The people at the educated youth site are cooking. They take turns cooking, in groups of two.
Today it is Luo Mei and Shen Dashu's turn. The two of them have to prepare meals for fifteen people. The workload has increased and it will take longer.
Gu Liang was so hungry that he took his own water cup and poured water from the kettle to fill his stomach.
"Why are we having dinner so late tonight?"
"I'm so hungry, when can we eat?"
Although the others didn't say anything, they were indeed very hungry after working for an entire afternoon, and there was a hint of impatience in their eyes.
Xie Tang, who had just finished washing clothes, found that the meal was not yet ready. After hanging up the clothes, he went into the kitchen and glanced at Luo Mei who was dawdling. Xie Tang, with a normal expression, helped wash the vegetables and said, "Hurry up, comrades are all starving."
Luo Mei paused in kneading the dough, and the scrambling noises became louder. She said unhappily, "I have to cook for so many people, and I can only do it this fast."
When Xie Tang heard her say this, he knew that she was feeling uncomfortable and didn't want to cook for so many people, so she was upset.
"Hurry up, it's today. Wait a few days until they are suitable, and then do it separately again." Xie Tang said considerately.
"You are the only one who is good at being a good person." Luo Mei muttered softly.
Xie Tang pretended not to hear, but tightened his hands slightly while washing the vegetables.
The taciturn Shen Dashu silently added firewood to the stove.
After a lot of trouble, dinner was finally ready.
A pot of steamed bread, two plates of stir-fried vegetables that looked like boiled vegetables, and pickled radish. It tasted truly terrible. No matter how terrible it tasted, I couldn't waste food. I could only eat a few bites of food with my chopsticks and drink a jar of water. I was full.
Xu Zhiyi could eat it. As someone who had experienced the end of the world, she knew that food was hard to come by, so she certainly wouldn't waste it. However, she still wanted to eat meat!
Meat! Braised pork!
greedy!
There are too many people at the educated youth point. If she had to eat like this every day, she would collapse.
None of the new educated youth could eat the dishes cooked by Luo Mei. They rarely picked up the food with their chopsticks and only ate the steamed buns with water.
The old educated youth seemed to have gotten used to it. It was very normal to cook without oil or water these days.
I don’t want to cook, but I have to. The dishes I cook taste different every time. How frustrating is that?
After eating, everyone washed up and went to bed.
The next day, the new educated youth also had to go to work.
Xu Zhiyi was wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt, long pants, a hat and a towel, and was fully prepared.
Gan Tiantian was stunned when she saw Xu Zhiyi fully armed.
"Zhiyi, you are exaggerating too much!" It's just pulling some weeds in the ground, is it necessary to make such a big deal out of it?
"I'm afraid of the sun, so I'm wearing too much. Why don't you change into long sleeves too, otherwise the weeds will easily cut your arms." Xu Zhiyi suggested kindly.
Gan Tiantian waved her hands in protest, "Forget it, forget it, I think weeding is easy. It's not hot in short sleeves, but I can't stand it if I cover myself up."
Innocent child, let reality teach you how to behave. Xu Zhiyi had no intention of persuading you anymore.
Instead, Jiang Wanqiao accepted Xu Zhiyi's suggestion and quietly changed from short-sleeved shirt to long-sleeved shirt.
When everyone followed Su Cheng to the village threshing ground, the village chief saw that everyone was there and introduced the new educated youth to the villagers.
"Xu Zhiyi, Jiang Wanqiao, and Zhou Sheng are assigned to Team One."
"Gan Tiantian, Fang Kai, Pei An, and Shen Dachuan are assigned to the second team."
"Captains of the two brigades, please find some veterans to teach these new educated youth."
The village chief gave instructions one by one.
Everyone went to find their respective team leaders according to their assignments. Yang Yuanchao, the team leader of the first team, frowned and looked at the two girls in his team, feeling a little headache.
The villagers have never liked the female educated youth from the city. They are weak and delicate, and cry out in pain when doing any work. They are good-looking but useless, and at most they can get five or six work points.
He was uncomfortable every other day, and the food he earned from work points throughout the year was not enough for him to eat.
There was no way to deal with it after they were divided, so they called Zhou Qiang's family, who was quick and skillful, to teach them. Teaching was just superficial talk, supervision was the real thing, just to see if these educated youth would cause trouble.
Today I mainly weeded the peanut field.
Liu Dahua glanced at the two young women. They didn't seem to be as arrogant as some of the other young women who went to the countryside. She couldn't help but smile a little warmly. "There's nothing much to teach you about this peanut field. Just identify the peanuts and pull out the rest as weeds."
The three nodded, and Xu Zhiyi asked, "Excuse me, Auntie, what should we call you?"
"Oh, this educated youth girl is really polite. We country people don't have so many rules. I'm from Zhou Qiang's family at the east end of the village. You can just call me Aunt Liu."
Liu Dahua has an increasingly favorable impression of Xu Zhiyi.
The few of them stopped talking, each took a row and started pulling weeds.
I have to say that Comrade Jiang Mei was extremely foresighted. She knew that the supplies she prepared for her were basically essential items for the countryside, such as gloves.
When you pull weeds with gloves on, you won't get your hands cut by the grass at all. Apart from being a little hot, there are no other disadvantages.
Pulling weeds is not a delicate job, but squatting for a long time will hurt your waist.
In the vast peanut fields, the village ladies chatted and weeded, doing two things at once. As they talked, they turned to the educated youth.
"The three new female educated youth seem to be more spoiled than each other. I guess they will go on strike soon." Auntie No. 1 who likes to watch the fun and stir up trouble.
"Hmph, what's so good about female educated youth? You should take good care of your own children and not neglect your own work. Instead, you let the female educated youths take over." Aunt No. 2 was indignant.
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