Everyone stared at them with smiles on their faces, and Wei Baichuan immediately shielded his wife behind him.
"Don't be afraid, we're not bad people. We just heard about you from other brigades when we went to the commune meeting last time."
"We've been looking forward to you coming to our brigade to paint propaganda posters for us, and it's been a long time since we finally got to see you here."
The group from Qingshan Brigade, seeing that they had frightened the person, hurriedly explained.
"There are many brigades in this commune, and I go to whichever brigade randomly. How did you know I was going to come to your brigade today?"
Suti could tell they were obviously waiting for her.
"We don't know, but we've been waiting here every morning for a while now. We don't have anything else to do anyway, and we're all looking forward to your arrival."
The captain of the Qingshan Brigade was extremely enthusiastic.
Suti nodded, but it was impossible to tell whether she believed him or not.
"Then please take us to your brigade headquarters first, Captain. Work is more important," Suti said politely.
The captain nodded hurriedly, and the group followed Su Di and Wei Baichuan to the brigade headquarters.
Su Di recalled that when she went to other brigades in the past, everyone was busy working in the fields to earn work points, and basically after saying hello, no one cared about them anymore.
This brigade is special; everyone is extremely relaxed and not in a hurry to go to the fields.
"Comrade, take your time, there's no rush." The team members noticed that she seemed a little uncomfortable and tried to persuade her.
"Captain, is there no work in your team today? You don't need to stay here. You can come and check it after I finish drawing. I will definitely draw it until you are satisfied."
Suti felt she should be more direct, as these people clearly couldn't understand what she meant.
"Comrade, you may not know that the land here can't grow much grain. It's all mountain roads, so we can only grow some tea."
“There’s not much work to do in the fields right now, and we don’t need to stay there to watch over things. We’re just sitting here doing nothing.”
The Qingshan Brigade is nestled against the mountains, and the land here is uneven, so even if you grow grain, there's not much of a harvest.
It was only after the commune sent an instructor to investigate that they finally decided to let them plant tea.
Every year, the commune sends people to collect the grain and provides them with subsidies based on the yield.
Their brigade was considered special in the commune, particularly poor.
Suti only remembered after hearing what they said that there was indeed such a large brigade here.
Compared to other things, the scarcest commodity now is food. Wherever food cannot be grown, life is difficult.
Of course, except in the city.
Suti stopped paying attention to them and told them to watch if they wanted.
Without his wife having to tell him, Wei Baichuan took the initiative to clean the wall first. Su Di carefully looked at the wall and planned the positions.
She's now quite adept at this; she just needs to visualize the drawing in her mind before sketching it on the wall.
Her movements were very practiced, and the people watching behind her kept exclaiming in surprise.
Only after she finished the entire painting did the people behind her dare to come closer.
"My God, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that a human could draw this. It's truly amazing."
The captain watched as the person drew it stroke by stroke, and he was truly astonished. The team members behind him were also stunned.
"Captain, you flatter us. We've all been standing here for a while. Let's take a break and finish up the rest. The painting will be complete soon."
Su Di glanced at the time; it was not yet eleven o'clock. This was the fastest she had ever drawn.
It's true that I can be more focused and meticulous in my work when someone is supervising me.
"Yes, yes, comrade, you've been drawing for ages, you should take a break. Come to my house, it's the closest one to here."
An aunt who lived nearby tried to pull Su Di to her house without saying a word.
Wei Baichuan rushed over to protect the man, fearing that he might hurt his wife without thinking.
"Everyone, go back now. We'll come back to see this after this comrade has rested and finished his drawing."
That auntie clearly had some influence in the brigade, and she bypassed the brigade leader to give orders to the team members.
Suti and Wei Baichuan were thus warmly taken home.
"Comrade, please have a seat." This aunt's family wasn't large; she had two sons and a daughter.
Suti smiled politely and then sat down next to Wei Baichuan.
"Quickly, Xiaoya, go and kill the chicken at home to entertain this comrade. It's a rare occasion for him to come."
Suti looked at the water in the bowl, which clearly had sugar added, but didn't drink it. Then she heard Suti say that she was going to kill a chicken, and raised her delicate eyebrows.
She could understand the enthusiasm of the people in the group, but this enthusiasm went too far and became abnormal.
These days, let alone letting strangers eat at your home, even relatives have to bring their own food when they come over.
They even killed a chicken to entertain them; this just doesn't seem right.
"Auntie, there's no need to be so polite. We brought our own food," Su Ti said, giving Wei Baichuan a wink.
Wei Baichuan also clearly sensed that something was wrong, and he grabbed his wife's hand.
But the aunt didn't give them a chance to refuse, and promptly bled the chicken.
Then, with swift movements, he put it in the pot, leaving Su Ti, who was standing to the side, completely stunned.
Either this family is genuinely kind and warm-hearted, or they have some ulterior motives, but she couldn't tell that this family was the first type.
"Auntie, we really brought food. You can keep this chicken for yourselves. We've rested enough, so we'll head back to the brigade headquarters now."
"We need to finish the painting quickly so we can go back. My husband has to work in the fields this afternoon. He told our team leader before we came that we should go back early."
Suti felt very unsafe here, and it made her feel very uncomfortable, so she thought it best to leave as soon as possible.
"That won't do. You two sit a little longer, the chicken will be ready soon." The auntie winked at her two sons as she saw they were about to leave.
The two immediately closed the door, which made Su Di even more certain that they had ill intentions.
"What are you doing?" Suti rummaged through her spatial storage and casually shoved one into Wei Baichuan's hands, who was blocking her way.
“Girl, look how good your aunt is to you. As soon as you came, I killed a chicken in my house to nourish you.”
"Why don't you stay and become my daughter-in-law? My two sons are both capable. One is twenty-one years old and the other is nineteen. You can choose whichever one you like."
Seeing that the door was already closed, the man smiled kindly at Suti.
Su Ti thought about it a lot, and even felt that it was someone sent by Qi Bowen's side or Shanghai.
I never expected that after all that, they actually wanted to keep her as their daughter-in-law.
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