Chapter 205 Criticism
Wang Yuanchao had no intention of practicing boxing tonight. After practicing two sets of boxing casually, he arrived at the educated youth site early.
As soon as I entered the educated youth center, I heard a group of educated youth sighing.
"Oh, how can I bear eating corn paste, steamed corn bread, and green leaves washed with water every day?"
"Yu Zhiqing, didn't the team have a pig-killing meal at noon? Didn't you eat it?"
"Oh my, when I was finishing work at noon, my whole body was out of control. I was in pain all over, and I was shaking when I walked. My hands kept shaking when I ate, and I barely managed to eat a few pieces of meat. That was not enough."
Hu Meng and several other educated youths from Shanghai who had some money could eat eggs every day before, but this time 13 educated youths came to the educated youth center at once, so Hu Meng and his friends put away the eggs they bought from the farm early.
Originally, at the educated youth camp, six people could eat twelve eggs a day. Now, twenty-two people have to eat twelve eggs. It’s too much, really too little.
So now the food at the educated youth camp has returned to what it was before.
"Yu Zhiqing, if you want to improve your food, just go to the brigade's farm and buy eggs.
An egg costs 4 cents, and 4 yuan can buy 100 eggs, enough for everyone to eat for a few days. "
When Yu Tian heard this, hey, I have a bad temper, and I immediately yelled: "Get lost, there are so many educated youths in the educated youth point, you are just waiting for us to pay, right?
Are you thinking of taking advantage of the rich? Why don’t I see you guys paying for eggs?”
"Hey, who said we didn't buy it?
It's just that we, the old educated youth, came here earlier, our families were not well off, and we spent all our money. You are new here, so you must have a lot of money in your pockets.
If you want to improve the food, naturally those who have money should contribute money, and those who have strength should contribute strength. Yu Zhiqing, how about this? You pay for the eggs, and let us cook.
You don't have to cook anymore, just come back and eat ready-made food every day, okay?"
When Yu Tian, Ji Chengjun and Liu Jiandang heard this, they became a little hesitant. They were exhausted every day and had to cook when they returned to the educated youth site. This was really not a life for human beings.
Now I can pay some money to improve my meals and I don't have to cook. It seems that this is something that cannot be discussed.
The educated youth at the educated youth site wolfed down the corn porridge and steamed corn bread, and then went about their own business.
As soon as Zhou Jun entered the room of the educated youth center, he pulled Hu Meng and whispered, "Brother Meng, quickly give me two eggs. I'll go and mix them with water. My mouth is full of water. I need to drink some to cool down in this hot weather."
As the leader of the group, Hu Meng was quite good to his two younger brothers.
He took out the key, opened the box, took out two eggs and handed them to Zhou Jun, saying, "Hide them when you drink them. If people find out that we are eating alone, we will be in trouble."
"I know, I know, Brother Meng, don't worry, I will do my job, it will definitely not be discovered."
"Okay, hurry up. I saw Director Wang coming over when we were having dinner just now. He will have a political class soon."
"Ah, you said we are unlucky to be educated youth and have to attend classes every day."
Hu Meng was no longer opposed to attending class and whispered:
"Don't complain, kid. Don't be ungrateful for what you have. You go to work every day and rarely go out. You don't know what's going on outside. Do you know what the educated youth in the surrounding communes and production brigades are like now?"
Zhou Jun looked at Hu Meng with a confused look on his face and asked, "Brother Meng, how are they?"
"Hey, now the reputation of our educated youth has been ruined by these educated youth from the surrounding areas. There are those who steal and cheat in the production brigade, those who sneak into the beds of widows, those who quarrel with villagers every other day, and those who cheat and defraud . In short, the educated youth from the surrounding production brigades are synonymous with trouble in the local area, hehe.
Now, most of the educated youth from other production brigades can hardly survive in the local area if they do not stick together in the educated youth sites.
Now you know why Director Wang teaches us every day, and why Director Wang is so powerful, right? "
Zhou Jun was stunned after hearing Hu Meng's words. The Red Flag Brigade had a peaceful life. The educated youth and villagers occasionally had some small quarrels, but generally the relationship was very harmonious. The villagers of the Red Flag Brigade did not reject the educated youth in the educated youth point. Now, hearing what Hu Meng said, his heart was a little bit unbearable, so he asked: "Brother Meng, is this true? How could this be?"
Hu Meng nodded, sighed and said: "Of course it's true. You know how tiring it is to work in the countryside.
Fortunately, we had Captain Wang in our Red Flag Brigade, who taught us, encouraged us, and guided us well from the very beginning. Therefore, all the educated youth in our Red Flag Brigade persevered and did not go astray.
The educated youth in other production brigades did not have such an excellent leader as Wang Dianzhang.
None of them could bear the hardship of working in the fields, so gradually they gave up on themselves and started to mess around.
Now these people have ruined the reputation of us educated youth, alas."
Zhou Jun: “…”
Wang Yuanchao stood in the yard, watching the educated youth who had finished their meal. After taking a break, they began to come to the yard one by one. Regardless of whether the ground was clean or not, they sat down on the ground, half paralyzed, waiting for the evening political class.
Slowly, Wang Yuanchao saw that most people had arrived and was about to start the class.
Yu Tian was acting weird again. He suddenly raised his hand and said loudly:
"Captain Wang, I want to complain. I want to complain about my colleague Zhang Yuxiang, who was in my group. She didn't do anything during work, kept pushing me from behind, verbally attacked me, and kept saying the same things to me all day long."
Wang Yuanchao looked at Yu Tian in astonishment and said in surprise:
"Yu Zhiqing, you are a grown man, and you want to complain about such a small matter? I experienced the same thing you said when I first came to the Red Flag Brigade.
These old educated youth also experienced this when they first went to the countryside. Why is it that it is not the same here? Are they going to complain?"
Yu Tian saw Wang Yuanchao looking at him in shock, as if he were a monster, and he was a little unsure.
So he quickly looked at the old educated youth in the yard, and found that these old educated youth were looking at him and nodding one after another.
Seeing this, Yu Tian smiled awkwardly at everyone and felt relieved.
But Wang Yuanchao naturally would not miss the opportunity and continued:
"As for the villagers urging everyone to work, we old educated youth all know it.
Today I will tell you the reason. Farmers in the countryside are different from us city people. The food rations for their entire family depend on the harvest from the fields throughout the year. They hope to earn more work points and exchange them for more food at the end of the year. As we all know, food is no small matter. If there is not enough food at home, and the work in the fields is physical work, people will starve to death.
The Red Flag Brigade has always worked in groups, especially the brigade headquarters takes care of the newcomers like us, the educated youth.
We will find people from the village who are good at working to take care of you.
So if you don't work hard, if you cheat and act sloppily, it will affect the daily work points earned by the villagers in your group.
You said that these villagers took you with them and taught you how to work in the fields, but you were still trying to be cunning and sly, affecting their daily work points. They could clearly get full work points every day, but because of you, they could only get seven or eight work points a day.
If it were you, would you be willing to do that?"
(End of this chapter)
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