Chapter 71 The 1970s - Don't Be an Educated Youth, Don't Be a Dehua 8
As the tractor started, a gentle breeze blew on my face, which was quite comfortable in such a hot day.
Fang Ran squinted his eyes, leaned on his luggage, and read the plot of the new novel.
Zhang Shan is the heroine of another novel. She caught a fever on the train and was almost "burned to death". The modern Zhang Shan traveled through time to the original Zhang Shan with her newly opened small restaurant.
Zhang Shan is the third child in the family. Her situation is similar to Fang Ran's. Both of them are not very popular at home.
However, these two people have completely different personalities. Fang Ran knows how to resist, while Zhang Shan is a pure "softie" who doesn't know how to plan for herself at all.
After going to the countryside, Zhang Shan made money by selling food from a small restaurant and also developed a relationship with Liu Zhanyuan.
Liu Zhanyuan went to the countryside to take care of his grandfather who was sent down to the countryside.
Zhang Shan often uses her cooking skills to make delicious food for the old man.
Two years later, they took the college entrance examination and were admitted to university together.
After Zhang Shan went to college, she started by selling snacks at a stall, and gradually expanded her business, opening restaurants, developing restaurant chains, and finally establishing a food factory and a food company.
During this period, Liu Zhanyuan's mother looked down on Zhang Shan and tried to match Liu Zhanyuan with the daughter of a family friend. The two broke up and got back together many times, and finally got married after graduating from university.
In this book, Fang Ran is a supporting character of neither importance nor insignificance.
The book says that Fang Ran also liked Liu Zhanyuan and gave him gifts several times.
As a result, Zhang Shan saw it and misunderstood it.
After Liu Zhanyuan clearly rejected Fang Ran, Fang Ran did not continue to look for Liu Zhanyuan, but she would secretly pay attention to him in private.
Fang Ran took a look with his spiritual sense. Since Fang Ran said that she liked him, she had to take a good look at what Liu Zhanyuan looked like to see if he was the type she liked.
This look is a little disappointing.
He has the appearance of thick eyebrows, big eyes and a square face, which is particularly popular in this era.
It’s not that she doesn’t look good, the key is that she is not the type Fang Ran likes.
He looks like a party member, so he must have the appearance of a positive character in an anti-Japanese war drama.
Even if you see him walking with the villain, you have to think that he must be an undercover agent.
Coupled with the dressing style of that era, looking at him always gives you the feeling that he is going to report on his work to the government.
This is really not something I like at all.
Looking at his face, if I want to do something intimate with him, I can't help but shout "report" first. Who can stand this?
Fang Ran was puzzled. Zhang Shan also came from the modern era. Wouldn't she feel pressured to be facing such a person all day long?
Or do you just like this style?
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just because Fang Ran doesn’t like it doesn’t mean others don’t like it.
Maybe Zhang Shan likes this kind of thing. It makes her feel safe. If she takes them out, people who don’t know them will look up to them.
When they arrived at the village, they were taken directly to the educated youth center.
The team leader jumped down from the car and said, "This is the educated youth settlement. It used to be the house of an old landlord.
The main room in the middle is for male educated youth on the left and female educated youth on the right. It is free.
There is a row of single rooms at the back. You can live there if you want, but the rent for each room is twelve yuan per year. There are fireplaces and stoves inside.
If you want to stay here, please go to the village committee and pay the fee later.
You have a day off tomorrow, finish all the things you need to do, and start work the day after tomorrow.
Now go and check out the houses yourself. The ones with locks are occupied by people, and you can go in and take a look at the ones without locks.
I'll go to the village committee to get food later."
After saying that, the captain and Lin Sen drove away on the tractor.
A few people put their luggage in the yard and walked into the house, first going to the main house to take a look.
The old educated youth had all gone to work, so I could only look out the window.
The main room has a large bunk bed, and there are only two sets of bedding on the kang in the women's dormitory, which means that there are only two people living here.
But Fang Ran didn't plan to live here.
She had enough food and drink in her space, so there was no need for her to suffer by eating the same thing as them all day long.
Another thing is that she plans to practice at night, and it would be inconvenient for so many people to live together.
Fang Ran went around to the backyard and chose a single room on the side.
The room is not big. On the right hand side when you enter the room is a stove connected to a fire wall, and inside the fire wall is a 1.5-meter-high kang.
The whole house is only more than ten square meters, which is enough for one person to live in. You don’t have to worry about being too cold in the winter because the room is too big.
It was obvious that someone had lived in this room before, as the kang mat and the rope hanging in front of the kang were still there.
It's obvious that this rope was used to hang curtains in the past, blocking the view of the kang when opening the door.
Fang Ran went outside to get a basin of water, took out an old cloth from his luggage as a rag, and started cleaning.
Then he went into the space and found the old cloth he had used before, and hung a curtain in front of the kang. He also hung up the curtains and took out all the luggage and packed it up.
Take out whatever is missing from the space quickly. Since everyone has just arrived and no one knows what everyone brought, make up for the missing items.
When everything was done, we saw that Liu Zhanyuan also chose a single room, while Zhang Shan and Xiao Jianguo chose to sleep in a dormitory.
It makes sense if you think about it. Although Zhang Shan brought a small restaurant with her when she traveled through time, she has no money now.
When she went to the countryside, her family took away all her educated youth subsidies, leaving her with only five yuan, which was not enough to buy anything, let alone rent a house.
After Fang Ran finished cleaning the room, he came out and called Liu Zhanyuan. Together they went to the front yard to meet up with Zhang Shan and Xiao Guoqiang, preparing to go to the village office.
Seeing that no one was talking, Fang Ran took the initiative to ask, "I want to go to the village to exchange some things later. Do you need anything? If you need anything, we can go together."
Although we have kang mats, we don’t have big items like cabinets and water tanks yet.
You can't take this thing out of space, that would be too obvious.
Zhang Shan continued, "Let's go take a look together. I'm also short of a lot of things. I just don't know if I can exchange them. I don't have much money with me."
Fang Ran understood her situation and said with a smile, "Just ask them when the time comes. Maybe what you brought is exactly what they need."
Xiao Guoqiang also expressed his opinion: "I am with you, I am also short of things."
Liu Zhanyuan didn't say a word the whole time, and the novel describes him as a very quiet person.
Several people walked to the village committee, received food, and Liu Zhanyuan and Fang Ran paid the accommodation fee.
Fang Ran asked the team leader: "Uncle Captain, we want to replace some cabinets, water tanks and other things. Where should we go?
Is there one in our village? Please show me the way."
The captain looked up and said, "You can go to Li Quezi's house to exchange. They can make cabinets, but they don't have water tanks. However, they have a large wooden barrel. You live alone, so you can use his barrel to store water."
The captain walked towards the door while speaking. Standing at the door, he pointed to a tree in the distance and said, "Can you see that apricot tree? Their house is over there. When you get there, you'll see a large stone pillar at the door. That's Li Quezi's house."
Several people followed the direction pointed by the team leader, identified the place, thanked the team leader, took their own food back to the educated youth site, and then walked together to Li Cuizi's house.
When he got there, Fang Ran exchanged for a cabinet, a wooden barrel, two backpacks, two drying curtains, a straw hat, a small stool, and a kang table.
This means that all the things that are visible have been replaced. These are the things that are indispensable. If anything else is missing, you can just take it out from the space.
The other three also changed some according to their own situations.
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