Chapter 151 Sister Ange is my cousin
It is now the end of April and the summer harvest season has not yet arrived. There is not much farm work to do in the village, and the lives of both the villagers and the educated youth are relatively leisurely.
After all, there are still more than 20 days until the summer harvest, and everyone is gathering their strength, waiting for the time to get to work.
Taking advantage of the good weather and the lack of farm work, Shen Juanjuan, Ding Min and Huo Yanhong finally started the construction of the house that they had jointly financed.
There were only five rooms in the Youth League Home. The first room was a kitchen and dining room, and the two rooms at the east and west ends were connected and served as male and female dormitories.
There was a kang inside, which could accommodate more than 20 people if they squeezed together. There were relatively fewer female educated youth, only eighteen in total, so housing was not too tight.
However, the whole family lived together, and they were all strangers, so Shen Juanjuan, Ding Min and Huo Yanhong were not used to it.
They heard that some educated youth in other production teams had built their own houses. The production team provided them with a site and they had to buy all the materials for building the houses. However, when they left in the future, the houses had to remain in the village free of charge.
After the three girls discussed it, Huo Yanhong wrote a letter home, asking her father Huo Chunjiang if they could build a house.
A few days later, Huo Chunjiang replied, not only did he agree, but he also sent the money for building the house that the whole family had raised together.
That day, the girl happily went to the captain to ask for a homestead.
Although Captain Xiao looked down on these delicate girls and thought they came here just to cause trouble, the person in charge of the County Youth Office secretly reminded him that these girls were the daughters of the military district chiefs. Even though Captain Xiao looked down on them in his heart, he did not dare to neglect them in the slightest.
Besides, it was not against the rules for the educated youth to build houses there, so the team leader agreed. After all, we don't have much here, but we have a lot, so we allocated a piece of land behind the Youth League Courtyard for them.
The girl had planned to build two brick and tile houses, one as a bedroom and the other as a kitchen.
However, the kitchen will be separated by boards, and half of it will be left for the brothers Yun Anping and Yun Ankang to live in.
Even though they had not received much help from the two brothers of the Yun family when they first arrived, they had solved a lot of problems for them. Moreover, with these two reliable people around, they felt very at ease in this strange place.
Although most of the educated youth were reluctant to go to the countryside, the villagers did not welcome them, especially the female educated youth.
The few female educated youth who came here were not only discriminated against by the villagers because of their age, but also looked down upon by the older educated youth. In particular, there was a female educated youth with a bad family background who was isolated by her family.
Even though the team leader was quite polite and caring towards Shen Juanjuan and the others, the villagers and old educated youth had a bad attitude towards them. Fortunately, with the care of Brother Yun, the girls were not so lost and helpless.
Besides, they are relatively close to Yun Angge, especially Shen Juanjuan and Ding Min, who have been good sisters with Yun Angge for a long time. They talked to each other when the two Yun brothers went to visit their relatives in the military area a few years ago.
Seeing that the two of them lived in the cowshed, the girl loved them very much, and wanted to give them half of the kitchen when the house was built.
Of course, neither Shen Juanjuan and the other three nor the two Yun brothers looked down on Zhao Yue.
Even if she didn't pay for building the house, Shen Juanjuan and the others had already discussed it and would let her move in with them.
The girls didn't know anything, so the house building was handled by the brothers Yun Anping and Yun Ankang.
Although we didn't understand much, we could ask the villagers for advice, and all the materials for building the house were purchased through channels we asked others to find.
In addition, the captain helped, so buying materials and finding people went smoothly.
Just based on the captain's face, these villagers would not be willing to help. The reason why they agreed so readily was that Shen Juanjuan and the others wanted to pay them. Although fifty cents a day was not much, they would provide two meals.
That day, after breakfast, the brothers Yun Anping and Yun Ankang came early. Soon, the village bricklayer and the grandfather who was good at carpentry came. There was no need to urge them, and the family started working.
Shen Juanjuan and the other girls were not squeamish and rolled up their sleeves to work. Although it was mostly the men who were digging, they could move bricks, sift sand, boil water and cook.
When Shen Juanjuan and Ding Min were about to cook in the middle of the day, they saw the postman riding a bicycle passing by on the road from a distance. Several educated youths suddenly became excited and ran to chase the postman.
Although the postman would not deliver the letters to the Youth League Home, one had to pass through the road in front to get to the village, so many Youth Leagues would wait and see every day. Once the postman passed by, they would call their families to run over and chase him.
"I wonder if there is any letter for us?" Shen Juanjuan wiped the sweat from her face with her sleeve and said to herself.
"Or, you run over and take a look. My legs really can't run anymore." Huo Yanhong took off the scarf wrapped around her head. She was afraid that the sand she sifted would dirty her hair because there was dust. She purposely took off the scarf so she wouldn't have to wash her hair.
After all, water resources are scarce here, and one has to go a long way to fetch water.
Although there are people on duty to fetch water every day, the water is only provided for cooking and washing. Anyone who wants to wash clothes, take a bath or wash their hair has to fetch water separately.
"Okay." Shen Juanjuan drank half a bowl of boiled water in one breath, wiped her mouth, and ran away with some difficulty, supporting her heavy legs.
Although she had just received a letter from home five days ago, so there probably wouldn't be any this time, she still held out a glimmer of hope.
After all, letters are expressions of longing from parents and family, and everyone hopes to receive them every day.
When Shen Juanjuan was halfway there, she heard the female educated youth who came with her wave the letter in her bag and said, "Juanjuan, there is a letter for you. I plan to bring it back to you."
"Thank you!" Upon hearing the letter, Shen Juanjuan's legs instantly stopped hurting and she ran over like a tornado.
Because it is an ordinary letter, it does not need the recipient's seal to stamp, and acquaintances will take it back.
After receiving the letter, Shen Juanjuan couldn't wait to open it. When she read half of it, she was petrified... She stared at the words with her eyes open and her mouth open for a long time, and suddenly she ran towards the Youth House while laughing...
"Haha... Brother Anping, Brother Ankang... Haha..." When they were still twenty meters away from the new house, Shen Juanjuan laughed foolishly and shouted: "From now on, you are really my brothers... Haha... I never dreamed that Sister An Ge would actually be my cousin's wife... Haha... It's really amazing, Sister An Ge is actually my cousin's wife, and she is my cousin..."
The confused crowd naturally didn't understand Shen Juanjuan's excitement, and they all looked at her in shock.
"Juanjuan, are you okay..." Huo Yanhong and Ding Min ran over in pain and panic, asking the question in unison.
Then I heard Huo Yanhong muttering: "Sister Ange married your cousin's wife?! Could it be that she divorced Uncle Qin and married your cousin... But, this is unlikely..."
Although Huo Yanhong had never met Shen Juanjuan's cousin, she knew that Shen Juanjuan had two uncles and several cousins.
It's just that her cousins are all in the countryside, so it's impossible for them to socialize with Sister Ange...
What shocked her even more was that Sister Ange and Uncle Lingnian were so loving, and Sister Ange was pregnant, so how could they get divorced?
Alas, if such a loving, sweet and happy couple could get divorced, how could she believe in love in the future? !
"Cough... cough..." Shen Juanjuan was so shocked by Huo Yanhong's imagination that she choked on her saliva. She coughed and glared at her with a roll of her eyes, "Cough... Nonsense... cough... Uncle Lingnian is my cousin..."
"ah..."
Not only Huo Yanhong, Ding Min, and Zhao Yue cried out in shock, but Yun Anping and Yun Ankang, who ran over, also screamed in surprise...
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