Chapter 9 I Have No Morals
At this time, the girl who was across the aisle from Su Niannian said loudly, "What's wrong with you two grown men switching seats with a girl like her? We are both educated youth, how can you be so selfish?"
Shi Luo became very impatient when he heard this.
Oh my, this is moral kidnapping, eh, that's not right, I have no morals, so I absolutely can't indulge her,
"I don't want to change my seat. Besides, what does this have to do with you? You're really nosy."
"Why is it okay? My name is Lin Yue, and I'm an educated youth who went to the same place as you. We are all a group, so we should unite and help each other."
The female educated youth felt that this guy named Shi Luo had such a good-looking face, and he was not humble at all towards the female educated youth.
Li Zhe was a little impatient listening to Lin Yue's words. Along the way, Su Niannian kept asking about his and Xie Chen's situation for no reason, and the girl named Lin Yue kept chiming in. It was really annoying.
"If you want to help each other, you can help her as much as you want. This train ride takes two or three days, and everyone knows how comfortable it is to sit by the window. Lao Xie and I are buddies, and we didn't even talk about taking turns sitting. Why is she the only one who's good?"
"You are totally unreasonable." Lin Yue said angrily, "What's wrong with two grown men having to endure a little hardship? Girls are relatively weak, so what's wrong with you taking care of them?"
"Going to the countryside is originally to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants. At that time, they will also do farm work to earn their own food. Comrades Su Niannian and Lin Yue are so needy that they won't have to be treated like spoiled brats in the countryside, will they?"
Xie Chen looked at Lin Yue and Su Niannian and said coldly.
"Don't talk nonsense, we just talked about that. We don't need to be taken care of at all."
Lin Yue was scared to death when she heard what Xie Chen said, and quickly explained.
Shi Luo glanced at Xie Chen. This man was so cruel that he could even put such a hat on someone at a time like this. It was simply outrageous.
Who dares to be a young lady these days? If these two people dare to admit it, they will have to live in a cowshed and walk the streets.
Shi Luo felt that his days in the countryside would be very lively.
But I just want to watch the fun quietly, and don’t want to get involved like today.
After waiting for more than five minutes, another female comrade came over from across the aisle from Li Zhe, carrying a lot of bags.
"Hello, can you help me put my luggage on the shelf? It's too high for me to reach."
"Okay."
Li Zhe was willing to help since he could do it easily. He stood up and stuffed a few bags onto the luggage rack above.
"Thank you. My name is Xia Tian. I'm an educated youth who went to the Red Star Brigade in Xiangyang Commune, Sui City, Heilongjiang Province. Thank you for helping me. I'd like to treat you to some dried sweet potatoes. We dry them ourselves at home and they're delicious." After saying that, Xia Tian handed Li Zhe a piece of dried sweet potato the size of his index finger.
Li Zhe took the dried sweet potatoes and said, "My name is Li Zhe. The man opposite me is Xie Chen, and the one next to me is Shi Luo. We are all educated youth who went to the same place as you."
Xie Chen nodded to Xia Tian as a greeting.
Shi Luo looked at Li Zhe eating dried sweet potatoes and felt a little greedy. Although he had stockpiled a lot of dried sweet potatoes in the space in his previous life, he didn't know why he felt that the one in Li Zhe's hand tasted better.
"This dried sweet potato is quite delicious, soft, chewy and sweet."
Not only did Li Zhe eat the food himself, he also commented on it, which made Shi Luo even more greedy.
"Xia Zhiqing, can I trade six pieces of hard candy for three pieces of dried sweet potatoes?"
Shi Luo decided not to put himself in a difficult position and asked directly.
Although the dried sweet potato pieces are relatively large and the sugar pieces are relatively small, you still need sugar coupons and money to buy sugar. Sugar coupons are relatively scarce these days, so if you exchange them this way, it’s generally not a bad idea in the summer.
"No, no, I'll treat you." Xia Tian felt embarrassed to accept Shi Luo's candy. After all, candy coupons were rare, so he directly handed Shi Luo three pieces of dried sweet potatoes.
Shi Luo took the dried sweet potatoes, stuffed the candy into the small bag she was holding and said
"You still have to accept it. What if someone else asks you for dried sweet potatoes? Should you give it to them or not? If you give it to them, you might not be able to eat it. If you don't give it to them, you gave it to me before. If you don't give it to them, who knows what they will say to you.
If we exchange them, neither side will suffer any loss, and it won't be considered speculation, so it's the most suitable. So you should keep this candy."
Shi Luo was a businessman in his first life, and he understood best that some advantages can be taken while others cannot.
When Xia Tian heard Shi Luo's words, he thought they made sense and put the candy in his pocket.
Su Niannian and Li Yue were so angry that they almost gritted their teeth. Seeing that Xia Tian was giving away dried sweet potatoes for free, they also planned to take two pieces to take advantage of the situation. After all, they were not rich people, and even rich people were most short of food these days.
Their family members were just average to them. If they really cared about them, they wouldn't sacrifice them and send them to the countryside, so these two people had little food or money.
If Su Niannian was really rich, she wouldn't have set her sights on Xie Chen, who was in relatively good condition.
Shi Luo took a piece of dried sweet potato and took a bite. It was really delicious. You could tell it was made with care by his family just by eating it.
Xie Chen looked at Shi Luo who was eating dried sweet potatoes in front of him and felt a little strange. He had clearly never met this person in his previous life. He was sure that he was not among the educated youth who went to the Red Star Brigade in his previous life.
Could it be the changes brought about by my rebirth? Alas, it has been less than a year since my rebirth.
In my previous life, I heard my friend’s granddaughter talking about how she didn’t have the golden finger for the space system that was necessary for rebirth and time travel. It was really frustrating.
Although I have made a lot of money by being a middleman in the black market this year, it would definitely be better if I had some kind of golden finger.
"Alas, I don't know whether my life will be easy after going to the countryside this time. We have a neighbor who went to the countryside for two years and came back to visit his relatives. He was as thin as a bamboo pole. During the few days at home, he cried to his family every day about his difficult life." Li Zhe felt a little sad when he thought of the neighbor who also went to the countryside.
"Whether you have a good life or not depends on yourself. In the countryside, you get paid according to your work. Either you do hard labor to earn work points, or you have to rely on your family for support. There is no other choice."
In his first life, Xie Chen stayed in the countryside until the college entrance examination was resumed. He was admitted to a university in Beijing and then returned home, so he knew a lot about life in the countryside.
"Then you should be able to live well. You and your brother are the only two boys in your family. Your two older sisters are married. Apart from your mother who helps take care of your eldest brother's two children, everyone else in the family is a worker. If you earn some work points in the countryside, they can give you a little subsidy and you can live a lot better.
I can't do that. Although most of my family members are workers, I have two younger brothers who are still in school and my family has to support them, so the subsidy they can give me is very small."
Li Zhe was very emotional when he heard Xie Chen's words. He felt that his life in the countryside was not as good as he had imagined.
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