After two tiring days, the educated youth finally had a good night's sleep that night. This was the first time they had slept so comfortably since they knew they were going to work in the countryside.

As a result, when they woke up, they found that Dawang, Erwang, Sanwang and even Xiaowang were gone.

This……

Zhao Mingjie quickly stood up and pushed Chi Fengshou up. Chi Fengshou was a little unhappy and had a sullen face, but he still got up.

Lin Lan watched them get up and asked with a smile, "Did you sleep well?"

Zhao Mingjie: "Thank you, Captain Lin, we slept well."

"That's good." Lin Lan motioned for them to get up and drink a bowl of water.

Zhao Mingjie asked curiously, "Where are your brothers?"

Lin Lan pointed outside and said, "It's morning exercise. You can also follow along."

Zhao Mingjie's eyes lit up, "Then I'll go."

Chi Fengshou didn't agree, "Is that little food enough to keep me active?" I would be hungry if I didn't move.

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Don't worry, in Shanzui Village, as long as you work hard, you will have enough to eat."

Lin Lan got up to cook, and Mai Sui also got up to help. When she moved, Fan Xiao muttered, "It's so early."

Mai Sui: "You don't have to work on your first day, so you can sleep a little longer."

They don't have to go to work at the supply and marketing cooperative today, and from now on they will go to work at around 5 o'clock during the busy farming season, and at 8 o'clock when the busy farming season is not. Han Yongfang is still very humane.

Huo Hongzhen and Gao Lu also got up, "He slept so soundly."

Mai Sui smiled and said, "Let's sleep inside. It's quieter."

Fan Xiao muttered, "It's so noisy, who was talking in his sleep last night, hehehehe."

Mai Sui laughed and said, "It must be San Wang."

Hearing that it was Sanwang, Fan Xiao didn't give up and rubbed his eyes, "Wow, little San brother is still talking in his sleep, it's really funny."

Gao Lu curled her lips. In Fan Xiao's eyes, a pretty child talking in his sleep is cute, but a dirty and smelly child talking in his sleep is just unpredictable.

While washing up, Fan Xiao saw that Mai Sui and the others also had toothpaste and toothbrushes and were as hygienic as them, but Gao Lu didn't brush her teeth. She shouted, "Gao Lu, you don't brush your teeth?"

Gao Lu blushed: "I, I forgot to bring my toothbrush."

After a while, they saw Han Qingsong leading the children back.

The tall and straight man had a stern face and the heat from his body made people afraid to approach him. The children behind him also had their own characteristics, all wearing vests and shorts. Dawang had no expression on his face and he looked normal after running in. Erwang's handsome and fair face was flushed and sweat was oozing out of his body. Sanwang was not tired but was jumping up and down with excitement. His pair of black and bright eyes were particularly bright and energetic, like gems. Xiaowang's hair was wet and tiny water droplets flickered on his long eyelashes, making his peach blossom eyes even more friendly and lovely.

It’s really a delight to the eyes!

Zhao Mingjie came over with his legs bent, panting, "I'm so tired, you, you guys... are so awesome."

Fan Xiao: "Zhao Mingjie, are you disabled?"

Zhao Mingjie sat down on the ground, not wanting to move anymore. "You, if you are not afraid, just give it a try."

He was a little unconvinced and wanted to compete with Da Wang in speed, because he thought he had good explosive power. But Da Wang refused to compete with him and asked him to compete with Er Wang, and he lost very embarrassingly.

He pointed at Erwang and said, "Second brother, you look very elegant, but I didn't expect you to be so fast. No, it's just appearance."

Fan Xiao gave Sanwang a thumbs up and said, "Little San brother, you are a real man!"

Sanwang: "Then I can't teach you how to swim, you're a girl."

Fan Xiao: "...Actually, I can swim."

"You can swim?" Sanwang was surprised. "You are a girl and you can swim. My sister can't even swim."

"Swimming is easy. I learned it when I was very young."

Sanwang was very interested and asked her where she learned it, and found out about the swimming pool.

“Can you swim in the swimming pool all year round?”

"Every day, you can even take a shower."

"You city people really know how to have fun."

"Oh, no, I'm a country boy now." Fan Xiao sighed.

Sanwang ran to ask Han Qingsong: "Dad, where is the swimming pool here?"

Han Qingsong: "In the district?"

"That's too far." You can't run that far just to swim.

Han Qingsong went straight to the bathroom, took a shower with cool water, changed his clothes and went into the house to find Lin Lan.

Da Wang waved at Zhao Mingjie who was lying on the ground, "Stand up and stretch your muscles."

Zhao Mingjie shook his head, "I can't move anymore."

Erwang: "If you don't move around, you'll be in so much pain tomorrow morning that you won't be able to get up."

Sanwang jumped over and said, "Lie down, I'm the best at stepping on legs." He was the one who stepped on the eldest and second brothers.

When Lin Lan saw the children coming back, she said to Erwang, "Second brother, go teach the educated youth Shen and the others how to cook." Most of the educated youth had never cooked before and did not know how to light a fire. It would be troublesome if they accidentally set the house on fire.

Erwang went to the bathroom, took a shower, changed into clean clothes, casually combed his hair and went out.

Gao Lu chased after him, "Brother Erwang, I'm with you."

Fan Xiao is not interested in cooking and would never learn it. She is now interested in Sanwang and Xiaowang. These two kids are really fun. She also looked at Xiaowang's paintings and said that she also paints. "I studied music but I can only play the guitar. I studied oil painting but I can only sketch. I will teach you."

Xiao Wang: "What is sketching?"

Fan Xiao told him, "Use a pencil to draw what is in front of you."

She found Xiaowang very interesting. No matter what he did, he seemed to follow his own rhythm.

Xiaowang was immediately interested and took his pencil and paper.

Fan Xiao was very disgusted and said: "This pencil is not good, we can make one ourselves."

Sanwang and Xiaowang were very curious about how to make pencils, and Mai Sui said she could work with them.

Fan Xiao took Sanwang and Xiaowang to pick willow branches, and came back to ask Mai Sui to help smolder them. It would be good, but if they tried a few more times they would eventually succeed.

When Erwang arrived at the brigade, he found that the stove had been set up last night, and the brigade leader even gave him some face.

At this moment, Shen Yu and Xu Dongxing were busy, and Chi Min was giving blind instructions beside them. They used half a box of matches but failed to light a fire.

Looking at the matchsticks all over the floor, Erwang felt pain in his heart.

"The matches here in the country are different and hard to light." Xu Dongxing was afraid that Erwang would laugh at him, so he quickly found an excuse.

Erwang: "...the matches in the countryside are also sold in the city."

Shen Yu hurriedly said: "Brother Erwang, please teach me." Originally the captain said that someone would come to teach in the morning, but no one came at this time. Instead, Erwang came first. Captain Lin is still reliable.

Erwang taught them to first take some soft grass, light it with matches and stuff it into the stove, and then slowly add grass, "The grass needs to be dried frequently. It will be difficult to light if it is damp." Just now the grass was too damp, so it couldn't be lit. It was a waste of matches, a box of which cost more than ten cents.

After the fire was lit, Erwang asked Xu Dongxing to light the fire.

Xu Dongxing had been picking at his hair, thinking it was too dirty here, and had made his hair all dusty. "You've set it on fire, you're burning it."

Erwang stood up and said calmly: "I am here to teach you, not to cook for you."

Xu Dongxing's face changed. You are just a farm boy, what are you showing off about?

Shen Yu hurriedly said, "I'll cook it."

Erwang: "One person lights the fire and the other cooks. It takes two people to work together. You should arrange shifts and take turns cooking. There must be one person cooking, unless that person does not need to work."

Chi Min looked at Shen Yu, "Shen Yu, let's be in the same class."

Wu Wenyi, who had been silent and angry, immediately objected: "Why do you two have to do that? It has to be fair!"

He was dissatisfied and angry all day long, like a puffed-up chicken, and had something to say about everything he saw.

Shen Yu said: "That's it, wait for everyone to come over, and then we'll draw lots to form a team."

At this time, Caihua came over and said with a smile, "Why don't you hire me? I can cook for you." She walked to Erwang and said softly to him, "Let's cook for them and split the money equally, okay?"

Wu Wenyi: "Did we say we would use you?"

Caihua ignored him and continued to ask Erwang.

Erwang said: "Even if they agree, I don't have time. You can go with them, help them and make some money."

Caihua was disappointed when she saw that he didn't agree. "Hey, Yanyan doesn't go to school either. I have no one to play with."

Erwang taught Shen Yu how to knead the dough. The first step was to learn how to make steamed cakes. This was simple and did not require leavening. Cornmeal and sorghum flour or fine flour were added. After they were kneaded, they were flattened and steamed on the edge of the pot.

Shen Yu learned very quickly and was able to do it quite well after Erwang taught him.

Erwang smiled and said, "Brother Shen Yu learns very quickly. I will teach you to make other things when I have time." In addition to steamed buns and wok-shaped buns, there are also leavened dough rolls, steamed buns, baked cakes, rolled noodles, etc.

Shen Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I'm ashamed."

Caihua tilted her head slightly, looked at Shen Yu and Er Wang, and suddenly smiled: "I think you two look like brothers."

They look like their parents, but their temperaments are very similar, both are elegant and scholarly. Shen Yu is like the grown-up Erwang, and Erwang is like Shen Yu who is a few years younger.

Shen Yu smiled and said to Er Wang: "That's really fate."

Erwang also smiled.

Caihua laughed again and said, "But it's hard to say what will happen in the future. Maybe it's unknown, or maybe it's already destined."

Hearing this little country girl talking so mysteriously, several educated youth looked at her.

Wu Wenyi, a nagging expert, said: "You are contradicting yourself. Either it is unknown or it is destined. What do you mean by maybe? You are really uneducated."

Cauliflower's face changed and he immediately felt aggrieved.

Xu Dongxing smoothed his hair and raised his head in a self-important way, "Why are you bullying a little girl?"

Cauliflower nodded.

At this time, Chi Min pointed at Er Wang and Shen Yu and said with a smile: "The future is uncertain, but one thing is certain, this little classmate is a few years younger, so there are more possibilities."

The nitpicker continued to argue: "What's the possibility? At most, you can study until you get to junior high school and then go home to farm? Is there any difference?" Is it useful to go to school now? You will still be sent home to farm. It's a waste of money and time, you might as well start farming from the beginning!

Chi Min was not bothered. "When he is young, there are more possibilities. Who knows what will happen when he grows up? But unfortunately, your future is very bleak."

Caihua couldn't help but look at Chi Min. She said timidly, "Chi, I also want to study, but I'm stupid and can't learn well. My family is poor and I can't go to school all the time. Can you teach me?"

Chi Min glanced at her. She was a skinny country girl with nothing to recommend her except a pair of shrewd eyes. She said indifferently, "Shen Yu lives in your house, so why don't you let him teach you?"

Cauliflower bit her lip and said nothing.

While they were talking, other educated youths came over. Fan Xiao had dressed up carefully because she was going to the commune. Caihua discovered that she had put on lipstick and wore a beautiful blouse, which made her look even more graceful and charming.

Chi Min snorted coldly, who are you trying to show off to?

Erwang said to Shen Yu, "Brother Shen Yu, I'm going to go back first. You guys have dinner."

Fan Xiao walked over happily and said warmly, "Brother Erwang, thank you for your help. If you need any help in the future, just let me know."

Erwang smiled and said goodbye to them and went home. He could see that the atmosphere among these educated youth was very subtle. Compared with that, his classmates' little tricks were nothing. But he was always calm. No matter what happened to him, he would not be affected.

Be yourself, no matter which direction the wind blows, I will remain motionless. This is what he learned from Lin Lan.

Erwang left the brigade headquarters, and Caihua chased after him, "Erwang."

Erwang turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

"When are you going to your third aunt's house?"

Erwang looked at her in confusion.

Caihua: "If you want to call me, I miss Yanyan a lot. I don't know how she is doing. She hasn't been home for a long time."

Erwang: "My mother just went there, I may not go."

Caihua smiled and said, "Anyway, if you go, just greet me."

Erwang nodded and agreed.

Looking at the tall and elegant figure of the boy, Caihua's eyes flashed with pity and sympathy, and then she raised her eyebrows and snorted. Chi Min happened to come out and saw her. She was so young and had such a rich expression that she couldn't help but feel curious.

Erwang returned home and his family was waiting for him to have dinner.

Lin Lan asked about the brigade's affairs and said with a smile: "These educated youth have a high level of education, are young, and have more thoughts." They are not as simple-minded as Huo Yuan and his people.

Erwang discussed it with Lin Lan and Mai Sui. Lin Lan was not worried about anything. Instead, she encouraged them to interact with the educated youth. "There is always a teacher among three people. Watch more, listen more, and observe more. We will also gain knowledge."

The children all agreed.

Han Qingsong went to work after dinner and Lin Lan saw him out.

Han Qingsong said goodbye to her at the gate and rode east, passing the brigade headquarters and turning south to the south road. When he reached the brigade headquarters, he could still hear the noise of the educated youth coming from inside. When he passed a haystack, a girl suddenly ran out from behind. Han Qingsong braked in time, and the girl couldn't stop in time and hit his wheel and fell to the ground.

Han Qingsong got out of the car and said, "It's okay."

Cauliflower had a bitter face, rubbed his knees and shook his head, but his eyes were red and seemed to be in pain.

Han Qingsong: "I'll take you to the barefoot doctor."

Cauliflower shook her head, "No, it's okay." She lifted up her trousers and saw that her knees were torn and bleeding.

Han Qingsong: "I still have to go to work, so I'll have someone come over to help you."

Cauliflower shook her head with red eyes, "No, no, Director Han, you go to work. I'm fine." She smiled again, looking very strong.

Shen Yu from the brigade heard the commotion and came out to see what was happening, then came over to help.

Han Qingsong said, "Shen Zhiqing, help me send her to the barefoot doctor, and ask Captain Lin to settle the expenses."

Shen Yu: "Director Han, just keep busy."

Han Qingsong left first.

Shen Yu sent Cauliflower to the barefoot doctor to get some red medicine.

After breakfast, the children went to school. Lin Lan packed up and took the female educated youth to the supply and marketing cooperative. Zhao Mingjie and Xu Dongxing also wanted to buy some daily necessities, so they went with them.

The team leader simply sent a mule to take Lin Lan and the educated youth to the supply and marketing cooperative.

This year, the supply and marketing cooperatives also had more goods, and the educated youths who went to the countryside would have some coupons to subsidize them, so it was convenient to buy things. They needed to buy toothpaste, toothbrushes, teacups, lunch boxes, bowls and chopsticks, washbasins, soap, lunch boxes, bowls and chopsticks, etc.

Fan Xiao also bought a hot water bottle and a piece of soap. Gao Lu only bought toothpaste, toothbrush, toilet paper and alkali noodles, but no soap.

After returning from shopping, Lin Lan asked them to put their things away while she went to attend a meeting with the publicity team.

After lunch, the brigade was going to assess the work points of the newly arrived educated youth in the afternoon and invited Lin Lan to go, but she declined. After all, she seldom participated in physical labor and was not qualified to assess others.

Lin Lan tidied up the house. She took apart, washed, and sewed the quilts. She also took apart, washed, but did not sew the cotton coats yet. While she was busy, Shen Yu came over.

He stood at the door and called out, and Lin Lan heard it and went out to take a look.

"Captain Lin," Shen Yu told Lin Lan what happened that morning. In the morning, Lin Lan went to the supply and marketing cooperative and he was working in the fields, so they didn't meet. Now that he had time, he came over and said, "It's nothing, just a little scrape."

Lin Lan: "Thank you, Mr. Shen, are you used to cooking for yourself?"

Shen Yu smiled and said, "I was so busy at first that I didn't know what to do. Now that my brother Erwang has helped me, it's much better."

"Just get used to it. If you have any difficulties, tell the team. Will we set the work points this afternoon?"

"Yes," Shen Yu looked at Lin Lan, "Captain Lin, how do we decide this? Are there any things we should pay attention to?"

Lin Lan said, "There are two methods in our team. One is to give you a base score, and you will be assessed based on this score every day. The other method is to determine the work points based on the work, and how many work points you complete. The base score is up to ten points. Generally, female comrades get six points, the best ones get seven points, and the weak ones get four or five points. The best male comrades get ten points, the average ones get eight or nine points, and there are also six or seven points. The method is to let you carry a load and walk to see how long you can hold on."

If you can match the ten-point labor force in the village, you will be given ten points. Generally, this is not possible. Ten points must be given to someone who has both the strength to work and the skills to farm and thresh, etc. That means you are all-rounder.

Generally speaking, men who are not strong or skilled in techniques score about nine points, while other men score eight or seven points.

These educated youths were new here, and they were not strong enough, nor were they skilled enough, and they were not even as good as Da Wang. Lin Lan thought that they were only three or four points, or four or five points, not more. However, she did not tell Shen Yu, fearing that he would be embarrassed, after all, it was very embarrassing.

"Thank you, Captain Lin."

Lin Lan: "Why are you being polite?" She went to the brigade with Shen Yu. She settled the bill with the barefoot doctor, which was only a five-cent bill.

In the afternoon, in the courtyard of the brigade headquarters, Han Yongfang, the brigade leader, Dong Huaihua and several accountants and scorekeepers helped the educated youths assess their work points.

As Lin Lan had expected, they were indeed the ones to bear the brunt of the burden.

The captain carried two buckets of water and a shoulder pole, and first walked around briskly, his face not red and his breath not out of breath. He said, "If you can walk four or five miles with the pole, it's ten points."

Several male educated youth thought they were not bad, after all, they usually thought they were quite strong.

The captain asked them to carry the load one by one and said, "Go around the house of the brigade headquarters and see how many times you can walk. One circle is one point."

Xu Dongxing is the oldest among these nine people, he is only eighteen years old this year. He thinks that he is tall and strong, so walking more than ten laps is no problem!

He picked it up confidently, and the first twenty steps were very easy. He was even singing, "Forward, forward, forward! It's so easy!" But after one round, his shoulders began to slump, his back hunched, and his waist bent.

After two laps, I couldn't move forward. The third lap was very strenuous. I knelt down before I even started the fourth lap.

Everyone: "………………"

Three points!!! Eighteen-year-old boy!!!

The others did not dare to step forward for fear of embarrassment. After all, Xu Dongxing was only eighteen years old and they were all seventeen or sixteen years old.

Shen Yu: "I'll do it."

He carried a load of water, gritted his teeth and finally persevered through four laps.

Han Yongfang: “Four points.”

The argumentative person was not convinced and gave the final score of two and a half points.

Fan Xiao couldn't even lift the two buckets and almost fell down. In the end, the two girls lifted them together but couldn't even walk a full circle.

…

I am most afraid of the air suddenly freezing.

Han Yongfang: "…………" Damn, letting a bunch of scholars carry the load, I really want to vomit blood. A learned brain is worth a thousand strong brains, but right now, ten learned brains are not as strong as one.

But the brigade cannot support nine people for nothing. It needs several thousand rations a year.

What should I do?

Han Yongfang was also at a loss, he couldn’t whip these educated youths, and they were not wrong!!!

They are already students, or they are studying to find a way out due to their weak health, so how could they have known that this would happen.

Captain: "How about..." Can we go back?

Han Yongfang: "…Let them do morning exercises with the Qingsong children every morning, and go to work in the fields with them during the day. After ten days of exercise, they will be graded. If they continue like this, they will not get any food during the autumn harvest and will have to go hungry."

"Ah——" someone began to cry out in grief and anger. It was truly too embarrassing.

It is already July, and it is time to harvest millet, sorghum and beans, and then corn and sweet potatoes. If these educated youth continue to be like this, they will not be able to earn enough to eat. On what basis will the brigade provide them with food?

Moreover, everyone agreed on the work points assessment, and they were not happy to be given special membership points.

As a result, the cadres and the educated youth parted ways unhappily.

After school in the afternoon, the children went to the team first, wanting to chat with them.

At this time, the educated youth gathered in the brigade headquarters, lying down and preparing to cook. After all, their cooking skills were not good, and it took them one and a half hours to cook a meal while others took half an hour.

But except for one or two educated youth, no one else knew how to cook. And unlike Shen Yu who loved to learn, they started arguing over how to cook together within just one day.

Because Shen Yu could do it and Huo Hongzhen was cooperative, everyone wanted to partner with them.

Erwang gave them direct advice, "There are nine people in total, one man and one woman as a team, and the squad leader will be the supervisor and teach them every day." Those people couldn't do anything themselves.

Shen Yu agreed, "I'll just take my own shift for one day."

This way others have nothing to say.

Wu Wenyi, a nitpicker, roared, "Why did you only give me two and a half points? Are you looking down on me? Am I not a man?"

Sanwang chuckled, "Hahahaha, two and a half points? What did you do? If I work hard, it's more than three points."

The children cut grass, picked cotton, etc., and their work points were not low. It was a pity that the educated youth were adults and could not do the work of children.

Wu Wenyi glared at him angrily, thinking that he was just a country bumpkin, and said contemptuously: "Superior people use their brains, while inferior people use their brawn."

How could Sanwang be afraid of arguing with others? He himself has the potential to argue. "But now you use your physical strength, and the result is still inferior. Then you are an inferior inferior person? Hahaha."

The author has something to say: Sanwang: Haha, swing the whip, one, two, one, listen to my...daddy's orders, I will not deceive you!

Xiaowang: Brother San, you need love. They were exiled to the countryside away from their parents. They are so pitiful and need love.