While Yu Qing and Shi Lingheng were chatting, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yi exchanged a glance and started asking around about Fan Xiaofan.
It just so happens that one of them, who had just overheard Fan Xiaofan's words, said with a smile, "She's a sent-down youth just like you, and she's going to the village chief to complete some paperwork..."
Jiang Yi couldn't help but scream: "She was also an educated youth, so why is it that while we're working in the fields, she can ride her bicycle around aimlessly? And why haven't I seen her these past few days?"
Upon hearing this, a villager immediately rolled his eyes at Jiang Yi: "Why are you comparing yourself to Xiao Fan? Xiao Fan was personally recruited by the factory manager in the city, so of course he doesn't have to work in the fields."
Jiang Yi couldn't suppress her jealousy, and Jiang Cheng, who was standing next to her, asked excitedly, "Can we go to the city and work as laborers?"
He would much rather be a glorious worker than toil in the fields facing the earth and turning his back to the sky.
Jiang Yi also reacted, ignoring her dirty hands and grabbing Jiang Cheng's arm, shaking it: "Brother, I want to be a worker too..."
Their words reached the ears of the surrounding villagers, and someone immediately scoffed: "How can you be so optimistic? You think you can just become workers like that? If it were that easy, we would have gone long ago."
Jiang Yi said indignantly, "If she can go, why can't I?"
A thin, dark-skinned old man standing nearby spoke up: "Xiao Fan got there on his own merit. What can you do? Do you think becoming a worker is so easy? You can't even get the rural-to-urban residency conversion done; you don't even qualify to take the exam..."
"What skills could she possibly have? Why can't I?"
Jiang Yi was provoked and retorted directly.
The gaunt old man glanced at her and shook his head: "People need to learn to face reality. What skills do you have? She can take apart a tractor and put it back together even better. Can you do that?"
Jiang Yi certainly couldn't accept it. She had been pampered at home since childhood, and the only thing that didn't go her way was that her father had arranged for her and her brother to go to the countryside without any preparation. No matter how much the siblings cried and pleaded, their father seemed to have hardened his heart.
When I saw them off, I even told them not to contact me again after that.
Jiang Yi didn't know what had happened. She tried to convince herself that nothing would happen, but deep down she knew that something must have happened to her father.
Who doesn't know that working in a factory is a good thing?
Compared to farming, they were sheltered from the wind and rain, received monthly rations of grain and various welfare coupons, and their status was the envy of others.
Neither Jiang Cheng nor Jiang Yi are the type to suffer. Making them work in the fields makes the young master and princess feel like they're constantly on the verge of collapse.
They hadn't known before, but now that they knew Fan Xiaofan, as an educated youth, could go to the city to work, they couldn't help but start to have all sorts of wild thoughts.
Actually, if Fan Xiaofan were to work in the fields, she would probably cry from grievance. Although her body was better than that of a so-called sickly person, it was still the kind of body that would turn red if pinched, and it was extremely delicate.
After all, in her past life, aside from the laboratory, she spent her time at home enjoying and taking care of her body, so how could her skin not be good?
Even a little sun exposure makes them prone to turning red.
Therefore, Fan Xiaofan is now especially grateful to her parents for teaching her that knowledge is power. If she didn't have her own brain, what else could she do after coming to this era? Roll up her sleeves and go to the fields, right?
Fan Xiaofan felt that she had absolutely not inherited the glorious tradition of hard work and perseverance, but farming wasn't her forte either, so she felt perfectly justified in believing that she could contribute in many other ways...
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