Chapter 44: Reception Banquet
The new educated youths are all new here and haven’t figured out the situation here yet. After listening to Chen Yang’s explanation, although they had some thoughts in their hearts, they didn’t speak out.
But with seven people living in one room, it instantly became a bit crowded.
Afterwards, when everyone started to occupy seats, some minor conflicts occurred. For example, the corner and the kang head were good seats, and everyone wanted them. The old educated youths took advantage of them being old people and having a master mentality, which made them very angry. Just take it.
A new educated youth felt a little aggrieved. After all, he had chosen that place first.
There is also a place to store luggage. A room is so big. There are places where it is convenient to get things, and there are places where it is inconvenient.
In short, everyone is not in a good mood because of this incident.
Especially Zhou Chaoyang and the tomboy Shen Zhaodi, who looked like disciples of the courtyard, were not the kind of weak-tempered people. They felt wronged and quarreled with the old educated youth on the spot.
Zhou Ziwen and the Chen sisters stood in the corner watching the show silently.
As expected, the Educated Youth Home was a trap. Fortunately, they moved out in advance, otherwise they would have faced these embarrassing things sooner or later.
Regarding their quarrel, the male educated youth captain Chen Yang and the female educated youth captain Liu Lingling seemed to have expected it. They did not speak out at the beginning. They did not speak out until the quarrel was almost over.
"Stop arguing, Secretary Wu is still waiting for you to get food! Even if you want to argue, you can come back and argue again."
"This is the condition of our Educated Youth Home, if you don't want to live there , you can build a house outside, no one will stop you."
Chen Yang and Liu Lingling quickly gave up the idea of continuing to quarrel.
“Captain Liu, can we build our own house?”
Hearing this, Zhou Chaoyang and Chen Zhaodi's eyes lit up at the same time.
They don’t want to stay in this miserable place like the Educated Youth Institute for a moment.
“It’s okay, aren’t they just examples?” Liu Lingling pointed at Zhou Ziwen and the others.
"Oh?" Zhou Chaoyang raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Ziwen enthusiastically, "Brother, what's your surname? Can you tell us about building a house?"
"No problem. , But we can wait until you guys come back to talk about it. Secretary Wu and the others are probably waiting impatiently." Zhou Ziwen smiled and nodded.
"Yes, I will take you to the village branch first. If you are late, the team leader will scold you." After being reminded by Zhou Ziwen, Chen Yang also remembered the business.
He didn’t want to be scolded by the captain.
Hearing this, the educated youths ignored the quarrel, hurriedly put down their luggage, and headed to the village branch together with the two captains Chen Yang and Liu Lingling.
"Haha, these educated youths nowadays are very arrogant. They dislike this and that. According to me, they are just hypocritical. If they are really capable, why are they coming to the countryside?"
"I It seems true, but it will be easier for them to go to the countryside. Wait for two days to see if they still have the strength to criticize.”
When the new educated youth left, the old educated youth began to get angry.
"Why are they like this?" Chen Qiaoyi felt a little harsh when she heard these words, but this time she learned her lesson and did not say it in public.
"Some people are like this. They don't like others, so just ignore them." Zhou Ziwen comforted in a low voice.
They are here to see a show, but don’t become actors.
Not long after, the new educated youths came back with food, but the food they received was not much, only for two and a half months. After this time, the autumn harvest has been completed. At that time, the production team will distribute grain according to their work points. Those with more work points can also receive money. As for those with insufficient work points, they can only buy it with their own subsidies.
But not everyone can buy food by spending money.
This depends on your usual performance in the production team. If you perform well, you can buy more, and if you perform poorly, you can only buy less.
Due to the quarrel just now, Chen Yang was too lazy to let everyone introduce themselves, but no one had eaten at this moment, and they were just waiting for the dinner.
“Welcome to Dabazi Village and become a member of the Educated Youth Academy. Our Educated Youth Academy has a rule. Every time a new educated youth arrives, we will gather together to have a meal. It is a welcoming banquet. By the way, Get to know each other too.”
"We need to unite and stay together, otherwise we will be easily bullied by the villagers."
When talking about unity, Chen Yang spoke a little dryly. Obviously, even he himself did not believe this.
However, it is true that people hug together to keep warm, because people in the Educated Youth Institute usually gather together, which makes it difficult for some second-rate people in the village who like to bully outsiders to find a chance.
Although Zhou Ziwen was living a good life during this period and had a good relationship with the folks in the village, it was actually the result of his planning for a rainy day.
Whether it was his active performance in the production team or his inadvertent revelation that he had been practicing boxing since childhood, he avoided a lot of unnecessary trouble.
In this era, force is still very effective. When others hear that you are a martial arts practitioner, they will know that you are good at fighting.
Before causing trouble, you will think carefully about whether it is worth it.
Otherwise, a bunch of flies would have surrounded such beautiful girls as the Chen sisters.
Because the vegetables picked a few days ago will not last long, the old educated youths are very generous this time. Those who have vegetables will provide vegetables, and those who have no vegetables will provide grain.
The newly arrived educated youth also took out some food brought from home after being reminded in a roundabout way by others.
Zhou Ziwen was a little disdainful of their faces, but they were voluntary, so he couldn't say anything.
You can't eat with a bowl in hand, put down the bowl and curse!
But in his heart, he was once again sure that these people should not have close friendships.
During the meal, everyone was in high spirits, as if they had forgotten the unhappiness just now, and the old educated youths also forgot their previous conflicts. Dozens of people sat in the yard, talking to each other under the dim moonlight, and from time to time there were Laughter rang out and harmony filled the air.
Seeing that the meal was almost done, Zhou Chaoyang and Chen Zhaodi could no longer hold back their thoughts and came together.
"Brother Zhou, can you tell us about building a house?" Zhou Chaoyang sat down next to Zhou Ziwen with a smile.
"Of course you can. In fact, building a house is not as difficult as you think. As long as you have money, you can build as many houses as you want." Zhou Ziwen said.
"Then how much did you spend?" Shen Zhaodi asked curiously.
“It depends on the size of the house. For example, Yiyi and I both built two rooms, which cost about a hundred yuan. Of course, if we include furniture and daily necessities, we need The money will be more."
Zhou Ziwen explained that there was nothing to hide about building the house. He also hoped that someone would build the house. In this way, he and Chen Qiaoyi would have less money. Some are locked up. After all, they are quite famous as the first family to build houses for educated youth in the village.
But Zhou Ziwen doesn't like this kind of limelight. He prefers to make a fortune quietly.
(End of this chapter)