With the opera performers gone, the crowd, no longer having anything to watch, naturally went about their business.
Before starting work, Chen Shuning went to Shen Dahe and asked him to watch the fire and the water in the pot. Then, fully armed, he went to the brigade's threshing ground.
It's already mid-August. I heard that the weather in Heilongjiang Province gets cold in September, especially at night. By mid-September, you'll need a coat. Sometimes the nighttime temperature can even drop below zero. So the autumn harvest here usually starts in early September.
All things considered, there are only about ten days left, so the work in the fields during this period is relatively easy, just weeding and watering.
After several days of adaptation and nourishment from the spiritual spring water, Chen Shuning has basically been able to adapt to this intensity of labor.
Now she can squat in the field pulling weeds while chatting with the aunties and grandmas next to her, and she can keep up with everyone's pace, earning six work points a day.
In the words of the village aunties and grandmas, her work points were enough to keep her from starving to death, and Chen Shuning was satisfied, since she didn't rely on work points to survive anyway.
Two more days passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhong Lingling had moved into the house next door. However, she did not wait until the team went to pick up the new educated youth to go to town to buy things.
Instead, she was extremely envious after seeing the furnishings of Chen Shuning's small house. So, the day after Chen Shuning moved in, she went to town with the brigade leader who was going to the commune to get a certificate. Of course, her brother Wenqi also went with her.
To be fair, Zhong Lingling is a good person in every way, except that she becomes somewhat irrational when it comes to matters of the heart. It goes without saying that she gave up her comfortable life in the city to come to the countryside to suffer for Wang Wenqi.
Chen Shuning couldn't understand why Wang Wenqi was taking care of his sister-in-law without any official status or relationship with him, and why he was spending money and effort to get her transferred to Qingshan Brigade.
Wang Wenqi and Wang Wenfang, the brother and sister, are not without parents; they were just sent to the countryside. Moreover, from their conversations, it's clear that the Wang family had some wealth before the incident.
Chen Shuning did not believe that Wang's parents could have arranged where Wang Wenqi and his sister were before the accident, but they did not prepare enough money for them.
However, ever since they went to the countryside, it seems that Zhong Lingling has always been the one paying for everything when she's with Wang Wenqi. For example, when they went to buy furniture last time, even though Zhong Lingling was unhappy, she was the one who ended up paying for it, including the box that Wang Wenqi bought.
Even so, Wang Wenqi did not give Zhong Lingling enough security, because his pretty-boy looks were very much in line with the aesthetics of the time.
So during this period, whether it was the old educated youth at the educated youth settlement or the girls in the village, there were quite a few people surrounding Wang Wenqi.
Whether Wang Wenqi was naturally incapable of refusing or did it on purpose, he neither accepted nor rejected the girls' kindness.
This made Zhong Lingling act like a fighting cock; whenever a young woman approached her Wen Qi, she would immediately go into battle mode and start fighting with her.
In just a few days, Zhong Lingling had already clashed with many girls in the village. She couldn't stand anyone at the educated youth settlement, and her reputation in the village was now comparable to Yang Wanqiu's.
In the current educated youth settlement, Zhong Lingling can only exchange a few words with Chen Shuning and Liu Shumei, and for a time the atmosphere in the educated youth settlement is strange.
However, there was also good news: because so many people were building houses, the house in the backyard was completed in just two days. This greatly relieved Chen Shuning, as she could finally get a little more sleep each day.
That noon, everyone had just finished lunch and taken a short nap when the brigade leader led a few people to the educated youth compound. It turned out that this group of educated youth came from Shanghai, so they arrived a little later than the educated youth from Beijing.
There were seven people in total this time, four women and four men. In addition to the seven educated youth from Haishi, there was also Wang Wenfang, who was transferred here by Zhong Lingling at her expense.
Because finding someone to swap places required connections and money, Wang Wenqi and Zhong Lingling went to town early in the morning with the brigade leader to pick up the new educated youth. Now that they had returned, the two greeted the brigade leader and then led Wang Wenfang directly to Zhong Lingling's room in the backyard to settle in.
The other educated youths on the way probably already knew about Wang Wenfang's situation, so they weren't surprised. However, as soon as they entered the courtyard, they all started chattering and expressing their dislike.
However, the current brigade leader is not as troubled as when Chen Shuning and his group of educated youths arrived. At this moment, the brigade leader has a smile on his face.
Upon entering, he led the new educated youth to the old house for a brief look, and then, using the excuse that the older educated youth were taking a nap, he led everyone out of the old house without even waking the person in charge of the educated youth settlement.
However, just a glance was enough for everyone to get a general idea of the old house's condition.
The boys were fine; the seven male educated youths sleeping on the kang (a heated brick bed) didn't feel crowded. The boys had fewer things to do, and their quarters were quite spacious, so everyone's expressions were normal.
When they arrived at the female educated youth's side, it was similar to when Chen Shuning and the others came. They saw that the four or five-meter-wide kang (a heated brick bed) was crowded with people sleeping side by side, which looked very cramped.
The ground was so cluttered with several large wooden crates that there was barely any room to step. Each crate was also piled with household items such as wooden basins, enamel basins, and toothbrushes. The little space left on the ground was barely enough to turn around. Upon seeing this scene, the three newly arrived female educated youths frowned.
It should be noted that although Chen Shuning and Zhong Lingling have built their own houses, Yang Wanqiu has also rented a small house built by the team in the backyard.
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