Chapter 86 Taking a Bath
Wang Lizhen's parents are both cadres, so it is impossible for them to let their children take over after they retire. They have to find someone to use their connections to transfer them back to the city, which takes some time.
She was planning to go back to the city, so naturally she didn't want to work on this lousy job anymore, so she went to the team leader and told him about the situation.
The team leader was quite happy. Firstly, when Wang Lizhen came to him for a certificate, she gave him two packs of cigarettes that she had stolen from Xia Zhizhi. Secondly, it was a good thing for the team to have one less educated youth who was living a lazy life.
It is beneficial to both the public and private sectors. He Hui calculated Wang Lizhen's work points. She had been in the countryside for some time. In total, she was given 30 kilograms of coarse grain when she first went to the countryside. Now she still had several kilograms of coarse grain left. After counting all the work points, she actually had extra points.
Wang Lizhen asked the accountant to transfer the extra work points to Xia Zhizhi's name, and comforted her: "Everyone in the village said that you are such a person, and it is estimated that you will not earn more than ten work points by the end of the year. Look, you will have more than thirty work points by the end of the year. Are you happy?"
Xia Zhizhi...thank you.
Wang Lizhen stopped going to work and tortured Xia Zhizhi at the educated youth center.
Xia Zhizhi doesn't go out on weekdays, but that doesn't mean she really stays on the kang without moving.
Once the door is locked, I run around in the space, harvest crops, raise animals, eat delicious food, and practice physical skills and mental strength every day.
Lazy as she is, she knows too well the importance of strength and never slacks off in this regard. After all, this is the basis for her to do whatever she wants.
When she was tired and didn't want to move, Ah Ju would take out a book and read it to her.
Sometimes when she is in a good mood, she doesn't even act like a human being. She rides pigs for dozens of kilometers in space. She has trained those pigs to be like Schwarzenegger.
Anyway, I exercise a lot every day.
On the first day that Wang Lizhen didn't go to work, she followed Xia Zhizhi back to the house after breakfast, saying that she wanted to boil water in her room and take a bath.
Xia Zhizhi fell asleep on the kang and vaguely felt her butt was hot, which woke her up.
What's going on?
I climbed up by touching my butt. Wang Lizhen was still outside boiling water. She had two kettles, and Wang Lizhen filled them both with hot water. She also got out another bucket and continued to boil water.
Xia Zhizhi didn't understand: "Why are you getting so much boiling water? To soak the pigs?"
Wang Lizhen rolled her eyes and said, "I need to take a good bath. I haven't even scrubbed myself properly in such a long time here."
There was no bathroom in the youth cadre training center. There was a riverside in the village where the girls and aunts took baths. It was behind a small woods and in the summer, the girls and aunts would go there in groups to take a bath. The girls in the youth cadre training center were not very open and usually fetched water and took a bath in their own rooms.
The male educated youth didn't care and could wash anywhere.
In winter, the village would distribute bath tickets. Some particularly frugal people would exchange the bath tickets and simply skip bathing to save trouble.
Some people only wash it once in winter, then just get some water and wipe it in the house and that's it.
There are also those who are particularly fond of cleanliness and will go to the bathhouse in the city to take a bath twice. When they come back, they will be laughed at by those who have not taken a bath all winter.
Only Xia Zhizhi, Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong bought bathtubs at the educated youth center, while the other male and female educated youth shared one each.
The reason for separate bathtubs for men and women is not because of hygiene, but because it seems inappropriate for old men to use a bathtub that has been used by old women.
That kind of superstition is not good.
Anyway, as a rich girl, Wang Lizhen didn't think there was anything wrong with sharing a bathtub, so she didn't buy a separate bathtub.
During the days in the countryside, I was either at work or on the way to work, and I had no time to take a good bath. Now that I am not working, I have to take good care of myself.
Wang Lizhen had long planned to take a bath in her room, but she didn't want Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong to know. She wanted to do it secretly, and then she would smell good while the other female educated youth would smell bad.
She was planning to go home and was too lazy to participate in this kind of competition. Today she had to make up for the bath she had missed and scrub it for three hours.
Doesn't this require more hot water?
"Just boil water if you want. Why did you burn my kang and make my butt burn?" Xia Zhizhi was a little helpless.
Wang Lizhen felt wronged and said unconvincedly: "I was just lighting the stove, how could I be burning your kang!"
Xia Zhizhi poked the flue partition on the ground: "Then why did you take this thing down?"
Her stove has a double flue. When there is no need for heating in the summer, just plug in the partition and let the smoke go through the chimney on the stove base. When the weather gets cooler, take down the partition and let the smoke go through the chimney inside the kang. When the stove is burning, the fire wall and the kang will be warm.
When she just finished making the stove, she used it to burn the kang for a few days, and then she put up the partition. The stove has never been used since then. She doesn't cook, and she usually gets hot water in the kitchen.
Wang Lizhen looked at the partition on the ground with a look of disdain: "Your stove is too shallow to fit the firewood in. The board is in the way and it took me a lot of effort to get it out."
The firewood they used was stored separately from that of the old educated youth. In order to make it easier to stack, Cui Zijin and Tang Mingli usually cut the firewood into pieces about one meter long and processed them again when cooking.
Wang Lizhen is the only one who can stick the whole thing inside and still complain that it's too short.
She couldn't explain it to Wang Lizhen. The kang was very hot and she couldn't lie down on it. She had to move a small stool to the yard and sit on it.
As soon as she left the house, Wang Lizhen locked the door and told her, "Don't peek!"
Who wants to peek at someone taking a bath? She is not a pervert. Xia Zhizhi is a very polite person, but she couldn't help rolling her eyes: "What do you have that I don't have? What is there for me to peek at?"
Wang Lizhen looked at her breasts without saying anything.
She patted her chest and said, "Don't look at it as flat, but it has everything it should have. Besides, I'm still young and still growing, you know? Growing!"
Wang Lizhen closed the door and put the bolt on it.
It's like no one cares about it!
Xia Zhizhi sat under the eaves, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze.
Even though life without a cell phone, TV, games, novels, or anything to do may seem boring.
It's really boring.
This is why no one ever suspected that she was faking illness.
If a person is hit by a car, lies on the ground, takes out his phone, and watches TikTok while waiting for an ambulance, he is probably trying to cheat money.
If you don't even take out your cell phone, it means you're almost done.
Who can lie down for a whole day without a cell phone?
No one.
She took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and started to eat them out of boredom.
After eating melon seeds, Wang Lizhen still hadn't come out. She was bored, so she knocked on the door and asked, "Have you finished washing?"
"It's almost there, don't be anxious." Wang Lizhen shouted from inside.
"I'm not in a hurry, but hurry up!"
Xia Zhizhi practiced some physical skills outside and knocked on the door three times before Wang Lizhen opened the door, cursing, "You're driving me crazy when I need a shower."
She pointed at her watch and showed it to Wang Lizhen: "You washed for two and a half hours. Two and a half hours. It doesn't take that long for the butcher at the entrance of the village to kill the New Year pigs!"