Watching Song Shishi take out purple medicine from her bag and carefully apply it to the wound she had fallen.
Xu Li hesitated for a long time, then asked tentatively: "Sister, Aunt Qian didn't ask me for help, right?"
Song Shishi blew gently on her wound to reduce her pain.
After putting away the purple medicine, he looked up and gave her a smile.
"You're pretty smart."
Being praised suddenly, Xu Li blushed in embarrassment.
But the next second, her eyes were lonely and her voice became low, "If my aunt knew, I would only..."
At this point, Xu Li's tears fell on the back of her hand.
"Can you cook?" Song Shishi didn't know how to comfort people. Of course, she also understood that such consolation was of no use to Xu Li.
...
...
Xu Li was stunned and shook her head: "No, but I can cut vegetables. My aunt often asks me to help in the kitchen."
"That's great. You can help me. Let's go to the grain field to help."
…
At the educated youth point, Chen Hui was just about to take everyone for a walk around the village when he saw Wu Zhihua, who was supposed to be working in the fields, running back in a sweat.
Seeing him like this, Chen Hui thought something had happened and quickly stood up to greet him.
"Zhihua, why did you come back suddenly? Did something happen?"
Wu Zhihua drank a bottle of water and then began to explain: "I just saw a very pretty female educated youth cooking dinner in the grain field. Aren't the aunts in the village usually the ones who cook the first dinner for the new educated youth? Could it be that the new educated youth was bullied by the villagers right after they arrived?"
Chen Hui frowned and looked back at the female educated youth in the yard.
Among all the female educated youth, only Song Shishi was missing.
"It shouldn't be. Comrade Zhang and I will go check it out. You go back and do your own thing. If the team leader sees it, your work points will be deducted."
"Okay, I'll go back to the fields first."
Zhang Qingmei came over and asked quietly, "What's wrong?"
"Zhihua said he saw Song Shishi cooking in the field, and was afraid that she was bullied by the villagers, so he came back to tell us. You and I will go and take a look at the situation first."
"good."
So everyone went towards the grain field together.
When they arrived, they could smell the delicious food from afar.
"I didn't expect that Comrade Song, who looks so delicate and frail, is actually so skillful and can even cook."
"That's right, it smells delicious just by smelling it."
"I just had a quick meal at noon, and I'm really hungry now."
“…”
Zhang Qingmei and Chen Hui looked at each other and walked to the side of the busy Song Shishi.
"Comrade Song, weren't you going to the village for a stroll? Why are you here to cook?"
Song Shishi scooped out the cabbage and tofu from the pot and replied with a smile, "It's the busy farming season now. I saw that the aunts were distracted, so I took the initiative to come over to help. Aren't these all for us new educated youth? It's just a small thing, nothing."
Everyone heard her words, and thinking about how they had only been chatting since they arrived, they couldn't help but blush.
Chen Hui waved to everyone, "Then let's do it together. We can't let you work alone."
Song Shishi naturally wouldn't refuse someone's help.
She handed the dish in her hand to Xu Li, and when she looked up she happened to meet An Jinsheng's eyes.
She saw a kind of determined desire in his eyes.
After looking away, Song Shishi continued to do her own thing.
With everyone's help, dinner was ready quickly.
The villagers and old educated youth who had finished their busy farming season also came to the threshing ground.
Everyone praised Song Shishi's craftsmanship.
But among these praises, there are also discordant voices.
"Didn't they say that this meal was to welcome us? Now we have to cook our own meals, and they are all coarse grains and vegetables, without even a scrap of minced meat. Isn't this too shabby?"
"That's right. This is totally different from what I imagined going to the countryside to be like."
The ones who spoke were a new male educated youth named Wang Jingwen and another male educated youth named Zhong Jianmin.
Song Shishi didn't know Zhong Jianmin very well. She only remembered that in her previous life, not long after An Jinsheng went to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, he married into the family of a woman named Chunlan in the village.
Chunlan has a relative who works in Qinghe Town, so Chunlan's family has always lived better than most families in the village.
Perhaps it was for this reason that Zhong Jianmin chose to marry into the wife's family under such circumstances.
As for Wang Jingwen, Song Shishi was very annoyed with him.
The level of annoyance is second only to An Jinsheng.
Because he is rotten to the core.
Less than half a year after they came to Huaiqing, Wang Jingwen was exposed for peeping at the female educated youth taking a bath and stealing their underwear that were drying outside. He also had an affair with a widow in the village.
Song Shishi didn't know whether Wang Jingwen was finally arrested by the police. She only remembered that after Wang Jingwen's affair was exposed, she never saw Wang Jingwen at the educated youth site again.
Retracting her thoughts, Song Shishi ate the cabbage in the bowl and looked around.
She found that those who praised her cooking were all former educated youth.
They have experienced hardships, so they naturally know how difficult it is for Song Shishi to cook these ordinary dishes so deliciously.
Those who complained were the new educated youth who came with her.
This naturally includes Jiang Cuihua.
She didn't know if she had seen it wrong, but she always felt that Jiang Cuihua looked at An Jinsheng differently.
Just like... just like a wolf that has found its target and is staring at its food intently.
Song Shishi looked at these familiar yet unfamiliar faces in front of her like an outsider.
Seeing that the spirits of these new educated youth were getting lower and lower, Chen Hui finally spoke to persuade them: "Comrades, we came to the countryside to receive re-education. Only those who endure the most hardships can become superior people."
"On behalf of all the educated youth of Huaiqing Brigade, I welcome your arrival. Let us contribute our own strength to the rejuvenation of our country!"
In the dark night, everyone lit a bonfire, gathered together to sing and dance, it was very lively.
The next morning, Song Shishi and her roommate Yang Huifang took Uncle Zhang's ox cart to town.
Looking at An Jinsheng and Zhou Xingxue sitting opposite the ox cart, Song Shishi simply chose to ignore them.
After arriving at Qinghe Town, Song Shishi agreed on a meeting time with Uncle Zhang. She wanted to go it alone, but Yang Huifang kept following her.
"Shishi, I see you brought a lot of things, is there anything else you want to buy?"
Yang Huifang has a cheerful personality and is one of the few people that Song Shishi thinks is nice, so she answered whatever Yang Huifang asked without any intention of hiding anything.
"I want to buy some seeds and try to cultivate them."
"Buy seeds? But don't we have seeds in the village?"
"Since we are here to build the countryside, we can't just work hard. There is a limit to what we can do. Compared with the villagers, we are probably just smarter, so I want to study whether we can optimize the current planting technology."
"You...you are so outstanding. I can't even imagine it."
When Yang Huifang heard this, she was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth.
Even if she could think of this, she probably couldn't do it.
Song Shishi actually didn’t think that much. She just wanted to work hard to achieve some results so that she could get more opportunities.
She was not planning to stay in Huaiqing for another four years as she still had a lot of things to do.
"This is just an idea of mine. It won't count until it's done."
In her previous life, she studied crop breeding in college.
She never thought that one day she would be able to put these to real use.
By the 1980s, there were better technologies for growing vegetables.
And those are what are scarce in this era.
If she could accomplish this, perhaps her hope of returning to the city would be greatly increased.
Song Shishi was still thinking about where and how to plant the seeds after buying them, when someone suddenly rushed up from behind them and knocked Yang Huifang's body off balance.
She quickly supported Yang Huifang.
Before Song Shishi could ask if Yang Huifang was injured, she heard Yang Huifang touching her waist and yelling, "Ah... thief! That person just stole my wallet!"
Yang Huifang had just finished shopping and put her wallet in her waist pocket.
Although it was inside the clothes, it was estimated that when Yang Huifang put it away, the string on the wallet fell out and was pulled away by the thief.
Song Shishi's eyes narrowed.
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