Chapter 49 Aunt Cui

The next day, Jiang Xiurong was the first to get up.

After she washed her face with water, almost all the new educated youth had gotten up.

There were five new female educated youth, especially Xia Zhizhi, who was as lazy as a dog and didn't want to do anything.

Wang Lizhen is the same as her. She usually takes better care of Cui Zijin, and that's also because of love.

Although Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong are the heroines, they are not the type who work hard and never complain. They both just want to live their own lives behind closed doors.

None of these four people wanted to cook breakfast for so many people.

Only one willow was left. She asked, "What shall we eat in the morning?"

Xia Zhizhi burped and said embarrassedly, "I ate. I have been in poor health since I was a child. I cannot be hungry. When I am hungry, I feel dizzy, my legs and feet become weak, and my eyes are full of stars. I was hungry when I woke up in the morning, so I ate some biscuits first."

Han Youran said: "You may have low blood sugar. Put some sugar in your pocket and eat a piece when you feel dizzy."

She nodded and looked at Han Youran with starry eyes: "Sister, you really know a lot, unlike me, who knows nothing and is like a little fool."

Han Youran looked at her chatting and felt like laughing, but he also thought that maybe she was actually a cute and sweet girl.

Wang Lizhen said, "Why don't we just eat something this morning? I want to go to the commune to buy something after we finish eating."

Although the family packed two large packages for her, there wasn't enough room to fit all the quilts, clothes, etc.

As for food and the like, she was given notes. After all, it would be difficult to carry too much. With money and notes, she could buy things anywhere.

The team leader distributed coarse grains to them, and the steamed buns were choking and irritating to the throat. Wang Lizhen was not used to it, so she had some food last night and took a bite of the steamed bun, which was then taken over by Meng Shengnan and finished the meal.

After saying that, she went back to the house to open a can and eat.

After hearing what she said, the others didn't say much. Those who had dry food could eat some, and those who didn't could drink some water. It wasn't a big problem if they were hungry for one or half a meal.

Liu Lin had the worst conditions among the new batch of female educated youth. After all, there were only five of them, three of them were cheaters, and the other one came from a well-off family. There was really no comparison.

Her family conditions were very ordinary, and she had several younger brothers and sisters who were waiting for food. She couldn't find a job in the city, so she had to go to the countryside to make a living.

Her parents were pretty nice to her, and when she left, they gave her a whole bag of leftover bacon and sausage at home, and also gave her a few dollars, but the conditions were there, and that was all they could give her.

She had finished eating the dry food and biscuits she brought with her on the train and was just about to go drink some water to make up for it.

Xia Zhizhi walked over and said to her, "Comrade Liu, the sausage you brought out yesterday was really delicious. It was the first time I ate sausage of that flavor!"

Hearing her praise, Liu Lin was very happy: "My mother made it. Everyone says her bacon and sausage are delicious. At the end of the year, the neighbors asked her to help make bacon and sausage. The most she made was more than 200 kilograms of meat!"

That's really amazing, I guess the whole area must have been packed up, but judging from the taste yesterday, it really lived up to its name.

She asked, “Can you do it?”

"Of course I can do it. I have learned everything from my mother!" Liu Lin's expression was a little arrogant.

Xia Zhizhi smiled, rubbed her hands and asked, "Do you have more? I'll trade you some cookies, cakes and candies!"

Liu Lin agreed without much thought.

Xia Zhizhi took out fruit candies, walnut cakes, animal biscuits and egg cakes from the package, spread them out on the kang for Liu Lin to choose.

Liu Lin swallowed her saliva. She took out two sausages weighing about one pound and a piece of bacon weighing about one and a half pounds and exchanged them with Xia Zhizhi. She only had half a pound of bacon left.

Their own bacon is smoked very dry. One pound of fresh meat can produce about 600 grams of bacon. This amount of bacon and bacon intestines requires more than 4 pounds of meat.

The snacks Xia Zhizhi brought out were priced at around 70 or 80 cents each, and they were each piece of fruit candy.

Liu Lin thought about it and took less than a pound of each snack, and also took half a pound of fruit candy.

Her family seldom bought snacks, so she didn't know the exact prices and felt embarrassed to take more for fear of taking advantage of others. Of course, she couldn't take less either, because she had also paid for the meat.

The prices are about the same.

Xia Zhizhi put the things away and took out five or six red apricot gummies from her bag and handed them to her.

Liu Lin confiscated them and said, "These are enough."

She smiled and said, "It's my hard work fee. You carried it thousands of miles here."

There is also the labor cost of making bacon and the spices used to marinate the sausages.

Xia Zhizhi was not a polite person. She immediately cut a small plate of bacon and sausage and put it in the pot to steam. She didn't eat enough yesterday.

The aroma of bacon is already strong, and once the lid is lifted, the whole yard is filled with the smell of meat.

Fortunately, this group of people had just arrived in the countryside and had not experienced a particularly hard life. In addition, they had a good meal last night, so they just sniffed and were not too greedy.

Wang Lizhen saw her licking her lips while eating and felt a little disgusted. She asked, "Let's go to the commune to buy some food later. Do you want to come?"

She shook her head: "You guys go ahead, I don't have anything to buy, and the package from home hasn't arrived yet."

The main reason is that so many people go to the commune together, and the place is so small that everything they do can be seen by others. It is better to stay in the village and develop other businesses.

She strolled out of the Youth League Home and walked towards the center of the village. Most people were working in the fields and not many were strolling around.

After a quick look, I found two kids lying in the soybean field, with their butts sticking up, not knowing what they were doing.

"Little comrades, what are you doing?" She walked over curiously.

The two kids turned around and threw something at her. Because she was wearing long sleeves and long pants today, the thing fell down her pants and onto the ground, rolling up into a ball in the mud.

Looking closely, I saw a large locust as thick as a finger.

This thing is common in the south, and there are many of them in the canals. It's amazing that they found such a big one.

The two children had snotty noses, stuck out their tongues at her and said "lululu", then ran away.

I could vaguely hear a child say, "Damn it, why isn't she screaming?"

"If you're not screaming, that means you're not scared. Hurry up, you bastard. She'll catch up and beat you up!"

She used her mental power to watch the two little kids enter a yard.

She followed slowly.

She had a physique where the more she was exposed to the sun, the whiter her face became. After being exposed to the sun for such a while, her face looked extremely pale when she walked away.

He looked around and knocked on one of the courtyards.

An old lady in the yard called out, "Who is that?"

"Auntie, it's me, the new educated youth Xia!"

"What's the matter, young lady?" The aunt opened the gate and saw that her face was pale. She asked, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look like this? Come in and have a rest!"

She followed him in, took the water handed to her by her aunt, and drank a sip: "Thank you, aunt, I feel much better now. May I know what to call you, aunt?"

"What's the point of calling me that? My last name is Cui, so you can call me Aunt Cui."