Seeing that they were sensible, Qian Guo's expression improved considerably.
“You plan how to eat yourselves; this is your food supply for the next month.”
The others were secretly pleased, glad that they hadn't stood out earlier.
"What?" Liu Cuicui asked in surprise, reaching out to demand, "Then return the grain you just took from me."
"Didn't you reject it because you didn't want it? Now you want it? No."
Qian Guo used Liu Cuicui to establish his authority: "Don't even think about playing tricks on me or causing trouble. If you can't work, you'll all go hungry."
"Are you really going to just watch us starve to death?" Liu Cuicui pouted.
“I can’t, but…” Qian Guo sneered, “I can report the situation to the educated youth office. The Northwest needs people like you who are ‘hard-working’ right now.”
Liu Cuicui murmured twice but then fell silent.
Seeing that she had behaved herself, Qian Guo took them to the village's educated youth compound.
"There's only one room and one bed. How are we supposed to sleep?"
Seeing that it was Liu Cuicui who was causing trouble again, Qian Guo patiently explained, "This is all the conditions we have. It's a large dormitory with each person having a bed the size of a straw mat. If you don't want to stay here, go to the Northwest."
"No, that's not true. Captain, we'd be happy to stay here."
Seeing the other educated youths shamelessly fawning over Qian Guo, Liu Cuicui said disdainfully, "Cowards!"
This statement unsurprisingly provoked public outrage.
"What are you complaining about? What are you doing in the countryside?"
"Oh my, you're not some pampered capitalist's daughter, are you?"
"Quickly, let's stay away from her and not get involved."
Liu Cuicui felt a little guilty. Although she was not a capitalist's daughter, she had lived in Su Zhichen's family for more than ten years.
"Nonsense! I am a poor peasant with impeccable revolutionary credentials!"
"Tsk...poor peasants going to the countryside?"
"I have high ideological awareness!"
But no one believed her. Instead, seeing Liu Cuicui's insincere behavior, they became more suspicious of her capitalist background. Even Qian Guo's gaze towards Liu Cuicui changed.
Liu Cuicui keenly noticed this, and although she was still disgusted inside, she kept her mouth shut.
On her first night as an educated youth sent to the countryside, Liu Cuicui's bed was hard, there was no quilt, the environment was dirty and messy, and there were buzzing mosquitoes biting her. Liu Cuicui, who had been pampered by a good life for many years, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
She had just fallen asleep when the noise woke her up at the crack of dawn, and had to rush to work.
The hoe was taller than Liu Cuicui, and the loess soil was as hard as stone. When Liu Cuicui swung the hoe down, she almost chopped off her foot.
"What are you doing? Throwing the hoe? If you break it, can you afford to pay for it?"
After suppressing her anger all night, Liu Cuicui finally snapped: "Are you blind? Didn't you see that the hoe almost hurt my foot?"
"You still think you're right? Even a pig's head isn't as stupid as you! Look at those guys, didn't they all learn after being taught once? I've lived all these years, and I've never seen anyone smash their foot with a hoe! I think you just don't want to work!"
"Unrelated? Okay, I'll report it tomorrow. Our place is too small, you can go work in the Northwest."
“You…” Liu Cuicui picked up the hoe and started working again.
Being watched all morning, Liu Cuicui dared not relax for a moment, yet she was still criticized for dawdling.
Back at the educated youth compound, seeing her hands covered in blisters, Liu Cuicui ran into the room and burst into tears.
After crying, there was no food left, and I was urged to go to work under the scorching sun.
After the blisters burst in the afternoon, the work became even more difficult; every swing of the hoe was excruciatingly painful.
"I need to use the restroom."
"Lazy people need to poop and pee a lot, hurry back, don't even think about slacking off, or else—"
"Okay, okay," Liu Cuicui said impatiently.
Just after Liu Cuicui finished using the restroom, she heard a familiar name.
"Auntie, you're so lucky. Even though your husband died young, your son is so successful! In just a few years, that kid Huo Jun has become a platoon leader in the army!"
Huo Xiaoyan straightened her back, which had been bent over from years of farm work: "That's for sure!"
"Our army is truly impressive!"
“My army said that once I get married, I can join them.”
Liu Cuicui rushed out and grabbed Huo Xiaoyan to confirm, "Are you Huo Xiaoyan? Your son is Huo Jun, he's in the army, he's 25 years old..."
Huo Xiaoyan looked at the woman in front of her who was with the madman and felt displeased.
Before she could speak, someone next to her asked, "Xiaoyan, do you know her?"
"I don't know him."
"Mother-in-law, I am a member of the Su family! I am Brother Huo's fiancée!"
The Su family was a prominent family in Shanghai. It was only back then that the woman was foolish enough to arrange for her precious daughter to marry our soldier.
The woman in front of me, dressed in tattered clothes...
"Where did you come from, you poor lunatic! I'll beat you to death!"
"Mother-in-law, listen to me, I really am a daughter of the Su family!"
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
Huo Xiaoyan pulled hair and pinched flesh, then beat Liu Cuicui wildly before spitting twice before leaving.
Liu Cuicui wanted to chase after him, but the supervisor had already come looking for her.
"Liu Cuicui! How dare you slack off!"
......
Su Wantang had just finished practicing her boxing in the morning when she saw Lu Huai'an returning from the cafeteria with his lunch.
"Thanks."
Lu Huai'an frowned: "We are husband and wife, there's no need to be so polite."
"Um."
Su Wantang turned around and went back into the house, grabbed some new clothes, and prepared to take a shower before eating.
The bathroom door was closed, but Su Wantang didn't think much of it.
Place your hand on the doorknob and turn it open directly.
"ah!"
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