Chapter 463 You can just call me Comrade Jiang
The compartment they are in now is not in the same carriage as their original compartment.
There are fewer people here, and it's quieter.
The private room where the two of them were located was especially quiet, as it was just the two of them.
Jiang Chunyu put his things away and then took out his canvas bag to use as a pillow.
To make it comfortable to sleep on the road, I didn't stuff any other random things into my canvas bag; it was just clothes.
"Thank you, comrade."
Qin Weiqing was very grateful to Jiang Chunyu.
There were so many of them on the bus at the time. If they had really dragged her in and done something to her, even if she died, she would never be able to wash away her tarnished reputation.
"No need to thank me. My surname is Jiang. You can just call me Comrade Jiang."
"My name is Qin Weiqing, Qin as in Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han, and Weiqing as in the famous general Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty."
"Your name is quite unique?" Jiang Chunyu complimented.
Qin Weiqing smiled and said, "My name was given to me by my grandfather, and I think it's quite special."
Neither of them were talkative, so they exchanged a brief greeting and went back to their respective beds.
Qin Weiqing took a sheet, draped it over himself, slowly lay down, closed his eyes, and began to rest.
The pillow she used contained cassia seeds that she had collected in the countryside, which she had roasted, sewn up, and then put inside.
Although it's a bit heavy, it has a pleasant fragrance and makes it very comfortable to sleep on.
Compared to Qin Weiqing, Jiang Chunyu was noticeably rougher.
Fortunately, she's no longer a girl, but rather a young man.
Jiang Chunyu lay down and prepared to sleep.
I was busy buying sheep and setting up pens all morning, without a moment's rest. Although I didn't feel physically tired, I felt mentally exhausted.
First look at the sheep in the space; they are all staying obediently in the sheepfold.
Perhaps because the area at the foot of the mountain where Jiang Chunyu's enclosure is located has abundant vegetation, they are currently busy filling their stomachs and have no time to cause trouble.
Once he was sure the lambs were behaving well, Jiang Chunyu closed his eyes.
I need to get Xiaoqi to return the Japanese police dog she put into the space last time, so it can be used as a sheepdog.
Such a fine police dog, yet they make it guard the gate of a farm.
Isn't this a waste of talent?
It would be better to send it into the space to watch over the sheep; at least she would have less to worry about.
If Xiaoqi is reluctant to part with it, she will ask Xiaoqi to compensate her with a sheepdog.
Slowly, Jiang Chunyu closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Qin Weiqing, on the other hand, tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
I was startled as soon as I got on the bus. Any young girl would feel uneasy in that situation.
She was a sent-down youth; her parents sent her to the Northwest because they didn't want her to go back.
She really had no intention of going back.
Life here is so hard that it's impossible to see any way out.
Last month, her high school boyfriend found her address and wrote her a letter.
The person in question did not go to the countryside as an educated youth; instead, they went to the Third Front through their family's application.
My boyfriend said that there is a severe shortage of people in the third-tier cities, and since she is a high school graduate, it would be easy for her to find a job there.
If she goes, they can get married first, and then arrange a job for her as a family member.
However, my partner also mentioned that the factory there had just been completed, and the residential area for family members had not yet been built.
They lived in dugouts and thatched huts they built themselves, and some even lived in caves that couldn't be used as production workshops.
If Qin Weiqing is going, he should be prepared to endure hardship.
However, he assured that the hardship was only temporary, and that once the factory was fully completed, they would also build staff housing, a school, and a movie theater.
His current salary is thirty-eight yuan, which is enough to support the two of them.
Even if Qin Weiqing is currently unemployed, there's no need to worry.
Qin Weiqing was not afraid of hardship, but he was afraid of a hopeless life with no hope.
She was beautiful, and as soon as she was sent to the village, people started secretly trying to introduce her to potential partners.
Even if Qin Weiqing said she had a boyfriend, it wouldn't matter.
In the eyes of the villagers, these beautiful young women should stay in the village for their entire lives, become wives of their illiterate sons, bear children, and manage household chores.
That's not even the worst part.
The most terrifying thing was that last month, when someone from the county came down to inspect the work, the brigade leader actually assigned them, the female educated youth, to cook.
There were four female educated youths in the educated youth compound, all of whom were young women of eighteen or nineteen.
Not all of them are outstanding in appearance, but even the ugliest young girls won't be that ugly.
In particular, Qin Weiqing and another girl from the capital named Xia Xia were evenly matched in appearance and both had graduated from high school.
When the brigade leader sent someone to call the female educated youths to help, Qin Weiqing reminded Xia that the brigade leader had ulterior motives and might have other purposes, and told her to be careful.
Xia, however, looked innocent and said that the brigade leader said that the women in the village were not hygienic, so he asked the female educated youth to help.
If they perform well during this inspection by county officials, they might be recommended to attend the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.
While chopping vegetables, Qin Weiqing accidentally cut off a large piece of his own finger.
She almost lost half of her finger.
Xia immediately exclaimed that Qin Weiqing's finger was about to break and that she should hurry to town to get stitches, otherwise he might become disabled.
How could Qin Weiqing not understand what Xia meant?
The two girls were the prettiest girls in the educated youth settlement. Their presence might be a rival to Xia rather than an asset.
When Qin Weiqing went to town, he didn't forget to remind Xia, but Xia thought that Qin Weiqing was jealous of her because she had lost an opportunity due to her injured finger.
Qin Weiqing stayed at the hospital that night.
The next morning, when she returned to the educated youth compound, she learned that the other two plain-looking girls had returned the night before, but Xia had not.
Xia was pulled out of the river at the village entrance at noon.
The brigade leader originally wanted to settle things peacefully by having the village women change Xia's clothes, wrap her in straw mats, bury her somewhere, and then say that she had accidentally fallen into the water.
Finally, all the educated youth at the settlement stood up and resolutely refused to let the villagers touch Xia's body.
Qin Weiqing and two other female educated youths changed Xia's clothes; there wasn't a single good spot on Xia's body.
Qin Weiqing later learned that Xia had stayed behind voluntarily that night.
She naively believed that she could exchange her body for the opportunity to attend a worker-peasant-soldier university.
Unexpectedly, that night, she was not only with the young man who was supposedly the son of the county party secretary, but also with his cronies.
The scars on Xia's body are evidence.
No matter how much the captain tries to argue, he cannot cover up the facts.
Within a month, the remaining educated youth in the brigade returned to the city one after another.
The first to leave were the two female educated youths who left early that night. Qin Weiqing wasn't the last to leave, but when she left, there were only three people left at the educated youth settlement.
On the way to the county town, Qin Weiqing saw newly arrived educated youth, just as ignorant and naive as they had been back then, chanting slogans like "Educated youth should aspire to go far and wide, and take root in the countryside and the frontier."
Qin Weiqing thought that Xia's death might serve as a warning to the local bullies.
Perhaps the new educated youth who come after will not encounter Xia's situation again, and they will be treated kindly.
Qin Weiqing's family members were not in the city, and her father had written a letter, repeatedly urging her not to go back.
With nowhere else to go, Qin Weiqing could only turn to her high school sweetheart.
Qin Weiqing went on this trip with the mindset of either succeeding or dying for his country.
She would rather die than return to the former educated youth compound.
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