"Also, Wang Ling fell ill after working for two days. How many work points did she get in the past six months? But her family is well-off, and they often send her food, money, and food coupons. Every time I go back to town, I see her buying food and daily necessities at the supply and marketing cooperative."
Chen Jianhua's family conditions are not bad, but he has an older brother and a younger sister, so it is impossible for him to spend money so lavishly. Fortunately, he now lives with Yuan Jing and Brother Jiang, so he can have meat from time to time, which makes him feel happy.
"Jiang Huai just took another leave to go back to see Wang Ling. Do you think they can get together?" Chen Jianhua continued to gossip. The original body did not have much contact with Chen Jianhua, so she never knew that he had such a hobby.
Yuan Jing looked at him strangely. You know, in his previous life, Chen Jianhua was one of his competitors and suitors, but in this life he was just standing aside and watching the show.
"Let me tell you, Song Hongbing from the Youth Academy has also fallen in love with Wang Ling, and he has often tried to show off to Jiang Huai in front of Wang Ling. Hehe, do you think they will fight? Who will Wang Ling choose in the end?"
"By the way, the last time I ran into Wang Ling, she asked me about you and Brother Jiang, but I didn't dare to say anything."
Yuan Jing's eyebrows jumped when he heard this. He didn't want to be involved in the affairs of the Youth House anymore. He said, "That's right. I don't want to get involved and cause trouble. I'm most afraid of trouble."
Chen Jianhua laughed out loud when he heard this. He knew very well that Yuan Jing wanted to cut off all contact with those girls and didn't want to have anything to do with any of them. As time went on, people who saw through this started to make fun of him behind his back.
In order to prevent those girls from getting close to him, he would rather get close to the big ice block Jiang Qingshan. Strangely enough, the girls from the same village were a little scared when they saw Jiang Qingshan, and they dared not talk to Yuan Jing anymore.
After resting for a while, the two continued to work. This time their task was to dig the sweet potatoes in the land allocated to them. If they worked slowly, they would still have to finish the work, so it would be better to finish it early.
Two people, one digs and the other knocks the mud off the sweet potatoes and throws them into the basket. When the basket is full, they carry it to the side.
Except for the unsuccessful start, none of the sweet potatoes Yuan Jing dug out later had broken skins. That was why Chen Jianhua did not compete with Yuan Jing for this job and just followed behind to pick up the sweet potatoes, as he could not control the strength well.
When they got home from work, Aunt Guilan had already prepared dinner for them. Usually they cooked separately, but because of the busy autumn harvest, Aunt Guilan did not go out to work due to her eyesight, so she took the initiative to prepare meals for Yuan Jing and Chen Jianhua.
Just for this reason, as soon as they came back they could eat ready-made food, both meat and vegetables. Chen Jianhua and Yuan Jing were all extremely grateful to Aunt Guilan, and they once again realized the benefits of boarding at the Jiang family. They had heard Lin Dong complain a lot about the trivial matters of cooking when he returned home, because people were too tired, and they had to divide the work of cooking when they returned, so it was inevitable that some people would be lazy or not do their best. Everyone was angry at this time, and they would start quarreling if they were not careful.
After dinner, Yuan Jing and Chen Jianhua took the initiative to clean up the dishes and the kitchen. Such diligent young men were also liked by Aunt Guilan.
After taking a shower in the yard, Yuan Jing returned to his room and saw the clothes that were torn by accident while doing farm work. Yuan Jing scratched his head and went to borrow some thread from Brother Jiang to try to mend them. Nowadays, not to mention the shortage of materials, the social atmosphere also advocates hardship and simplicity. Who's clothes are not patched again and again?
Chen Jianhua took a shower and lay down on the bed. After a while, he started snoring. He would snoring on the spot when he was particularly tired.
"Would you like to borrow needles and thread? You may be mending clothes. Wait." Jiang Qingshan had a towel on his head and had obviously just taken a shower. Upon hearing the purpose of Yuan Jing's visit, he turned around and took out a small basket containing all the necessary tools.
"Thanks, Brother Jiang. I'll go back to my room first. Brother Jiang, go to bed early." Yuan Jing said with a smile.
Jiang Qingshan watched Yuan Jing leave, then wiped his hair with a towel and threw it aside. Somehow his mind suddenly recalled the scene of Ji Yuanjing taking a shower in the yard. The conditions in the countryside were simple and the Jiang family did not have a special bathroom. Jiang Qingshan himself carried water to the yard to take a shower in the cold weather. He usually didn't think much of it, but today when he saw Ji Yuanjing pouring a basin of water over his head, Jiang Qingshan's nose felt itchy and he quickly turned around and left.
In the past, dozens of comrades had squeezed together to take a shower, and this had never happened before. Jiang Qingshan thought to himself that he was overthinking it, maybe because Ji Yuanjing looked more outstanding than a woman.
However, does Ji Yuanjing know how to sew?
After a while, Jiang Qingshan knocked on the door of Yuan Jing's room. He pushed the door open when he heard a voice from inside. He saw Yuan Jing lowering his head and struggling with the clothes and needle and thread in his hands again. It was obvious from his posture that he was not good at doing such delicate work.
Yuan Jing cut the thread with scissors, frowned into a small knot, lifted up the clothes and looked at them, his face suddenly turned as black as ink. At this moment, a low laugh sounded.
Yuan Jing knew that his attempt had failed. It was true that it seemed easy to do a job on others, but it was troublesome when it came to himself. He clearly wanted to put a patch on the clothes, but in the end the clothes shrunk and became twisted into a ball. How could he wear them?
"Forget it. I'll go find Aunt Afen and ask her for help tomorrow." Yuan Jing didn't want to bother with the needle and thread. Since Aunt Guilan had poor eyesight, Yuan Jing didn't want to trouble Aunt Guilan from the beginning.
"Let me do it. I mended my clothes by myself when I was in the army. There was no way to ask anyone for help, so I had to do it myself. I got used to it after a long time. Give it to me." A tall figure walked to Yuan Jing's side, and a shadow was cast down, covering Yuan Jing completely.
Yuan Jing raised his head and looked at Jiang Qingshan in surprise: "Really?"
"If I can't fix it, you can go find my aunt tomorrow."
"That's right, Brother Jiang, please sit down." Yuan Jing stood up and moved Chen Jianhua's stool over, and politely invited Jiang Qingshan to sit down.
Jiang Qingshan took the clothes that Yuan Jing had patched up before. The threads looked tangled together. He couldn't help laughing again, which made Yuan Jing scratch his face. "Brother Jiang, please stop laughing. It turns out that my mother did all the sewing work at home."
"Okay, I won't laugh anymore." Jiang Qingshan said this, but there was still a smile in his eyes. He took a pair of scissors and cut off all the threads on the clothes, put the clothes back in place, cut a new patch, threaded the needle and threaded, and began to weave the clothes carefully under the lamp.
Yuan Jing held his chin and watched attentively with surprise. After watching for a while, he realized that Jiang Qingshan was not only good at mending, but his needlework was no worse than that of Zheng's mother in his original memory. He asked directly: "Brother Jiang, what else can't you do? You can cook, hunt and farm, mend clothes, and you can make clothes, right? Is there anything that you can't do, Brother Jiang?"
Jiang Qingshan could do two things at once. While mending his clothes, he looked up at Yuan Jing and was in the mood to tease him: "You won't be able to do that even if you give birth to a child."
"Pfft!" Yuan Jing snorted, "Maybe someday men will really be able to have children. Brother Jiang, don't say that too early."
Jiang Qingshan looked at Ji Yuanjing meaningfully, thinking that if that day really came, it would definitely not be his turn.
Chen Jianhua was sleeping like a pig next to him. Otherwise, if he were awake, he would definitely find that the atmosphere in the room was so warm at this moment.
***
After the autumn harvest, everyone had lost weight. After an autumn rain, the weather turned cold, but it couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for watching open-air movies. As soon as the team announced that there would be an open-air movie in the evening, many families couldn't wait to get to the venue to grab seats.
There is also the smell of roasted melon seeds coming from some people's homes. They plant a few sunflowers in the fields or in the backyard, dry them and roast them, and both adults and children can have them as snacks to satisfy their cravings. The rest will have to wait until the Chinese New Year to be roasted.
Aunt Guilan also planted a few sunflowers and enthusiastically fried a small pot of melon seeds. Her son didn't like to join in the fun before, but this year with Xiaoji and the others around, her son would definitely go to the theater to watch a movie. Others have food to eat, so how could her son not have it?
"Aunt, Brother Qingshan, my mother asked me to bring some pumpkin seeds over." Before Niu Taohua entered the yard, a lively voice rang out.
Among the younger generation in the Red Star Production Team, perhaps Niu Taohua was the only one who was not afraid of Jiang Qingshan. That was because in Niu Taohua's impression, her cousin Jiang Qingshan protected her more than her two biological brothers. During the years when Jiang Qingshan served in the army, she often came to talk to her aunt and do things.
"Hey, Taohua is here, come in quickly. I've just fried the sunflower seeds. Come and taste whether my aunt has fried them burnt." Aunt Guihua shouted happily.
"Brother Yuan Jing, Brother Jianhua." Seeing the two of them, Niu Taohua happily called them, put the fried pumpkin seeds on the table and asked them to eat, then went into the kitchen and chatted with her aunt for a while, and returned to the main room.
"Where is your uncle?" Jiang Qingshan asked her.
Niu Taohua said while eating melon seeds: "My father went to the commune. I heard that the higher-ups are going to send two more people to our team for labor reform. My father was sighing when he left. There were already two, and now they are sending two more."
Jiang Qingshan frowned slightly and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I will do whatever the higher-ups have arranged."
"I got it, Brother Qingshan, let's go to the venue together tonight. I've reserved seats for you all, you must go!" Niu Taohua said, relying on her status as the younger sister.
"I understand." People who are familiar with Jiang Qingshan can hear his helplessness.
Chen Jianhua was unable to comment on sending the five black categories of elements to the countryside for labor reform. As for the two people living in the cowshed in the team, he had only seen them from afar. When the people in the team saw them, they all avoided them and did not dare to contact them.
Yuan Jingze glanced at Jiang Qingshan. He remembered that these two people came on the day of the open-air movie. One of them happened to be an experienced old doctor.
Why did the original body know this? It was because at the end of the year, a daughter-in-law of a family in the team suddenly had a difficult delivery, and it seemed that there would be two deaths. Due to the bad weather, it was too late to send them to the town or county.
It was at this time that the old branch secretary remembered that one of the people imprisoned in the cowshed was a doctor, because he had been informed of the composition of these people when they were sent here by their superiors.
He explained the situation, and the daughter-in-law's husband immediately ran to the cowshed to invite the old doctor. It was thanks to the old doctor that his daughter-in-law was able to give birth to a son safely, and both mother and child were safe.
After this incident, the people in the team gradually let go of their dislike for the people in the cowshed. Although they couldn't do anything on the surface, they had improved a lot in private. They would ask him to take a look if they had a headache or a fever, and the old branch secretary also took care of them secretly.
After Niu Taohua left, Chen Jianhua went to the Youth Courtyard. Jiang Qingshan suddenly asked, "Did you see me just now because of something?"
Yuan Jing laughed. He didn't expect Jiang Qingshan to be so sensitive. He said, "Yes, after hearing what Taohua said, I wondered if there was an old Chinese doctor among the two people who came."
Jiang Qingshan raised his lips slightly: "How can it be such a coincidence."
Yuan Jing didn't say anything else. What a coincidence! Everyone would know when the people arrived.
Since helping Yuan Jing mend his clothes, their relationship has become noticeably closer.
The open-air movies in the evening were naturally very lively. The laughter of the children in the venue could be heard from far away. Even the educated youth put on new clothes and came to the venue early to wait for the movie to start. There was quite a festive atmosphere.
Chen Jianhua was called over by the people from the Youth League Institute to sit together. Of course, he was also called Yuan Jing. Yuan Jing pointed at Jiang Qingshan beside him and waved to them. Seeing Jiang Qingshan's stern face, the Youth League stopped calling him.
Yuan Jing sat next to Jiang Qingshan, cracking melon seeds and listening to other villagers chatting. He was quite comfortable. During this time, Jiang Qingshan turned his head and looked at him several times, as if he couldn't understand why this man was so happy. He thought Yuan Jing would sit with the educated youth instead of staying with him who was boring.
But it was quite refreshing to have someone to accompany him. Seeing that Yuan Jing was about to finish the melon seeds, Jiang Qingshan grabbed another handful and gave it to him. Yuan Jing looked up and smiled: "You eat too."
"Okay." Jiang Qingshan also started to crack the melon seeds slowly, and the two of them sat together and cracked the melon seeds in silence.
The other educated youth were sitting some distance away from them and could only see them side by side, but had no idea whether they were talking or not.
Wang Ling thought about Jiang Qingshan's attitude towards her on the way here that day. She didn't like Jiang Qingshan at all. But Ji Yuanjing was willing to sit with this cripple. She rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Ji Yuanjing can actually play with Jiang Qingshan. Do they have something to say?"
Chen Lin, the educated youth who came last year, heard this and looked at the backs of the two men and smiled: "I usually don't even dare to say a word to Jiang Qingshan. I always feel that he will scold me and make me cry the next moment. I have been here for more than a year, and I haven't seen Jiang Qingshan get close to other people in the team. It's different with Ji Yuanjing. Chen Jianhua, do the two of them have much to say to each other?"
Chen Jianhua was talking to Ma Lili. When he heard her calling him, he turned around and asked what Chen Lin was talking about. Then he scratched his head and said, "Brother Jiang is a good person. You will know after you have been in contact with him for a long time."
Chen Lin rolled her eyes at him. Wang Ling said in a tender voice, "Chen Jianhua, can't you ask Ji Yuanjing to come and talk to us? We are all educated youth, and it's hard for us to encounter such an occasion."
Jiang Huai became anxious when he heard this. He was still waiting for the movie to start so that he could have a few words with Wang Ling in private. Why did Ji Yuanjing come over?
Before Chen Jianhua could answer, Ma Lili next to him said, "If you want to go and call him, why don't you go and call him yourself? Why do you have to ask Chen Jianhua to do it? Besides, Ji Yuanjing waved his hand and refused before. If he comes over, Jiang Qingshan will be alone. Aren't we, the educated youth, enough to talk to you? Why do you have to ask Ji Yuanjing to come over?"
"You... I just want us to strengthen our relationship." Wang Ling felt aggrieved by what Ma Lili said.
"Ma Lili, why are you scolding Wang Ling? Wang Ling is doing this for the good of all of us. Ji Yuanjing is too detached from our group of educated youth." Jiang Huai felt distressed when he saw this and started to argue with Ma Lili.
"Then go and call her. Aren't you as anxious as Wang Ling? Why don't you go and call her quickly?" Ma Lili would not be polite to Wang Ling's protector. After all, she had come all the way with Jiang Huai. But ever since she met Wang Ling, Jiang Huai always disliked her. Of course, she didn't care about Jiang Huai's favor.
"You..." Jiang Huai was extremely angry.
"Stop arguing over me. Can't you just talk nicely?" Wang Ling advised softly.
"Okay, I won't argue with her anymore. Who would argue with her?" Jiang Huai was still not forgiving.
Ma Lili rolled her eyes. Wang Ling was the only woman, right? She turned around and said loudly to Chen Jianhua, "I won't argue with a man with a crippled eye. Really, he's like a man who has been shot. He sprays at everyone he catches."
As a bystander, Chen Jianhua also saw something and laughed softly, "Stop talking, Jiang Huai is glaring at you again."
"Just glare at me. Who's afraid of him glaring at me? It's not like I'll lose a piece of meat." Ma Lili lowered her voice and said, "Anyway, with Wang Ling here, we can't have a peaceful life in the Youth Hostel. I envy you for not living in the Youth Hostel. If I had known this would happen, I would have..."
"Did you know from the beginning that the people you chose would be easy to get along with?"
Well, Ma Lili made a gesture to shut up and said no more. She should just live in the Youth League Home. Being a female Youth League member already had many inconveniences.
Yuan Jing had no idea what happened next. After watching the movie, he walked back with Jiang Qingshan and met Niu Guozhu on the way.
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