"Put away those two sympathetic expressions! I'm free now and flying freely! What's there to be sad about?"
"Yes! Yes, that's right!" Qin Yuxian nodded and said with great agreement.
"By the way, we have all told stories. What about you, Yan Zi?" Su Nian and Sun Yanyan were closer, so she asked with a smile.
"Alas! Me! I am the second child in the family, the middle one, the one who is not loved by my parents, the one who has neither enough to eat nor warm clothes to wear. When the notice to go to the countryside came out, saying that only one child could stay at home, my mother immediately gave the job to my eldest brother, asking him to take over as a worker in the textile factory.
Later, my younger sister got married in a hurry and didn't bother to make any arrangements for me, so I had to go to the countryside!" Sun Yanyan said this in a light tone, but she was obviously depressed.
"The workers in the textile factory should be female workers, so you should take the place! Why should a grown man take the place?" Qin Yuxian said angrily.
"That's right, it's obvious that my parents are partial to me!" Su Nian also began to mutter.
"It's not like there aren't male workers in the textile factory. They're regular employees after all. How could my mother be willing to give me one? She didn't even give her to my beloved little sister. Instead, she found her a husband, the son of a warehouse manager at the textile factory!"
"What about your dad?"
"My father is a boiler operator in a textile factory. There is no way he can give up his job. He still has to earn a salary to support the family! Besides, I can't operate a boiler!" Sun Yanyan said with a pout.
"Oh! It's good to go to the countryside! We can have food to eat! We can earn our own food! We won't be hungry anymore!" Qin Yuxian clenched her fists and said with a smile.
Apparently, having a stepsister or something at home doesn't come without its share of hardships.
Su Nian, Sun Yanyan, and Qin Yuxian all put their briefcases on the kang, sat on them and chatted for half the night until dawn.
"It's almost dawn! You guys don't want to sleep anymore!" Qin Yuxian looked at the window and said to Su Nian and the others.
"We are all asleep! Who will chat with you?" Sun Yanyan joked.
"Hehe!" Qin Yuxian smiled embarrassedly.
There are three of them, and she is the youngest. She hasn't brought any luggage yet. If she has to sleep in the same bed with others, she definitely won't go. Not to mention whether they are willing or not, she herself doesn't want to go either. Girls are all a little bit obsessed with mysophobia.
On Shulan's side, Song Laidie and Wang Ping tidied their bedding and fell into a deep sleep, snoring so loudly that no one paid any attention to Shulan.
Shulan stood in the middle of the room like that for a long time. She was really exhausted and her legs were weak. She could only squat on the ground with her briefcase and sit against the earthen kang all night.
After daybreak, the newly arrived female educated youth, including Su Nian, all walked out of the house with dark circles under their eyes.
"Hehe! I'm sorry that my two sisters have to accompany me with dark circles under their eyes!" Qin Yuxian couldn't help but laugh and tease when she saw the expressions of Su Nian and Sun Yanyan.
"You! You naughty boy! You have no conscience, and you're teasing us!" Sun Yanyan said with a smile.
Qin Yulin, who was still worried, walked out of the house early. Seeing Qin Yuxian and Su Nian talking and laughing and getting along happily, he felt relieved.
Shu Lan came out of the house with a dark face. Seeing that Qin Yuxian was not affected at all, she couldn't help feeling annoyed.
"Yuxian, let's live in the same room, shall we? We're together, so we can take care of each other!" Shulan said with a cold face.
"Forget it! I'm afraid that you won't take care of me, but bully me!" Qin Yuxian said bluntly.
"How is that possible?" Shu Lan wanted to persuade him again.
"It's fine for Yuxian to be here, so you don't have to worry about her!" Qin Yulin saw that Shulan wanted to say something, so he spoke coldly.
Shu Lan dared to confront Qin Yuxian, but she became timid when she saw Qin Yulin. She glared at Qin Yuxian and turned away.
"Then no one will need each other in the future! Just mind your own business!" Shu Lan said something harsh before leaving!
Qin Yuxian pouted at her back without any hesitation. "Who wants to use you? I can't afford you!"
"You guys go to the brigade headquarters to get rations first! We'll have dinner and go to work when you come back, so you can cook for yourselves!" Chen Yu and two other female educated youth came out of a room and saw Su Nian and the others standing in the yard in a daze, so they spoke.
"Oh! Okay! Thank you!" Su Nian reacted and said to Chen Yu with a smile.
"Chen Yu, why are you so enthusiastic about them?" A female educated youth who was with Chen Yu walked towards the kitchen with Chen Yu, talking as they walked.
"Xingfang, we are all educated youth, so it's okay to say a few more words!" Chen Yu said this and went to cook.
The three female educated youth cooked together, while Li Tao and another male educated youth chopped firewood in the yard.
"When you cook later, use the firewood and water in the kitchen! From now on, you have to collect firewood by yourselves. Winter is coming soon, and you have to prepare your own firewood to keep warm and cook!" Li Tao said to Qin Yulin and others while chopping firewood.
"Okay! Thank you! We will make it up to you!" Qin Yulin said with a faint smile on his face.
The female educated youth smiled when they saw Qin Yulin, who had a tall figure and handsome appearance, and couldn't help but secretly take a few more glances at him.
The old educated youth went to cook, and the new educated youth ran to the brigade headquarters with empty stomachs to collect rations.
Only after walking out of the educated youth compound did Su Nian see the whole picture of the village.
One simple word: poor; two simple words: very poor.
The village is full of unfinished houses, and some people live in thatched houses. Most of the earthen walls are not high and do not even have proper doors. Many of them still use wooden fences, and some use small wooden doors.
The courtyard gate is not even as big as a modern house door.
As for blue brick and tile houses, I didn't see a single one along the way.
"Oh my God! This village is so...what!" Qin Yuxian couldn't help but mutter.
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