Xu Nuannuan first pulled her lips towards Jiang Ye, and Jiang Ye's thin lips rarely curved into an arc, then he continued to work with his head down.
Xu Nuannuan took another look at the Jiang family yard and found that in addition to a vegetable garden, there were beautiful flowers and plants planted in many places. Mei Xiangcao and Jiang Ting must both love flowers very much.
Not long after the new educated youth arrived at the educated youth site, the old educated youth returned from working in the fields.
As the old educated youth walked, Feng Zhiwei complained, "The seedlings in the fields are so sparse, and this year's harvest is even worse than last year's. When the grain is distributed, there won't be much to go around. It's so damn boring to work."
"You have to work even if you don't feel like it, otherwise you won't get any rations."
After Zhang Lei and Lu Xinyue came back, they gathered the six new educated youth together again.
Lu Xinyue saw the deep slap marks on Yu Qingqing's face and knew that Yu Qingqing was not an easy person to deal with. She must have caused trouble again. She could only say in her heart, "Serves you right!"
Zhang Lei said, "There are some things I didn't tell you about at noon, about cooking, fetching water and firewood, and cleaning. The pots at the educated youth camp were bought with money from us old educated youth. If you want to join us, we won't charge you any more money, but anyone who breaks it will have to pay for it.
We've always had the male educated youth responsible for fetching water and collecting firewood, while the female educated youth were responsible for cooking and cleaning the yard, including watering the vegetable patch. He looked at the three new male educated youth and said, "The water fetchers and firewood collectors will form a team of two, and each team will work for one week."
"I'm in the same group with Chen Zhiqing." Fu Yunqi looked directly at Chen Dalu, and Zhang Lei understood, "Then Wu Zhiqing will be in the same group with me."
After Zhang Lei assigned the male educated youth, Lu Xinyue was about to assign the female educated youth.
She looked at Xu Nuannuan, Li Miao, and Yu Qingqing and said, "We female educated youth, like the male educated youth, will be divided into groups of two and will take turns being responsible for the food and sanitation at the educated youth site. Each group will work for one day, and the two can work separately or together."
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Miao immediately pulled Xu Nuannuan aside and said, "I'm in the same group with Nuannuan."
So, Yu Qingqing was the only one left.
Yu Qingqing originally disliked the poor food at the educated youth camp, so she told Lu Xinyue, "I want to cook for myself."
"Okay, then you'll have to fetch water and firewood yourself. You'll also be responsible for the sanitation of some of the educated youth sites and watering the vegetable plots."
"Is it up to me to fetch water and firewood?"
"Of course, if you want to start a fire on your own, you have to fetch water and firewood yourself. If you use the public fire, others will suffer."
Yu Qingqing felt a headache. She could neither fetch water nor chop firewood by herself, and she didn't want to eat with those people because the food was too bad.
She said to Lu Xinyue, "Lu Zhiqing, can I find another Zhiqing to help me fetch water and firewood?"
"Of course you can, but you need to get a separate large vat for yourself and don't mix it with ours."
"Okay, I can. I'll eat by myself starting tonight." Anyway, the food was too bad and she couldn't eat it.
"Yes, but you need to replenish the rations we had at noon today."
Yu Qingqing hadn't eaten anything at noon, but she didn't care. "I'll make up for it."
Before the meal started, Li Miao was already starving. Xu Nuannuan ate two cooked eggs in the middle, so she was not so hungry for the time being.
Li Miao couldn't hold on any longer, so he could only take out the steamed bun from his bag to fill the stomach.
The educated youth’s dinner was still very simple, almost the same as their lunch.
Yu Qingqing was alone in the dormitory, eating the biscuits she brought from An City. Because the biscuits were too choking, she needed to drink water, so she took a cup and prepared to go to the kitchen to get some water.
But when she walked into the yard and saw the red tomatoes under the south wall, she couldn't help but feel greedy, so she ran over and picked five or six in one breath. Anyway, Lu Xinyue said she could eat vegetables, so why didn't she eat more.
She returned to the dormitory and finished eating the tomatoes in no time.
Just when she finished eating and was feeling happy, a frightened cry came from outside: "Who, who picked so many tomatoes?"
Wang Jiajia shouted from the vegetable garden, and the other educated youth hurried over to look at the tomato plants.
Wang Jiajia said: "Six tomatoes were picked here, so suddenly there are six less."
"Huh? Who ate this?"
Everyone looked at each other, and most of the old educated youth looked at the new educated youth. Among the new educated youth, except Yu Qingqing, the other five had just eaten with the old educated youth, and no one went to pick tomatoes.
"Then it must be Yu Qingqing."
Wang Jiajia took the lead and walked into the dormitory. Yu Qingqing had finished eating biscuits and tomatoes and was sitting on the edge of the kang to digest the food.
There were scattered tomato peels at her feet, and a little tomato red flesh remained around Yu Qingqing's mouth.
Now it became clear that those tomatoes were picked by Yu Qingqing.
"Yu Qingqing, who told you to pick so many tomatoes?"
Yu Qingqing put on an innocent face: "As an educated youth here, you said I can eat the food here."
Lu Xinyue stepped forward and said, "I did say you can eat vegetables, but you should also consider the quantity. You ate so much by yourself, what else do you want others to eat? If I don't explain it specifically, don't you have any self-awareness at all?"
Yu Qingqing didn't think she was wrong: "The tomatoes were growing on the plants, and none of you picked them, so how would I know if you would eat them? I like to eat them, so I picked some more."
Wang Jiajia curled her lips. "Yu Zhiqing, please understand that this is the Zhiqing site, not your home. The tomatoes are first planted by us old Zhiqings, and only then are they from the Zhiqing site. You haven't even watered these vegetables for a day, so what qualifications do you have to pick so many?"
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