Tang Baozhu would definitely not admit it. If she did, it would only make them think she was even more terrifying. If word got out, she would be arrested and secretly imprisoned.
"Sister Ye Li, you're overthinking it. I don't have that kind of power. The distance is just too far. My luck would never reach such a far place. Don't overthink it. Maybe it was just good luck that we happened to run into them. If anyone is to blame, it's those people for their inaction, which is why they were struck by lightning."
If they knew that I could cast spells from such a distance, they would definitely be afraid. After all, if I wanted to harm someone, I could curse them from a great distance.
No one else even considered that Tang Baozhu was lying. They thought that since she had said from the beginning that she was very lucky, there was probably no need to hide it.
Looking back now, they realized there was nothing to hide, which relieved them. As long as it wasn't her casting a spell, it made them less afraid.
"That's such a pity. I thought it was because of you. If it were because of you, all those bad guys could have been dealt with."
Although they were relieved, it didn't stop them from saying nice things on the surface, otherwise they would have been worried about their own lives.
"Actually, it has nothing to do with me. I'm just lucky. If they cheated me, then they would be unlucky. As long as no one cheats me, then they won't be unlucky."
Does that make you feel safer?
To be honest, Tang Baozhu's words reassured the other educated youth at the settlement. After all, they had no conflicts with Baozhu and would never try to harm her for no reason. Just thinking about it made them feel safe and secure.
Some people with a bit more ulterior motives were even thinking, "She's so lucky, if we befriend her, could we bask in her good fortune?"
It's safe to say she's overthinking it. Where did Tang Baozhu's so-called good luck come from? Does she not know it herself?
Besides, she didn't want to get too close to other people. If she got too close, it would be difficult to get on good terms with Brother Su.
While everyone was chatting idly at the brigade headquarters, a group of people suddenly appeared from the village entrance, riding bicycles, and from a distance they looked like cadres.
No one spoke anymore; everyone was watching to see what those people were doing and why they had come to this village.
A group of five people arrived in the village on bicycles. Each of them was wearing a Zhongshan suit, so they seemed to be people sent from above.
After they arrived, they went straight to the platform at the top of the brigade headquarters square and looked at the villagers below. "Villagers, educated youth, please gather together."
Everyone slowly moved forward, but previously there was still a clear separation between them and the villagers, with a distance of at least one meter between them.
The person speaking on the stage was Zhao Lidong. After seeing that everyone had gathered, he spoke directly from the stage, "Hello everyone! I am the person sent down from above to temporarily take over the position of brigade leader. My name is Zhao Lidong. From now on, everyone will follow my instructions. Those who are supposed to be at work should be at work. No matter how big the matter is, we cannot delay the grain harvest. Next, I will start to assign tasks to everyone. I hope everyone will cooperate with me."
In a time when there was no leader, everyone welcomed the sudden arrival of someone to take charge. The villagers, who were usually quite arrogant, were frightened by the repeated lightning strikes and didn't cause any trouble; they simply agreed.
Needless to say, the people sent by the higher-ups are much better than the previous brigade leaders. They certainly won't have any complaints about them, and it seems their lives will be quite good from now on.
It's just that we don't know how long Zhao Lidong, who is temporarily in charge of the brigade leader, will stay here. It would be good if he stayed for a long time, but I'm afraid he will leave soon, and then it seems that life for the educated youth will be difficult again.
Tang Baozhu felt a little regretful. She had originally planned to go up the mountain for a chance encounter, but unexpectedly, she had to start working in the fields.
Fortunately, she is quite strong, and since she doesn't rely on work points for a living, she can just take an easy job.
One by one, they lined up. After the five people sorted out the tasks to be done in the fields, they started to line up and assign tasks.
Tang Baozhu originally wanted to join in the fun and get to the front of the line, but seeing that the other educated youths didn't move and were all giving way to the villagers, she simply stopped arguing.
I was originally thinking that I could get an easy job if I was at the front of the line, but since everyone was not competing or scrambling, I didn't want to stand out too much.
They could only obediently follow the crowd and queue up.
Fortunately, the team leader who assigned the tasks wasn't blind. He could tell from everyone's faces that they were educated youth. Some looked haggard, like they had grown up in the countryside, while others were fair-skinned and looked like they had just arrived in the countryside.
They even looked at Tang Baozhu and Ji Fanghua's hands and found that they didn't have a single callus, so they knew that they had never done farm work before. Therefore, when assigning tasks, they didn't assign any particularly tiring jobs.
They were immediately assigned to weeding, as were the others. The older and younger people all chose the easier tasks.
After Zhao Lidong assigned the tasks, he would ask everyone if they were dissatisfied with their assigned tasks.
According to her, if someone wants to earn more work points but is assigned easy work with low work points, they can switch jobs.
There really was no one willing to trade. The people in the village were not short of money at all. With all the things they had robbed when they were bandits, how could they possibly be short of money?
Right now, I'm just trying to accumulate work points so that it'll be easier to get them when the work is distributed in two rounds.
All the new educated youth were assigned easy jobs, including the male ones. Only the older educated youth were used to doing the heavy work and wanted to earn more work points, so they didn't switch.
Since no one knew they would be working in the fields today, everyone came out empty-handed. Now, those at the front have received tools such as hoes and sickles, while those pulling weeds can only do so by hand.
Tang Baozhu looked at her delicate hands, then at the grass in the ground, and felt that her hands were going to get hurt today.
Following the older educated youth in front, I wondered if the fields they usually worked in were really that vast, seemingly endless.
Before even starting to work, I already had the feeling that there would never be enough work to be done in the fields, because there were just too many fields and too much grain planted there.
No wonder the higher-ups sent people to make arrangements after only a few days of absence from work; they were worried that the food supply would be delayed.
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