Chapter 208: Taking pleasure
in someone else's misfortune Yu Tian threw the sickle in his hand to the ground, not caring that the ground was not completely dry, and sat down in the mud, looking at the fierce sunlight above his head,
panting, and supporting the ground with trembling hands, intending to lie down in the mud and rest for a while.
When Ji Chengjun and Liu Jiandang saw Yu Tian like this, they knew they couldn't lie there for long, so they couldn't help but throw away their sickles and lay down next to Yu Tian.
It has been a week since the autumn harvest, but Yu Tian and his two companions are still not used to the intensity of work in the fields.
The three clean-cut and generous men from the city have now become complete peasants, rolling in the mud every day.
The pain all over their bodies had made the three of them suffer enough. In this week, they had fainted from the pain several times.
Many times, when I was harvesting wheat and rice, everything was fine before, but suddenly I fell straight to the ground and fell into a coma.
But it was useless. Autumn harvest was high-intensity labor, and everyone was on the front line even with minor injuries. Every time Yu Tian and the other two woke up, they were forced to drink a mouthful of salt water and then had to get up and continue working.
"Yu Zhiqing, Ji Zhiqing, Liu Zhiqing, it's you three again. Can you three behave like decent people and stop being so sneaky and cunning? There are so many people in several groups waiting for you to harvest and thresh the rice.
You still dare to be lazy? Do you really want me to report your work performance to the Youth League Office and return you to it?
It’s really embarrassing.”
Yu Tian and the other two had just been lying on the ground for a minute when the urging and scolding came again.
This week, Yu Tian and his two companions have become accustomed to being scolded by the villagers, aunties, and team leaders in their group, and have become thick-skinned. After being yelled at by everyone, the three of them shamelessly picked up their sickles, stood up, and began to resign themselves to their fate and cut the rice with an expression of nothing happening.
It is definitely not possible to not do it. In this era, the educated youth were really reported by the Red Flag Brigade to the Educated Youth Office for record or returned to the Educated Youth Office.
The consequences are very serious. You won't be able to get into government agencies or state-owned enterprises anymore.
All aspects of life, including work, mate selection, housing allocation, and travel, were affected. Even if Yu Tian and his two companions were very stubborn, they did not dare to confront the team leader and other local villagers.
As for the verbal attack, forget it. There are only three of Yu Tian and his trio. Once they start the verbal attack, dozens of villagers from the Hongqi Brigade will gather around to watch the fun, and each of them will scold the three of them and make them stupid.
Yu Tian and his two companions who continued to harvest rice really hated their father at this moment. What kind of hell was this? The talk sounded nice, combining knowledge with labor and going to the countryside to build a new socialist countryside. But after the damn thing came to the countryside, the educated youth were only educated youth. The pain of working in the fields was probably no worse than the Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty. Yu Tian and his two companions were really confused and bewildered, and in agony.
But there was no other way. Everyone was divided into a group. Harvesting rice was not like harvesting wheat. Yu Tian and his two companions were harvesting rice in the front, and there was another group of people behind them, pushing a wooden box thresher and putting the harvested rice into it to thresh it into rice.
If Yu Tian and his two companions were lazy and did not harvest the rice, the people behind them would have nothing to do. This would affect the labor efficiency of everyone in the entire group and the work points they could earn. It would be strange that the three of them would get a good attitude.
In fact, the rice harvesting was divided into groups. It was not just Yu Tian and his group who had to harvest rice all the time. Group members could take turns harvesting rice.
But who made these three old men from the city offend Wang Yuanchao?
Therefore, the three groups were specially assigned by the team leader to the marginal fields, and were forced to cut rice. They were not allowed to leave the front line even with minor injuries, which was very painful.
A meeting was held last night, so there were no political classes for the educated youth at the educated youth site all night. Wang Yuanchao specially finished his meal and boxing practice and came to the educated youth site early today.
When I entered the yard of the educated youth center and took a look, I was shocked to see that the entire yard was filled with people lying all over the place.
Wang Yuanchao suppressed his laughter, looked around, and said, "Hey, what new styles are you guys showing today?"
As an old educated youth, Hu Meng had experienced the pain of spring ploughing, but his family sent him money every month. He did not go to work for several months and lived a fairy-like life in the Red Flag Brigade.
This time, Hu Meng participated in the autumn harvest. His performance was not much better than that of the new educated youth. However, he knew that as long as he could get through the autumn harvest, he could live a good life again.
Therefore, Hu Meng did not have the gradually numb and desperate look on the face of the new educated youth. Instead, he said with a look of enduring humiliation:
"Hey, captain, now the other educated youths in our educated youth camp pay for the oil, meat, vegetables, and eggs, and the cooking is handed over to Fan Zhaodi and a few other female educated youths who raise pigs. After dinner, we still have political classes in the evening. Everyone is tired after a day of work and doesn't want to move. Why don't we just lie down in the yard for a while? When the class comes, no one will need to move."
When Wang Yuanchao heard this, he laughed like a pig. All the educated youths in the educated youth sites were very angry when they heard Wang Yuanchao's laughter . However, since the autumn harvest, all the new educated youths had asked the villagers of the Red Flag Brigade about Wang Yuanchao.
Naturally, we all know how much Wang Yuanchao has contributed to the Hongqi Brigade and how high his prestige is in the hearts of the villagers of the Hongqi Brigade.
In the Red Flag Brigade, the three words "Wang Yuanchao" are of great value. Here, Wang Yuanchao is simply a golden signboard among the educated youth, and his influence is terrifying.
These new educated youth are no longer the ones who were completely ignorant when they first arrived and dared to complain about everything. Everyone almost knew that the reason why Yu Tian and his group had such a miserable life among the new educated youth was because they had offended Wang Yuanchao with their words.
Captain Wang only needs to raise his hand to make Yu Tian and his companions live in purgatory every day . How could the other educated youth dare to stand up and criticize Wang Yuanchao?
Are you really so stubborn that you are not afraid of being punished? However, as a local tiger, although the captain did take good care of Lin Yibao during the autumn harvest, how could a group of spoiled princes and princesses endure this hardship? Lin Yibao also looked disregarding her dignity and asked Wang Yuanchao while lying on the ground: "Captain, I want to ask you, can we, the new female educated youth, go to work at the poultry breeding base?"
Wang Yuanchao's attitude towards female comrades has always been as warm as the sun. He replied gently:
"It's definitely not going to work this year. There are still some live poultry left in the poultry breeding bases this year. These are used by some units in the provincial capital, county town, and commune to distribute New Year's goods to employees during the Spring Festival.
Now poultry breeding bases do not need so many people.
But it should be possible next year, because our Hongqi Brigade will expand the scale of poultry breeding next year. By then, all the female educated youth in the educated youth point can go to the brigade headquarters to find village cadres and strive for employment quotas. "
(End of this chapter)
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