Fortunately, the surroundings were noisy, otherwise the two of them would be in an awkward atmosphere. Song Tanglan was also very excited to see them catch fish, but she did not forget to give them a compliment.
"Taotao, they are so powerful. If it were me, I would never be able to catch them."
"Yeah, they're really moving fast, especially Comrade Xu, he caught three big fish."
"Yeah." Song Tanglan also agreed with what Su Tao said, but their eyes did not always stay on the four of them. Instead, they occasionally looked at the people who were also catching fish not far away.
When they realized that there was nothing interesting about catching fish, they turned their attention to the villagers standing on the shore. Their eyes only stayed on strangers, especially the newly arrived educated youth, whom the women had never seen or recognized.
Even Song Tanglan had only seen two of them, and she didn't even know their names.
"Lanlan, look, is that the male educated youth you mentioned?"
"It's him, the girl standing next to him, the one I told you made the captain angry."
When the two of them spoke, they deliberately lowered their voices and whispered to each other from a distance, but their eyes would occasionally linger on the new educated youth not far away. Anyone who was familiar with them could tell from their eyes that they were looking for gossip.
"That's him! This girl is amazing! She can even make the captain angry. Why is she always clinging to that good-looking male educated youth? Are they really dating? That shouldn't be the case. Look, the male educated youth keeps ignoring the female one."
When Song Tanglan heard Su Tao's words, a word immediately popped up in his mind: Isn't this a complete bootlicker?
"I don't know. Didn't you say you'd find out? Did you find out?"
Su Tao thought about how she had been collecting food all this time and shook her head helplessly: "No, I haven't had time to go to the Youth House during this period."
Song Tanglan thought about how she had seen Su Tao peeling corn kernels every time she went to her house recently, and asked curiously.
"You haven't finished collecting the food yet?"
"The corn kernels have been collected. We'll just wait for the weather to clear up before we borrow a stone mill to grind them into flour. Lanlan, do you think those are also new educated youth?"
When they heard this, their attention was suddenly diverted. They looked around curiously and found that they had indeed never seen those people before. Their second brother-in-law said that there were seven new educated youths coming this time, and they didn't look like villagers by the way they were dressed.
"I don't know. They don't look like people from the village, but the old educated youth are fishing in the river. If you're curious, you can go ask them later."
"Okay, it's a good opportunity to get to know him." Su Tao didn't know how curious she was now, and how much she would regret it later.
This time, everyone in the team caught a lot of fish. Every household sent people to catch fish. This time, in addition to distributing some to those families in need, most of the rest were shared by whoever caught the most.
There are still a few people in the team who need help, such as Uncle Zhang who raises cattle. He is already quite old and has made great contributions to the team before, so any delicious food here will be shared with him.
There is also Grandma Mei at the east end of the village. Grandma Mei’s husband used to be a soldier. Later, both her son and husband died in the war, and her daughter-in-law ran away with someone. She was left alone with a grandson.
The team leader was afraid that something might happen to her at her age with a 5-year-old child, so he would ask his two sons to help from time to time, sometimes to help them collect firewood and repair the roof.
In addition, there are two widows in the village. One lives alone with her three children, and the other's husband died not long after she got married, leaving only her and her mother-in-law.
However, there were many rumors in the team that this widow was not disciplined. People kept hearing that some man was helping her fetch water, and some man was getting close to her. In short, none of the aunts in the team liked her.
Wait until everyone comes out of the river and prepares to go home with a full harvest.
At this time, Su Tao noticed Zheng Hongying and walked up to her happily to greet her.
"Zheng Zhiqing, are you here to watch them catch fish?"
Song Tanglan had a lukewarm relationship with the educated youth in the team. He occasionally spoke to Zheng Hongying and greeted her when he saw her.
"Yes, Su Zhiqing and Xiao Song Zhiqing. We haven't chatted together for a long time since Su Zhiqing moved out. And seven more Zhiqing came here a while ago, you know!"
After that, he introduced the educated youth who lived not far away to them, and whispered to them the gossip he had learned during this period.
"Isn't this outrageous? She actually went to the countryside just for a man. Tsk tsk tsk, I really doubt what's going on in her head!"
"Zheng Zhiqing, I've been busy with family matters lately and haven't had time to go to the Zhiqingyuan to watch a play! If you don't have any other gossip, tell me quickly."
Su Tao listened to the complicated relationships between the few people, and became curious about what else she didn't know, so she couldn't help but continue asking.
"Look at that girl over there. Her name is Jiang Zhengfang. Jiang Zhiqing is very pretty and gentle. I don't know what she did to attract the attention of that hypocritical Chen Donghong. He has been trying to please her a lot recently. Fortunately, Jiang Zhiqing is shy and rarely goes to his appointments. Otherwise, she would have been spoiled by a pig."
After listening to her, Song Tanglan and Su Tao's eyes widened immediately, with an expression of disbelief. Then they followed her gaze and saw a little girl not far away wearing a gray cotton coat with two patches, a red scarf around her neck, and her long hair tied into two braids at her sides.
Her skin is fairly fair, but her face is small, which makes her look very cute.
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