Chapter 104: Educated Youths’ Dining Spot
"Really?" Xu Ruhua expressed some doubt, but since these were the buns given to her for free, she couldn't say anything.
Li Zeqian took a look at his buns and laughed, "So that's how it is. I thought Comrade Liu gave me meat buns on purpose because he saw how good-looking I was."
Liu Xinyi blushed.
Captain Tang interrupted their conversation and said, "It's getting late. Hurry up and get all your things up. Go back and rest early."
Several educated youth quickly moved the luggage onto the tractor.
Captain Tang sighed. These educated youth looked spoiled. Look at the fine materials they were wearing. These people were probably even worse than the previous batch of educated youth.
Along the way, Liu Xinyi deliberately sat next to Li Zeqian and told them about the situation and interesting things in the village. Li Zeqian looked happy and was obviously amused by what Liu Xinyi said.
Xu Rushi and Xu Ruhua looked at each other, and the two sisters saw vigilance in each other's eyes.
With the tractor, the group quickly arrived at Dashitou Village.
Guo Yingjian drove the tractor directly into the educated youth site. When they saw the adobe houses at the site, the faces of the five educated youths visibly fell.
"Captain, are we going to live in a place like this?" asked her younger sister Xu Ruhua. Didn't they say that the conditions in Zhongxing Brigade were pretty good? Why were they only allowed to live in a mud house like this? "There are no other empty houses in the village. Just make do with it. The old educated youths all lived well. Mu Zhiqing, Ma Zhiqing, come out quickly. The new educated youths are here."
Mu Bai and others came out.
"These are the new educated youth. You can get to know each other and then figure out how to allocate housing. I have brought everyone here for you."
Ma Weiguang looked at the number of people coming and said with some embarrassment: "Captain Tang, this house can't accommodate so many people."
Originally there were only three rooms, two large ones that could accommodate four people each, and one small one that could accommodate two people. There were eleven people in total, including the old and new educated youth, and it was difficult to allocate the six male educated youth and the five female educated youth.
Captain Tang thought for a moment and said, "It would be better if the female educated youth could squeeze in, or else they could live with the villagers. You guys can discuss it."
When Liu Xinyi left, she said, "I still have a room in my house for two people to stay in. If you can't live here, you can consider living in my house. My house is a brick house."
This sentence made several people's eyes roll.
Shu Lijuan was reluctant to move out of her small room. She had spent five dollars to get Yang Pingfang and Qian Damei to give up their room. Now, the room was too small for the new educated youth to move in, so she had to move out.
Xu Rushi and Xu Ruhua looked at each other and quickly moved their things into the house. They had to take up space quickly, otherwise there would be no room left.
When Shu Lijuan wanted to move her things over, she found that there was no room left.
"How can you two be so overbearing? You've taken up all the seats as soon as you got here. If you take up all the seats, where will I sleep at night?"
Xu Rushi said, "I thought you wanted to live with your fellow villagers, and you didn't move your things for a long time, but the bed is so small, and we don't take up much space."
The Xu sisters originally wanted to live at Liu Xinyi's house, but Liu Xinyi glanced at Li Zeqian before leaving, and it was obvious that she wanted Li Zeqian to live there. Moreover, the sisters went to the countryside for Li Zeqian, so living close to each other would be easier to cultivate their relationship.
"There's no other way. The house is full, so we all squeeze to the side. We're all girls, so there's still room for us if we squeeze in," said Yang Pingfang.
In the end, Zhang Mengdan moved in with Mu Bai and the others, while Xie Yan and Li Zeqian moved into the small house.
Captain Tang still gave each of them 30 kilograms of coarse grain, saying that this was the first loan from the brigade. If it was not enough, they had to borrow more from the brigade or find a way on their own. Now was the slack season, and there was not much work to do, so they let the educated youth get familiar with the environment first.
The new educated youth greeted the old educated youth and exchanged names.
"Mu Bai, do you still remember me?" Li Zeqian grinned and looked at Mu Bai.
"Why is the young master of the Li family coming to the countryside again?" Mu Bai glanced at him.
"The eldest young master of the Mu family can support the construction of the motherland, so of course I want to follow your example." Li Zeqian was still smiling.
Ding Zhongjiang looked at the two men and patted his head: "You know each other, that's good. Let us help you move your things."
After tidying up, it was time for dinner.
"We usually cook together here. You can put as much rice as you want in boxes and steam it separately. This pot was bought by us old educated youths together, and the vegetables in the vegetable garden are also grown by us together. Forget the pot, we all use it together, but if you want to eat the vegetables in the vegetable garden, you have to pay for it." Ma Weiguang said.
It happened to be Yang Pingfang who was cooking today. She wasn't very good at cooking, but she liked spicy food. She put a lot of chili peppers in the dishes, which made Li Zeqian and the others frown. But fortunately, in order to take care of these new educated youth, there were still non-spicy dishes.
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Xu Rushi and Xu Ruhua took a bite of the sorghum rice and found it a little bitter. Then they took another bite of the vegetable and felt that it was so spicy that tears were about to come out.
“You eat these things every day?”
The five new educated youth couldn't get used to the food.
"It's good to have these things to eat. When we first came here, we were just eating sweet potatoes. You are relatively lucky. The team leader has distributed sorghum rice and brown rice to you. When we came here last year, each of us had a bag of sweet potatoes." Yang Pingfang said.
"This is a good condition. Captain Tang is lying!" Xu Ruhua said as she put down her bowl and chopsticks.
"Our brigade's conditions are pretty good this year. Several neighboring brigades have to rely on relief food to survive. Last year, there was a big drop in production, but no one in our brigade starved to death." Ding Zhongjiang couldn't help but speak. Although he also disliked this place when he came here last year, Zhongxing Brigade is really better than the neighboring brigades. Last year, they ate mixed noodles and wild vegetable dumplings with some bran noodles, wild vegetables, corn grits, etc., which scratched people's throats. That kind of food is really unpalatable. But there is no way to eat it. If you don't eat it, you will be hungry.
The newly arrived educated youth all came from Beijing and were obviously not short of money. The Xu sisters looked at the vegetables that were mostly peppers and had little oil in them. The only fried eggs they had added to celebrate had already been eaten. They took two bites of rice and because they couldn't eat any more, they gave the rest to Qian's eldest sister.
After washing the dishes, Qian Damei returned to her room and found the Xu sisters eating peach cakes. It was obvious that they did not have enough for dinner.
Qian Damei walked in and found the two sisters discussing whether they should split up and fire separately.
"I don't believe that Brother Zeqian is used to eating these. Otherwise, let's talk to Brother Zeqian and we can split up and cook on our own." This was said by Xu Ruhua. It would be better to cook on our own.
In fact, she brought canned meat when she came, but when she saw so many people at the educated youth site, she didn't take it out.
After the Xu sisters finished eating the peach cakes, they went to Li Zeqian to discuss separating and cooking on their own.
(End of this chapter)