At this time, there was no entertainment in the evening, and the educated youth, exhausted from a day's work, were already lying in bed, drowsy and sleepy.
When Li Dafu knocked on the door, the oil lamp had just lit up. The door opened a little while later. They knew that new educated youth would be coming today, but they didn't expect it to be so late.
Xu Youwen grumbled a few times and followed the others into the courtyard.
Li Dafu immediately said, "It's getting late, you can all take them inside and settle them in..."
After saying that, he waved his hand, took the flashlight, and left.
Before Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yi could even complain about the dilapidated state of the courtyard, Xu Youwen muttered, "Disturbing people's sleep in the middle of the night. Go over to the female educated youth's area. You come with me..."
Jiang Yi followed the female educated youth into the room. Her face, full of disgust, was blurred in the flickering light of the oil lamp. A girl with braids pointed to a bed and said, "You sleep there."
After finishing her story, she collapsed onto her bed, not wanting to say another word. She was exhausted after a long day. Although it wasn't the busy farming season, the work Li Dafu had assigned them wasn't as strenuous as what the older farmers had done. However, they still couldn't adapt to it, and food was rationed, so they had to eat sparingly. They were just trying to get by with water, and they didn't have the energy to keep talking late at night.
Jiang Yi glanced at the bed, which was against a mud wall and covered in a grime of dirt. She instinctively felt a sense of unease.
"It's so dirty, how can anyone live here?"
But the other two ignored her completely, having already fallen into a deep sleep. Of course, even if they were awake, they wouldn't be in the mood to comfort her.
Jiang Cheng followed Xu Youwen into the house, his face also showing disgust. Yu Qing glanced at Jiang Cheng seemingly casually before looking away, while Shi Lingheng coldly said, "Hurry up and settle in. We have to go to work early tomorrow morning, don't waste time."
Jiang Cheng's words of disgust were choked back by the gazes of the others, and he could only put the things down with a wronged expression.
*
Fan Xiaofan returned from the provincial capital just as dawn was breaking. Fu Weidong, being young, was already drowsy. Fortunately, she had developed a habit of not carrying too much stuff when traveling, and the only luggage she had was the food that people had given her along the way.
The siblings had almost finished digesting their food on the train, and their bags were mostly empty, so carrying little Fu Weidong wasn't too tiring.
The little dumpling nestled in Fan Xiaofan's arms, its eyes already drooping with sleep, its little mouth opening and closing as if about to drift off.
After returning to the room, she couldn't bear to wake the child. After wiping his body, she let him lie down to sleep, since there were many germs on the train with people coming and going.
Fan Xiaofan washed herself and her hair separately. She wasn't too tired, so she sat down at her desk and started writing and drawing.
Fu Weidong, who was sleeping restlessly, woke up with a start. When he looked up and saw the fairy sister's figure under the lamplight, he felt relieved. Looking at her, he unconsciously closed his eyes again.
The room was peaceful.
After a while, seeing that it was almost time for work, and thinking that they were probably waiting for my message over there, I tidied up and went to the technical office.
Sure enough, we saw Director Fang pacing around inside.
Fan Xiaofan went in with a smile. When Director Fang saw her, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How did it go? Did it work out?"
These past few days, he's been thinking about this matter day and night, unable to sleep soundly at night, and he keeps talking to his wife about it, wondering if things will work out.
After all, they've always been importing things from other countries. Can we really sell what we have?
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