Chapter 105: Minor frictions among educated youth
Li Zeqian really couldn't get used to the food here. It wasn't that he usually ate well, he had eaten coarse grains before, but this dish was really not tasty. There was no oil or water, and the cooking was just average.
When the Xu sisters arrived at the small house, they found that there was already someone there.
"Li Zhiqing, Xie Zhiqing, you guys come and try my cooking skills. If you agree, give me some money every month, and I will cook an extra portion every day and send it to you." Liu Xinyi blushed and took out two lunch boxes. Inside were shredded potatoes fried with bacon and fried eels, and the staple food was steamed buns made of two-grain flour.
Liu Xinyi can cook, and thanks to the picky man in her previous life, she has developed good cooking skills. She put a lot of oil in the eel, so it should taste good.
Xie Yan took a bite and said, "It tastes really good." If you want to fry the eel deliciously, you need to put in some effort. This shows that Liu Xinyi's cooking skills are good.
Li Zeqian also tasted it. Compared with the food ordered by the educated youth, this was really good. If they had always eaten the food ordered by the educated youth, it would not be unbearable, but now there is a better choice. Li Zeqian and Xie Yan are not the kind of people who would wrong themselves.
"How much does this meal cost?"
Liu Xinyi smiled coquettishly: "Just give whatever you want, Li Zhiqing. If you give me too much, I will do a better job, and if you give me too little, I will do a worse job. Anyway, I will not suffer any loss. Otherwise, you two can live in my house, and just give me some accommodation fees. This way, it will be convenient for eating and so on."
Li Zeqian thought for a moment, turned around and discussed something with Xie Yan, then came over and said to Liu Xinyi, "Can we go take a look first?"
Liu Xinyi naturally agreed and told them to eat slowly first and then take them to see it after they finished eating.
This made the Xu sisters anxious: "Brother Zeqian, why do you want to live in a fellow villager's house? Isn't this house just right for the two of you? We should be united, and living together will help internal unity." The two sisters came here to follow Li Zeqian. What should they do if Li Zeqian moves to Liu Xinyi's house? "What Xu Zhiqing said is wrong. We still live in the same village. Isn't it the same where we live? If Li Zhiqing and the others move in, we can free up space and avoid crowding. Besides, it is Li Zhiqing's own freedom to live wherever he wants." Liu Xinyi said.
"Then we two will also live in your house."
"There is only one empty room in my house, and it can't accommodate so many people." Liu Xinyi still had a smiling face, but her words clearly expressed a refusal.
Xu Ruhua was furious. It was obvious that Liu Xinyi had bad intentions and was deliberately trying to please Brother Zeqian. How could Brother Zeqian not see that?
Xie Yan came out to smooth things over: "We also saw that the educated youth settlement was too crowded, so we went to the fellow villagers' homes to check. If we move out, you female educated youth won't have to live in such a crowded place."
Although the two of them were assigned to separate small houses, the house was made of dirt and dust. Compared to a brick house with delicious meals, Xie Yan also wanted to live in Liu Xinyi's house.
After dinner, Li Zeqian and the other man followed Liu Xinyi away. The Xu sisters stomped their feet in anger.
Liu Jiazhuang had a lot of laborers and lived a good life, so they built a brick house. Liu Xinyi had already cleaned up a vacant room in her home, which looked tidy. There were also large boxes and wardrobes in the room, which was much better than the adobe house in the educated youth camp.
"Just pay three yuan a month for the rent. I'm not bragging to you. My house is so good that you'll hardly find another one like it in the village." Ji Meihua's face was full of smiles, and she introduced the advantages of her house like a woman selling melons. Three yuan a month for rent is expensive in the countryside, but this amount of money is nothing in the eyes of Li Zeqian and Xie Yan, and they don't rely on that little money to live.
After discussing it, Li Zeqian and his friends decided to live here with Ji Meihua. There are many advantages to living here, such as not having to wash clothes or dishes by yourself, and so on, as long as you pay a little money.
Li Zeqian and Xie Yan moved out, but a quarrel broke out again over the ownership of the small house.
"Before you came, I spent five dollars to move into this small house. Now that you are here, why should you want to move in without paying anything?" Shu Lijuan said.
"The matter of the five dollars is your previous matter, and has nothing to do with us being new here. We are twin sisters, so we must sleep together. If we two sisters move into the small room, you can live more comfortably in the big house." The Xu sisters were obviously unwilling to pay the money.
Although the educated youth who went to the countryside were given 80 yuan for settling in, the Xu sisters felt that they were not going to live in a single room and they lived together as two sisters, so why should they pay more?
"Ask Yang Pingfang and Qian Damei to return the money you paid. It wasn't my money. Otherwise, just give us sisters another ten yuan each, and we will let you live in a single room." Xu Ruhua said.
Shu Lijuan was so angry that she fell backwards. How could this man be so unreasonable and ask for ten yuan? Why didn't they just go and grab it? "You guys can't just live in this house whenever you want. We're all female educated youth. Let's draw lots for fairness." Yang Pingfang said, "Everyone wants to live in the small house, and I want to live in it too. Just because you two are new here, we have to give in to you."
"Isn't it just that we are twins and can take care of each other? We have lived together since we were young and we are not used to being separated." Xu Rushi said.
"If you don't want to draw lots, give Lijuan an extra five dollars."
"I thought girls from big cities were so great, but it turns out they can't even afford five dollars." Yang Pingfang laughed.
The two sisters looked at each other, and finally paid the five dollars reluctantly.
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After paying, Yang Pingfang explained the rules of the educated youth camp to them: "We all take turns to cook. Today I'm the last one to do it. You will have to cook tomorrow. Don't forget it tomorrow morning. Discuss who will cook tomorrow. By the way, usually the female educated youth cook and grow vegetables, while the male educated youth collect firewood and fetch water."
The Xu sisters pursed their lips to show that they understood.
Compared with the female educated youth, the male educated youth were obviously much more harmonious. Zhang Mengdan was given a bed in the middle, and Ma Weiguang and Mu Bai slept next to him. As an old educated youth, Ma Weiguang also told Zhang Mengdan about collecting firewood for cooking. Zhang Mengdan said he knew.
"There is enough firewood, but we have to fetch water every day. I'll take you to fetch water tomorrow. Usually we go to Shen's house to fetch water. Their well is deep and the water quality is good. But we have to go early, and we take turns coming." Ding Zhongjiang said.
Although Zhang Mengdan also came from Beijing, he didn't know Mu Bai. He smiled awkwardly and thanked him.
(End of this chapter)