The village chief recounted what happened in his meeting.
"The leaders said that we are now carrying out the "Sent-Down-to-the-Countryside Campaign" to allow educated youth to receive re-education from middle- and lower-class poor peasants.
Last time, the reporter initially reported a yield of 3,000 catties per mu, but then turned around and reported a yield of 5,000 catties per mu. Isn't that bullshit? If all the grain was added together, it might still be 5,000 catties. And how could it still be 5,000 catties per mu?
Now that’s good, the leader said that we have enough food in our Shuixiang Village and asked us to receive more educated youth.
I looked around and saw that most villages only have seven or eight, but ours will have sixteen.”
The village chief felt overwhelmed when he thought about this matter.
There was just a problem with the food supply in my village, and now sixteen people are coming to steal the food.
Not only do they need to be given one month's food rations in advance, but their accommodation problem also needs to be solved.
The problem is that it is the harvest season now, and who has the time to build houses for them?
"Why not arrange for the educated youth to stay with the villagers first?"
"That's easy to say. Looking around, there are only a few families in the village who have spare rooms for the educated youth to live in. The family members are all crowded together, squeezing into one room and one bed."
"I remember there are still two rooms in the Social Workers' Temple. We can let them live there first. After the double harvest is over, we can take some adobe bricks and rebuild a youth housing complex."
"No, there's nothing in that building at the Social Workers' Temple. It's so small that even sixteen people can't fit in."
"Hey, didn't we just take over the old He family's house a few days ago? It's big enough and spacious enough for them to live in first. We can let them move out after we build the Youth Home."
"Let's do this for now. Let's see when they arrive and then make plans when they arrive."
Just when everyone thought that the educated youth would arrive after the double harvest, they arrived.
The morning after receiving the notice, Village Chief Wang was still repairing the ridges in the fields when his eldest grandson came running over to say that the postman had delivered a letter, asking him to pick up the educated youth at the station that afternoon.
The village chief hurriedly washed the mud off his legs, took a few sips of food, hitched the ox cart and set off.
The letter mentioned the educated youth's name and where he came from.
He took a look and saw that they all came from far away. The only ones who were relatively close were Zhou Yue and Yang Xiaoya who came from the provincial capital.
But why does the name Zhou Yue sound so familiar? Forget it, I can’t remember it.
When the village chief arrived at the station, five or six educated youth were already waiting there.
With a whistle, another train pulled into the platform, and the remaining educated youth also arrived.
The village chief's mood plummeted as he watched the little girls coming towards him one after another.
It’s not that he favors boys over girls, but these girls seem more pampered than each other.
Is that all? Are we really going to build up the countryside instead of strengthening their inner selves?
After counting, there were twelve girls and four boys in total.
The village chief's mood hit rock bottom when he saw a familiar face.
"What's wrong with you? Don't you know there are so many people? You only sent one car to pick us up, and it's an ox cart." The speaker was Zhou Yue, one of the people who came to Shuixiang Village for an interview that day.
The village chief was deeply impressed by Zhou Yue. He still remembers that this little girl had to wear small leather shoes that cost 18 yuan a pair.
"Everyone is busy planting, so there's no extra manpower. Come on, put your luggage up."
Zhou Yue looked at the dusty ox cart with disdain, "It's so dirty, what if it gets my things dirty?"
The village chief was not in a mood to be mad at them. "It's up to you to put it down or not. If you don't want to put it down, just take it back yourself."
After sitting in the car for such a long time, I feel exhausted and now I still have to carry my luggage on the road. Who can stand it?
He didn't care whether it was dirty or not and just threw it up.
Soon the luggage filled the ox cart.
Zhou Yue deliberately waited until others put their things there before putting her own things there so that they wouldn't get dirty.
Before they even started living together, Zhou Yue started playing tricks on others.
It is not difficult to predict how lively the Youth League will be in the future.
At the beginning, everyone could keep up with the speed of the village chief and the ox cart.
Gradually, I could only see the village chief's back.
Later, I lost contact with the village chief.
The village chief drove the donkey cart, carrying these things that were as heavy as a cart of grain, and moved forward with difficulty.
I will definitely feed the donkey more delicious food when I get back. It’s almost become thinner due to exhaustion.
When I turned around, I was shocked to see that there were only two male educated youth left.
The male educated youth caught up with him breathlessly, "Village chief, you are running too fast. We can't catch up with you."
It’s over. I was so engrossed in my thoughts just now that I walked too fast.
But how could he be weak in terms of momentum? He said calmly: "You guys watch the ox cart here, I'll go to the back to meet them. If they take the wrong road, they will end up in another village."
After saying that, the village chief went back the same way he came, cursing, to look for someone.
After walking for a long time, I finally heard a sound.
I looked closely and saw that they were all sitting down.
"Hurry up, it will be dark soon if you don't go, and the wolves from the Big Black Mountain will come out to look for food." It wasn't that the village chief was trying to scare them, but there had indeed been cases where people had encountered wolves while traveling at night and been eaten by them.
"You are coaxing a three-year-old child." One of the female educated youth said disdainfully.
"Anyway, I've reminded you. Believe it or not, you just need to walk straight along this road. I'm leaving first." After saying that, the village chief strode away.
"Oh, why don't we go too? I'm so scared."
"What are you afraid of, you coward?"
"No, my mother also told me that at night, wild beasts like tigers and wolves would come down the mountain to hunt for food."
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