191: Chapter 190: More Than One Family 191: Chapter 190: More Than One Family Sie Yufei was on the brink of collapse.
Very much on the brink.
Because this Educated Youth Corps spot he was enjoying all to himself…
aside from a heated brick bed, there was nothing else.
No firewood, no water, and not a single sprout in the reserved land.
Even a rat would cry and leave.
He hadn’t closed his eyes for three days and finally entered the room, only to find not even a drop of water to drink.
Young Master Sie had lived for eighteen years, and for the first ti experienced the biting chill of hunger and cold.
Whether to fetch water or gather firewood first, to eat or catch so sleep first, countless choices swirled in Sie Yufei’s head, and each option seed painfully difficult.
Just as he was engulfed in despair and irritation, Cao Dayue arrived, bringing a sea-bowl of egg soup and four pieces of cornbread.
Cao Dayue was dressed in a no-patched but whitewashed outfit, her plain face flushed with red.
She looked at Sie Yufei, thinking he was very handso, even the actors in movies were not as good-looking as him.
“Here, I brought this for you to eat.” Cao Dayue handed over the warm al specially made by her mother, her tone timid and soft, “My na is Cao Dayue, my dad is the brigade leader.”
Sie Yufei looked at the girl before him, instantly rembering Uncle Li’s instructions.
He grinned and said: “Thank you.”
Then he took the bowl.
Cao Dayue’s eyes suddenly brightened, just as she was about to say sothing according to her mother’s teaching, she saw this handso comrade hand her a half jin National Food Ticket and 20 cents.
Sie Yufei, holding the bowl in one hand and the money ticket in the other: “I don’t have much grain here, take the money and tickets, and please also thank your parents for .”
His sparkling white teeth dazzled Cao Dayue’s eyes, whisking away the soul of the young girl.
Cao Dayue couldn’t rember how she took the money ticket, but on her way back, her steps felt light and airy.
“What?
He gave money and tickets?”
Cao Manfu looked at the money and tickets before him, happy, but not extrely so.
Their accustod strategy of coercing marriage was to have their own daughters or sons bring sothing to eat or drink for the newly arrived Educated Youth, get acquainted, then make a move.
For female comrades, reputation is paramount; they’d have to get married even if things went astray.
As for male comrades, not marrying would be regarded as hooliganism, and they’d be sent straight to a detention cell.
To date, their success rate in coercing marriage is one hundred percent.
No one wants to tarnish their reputation, and no one wants to go to jail.
But now, this familiar tactic seed ineffective.
No one used to give money and tickets before!
Cao Manfu furrowed his brows, pondered for a mont, then said to Cao Dayue: “Go over with your mom, say that the Educated Youth Corps place is too shabby to live in, ask him to co over and board with us.”
Aunt Cao was displeased, glaring with eyes wide and hands on her hips: “What?
Have him live with us?
How much grain would that consu?”
Cao Manfu fluttered the money and tickets on the heated brick bed.
He snorted: “Long hair but short on wit, old ladies, what do you know?
That lad is from Beijing, he’d care about your ager offerings?
Hurry, bring that person ho first, don’t let others snatch him away.”
Watching the tangible money and tickets, Aunt Cao harbored so doubt but still took her daughter and left.
However, before the mother and daughter reached the Educated Youth Corps, they heard laughter coming from inside.
“…
This isn’t work fit for you, lordship.
Put it down quickly, Guihua, co and make Young Master Sie’s bed.”
“Hey hey, Auntie, that’s not suitable, wow, Guihua is so young, this isn’t proper.”
“I’m right here watching, what’s there to worry about?”
Aunt Cao spat: “The whole Old Wang family are crafty as rats, always burrowing where it’s warm!”
After cursing, she quickened her pace with Cao Dayue, walking briskly then breaking into a jog, and like a whirlwind, they stord into the Educated Youth Corps.
Only upon entering did she realize that the cunning rats she ntioned…
were not just from one family…
…
When Uncle Guan ca to pick them up, the Wen family’s sisters, who had just felt a world of boundless opportunities, couldn’t hold it together again.
Each grabbing one of Lin Nianhe’s arms, they looked at her with disbelief: “Nianhe, are you a teacher too?”
Lin Nianhe blinked innocently: “Hmm, didn’t I tell you?”
“…”
“No, you didn’t!”
“Oh, maybe I forgot,” Lin Nianhe said as she pulled her hands away.
“Now you know.”
Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan exchanged a glance, then grabbed her again.
“Nianhe, tell us, how did you beco a teacher?”
“Yeah, yeah, look, we’re not good at farming either, if we could be teachers too…
obviously, we could contribute better!”
Lin Nianhe spread her hands: “A while ago the village school was recruiting teachers.
It was a test, and they hired based on the rankings.”
Wen Qingqing’s eyes sparkled with surprise — a test?
That was sothing they weren’t afraid of; they had always done well academically.
Wen Ruannuan asked imdiately: “When will there be another test?”
“I have no idea about that,” replied Lin Nianhe, trying to shake them off, but this ti they held on tight, and she couldn’t break free.
She glanced at Wen Lan, lifting her eyebrows and making faces, gesturing for her to co to her rescue.
Wen Lan caught Lin Nianhe’s eye signal, but didn’t understand what it ant.
“What’s wrong?
What is it?”
As Wen Lan approached Lin Nianhe, asking her question.
Lin Nianhe: “…”
See, she knew she shouldn’t dabble in such deceitful business like success theory; she just thought about it, and imdiately karma struck back.
Looking at Sister Lan’s innocent eyes, Lin Nianhe could only play dumb: “I’m fine, what’s wrong with you?”
Wang Shui was in the midst of helping Principal Wu onto the ox cart, and she was montarily distracted, not noticing Wen Lan, which led to the awkward scene.
Seeing Wen Lan about to speak up, Wang Shui quickly raised her voice: “Xiao Lan, Nianhe, hurry up and get on the cart, we’ll be delayed for the eting soon.”
“Ah, coming.” Lin Nianhe sighed with relief.
With a Shui in the family, all was well.
She took the opportunity to wriggle free from the grasp of the Wen sisters and dragged Wen Lan towards the ox cart.
They got on board, Uncle Guan cracked his whip, and the ox cart rumbled away in the distance.
Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan looked at each other, their gaze shifting to Yu Xiangqin.
Yu Xiangqin, however, didn’t notice their stares and went straight back to her room to take a nap — she had to work in the afternoon!
The other party’s unilateral refusal to engage left Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan without a plan, and they stood there for a while before silently returning to pack their belongings.
On the ox cart, Lin Nianhe rested her chin in her hand, silent.
Wang Shui stuffed a piece of fruit candy into her mouth, asking: “What are you thinking about?
You seem so preoccupied.”
Lin Nianhe, candy in mouth, mumbled vaguely: “I have a bad feeling.”
Wang Shui grew a little nervous: “What’s wrong?”
Lin Nianhe squinted towards the verdant hills, silent for a long while before she said: “About sending those two to buy grain for Fourth Sie…
I feel sothing is going to go wrong.”
After thinking for a while, Wang Shui laughed: “What could they possibly do, rob the Cooperative Society?
Don’t worry…”
Having finished her sentence, Wang Shui suddenly realized that might not be the kind of thing that could happen.
What on earth could those two get up to?
Who knows?
Sure enough, Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian did not rob the Cooperative Society.
Instead, they had taken over the recently stocked dormitory that belonged to Sie Yufei.
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