"What's wrong? Why are you so happy?"
Ye Weiwei watched Huo Xiao enter with a smile and couldn't help but tease, "Have you been tired of staying with me in the hospital for so many days and are you finally free?"
Huo Xiao flicked Ye Weiwei's head, "What nonsense are you talking about! It's a good thing! A very good thing!"
Seeing how happy he was, Ye Weiwei's curiosity was piqued. "What great news could make you so happy?"
Huo Xiao: "It's related to our parents. If nothing unexpected happens, our parents will be able to come back to Beijing for the Spring Festival this year."
"What?" Ye Weiwei stared at Huo Xiao with wide eyes, gripping his arm tightly, her breathing becoming rapid: "Are you serious?"
Huo Xiao held Ye Weiwei's small hand. "How could I lie to you about something like this? But this is just my preliminary estimate. The specific time when the official document will be issued depends on the decision from above. But Mom and Dad certainly won't stay at the farm forever."
Overwhelmed by this immense joy, Ye Weiwei was speechless. "You, what you've been busy with before, is it related to my parents' affairs?"
Huo Xiao raised his index finger to make a shushing gesture, "You can guess for yourself, I can't go into too much detail right now."
Ye Weiwei nodded vigorously, then couldn't help but kiss Huo Xiao hard on the cheek, "Honey, thank you!"
Huo Xiao flashed a bright white smile: "It's what I should do."
It was worth it for him to spend the better part of the year investigating this matter; having this taste made it all worthwhile!
Dean Xia and Dr. Lan knew that Ye Weiwei was being discharged from the hospital today, so they came to see her off. Seeing the young couple being so affectionate, they felt a little awkward.
Ye Weiwei knew that people in this era were very conservative when they were out in public, and she didn't feel embarrassed at all when she saw them looking awkward.
I greeted them as usual, said goodbye, and got into the car at the hospital entrance with my child in my arms.
Huo Xiao drove in front, while Ye Weiwei and Liu Guilan sat in the back holding their child. The car drove all the way back to Daqingshan Village.
After staying in the county town for more than a month, Ye Weiwei and her group caused quite a stir when they returned to the village.
People who were on good terms with their children in the village came to visit them.
For several days in a row, people kept coming to Ye Weiwei's house.
None of these people came empty-handed. Most of them brought a few eggs, while those who were on good terms with Aunt Lü, Zhao Yue'e, and Aunt Zhou brought more substantial gifts, such as cloth.
Wu Xiuyue also made small toys for the three little ones, including a small floral curtain sewn together from various colorful scraps of fabric.
Huo Xiao made a thin rope and hung it above their heads. When he wanted to tease them, he would flick it a couple of times, and the little ones' attention would be immediately drawn to it.
Xu Meijun and her group also prepared gifts for the little ones when they arrived.
A small rattle drum and three small tiger-head hats.
The four of them pooled their money to buy it, and Chen Jiali made the tiger-head hat from the fabric they bought.
In February, five new educated youths arrived in Daqingshan Village, three men and two women.
Xu Meijun and the other three suddenly became old people.
Village chief Lu Mingfa asked the older educated youth to mentor the new ones, but who knew that these new educated youth were all very temperamental, and during this period, there were quite a few conflicts at the educated youth settlement.
Fortunately, Hou Zheng was able to keep things in check, and Xu Meijun was also very sharp-tongued; otherwise, those new educated youths might have really caused a huge uproar.
Because Ye Weiwei was pregnant, Xu Meijun and Chen Jiali rarely bothered her with the trivial matters of the educated youth settlement. Finally, after Ye Weiwei gave birth, Xu Meijun couldn't hold back her chatter and vented her anger on those people.
The five new educated youths who came in this batch were mentioned in the original book.
One of the educated youths, Zhong Yan, was an admirer of Zhao Mingzhe. After Zhao Mingzhe and the original owner of the body broke up, she and Ye Wanwan were rivals. However, she was clearly not as popular as Ye Wanwan and suffered a lot at Ye Wanwan's hands.
However, she was also quite lucky. Compared to her other rivals, her fate was not bad. She escaped Ye Wanwan's schemes several times and did not perish in this poor mountain village. In the end, she was admitted to university and returned to the city. However, she was later tricked by Ye Wanwan into marrying a scumbag, and her marriage was not very happy.
"I really don't know if Zhong Yan is out of her mind. She can even fall for a scumbag like Zhao Mingzhe. I've seen it several times. She and Zhao Mingzhe sneak into the woods together. She's shameless!"
Ye Weiwei raised an eyebrow: "Is that so?"
Chen Jiali said disdainfully, "That's not all! For some reason, Zhong Yan went to Lu Xiaolan and asked her to divorce Zhao Mingzhe, saying that Lu Xiaolan was not good enough for Zhao Mingzhe."
Ye Weiwei almost rolled her eyes. "Could she be trying to get Lu Xiaolan to divorce Zhao Mingzhe so that she can be with him?"
Xu Meijun: "That's exactly what she thinks! I really don't know what's so great about Zhao Mingzhe? He actually made her do something like this, destroying someone else's family. She's shameless!"
Chen Jiali said dejectedly, "You don't know, ever since she went to see Lu Xiaolan, the reputation of our educated youth settlement has been completely ruined. Now the villagers look at us educated youth with strange eyes, as if we are some kind of dirty things. Now when the village assigns work tasks, no one in the village wants to work with us educated youth. The brigade leader had no choice but to allocate a piece of land for us educated youth separately so that all of us educated youth could work together."
Xu Meijun got angry just thinking about it. "Those new educated youths are no good at their jobs, and they're always causing trouble. They ask for leave and don't go to work. I'll see what they do when it's time to distribute the grain!"
She also had trouble adapting when she first went to the countryside, but she wasn't this delicate.
"What's even worse is that they actually tried to push the unfinished work onto us old educated youth. If Hou Zheng hadn't explained the situation to the brigade leader, who is a fairly upright person, we would definitely have been in trouble too."
"Xie Ning is just too easy to talk to. Several times he couldn't refuse and helped them with their work, but those people actually took advantage of him and wanted to make him do things for free. It's infuriating!"
Ye Weiwei never expected that she would miss so much gossip during the past six months of pregnancy when she hadn't left the house.
"So you're still working in the same assigned field?"
She didn't want to see her friends suffer.
It's a tradition for older educated youth to mentor newer ones, and it's perfectly understandable to lend a hand when new educated youth struggle to adapt. However, taking this for granted is not the right approach.
Nobody owes them anything.
Why should it be taken for granted like this!
Xu Meijun: "Of course not! Hou Zheng applied to the brigade leader that the four of us old educated youths would be in one group, and the five of them new educated youths would be in another group. We are now separated, and each group is in charge of its own group."
Ye Weiwei was relieved. "That's good."
Xu Meijun smiled and said, "This is all thanks to you! Zhao Dabao knows that the four of us are close to you, so he has always taken good care of us. When the villagers say bad things about the educated youth settlement, he also helps us clear up the mess and tells them not to generalize about everyone."
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