When the three returned to the educated youth compound, only a few new educated youth who had just arrived this year were washing and cleaning in the front yard.
Of course, this is because the new educated youth all had money and coupons from their families and subsidies from the state, and they had not done farm work for many days and were not used to the intensity of labor in the fields.
On the other hand, none of the former educated youth have returned yet, not even Yang Xiaohong.
Chen Shuning saw Zhao Qianjin busy cooking in the kitchen of the old house, which immediately made Chen Shuning think of Yang Wanqiu, and he felt that Zhao Qianjin was probably cooking for Yang Wanqiu.
After all, the male educated youth were responsible for chopping wood and carrying water, so they didn't have to cook. Yang Wanqiu, on the other hand, started cooking for herself after renting a house in the backyard. However, she was injured and couldn't cook very well, so Zhao Qianjin, the sycophant, naturally took the opportunity to show off.
However, none of this concerns Chen Shuning. She just wants to be a bystander, quietly stay in the countryside for a few years, and then return to the city to make more money after the reform and opening up.
Back in the backyard, Chen Shuning first went to check on He Chaoyang's rented room. Seeing that he hadn't returned yet, she thought she should go back and cook dinner first. She had already arranged for Wang Chunni and Xu Laidi to come over for dinner that evening, so she needed to cook a lot of food.
On her way back, as she passed Yang Wanqiu's house, she saw through the wide-open window that Yang Wanqiu was glaring at her with the same resentful eyes as when she had just passed by. Chen Shuning smiled contemptuously, glared back fiercely without showing any weakness, and then walked towards her own little house without looking back.
Zhong Lingling, who had just been busy in the kitchen, was now sitting at the door washing vegetables. After they smiled and nodded to each other as a greeting, Chen Shuning took out his key, opened the door, washed his hands and face, soaked his dirty clothes, and began to prepare dinner.
Speaking of Zhong Lingling and Chen Shuning, one can't help but sigh that being love-struck can really be a disaster.
Since Wang Wenfang was transferred here, she couldn't get along with anyone. Within just a few days of arriving, she had gotten into several fights with many of the older women in the village.
So in the end, when Zhong Lingling started working, she had to be tied to her future sister-in-law, and no matter what they did, they always worked together.
Wang Wenfang was lazy and greedy. When the two worked together, Zhong Lingling did most of the work while she was always complaining of aches and pains and had to rest after working for a short time.
Poor Zhong Lingling, a pampered young lady who never did anything at home, had to work in the countryside to earn work points, and then she had to do laundry and cook for Wang Wenqi and his sister when she came back.
Wang Wenqi was quite a talent. He said he felt sorry for his girlfriend and sister and didn't want them to do too much work. He put on a convincing act, and every day after finishing his own work, he would come over to help Zhong Lingling and Wang Wenfang with their work.
It's obvious to anyone with eyes to see who they're helping.
In Chen Shuning's opinion, the only person Wang Wenqi truly cared about was his lazy, gluttonous, and cunning younger sister.
If he truly cared for Zhong Lingling, why would he have watched her go to the countryside with him? After all, Wang Wenqi couldn't have been unaware of Zhong Lingling's decision to go with him beforehand.
If he had told the Zhong family about this when he discovered that Zhong Lingling was showing signs of it, how could a young girl like Zhong Lingling, with her father's methods as the director of the Revolutionary Committee, have successfully enrolled in the rural service program?
She only let her family know about this two days before she left, which might have been Wang Wenqi's doing. In Chen Shuning's opinion, Zhong Lingling's intelligence was probably not enough to do something so meticulous and thorough.
Furthermore, since going to the countryside, it seems that Zhong Lingling paid for everything, from building houses to helping Wang Wenfang change production brigades, while all Wang Wenqi had to do was express his gratitude and guilt with a helpless expression afterward.
In Chen Shuning's eyes, such a man was extremely selfish and incompetent, good for nothing except for his silver tongue.
This is also different from the original book. In the original book, Wang Wenqi is a man of loyalty and righteousness. He was exonerated after his parents were exonerated. However, Zhong Lingling's father was executed for falsely accusing and persecuting revolutionary comrades.
He remained devoted to Zhong Lingling, and the two eventually lived a happy and fulfilling life together, making them one of the happiest couples in the book besides the main characters.
But now it seems there might be something unknown going on here, after all, Zhong Lingling's father served as the director of the Revolutionary Committee for so many years.
Over the years, no one would believe that he hadn't amassed some valuable possessions. Moreover, Zhong Lingling was the only child in her family, so it's hard to say whether Wang Wenqi's unwavering devotion stemmed from this.
Of course, these are all just Chen Shuning's guesses. Anyway, Wang Wenqi is lucky to have met Zhong Lingling, a girlfriend from a good family who is also love-struck. The two of them can be considered as Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit.
However, it was precisely because of this that Chen Shuning began to distance himself from Zhong Lingling intentionally or unintentionally later on, especially since Chen Shuning genuinely disliked Wang Wenfang.
Even though her family had fallen on hard times, she still couldn't see reality and acted like a spoiled young lady. Not only did she always compare herself to others in terms of food, clothing, and daily necessities, but in Chen Shuning's eyes, she was an ungrateful wretch who could never be satisfied.
Not only did she move into the new house that Zhong Lingling had built as soon as she arrived, but she also never let Zhong Lingling go hungry or thirsty, as long as she had something of her own.
Even so, Wang Wenfang never thought of helping Zhong Lingling with chores like laundry and cooking, and she wouldn't even do simple tasks like sweeping or dusting. As a result, Zhong Lingling, the real young lady, had to serve the brother and sister like a nanny every day.
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