"Mom, you should be saying that to my older brother. As for me... I'm still a long way from finding a partner!"
Song Guoqing looked very awkward. He blushed and said, "But I can assure you that when I grow up, I will never get close to those female educated youths, let alone date one!"
"You brat, you talk like your older brother is looking for a female educated youth to date."
Giving the boy a disapproving look, Song Qingbin turned his gaze back to Li Jumei: "The female educated youths are basically all arrogant. I don't have a good impression of them, and I have never had any contact with them or tried to talk to them."
The implication was that he had no intention of becoming a couple with the female educated youth.
Hearing this, Li Jumei felt relieved, but still said, "It's good that you two brothers don't have that intention, but you should be more careful in the village in the meantime, lest some educated youth plot against you. If that happens, our family will have no choice but to marry them."
"I will."
Song Qingbin nodded.
Song Guoqing nodded as well, but asked, "Mom, didn't those educated youth in the educated youth compound look down on us country folk? How could they possibly scheme against the young people in our village?"
He casually exaggerated the scope of those who might be targeted by educated youth, simply because he felt that there were more than just his older brother, a young man of marriageable age, and him, a boy who would grow up in another three or four years.
"What's so hard to understand?"
Li Jumei rolled her eyes and said, "Those educated youth from the city, regardless of gender, are basically all too weak to lift heavy objects. Some of them just can't stand the hardship, and either they come to our countryside for a short time and then beg their families to transfer them back to the city."
Those who lack ability at home target young people in our countryside, looking for families with many strong laborers and good financial conditions, and then they rack their brains to use marriage to make an easy living.
This kind of thing doesn't only happen in our village; it happens quite often in other villages as well.
Anyway, if you ask me, I doubt many of the educated youth who married young people from our countryside actually want a stable life. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. If they ever have the chance to return to the city, I estimate the vast majority will abandon their spouses and children in the countryside and leave on their own.”
Song Lan listened quietly without offering any opinion, because in the memories left by the original owner, the kind of thing Li Jumei described did exist, and it happened all over the country, and not in small numbers.
"If they really did what you said, Mom, that would be too much of a bully!"
Song Qingbin's face was slightly dark.
Song Guoqing's expression was also not good. He said, "Mom, have they all lost their conscience?"
"I don't know if your mother was eaten by dogs, but I do know one thing: none of them are good people!"
Li Jumei had absolutely no liking for the troublesome educated youth in the village.
Perhaps Song Jiaojiao was partly to blame, but to be honest, the educated youth's attitude towards the villagers was really not good.
In their eyes, country folk are uncultured and unhygienic.
Despite secretly looking down on them, they were willing to use marriage to achieve their goal so that they could have an easy life.
Once they no longer need you, they immediately turn their backs on you!
If such a daughter-in-law were to appear in their family one day, Li Jumei felt that she would most likely find a stick and break her stupid son's legs to prevent him from bringing trouble into the family.
Suddenly, Song Qingbin said, "With a marriage certificate, it might not be easy to just walk away on your own."
"Those who want to leave can't be kept, but having a marriage certificate in hand still has some advantages for us country folk." At least if the educated youth husband or wife in the family wants to leave, they have to follow the procedures.
Li Jumei is really smart, and Song Sanhe is a cultured man and the village accountant, so he naturally has a lot of knowledge. When the couple are together, Song Sanhe often chats with Li Jumei about things he has learned outside.
Over time, compared to the women in the village who only knew how to revolve around the stove and their husbands and children, Li Jumei's knowledge and awareness were naturally extraordinary.
"Oh, right..."
Li Jumei opened her mouth, glanced at Song Lan, and then said, "Before I came back, Yuan Zhiqing woke up. She opened her eyes and cried as she said that Chen Zhiqing had asked her to meet him by the river, and the one who relayed the message was that boy Erdan."
Because Chen Dongze was a sent-down youth in Shisong Village, and they had bumped into each other several times in the village before, plus the fact that Song Qingbin had previously taken Han Bailan to Song Lan's house on his bicycle and encountered Chen Dongze also going to see Song Lan, this incident further complicated matters.
Li Jumei and her husband, along with Song Qingbin, Song Qinghui, and Song Guoqing, undoubtedly knew that Song Lan and Chen Dongze were acquainted and had a special relationship.
Since her family already knew most of the details, Song Lan didn't hide her past with Chen Dongze.
That explains why Li Jumei glanced at Song Lan when she mentioned Chen Dongze.
Song Qingbin: "What did Erdan say? Did Chen Zhiqing admit it?"
Li Jumei: "Chen Zhiqing said he didn't ask Erdan to pass on any messages. As for Erdan, his mother took him to his uncle's house."
Song Lan then spoke up: "Don't you have to work today?"
"It gets cold early here, and there's not much work to do in the fields right now, so the brigade is letting everyone rest for a day."
After hearing Li Jumei's words, Song Lan remained silent. But then Li Jumei continued, "That Chen educated youth seems quite good, but have all those female educated youths been bewitched?"
Earlier, Yang, an educated youth, said that Chen, an educated youth, asked her to meet him by the river. As a result, she fell into the river and was rescued by Er Gouzi. In the end, for the sake of her reputation, she had no choice but to marry Er Gouzi.
According to Yang, a former educated youth, she was standing by the river waiting for Chen when someone suddenly pushed her from behind, causing her to fall into the water. Now, Yuan is saying that Erdan helped Chen pass on a message, arranging to meet her by the river. I just don't understand, does Yuan not have a brain?
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