Educated Youth Point
The educated youth had wild vegetable and multi-grain pancakes and wild vegetable soup for lunch. Xu Nuannuan took a bite of the pancake and found it rough and a bit harsh on her throat. It tasted much worse than the multi-grain pancakes she made herself.
That’s not all. Each person only had one small pancake, so it would be hard to get full.
Lu Xinyue said, "Everyone, just make do with what you eat. This is the situation here. You'll get used to it over time."
Wang Jiajia sighed, "We're just unlucky to be assigned to this brigade. The brigade next door has a good harvest, and the food they eat is much better than ours."
"There's nothing we can do about it. Where we serve as educated youth is determined by the higher-ups. We have no say in the matter. We can only find ways to adapt."
"Why is the yield here so low, while the yields in other villages are so high?" Xu Nuannuan asked them. "When we came here, I saw that the crops in other fields were growing well, but the ones here are not so good."
"Yes, the crops on the other side of the stream grow well, but the crops on this side grow poorly. The team leader said that the soil here is not good and we can't grow good crops, so we can only starve." Qin Yuping said.
Xu Nuannuan didn't quite believe what Qin Yuping said. After all, she suspected that this woman was having an affair with Shen Mengan, and she must have a lot of evil intentions.
But Lu Xinyue and Wang Jiajia remained silent, as if they were deliberately avoiding talking about this matter.
Yu Qingqing took only one bite of the pancake and spat it out before chewing it properly.
"What the hell is this? Not only does it taste bad, it also irritates my throat. Ugh, ugh, ugh, it's so disgusting."
She threw the pancake on the ground. When several old educated youth saw the bitten pancake on the ground, their eyes lit up.
Tong Qingmin was the first to move to the pancake, ready to take it away. He looked up and asked Yu Qingqing, "Are you really not going to eat it? If you don't eat it, you'll go hungry."
"I won't eat anymore. I have something else to eat."
"Okay, I'll take it. Don't blame me for not asking you beforehand." He reached out and took the piece of cake, patted the dust off it, and ate it as usual.
Yu Qingqing curled her lips and looked down upon Tong Qingmin's behavior. Tong Danian didn't care about that. He just wanted to be able to stay healthy.
Feng Zhiwei even muttered to him twice: "You are so quick."
Tong Qingmin smiled faintly, broke off a piece of cake and put it in Feng Zhiwei's hand.
"Don't talk about me this time."
After Feng Zhiwei got the pancake, he felt much better and even grinned at Tong Qingmin.
Xu Nuannuan was a little shocked at their thirst for food, but when she thought about it, since they had been in a situation of food shortage for many years, it was not surprising that they were so hungry for a piece of bread.
She glanced at the other old educated youth. They looked normal and none of them showed any surprise.
Fu Yunqi held the pancake and hadn't eaten it for a long time. When he saw Yu Qingqing throwing the pancake, he said to her back, "Squeamish."
But when he put the pancake in his mouth, he found that he was also very fucking delicate.
However, he would not refuse to eat like Yu Qingqing because he thought it tasted bad. He would eat it no matter how bad it tasted.
At least it's better than eating shit.
The old man said that he couldn't stand the hardship, so he asked him to see if he could endure the hardship.
He would rather sit in a pile of shit and laugh than sit in a jeep and cry.
He finished the pancake in just a few bites, his cheeks bulging, which stunned Chen Dalu who was standing beside him. It turned out that this young man who had been living a life of luxury since childhood could also be so hardworking.
Xu Nuannuan and Li Miao finished their pancakes, and Wu Zhiguo also finished his meal slowly.
Yu Qingqing went into the house, opened her suitcase, and took out a box of canned meat. As soon as she opened the box, Meng Qin came over after smelling the smell.
Seeing Yu Qingqing holding the canned meat in her hand, she immediately complimented Yu Qingqing: "Yu Zhiqing, what you made smells so good."
Yu Qingqing glanced at her and said, "When I came here, I bought canned meat from my hometown."
"Oh, canned meat. Yu Zhiqing, you are so beautiful, your family must be very well off."
Yu Qingqing was indeed praised. "My parents are both leaders in the factory. I am the only daughter in our family. All the good things will be given to me. Well, if not every family has to have one person go to the countryside, I actually don't have to go. But, with my parents taking care of it for me, I believe I will be able to go back soon."
"Then I really envy you."
Meng Qin stared at the can in Yu Qingqing's hand, her saliva almost flowing out.
Yu Qingqing thought about the bed, so she said to Meng Qin, "Sister Meng, I'm afraid of the cold in winter. I wonder if you can switch places on the kang with me? I'll treat you to two pieces of meat and give you two dollars."
Meng Qin could hardly resist such temptation. She glanced at where Yu Qingqing was sitting and said, "You sleep at the end of the kang."
"Yeah, that's why I wanted to find someone to switch with me."
Of course Meng Qin knew how bad it was to live at the end of the kang, but for the sake of money and meat, she decided to endure it. She would move back before winter or when other educated youth could return to the city.
She wanted to get more: "Yu Zhiqing, you know how cold it is at the end of the kang in winter. Two pieces of meat are too little."
"Then I'll give you another dollar for a piece of meat."
"Four dollars and four pieces of meat."
Yu Qingqing thought about it for a moment and agreed: "Okay, that's it."
Yu Qingqing gave Meng Qin four dollars and four pieces of meat, and exchanged seats on the kang with Meng Qin, but found that Meng Qin's original seat was next to Xu Nuannuan's.
But she moved over anyway.
After the meal, the educated youth returned to the dormitory one after another to rest.
Xu Nuannuan remembered what Yu Qingqing said, that Fu Yunqi had helped her on the train, and she wanted to know what it was.
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