One day in August, Gao Shuwen went to a meeting in the township and was informed that they should prepare to receive educated youth.
Although Gao Shuwen was unwilling to accept any more educated youth, it was an order from above, and he could only follow the rules.
Gao Shuwen made some preparations, and a few days later he drove the village's horse-drawn cart to pick up four educated youths. This time, the educated youths who came down were two men and two women, all young people in their twenties.
Gao Shuwen arranged for them to stay at the educated youth settlement, told them to pack up, and then go to the brigade headquarters to collect the grain subsidies for them.
Along the way, Gao Shuwen learned about the situation of these educated youths through conversations. All four of them were high school graduates, and in his opinion, their diplomas were sufficient to be primary school teachers. However, their actual abilities would depend on their performance in the assessment and the children's reactions.
He Yuhan has already prepared the assessment papers and is just waiting for people to sign up for the teacher exam.
Being a teacher is a dream job for these educated youth sent to the countryside. They don't have to do farm work and can earn a lot of work points. I guess all the new educated youth will sign up.
Gao Shuwen frowned as he thought of the somewhat pretentious Fan Yuling. If he were to remove Fan Yuling from her teaching position, she would definitely be dissatisfied and who knew what kind of trouble she would cause.
Regardless, he had already decided to replace Fan Yuling, and after discussing it with several village committee members, they all agreed. This shows that Fan Yuling not only had poor teaching skills, but also very poor interpersonal relationships.
Most of the villagers had opinions about her, but she didn't reflect on them and continued to do as she pleased.
He Yuhan is also leaving her teaching position, so Fan Yuling shouldn't be able to find any fault with He Yuhan.
The educated youth settlement originally had two female educated youths and three male educated youths. Because there were relatively few educated youths, there were two rooms in total, one for men and one for women.
Later, a female educated youth left, and Fan Yuling stayed in the dormitory alone, occupying the entire room by herself. At first, she felt a little scared, but later she found it very enjoyable.
Now two more educated youths have arrived and want to share a room with her, so she will no longer be able to enjoy the privilege of a single room, which she naturally does not want.
Fan Yuling not only took up the best bed in the room, but also most of the other space.
The other two female educated youths, although they had just arrived, were not the kind of people who would be bullied and not know how to fight back.
The two female educated youths, Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong, came from the same city and were friends. Now, facing Fan Yuling's bullying, they naturally united against her.
Mu Yu is a straightforward and outspoken girl who can't stand people taking advantage of their insignificant strengths to bully others.
Looking at all of Fan Yuling's things scattered around, she said, "Comrade Fan, aren't you taking up too much space by yourself?"
It was fine when you lived alone, but now we live together, so we should all stick together and help each other. But look at you, as a veteran educated youth, not only do you not help the new educated youth, you also bully them. Your awareness is terrible.”
Mu Yu was quick-witted and immediately took Fan Yuling's behavior too seriously.
Fan Yuling retorted, "How did I bully you? I used to live in this room all by myself. What's wrong with me putting some things here?"
Mu Yu said, "But the room belongs to everyone now, and the space inside should be used by everyone. It's not right for you to take up such a big space by yourself. I hope you can put your things away and not leave them all out there. Don't blame us if they get lost."
Wei Shuhong chimed in, "We'll all be working together from now on, so we should be united and considerate of each other. You've been here for a while now, a veteran educated youth, so you shouldn't be doing this, should you?"
Fan Yuling realized that these two were not to be trifled with, but she couldn't let them suppress her, otherwise she would have no place in the educated youth settlement in the future.
She had to teach these two a lesson so they would have to respect her from now on.
Fan Yuling pouted and said, "What's wrong with me? I've always lived here. If you don't want to live here, then find somewhere else to live."
Mu Yu said, "This is a youth settlement. Why should we live somewhere else? You'd better move out of the place you need to live, or we won't be polite."
Even if we go to the brigade, we'll have a say in this. You can handle it yourself.
The commotion in the female educated youth dormitory alerted the male educated youth at the settlement.
Liu Zhihui, one of the earliest male educated youths to arrive in Beili Village, knew Fan Yuling's character and was certain that the quarrel in the women's dormitory was related to her.
He didn't want the villagers to have any complaints about the educated youth settlement because of Fan Yuling.
He said outside the female educated youth dormitory, "I can hear the noise from your dormitory from far away. Are you trying to attract the village cadres?"
Fan Yuling, you're a veteran educated youth; you should set an example, not argue with the newcomers. If you're not afraid of being punished, then keep causing trouble."
Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong didn't want to leave a bad impression on the village right after arriving, as that would not be good for their future life in Beili Village.
Fan Yuling didn't want the village to have more opinions about her and affect her job as a teacher, so she chose to keep quiet and reluctantly tidied up some things.
Seeing that Fan Yuling had compromised, Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong naturally wouldn't press the matter further.
On her very first day as a new educated youth, Fan Yuling got into an argument with another new member and successfully isolated herself.
This made the other two newly arrived male educated youths want to stay away from Fan Yuling as well.
After Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong tidied up, Li Zhihui organized a meeting for the new and old educated youth at the educated youth settlement to discuss the issue of cooking in the future.
From now on, we'll all cook together, and we'll take turns cooking. Whoever's turn it is to cook will do the cooking.
There's also the issue of fetching water later on. For a while, there was only one female educated youth, Fan Yuling, and the three male educated youths didn't hold it against her, taking care of her and not making her fetch water. But later, with more people, everyone had to share the burden.
When Fan Yuling saw the new educated youth arrive, her status clearly declined. However, she had no reason to refuse to fetch water. After all, the male educated youth had previously taken care of her.
Now even the newly arrived female educated youth have to carry water, so she has no choice but to accept this new change.
However, she's the only one working as a teacher in the village among the educated youth, which will make Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong extremely envious.
Fan Yuling felt superior to others, unaware that she was about to lose her position as a primary school teacher in the village.
After the newly arrived educated youth were settled in, they began to work in the fields with the villagers.
These young people, who had never worked in the fields before, finally understood the hardships of farm work. Mu Yu and Wei Shuhong were definitely not used to it, and after work every day they were so tired that they just wanted to lie in bed and not get up.
But they still had to cook and do other chores, which really dampened the spirits of the two girls.
At this point, they realized how easy Fan Yuling's job as a primary school teacher in the village was.
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