Everyone jumped back a step, but their shoes were covered in porridge.
Su Ruyi glanced at the porridge spilled all over the ground, along with the poached egg in it.
The shredded carrots from the other lunchbox were all spilled on the ground, and the two steamed buns had rolled far away.
Before Su Ruyi could react, Shu Lan, as if possessed, shoved Guo Tianya to the ground: "How dare you waste food?! How dare you?!"
Guo Tianya was stunned by her crazy enthusiasm.
Shulan was already straddling Guo Tianya, first pulling her hair vigorously for a while, then slapping her left and right: "I got up at five in the morning! I worked so hard to cook this meal! Why did you have to waste food like this! You get down on the ground and lick it clean!!!"
At this moment, the male educated youth heard the commotion and all ran over, including the three wounded soldiers from yesterday.
Jiang Aiguo rushed to the front: "You, Shulan, how dare you hit someone!"
As he spoke, he sped up and rushed over.
Su Ruyi waited for him to rush past her, then stuck out her foot and tripped him.
With a "thud," Jiang Aiguo fell to the ground, his head landing squarely in the porridge, and a fried egg got stuck in his mouth.
Su Ruyi clapped her hands and said, "It seems that Jiang Zhiqing is craving fried eggs!"
Jiang Aiguo got up, his face covered in porridge and vegetables, with half a fried egg still stuck in his mouth.
He spat it out and glared at Su Ruyi: "You...you did this on purpose?!"
Su Ruyi didn't even glance at him.
Shulan seemed to snap out of her madness. She got up from Guo Tianya, tears streaming down her face. "Since you enjoy wasting food so much, I won't cook for you anymore. You'll have to cook for yourself!"
"Why?!" Guo Tianya also got up and was about to rush towards her to fight, but she immediately froze on the spot after hearing these words.
"I'm the cook in this educated youth compound," Shulan said, wiping away her tears and looking around.
No one spoke; everyone was silently calculating the costs in their minds.
Many of my classmates were sent to the countryside in the neighboring brigades. Among the educated youth settlements in the surrounding area, the one in Qingshan Team 1 was the best in terms of food.
Wang Chuntao spoke up: "Guo, you're wrong to waste food! Aren't you going to apologize to Shu right now?!"
He spoke while giving a meaningful look.
Unexpectedly, Guo Tianya was completely unmoved: "You have no idea what's going on! It was Su Ruyi who made Shulan cook for that village doctor Jin Dachun for three months! Using our food rations, our vegetables, our water, and our firewood!"
"You're talking nonsense!"
Shulan immediately cried out, "Since you asked me, I've already told you. Today's rations will be deducted from my rations, and next time we'll take Dr. Jin's rations."
As for the vegetables, Su, the educated youth, gave me the money! I plan to use this money to buy oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar! As before, I will keep the accounts transparent!
Moreover, I will go and collect some firewood!
"We won't need much water, Hu Zhenbo. If you're still upset, I... I'll just carry another bucket of water myself every day!"
It turns out that the person in charge of fetching water at the educated youth compound was Hu Zhenbo.
Seeing everyone's attention turn to him, Hu Zhenbo, who was at the back of the crowd, quickly said:
"Huh? I didn't say anything!"
I didn't mean to refuse to carry water!
Shu Zhiqing, everyone can see how busy and tired you are every day!
We're not unreasonable people, you can make the decision about this!
Even if it means carrying three extra buckets of water a day, I wouldn't mind!
Upon hearing this, Guo Tianya got up and slapped Hu Zhenbo across the face: "Why are you siding with outsiders?"
It made a loud "snap" sound.
Hu Zhenbo looked at Guo Tianya, and the light in his eyes went out completely in that instant.
He stared at Guo Tianya and said, word by word, "From now on, I won't know you, and you won't know me!"
After saying that, he turned and left.
Guo Tianya stood there, feeling a little guilty.
At this moment, everyone looked at her with disgust, including Jiang Aiguo.
Shulan had already filled two of her own lunchboxes with breakfast and handed them to Su Ruyi: "Hurry up and take this to Dr. Jin. I'll keep your food warm in the pot!"
Su Ruyi took it, nodded, exchanged glances with Su Tong and the other two, and then left.
The male educated youth all left too.
As Guo Tianya watched their departing figures, she suddenly felt all her strength drain away.
She turned to pick up her own bowl, only to find that there was no porridge in it.
The two steamed buns that should have belonged to her were also gone.
It turned out that Shulan had given her breakfast back to Dr. Jin.
Guo Tianya looked at the three people who had brought the food to the stone table in the courtyard and saw that they had already started eating. She turned around and went into the house in a huff: "Isn't it just porridge? I don't care if I drink it! I'm going to drink malted milk powder this morning!"
The three people in front of the stone table covered their mouths and laughed as they listened to Guo Tianya's drawn-out voice.
Su Ruyi hadn't gone far with her lunchbox when Su Tong chased after her, calling out, "Ruyi, wait!"
Su Ruyi turned around and saw Su Tong pushing a bicycle! Her eyes widened in disbelief: "Fourth Brother, what are you doing...?"
Su Tong chuckled slightly—he couldn't laugh out loud or his face would hurt—and then said with no small amount of pride, "Fourth Brother said he would send you a gift for your trip to the countryside, and this is it!"
Looking at the brand-new bicycle in front of her, Su Ruyi smiled sincerely, her heart filled with warmth: "Thank you, Fourth Brother!"
Su Tong rubbed her head: "Alright, hurry up and take your master's food!"
Just then, Ding Liming, the captain of the second team of Qingshan, walked towards them and asked, "Who is Su Ruyi?"
Su Ruyi raised her hand: "Me!"
Seeing the bright-eyed little girl in front of him, Ding Liming immediately put on a smile:
"Isn't this a coincidence?"
My name is Ding Liming. You may not know me. I am the captain of the second team!
Didn't Ding Daguo go in?
I'll be acting as the team leader for a few days!
Su Zhiqing, I just came from Dr. Jin's place. I heard he took you as his apprentice?
They even passed the barefoot doctor's certificate exam?
Not bad, not bad!
I'm here to tell you that Dr. Jin asked you to cover his shifts for three months, and I agreed!
You can start working at the village clinic the day after tomorrow!
Just like Dr. Jin, you get 10 full work points every day!
Su Ruyi immediately agreed, "Thank you, Captain!"
Ding Liming was overjoyed to hear this.
He's usually called the Second Captain, so "Captain" sounds much more pleasant.
He deliberately picked at his ear: "What did you say?!"
He's probably not even forty yet, how did he become deaf?
While expressing her regret, Su Ruyi shouted loudly, "I said, thank you, Captain!"
"Hehe!" Ding Liming smiled with satisfaction.
At this moment, Guo Tianya rushed out again: "Captain Ding! I want to report this!"
Ding Liming's brows furrowed immediately: "Who are you?"
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