"Qian Qian, you're back." Yun Yan saw several people carrying a bunch of things in large and small bags.
Xu Weiguo, walking behind, carried a large pot on his back, while Zhou Yuanchao held a cutting board and a kitchen knife. With such thorough preparations, it seemed they had decided to eat separately from the old educated youth.
"Have you decided to eat separately from the old educated youth?"
"Yes, I and my friends think it's better to eat separately. Zhaodi happened to say that she could help with cooking, so our problem is solved." Qian Qian said happily.
Chen Zhaodi cooked for them? Yun Yan was a little curious about why she was so kind.
"Since you have decided to cook your own food, you need to find someone to build a stove."
"Yeah, how could I forget about this. There should be someone in the team who knows how to build a stove, right?" Xu Weiguo said with a look of regret.
"Let's go to the brigade office together. We can just pick up our food."
Several people went to the brigade office together. The food the brigade lent to the educated youth was basically sweet potatoes, potatoes, cornmeal, etc. There was also rice, but each person could only choose two kilograms.
Yunyan chose thirty kilograms of sweet potatoes, ten kilograms of potatoes, five kilograms of mixed bean flour, three kilograms of corn flour and two kilograms of rice.
Several other people also selected 50 kilograms of food each. Zhou Yuanchao also asked the team leader about someone who could build a stove.
Borrowing a cart from the brigade, Zhou Yuanchao and Xu Weiguo helped transport all the food back to the educated youth site.
To thank them, Yun Yan gave each of them a mandarin orange.
"Eat an orange. You look tired and sweaty."
After all, it was not an easy task to transport back 300 kilograms of food at a time. Zhou Yuanchao and Xu Weiguo did not refuse. They took the oranges and started eating.
"Yun Zhiqing, your oranges are so sweet! I've never tasted such delicious oranges in Beijing."
Xu Weiguo was eating while talking. Zhou Yuanchao was also confused. His family was well-off and he had eaten a lot of good things, but he had never eaten this kind of orange.
Yun Yan felt a little annoyed. She should have known not to bring out the Wogan oranges. After all, these two people must have eaten a lot of good things. How could she explain the oranges that they had never eaten?
"I bought this in Suzhou. I've never seen it before. I tried one and thought it was delicious, so I bought a few pounds."
Yun Yan had no choice but to explain and promised not to take things out casually in the future.
After hearing her words, Zhou Yuanchao looked at her in confusion, while Chen Zhaodi looked resentful.
I asked her for oranges on the train and she said she had none. But today she brought out two more, clearly on purpose. She must be trying to seduce Zhou and Xu Zhiqing. What a shameless vixen.
After a while, the person who was in charge of the kitchen came over. Zhou Yuanchao took him to the kitchen, while Yun Yan took Qian Qian back to the room.
"Why is Chen Zhaodi suddenly so kind and even helping you cook?"
Yun Yan was purely curious. After all, after interacting with her for the past few days, she could see that Chen Zhaodi was not a dedicated person.
"It was Li Shuwan. After she went back yesterday, she told Chen Zhaodi that we were planning to eat separately from the old educated youth. Then she heard Li Shuwan say that none of us knew how to cook, so she offered to help us."
"There must be some benefit, otherwise why would she be so positive?"
"Yes, she helps us cook and we each give her five kilograms of food every month. Li Shuwan and I also paid for the pot, chopping board, and kitchen knife we bought today."
So that's how it is. Calculating it this way, Chen Zhaodi still got the better deal. After all, the four of them gave her five kilograms of food each, so she could get twenty more kilograms of food a month.
Yun Yan helped Qian Qian pack the package she brought back. There were quite a lot of things in it, including everything to eat and use.
"You have too much stuff. I remember you brought a lot of stuff when you came yesterday, and now you've brought back so much more. You must have moved your entire home here."
Yun Yan helped Qian Qian pack her things while joking with her.
"It's my parents and my brother who sent me so many things because they were worried that I would be short of food and drink after going to the countryside."
Qian Qian secretly signed up to go to the countryside. Her brother was the youngest engineer in the factory. This time, the street required that every family must have one child to go to the countryside, except for the only child.
Originally, her parents planned to send their son to the countryside, but Qian Qian didn't want to waste her brother's bright future, so she secretly signed up to go to the countryside.
Going to the countryside was a foregone conclusion and her parents had no choice but to prepare more things and money for her so that she wouldn't have to suffer too much even if she went there.
The new stove would have to wait two days before it could be used, so the master helped build a simple stove with stones to use as a makeshift.
After the stove was built, Yun Yan saw that it was still early, so she suggested that they go to the mountain to collect some firewood so that they would have it in the future.
"I won't go. If the firewood is gone, I can just buy some. It's not expensive. Why bother going to the mountains to collect it?"
After hearing what she said, Zhou Yuanchao and Xu Weiguo also agreed. After all, they were both rich people, so why make themselves so tired when it could be solved with just a few cents.
Seeing how they looked, Yun Yan had no choice but to give up. In fact, she didn't need the money to buy firewood, but she just didn't want to stay at the educated youth site forever.
Chen Zhaodi prepared dinner, and exchanged two cents worth of vegetables with a fellow villager. In order to start the pot, Xu Weiguo also bought half a pound of fat meat.
I used a small piece of fat to start the pot, and boiled the rest into lard. In the evening, I fried potato slices and vegetables, both of which were cooked with greasy residue. I also made carrot soup. The main course was flatbread made from a mixture of cornmeal and mixed bean flour.
That dinner was Yunyan's first taste of a meal from this era. Chen Zhaodi's cooking wasn't particularly good, and the pancakes with mixed bean flour were sour and sore on the throat.
Yunyan gritted her teeth and ate two pancakes, taking a bite of pancake and a sip of soup. The others, except Chen Zhaodi, did the same as Yunyan.
Because Yun Yan did not give any food to Chen Zhaodi, she agreed with them that she and Chen Zhaodi would each cook one meal for more than a month.
After taking a shower and washing clothes, Yunyan thought that she would start work tomorrow and it was her turn to cook, so she set the alarm clock and went to sleep.
The next morning at 6:30, Yun Yan was woken up by the alarm clock and immediately got up to turn it off.
After a quick wash, Yun Yan decided to make pumpkin porridge and stir-fry some pickles for breakfast.
The pumpkin and pickles were both bought yesterday, and pumpkin porridge is easy to make.
After 7:10, everyone in the Youth League got up one after another. After breakfast, Yun Yan and the other new Youth League members followed the old Youth League members to the fields.
Yunyan specially put on long-sleeved clothes, wore the prepared Liberation shoes, took a pair of work gloves, put on a straw hat and carried a water bottle.
When Qian Qian first saw Yun Yan’s outfit, she thought she was making a big deal out of nothing. She didn’t need to be so fully armed just to go out to the field.
Yun Yan glanced at her and said, "If you don't take good care of your skin now, you'll be crying in a few years. Look at those aunties, aunts, and old educated youth in the village. Do you think you'll end up like that?"
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