?"
"Lianyi is very thoughtful. As long as the three of us can get together a set of books, we can take turns reading them."
Wang Xiufen's eyes were full of light.
After the three of them had discussed it, they took the village's ox cart the next day, went to the town, paid to make a phone call, and their statements were consistent, which did not arouse anyone's suspicion. Then they happily returned to Hongqi Commune.
Three days later, on the morning, the hunting team that had entered the mountains finally returned, but the atmosphere was very strange. They carried the prey straight to Captain Zhao's house.
My dears, Feng Ling has updated four chapters today! Then I will go to watch "Investiture of the Gods" and share my experience with you tomorrow.
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