After Yi Xiaoqiu took out everything he was going to use, he quickly stuffed some firewood into the stove and opened the door to the inner room.
"The clothes have been altered, change into them quickly!"
When Guo Xiaochuan saw Yi Xiaoqiu come in, he quickly stood up from the kang. Looking at the thick cotton coat in her hand, he cried.
He had never worn such a thick cotton-padded coat since Ma Juhua came home. Even when his mother was alive, there was not enough cotton in the house to make him such a thick cotton-padded coat.
"This...is this for me?" He looked incredulous.
"Yeah, it's so small, how can it be mine if it's not yours?"
Yi Xiaoqiu is only a little over 1.6 meters tall. People in the north are generally tall. Logically, a thirteen-year-old boy should be at least as tall as Yi Xiaoqiu, or even taller than her. But Guo Xiaochuan is not like that. He is very short, only about ten years old.
Yi Xiaoqiu couldn't wear the clothes he wore.
Guo Xiaochuan knew that he was short and felt a little embarrassed. He blushed and said, "Thank you. I will definitely repay you in the future..."
Seeing that the young man was so smart and serious, Yi Xiaoqiu couldn't help but laugh, "If you really want to repay me, study hard in the future and use the knowledge you have learned to serve the country."
She helped Guo Xiaochuan not expecting any return of favor.
"Reading?" Guo Xiaochuan was shocked and his heart beat faster.
Can he still read?
When his mother was still alive, he attended literacy classes for two years. After his mother died and Ma Juhua came into the family, he stopped going to school.
There is no primary school nearby, so Liu Dajun always goes to other companies to go to school.
Sometimes he would secretly watch Liu Dajun's lectures and learn from the books.
Every time he was discovered, Ma Juhua instigated Guo Dazui to beat him.
"Yes! Only by studying can we use knowledge to build our motherland!"
"But, I..." I have no money.
Reading was something he couldn't even think about.
Yi Xiaoqiu sat down and looked at Guo Xiaochuan seriously, "Xiaochuan, what I said at the captain's house just now is true. Every child is important to the country, and so are you. Don't underestimate yourself.
As long as you want to study, I can lend you money and send you to school.
If you are afraid that you owe me too much and cannot pay me back, then you should study hard and get into university in the future, then you will have enough money to pay me back.
It's difficult for you to support your sister by farming at such a young age. You are still young, and working will only exhaust your body.
Then those people will laugh at you, calling you useless, useless, and unable to even farm properly. Do you want that outcome?"
Yi Xiaoqiu put the bloody reality in front of him.
No! He didn't want to farm for the rest of his life! He didn't want to be looked down upon by Ma Juhua and her son!
Guo Xiaochuan's eyes lit up with ambition for fame.
"Sister, I listen to you!"
Yi Xiaoqiu thought about it and realized that there was no school in the Seventh Company, so it was unrealistic for Guo Xiaochuan to drag his sister to go to school far away.
Besides, he's not young anymore. Going to school year after year is too slow. I don't know what his IQ is. If he's too dumb...
Yi Xiaoqiu couldn't think any further, her studies were a mess now.
She had to get her textbooks back before studying. It seemed she had to go to the county town and get all the books back quickly. Shen Ruofei was probably already studying secretly in the house.
There is no rush about studying. The top priority is to arrange where Guo Xiaochuan will sleep at night.
"Go to the room with the male educated youth tonight and squeeze in. I'll come over and talk to you later."
Guo Xiaochuan is already thirteen years old, and it is obviously inappropriate for him to live in the same room with her.
She can sleep with Guo Xiaocao at night.
It would be more appropriate to send Guo Xiaochuan to the male educated youth in front.
But there are a lot of people living there, and I guess some of them might be unhappy. It seems I have to get some food and have a good talk with those male educated youth.
After Yi Xiaoqiu made up his mind, he didn't waste any time and packed a piece of bacon weighing about one pound, and a bag of mung bean cakes, melon seeds, peanuts, etc.
Guo Xiaochuan will be staying for more than ten days, so he can't take too little with him.
The kang requires a lot of firewood to burn every day, so you can't take it lightly.
"Hurry up and change your clothes. I'm going out for a while."
Yi Xiaoqiu took her things and went out.
It was very lively in the house of the male educated youth in the front yard. They were all staying inside during the New Year's Day.
The educated youth went to the team leader's house to pay New Year's greetings and had nowhere else to go.
Celebrating the New Year here is not like celebrating the New Year in my hometown, where I am always busy visiting one family to another.
We don’t have many relatives here, and our relationships with the farmers and workers are just average, so naturally, not many people come to visit us.
Not to mention the educated youth, even the farmers and workers in the company had few relatives to visit during the New Year.
We all come from all over the world, our hometowns are not the same, and we don’t have many relatives or friends. We only visit one or two close friends.
Maybe because it was the New Year, the male educated youth's room didn't stink as much as the last time I came.
The male educated youth in the room was quite surprised to see that it was Yi Xiaoqiu knocking on the door.
"Yi Zhiqing, you're too polite, aren't you? We're the same generation, what do we need to bring when wishing each other a happy new year?"
Xie Xianzhi looked at the bag of snacks and felt hungry again.
"I'd like to trouble you with something." Yi Xiaoqiu glanced into the room and saw that everyone was there, so he didn't say much nonsense.
"What's the matter? Come in and talk!" Lu Huaian put away the melon seeds and peanuts on the kang and invited the person in to talk.
Yi Xiaoqiu waved her hand. "I won't come in. It's just a matter of a few words. I'll let you add a child to your room for a dozen days."
"Well, no problem. The house is big enough for one more person. There's no need to bring things!" Lu Huaian stopped what he was doing.
Yi Xiaoqiu glanced at the expressions of the people in the room, and seeing that no one looked unhappy, he knew that it was right to bring the things.
"Thank you for your help. This is a little gift from me. The little guy will come over to sleep later."
Since the things have been brought, Yi Xiaoqiu naturally has no reason to take them back.
She handed the thing to Xie Yizhi.
If this house belonged to Xie Xianzhi, he would definitely not accept these things, but this house belongs to everyone, and he and Lu Huaian have no say.
I had no choice but to reach out and take the thing.
Although Lu Huaian means well, it doesn't mean that others won't mind. It would be better to do something to shut some people up.
Yi Xiaoqiu left the male educated youth's room.
The others immediately started discussing it.
Xie Xianzhi smiled as he carried the meat. "Let's add some vegetables, sunflower seeds, peanuts, etc. to this bacon this afternoon. Let's share it among everyone!"
There were nine male educated youth in the room, and there were exactly nine mung bean cakes. Xie Yizhi opened them and everyone took one piece and ate them all in one bite.
The remaining peanuts and sunflower seeds look almost the same as the ones you fry.
When I ate it, I found that the melon seeds were sweet and had a milky flavor.
Peanuts are fragrant, salty and sweet, and much more delicious than theirs.
These are all cooked by the housekeeper on the farm according to the recipes of later generations. They are completely different from what we make at home now.
The educated youth, who had not taken the bag of peanuts and sunflower seeds seriously at first, immediately started to grab it after taking a bite.
Several educated youths almost got into a fight over a few peanuts and sunflower seeds.
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