Mo Hengan was of course not happy about it, but since Wanlin had spoken, it was difficult for him to refuse. He could only come to the threshing ground with a reluctant look on his face.
"Xiaoqiu, Heng'an and I are here to help you." Luo Wanlin said with a smile.
Yi Xiaoqiu was a little bit unbelievable. How could Mo Hengan, whose nose was not a nose and whose eyes were not eyes, actually help her?
She couldn't help but glance at Mo Hengan.
Mo Hengan was not only reluctant to help Yi Xiaoqiu with the work, but he also felt extremely embarrassed. When he saw her looking at him, he said in a harsh tone, "What are you looking at?"
"What are you looking at? You're made of paper, can't you even look at me?" Yi Xiaoqiu opened her mouth and retorted, then turned her head and smiled at Luo Wanlin: "Thank you, Sister Luo, I knew you were the best!"
Mo Hengan was furious. It was clearly him who did the hard work, so why didn't he say thank you?
This Yi Zhiqing is just tactless.
Yi Xiaoqiu was not blind. She knew with her toes that if Luo Wanlin hadn't given the order, Mo Hengan would not have been able to help her even if the sun rose from the west.
Seeing this, Su Mianmian and Chi Shunian carried their own grain away and came over to help Yi Xiaoqiu carry the rice.
The educated youth who came here didn't have much food, so they moved it all in one trip.
Zhao Shuhong's salary was not high. She had just arrived and could only earn sixty yuan a day at most.
She had been in a bad mood recently because of the firewood she had to chop for the winter, and now she had to deal with so little food, so you can imagine how she felt.
Originally, her salary rations were similar to those of other female educated youth who had come from other places. Logically, the amount of food should have been similar, but she saw that most of the female educated youth took fine grains and very few took coarse grains, so she followed suit and took most of the fine grains, with a few taking coarse grains as well.
In total, there are only a little over one or two kilograms of food, and we have to eat it until this time next year. How can it be enough?
Seeing the little food, she felt panicked.
She did bring some money, but it wasn't like she couldn't spend it all. She wasn't like Yi Xiaoqiu, whose family sent her money every month.
Speaking of money, she suddenly remembered that Qian Donglai still owed her more than one dollar!
In the past, she would not be in a hurry to ask Qian Donglai to pay back the money, but when she looked up, she found that the other person did not have as much food as she did, and he was even living on the advance. If she had to wait for him to pay back the money, how long would she have to wait?
Zhao Shuhong felt a surge of annoyance. When she saw the educated youth from Yangchi helping Su Mianmian carry food, she suddenly had an idea.
Zhao Shuhong was the type who would do whatever she wanted to do immediately. She hurriedly moved the grain to the educated youth site and immediately went to find Qian Donglai.
"Qian Zhiqing, I have something to ask you. Are you free now?"
Qian Donglai's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Zhao Shuhong was asking him for money?
"What's the matter?" He put down the advance food in his hand, and a trace of resentment towards Zhao Shuhong flashed through his mind. She was trying to force him to death!
The two of them huddled in a corner, and Zhao Shuhong whispered, "Qian Zhiqing, I want to discuss something with you. You don't have to pay me back the one dollar you owed me. You can repay me in another way. What do you think?"
It's not that she looks down on people, but by the time that poor Qian Donglai has the money to pay her back, he'll probably have to wait until she returns to the city. It's better for her to exchange for something else as soon as possible.
Qian Donglai's heart moved slightly, "What method?"
"You know, I live alone in such a big house, and I have a problem with firewood for the kang in winter. If you can help me get enough firewood for the winter like Chi Zhiqing and the others did, you won't have to pay me."
Qian Donglai lowered his head and curled his lips, but he didn't say a word.
Just over one yuan for nearly a thousand kilograms of firewood. Is Zhao Shuhong really dreaming of getting something for nothing?
It seems that Xie Xingyu helped Yi Zhiqing and the others chop firewood and get dozens of kilograms of food!
Everyone lived in the same room, and even if they didn't say anything, anyone with eyes could see what was going on. However, because Yi Xiaoqiu hadn't made cotton clothes yet, everyone only knew that Xie Zhiqing and Lu Zhiqing were exchanging firewood for food to survive the winter.
As for how much food it was, everyone was just guessing, and no one else knew the exact number, but this did not affect Qian Donglai's thinking that the reward for chopping wood was too much.
In fact, he still thought it was too little. He could not believe that Yi Xiaoqiu actually agreed to give everyone a set of cotton clothes.
If I knew, I would be jealous to death!
Seeing that he remained silent, Zhao Shuhong knew that he felt the money was insufficient, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Once you have prepared all the firewood, I will give you another two yuan."
There was no more left. She had been running on mountain roads these days and her body couldn't take it anymore, so she gritted her teeth and spent all her money to buy firewood to get through the winter.
"Really?" Qian Donglai knew that the price was about right.
Zhao Shuhong looked at Qian Donglai's sparkling eyes, and her heart skipped a beat. Did she give too much?
But, the words were already spoken, she couldn't go back on her word! Her heart ached, it was three dollars!
"Well, I'll give you another two dollars when you prepare all the firewood." No matter how much she cared about the money, she didn't want to run up the mountain to chop firewood all day.
"Okay!" Qian Donglai agreed immediately.
Anyway, there are more than a dozen people in their house, and if everyone brings some firewood, it will be enough to burn for the winter. It is more important for him to make money.
Not only Qian Donglai thought so, but more than ten other male educated youths in the room also thought so.
Lin Dongyan felt that it was indeed inconvenient to live in the house with so many people, but it was comfortable in winter. There were so many people to heat the kang, so he didn't have to chop wood as hard as he did in previous years.
Not only he thought so, but several other old educated youth also thought so, but the reality was not as expected.
Chi Zhiqing and Mo Zhiqing had a partner. If they wanted to collect firewood for the winter, they had to follow their partner first. After helping their partner finish collecting firewood, they could just get some more firewood for themselves. There were so many people in their room with the male educated youths anyway.
I have to say, everyone's ideas were surprisingly consistent.
Gu Chengfeng helped Lu Rongrong to collect firewood and ate with Lu Rongrong. He thought to collect firewood first and put it in the backyard, and then take some more when the kang in the front sleeping room was heated, so he did not go to the front yard to get firewood.
As for Xie Xingyi and Lu Huaian, they were only thinking about chopping firewood to buy cotton clothes to survive the winter, and they didn't even think about burning firewood on the kang in the male educated youth's room in winter.
Anyway, there are so many people in the house. We can't all heat the kang in winter, making one kang cold while another one is heated!
It has to be said that these two people are single for the sake of food and cotton clothes.
As for Lan Zhiqing, when he learned from Xie Xingyi that he could exchange firewood for cotton clothes, he almost got into a fight with him. He was not as poor as the two of them, but that didn't mean that the old cotton clothes he brought could withstand the cold in the Great Northern Wilderness.
He also needs cotton clothes!
Lan Zhiqing was not a shameless person. He turned around and went to find Yi Xiaoqiu and joined Xie Xingqi's firewood-collecting team.
Now Qian Donglai is missing. So, out of the ten educated youth in the room, there are only three old educated youths, Lin Dongyan and Li Qingming, and one young educated youth, Chu Chaoyun.
The three old educated youths were fine as they were used to the work of chopping wood, but Chu Chaoyun was not one to work!
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