Chapter 6: Giving Gifts to the Captain

She walked back and forth twice to collect 40 kilograms of pig grass, and she didn't finish the work until after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun had set.

I dragged my tired body slowly towards the educated youth institute, went back to wash my hands and started to eat, still boiled cabbage with steamed buns.

There was not a single drop of oil or water. Chu Sangning felt that if she continued to eat like this, she would soon get sick. So she took a bowl of rice and didn't even eat the vegetables. "I won't eat anymore. I'm going to rest first."

This was originally a good thing, after all, if Chu Sangning didn't want to eat it, her share could be shared by everyone. However, when He Yueyang saw Zhao Jiayun's disappointed expression, he actually snorted coldly.

"They are from a big city, after all. Jiayun burned her hands while cooking today. She worked so hard to make something, but some people didn't even give her face."

Who wouldn't know that the tone of insinuating something was directed at Chu Sangning? Chu Sangning, who was about to leave, stopped in her tracks, turned around and asked curiously, "He Yueyang, I didn't provoke you, did I?"

"No, but you made Jiayun unhappy." He Yueyang stiffened his neck and looked at Chu Sangning unconvinced.

Chu Sangning smiled and said, "Are you her dog? If she's unhappy, do you want to bite someone randomly to make her happy?"

"Who are you calling a dog?" He Yueyang stood up and pointed his finger at Chu Sangning.

"Don't get excited, I didn't say that." Chu Sangning took his WoWo and turned away, ignoring He Yueyang who was furious behind him.

Wu Guangqian and several other male educated youth didn't want to get involved even more. They had only been there for less than a day and there had already been two quarrels. They were in a hurry and wanted to rest for a while after eating. They didn't expect that working in the fields would be so tiring. All of their hands were worn out.

After wolfing down the two nests, they wiped their mouths and went back to the house, leaving behind He Yueyang with red eyes and Zhao Jiayun with an annoyed face.

"Stop crying." Zhao Jiayun said stiffly, unable to bear He Yueyang's crying.

"Jiayun——" He Yueyang stretched out his voice and shouted at Zhao Jiayun. She had suffered so much injustice, wasn't it all for her? Shouldn't Jiayun comfort herself?

Chu Sangning, who was far away from the crying, went back to the room and closed the door. He took out a bottle of rice sauce from the living room and ate it with Wowo. He also picked up a bottle of milk, ate and drank well, and then lay down to rest.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Chu Sangning thought of the sparrows he had shot with a slingshot in the back mountain this afternoon. He stood up with a sore body and went out to pick up some large leaves.

Some wild vegetables, wild mushrooms and sparrows were tied together and wrapped tightly. You couldn't tell what was inside unless you opened it.

Chu Sangning walked to the home of the team leader Jiang Zongzhen according to his memory. Jiang Zongzhen was not at home, but his wife Li Chunfen was there.

Seeing Chu Sangning coming, Li Chunfen happily shook off her hands that were washing clothes and said, "Chu Zhiqing is here, come in and sit down."

"Auntie, I won't sit down. This afternoon, when I was picking pigweed in the back hills, I saw some mushrooms, so I came to give you some. Don't be disgusted by them, Auntie."

Chu Sangning handed the things to Li Chunfen and was about to leave without saying anything, but Li Chunfen stopped him and said, "Kid, pick the mushrooms and eat them back. Why give them to me? I can't take your things."

Her husband is the captain of the team, and it is inevitable that people will have their eyes on her home. Although Li Chunfen thinks Chu Sangning is a good child, she is also afraid that if she accepts the things, there will be a quarrel when her husband comes back.

As the saying goes, one should be soft-hearted when receiving favors from others, and one should be grateful when receiving favors from others. Li Chunfen couldn't bring trouble to her man, so she refused to accept the money no matter what.

"Auntie, you treated me to a meal when I first arrived, so it's only natural for me to bring you something." Chu Sangning spoke politely. Li Chunfen thought that just some wild vegetables and mushrooms, which were commonly found in the back mountain, should be fine.

So after declining it twice, I finally accepted it.

Chu Sangning then went to the scorer's home and gave him a copy as well. Then he got some firewood and went to the educated youth institute.

When you come to someone else's Changxing Village, you have to know some things. Chu Sangning sent Jiang Zongzheng as a send-off because he was the team leader and a good man. The scorer was simply because he was in charge of everyone's scoring.

If the scorer interferes in a job like Chu Sangning's, such as cutting grass for pigs, and deducts points from him for the whole day, he will be doomed to starve by the New Year.

When she was carrying firewood back, she happened to meet Zhao Jiayun who came out of the house. They looked at each other and ignored each other.

Seeing the other person's tender little face, which was still so pretty even in this poor Changxing Village, Zhao Jiayun subconsciously touched his own face.

This time, she wants to take everything that belongs to Chu Sangning.

Chu Sangning went back to the room and started to secretly turn on the stove. Naturally, he didn't know that the thing he sent over had surprised Li Chunfen for a long time.

After Jiang Zongzheng returned home, Li Chunfen came out of the house and said, "Chu Zhiqing just came and said he would bring us some wild vegetables and mushrooms."

"Wild vegetables? Hmm." Jiang Zongzheng knew there were wild vegetables in the back hills, but he didn't say anything after hearing this. He told his wife, "If you feel you owe it, send two potatoes tomorrow."

Those educated youth came in a hurry, and probably had no food prepared except for their luggage. Sending them some potatoes would help them improve their diet.

Li Chunfen nodded, opened it and called out in surprise, "Old man, look."

Jiang Zongzheng stepped forward and found that in addition to wild vegetables and mushrooms, there were also two very small sparrows wrapped in the leaves. No matter how small the sparrows were, they were still meat.

"This...we can't take this. Why don't you return it to Chu Zhiqing?" Li Chunfen pondered for a long time and finally handed the thing to her old man.

Their family conditions are just like that. As the saying goes, the young boys eat up their parents, and both the men and women in their family are good at work. They are good at work and good at eating.

What I eat on weekdays is no different from what other people eat. I haven't seen meat for a long time...

Jiang Zongzheng thought of his skinny grandson, whose arms were as thin as chopsticks, and sighed helplessly: "Forget it, just accept it."

Save it to make soup for your child to nourish his body.

Upon hearing this, Li Chunfen put the sparrow into the kitchen, boiled water to pluck its feathers, and deftly gutted it. She pickled one and cooked the other into soup in the evening.

At the Youth League Institute, Chu Sangning had a bowl of instant noodles in front of him and was sitting on the bed gnawing on chicken feet. When the time was almost up and Chu Sangning was about to eat, someone quietly stood at the door.

If the person hadn't shown his shadow, Chu Sangning might not have been able to spot him. She walked quickly forward and suddenly opened the door, causing the person at the door to stagger.

"Hey, He Zhiqing is not sleeping at this late hour, eavesdropping on other people's homes."

He Yueyang was caught, his face flushed, "What do you mean by eavesdropping? I just came over to take a look."