"Haha, Jiang Hua'an, I don't believe you'll really ignore us when we run out of food. If that happens, I'll report you to the officials and make sure you can't be the team leader anymore."
"Oh, Aunt Zhou, if you have the guts, just report it. Then, will the cadres listen to you or me? Will they believe what you say?"
"My family of four or five laborers still has no food to eat. It's embarrassing to say it out loud, and yet I have the nerve to report it to the cadres."
"Two or three of them earn more work points than four or five of you. They have enough to eat every meal, but you don't even have porridge to drink."
"They're quite active in finding faults and causing trouble all day, but when it comes to work, they're lazy, afraid of hardship and fatigue, or they just don't go to work. No wonder there's no food to eat."
"I don't know why my family has no food to eat. Other families have food to eat, but that's because they have worked hard and suffered a lot."
"When Miss Tang was at your house, you were all lazy and did nothing. She did all the dirty, tiring, and heavy work by herself."
"You didn't even give her food to eat and a place to sleep. Now that she's separated, you don't even have food to eat."
"You are all grandparents, parents, and yet you are no better than a teenage girl. I am worried about you and you are not afraid of being laughed at by others."
"I don't care what you do, from today on, your family must give me work points, otherwise you will starve to death."
"From today on, Tang Zehuai, Tang Zeyu, and your father will go and collect manure and stones. Work for a month first."
"If you still don't have enough work points, then you can continue doing these tasks. When you have enough work points, we will give you other tasks to do."
Tang Zehuai: "Captain, what do you mean? There are so many people, why do you want us to carry manure and pick up stones? Aren't you being too partial?"
"Besides, it's our freedom to go to work or not. You have no right to interfere, right? Even if we have no food to eat."
"I don't believe you'll just watch us starve to death. If that's the case, then your time as captain is over."
The captain roared angrily, "Tang Zehuai, you're right. The Tang family lives in such a mess and has no food to eat because of parasites like you."
"It's best for people like you to starve to death, so as to avoid corrupting the morale of the village and affecting others. As for how I am doing as the team leader, you don't need to worry about it."
"You have to do this job today even if you don't want to. If you don't want to, get out of here. If you have the guts, get out of this village and never come back."
"I don't want to be annoyed by you. You're a grown man with healthy hands and feet, but you just do nothing all day and just hang around. You complain a lot when you're asked to do a little work."
"I just don't understand. The work points you earn through your own work are yours. I'm not asking you to give them to me."
The captain looked at his men and said, "If some of you continue to slack off and slack off, I will deduct your work points. Don't come to me when you run out of food."
"And the same goes for you educated youth. When you're working, do it seriously. Don't try to cheat or slack off. We don't keep idle people here."
"Especially Zhao Qianqian, you've only earned three or four work points these days. Are you planning on skipping meals or going back to your city?"
When Zhao Qianqian heard the captain call her out in front of so many people, she immediately blushed, lowered her head, and spoke in a low voice.
"Captain, I've only been here a short time and haven't adapted to the living environment yet. How can I possibly do any work? I'm not like the people here who were born to do this kind of dirty and tiring work."
"I grew up in the city, so I can't be compared with you guys who dig for food in the fields every day."
Although her voice was low, it was still heard by the people standing nearby. The captain's wife, Meng Huilan, said, "What's wrong? Just because you're from the city, you think you're something."
"You can't do this, you can't do that, and you don't even know why your parents gave birth to you. Aren't you quite smart? You see others doing it, and you don't know how to follow suit?"
"You think you're just being at home and acting like a little lady? If you don't want to do this, you can go back to your city. No one is holding you back."
"Those educated youth are just like us, they all came from the city. They work so hard and diligently every day, but you're the only one who has so much to do every day. You really think you're here to enjoy life."
Zhao Qianqian yelled, "What's my business to you? Stop comparing me to others. They work diligently because they don't have money to buy food."
Even if I don't work, I can use the money to buy food. Besides, I've earned three or four work points, which is not bad."
"I'm originally from the city and have never done this kind of work. It's normal that I can't do it. I'm not like you country bumpkins who are born to do farm work."
Meng Huilan was so angry that her teeth itched. She reached out and slapped Zhao Qianqian twice. "Who are you calling a bumpkin? If it weren't for us farmers working in the fields, do you think you city people would have food to eat?"
"Since you look down on us rural people, if you have the guts, then don't buy food from our team. When you return to the city, eat the food grown by us farmers."
"Secretary, secretary, you've heard it too. She looks down on us country folk. If she doesn't have enough food to eat, don't sell it to her, or I'll go to your house and make trouble every day."
The two knew that the captain's wife was a person of her word, so they could only smile and agree: "Since she looks down on us country people, then it's okay not to sell it to her."
Zhao Qianqian said with a sad face, "Humph, if you don't want to sell it, then don't sell it. I have money and I'm worried about not being able to buy food. If I can't buy food, I can go to town and buy noodles, flour, and snacks, right?"
The team leader was also very angry. This person actually dared to call them rural people bumpkins. He really thought he was so great just because he was a city person.
The team leader said, "Zhao Zhiqing, since you are so capable and yet you look down on us country folk as bumpkins, you will have no food to eat when the time comes."
"Just figure it out on your own, don't come to me. As for the work points, go and work if you want. I don't care about you anymore."
"Since you think you're noble because you're from the city and have never done these kinds of work, and you don't take people like us seriously, then I think you'll just have to dig wild vegetables to eat."
"Or you can go begging on the streets. The food that people in the city eat is also grown by the bumpkins you call them. If you eat it, you are also a bumpkin."
"If you don't want to be a bumpkin, then you can go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables or beg on the streets."
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