Chapter 46: ZTE Brigade

Even Wang Lizhen just pouted in dissatisfaction, climbed up with the luggage, found a good spot, sat down, and didn't say anything more.

After climbing up, he was kind enough to lend a hand and pull Xia Zhizhi up as well.

It was fate that they were assigned to the same train and were able to cut in line, and they had a pretty good time chatting on the train.

Thinking that at least she still had Cui Zijin to rely on, and that she was a sickly girl all alone, Wang Lizhen still took good care of her.

Their village was not far away, and they had arranged a tractor to pick them up. The man driving the ox cart next to them said that it would take four or five hours to get back to their village, and that only luggage could be placed on the ox cart, so people had to walk there.

With such a comparison, let alone this tractor is only used to transport fertilizer, even if it is used to transport feces, everyone can still sit on it.

After a few people climbed up and sat down, Lin Hongyan started driving the tractor.

Xinglong Commune is located at the very edge of the Sanjiang Plain. Half of Zhongxing Brigade is a plain, and the other half is adjacent to the foot of Changbai Mountain. Strictly speaking, it belongs to the low mountain and hilly area. A tributary of Mudanjiang River also passes by the village. It is a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Although the road back to the village is a dirt road, it is generally quite flat. Except for one or two small potholes in the middle, the whole road is straight with almost no ups and downs.

At a glance, both sides of the road were filled with cornfields. They were particularly flat, and the corn stalks, each one meter tall, formed a sea that rustled in the wind.

Liu Lin was from Sichuan Province. Seeing this was very strange, he asked Lin Hongyan curiously, "Brother Lin, what are you growing here?"

The tractor was shaking and making a lot of noise. Lin Hongyan shouted at the top of his voice: "It's corn!"

"When will it be ready?" she asked again.

"It has to be October!" Lin Hongyan shouted.

"What is that?"

“It’s sorghum!”

Liu Lin was curious about everything she saw and wanted to ask about everything. Lin Hongyan answered her a few times, but then he felt she was annoying and stopped talking.

She was not angry and continued her research with great interest.

The expressions of the two heroines were quite calm. Xia Zhizhi, like Liu Lin, kept looking around all the way. It was also her first time back to the rural area of ​​Northeast China, and she also found it strange.

Only Wang Lizhen looked upset.

The tractor was dirty and it was shaking so much that her butt hurt. The frame also burned her flesh, making her feel like she was being fried in a wok. The black smoke made her throat itchy. The sun was too strong above her head and made her dizzy.

As the tractor entered the village entrance, a line of children followed behind it, chattering and calling their friends to come and see the novelty.

There were originally few entertainment activities, and now that a truckload of rare stuff has finally arrived, we have to take a look at it right away. After we go back, we can have it as a topic of conversation for at least half a month.

As soon as the tractor stopped at the drying field, Han Youran jumped down first, followed by Liu Lin. Wang Lizhen was staggering and drowsy, and it looked like she had heatstroke and was about to faint.

Xia Zhizhi thought about it, rolled her eyes, cried out "Ouch", and fell into the pile of luggage in the car fight.

Hearing her scream, Han Youran turned around subconsciously and saw Wang Lizhen staggering and about to fall under the car.

This car was more than one meter high and there were small stones on the ground. If it fell straight down like that, it would probably get disfigured.

"Hey, comrade, be careful!" Han Youran rushed over to support her, but almost failed.

It was Lin Hongyan who heard the noise and ran over to lend a hand, and the two of them helped Wang Lizhen down.

Han Youran touched her face and said to Lin Hongyan, "Wang Zhiqing must have suffered from heat stroke. Let's help her rest under a tree and give her some cool water."

The two of them helped Wang Lizhen over, and Jiang Xiurong and Liu Lin lent a hand and helped Xia Zhizhi over as well.

A group of little brats followed behind and shouted: "Someone's dead, someone's dead, two of the new educated youth are dead!"

Xia Zhizhi's eyelids twitched, and she resisted the urge to jump up and hit them.

"Go, go, go. If you keep making noise here, be careful or I'll go back and tell your parents and have them beat you!" Lin Hongyan chased all the children away and borrowed a basin from a fellow villager to fetch some well water.

Han Youran wet his own handkerchief and wiped their hands and faces. He then borrowed a fan from a fellow villager who was enjoying the cool under a tree and asked Liu Lin to help fan them.

Wang Lizhen was fed a bucket of cool water and gradually came to her senses. Han Youran told her to rest for a while and not go out in the sun.

Seeing Xia Zhizhi lingering in bed, no one knew what to do.

Wang Lizhen said: "She has had poor health since she was a child. She has relied on medicine to survive until now. She has to take a lot of medicine after every meal. If she faints, she will definitely not wake up so quickly."

When Lin Hongyan heard this, his heart skipped a beat. Why did he come to the countryside in such a situation? He should just stay at home. If something bad happened in the village, wouldn't that bring trouble to others?

Jiang Xiurong suggested: "How about sending him to the hospital?"

Han Youran was also a little unsure. This looked like heatstroke. The sun was so strong right now, and sending her to the hospital under the scorching sun might not be any better than it was now. He reached out his hand and wanted to pinch her philtrum to see if it would work.

Xia Zhizhi didn't want to be strangled. Under Han's hesitant gaze, she slowly opened her eyes, her eyes were empty, and she asked weakly, "What's wrong with me?"

"You have heatstroke and you almost can't wake up. Where are your medicines? Take them out quickly." Wang Lizhen thought that since she and she both had heatstroke, they were in the same boat, so she kindly reminded her.

The corner of her mouth twitched, and she ignored Wang Lizhen and threw herself into Han Youran's arms: "Han Zhiqing, it was you who saved me, you are so nice, seeing you is like seeing my sister, sob, I miss her so much..."

In Han Youran's eyes, she is an exquisite little girl like a doll. In the previous life, a child of this age would still be in middle school. Who knows how much hardship she would have to endure in the countryside. He reached out and touched her head, comforting her silently.

She sobbed for a while, and then several male educated youth arrived.

Hearing that Wang Lizhen had fainted and it was Han Youran who helped her, Cui Zijin didn't care whether Wang Lizhen lived or died, and walked up to Han Youran and said, "Thank you, Han Zhiqing, for your help."

"Mr. Cui Zhiqing, you're too polite. We are all here to support the construction of our motherland, so we must help each other." Han Youran didn't intend to hide her shortcomings. After all, she didn't really love rice planting that much.

Going to the countryside was purely to escape reality. If I could be a barefoot doctor in the village, it would be better than working in the fields.

Cui Zijin asked again: "You studied medicine before, huh?"

There was nothing wrong with the few words he said, but the tone of his voice when he spoke to Han Youran was so soft and magnetic that Xia Zhizhi suspected that his throat was pinched.

After all, that was not how he spoke to Wang Lizhen on the train.

Han Youran moved her gaze from his face down, paused at his Adam's apple, and finally stopped at his chest. She used her fingers to touch the hair beside her ears and nodded: "I have learned it. I passed the pharmacist exam before."

Lin Hongyan's eyes lit up and he asked, "Then the Korean educated youth can give injections and prescribe medicine, right?"

"I can give injections and diagnose simple illnesses." Han Youran said conservatively.

Wang Lizhen looked at Han Youran and then at Cui Zijin, feeling a little uncomfortable, but Han Youran had just helped her, so she didn't show it.

Fortunately, Lin Hongyan did not ask any more questions and said, "I see that the female comrades have rested well. I will take you to your accommodation. You still need to clean up and get some rest as soon as possible."

After saying that, he led everyone towards the east of the village.

Wang Lizhen and Xia Zhizhi had just fainted, so several male educated youth helped to carry their luggage.

Xia Zhizhi had sharp ears and heard the villagers under the tree vaguely discussing something after they left.

"I think these are worse than the previous ones. This one was brought in by a tractor, and two of them fainted as soon as it came in."

"That's right. If they had used a bullock cart like they did two years ago, I think they would all have fainted!"

"If nothing else, these educated youth are really good-looking!"

"What's the point of having a pretty face? You're all skinny as a stick!"

"Of course not. Look at them, they are all dressed in slick clothes but can't do anything. They spend a lot of money. If our Shuanzi wants to find someone like this, I will break his legs!"

"She is from the city, are you guys qualified to be her?"

"So what if they are from the city? They still have to come here to make a living!"

“…”

A group of people had a heated debate with them under the tree.