The sky was darkening slightly, and in the distance, educated youths were walking back in groups after finishing their work.
In this era, there were no mobile phones or Internet. Hua Cui spent the entire afternoon basking in the sun in a leisurely manner. Even though she had not done anything serious, the sweet potatoes she had eaten for lunch had long been digested, and now her stomach was growling with hunger.
When she saw others coming back, she stepped forward to greet them diligently: "You're back."
Today it was Sun Wenjuan's turn to cook. She was still a little unresponsive and looked at the smiling person who came to her.
Although her relationship with Hua Cui has always been lukewarm, at first glance she couldn't bear her current enthusiasm, but she could hold out her hand to avoid hitting the smiling man, "Uh... um, Comrade Hua, Hua, are you feeling better?"
There are no entertainment activities in the countryside. The only entertainment activity is gossip. Therefore, if something happens in the village, it will become a chat after dinner. For example, Hua Cui fainted in the field in the morning, and by this time, it has spread to everyone's mouths and ears. .
"Me? I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm just a little hungry."
"That's it, then I'll go cook right away." Sun Wenjuan nodded, thought for a while and then explained, "We all thought you wouldn't come back for dinner at noon, so we didn't leave any food for you. I'm really sorry, Comrade Hua."
"It doesn't matter, I'll eat more at night."
"Ah...Okay, okay."
Unlike the original owner, Sun Wenjuan is recognized as the educated youth with the best cooking skills.
Five minutes later.
"Hua, Comrade Hua, don't worry, the meal will be ready soon." Perhaps because the gaze behind her was too hot, Sun Wenjuan stammered. She was embarrassed and unnatural, but at the same time she felt that Comrade Hua like this was a bit cute.
Looks like I'm really hungry...
"Okay." Hua Cui looked away with difficulty.
However, she was disappointed in the end. The dinner was very simple and rough. A few handfuls of yellow rice and sweet potatoes were cut into pieces and cooked into a pot of sticky porridge, with some pickled cabbage on the side.
Maybe it just looks ugly, but tastes good. Hua Cui comforted herself in this way. After Sun Wenjuan finished cooking, she went to call the other educated youths to come over for dinner. She served herself a large bowl of rice first.
Eight educated youths sat in a circle, eating sweet potato rice from their bowls in silence.
The rice had no taste other than sticky poop, and it felt like chewing plasticine in your mouth. The pickled cabbage was completely incomparable to the "spicy cabbage" Huacui had eaten before, and was so salty and bitter.
Huacui reluctantly ate half of the bowl to quell her hunger, then put down the bowl. The food was tasteless. She lowered her head. The more she thought about it, the more wronged she became. She was hit by a car and died. Why did she have to travel to this place to suffer.
"Comrade Hua, what's wrong? Is the food not to your liking?" Sun Wenjuan paid special attention to Hua Cui tonight and put down her bowl when she was halfway through the meal. As a chef, she felt a little disappointed.
In this era, wasting food is a heinous crime. Hua Cui picked up the bowl again sadly and shook her head: "No, I'm just tired of eating. Let's take a rest."
Guan Yingying: "You feel tired even after eating, what else can you do?"
"I can't do anything. It's best if you feed me food, ah~"
Guan Yingying: "."
It’s no wonder that the original owner and Guan Yingying don’t deal with each other. One is sensitive and delicate and likes to think too much, while the other is slow to talk and talkative. Only if the two of them can get along well with each other is there a ghost.
However, the core of this body is now replaced by Huacui.
Hua Cui, at best she is optimistic, cheerful and generous, but at worst she only cares about herself and doesn't care about the life or death of others. She doesn't care whether you scold her in anger or praise her happily.
A male educated youth came out to smooth things over: "Comrade Hua is so funny today, haha."
Hua Cui didn't even raise her eyelids: "Thank you for the compliment."
Zhou Haiwen coughed lightly, smiled and stopped talking.
Four girls from the educated youth group were crowded into a room, with Huacui's bed in the corner. By the time she finished eating slowly and washed up, the others had already gone to bed.
"Did you go to bed so early?" She was a little surprised.
"This is not usually the case."
Huacui said dullly: "But I can't sleep, I want to see the moon."
The moon in the countryside was very round, bright, and beautiful. She had just discovered it when she was washing her face in the yard.
Guan Yingying rolled her eyes: "You have nothing to do after you have eaten? Are you ready to work in the fields tomorrow?"
"That's right..." Hua Cui muttered. She had to get up before dawn. If she was late, her work points would be deducted. She couldn't earn much in the first place.
The moon and sixpence, she is so realistic.
Huacui thought for a while: "Yingying, Yingying."
"What, what are you doing?" Guan Yingying was confused, why would she be so affectionate when nothing happened.
"You must wake me up tomorrow. You got up early. I can't live without you." Hua Cui is very confident in herself. Without ten or eight alarm clocks, she will never get up.
"Why...that's okay."
"Thank you then, Sister Yingying! Good night, Sister Yingying!"
Hua Cui went to bed, but Guan Yingying lay in bed unable to sleep. She pinched herself after realizing it, why didn't she know to refuse?
It’s all thanks to those big, watery eyes that seem to be able to speak and make people unable to refuse!
Early the next morning.
Guan Yingying got off the bed lightly, and walked to Huacui's bed. As expected, the guy hadn't woken up yet, and was sleeping soundly with the quilt in his arms.
"Hey, wake up..."
Hua Cui opened her eyes, slightly confused.
"Get up, hurry up."
"Oh..."
Seeing her staring at her big black eyes and looking particularly energetic, Guan Yingying went out to wash up with confidence.
After a while, she frowned: "...Why did you fall asleep again? Wake up."
"Get up right away, get up right now." Hua Cui opened her eyes again, and in order to enhance her credibility, she even pretended to lift the quilt.
Guan Yingying stared at her.
Sure enough, after a few seconds, the eyelids that this guy had just opened drooped again. She wrapped her legs under the quilt and continued to fall asleep.
Guan Yingying: "..." She knew it!
Seeing her lingering until the other educated youths got up and finished cleaning up, Guan Yingying said angrily: "You can't afford to love me, I don't care about you anymore, we have to leave."
How can that work! Hua Cui's ears twitched. After waiting for a while, she didn't hear any other sounds. She was worried that they would really leave first, so she got up from the quilt with difficulty, and kept humming: "No, I was wrong. Don't leave me alone, I'll be up soon." "People who get up late don't have breakfast."
In the educated youth areas, there are many people but little food, and it is common to not have enough breakfast. Although everyone has turned in the public food, the last person to get up is not eligible to choose. It all depends on how much is left by the people in front.
Huacui was stunned, and her hands and feet suddenly became agile. No one can starve herself when she is hungry.
It was just dawn when we went out. In the thin mist, wisps of morning light appeared on the mountains in the distance. Unfortunately, Huacui was not in the mood to appreciate this beautiful scenery.
Get up earlier than chickens and work more than cows.
She held the flower cloth bag dejectedly, which contained today's lunch, a few cornmeal steamed buns, and a small can of pickles.
"Oh, Huazhiqing, why do you look so bad? Are you feeling better?"
As soon as she arrived in the field, several enthusiastic ladies swarmed around her. Looking at her posture, they wanted to grab her and look her up and down.
Can you look good? Hua Cui made a sad face. Who would have thought that the educated youth spot was so far away from the fields? She was already tired before she even started working.
but.
"Thank you, aunts, for caring. I'll be fine. What's the point of being tired and suffering? Everything is for the development of our Qingshan Village." As she spoke, Huacui took out a handful of fruit candies from her arms and secretly stuffed them into their hands.
"I am a clumsy person. I will have to ask a few aunts to take care of me in the future."
"It should, it should, oh, where is the use of this? Why should I eat sweets at my age?"
Having said that, Hua Cui watched them quickly put the candies in their pockets. Fruit candies are also in short supply in this era. Although they are not affordable, ordinary people are only willing to buy them during the holidays.
Very good. People are short-tongued and soft-handed. Hua Cui raised her smile and was about to give a few more "notes" when she suddenly heard someone calling her name from behind.
Turning around, the team leader Zhao Fuguo waved to her: "Comrade Huacui, come here! Yes, it's you."
Hua Cui lowered her head with a guilty conscience: "Uncle Zhao, what's the matter?"
No way, her bribery was so subtle, how could it be discovered? You won’t be labeled as capitalist...
Hua Cui's heart tightened, it was really hard to tell in this era.
However, Zhao Fuguo could only hear what she had just said in a loud voice: "It's nothing if it's hard and tiring, everything is for the development of Qingshan Village." He felt relieved, and the things he had been thinking about before were more certain.
"Comrade Huacui, I understand your thoughts."
"?"
"But, everything must be done within your ability. In this way... you will go to the land on the east side from now on. You will be responsible for that, and someone else will take over here."
Huacui: ".Huh?"
Zhao Fuguo looked around slightly awkwardly, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to them, he lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, I have made arrangements and will give you an easier job."
Hua Cui realized later and realized that the captain was trying to make a small fuss for her!
"What? You don't want to?"
"No, no, I am willing." Hua Cui just felt a little regretful. She had just given away her precious fruit candies and gained nothing in return.
Is it too late to come back now?
Naturally, Fruit Candy did not come back. Hua Cui was led there by Zhao Fuguo, accompanied by a skinny old man and a cripple from the village.
Hua Cui thought in embarrassment that it turned out to be not a small stove, but a support plan for the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in Qingshan Village.
"Here, this is the land. You guys can be responsible for it."
Hua Cui obediently agreed, and Zhao Fuguo raised his hands with satisfaction and shouted not far away, "Everyone has been brought here. Please keep an eye on me. I'll leave first."
"Yeah."
The young man on the field ridge nodded slightly and agreed.
The old, the weak, and the disabled are all here. Isn’t the remaining one sick? Hua Cui raised her eyelids and looked at it secretly, then shook her head in denial.
No, he looks quite young and strong.
Each piece of land in the village has its own exclusive name. The one assigned to Huacui is called a paddy field. Her specific task is to cut wheat, which is much simpler than the previous work of hoeing and clearing wasteland.
Completely equipped with a sickle, straw hat, gloves and a kettle for drinking water, Huacui rolled up her sleeves and started working confidently.
Two hours later.
Hua Cui didn't know that this was the first time she straightened up and hammered her sore waist. She wiped the sweat from her face and looked up. Forget about the cripple, even the gray-haired old man was faster than her.
At this time, the sun above her head was slowly getting stronger, Huacui was hot and tired, her clothes were soaked with sweat, and the low-quality fabrics were uncomfortable sticking to her body.
More importantly, at her speed, it would take years and months to complete the work.
"I don't want to do it anymore! I'm tired!"
Hua Cui had never suffered from this, and she couldn't help but lose her temper. She dropped the sickle and pulled off her gloves, then strode towards the shade of the tree.
The others were frightened by her attitude of giving up the stall, and stopped their movements to look at her.
Zhao Qiming also looked at her, his brows knitted together. His father had specifically asked him to keep an eye on these people, especially the female educated youth from the city.
Forget it, just let her rest. Zhao Qiming thought that she was unconscious when she was working in the fields yesterday. She fell to the ground and couldn't breathe.
The taciturn young man bent down to pick up the sickle that Huacui had thrown away, and prepared to finish cutting the remaining wheat.
Suddenly there was a scream, and Huacui, who had just been sitting in the shade of a tree, suddenly jumped up. She danced on the spot for a while with her teeth and claws open, and then suddenly rushed towards the wheat field.
Like a small firecracker being lit, he ran and shouted.
"Bugs! There are bugs! Hurry, save me! It's on my head! It's in my hair! Take it off, hurry, hurry!"
Zhao Qiming was stunned for a moment. Xiao Paozhan had already rushed in front of him and raised his hand to punch him with a heavy blow.
Her horrified and angry voice sounded: "Bug, bug! Kill it! Get it down for me quickly!"
Zhao Qi understood that Bai had been hit several times, and then he managed to hold her down. He stretched out his hand and took out a fat green worm from her hair.
"...Okay."
(End of chapter)
The author said: Guan Yingying: What I hate the most is that kind of loser who can’t do anything and is the first to grab a meal!
Hua Cui (holding her throat): Sister Yingying~ Can you help me fetch water~ Sister Yingying~
Guan Yingying: Come right away!
Thank you to the little angel who irrigates the nutrient solution:
Haha 4 bottles;
I have to torture the male protagonist and Siyu Xianxian for 1 bottle;