Chapter 145 Borrowing Food
"Brother Ziwen, there is nothing we can do when we come to your place today. It's almost the end of the year, and the food stored at home is almost gone." Chen Yang smiled bitterly, feeling confident I'm sorry, but I have to lower my face and beg for help.
Song Chengbing and Wang Tao on the side had similar expressions on their faces.
They are the same group of educated youths who went to the countryside as Zhou Ziwen. The village had only advanced food for three months. Now two months have passed. It is also the first time for them to go to the countryside, and they have no plans. Every day The work was so tiring and consumed a lot of their energy, and they never thought about saving food. After only two months, they had already eaten almost three months' worth of food.
This kind of thing is not just Chen Yang and the others, but a common fact. At the Educated Youth Institute, everyone eats together, and if there is a shortage of food, they are all together. No, Zhou Ziwen is here. A few male educated youths with relatively good relationships.
The Chen sisters also went to visit some female educated youths with whom they had good conversations.
There are also Shen Zhaodi and Zhou Chaoyang who have also gone there.
These educated youths all know that those who can build houses are rich and have no shortage of food.
This was also the first time they were short of food, and they thought of Zhou Ziwen and the others.
"How much do you want? Let's agree first. I just went to the countryside, and I eat more than you. If the village hadn't sold a batch of mushrooms for me, I would have run out of food." Zhou Ziwen asked road.
It was really hard for him to refuse this. After all, the idea of exchanging mushrooms for food had long been spread in the village. Now that people are asking for money, it would be a bit unkind to refuse to borrow it.
But it is true that he has a big appetite. Because of this, he was talked about by the villagers for a while.
"Can I borrow five kilograms? I'll pay you back after the autumn harvest." Chen Yang said a little embarrassed.
He calculated that with five kilograms of grain, if you eat sparingly, you can basically last for about ten days. If you are more diligent, you can go to the mountains to pick some wild vegetables every day and eat them together. It is not a problem to last for half a month.
The autumn harvest only lasts less than ten days, and five kilograms of grain is completely enough.
"So are we." Song Chengbing and Wang Tao followed closely.
"Okay, I'll lend it to you." Zhou Ziwen nodded.
When everyone is in trouble, he is still willing to give some help if he can.
And he is not worried that they will not return it. After all, the autumn harvest will be coming soon, and food will be distributed after the autumn harvest. At that time, if someone does not return it, then don't blame him for not giving face to others.
Of course, he felt that neither Chen Yang nor Song Chengbing and Wang Tao were such people.
When it comes to reading people, he is quite accurate.
"Thank you!" Seeing Zhou Ziwen so cheerful, Chen Yang and Song Chengbing were so moved that they couldn't say any more words for a moment.
Food is really a life-saving food in this era!
As Zhou Ziwen said himself, he did not have much food. They believed this. After all, Zhou Ziwen had only been in the countryside not long ago, so they had some guesses about how much food he had.
"It's okay, the educated youth in the world are all one family, no one has ever had a hard time!" Zhou Ziwen waved his hand and didn't care.
He didn't have much food, and the production team bought him only about a hundred kilograms of food left.
It is not a problem for him and the Chen sisters to persist for a month.
The autumn harvest will be in a few days, and the village will definitely distribute food by then. After these few days, he won't have to worry about food problems.
Since going to the countryside, he has always had full work scores, and is now the leader of the mushroom team, with a higher salary than others.
Although he eats a lot, he also earns a lot! His work points alone are enough to satisfy his life.
"Brother Ziwen, don't worry, we will return this food to you in a few days." Chen Yang said seriously.
"Okay, it's getting late now. You guys wait a minute while I go get the food." Zhou Ziwen stood up, took a sack and walked to the Chen sisters' home. His food is all stored at the Chen sisters' home, and he has no food here.
But when he came to the home of the Chen sisters, he found that they also had guests.
Especially when they saw Zhou Ziwen holding a sack in his hand, the eyes of these people became eager.
"Brother Ziwen." Chen Qiaoyi whispered and winked at him.
"Haha, Liu Zhiqing, Zhang Zhiqing, Li Zhiqing, you are all here!" Zhou Ziwen smiled and greeted several female educated youths in the Chen family sisters' house.
"Zhou Zhiqing, did Chen Yang and the others ask you to borrow food?" Liu Lingling asked.
"Yes, they said that our family is about to run out of food. No, they have come to my house now." Zhou Ziwen spread his hands.
“It’s not just them, we are about to run out of food.” Liu Lingling said hurriedly.
"Ziwen, you just happened to be here. They said they wanted to borrow food, but we have run out of food. The food exchanged from the production team belongs to you. I can't make the decision. What do you think we should do?" Chen Shiying asked. He said this in front of several female educated youths, which made them a little embarrassed.
After all, it was easier to ask them to borrow food from the Chen sisters. After all, they were all women and relatively familiar with each other.
But Zhou Ziwen had nothing to do with them. He wanted to borrow food, but he couldn't.
“Oh, Liu Zhiqing is also short of food?” Zhou Ziwen pretended to be surprised.
Zhou Ziwen didn't like Liu Lingling, a scheming woman, and he was even more afraid that she would get involved with him. So since the last time Liu Lingling came to his door in the middle of the night, Zhou Ziwen would hide whenever he could when he saw her. Her access to herself.
"Yeah, even though we are old educated youths, in fact many villagers are almost out of food at this time."
"But they can borrow some grain directly from the production team, but we educated youths after all He is an outsider and cannot borrow food from the production team."
Liu Lingling said with a grimace.
"Oh, how much do you want to borrow? Let's agree first. I don't have much food here." Zhou Ziwen asked.
Here, borrowing food is really a loan, and what is borrowed is repaid.
Just like when he goes to the villagers' houses to borrow things, he will return them as soon as he borrows them.
Although he didn't want to have too much contact with Liu Lingling, he was still willing to help with this small favor, as long as he didn't want to take advantage of him.
He also believed that neither the educated youth nor the villagers would dare to take advantage of him.
“Ah, are you willing to lend it to us?” Upon hearing this, Liu Lingling looked at Zhou Ziwen in surprise.
She thought that Zhou Ziwen had a problem with her because of what happened last time!
"Well, the educated youth all over the world belong to the same family. If I can help, I will definitely be willing to help!" Zhou Ziwen looked upright.
But in fact, he felt that he had no loss because these people did not dare to rely on him.
Because of this confidence, Zhou Ziwen appears to be very generous.
"Thank you, thank you. Zhou Zhiqing, you are a good person." Liu Lingling hurriedly thanked him, but secretly thought it was a pity. If she were not several years older than him, she might have taken the initiative to pursue him.
(End of this chapter)