He Xianqiu had nothing to do, so she went back to the dormitory after giving the candies.
She heard the sound of something being moved outside. She moved, turned over, and continued to lie on her side on the bed in a daze.
After a while, the door opened, Yang Shuhua walked in, and slammed the door shut, making a loud "bang" sound.
He Xianqiu was startled. She frowned and said, "The quality of the door is not good. Be more careful next time. And..." I was scared.
Before she could finish, she was interrupted by Yang Shuhua, who said sharply, "What does it have to do with you? You just asked someone to move the things but didn't bring us along."
He Xianqiu was not without temper. She said coldly, "You scared me. Besides, I don't know you well. What is there for me to help you with?"
He Xianqiu didn't have a good impression of Yang Shuhua. His impression of her was that she was selfish, arrogant, and looked down on country people.
Zhou Hanmei saw that something was not right, so she advised, "Okay, we live in the same dormitory, He Zhiqing, just be considerate of Yang Zhiqing and don't be so serious. Besides, you didn't even help us move our things just now, and she's in a bad mood..."
He Xianqiu laughed when he heard this. Does this mean that this is her problem? It's wrong to force her to do this.
"I asked them to help, and gave each of them three White Rabbit candies. We are not familiar with each other, so there is no reason for me to help you. Have you finished moving? Otherwise, I will be kind enough to ask for you, and you can give them candies when the time comes?"
Zhou Hanmei choked. Three White Rabbit milk candies were too many. She couldn't bear to eat them herself, so how could she give them to others?
Zhou Hanmei smiled awkwardly, "No, we've finished moving."
Yang Shuhua was shocked by He Xianqiu. She thought He Xianqiu dared to bully her because he had a good temper. She didn't expect that the other party was not someone who was easy to bully at all.
The two of them didn't dare to provoke He Xianqiu again and went back to bed to rest.
He Xianqiu snorted. There are really all kinds of people here. She has learned a lot after coming here. If a tiger doesn't show its power, people will think it is a sick cat.
After the quarrel, the atmosphere was a little cold, but He Xianqiu didn't think there was anything wrong. She just lay on the bed in a daze.
In the afternoon, all the educated youth came back, and He Xianqiu left the dormitory as he had nothing to do.
When they arrived in the kitchen, Li Xiaoyan was cooking. He Xianqiu had never cooked before, so he watched and learned.
Then she realized that the dishes just needed to be cooked casually, as long as they were cooked and edible, and there was no technical content at all.
And basically no seasoning was added. She just noticed that Li Xiaoyan only added a drop of oil, and she looked very painful.
When the food was ready, Li Xiaoyan called out to everyone, "It's time to eat."
He Xianqiu was listening next to her. She looked at the dishes on the table: a cabbage soup and stir-fried vegetables, and that was it.
She was stunned. She didn't expect that the meal with minced meat yesterday was considered very good?
She stared blankly at the corn porridge that Li Xiaoyan prepared for everyone, wondering: "Dinner or porridge?"
Li Xiaoyan smiled in response and whispered, "There's not much food, we just cook porridge and eat a lot."
"Oh, I see." He Xianqiu nodded, indicating that he understood.
After that, the two of them had no more topics to talk about. They waited for everyone to arrive and then started eating.
After a while, the educated youth washed up and came to the kitchen.
Sitting on stools, everyone started eating. He Xianqiu still shared the porridge in his bowl with Zhang Zhijuan and the others.
Then he said, "Zhang Zhiqing, our food has arrived. What should we do now? Should we just put all the food in the Zhiqing's place and eat it together?"
The new male educated youth next to him frowned: "It's not good to eat all the food together, right? After all, the work points are different, and the food they get is also different..."
Zhang Zhijuan explained: "They were not put together. The male educated youth ate 1.5 kilograms a day, and the female educated youth ate 1 kilogram, and they only had lunch and dinner."
He Xianqiu nodded: "Well, I'll bring the food over later, and it's a good opportunity to return the food I ate today."
No one spoke after that. After He Xianqiu finished his meal, he returned to the dormitory, planning to wash the clothes he had taken off that day.
But she had just arrived in the village and didn't know where to wash clothes. Just then she saw Zhang Zhijuan coming in. He Xianqiu's eyes lit up. She could ask the educated youth who had lived here for several years.
He Xianqiu said, "Zhang Zhiqing, I want to go wash clothes, but I don't know where to go. Can you tell me?"
Zhang Zhijuan smiled and said, "I just took a shower and I need to go wash clothes. How about joining me?"
He Xianqiu nodded: "Okay."
As he spoke, He Xianqiu took the basin of dirty clothes and followed Zhang Zhijuan to the river.
Zhang Zhijuan introduced as she walked, and He Xianqiu nodded beside her.
"We all come to the river to wash clothes. It's too much trouble to carry water back."
"It's indeed troublesome." He Xianqiu nodded in agreement.
The two of them came to the river, found a place to put down the basin, squatted down casually, and then began to wash clothes.
He Xianqiu had never washed clothes before, so she watched Zhang Zhijuan's method, rubbing the clothes left and right, rubbing them all over.
This was her first time washing clothes, and her hands turned red from rubbing them.
Maybe washing clothes together improved their relationship, because He Xianqiu started calling Zhang Zhijuan "Sister Zhijuan" on the way back.
Soon the two arrived at the dormitory. There was nothing to do in the countryside, so He Xianqiu lay on the bed in a daze as soon as she returned to the dormitory. It was not until the middle of the night that she fell into a drowsy sleep.
Morning.
He Xianqiu was still sleeping. The bed was too hard. She tossed and turned all night before falling asleep. But she did not sleep well because it was too uncomfortable.
The bed was small and hard, and He Xianqiu was really afraid that she would accidentally fall to the floor, so she kept leaning against the wall.
She was still asleep when she suddenly heard Zhang Zhijuan calling her.
"Xianqiu is up. The captain will assign you tasks today."
He Xianqiu opened his eyes and said in a daze, "I know, Sister Zhijuan."
After sitting on the bed for a while, He Xianqiu got out of bed and went to wash up with his toiletries.
After the water was splashed on her face, He Xianqiu finally became completely sober. She saw other educated youth leaving one after another. He Xianqiu quickened her pace and caught up with the main group.
When they arrived at the fields, the other educated youth went to work on the assigned land, while He Xianqiu and several other educated youth who had just arrived listened to the production team leader Lin Jianshe assigning tasks.
"He Zhiqing, you are responsible for the land near Zhang Zhiqing, and Wei Zhiqing, you are responsible for this land..."
After Lin Jianshe finished allocating the tasks, Yang Shuhua muttered, "This is too much, and we don't know how to do it."
Lin Jianshe was not deaf. His expression turned serious. “Yang Zhiqing, you are new here and have not yet adapted to the environment. The amount allocated to you now is already too little. I will let the old Zhiqing teach you what to do later.”
Yang Shuhua wanted to say something, but when she saw the captain's unhappy face, she shut her mouth. She was not stupid enough to offend the captain.
He Xianqiu watched from the side without saying anything. She picked up the hoe assigned to her and went to the field.
The hoe was a bit heavy and her hands felt sore from holding it, but she still gritted her teeth and picked it up.
When she arrived at the field, He Xianqiu looked at the land that had not been turned over yet. She was a little at a loss and had no idea what to do. Zhang Zhijuan next to her put down her hoe and came over to teach her.
He Xianqiu watched Zhang Zhijuan pick up the hoe, raise it high, and then smash it into the ground to dig a hole.
She also followed suit and dug the ground with a hoe, but the hole she dug was small and shallow.
She asked in confusion: "Sister Zhijuan, I followed your movements, but when I dug it out, it didn't seem to be the same as before?"
Zhang Zhijuan covered her mouth and smiled: "Xianqiu, you hit it too lightly, so of course the hole is small. You need to hit it harder, then the hole will be deeper."
He Xianqiu suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."
"Try again."
Hearing this, He Xianqiu picked up a hoe and smashed it hard on the ground. When she pulled the hoe, a larger hole appeared. She was a little surprised.
"Sister Zhijuan, I succeeded."
He Xianqiu learned how to dig the ground, and then followed Zhang Zhijuan to put the sweet potato seedlings into the pit and then covered them with soil.
He Xianqiu learned everything. She thanked Zhang Zhijuan, and Zhang Zhijuan went back to hoe the fields.
He Xianqiu dug one hole after another with great effort, and soon he was exhausted.
She squatted on the ground and looked at a large flat open space. Her eyes went dark. She knew she couldn't finish the task even if she was given a day.
It is June now and the weather is extremely hot. He Xianqiu is tired and hot. He digs a few holes, buries the sweet potato seedlings and then takes a rest.
She worked like this, taking breaks for a while and then resting for a while. By noon, she had only managed to clean up a small piece of land.
Suddenly a whistle sounded, and the production team leader Lin Jianshe said loudly: "It's time to rest. Everyone, take a two-hour break."
Hearing that it was time to take a break, He Xianqiu put down her hoe and found a shady place to sit down. She was now exhausted.
She sat on the ground in a daze. She no longer cared whether the ground was dirty or not. She was so tired that she wanted to go home.
After a while, Zhang Zhijuan brought a few black steamed buns to her. He Xianqiu thanked her and took them.
She had been hoeing the fields all morning, and although she had slacked off from time to time, she was now hungry.
She took a bite of the black steamed bun, but couldn't bite it, so she bit it hard and chewed it slowly.
The black steamed bun was hard to begin with, and after being left out for a whole morning, it had become as hard as a rock.
He Xianqiu ate a black steamed bun and didn't want to eat it anymore. It was too hard and made her lose her appetite.
She handed another black steamed bun to Zhang Zhijuan: "Sister Zhijuan, I'm full. Do you want another steamed bun?"
Zhang Zhijuan was used to eating black steamed buns. Although they were hard, they could fill her stomach. Moreover, she could not be full with two steamed buns, so when He Xianqiu gave it to her, she gladly accepted it.
He Xianqiu was full and wanted to go back to the dormitory, so he asked Zhang Zhijuan for the key.
"Sister Zhijuan, I want to go back to the dormitory. The weather is too hot."
She was in such a hurry to come out today that she didn't even bring a sun jacket and a sun hat.
Zhang Zhijuan took out the key from her mouth and gave it to He Xianqiu. She took the key and went back to the dormitory.
He Xianqiu returned to the dormitory and quickly rummaged through his suitcase, taking out a hat and shirt and putting them on.
Remembering that there was a ladies watch in the suitcase, she took it out and put it on.
It was still early to start hoeing the fields, so she ate the cakes she had brought with her.
When she ate the osmanthus cake, she squinted her eyes happily, then took a mouthful of it, her cheeks bulging from eating it, like a little hamster.
There was no one else in the dormitory, so He Xianqiu ate to her heart's content. When she was full, she rinsed her mouth and washed her face.
My face felt cool and I felt like a lot of heat had been dissipated from my body, and my mood became better.
She packed up, took the osmanthus cake for Zhang Zhijuan, and hummed a song on the way back.
Thinking that it was noon and the sun was at its hottest, He Xianqiu quickened his pace.
When they arrived at the destination, He Xianqiu handed the pastry in his hand to Zhang Zhijuan.
"Sister Zhijuan, this is for you."
Zhang Zhijuan looked at the paper box with the patterns printed on it and the big words "Osmanthus Cake" written on it. It was so exquisite and obviously not cheap. She waved her hand.
"Eat it yourself, it's not cheap."
"Sister Zhijuan, I've already eaten. This is left for you." He Xianqiu put the paper box in Zhang Zhijuan's hand.
Zhang Zhijuan couldn't refuse, so she accepted it. When she opened the paper box, she smelled the fragrance of osmanthus. She picked up one and took a bite, and her eyes lit up.
When He Xianqiu saw that Zhang Zhijuan was captured, she said, "This osmanthus cake is sweet and delicious, and not greasy."
Zhang Zhijuan was very nice to her and took good care of her. He Xianqiu was not a stingy person, so of course he had to give back to her.
But He Xianqiu didn't expect that some people disliked her and said to her in a sarcastic way: "Some people think she came to the countryside to enjoy herself. She wears a hat, a shirt, and a watch. She really thinks she is the eldest daughter of a landlord."
He Xianqiu's face darkened immediately when he heard this. It was 1972 and the Cultural Revolution was not over yet. Wouldn't it be harmful to her to say such things?
She said in a cold voice: "What landlord's daughter? You are slandering the children of soldiers. Do you know that you have committed a crime? If I go to the police to sue you, you will probably be detained for more than ten days."
When Yang Shuhua heard this, she immediately fell silent. She didn't expect that He Xianqiu came from a military family.
Those watching the fun nearby also became wary of He Xianqiu. The people all respected and admired the soldiers, and they discussed the matter in a low voice.
"How can this person insult the descendants of soldiers like this? Has he forgotten that the people's soldiers protect the country?"
"that is."
Yang Shuhua blushed when she heard other people talking about her.
Zhou Hanmei had a good relationship with Yang Shuhua, and in order not to offend either side, she said awkwardly: "We are all educated youth, and we have to live together, so both sides should take a step back..."
"Yes, yes, since we are still living together, let's both take a step back." The other educated youth also echoed.
He Xianqiu sneered, but said nothing. She found a place to sit down.
As for trying to smooth things over, it's not your fault that you're in a relationship so you just try to make peace with it for free.
But He Xianqiu knew her place and didn't say anything. There was no point in saying more. If she started to argue now, others would think she was being petty.
He Xianqiu was puzzled. Who had she offended? They had no grudge against each other, but he kept picking on her.
Yang Shuhua disliked her from the very beginning. He Xianqiu found it puzzled because she didn't do anything.
He Xianqiu probably doesn’t know that in the eyes of some people, being beautiful is also a mistake.
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