Chapter 40: Receiving Educated Youth

"Mom, you're here."

Old Lady Ji waved her hands and said, "I have heard about the whole story on the way. Wang Guifen, look at what a good son you have taught!"

Old Lady Ji turned around and said to Zhang Qiaohua, "Wife of Futang, I know this is unfair. Your family is a fool. Just do as Guaibao said. Take these two bastards back and teach them a lesson for two days. No matter how you beat them during these two days, we will not say anything."

Zhang Qiaohua was actually shocked by the ruthlessness of Shen Ruoqing's beating. She discussed it with her husband and finally said, "Aunt Ji, we are relatives after all. I think Shen Hanwen and Shen Hanwu have learned their lesson today. Let's just forget about it. If there is a next time, our family will not be so easy to deal with."

"This matter is all my second son's fault for not taking good care of the child, which is why Goudan suffered. Third son's wife, go get a basket of eggs for Futang's wife. I can only take some eggs to nourish the child."

Zhang Qiaohua left with the eggs.

Old Mrs. Ji looked at Wang and her two sons with a gloomy expression.

"mom……"

"Don't call me mom. I am not worthy of being your mom. Your well-educated son dares to bully people of the same clan. Now he dares to beat up their cousin. Will he dare to beat up an old woman like me in the future?"

"Mom, this is just a fight between children. I admit that Hanwen and Hanwu were wrong this time, but look at how hard my sister-in-law hit me! Hanwen and Hanwu know they were wrong!"

Wang blamed Shen Ruoqing fiercely in her heart. Who asked Shen Ruoqing to meddle in other people's business? And he was so harsh on his son.

"Second sister-in-law, do you think I was wrong to interfere? Why didn't you say anything when Han Wen and Han Wu treated their cousins ​​so harshly? They even forced others to eat earthworms and crawl like dogs. I haven't even let your son eat earthworms and crawl like a dog, and you're so heartbroken? A beating is still good, the most important thing is to let others see our Shen family's attitude clearly. Otherwise, if you continue to behave like this, our Shen family will have a reputation of being unfriendly to brothers and arrogant and domineering tomorrow. I beat them for their own good." Shen Ruoqing snorted coldly. In her opinion, it was because Wang doted on her children too much that the two boys did such a thing.

"Guaibao did the right thing in this matter. If it weren't for Guaibao's ruthless beating of them, do you think your sister-in-law Zhang would let them go so easily? None of you three are allowed to eat today. And the chores of feeding the chickens, washing clothes, washing dishes and cleaning the house are all done by Hanwen and Hanwu."

"Mom, Hanwen and Hanwu are both boys!" Wang Guifen looked at Grandma Ji in disbelief.

"What's wrong with boys? Don't boys have to do the work? Now the great man says that men and women are equal. Do you want to go against the great man? Who says these jobs have to be done by women? Boys can do them as well." Shen Ruoqing said.

"Yes! If Shen Hanwen and Shen Hanwu can't do it well, let them keep doing it!" Old Mrs. Ji still didn't look at the three of them in a good light, and snorted coldly as she walked into the house.

Dinner was delicious stewed pork feet with soybeans, but unfortunately Wang, Shen Hanwen and Shen Hanwu couldn't eat it. Shen Xiangnan wanted to save some for his wife and children, but was stopped by Old Lady Ji.

The two of them could only wash the dishes with an aggrieved and empty stomach.

After dinner, Shen Xiangnan said, "The team leader called us to a meeting this afternoon, saying that some educated youth would be coming to the countryside. This afternoon, my third brother and I worked with the villagers to clean up the abandoned houses in the west of the village to make room for the educated youth."

Han said, "Educated youth going to the countryside? Then how many educated youth should we send here?"

Shen Xiangxi said, "I don't know how many we will get, maybe five or six? You said we are almost going to hibernate, and the higher-ups are still distributing these educated youths here. Isn't that to distribute our rations? Oh, the captain said that I should go with you to pick up these educated youths."

Shen Ruoqing is good-looking, and she has inherited the advantages of both Old Lady Ji and Shen Dahai. She inherited Old Lady Ji's phoenix eyes and Shen Dahai's high nose bridge. In addition, she has not been exposed to the sun like other country girls for many years, so her skin is white. She can be said to be a flower in their village. The captain meant that Shen Ruoqing should wear something nice tomorrow so that she can have face when meeting people and make people feel that she is valued.

"This is a matter of the brigade. Since the captain asked your younger sister to go, let her go." said Old Mrs. Ji.

On the second day, Shen Ruoqing followed Captain Tang and boarded the ox cart to pick up the educated youth.

At the train station, all the educated youth seemed to be exhausted. They were so exhausted from sitting on the train for three days and two nights that they could hardly stand up straight. But fortunately, they had arrived at their destination, so everyone cheered up.

"Comrade Mu Bai, I don't know if we can be assigned to the same team." Shu Lijuan looked at Mu Bai with a slightly red face. Among the male educated youth this time, she took a liking to Mu Bai at first sight. This man was not only handsome and well-spoken, but also seemed to be from a well-off family.

"It all depends on the arrangement of the commune." Mu Bai replied, and took the lead in leading everyone to report to the county educated youth office, waiting for the people from the commune to assign them.

"Ma Weiguang, Zhou Bai, Yang Pingfang, Ding Zhongjiang, Shu Lijuan, Qian Damei, the six of you go to the Zhongxing Brigade."

"Comrade Mu Bai, it seems that we are really destined to be assigned to the same team." Shu Lijuan was very happy.

When Mu Bai saw this distribution, he pursed his lips slightly and said nothing.

"Why haven't the people from the ZTE team arrived yet?" Ma Weiguang said dissatisfiedly.

"Wait a minute, aren't there several groups of people here?" Shu Lijuan said softly.

Several teams have come to take people back, some with tractors, some with bullock carts, and some on foot. I just don't know what the Zhongxing team is like, I hope I'm assigned to a more affluent team.

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After a long wait, Captain Tang and Shen Ruoqing finally appeared in front of them.

"I am the captain of the Zhongxing Brigade. Who are the educated youth assigned to our team?"

It's finally here!

The crowd who were sitting crookedly on the ground were cheered up and looked at the people coming. When they saw that it was a dark-faced man and a pretty girl driving a ox cart, everyone was a little disappointed.

"Hello, everyone. I am the captain of the Zhongxing Brigade. My last name is Tang, so you can just call me Captain Tang. This is our team member, Comrade Shen Ruoqing. The two of us are here to pick you up."

The man's eyes lit up when he saw Shen Ruoqing. He didn't expect that there was such a beautiful girl in the countryside.

Captain Tang recognized the people on the roster one by one.

"Are we going to take this ox cart? It's so dirty." Yang Pingfang said with some disgust.

"Comrade Yang, this ox cart is not made for you, it is used to pull luggage." Shen Ruoqing said with a smile. Is this the educated youth of this era? Hey, these poor little ones, your hard days are still ahead after entering the village.

(End of this chapter)