Chapter 5: Chapter 31-40

Chapter 31

After the educated youths had dinner after six o'clock, they basically had nothing to do.

Hong Hehe asked Zhizhi if she wanted to go to the train station next door to watch TV—there was a black and white TV in the waiting hall, but the signal here was not good, so she could only watch one TV station, and there was a news broadcast at seven o'clock sharp.

Zhizhi thought for a while, then nodded in agreement.

So the educated youths were automatically divided into two groups. Those who had already showered would go to the waiting hall of the train station to watch TV together, while those who hadn't bathed would go to the river to take a bath together.

The experience of watching TV in the train station is not good.

The environment is too noisy, and there are too many people. The female educated youths have already taken a shower and are unwilling to squeeze in front, so that they can only vaguely see a little bit of the TV screen, and can't hear the sound at all.

Furthermore, there are too many people watching, and the smell is not good.

However, watching TV is a luxury in this era. Even if they stand behind the crowd, female educated youths are reluctant to leave. After watching the news broadcast, everyone went back to the Educated Youth Station together.

After watching a TV together, the female educated youth chatted happily for a while, and Zhizhi basically got the names, hometowns and basic conditions of the seven or eight female educated youths.

However, as soon as they returned to the Educated Youth Station, everyone felt that the atmosphere was a little strange.

Only the railway station, the police station and a few other units within the railway station of the provincial capital are electrified and have electric lights.

Several other units, including the Educated Youth Station, have no electricity or lights.

As soon as it got dark, the front door and backyard of the educated youth office were all pitch black.

However, there is a lantern hanging in the backyard, which emits not very bright light, barely illuminating the yard.

Although it was completely dark, Zhizhi and Hong Hehe could feel the tension of the educated youths in the courtyard.

And——

there was also an extremely faint sound of a woman crying.

"Woooo... woooo..."

The female educated youths who had just stepped into the yard were frightened.

If it weren't for the crowds in the yard, and everyone was quite calm... Hearing someone cry this late at night is really frightening!

At the moment, no one dared to speak.

Zhizhi didn't dare to speak either.

Hong Hehe asked, "What's the matter?"

A female educated youth's voice came from the darkness: "The new one refuses to take a bath..."

"It's not that I don't want to take a bath!" Zheng Ping said with tears , "But...the bathroom is so scary, I simply surrounded it with a rag felt by the river, and it was so dark that I had to use a flashlight to see it! And I also looked, the felt cloth was still there What if someone peeks at the sewing? I don’t want to take a bath in such a place, huh..." "

Everyone takes a bath like this, but you are different!" Someone said angrily.

A male educated youth also said: "You are afraid at night, so why don't you take a bath in the afternoon?"

Zheng Ping cried: "I don't know, and no one told me that it is safer to take a bath in the afternoon... Bie Zhizhi is also new here, You told her to take a bath in the afternoon, but no one called me... I don't care, I don't dare to take a bath..."

Zhizhi didn't say a word.

Hong Hehe was furious, and said, "You didn't go if she didn't tell you? Then why didn't you ask her when she went to the river with the basin and clothes?"

Zheng Ping cried.

In the darkness, the female educated youth from before said faintly: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't take a bath. We are not your mother and we don't mind at all, but do you know how stinky you are? You are so stinky that you will attract mosquitoes.

" You know? How about this? If you don’t take a shower tonight, then don’t sleep in the bamboo shed, go sleep outside!”

A male educated youth couldn’t help but said: “We are also afraid of the smell when we sleep outside, and we are also afraid that someone will kill mosquitoes. Bring it on!"

I don't know who said, "It's a small matter to attract mosquitoes. If the smell attracts snakes and mice, it will be troublesome."

Zheng Ping was stunned, and cried louder.

"Li Fen, you can take a bath with me, okay?" Zheng Ping said sobbingly.

Li Fen said: "Just now I told you to go and you refused, I have already gone there with Liu Najuan!"

Zheng Ping had no choice but to say, "Zhang Qingyu, you go with me... okay?"

Zhang Qingyu's voice came from the darkness , "I've already taken a bath."

Zheng Ping had no choice but to say, "Zhizhi? Don't Zhizhi, we are all new here. Can you, can you take a bath with me?"

Zhizhi said: " I won't go."

Zheng Ping cried again.

In the darkness, a female educated youth sighed, "Don't cry, I'll go with you, but I don't have a flashlight, so bring a flashlight!"

Li Fen muttered, "It's troublesome to take a shower at night, at least half an hour. The battery needs to be replaced in two or three days! This is a provincial capital, and there is not even a supply and marketing cooperative, and there is no way for anyone who wants to buy batteries!"

Zheng Ping immediately said, "Zhi Zhi, can I borrow your flashlight?"

Zhi Zhi Laughed, "I'm sorry I don't have a flashlight."

I won't lend you any!

What's wrong?

Zheng Ping said "Ah", her tone was full of disbelief, "You are the one who owns a Seagull watch, how could you not have a flashlight! Zhizhi, you have saved my life...how can you even use a flashlight?" Are you reluctant to borrow it?"

Zhizhi said, "Then how much do you plan to pay me?"

Zheng Ping was stunned, "What did you say? Money?"

"No way, no way," Zhizhi said, "...you don't really think that borrowing other people's things is a peace of mind and you don't need to pay for it? Besides, you obviously have a flashlight yourself...you Don't deny it, I saw it on the train, and your flashlight is bundled under your bedding!" "

You—"

Zheng Ping was ashamed and angry, and cried twice, and then there was a rattling sound. The voice...it should be that she was looking for something. After a while, the beam of the flashlight came on, and Zheng Ping whimpered, "Okay, let's go!"

A female educated youth stood up and accompanied Zheng Ping to take a bath.

There was nothing to do at night, Hong Hehe was going to bed.

Zhizhi felt sleepy after a few days of traveling and traveling, so she opened her bed with Hong Hehe.

Hong Hehe saw Zhizhi's "sleeping bag" and felt very strange, "Your quilt is so small?"

Zhizhi said: "After all, I have to travel a long way, so my family prepared this for me. They will also send me quilts."

Hong Hehe stared at Zhizhi for a while, and said with certainty: "Your family must be very rich, and you must be the most favored child. Since you eat bean porridge I can tell if you can't bite the bean grains... and your bedding, your family must be so considerate to make this for you because they are afraid that you will suffer on the road, otherwise, what family would be willing to put it on The quilt is cut like this! These little details can't fool anyone!"

"Our children are all liked by their parents." Zhi Zhi laughed.

Hong Hehe said in a low voice: "But you are so low-key... Zheng Ping is different,

for fear that others will not know that she is Miss Jiao!"

"Go to sleep, I'm sleepy." Zhizhi said.

Then she took the two lunch boxes to the pillow.

——These two lunch boxes, one is full of spicy lard residue, and half of the box is filled with garlic and salt. The two lunch boxes were tightly wrapped by her with pillow covers, which looked like a small pillow.

However, as soon as Zhi Zhi got into her sleeping bag, the female educated youth who accompanied Zheng Ping to take a bath before came back angrily.

Li Fen asked her, "Fang Lijuan, why did you come back alone? You don't care about Zheng Ping?"

Fang Lijuan snorted and said, "People say, why is there no hot water in the bathroom? Why do you cover it up?" There is no place here, let me find Aunt Tian to boil hot water for her to take a bath!"

Everyone clicked their tongues.

In fact, Zheng Ping was following Fang Lijuan, and now she was crying and saying, "You will catch a cold if you take a bath in cold water..." The

female educated youths were silent at first, and then some of them became angry and said a few sarcasm.

Zheng Ping began to cry.

Zhi Zhi didn't bother to meddle in other people's business, so she fell asleep in a daze on the "pillow".

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Zhizhi was suddenly awakened by the movement around her.

It should be midnight by now, and everyone is asleep. The bamboo shed was relatively quiet, except for the breathing of the female educated youths; there was not much movement outside the bamboo shed, but there were still a few young men snoring.

Not too far away from Zhizhi, there are rustling voices? ? ?

Zhizhi opened her eyes and adjusted to the light for a while.

The conditions of the educated youth office are poor. Although the girls all sleep in the bamboo sheds, they are all unmarried girls with thin skins, so before going to bed, everyone will find a way to cover the sides of the bamboo sheds with felt cloth, sheets, tents, etc. Cover up, try to be as different as possible between men and women.

Zhi Zhi could only take advantage of the faint light of the lantern leaking through the gaps in the felt cloth, and could vaguely see a dark figure squatting in the bamboo shed. What followed was the sound of subtle hard objects colliding, and it was unknown who was rummaging through the luggage.

Zhizhi's first reaction was——

Could it be that someone had a stomachache in the middle of the night, so he opened his bag and packed toilet paper to go to the bathroom?

As a result, after searching for a while, the black shadow knelt on the ground and slowly moved to another position, and started to rummage again?

So this black shadow is actually a thief who steals other people's things?

The thief was about three or four meters away from Zhi Zhi, with two sleeping girls in between.

Just as Zhizhi was contemplating how to catch the thief—

the thief suddenly let out a happy laugh, and then stopped immediately.

Next, Zhi Zhi heard the slight sound of the tin lunch box being opened, and the sound of wolfing down the food. Because the distance was so close, Zhi Zhi could smell the aroma of food—it was fried rice.

Zhi Zhi had eaten this kind of snack in later life.

Just soak the rice for a day and a night, then fry it, and sprinkle some salt powder when it comes out of the pan.

Very crispy and easy to feel full due to the high calorie content.

The thief chewed the fried rice and made a rustling sound. After eating for about half an hour, he closed the lid of the lunch box and quietly put the lunch box back into the luggage.

Then, the thief slowly crawled to... Zhi Zhi's side.

Zhizhi didn't move.

She could smell the strong aroma of fried rice, and she could also feel that the thief was pulling her bag—to prevent theft, Zhi Zhi tied a piece of wool to the mouth of the bag before going to bed, and tied the other end to her wrist

.

Zhizhi has already guessed who this thief is.

It's Zheng Ping.

Because as soon as the thief approached her, there was a burnt aroma of fried rice. In addition, Zhizhi also smelled a strong smell of sweat and acid—there were more than 20 people in the entire educated youth station, only Zheng Ping didn't take a bath last night, and only Zheng Ping didn't eat dinner.

Now Zheng Ping wants to tear apart Zhizhi's bundle, but the light is so dim that she can't see that the mouth of the bundle is tightly bound by a piece of red wool. On Zhizhi's wrist.

So she couldn't unpack Zhi Zhi's burden, nor could she move it at all.

At this moment, Zhi Zhi's brain was also working rapidly.

Do you want to expose Zheng Ping?

Zhizhi felt that it was not the time yet.

So Zhizhi said sadly, "——Zheng Ping, I've got you."

The black shadow froze for an instant, and gasped very clearly!

Zhi Zhi didn't move either.

After a while, Zhi Zhi heard Zheng Ping take a few breaths, and quietly crawled away.

Early the next morning, before Zhi Zhi woke up, she heard someone screaming, "My bag!"

The girls woke up a little and asked, "What's wrong with your bag?

" Woke up in shock, and asked: "Fang Lijuan, what happened to your bag?"     Fang

Lijuan said in a panic, "Someone touched my bag last night and turned out the things in it!"

The educated youths were all awake, and quickly asked—

"No way, we've been here for two or three days, and we haven't heard of anyone throwing anything away!" "

Fang Lijuan, what did you lose?"

"Yeah, hurry up and check it out." What did you lose?"

"If you really lost something, you must find the thief!" "

Yes, why is this scary!"

"Stealing people's things is disgusting!"

Fang Lijuan was a little squeaky, "Ah, this..."

Zhizhi is very aware of Fang Lijuan's unspeakable secret - they are all children from urban families. Parents feel sorry for their children going to the countryside. It is normal to secretly stuff some good things and then repeatedly tell others not to let others know.

Zhizhi believed that the educated youths present must have brought some money, tickets, and food.

It is a personal choice whether you want others to know or not.

Fang Lijuan didn't want others to know that she hid some food and money in her luggage, which was normal.

Sure enough, Fang Lijuan burst into tears and said: "I, I didn't lose anything... Maybe, maybe I haven't woken up yet, and I forgot where my lunch box is." ——Before going out, Fang Lijuan's

mother She made a whole lunch box of fried rice, and told her that it was very hungry and durable. As long as you pay attention to moisture protection, you can put it for a month, and tell her not to eat it all at once. She had to eat slowly, before she got used to working in the countryside, this was the only thing she could improve her food.

Now, more than half of the fried rice in her lunch box is missing, and the lid of the lunch box is also open, and even spilled some in her bag!

Fang Lijuan remembered very clearly that she checked the box of fried rice last night before going to bed. It was a big box full, and the lid of the lunch box was well covered. After going out for four or five days, she couldn't bear to eat even a bite of fried rice... She was so

wronged that she wanted to cry, but it was hard to say such a thing, and Fang Lijuan's eyes turned red with anger .

Bie Zhizhi got up and made the bed, and glanced at Zheng Ping calmly.

Zheng Ping probably ate

all the fried rice last night and slept soundly at night, but because she didn't take a shower yesterday, her face and hands were covered with dirt and her hair was messy.

Zheng Ping was gloating at Fang Lijuan, and then suddenly met Bie Zhizhi's gaze, feeling a little guilty, and quickly looked away.

Bie Zhizhi put away her bedding, tied her baggage and bedding together, and tied them together with a rope.

Hong Hehe asked strangely, "Zhi Zhi, what are you doing?"

Zhizhi replied loudly: "Beware of thieves! I only know how to tie this way. If someone removes my rope, she will never be able to tie it like me! Then I will know that someone has touched me." Something is missing!"

Hong Hehe looked at Fang Lijuan, nodded thoughtfully, "You are right." She also tied up her luggage.

Not far away, Zheng Ping blushed.

Zhizhi and Hong Hehe went to queue together to go to the toilet, took washbasins and towels to the river to wash up, and then came back to have breakfast together.

Breakfast is worse than yesterday's dinner.

It is a large bucket of mashed potato starch soup, which is said to be full, and a piece of bean cake per person.

Zheng Ping still cried and said that she couldn't eat these things...

Zhizhi didn't bother to pay attention to her, and finished the bean cake carefully, and poured two big bowls of potato soup, and then pulled Hong Hehe aside to ask, " Isn’t there a barren mountain and a small river behind the school run by our educated youths? Why don’t you go there and get something to eat? Are you not allowed to go or something?” Hong Hehe thought for a while, “I didn’t hear that you were not allowed to go there

. , but we don’t know what to eat... Besides, we’re here for a transition, maybe today we’ll be enough for 20 people, and we’ll leave tomorrow? Why bother with extra trouble!” Zhi

Zhi Said: "I'll ask!"

Hong Hehe said, "Hey, wait for me! I'll go with you!"

Zhi Zhi went to ask the staff of the Educated Youth Office, and the answer was: You want to go to the barren hills It's okay to dig some wild vegetables, but you can't start a fire in the barren hills, and you can't go too far to avoid danger.

Zhizhi was satisfied.

Hong Hehe asked her, "Zhizhi, do you know what wild vegetables are edible? Or do you know how to catch fish?" "

I don't know! I don't know either, so I'll ask someone." Zhizhi said.

Among the male educated youths, Zhi Zhi knew Tao Rongye, Shen Shuhua, Chen Yuejin, and Li Aiguo who went to the train station to watch TV together yesterday.

She asked them one by one: Do you know how to catch fish in the stream, or know edible wild vegetables?

The male educated youths looked at each other.

Shen Shuhua thought for a while, "I can use bamboo to weave fishing gear, and as long as I can find bamboo, there must be other edible things near the bamboo forest. Well, there should be no bamboo shoots in this season, so I should try to find one. Look for bamboo fungus, if there are enough bamboos, maybe you can catch some bamboo rats."

Chen Yuejin also said: "I know several kinds of wild vegetables, but I'm not sure if there are any on this barren mountain."

Tao Rongye said: "I I don’t know anything, but I can help.”

Li Aiguo also said, “I can go to the river and turn over rocks, maybe I can turn over some small crabs.”

So Zhizhi, Hong Hehe, Tao Rongye, Shen Shuhua, Chen Yuejin and Li Aiguo went to Houshan together.

There is no bamboo forest in the barren hills, but Shen Shuhua thought of a way - to weave fishing gear out of tree vines.

So one morning passed, and with Li Aiguo's assistance, Shen Shuhua made three cone-shaped fishing traps in one go. They also dug some earthworms nearby, put them into the fishing traps as bait, The fish traps are placed in different locations in the creek.

Zhizhi, Hong Hehe and Tao Rongye followed Chen Yuejin, looking for wild vegetables in the forest.

Chen Yuejin found a kind of wild vegetable called velvet, and said that he had eaten it before, washed it, sprinkled it with a little flour and steamed it, and it tasted very good.

Zhizhi also found it - dandelion. She has wildflowers like this in her vegetable garden at home in Matsushi, and as far as she knows, dandelions are edible. But Chen Yuejin had never eaten dandelions, and the other educated youths had never heard that dandelions could be eaten, and Zhizhi was also beating her heart, so she picked several plants, thinking that she would take them back and ask Aunt Tian who was in charge of cooking for the educated youths.

Aunt Tian is a local, so she must know whether dandelions are edible.

One morning passed, and the harvest was not very good.

Shen Shuhua and Li Aiguo tossed and tossed all morning, just put the fishing gear into the river, of course they didn't get anything. Zhi Zhi and the others picked a lot of fine hairy vegetables here, which should be enough for six people, but if it is for the entire educated youth station, it is not enough.

But anyway, at least there is a beginning.

So the six of them went back to the Educated Youth Office together.

Chapter 32

Zhizhi and her friends returned to the Educated Youth Office, and it was already time for dinner.

There are a few new faces in the Educated Youth Office - they arrived this morning, there are four of them, three men and one woman.

Zheng Ping has become the darling of the Educated Youth Office. Not only is she surrounded by female educated youths, she is also sought after by male educated youths. …

Zhi Zhi ignored Zheng Ping, and just greeted the three newcomers, a man and a woman, so they knew each other.

Then she and her friends took the picked vegetables and dandelions to the kitchen and showed Aunt Tian, "Aunt Tian, please identify them, can these wild vegetables be eaten?" Aunt Tian just took a look and said,

" You went to the back mountain to pick wild vegetables today? This is Artemisia annua! You can eat it!"

Zhizhi nodded, and asked again, "Aunt Tian, can these be added to our dinner?" "

Of course! Get some flour Steamed together with Artemisia annua, the taste is very good!" Aunt Tian said.

Zhizhi pointed to the dandelion she had picked again, and said, "Aunt Tian, can this be eaten?

" Now, if you know you don’t have enough to eat, you have to find something to eat by yourself... But I suggest that you pick up one kind of wild vegetables at a time, and it’s easier for me to deal with wild vegetables of the same variety!” Zhizhi was very happy, “Then

we After lunch, we'll go pick some fine vegetables, and we'll have something good to eat in the evening!"

After working all morning, Zhi Zhi was really hungry at lunch time.

She ate bean cakes with bean porridge.

She is no longer a newcomer today, and the portion of bean porridge is the same as everyone else's, not much.

But she slowly ate all of them.

Zheng Ping still looked at the bean porridge like swill with tears in her eyes, unable to eat anything.

After lunch, Zhizhi went to ask the educated youths one by one, inviting them to go to the barren hills to pick wild vegetables together.

Among the twenty-four educated youths, seventeen or eighteen responded to Zhizhi's call.

So everyone went to the barren hills in a mighty way.

——Shen Shuhua threw the three fishing traps into the river in the morning, and all of them caught small fish, but the number was not many. There were only about four or five of them together, and each fish was only a finger of a young man so big.

But it also gave everyone endless confidence.

Right now, there are three or four young people following Shen Shuhua to learn how to make fishing tools, while the others, led by Zhi Zhi and Chen Yuejin, are looking for fine hairy vegetables.     It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. Shen Shuhua and the others made ten

fishing gears and caught more than a dozen small fishes;

I went back to the Educated Youth Office and gave the things to Aunt Tian.

Aunt Tian was overjoyed to see so many wild vegetables and small fish, and said, "Come and help me!"

Zhi Zhi told everyone not to move, and then ran to find those who hadn't picked wild vegetables. Educated youth, ask them if they want to help Aunt Tian in the kitchen. There were three educated youths who were willing to come and help, so Zhi Zhi asked the three of them to help Aunt Tian wash the vegetables, and then discussed with Aunt Tian... Afterwards,

Zhi Zhi and the other educated youths disbanded and joined Hong Hehe I went to the river to bathe and do laundry.

As soon as Zheng Ping saw that Zhizhi was going to take a bath, she also quickly took her basin and changed clothes, and followed her to the bathroom by the river to take a bath.

She saw Zhizhi's exquisite soap box as she wished, and

asked Zhizhi to borrow the soap with a look of embarrassment, "Zhizhi, I forgot to bring soap, can you..." "

No!" Zhizhi said directly, "How dare you?" Do you lend your toothbrush to others? Soap and toothbrush are very personal things and cannot be borrowed.”

Zheng Ping was stunned for a moment, then said awkwardly: "You, why don't you just wash the surface of the soap and lend it to me?" "

No."

Zheng Ping's eye circles turned red all of a sudden.

She sniffed and asked Hong Hehe to borrow it, but Hong Hehe was unwilling to lend it to her.

Zheng Ping was stunned.

After a while, she turned around and asked the other two female educated youths to borrow soap. But those two female educated youths were not willing to lend it to her...

"Zhi Zhi, are you targeting me?" Zheng Ping asked weeping.

Zhizhi ignored her and began to undress and take a bath; Hong Hehe was helping Zhizhi watch the wind and fetch water.

None of the female educated youths at the scene was willing to lend soap to Zheng Ping. Zheng Ping couldn't keep pestering her, so she called Hong Hehe, "Hehe, please help me get some water after hard work.

" It was pleasing to the eye, and she said: "Isn't there always been a rule here that two people take a bath together? Zhi Zhi and I are married, so you can fetch water by yourself!" Zheng Ping was stunned, "You, you

help Can I get a pot of water?"

"No!" Hong Hehe said seriously, "If I get a pot for you, what can you do for me later?"

Zheng Ping said, "I, we...we They are all brothers and sisters of the proletariat!"

Hong Hehe was stupid and couldn't talk back, and was choked by Zheng Ping's words for a long time.

Zhizhi rescued in time, "Hehe, bring me another basin of water!"

Hong Hehe left with Zhizhi's empty washbasin, and brought water in after a while, because he was afraid that he would be caught by Zheng Ping again if he stayed in the bathroom. Called, he walked out of the bathroom angrily.

Zheng Ping was also angry, but after several times of probing, she already knew that Zhi Zhi was not easy to mess with, so she changed her target, and said to the other two female educated youths in a crying voice: "Qingyu, can you help me get a basin of water?"

Li Qingyu didn't want to help her fetch water either, "You haven't taken off your clothes yet, why don't you find a companion?"

Zheng Ping wanted to cry, "Qingyu, don't you want to help me too? I ..."

Zhizhi couldn't stand it anymore, and said coldly: "We are all brothers and sisters of the proletariat, why don't you just stay here as a capitalist's daughter? It's really awkward to order others to work!" Li Qingyu

instantly Putting down her worries, "Yes, yes, yes! You and I are both proletarians, why do you order me?"

Zheng Ping bit her lip.

Zhizhi just washed her hair with soap yesterday, and her hair was dry and astringent, so she didn't dare to wash her hair again today, so she took a quick shower, and Hong Hehe came in to wash, and she went to fetch water for Hong Hehe. After Hong Hehe finished washing, the two went to the river to wash clothes together.

Li Qingyu and another female educated youth also hurried over, squatted with Zhizhi and the others by the river to wash their clothes, and returned to the educated youth office together.

I don't know how Zheng Ping, who didn't bring soap, took a bath. Anyway, she returned to the educated youth compound with a resentful face.

Aunt Tian has already prepared dinner. Zhizhi and the others brought back so many fine vegetables temporarily, thanks to the help of these three educated youths, she was able to finish the fine vegetables before dinner. At the moment, the three educated youths are still helping her with buckets and pots.

There was a special aroma of food in the air, and everyone was looking forward to it, whispering incessantly.

Zhizhi is also looking forward to it.

She has never eaten wild vegetables like velvet!

Soon

, everyone lined up and went to cook with their own lunch boxes.

Today's food for the educated youths is still a spoonful of bean porridge, a piece of bean cake, and plantain cores mixed with spicy chili sauce.

But there is a big pot of mixed veggies.

When it was Zhi Zhi's turn, Aunt Tian gave her a spoonful of bean porridge, motioned for her to take a bean cake by herself, and then gave her a big spoonful of cold vegetables.

The fine hair vegetables were put into the lunch box, only then did Zhizhi know that Aunt Tian should have dried up the dozen or so small fish that everyone had caught on the kang, and then beat them into fish floss with a mortar, and then used the fish floss to eat Chilled vegetables that have been blanched in cold sauce.

"Thank you, Aunt Tian!" Zhizhi said sincerely.

Aunt Tian smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, "You young people from the city are sweet-talking!"

Zhizhi sat on the side, eating with her friends. She couldn't wait to try a bite of the velvet. The wild vegetable had a very strong and special aroma. It was a bit sour when she first tasted it, but the taste was very tender. It is precisely because of the strong aroma of wild vegetables that the fishy smell of the river fish can be concealed; and the small fish dried on the kang has been beaten into fish floss with bones and meat, and still retains a crispy taste, which can be combined with smooth and tender wild vegetables to form a complex Taste, very delicious!

Zhi Zhi ate several mouthfuls of wild vegetables in a row, and praised: "With this fine hairy vegetable, I don't even want to eat bean porridge." The

educated youths sitting beside her laughed.

Chen Yuejin said with a smile: "I still have a rarity for the bean porridge. If you really can't finish it, Zhizhi, you can give it to me. Don't be afraid that I will dislike it or not. I can't ask for it!" Zhizhi smiled

, "I ate it for the first time yesterday, and I'm not used to it. Today I'm used to eating what I can eat..."

Suddenly, there was a commotion from Aunt Tian's side.

Everyone stared sideways.

It turned out that Zheng Ping and Aunt Tian had a quarrel.

Zheng Ping said angrily: "...Why can everyone else eat this dish, but we can't? Aunt Tian, you are too much, why are you making a difference? No, you have to give me an explanation today. Otherwise, I will definitely go to the leader to report the situation!"

Aunt Tian said bluntly: "Did you go to the barren hills to pick this dish? Or did you help me cook it? If you can tell me one or two things, I will not only give you one I’ll give you an extra spoon!”

Zheng Ping laughed angrily, “I didn’t go to the barren hills to pick wild vegetables? I didn’t cook for you...then I can’t eat this dish?” “That’s it

! "

Zheng Ping sneered and said, "Aunt Tian, do you know that you are engaging in class antagonisms?"

Aunt Tian got angry, knocked a long-handled spoon on the edge of the pot, and said aggressively: "Come on! You from the city Missy, please explain to me, a poor peasant whose ancestors have been poor peasants for twenty-eight generations... What is class antagonism!" When

talking about her family background, Zheng Ping suddenly froze.

She realized that she had made a mistake-the magic weapon of "class" can only be used on educated youths with the same background as her. To deal with a person like Aunt Tian who is already muddy, she has to play a different card.

So Zheng Ping said with tears in her eyes: "Aunt Tian, we are all revolutionary fighters. Isn't it natural for the able to work harder and take care of the weak?" Then

she turned to her fans, " Comrades, tell me, is this the truth?"

Several educated youths who surrounded Zheng Ping said in unison: "That's right, that's it!"

Zhi Zhi held the lunch box and remembered all Zheng Ping's fans. down.

Educated youth going to the countryside and the receiving unit can choose both ways. Zhi Zhi was only assigned to the first production brigade in Bishui Township by her superiors, but it is hard to say which group she will be assigned to.

But before that, Zhizhi also needs to choose a good companion.

After all, this era is different from future generations. Regardless of whether it is a state-owned enterprise, a central enterprise, a private enterprise or a foreign enterprise, as long as the position is higher or the ability is strong enough, they will have the opportunity to choose colleagues and subordinates. For example, firing or quitting.

But in this era, especially the educated youth, once they are assigned to the same location... there is a high probability that they cannot be changed.

Zhizhi doesn't want to have pig teammates.

That's why she didn't expose Zheng Ping face to face last night.

Because she needs people like Zheng Ping to expose her own problems, and at the same time to observe other people's reactions.

Facing Zheng Ping's challenge at this time, Aunt Tian was not to be outdone, she glared at Zheng Ping and said, "Who won't let you become a Chinese soldier? This bean porridge and bean cake are for you, a soldier!" Zheng

Ping Pointing to the fish floss mixed with fine vegetables, "What about this one?"

"This was brought back by the joint efforts of other Japanese fighters, and they indeed shared the fruits of their labor!" Aunt Tian squinted at Zheng Ping, and said, "... Why, when people tell you to go to work, you don’t go, sit here and talk about the moonlight in the star city in the countryside with gay men! Hmph, I only saw the ladies of the landlord’s family and you before liberation Same, doing nothing all day long and just waiting to eat. Comrade Zheng Ping, don’t you want to enslave us proletariat like the capitalists?”

—— These rhetoric were taught by Zhi Zhi to Aunt Tian in advance.

Then Aunt Tian followed Zheng Ping's example and asked all the educated youths, "Comrades, do you think this is true?

"

Zhizhi also answered loudly with everyone.

Their voices are much louder than those of Zheng Ping and the others.

Aunt Tian said coolly again: "Comrade Zheng Ping, if I were you, I would have more backbone, and I would not put my face on begging for food because of this stuttering. I will go to labor tomorrow, then My Aunt Tian has no reason not to let you eat, right?"

Zheng Ping was so angry that her eyes turned red.

Li Fen also felt that the boss was boring, pulled Zheng Ping's sleeves, and said in a low voice: "Zheng Ping, forget it, she won't give it if she doesn't give it... How ugly to say!" Zheng Ping didn't agree

. Way, angrily sitting aside holding bean porridge and bean cakes. But three meals a day are the same food, she has no appetite at all.

Zhizhi was already used to the bean porridge, so she chewed it slowly and finished it.

She put her empty bowl beside Hong Hehe, said "Hehe help me look", then ran to the bamboo shed, took out the two boxes of lard residue in her luggage, and opened the lunch box Cover, share the box of spicy lard residue with everyone.

Zheng Ping's eyes lit up all of a sudden!

— Lard dregs! Hey, this is a good thing!

She was looking forward to it...

But at this moment, the educated youth who had worked in the afternoon and the educated youth who had not worked had become two distinct groups.

Zhizhi held her own lunch box and invited the educated youths who had worked in the afternoon to eat lard residue.

She didn't come to Zheng Ping's side at all!

Every educated youth who got the spicy lard residue politely expressed their thanks to Zhizhi, and at the same time they consciously took up to two yuan. So much so that Zhi Zhi distributed it around, and in the end there were about three pieces of lard left in the lunch box.

Zhizhi distributed the last three pieces of spicy lard residue to Shen Shuhua, Chen Yuejin and Li Aiguo; then opened another lunch box, and divided one piece of garlic-flavored lard residue into Tao Rongye and one piece to Hong

He He... In the end, there were four or five yuan left, and she ate it by herself.

Hong Hehe quietly pressed his head to Zhizhi's side, and said in a low voice: "I have biscuits, I'll bring them to you later."

Zhizhi pretended not to hear, and said in a moderate voice: "Hehe, you Do you know why I invite you to eat lard residue?"

He He was stunned for a moment, then said: "Why?"

Zhizhi said: "My mother is afraid that I will not be acclimatized and unable to eat when I go to a strange place in the countryside. So I just I asked my sister-in-law to make this lard residue for me. Now that I have arrived, I really didn’t get used to it yesterday, but today I am relieved... In addition, if you don’t hurry up and eat this lard residue, it will be broken. It's a pity."

Everyone remained silent, eating the delicious spicy pork lard in silence.

He He said: "The taste hasn't changed yet, it's very fragrant!"

"It's one thing to be afraid of it going bad," Zhi Zhi said, "What makes me even more afraid is that if my lard residue goes bad, it's not taken out in my bag, and someone steals it and eats it in the middle of the night. I'm still having a stomachache... Then tell me, will this thief come to trouble me?"

Zheng Ping's face changed drastically!

She immediately understood - Bie Zhizhi wasn't talking in her sleep last night, she really saw her looking through Fang Lijuan's bag, and secretly eating the fried rice that Fang Lijuan hid in her bag!

Fang Lijuan also stared at Zhizhi with wide eyes in surprise.

She always felt that there was something in Zhizhi's words.

And...

Zhizhi knew that someone stole her fried rice last night?

Fang Lijuan later checked behind her back, and the ten yuan she had stored in the bag at the same time was not lost. Maybe it's because the fried rice is placed in a lunch box, and the lunch box is large and the target is obvious, so people secretly eat it?

She remembered again that when she woke up in the morning, she found that her fried rice had been stolen. At that time, she was very scared. She was afraid that the male educated youths who were sleeping outside had sneaked into the bamboo shed. It would be too scary!     So she observed the felt cloth around the bamboo shed for the first time, and found that the lower half of the felt cloth on all sides was suppressed with red bricks, which means that the male educated youths had never entered.     ——The one who stole her fried rice was the one who slept in the bamboo shed!     Now Bie Zhizhi said, what if the thief eats other people's food and ruins his stomach?     Fang Lijuan bit her lower lip.     In fact, after Zhi Zhi said such a sentence, everyone fell silent.     Hong Hehe shouted angrily: "Which thief has such a thick skin! There really is such a person! I'll treat her to farts, bah!"     Zheng Ping's face turned blue and red.     She didn't want to eat bean porridge and bean cakes, and she was even more depressed when Bie Zhizhi pointed at Sanghuai and scolded her.

Li Fen, who was sitting next to her, saw that she hadn't eaten for a long time, so she asked cautiously, "Zheng Ping, are you still unable to eat? You should eat a little. You haven't eaten since yesterday. What if you continue like this?" Come on!"

Zheng Ping also wanted to persuade herself to eat it.

But looking at all kinds of beans soaked in water with distinct grains and the pitch-black bean cakes, she really lost her appetite.

"I don't want to eat..." she said sickly.

Li Fen licked his lips, "Then if you don't want to eat..."

Zheng Ping said, "Then you can eat it!" Then she handed the lunch box to Li Fen.

Li Fen was overjoyed, "Okay!"

After everyone had dinner, Shen Shuhua and the others rushed to the river for a walk before it was completely dark, and sure enough they brought back a dozen small fishes the size of fingers. They seized the time to dig some more earthworms, used them as bait again, put them into the fishing gear, and

sank them into the small river. Then they rushed back with the dozen or so small fish and handed them over to Aunt Tian, begging her to help them deal with them. one time.

The dozen or so small fish said that there were not too many, and Aunt Tian readily agreed. After dealing with the small fish and cleaning the kitchen, she locked the door and left.

Zhi Zhi went to the train station to watch TV with other educated youths.

After watching the news broadcast, Zhizhi came back with everyone, and everyone lined up to go to the toilet to relieve their hands, and then got ready to sleep.

Because of Zhizhi's warning during dinner, all the female educated youths, without exception, stuffed all the soft bags containing money into their quilts or used them as pillows under their heads when they went to bed at night.

Zheng Ping was in a terrible embarrassment.

But in order not to attract attention and avoid suspicion, she still had to grit her teeth and stuff the small bundle into her quilt together with everyone.

At the same time, she couldn't help paying attention to Bie Zhizhi and Fang Lijuan.

——Bie Zhizhi is teaching Hong Hehe how to tie a knot with a rope, and how to tie a knot is different. In this way, as long as someone removes the rope tied to her luggage, she will be able to see...

Fang Lijuan looks careless.

Zheng Ping even heard Li Qingyu, who was sleeping next to Fang Lijuan, lower her voice and say, "Lijuan, why don't you clean up... Aren't you afraid of losing things in the middle of the night?"

Fang Lijuan said indifferently, "I don't have anything to throw away either. Yes! Hey, I'm asleep!"

Zheng Ping breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that only this silly elder sister doesn't understand anything, so stupid.

It was night, Zheng Ping fell asleep in a daze, and woke up again from being hungry.

She ate half of Fang Lijuan's box of fried rice secretly in the middle of the night last night, and she was really tired of it, so she could withstand the whole day's famine. But now...she was hungry again.

Reason told her that last night she was caught by Bie Zhizhi for stealing other people's food. This other Zhizhi is really insidious, at that time she only frightened her but didn't expose her, she didn't know what kind of intentions she kept to embarrass her!

So at this moment she should bear it...

I don't know how long it took, Zheng Ping was really hungry, her eyes were red, and her mind was full of food.

In the end, hunger completely overcame her reason.

She got up carefully, and then slowly moved towards Fang Lijuan bit by bit.

——Others put their burdens in the quilt, but Zheng Ping didn't dare to lift the quilt. Zheng Ping knew that Fang Lijuan was the only one who didn't put away her burden. In that bundle was a lunch box.

There is crispy and delicious fried rice in the lunch box.

Zheng Ping finally moved to Fang Lijuan's bag.

She lightly and impatiently touched the knotted part of the bundle, then groped to open the bundle... and found the tin lunch box smoothly.

This lunch box is heavy, and it feels very heavy as soon as you use it.

Zheng Ping was overjoyed, thinking that Fang Lijuan still had so much fried rice!

This time you can eat well!

Zheng Ping lifted the lid of the lunch box in the dark, and immediately smelled the aroma of fried rice...

She quickly reached out and grabbed a handful of fried rice and stuffed it into her mouth.

Ah -

shouldn't fried rice be dry and refreshing, one grain of rice and one grain of rice?

Why is it a little sticky?

Before it was too late, Zheng Ping had already stuffed the "fried rice" in her hand into her mouth.

She even took a few quick chews.

Um?

Why is there a foul and sticky smell coming from my mouth? ? ?

This, this...

is this?

Zheng Ping realized something, and her face turned pale.

Vomit—

her stomach began to churn, and she couldn't help retching.

==

But at dinner time, Fang Lijuan was angry and hated after hearing Bie Zhizhi's warning.

She knew who the thief was.

She has been here for four days, and she was fine for the first three days, but since Bie Zhizhi, Zheng Ping, and Tao Rongye came, her bag was stolen and her fried rice was stolen. Tao Rongye is a man, it is impossible to enter the bamboo shed, the only suspects left are Bie Zhizhi and Zheng Ping.

Recalling Bie Zhizhi and Zheng Ping's demeanor...

——Bie Zhizhi is flexible and charismatic. At dinner, she brought out spicy lard residue to share with everyone. Would a person with spicy lard residue steal her fried rice in the middle of the night?

——Zheng Ping loves to show her weakness in exchange for the sympathy of male educated youths. At the same time, she loves to be lazy and to take advantage of small things. She didn't eat a bite of rice yesterday, and she didn't eat a grain of rice today. Is she bigu cultivating immortals? I'm afraid it was because I was too hungry that I came to steal her fried rice!

Very good, Zheng Ping is the only suspect left.

Fang Lijuan decided to take revenge.

Zhizhi's warning words at dinner gave her infinite inspiration.

So behind her back, she secretly ate the leftover fried rice in the lunch box, but left two or three mouthfuls uneaten, then went to the river to grab a handful of wet soil, found some bird droppings, mixed a couple of handfuls, and put it away. In the lunch box.

Before going to bed at night, when Li Qingyu persuaded her to put away her valuables, Fang Lijuan deliberately loudly said that she didn't have any valuables, so she didn't need to collect them... After

everyone was asleep, Fang Lijuan didn't dare to sleep.

She held the flashlight in one hand, and pinched her arm with the other—as long as she felt sleepy, she would ruthlessly pinch the tender flesh on the inside of her arm.

In this way, Fang Lijuan persisted until -

she heard the sound of Xixi Suso.

coming! It really came again...

Fang Lijuan was very excited.

She tightly held the flashlight in her hand, and listened carefully to Zheng Ping slowly getting up from her bedding, and slowly crawling to her side. Then, she heard Zheng Ping's stomach growling with hunger, and Zheng Ping took out the lunch box from her bag, and... also ate the soil with bird droppings?

Fang Lijuan immediately sat up, turned on the flashlight and shone it on the thief who stole her food!

——Who is it if it’s not Zheng Ping? ? ?

Zheng Ping was taken aback by the sudden flashlight.

For a moment, she was so frightened that she even forgot to vomit.

But that's not the worst.

Ever since Zhizhi warned everyone at dinner, Fang Lijuan was not the only one who felt something was wrong, but several girls also felt a small drum in their hearts.

Not only Zheng Ping and Fang Lijuan couldn't sleep that night, but several other girls couldn't sleep either. They could clearly hear all the movements that Zheng Ping made! Even after Fang Lijuan sat up and turned on the flashlight, they couldn't help but sit up and turn on the flashlight at the same time.

At this moment, four or five flashlights lit up in the bamboo shed, almost illuminating the small bamboo shed like daylight.

Even the sleeping girls were woken up, rubbing their eyes and sitting up one by one, looking in surprise at Zheng Ping, who was shrouded in the light of several flashlights.

Zheng Ping was stunned, and opened her mouth stupidly.

There was still dirty dirt in her mouth that she hadn't had time to spit out.

Fang Lijuan yelled in shock—

"Zheng Ping! You, you actually...eat | shit?"

Chapter 33

The incident of Zheng Ping secretly eating | shit in the middle of the night can be called a classic scene.

However, Zhizhi worked all day during the day, and slept soundly after eating full at night. When Hong Hehe woke up Zhi Zhi, Zhi Zhi sat up and rubbed her eyes to look at Zheng Ping -

Zheng Ping was pinching her neck and retching.

Even the male educated youths sleeping outside were awakened.

They got up one by one, put on their clothes quickly, gathered around the bamboo shed, and raised their voices to ask what was the matter.

The girls told them loudly—

"It's okay, it's okay, someone is eating｜shit!"

"You can just call Zheng Ping's name! Otherwise, people will think who is eating｜shit!"

"My God, Zheng Ping actually Eating poop!"

"She said during the day that the bean porridge we ate was slops, but she didn't eat the bean porridge, so she came to eat this thing?" "

What kind of hobby is this!"

"Damn it stinks to me It's..."

The male educated youths were stunned.

—— Zheng Ping is eating｜shit?

No way, Zheng Ping is a delicate little girl, who can't even swallow bean porridge, why does she...

why don't eat serious human food, and go to eat—

shit?

They couldn't believe it.

Then——

Zheng Ping ran out crying because she couldn't bear the exclamation and ridicule of the girls in the bamboo shed.

So all the male educated youths saw Zheng Ping, whose face was covered in "shit" - because she cried and wiped her tears, she covered her face with mud and bird droppings from her hands.

But on this big night, when the whole yard is lit by a paper lantern, who can tell whether it's mud or shit on her face?

The male educated youths were dumbfounded.

Zheng Ping wailed and ran towards the river.

I don't know who shouted, "Follow up! Watch her and don't let her commit suicide..."

So the male educated youths chased after her with a coaxing sound.

Later, it is said that Zheng Ping jumped into the river in shame and anger.

The male educated youths were afraid that she would have feces on her body, so they didn't dare to rescue her rashly, so they stood on the shore one by one and watched...

Oh no, they were watching.

——The main reason is that the creek is too shallow, and the deepest reaches the calf of a person.

They weren't sure whether Zheng Ping couldn't think about it, or wanted to wash the shit off her body.

In short, in the end Zheng Ping climbed ashore by herself crying.

Zhi Zhi didn't bother to pay attention to Zheng Ping.

At dawn, she called Tao Rongye and Shen Shuhua over to discuss the matter of reforming the educated youth.

Jienan is too poor, and the conditions of the educated youth office at the railway station in the provincial capital are really poor.

Even female educated youths can only sleep in bamboo sheds exposed to the wind all around, and the bamboo sheds have only one roof to shelter them from the sun and rain, and the girls still sleep on the mud floor. It was even worse for the male educated youths, who slept directly in the open air. What if it rains? What if there are rats, snakes and insects crawling over?

But no one ever thought of renovating here.

Because everyone is a visitor.

As for Zhizhi's proposal -

Tao Rongye remained silent as usual.

Shen Shuhua raised the above-mentioned hesitation, "Maybe we are leaving tomorrow, and doing these jobs...isn't it useless work?"

Zhi Zhi said: "The Educated Youth Office clearly stated that we will send us away only if we have 40 people. Think about it, Tao Rongye and I came the day before yesterday. There were three people in our group.

Four people came one day... If only four or five people came every day, wouldn't they have to wait for a week?

"Besides, even if we start work today and leave tomorrow, at least we have already started, and the people who come later will continue to do the work. " Sooner or later there will be beds for everyone in this educated youth station. "Zhi Zhi said.

Tao Rongye stated directly, "I don't know anything, but I can help. "

Shen Shuhua stared at Zhizhi for a while, then nodded, "Zhizhi, what you said makes sense, then let's start working today!" Some people dig wild vegetables, some people cut wood to build houses! But—wait a minute, we don't have tools..." "

Don't worry about this, I'll go to the comrades in the Educated Youth Office later and ask them to help find a solution. Zhizhi said.

Zhizhi immediately went to the person in charge of the Educated Youth Office and told her what she thought.

The person in charge was surprised, but also very happy, and promised to find a way to get wood saws or something right away.

Zhizhi came back and told everyone to Building a house for male educated youths.

Most of the male educated youths are in favor of it. After all, it is related to their interests. No one wants to sleep in the mud and sand, right?

Among the more than 20 educated youths, there are really people who know how to make The people in the house—this educated youth is called Ding Shenghua. His father is an old engineer from the Engineering Department of the Artillery Corps. He grew up on the construction site when he was a child. Chen Yuejin

’s parents are forest guards, so he knows many trees and knows how to cut them. Cutting trees...

Li Aiguo's father was a carpenter before liberation, and he knew how to make all kinds of furniture. Under his father's teaching, he could also make furniture, but there must still be a lot of room for improvement in technology. Ding Shenghua will be planning now

. How to build this new shed. Chen Yuejin was in charge of selecting suitable trees on the barren hills and teaching everyone how to cut wood. Li Aiguo was in charge of leading everyone to plan the boards and build a large bunk so that everyone could sleep on the bed!

Ding Shenghua began to write, draw, and measure dimensions; Chen Yuejin was teaching everyone the different characteristics of various trees; Li Aiguo took all the twigs and drew the pattern of Datongpu on the sand... Zhizhi simply took out a small

book , One by one, recorded the names and specialties of the educated youths, and then mobilized the female educated youths to find wild vegetables and catch small fish... Soon, the person in charge of the educated youth

office borrowed several saws, axes, hatchets, shovels, Hoes, ropes, etc.

The male and female educated youths began to act separately.

Because of the live example of "whoever works, who enjoys the fruits of labor" came yesterday, all the educated youths were mobilized today.

Even Zheng Ping coyly followed everyone to pick wild vegetables.

There is great power in numbers.

Although there are some individuals who touch fish...

but soon there is a harvest.

Under Chen Yuejin's command, the male educated youths cut down a few trees together, and dragged them back to the educated youth office together; Started the base hole.

After several trees of similar size were dragged back, Ding Shenghua led people to trim the trees and branches, measure the size and then dig the slots... Soon,

several pillars were placed.

Chen Yuejin has been leading people to cut wood in the barren mountains and forests, and the male educated youths dragged one tree after another back to the educated youth office...

Li Aiguo led people to deal with these trees in the educated youth office.

After one morning, the framework of the new shed was basically formed.

The female educated youths are not to be outdone.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhizhi asked Hong Hehe to bring back a batch of wild vegetables first, and asked Aunt Tian to help cook them

so that they could add something to everyone's lunch.

When Aunt Tian beat the gong to call for everyone to come back for lunch, Zhizhi and the others picked a large amount of wild vegetables.

Seeing young people working hard, Aunt Tian is also very good at cooking.

In addition, Zhizhi told her the most firewood-saving method to stew bean porridge the day before—soak the beans in water for half a day in advance to ensure that the beans can be stewed quickly. The next step is the most important step: after cooking breakfast, keep the firewood on. Boil the beans that have been soaked in water all night, then turn off the heat, and then keep the pot open to keep the bean porridge heated.

The educated youth's breakfast is served on time at seven o'clock.

Aunt Tian followed what Zhi Zhi said, and instead of turning off the stove after finishing breakfast, she vacated the pot and started cooking the beans that had been soaking overnight. Firewood, then cover the pot and simmer from seven o'clock to eleven o'clock at noon.

When making lunch, she only needs to light the firewood and cook the bean porridge in the pot for about ten minutes, and all kinds of beans will be boiled and blossomed!

The bean porridge cooked in this way is soft and thick and does not require firewood, but it is a bit labor-intensive. It doesn't matter, Aunt Tian is a diligent person and doesn't care about spending a little effort. She was quite happy, because this is indeed a useful little trick.

Mixed bean porridge with soft white sugar is a delicious eight-treasure porridge!

But in this day and age, sugar is a luxury.

So Zhi Zhi asked Aunt Tian to put salt in the bean porridge, and then put a little bit of soybean oil.

This became a salty bean porridge.

The food reserves in the educated youth station are miscellaneous beans, some flour, and a little rice.

Because there are the most beans, Aunt Tian always makes rice porridge and bean cakes for everyone.

Zhi Zhi discussed the dishes with Aunt Tian.

For the first batch of wild vegetables brought back by the female educated youths in the morning, Zhizhi suggested that Aunt Tian use them to make wild vegetable pancakes—mix 30% flour with 70% wild vegetables, knead them into pancakes and bake them on the grill. Of course, the wild vegetables should be blanched first.

Then Zhizhi arranged for two female educated youths to shovel the big bag of beans in the kitchen and pick them up with a dustpan.

It is mainly to pick out the soybeans, red beans and mung beans in the miscellaneous beans.

Soybeans can be used to make jelly; red beans and flour can be used to make red bean cakes, and the taste will be much better; mung beans are the softest and easiest to cook and blossom, making mung bean soup is much more delicious than miscellaneous bean porridge... And,

gardenia Also made some miscellaneous bean sprouts with miscellaneous beans.

Of course, these are all for the sake of future food.

The lunch at noon today is different from usual - soft and rotten salty bean porridge paired with wild vegetable pancakes that are crispy on the outside but soft on the inside. It is very delicious!

But the educated youths are still thinking about the small fish caught in the small river...

Aunt Tian smiled and said while sharing the porridge for the educated youths: "Hey, just a little dried fish is worth thinking about! Let me tell you the truth. Say, that’s just a little bit, you can get two or three sticks per person, that’s enough to eat! Then go catch some more, and when I have enough portions, I will fry them in a big pot with chili and perilla. Make sure it's crispy and crispy, let you eat your fill!"

Everyone nodded desperately, and everyone couldn't help swallowing desperately.

After lunch, Zhi Zhi discussed with Ding Shenghua, Chen Yuejin, and Li Aiguo, adjusted the labor plan, and then called everyone to go to the barren hills to cut a lot of thatch and come back.

Thatch can be used to weave mats and make curtains for the bamboo sheds of the female educated youths. They are rolled up during the day and hung down when they sleep at night, which is much better than the messy felt cloth and sheets they hang now.

In addition, they have to use thatch as

the roof of the new shed first. In this case, the male educated youths are expected to sleep in the new sheds today.

There is great power in numbers.

Everyone worked together to build a house, fell trees, cut thatch, and weave straw mats... At sunset, the

male educated youths had a thatched roof with only the foundation and pillars. Very simple sheds, the bamboo sheds of the female educated youths have four crooked soft "walls"...

When Zhizhi announced that today's labor would end here and that it would continue tomorrow, the educated youths and the others excitedly ran around the new shed to watch.

They are a group of teenagers who are only 17 or 18 years old. They have never done such heavy and rough work, and they have never stood alone like they are now. They never even knew that they could rely on their own hands to experience it in such a short time. sense of success.

Everyone looked around at the newly built shed, and then you looked at me, and I looked at you... A few sensual girls even had red eye circles with excitement.

Zhi Zhi happily called the person in charge of the Educated Youth Office to show him the results of everyone's hard work all day.

The person in charge was shocked.

——These are the children who spent a day tossing them out?

The person in charge was also very happy, "... Well done, comrades! You must be rewarded! How about this, I will find a way to help you find some rice tomorrow, and when you build this house, everyone will be full to eat How about a meal?"

The educated youths were overjoyed, and said vehemently that the wooden roof must be built tomorrow, and Datong shops will be built in the two houses.

Aunt Tian kept calling everyone to go over for dinner.

The food for dinner is also very good. It is mung bean porridge cooked with mung beans picked by two female educated youths Teyi in the morning, plus a refreshing plantain core without chili, and a large pot of fried wild vegetables.

It was the first time for Zhi Zhi to taste the core of a banana tree, and it was quite delicious.

We had been busy all day, and we were too tired. We didn't want to go to the train station to watch TV, so we went to the river to take a bath together. Of course, everyone asked the person in charge of the Educated Youth Office to get two candles, put them in a high place in the bathroom, took a shower and changed clothes, and went back to sleep.

It wasn't until before going to bed that Zhizhi suddenly remembered something, "Hehe, it seems that there are no newcomers here today?"

Then everyone began to chatter -

"That's right, why are there no newcomers here today?"

"Fortunately, we started building a house today. It looks like we may have to wait another week!" "

If we can build a big bed tomorrow, we won't have to sleep underground! Let me tell you, the height of the underground is low." It’s so unfair that I can’t sleep well...”

“It would be nice if I can eat better here for a few days, who knows where I’ll be sent to somewhere in the mountains!” “

Go to sleep and let’s get up early tomorrow to see Fishing device, change the bait more frequently, and see if you can catch more small fish... I want to eat meat, and I want to eat small dried fish!" The

girls laughed and said a lot, and fell into a deep sleep.

Waking up the next day, many people feel sore from the overloaded work of the previous day.

But in order to be able to sleep more comfortably, to be able to eat rice... everyone is very motivated!

So everyone worked hard.

After a whole morning, everyone pulled the progress to... The roof of the new house has been built, and the straw mats on the four walls have been woven. The frames of the Datong bunks in the two dormitories have already been laid, and the planks are waiting to be planed to be used as bed boards.

Today's lunch is also very worthy of everyone's hard work.

Yesterday, the two female educated youths

made soybean jelly from the soybeans they picked out!

Of course, because the jelly was not enough, Aunt Tian also cooked a pot of bean porridge.

Drink soft and glutinous bean porridge with hot and sour jelly, and steamed wild vegetables with flour!

The educated youths ate happily.

This morning, three new educated youths joined the educated youth station. After lunch, even the new educated youths joined the high-intensity labor together.

That night, the female educated youths slept in Datong bunk.

——We are a Datong shop built according to the scale of the educated youth station. Since there are only one group when there are forty people, then the beds are made in half and half for men and women.

Datong bunk is ten people per bunk, two in the male dormitory and two in the female dormitory.

But planing wood boards is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job. After a whole afternoon, everyone only built a big bunk. Thinking that girls are always more expensive than boys, so I put them in the girls' dormitory.

Thirteen girls were squeezed into a bunk for ten people, and it was difficult to even turn over. But everyone was joking and joking, very happy.

After another day, everyone worked hard to complete the remaining three Chase shops!

You're done!

The person in charge of the Educated Youth Office also kept his promise and found a way to get half a bag of rice... Of course, in fact, he also exchanged wild vegetables and some beans picked by the educated youths.

As a result, on the night when the shed and the Datong shop were built, it rained heavily!

Everyone started chattering, saying that luckily Zhizhi took them to build a new shed and a Datong shop, otherwise what would everyone do if it rained today. Especially the male educated youths, everyone is very lucky. If Zhizhi hadn't taken the lead in improving the living environment, I'm afraid they would have been drowned.

In rainy days, you don't have to worry about getting wet, and you don't have to worry about not being full.

——I picked a lot of wild vegetables a few days ago, and some of them were dried by Aunt Tian before they could be eaten, and then the rice brought back by the person in charge, and the small dried fish brought back by everyone a few days ago, Aunt Tian Also collected a big basket.

It rained continuously for three days, and everyone couldn't go out, so they sat in the dormitory and picked beans.

Now that the food is ready, Aunt Tian cooks a meal of white rice for everyone at lunch time. The dishes are fried dried fish with chili and perilla, and a bucket of wild vegetable soup.

This food is simply amazing!

The educated youths screamed with joy.

Zhizhi was also very happy.

She thought more than once, this is really a good start, bit by bit to adapt to this era, to adapt to this environment bit by bit...

Now she has stayed in the educated youth station for five or six days, and has a preliminary understanding of the friends in the same period.

Now she is very confident.

After eating a feast full of meat, vegetables and white rice, Zhizhi went to bed and took a nap.

After waking up, she found that the rain had stopped, a red sun was floating on the white clouds in the clear sky, and the air was moist and fresh.

Hong Hehe asked Zhizhi to pick wild fruits near the barren hills to eat.

Zhizhi didn't want to go.

——The barren hills after the rain, the ground is wet. Wear dry and clean shoes, and when you come back, your feet will be muddy, and you may get wet from weeds.

But Hong Hehe was very greedy.

——There is a wild tea forest growing on the barren mountain. It is said that after the rain, tea brewed fruit will grow, which is sweet and delicious. And I don't know if it will rain in this weather, even if you don't pick tea and fruit, it's good to go out to get some fresh air! This has been held in the dormitory for three days!

Since Zhizhi refused to go, Hong Hehe had no choice but to ask Li Qingyu and two other

female educated youths to pick tea and make fruits together.

Zhi Zhi went to help pick the miscellaneous beans.

Picking miscellaneous beans does not seem tiring, but it is actually a test of patience and physical strength.

After an hour passed, Zhizhi felt that her brain was dull, her neck was sore and her shoulders were tired, so she stood up and stretched her muscles.

"Zhizhi! Farewell, Comrade Zhizhi, please, can you come here for a while?" A male educated youth called her not far away.

Zhizhi didn't know why, so she walked over.

The young man was standing in the corner waiting for her, his face flushed with embarrassment. Seeing the beautiful girl approaching him, he was so nervous that he couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

In the end, he lowered his head, not daring to look at Zhizhi, and finally plucked up the courage to close his eyes and said, "Farewell to Comrade Zhizhi, I, I, I, I... I really like you, you, you are smart and brave, you... You are very beautiful, me, me, me... can I..." the young man stammered.

Zhi Zhi was taken aback for a moment, then understood.

She smiled, gave a random reason, and said gently and seriously: "I'm sorry, I already have someone I like." The

young man let out an "ah" and lowered his head in disappointment.

However, what Zhizhi and the young man didn't know was that the corner where they were standing was the police station on the other side of the wall.

At this moment, Li Shu had just completed his mission and was about to return to Beijing and transfer to the train in the provincial capital of Jienan Province. It is said that several days of torrential rain caused most of the trains in front to stop running, so Li Shu and his comrades came to the police station to live temporarily with a letter of introduction.

The layout of the railway station police station is the same as that of the Educated Youth Office next door, which is also the front shop and the backyard.

In the front is the office hall, and in the back is the Datongpu dormitory for the police.

There have been two heavy rains in the past two days, and mud and weeds have blocked a ditch in the backyard of the police station.

Several policemen came to repair it, but suddenly someone came to report that there was a fight in the waiting hall of the train station...so the police rushed to check the situation. Li Shu and his comrades came to help, but he didn't expect to hear someone say—

"Bie Zhizhi comrade, I like you..."

Li Shu:? ? ?

Is it the Bie Zhizhi he was thinking of?

Chapter 34

Li Shu was both surprised and delighted.

Ever since the abandoned warehouse left, he has been dreaming.

She dreamed that Bie Zhizhi was wearing a well-tailored cheongsam, fully outlining her exquisite figure. She was wearing a lazy bun and turned her face sideways, revealing her delicate chin and long, snow-white neck.

Wearing high heels, she walked forward at a leisurely pace, her gait was graceful and graceful, and she gradually drifted away.

It made him haunted by dreams.

He called her name countless times in his dreams...

she would stop, then tilt her head slightly so that he could see half of her face, chuckled and went away on her own.

Li Shu was stunned.

Hearing the words "Bie Zhizhi" again at this moment made him almost doubt whether he was trapped in a dream.

——There are many girls named Zhizhi, and there are also many girls named Zhizhi, but the name Zhizhi has a different surname...it's not so easy to meet.

So...

is it really her?

Why is she here?

Then Li Shu heard a chuckle, that slightly mischievous and charming laugh, it was the Meiyin that reappeared in his dreams repeatedly, making his heart itch but he couldn't catch or hold it.

Immediately afterwards, a lazy and charming voice sounded, "I'm sorry, I already have someone I like!"

Li Shu's heart skipped a beat.

He was suddenly very excited!

--is her! That's her! It's really her!

Why is she here?

Li Shu didn't care too much, he threw down his hoe and prepared to climb over the wall.

But the wall is not high, and there is no way to climb over it with bare hands.

So he looked left and right, took a few steps back, and was about to take a few steps before propping up the low wall——

"Li Shu!"

Someone stood at the door of the front yard calling him.

Li Shu was taken aback.

He turned his head and saw his comrade with a nervous face.

--What happened?

The comrade-in-arms gestured to him, which meant: Come quickly! There is an emergency!

Li Shu looked at the low wall.

There is only a wall between Zhizhi and him... Last time he didn't have time to tell her that he was just Nianzhi, a good friend of her third brother, and a bamboo horse who grew up with her.

Now finally had the opportunity to meet, and the result—

"Li Shu!!!"

The comrade-in-arms urged him anxiously again.

Li Shu had no choice but to make up his mind, gritted his teeth and ran towards his comrades.

At this time, on the other side of the wall, after Zhi Zhi rejected the young man's confession, he suddenly heard someone call "Pear Tree"?

pear tree? ? ?

Is it the kind of pear tree that grows pears?

Zhi Zhi suddenly remembered that when he was in the abandoned warehouse, there was a young soldier named Li Shu...he was handsome and had a strong aura, but...he had a bad personality.

Next, the man called out "Pear Tree" again?

Now Zizhizhi can be sure that there is really someone named Lishu.

I just don't know if this Lishu is the one she's seen before...the warrior Lishu who is so serious that he treats her like her own child.

Zhizhi suddenly smiled and narrowed her eyes.

——If that soldier was really called Li Shu, wouldn't his older brother be called Tao Shu and his younger brother Xing Shu?

At this time, Aunt Tian rushed out from the kitchen, and when she saw Zhizhi, she said anxiously: "Zhizhi, go up to the back mountain...Look, this is Lijuan

The wild vegetables they picked... This one is velvet, which is edible, but this kind is not, it looks very similar to velvet but is poisonous, now, take this and teach them to identify it, Don't make a mistake! "

Zhizhi shivered.

It was a very important matter, and she didn't care whether she would get her shoes dirty or not, so she quickly took the poisonous weeds that Aunt Tian handed over, and hurried to the back mountain.

Li Shu didn't know Zhizhi's heart The ridicule of his name.

To his great regret, the soldiers called him over to tell him that the superior was very anxious to let them go back and return. Since the train stopped due to the heavy rain, the superior asked the brother troops to borrow a jeep , let them return to the team immediately.

At this moment, the jeep was parked at the gate of the police station.

Li Shu subconsciously felt that the recognition with Zhi Zhi could not be postponed any longer.

——Just the sentence he heard just now, it was something else The man is confessing his love to her!

Just thinking about it, Li Shu was suddenly stunned.

Not only did he hear the young man confessing his love to Zhi Zhi, but he also heard Zhi Zhi saying...she already has someone she likes

??? Forgive me for opening my mouth so stupidly.

He couldn't hold back even more, and said to his comrades: "Xiao Xiao, help me pack my luggage, I'll be right back! After finishing speaking, he ran away.

Xiao Xiao was anxious, "Hey, where are you going?" The driver outside said that we only have five minutes to leave! "

"I'll definitely be back in five minutes! " Li

Shu quickly ran out of the police station, and then went to the Educated Youth Office next door.

As soon as he rushed into the Educated Youth Office, he yelled, "Zhi Zhi! Don't be Zhizhi! "

The educated youths in the yard were all startled.

Zheng Ping saw the handsome and handsome Li Shu rushing in, calling Bie Zhizhi's name?

She was a little curious, and also had a good impression of Li Shu, so she lowered her voice and asked cautiously, "May I ask you... er, what do you want to do with Bie Zhizhi? You can tell me... um, with I said it was the same."

When Li Shu heard this, he was overjoyed!

——Zhizhi is really here? !

However, he thought Zheng Ping was weird, so he glanced at Zheng Ping, ignored her, and turned to another female educated youth, "Hello, comrade, may I ask—is Zhizhi here?" the female educated youth

replied He said: "Zhizhi has gone to the back mountain now, if you want to find her, you can wait here for a while."

Back mountain?

The back mountain here is huge...

Li Shu is a little anxious.

The sound of a jeep honking its horn sounded outside, very hurriedly.     Li Shu had no choice but to say to the female educated youth: "Comrade, please say goodbye to

Zhizhi——Li Shu is Li Nianzhi, and I will come to her!

"     Li Shu had no choice but to let out a long sigh, and ran out of the educated youth station.     Sure enough, the jeep had already arrived at the gate of the Educated Youth Station, and it was already driving.     The comrade-in-arms sat on the back of the car and called him anxiously, "Hurry up! Get in the car!"     Li Shu quickly jumped into the car...     Almost as soon as he got into the car, the jeep accelerated and sped away.     Sitting in the back of the car, Li Shu turned his head to look at the Educated Youth Station, full of doubts in his heart: This is the Educated Youth Office of the provincial capital railway station, only urban educated youths who go to the countryside to jump in the queue come here for transit, why is Zhizhi here? Could it be that she went to the countryside to jump in line? But Zhizhi has always been fragile and delicate, why is her family willing to let her go to the countryside?     Li     Shu made up his mind that after he went back to report on his work, he had to check Zhizhi's situation.

He was torn in his heart—whether Zhi Zhi really had someone he liked, or was she just making up random excuses to refuse to confess.

Preferably the latter.

Otherwise—

how else?

Li Shu fell into a deep entanglement.

However, what he didn't expect was that the words he asked the female educated youth to convey to Zhizhi, because the car horn was too loud, the female educated youth did not hear what he said clearly.

When Zhizhi ran to find other girls, taught them not to pick the poisonous weeds, and picked a lot of wild vegetables together with the girls and came back—the female educated youth quickly pulled Zhizhi aside and     said "Zhi Zhi, a man came to you in the afternoon, and he told me to tell you that... there is a roller at your uncle's place, and he will come to you to ask for it." Huh     ? ? ?     Zhi Zhi was at a loss.     ——She does have two uncles, Bie Fengjun has four brothers, and he has two. But her two uncles are far away in their hometown, not here! Besides, what happened to her uncle's roller?     The female educated youth was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, Zhi Zhi, I, I... At that time, there was a car honking desperately outside, I couldn't hear it clearly, but I remember it was almost like that... I'm sorry, Zhizhi. Seeing the guilty look of the female educated youth ,     Zhizhi smiled, "It's okay, I'm not in my hometown, and I never go out, how could someone come to me, maybe that person recognized the wrong person or ...Just talking nonsense.”     ==     But it was said that Li Shu sat in the jeep of his brother’s army, tossing and turning to avoid the road that was flooded due to the heavy rain, and it took three or four days to return to Kyoto.     After reporting to the superior and explaining the task, the superior patted him on the shoulder and said, "Li Shu, I have something to tell you... this matter may have caused a bad influence, you You have to be mentally prepared."

Li Shu looked at his superior quietly.

The superior sighed, "Do you know about Xianshan's matter?"

Li Shu knew about Xianshan's matter.

——The company he is in is a special operation team, and he and his comrades are often sent out to perform special tasks. When Xianshan heard about a serial murder case, the police asked the company for help, hoping to send a few fighters there. Originally, the superior arranged for Li Shu to deal with this matter, even Li Shu was already on his way to Xianshan. But later Mo'an's case required a top-notch sniper, so the superior temporarily diverted Li Shu to Mo'an, and then sent other comrades to Xianshan for support.

"What happened to Xianshan's case?" Li Shu asked.

The superior's eyes turned red immediately, "Li Shu, he... sacrificed."

They were all soldiers brought out by his relatives, who had fought with him for so many years, and each of them was his brother and his son. Now that one has been sacrificed, it really hurts him like a heartbreak.

Li Shu's eyes widened in shock.

"What did you say? Li counted him, he died?" Li Shu asked in disbelief.

Li Shu is also a pacesetter in the company's martial arts competition, with good skills and good marksmanship. Li Shu even had a pretty good relationship with him. They usually made mistakes together and were punished together. During weekend breaks, they went together to steal watermelon from the vegetable patch of the superior's house.

Why...

Li Shu felt extremely uncomfortable.

He couldn't help thinking: If he was the one who went to Xianshan, wouldn't Li Shu not have sacrificed?

As soon as this idea came to mind, Li Shu denied it - Li Shu's

skill, marksmanship, and adaptability were completely inferior to him. If even Li Shu was sacrificed, it proves... If he was the one who went to Xianshan to handle this case, there was a high chance that something bad would happen.

Li Shu was heartbroken, thinking that he must take good care of Li Shu's family.

The superior also remained silent for a long time before saying: "I will tell you about Li Shu in the future... There is one more important matter that concerns you right now, and that is... Li Shengli in our company, that I am illiterate! Hey, I was so pissed off! Xianshan reported back that Li Shu had died... Li Shengli didn't check it, so he just reported your name."

Li Shu was stunned again, " What, you gave me my name?"

The superior pinched his eyebrows fiercely, and said, "...Yes, Li Shengli thought you were the one who died, so he sent a telegram to your family right away." "Of course

it is. I'm also to blame for the matter. You were originally assigned to go to Xianshan, but I transferred you to Mo'an halfway and let Li Shu go to Xianshan... So Xianshan called back and said that Li Shu had died. At that time, Li Shengli subconsciously thought it was you, and he felt uncomfortable, and before reporting to me, he sent a telegram directly to your home..." The superior said helplessly.

"Ah?" Li Shu was dumbfounded.

The superior said: "I have already punished Li Shengli, but this matter is so troublesome...Li Shu, you pack up your things now, I will give you half a day off, and I will give you a few snack tickets, and you can go to the supply and marketing cooperative outside Buy some local products or something, I will go to your house with you, I have to explain this misunderstanding to your parents in person. Oh, your parents must be so sad!" In this way, Li Shu brought his superiors

back a trip home.

When Li Shu's mother, Jiang Shumin, heard the sad news of the sacrifice of her only son, she collapsed. Suddenly, the son came back alive, and brought his superior to the house to explain the oolong...

This sudden joy and sorrow almost drove Jiang Shumin crazy!

Li Shu stayed with his mother day and night for several days before slowly bringing Jiang Shumin back to his senses. Jiang Shumin couldn't stand the gap, she cried and even threatened to die, insisting on Li Shu's demobilization and job change.

Li Shu still likes his military uniform very much.

He turned to his father for support.

Finally, under my father's persuasion, my mother finally retreated: If you still want to wear this military uniform, I won't stop you, but you can no longer continue to live a life of blood licking in the special forces. You can transfer to another unit, go to the frontier, or just be an ordinary infantry or something... Anyway, you can no longer stay in the special forces!

Li Shu was very reluctant to give up the company and superiors who had trained him for several years, and wanted to fight for it again.

But this time even the father stood by the mother, and talked to him several times: Son, the more capable you are, the older your mother and I will be. I'm very glad that this time I had an oolong... Haven't you ever thought that if you make a mistake, I can still bear it, and how many blows your mother can suffer? Besides, as long as you wear the military uniform, no matter where or what you do, you are serving the people.

Li Shu was silent.

He thought about it for three days without sleep, and finally decided to follow his parents' advice and report to his superiors.

Although the superior was reluctant, he fully respected his opinion and agreed to let him be transferred to a

border post near Futa Town, Nanling Island, Lin City, Jienan Province as a platoon leader.

Chapter 35

Due to frequent torrential rains, the railway line was forced to be suspended. In the next few days, no train arrived at the provincial station, and of course no educated youth arrived.

So Zhi Zhi and her friends stayed here for about a week, and then they waited for other educated youths to arrive one after another, making up forty people.

Before Zhi Zhi and the others left the Educated Youth Office of the Provincial Station, the dormitory of the Educated Youth Office had become decent, and the educated youth who came later also followed the practice of Zhi Zhi and the others to continue to live temporarily and build the Provincial Educated Youth Office. It's getting better and better.

Zhizhi took the "special car" with her friends - the Educated Youth Office entrusted the nearby troops to transport the supplies, and took the educated youths to Nanling Island by the way.

Nanling Island is more than 300 kilometers away from the provincial capital.

The soldiers drove the military transport vehicle to a flying effect.

Zhi Zhi and the others were divided into four groups, each sitting in the body of four military vehicles, in addition to them, they were also pulling various supplies in the body of most of the vehicle.

In this day and age, the road conditions are very poor.

Cement roads are only found in the city, and once you leave the city, the roads are full of gravel and potholes.

Not only was it bumpy, but the car in front also raised dust all over the sky, which made people even breathe with a muddy smell.

From 6 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I took a few breaks in the middle to let the educated youths get off the car to solve their personal problems and eat some dry food...

really running all the way.

When the educated youths were sent to the Nanling Island Educated Youth Office by the soldiers at four o'clock, everyone was unkempt and disheveled.

Zhi Zhi was not much better either.

Motion sickness dizzy to dark.

Forty educated youths were led by the educated youth office to live in temporary dormitories.

The environment here is relatively good—the high school was suspended in 1966, and the Educated Youth Office was set up in a high school campus. There was no bed, so everyone took out their own bedding to sleep on the floor, but it was much better than the Educated Youth Office at the railway station in the provincial capital.

Zhizhi didn't even want to eat, so she went to take a bath with Hong Hehe, got a cup of hot water and drank it, and fell asleep when they returned to the dormitory.

It was only the next day that Zhi Zhi came back, and took Hong Hehe around the Educated Youth Station, especially to show the "Educated Youth Registration Instructions" at the entrance of the Educated Youth Station's office.

It turns out that the principle of distribution of educated youth is triple voluntary.

First, voluntarily obey the distribution of the large group.

The meaning is - whichever unit (production team) wants you, you have to go.

Second, voluntarily form small groups.

It means—you can form a group by yourself, a group of three or five people. If the unit is willing to accept you, then the two-way choice is successful.

Third, voluntarily obey the arrangement.

The meaning is——if no unit wants you, then obey the arrangement of the Educated Youth Office, and you can go wherever it asks you to go.

The situation of the twelve production brigades in Nanling Island is posted next to it.

Zhizhi ran back to the dormitory to get a pen and paper, and then ran back to carefully compare the specific conditions of the twelve production teams, carefully remembering the key points.

Hong Hehe asked puzzledly: "Zhi Zhi, why are you copying this?"

Zhi Zhi said, "Isn't it written... Educated youths who come to register at this station need to submit an application for jumping in the queue within three days, and no more than five days." The application will be randomly arranged by the Educated Youth Office—"

Then she turned to look at Hong Hehe, "If you don't know the situation of these twelve production brigades, how would you choose?"

Hong Hehe opened his eyes wide,

"I, I... I will follow you to choose! Which one do you choose? I will choose... Zhi Zhi, doesn't it say that we educated youths can form groups freely? You and I must be in the same group, right?" "

Look The situation!" Zhizhi said.

Hong Hehe was stunned.

It took her a while to recover, and she stomped her feet angrily, "Don't Zhizhi! Do you have the second best person out there besides me?"

Zhizhi was also stunned.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Zhizhi scolded, "What I mean is, my choice may not be correct, and it may not be suitable for you, so you'd better do your own research..." "Following you is definitely right

! "Hong Hehe said with certainty.

Zhi Zhi said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "That's not necessarily true, maybe I will choose one of the poorest production teams and ask to go to the most remote place?"

Hong Hehe asked curiously: "Then why did you choose this way ?" What about it?"

Zhizhi said seriously, "Because I want to prove my worth! I want to make the poorest place into the richest, most comfortable and most beautiful place!" Hong Hehe hesitated for a while, then asked in a low

voice Said: "Zhi Zhi, don't you...don't want to go home?"

"In the future, when I have family leave, I will go back to see my parents." Zhi Zhi smiled.

Hong Hehe was silent.

"But, I still want to go back," Hong Hehe said softly, "My parents, my brother, my aunt and my uncle are all trying to get me to go back... Zhizhi, tell me, will this policy change in the future? ?"

Zhizhi smiled, "I don't know."

Hong Hehe sighed.

Zhi Zhi sat at the gate of the Educated Youth Office and recorded all the basic conditions of the twelve production teams.

Soon, other educated youths also rushed over.

Everyone is talking about it.

Shen Shuhua ran over and asked Zhi Zhi, "Zhi Zhi, have you chosen a place to jump in line?"

Zhi Zhi shook her head.

Shen Shuhua said again, "Let's form a team, I'll join your team!"

——When he was in the provincial capital, he could tell that Zhizhi was not physically strong, but she was very smart and had a strong appeal. Teaming up with smart people is always better than teaming up with stupid people.

When Shen Shuhua said this, many educated youths followed suit:

"Yes, Zhizhi, you can form

a team!" "Zhizhi, I want to be on your team!"

"Zhizhi, choose me..."

"Zhizhi, where are you going to join the team ?" Where am I going too..."

Zhizhi smiled.

She looked sideways and found that the same group of forty educated youths from the provincial capital had arrived in sevens and eighties.

After thinking about it, she brought everyone under the big banyan tree on the playground and said,

"Brothers and sisters, first of all, I would like to thank you for your trust... To tell you the truth, I am indeed choosing a place to jump in the queue. So I will tell you the conditions of my selection. If there are like-minded people with me, then I welcome you. From now on, you and I will be half-brothers and sisters! Because we may spend ten or twenty years together day and night time..."

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that something was wrong.

——To be honest, it means "a vast world, great achievements", "educated youths go to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants"...the slogan is so shouted, but no educated youth is really willing to leave their hometown and work alone in other places .

Who doesn't look forward to going back sooner?

But Bie Zhizhi said that in the next ten, twenty years...will they get along day and night?

Who can bear this!

Zhizhi continued: "...What's more, my choice may be different from others. I prefer to choose an uninhabited desert island, and then use my own hands to make this desert island... take ten years, Turn decay into magic!"

There was silence all around.

Everyone looked at her, hesitating to speak.

I don't know who sighed softly, "Hey, you...you're so naive!"

Zhizhi smiled and concluded, "In short, I have already told everyone my selection criteria, if anyone is willing to share with me Team formation, I warmly welcome you! Well, I won’t waste your time, see you later!”

As she spoke, she returned to the gate of the Educated Youth Office with a small notebook, and continued to extract the details of the twelve production teams.

After finishing the notes, Zhi Zhi left the Educated Youth Office and took a walk nearby.

Nanling is an archipelago. The largest main island is called Nanling. It has a huge area and there are seven production teams stationed there. In addition, there are two larger islands, Dongling and Xiling, where a production team is stationed respectively. The others are relatively small islands, where one production team manages three, four, or five small islands...

Needless to say, the richest production team here is of course the first brigade stationed on the main island.

A large group covers a large area, with fertile farmland along the sea and the largest population. Zhizhi guessed that the large group should not welcome educated youths to join.

——After all, there are so many people, but the jobs are fixed. Adding one more person means sharing an extra share of food. It is normal for the original people to have resistance.

The overall situation of Tangling and Xiling Islands is not as good as that of Nanling Islands. But the advantage is that there are fewer people and more land. Smart people should join the East and West Islands.

For the remaining production teams, especially the eleventh and twelfth teams, one production team will manage four or five small islands. There is definitely a shortage of manpower, and because the islands are small, it can almost be guessed that the output is not abundant. , but they should prefer to recruit young and strong male educated youths...

Zhizhi walked slowly while thinking.

She saw a supply and marketing cooperative.

I remembered that when I was still at home, my second brother gave her a stack of various tickets for Nanling Island... At that time, my brother warned her that the tickets were all expired, and I had to hurry to change things as soon as I arrived. .

Zhi Zhi always carried valuable things like money and tickets with her.

At that moment, she immediately joined the supply and marketing cooperative, spent all the temporary tickets, and bought soap, toilet paper, pastries, cloth, enamel cups and bowls, cream and so on.

Standing at the door, Zhizhi stared at the pile of things at her feet and worried.

With so many things, how could she move them back?

"Zhi Zhi, do you want to help?"

Zhi Zhi turned her head when she heard the sound, and saw Tao Rongye.

She nodded quickly, "Tao Rongye, I'm sorry to trouble you!"

Tao Rongye helped her pick up the things, and the two walked to the Educated Youth Office in silence.

He sent her downstairs to the girls' dormitory, put the things on the ground, then looked at her, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Zhi Zhi, can I ask you a few questions?" "Go ahead."

Tao

Rongye, "The first question, you said... you want to make a deserted island rich, comfortable, and beautiful. Do you have a specific plan?" "Of course!"

Then

Zhizhi said playfully, "However, this is My secret weapon, wait until I become the island owner. If you want to form a group with me, it depends on whether you can trust me." "

I believe in you." Tao Rongye said, and then he took another deep breath and asked Asked the second question, "My second question is, can you estimate the success rate of your plan?"

Zhi Zhi said confidently, "The success rate is 100%!"

Tao Rongye was shocked Stunned, he murmured, "One hundred percent?"

He was convinced of Zhizhi at first, and he was moved to form a team with her. Because he... doesn't like his original family. If possible, he hopes to use his own hands to create a world that truly belongs to him in a foreign land.

But Zhizhi said that her success rate is 100%?

Is it so unstable? It gave him the feeling that... a little girl who didn't know much about the world was playing house. It's a bit unreliable to think that one out is one out.

Tao Rongye was silent for a long time, then continued: "My third question is... will you quit halfway?"

Zhi Zhi said seriously: "I, absolutely - will not quit! Even if only me is left in the end Alone, I will always stick to it!"

Tao Rongye looked at her blankly.

After a while, he said: "I... I'll think about it again."

Zhizhi said with a smile, "Thank you, Tao Rongye", and then went upstairs with the big and small bags.

Her dormitory was quiet and empty.

On the contrary, the laughter of the girls burst out from time to time in the dormitory next door.

Zhizhi didn't care too much, and moved the things she bought back to her dormitory one after another on her own.

There were bursts of laughter from the dormitory next door—

"Zheng Ping

, please tell us again!" The level is very good, and I found out about the situation here so quickly... Zheng Ping, you can tell us more..." "

Zheng Ping, how did you choose the other party to jump in the queue?"

"Hey Zheng Ping, don't you think... Don't Zhizhi be so stupid? How can someone rush to the most remote and poorest place? It seems that V is very noble! Tell me, don't Zhizhi know?" Are you throwing a smoke bomb? She lied to us that she was going to the most remote place, and then tricked us into going with her. After we signed up, she would figure out a way to get out of her shell, and then she could go to that rich place The village jumped in line...she sold us!"

"You guys are talking nonsense!" Hong Hehe's angry voice rang out, "Zhizhi is not such a person!"

Li Fen said contemptuously: "Yes! Farewell Zhizhi It’s not this kind of person, and neither are you. You guys are too high-minded, okay? We are low-minded, we don’t want to be poor, we want to go to a rich place, okay? Then why are you hanging out with us? Hmph, we don’t welcome you You! At that time, you don't want to team up with Pingping... right Pingping?"

"You—"

Hong Hehe ran out of the next room angrily, and suddenly saw Bie Zhizhi who was moving things.

She froze.

Bie Zhizhi said with a smile: "He He, come and help me move things."

The two moved things together.

The small buildings in this era are also adobe houses, and the sound insulation effect is poor.

Zhi Zhi heard Zheng Ping's words, "... I'm not going to speak secretly. This person walks to high places, and the water flows to low places...Who doesn't want to live a comfortable life? I'm really I want to go to the first team! There are so many people in the first team, and they are rich! In that village, every family can eat rice, and every household lives in a brick house... According to me, it is only in such a day that you can make a living, you say... ...Is this the reason?"

Everyone agreed.

Zhizhi smiled, and carried the last batch of things into the dormitory.

Hong Hehe sniffed, and asked in a low voice, "Zhi Zhi, why did you buy so many things?"

Zhi Zhi

told the truth.

"Your family is really rich!" Hong Hehe said.

After a pause, she couldn't help but said: "Zhizhi, since your family's conditions are so good, why do you still go to the countryside... Also, why do you... still want to go to the poorest and most remote place Zhizhi

said softly: "Most people follow the crowd all their lives, not everyone has the courage to pursue their dreams. But I..." I

finally had a healthy body, so--

"... ...I really want to experience the feeling of dreams being realized bit by bit," Zhizhi looked at Hong Hehe and said with a smile, "Just now Tao Rongye asked me what is the success rate of chasing dreams... It's really funny! "

I told him that the success rate of chasing dreams is 100%! It's because you are chasing your own dreams, every step you achieve is 100% successful!" Zhizhi said with a smile.

Hong Hehe bit his lip.

Zhizhi packed up the things she bought, and then she leaned on the desk to write letters to her family.

In the dormitory next door, Zheng Ping was still boasting.

Zhizhi listened for a while, and understood a little bit—everyone arrived the day before yesterday, and they all lay flat and rested yesterday, but Zheng Ping has been trying to understand the situation on Nanling Island since the day before yesterday. She inquired with the former group of educated youths who stayed in the Educated Youth Office, and went out to ask some villagers, so she got a good idea of the situation on Nanling Island.

And then -

Zheng Ping's words changed: Tomorrow is the third day we arrived at Nanling Island, and we have to choose a place to go to the countryside. So we have to dress up beautifully, so that we can be selected by a large team...

Zhizhi laughed.

Hong Hehe was also very angry at the side, muttering: "Hey, she is so well-dressed that people can choose! She is not afraid of being selected and dragged to be a little wife in the country. How can she go back to the city in the future? Call her stupid, she is not stupid, she is bad! She has led everyone into the ditch!" After Zhizhi

finished writing the family letter, she asked Hong Hehe, "Do you write letters? I have letter paper, I can lend it to You."

Hong Hehe nodded.

But when she sat at the table and picked up the pen and paper...

she felt so tangled and helpless that the tip of the pen couldn't even land on the letter paper.

"Zhizhi, tell me, is it still possible for me to go back to the city?" Hong Hehe asked in a crying voice.

Zhizhi sighed and said truthfully: "I don't know."

But there is a high probability that she won't be able to go back in the short term.

In fact, Hong Hehe also knew it in his heart, so he couldn't help crying on the table.

At this time, Li Qingyu and Fang Lijuan also walked into the dormitory together.

The faces of both of them were not very good-looking.

Li Qingyu asked Zhizhi directly, "Zhizhi, let me ask you something... If I team up with you, how miserable can we be?" Zhizhi replied seriously: "I won't hide it from you,

if we two After forming a team, in the next six months, we will be so miserable that we will not have enough to eat, and we will have to dig wild vegetables and catch fish to fill our stomachs. We will have no money to buy new clothes, and we will have to build a house with our own hands even for living."

"Then...how good would it be?" Li Qingyu asked, staring at Zhi Zhi closely.

Zhizhi said word by word: "We live in the garden, and we will become a model for getting rich, and in the future, we will become a good example for the people of the whole country! We will create a brand new world!" Li Qingyu bit her lip, "Just

... Suffering for half a year, right?"

Zhizhi nodded, "I will try my best to shorten this transition period."

Li Qingyu's eyes turned red, "Okay! Then I will form a team with you!"

She couldn't help crying "...I stayed at

home and was plotted by my stepmother to sell me to an old man in his fifties for a dowry of 700 yuan... That's why I went to the countryside to jump in the queue. But just now Zheng Ping Those things you said next door...how can you be selected by a large group of people if you are well-dressed? What a joke! I went to the countryside to avoid getting married casually, not to go to the countryside to marry someone casually!"

"I don't accept it!" Li Qingyu cried, "I'm so diligent, I'm sure I can live a good life!"

Zhizhi gave Li Qingyu a big hug, "Qingyu, let's form a team! Please believe me, we will definitely live a better life!" It will get better and better!"

Fang Lijuan, who stood silent for a long time, also whispered: "Zhizhi, I also want to join... But I want to discuss it with you first - if my family has the ability to get me If I go back, then I still have to go back."

"No problem!" Zhi Zhi happily patted Fang Lijuan on the shoulder.

Hong Hehe opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Zhizhi, I..."

At this moment, the voices of several male educated youths shouted together suddenly came from downstairs—

"Farewell Zhizhi! Farewell Zhizhi!

" Leng, quickly ran out of the dormitory.

Sure enough, several male educated youths were standing downstairs in the girls' dormitory, looking up at the upstairs.

When they saw Zhizhi, they quickly waved, "Zhizhi—come down!"

Zhizhi ran downstairs slowly.

Tao Rongye, Shen Shuhua, Chen Yuejin, and Li Aihua were standing downstairs.

As soon as Zhizhi passed by, they said in unison:

"Zhizhi, I've made up my mind, I still want to join your team." "

Zhizhi, I'll join your team."

"Zhizhi, count me in too! "

"Plus me—"

Zhizhi looked at them one by one, and asked with a smile, "It's very tiring to team up with me!" "

Where can I work without getting tired?"

"I'm not afraid of being tired, I I just want to have something to look forward to."

"Eating from the mountains, eating from the mountains, and eating from the sea... Tiredness means hard work, and hard work brings food! So I'm not afraid of being tired!"

"You guys have finished talking, so I don't have much to say. Let's do it. If you have a mouthful, I must also have a share." Zhizhi

smiled.

But—

why are your eyes sore and swollen?

It seems like I want to cry a little bit.

It feels so good to be trusted by my friends!

"Zhi Zhi—" someone called her name upstairs in the girls' dormitory.

Zhizhi looked up and saw Hong Hehe was also waving at her.

Hong Hehe said loudly: "Zhizhi... I will also join your group! Count me in!"

Zhizhi smiled and waved to her, "Okay!"

Hong Hehe felt relieved.

Just at this time, Zheng Ping came out of the dormitory surrounded by female educated youths, and happened to see Hong Hehe standing on the railing and shouting to Bie Zhizhi downstairs.

Zheng Ping sneered and said: "I still have the face to say that I am Bai Fumei. What kind of family can educate such a stupid person... and even asked to go to the remotest and poorest place! Oh, I am so touched!"

Hong Hehe gave Zheng Ping a blank look, "Zheng Ping, tell me, will the people in this brigade choose someone who secretly eats shit in the middle of the night?" The female educated youths

around Zheng Ping couldn't hold back, One and two of them secretly laughed out loud.

Zheng Ping blushed instantly, glared at Hong Hehe bitterly, and went downstairs.

Hong Hehe made a face at Zheng Ping's back.

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Zhi Zhi counted, and now her team members including her totaled eight people, exactly four men and four women. She called the team together, held an impromptu meeting, and gave them the bottom line.

"Thank you for your trust in me, so I won't hide it from everyone. In fact, I already have a plan... I want to go to the next island, and it's definitely not because I don't know the heights of the sky and the earth..." Said, Zhizhi said this

paragraph She told everyone everything she had planned since the beginning of time.

When she was still at home, her parents knew that she secretly signed up to go to the countryside, of course they were very angry. At that time, it was not impossible for her parents to stop her—Ying Yushi was a doctor, and she could issue medical records in minutes to prove that Zhi Zhi was not suitable for going to the countryside to work; don't Feng Jun has the qualifications of internal reference, so it is not impossible to ask for help...

But Zhizhi told her parents about her dream.

——What she wants is not just going to the countryside to jump in the queue.

In her previous life, Zhizhi was very interested in plants and agronomy. She even bought an island and invited top agricultural scientists to stay there... It's a pity that she is not healthy enough.

Now, she has a healthy body, so why doesn't she do what she wants?

So Zhizhi asked her parents to help her realize her dream.

She is going to the island, she wants to develop and research new plants! At the same time, she still wants to learn, and wants to learn from the teacher...

This makes Bie Fengjun and Ying Yushi very shocked.

They can stop their daughter from going to the countryside, but they can't stop their daughter from studying and pursuing her dreams!

But in this day and age...

the national college entrance examination has just been suspended this year, is there any way for my daughter to continue her education?

After much deliberation, Bie Fengjun racked his brains to find his former classmates and ask them for help. He asked for the contact information of a Professor Huang from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

At that moment, Zhizhi wrote a long letter and sent an urgent registered letter to Professor Huang for two yuan.

The day before Zhizhi left home, she finally received a reply from Professor Huang.

Professor Huang also sent it by urgent registered mail, and there were only four short sentences in the letter, "The letter has been received, you should find a way to get an island first, I will accept you as a student, and then I will go to explore the island in person."

This is Zhizhi's confidence.

It is also the real reason why Bie Fengjun and Ying Yushi are willing to let go and let their daughter go to the countryside to jump in the queue.

After hearing what Zhizhi said, Hong Hehe asked curiously: "Zhizhi, why are you so sure that Professor Huang from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences will definitely come? Why is he here with us? Our lives... will be changed because of his arrival. For the better?"

This was a question of particular interest to the group of eight.

Zhi Zhi said with a good temper: "I can be sure...Professor Huang will definitely come!"

Because in her letter to Professor Huang, she attached a research topic that she had devoted all her efforts to in her previous life-on watering water after seawater desalination. Feasibility of growing economical crops.

According to what his father Bie Fengjun heard, Professor Huang from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is an expert in this field.

However, now is the era of knowledge shutdown.

Professor Huang can definitely help, but Zhizhi has to rely mainly on herself.

Zhizhi continued to answer Hong Hehe's question, "Professor Huang is an expert in the field of watering crops with sea water. When we win the desert island, I will write to invite him to come and have a look. On the one hand, we will open up wasteland and create a new world by ourselves. On the other hand, we also help Professor Huang do experiments...With his support, we will receive corresponding material support...However, we have to rely on ourselves to realize our dreams."

After listening to Zhi Zhi's people, everyone understood.

There is no doubt that

this is exciting and good news.

Zhi Zhi lowered her voice again and said to everyone: "However, we still have to keep a low profile, and keep this matter from getting out. Otherwise... what if this opportunity is taken away by another production team? "

In fact, Zhizhi is not afraid at all that the team members will spread the word.

Because these people are actually her targets, each of them was carefully selected by her.

It is also because she already has research experience in the field of "desalination of sea water to irrigate crops".

After Yongdao, she will conduct her own research on the one hand and act as Professor Huang's agent on the other hand. In this era where cultural quality is generally not too high, I believe that Professor Huang is more willing to cooperate with her.

The reason why she explained this to everyone was to give everyone a little confidence.

Sure enough, everyone was happy.

Hong Hehe asked again, "Zhizhi, which production team did you choose?"

Zhizhi said, "The twelfth production team! They still manage at least seven deserted islands...so they can't care about it at all, just Cultivate wasteland on one of the largest islands. My goal is Xiaoniao Island within their management area.” ——Twelve

production teams posted on the door of the Educated Youth Office. It was there that Zhizhi saw the general situation of each production team. The area of this little bird island is not too big, and there are fresh water and trees on the island.     Zhizhi added, "Let's find a way to get the 12th brigade to take us in first, and then go to the site to investigate. If the situation on the island is not good, then we'll have a long-term plan." Everyone nodded repeatedly     .     At the moment, Zhizhi invited everyone to go to the comrades of the Educated Youth Office, sign up to form a team, and also report to the organization, writing an application saying that they want to join the 12th Brigade.     Coincidentally, Zheng Ping and a large group of female educated youths also registered with the Educated Youth Office.     They also formed a group, a total of six female educated youths, the goal is the first brigade.     Seeing that Zhi Zhi applied to go to the 12th Brigade, Zheng Ping was a little surprised—why, don't Zhizhi really want to go to the 12th Brigade? Isn't she joking?     I heard that the 12th brigade is poor!

Zheng Ping said softly, "Some people... are still educated youths! I don't have the ability to think at all, and I don't know if I'm being led into a ditch!"

Zhizhi didn't want to talk to her.

Hong Hehe couldn't help being angry, "...Which ditch? The one with bird droppings?"

"You—"

Zheng Ping turned away angrily.

After Zhi Zhi handed in the application form, she chatted with her friends for a while, and then they all parted ways.

Early the next morning, everyone was nervous and apprehensive... They couldn't even eat breakfast, so they hurried to the small auditorium with their luggage after picking up a few mouthfuls.

Soon, representatives of the twelve production teams from Nanling Island arrived.

The eyes of Zhi Zhi and the others in the team were all fixed on the representative of the 12th Brigade.

——It is said that the 12th Brigade is the poorest group in the island area, not one of them.

You can tell just by looking at these twelve representatives.

Representatives of the First Brigade wore trousers, white shirts, and shiny leather shoes.

The representative of the second brigade was an elderly man with a bong in his hand, very imposing.

...

Only the representative of the twelfth brigade is the most embarrassing, he is so thin that one doubts that he... may be a young man of a monkey spirit!

This young man was about ten years old, he was wearing patched clothes, his hair was disheveled, his two front teeth were too big, and he looked petty

and timid .

And among the forty educated youths who rushed to Nanling Island to report, there were undoubtedly two teams with a large number of people.

Zhizhi's team has the largest number of people, with a total of eight people, four men and four women; followed by Zheng Ping's team, a total of six people, all of whom are girls; the next ones are groups of twos and threes, each with their own goals; the rest A dozen or so educated youths are willing to obey the organization's distribution arrangements.

Zheng Ping and the other six young girls put on their most beautiful clothes, you in red and I in green. Zheng Ping was wearing a white shirt, dark blue trousers, a high ponytail on the back of her head, and a big red flower tied with red silk on the braid.

The First Production Brigade has always been a group of educated youths who jump in line and try to squeeze in...

Today, the representative of the First Brigade looked at the six beautifully dressed girls, smiled and nodded, "Okay Good! Ladies and gentlemen, then I will go through the formalities...and then lead you to the team?"

Zheng Ping and the others were overjoyed!

—God, was he chosen so easily?

She first showed a smug smile to her little friends, and then said softly to the representative in the white shirt: "Well, yes... thank you." After finishing speaking, she lowered her neck shyly.

Other educated youths also came to a scene similar to a "job fair" with other representatives of the brigade. Whenever the educated youths who signed up to jump in the queue, the other party asked a few questions about where you are from, what is the basic situation of your family, and what is your education level? Wait for a simple question.

It was also assigned quickly.

Only Zhizhi and the representatives of the 12th brigade were left like fighting cocks, you look at me, I look at you——

Zhizhi couldn't help laughing, and said to the thin monkey representative: "Comrade, your expression now tells me ...You must be very happy, right?"

Thin Monkey: ...

——Happy?

Of course he was happy, he had never seen such a beautiful girl as Zhi Zhi!

But not very happy.

When he came, the team leader explained that the team was too poor, so he could only bring back two people at most.

But...

But Bie Zhizhi and the others have a total of eight people!

For more than half a year, Shouhou has always come to act as a representative, leading one or two stupid educated youths back every month. The educated youths who were not stupid knew to go to the rich No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 brigades, and the foolish ones obeyed the reason that they were allocated the lowest quota by the Educated Youth Office, and were thrown to them.

It was the first time for Skinny Monkey to see so many people voluntarily requesting to jump in the line of their twelfth brigade!

For a moment, he panicked.

What should I do? His team leader only said that he is not allowed to take more than two educated youths into the team, but he didn't teach him how to refuse!

This...

the staff of the Educated Youth Office were also very surprised by Zhi Zhi's choice.

But they didn't say anything, they directly wrote down the names of Bie Zhizhi and other eight people on the educated youth acceptance form, and then directly registered the eight people's roster on the spot, and called Shouhou to let him be on the educated youth acceptance form Pressed the finger print at the "Unit Undertaker"...

you're done.

The thin monkey was frightened silly.

For the other production team representatives at the scene, it was also the first time they saw a group that voluntarily requested to join the 12th Brigade.

The point is: there are actually eight people?

The important point is: the female educated youth in the lead is too beautiful!

For a while, the representatives hesitated.

——Do you want to remind these eight people that the 12th Brigade is too poor?

Oh that's impossible, don't look at how poor the twelfth brigade is

, the brigade captain is a formidable person who cannot be offended.

Forget it...

but the representatives of a large group are a little bit unwilling.

——Bie Zhizhi is obviously the most beautiful girl in the audience, why doesn't she come to the richest No. 1 brigade, instead of going to the poorest 12th brigade?

Don't be fooled by someone, right?

The representative of the first brigade couldn't help but said to Bie Zhizhi: "Little girl, why don't you go to our brigade? Do you know...their twelfth brigade..." But after thinking about it, the big brigade of the twelfth

brigade The captain is indeed a person not to be trifled with, so he didn't have the nerve to say it too bluntly, so he said very cryptically: "...the 12th brigade is very far away, you have to take a boat to get there! Don't go with them, come with us." Go to the brigade! I can help you change the documents and put your name in our brigade.”

Zhizhi hadn’t spoken yet——

Zheng Ping was unhappy, and said to the representative of the brigade: “Comrade, you don’t know… ...Bie Zhizhi chose the twelfth brigade by herself! Don't interfere with her freedom!" The

representative of the first brigade frowned.

Zhizhi smiled and said to the representatives of the first team: "Comrade, thank you for your kindness. But we chose the 12th team... It was also voted by us, thank you..." Then he turned to greet his teammates, "Brothers and sisters, let's go now!"

The friends responded, picked up their luggage, and followed Shouhou.

The thin monkey pursed his mouth, looked at Zhi Zhi and the other eight people with aggrieved eyes, and suddenly cried "Wow".

Chapter 37

The thin monkey cried very sadly.

He didn't hide it from Zhi Zhi and the others, and wept loudly, "It's over, it's over... This time I take so many of you back, I will definitely be ripped off by the big boss..."

Zhi Zhi looked at the thin man with interest. monkey.

——The head of the family?

This title is a bit strange.

The thin monkey looks thin, with no flesh on his body, and his boating skills are excellent.

He led Zhizhi and eight people into the boat, then skillfully steered the scull, and at the same time did not forget to cry loudly... There was no delay at all.

Among the eight people including Zhi Zhi, only Zhi Zhi can swim for women, and only Tao Rongye can swim for men, and the remaining six are all landlubbers, without exception, they all vomited on the side of the boat, even vomited yellow bile .

Zhi Zhi is fine.

Looking at the scenery near the sea, she thought it was really beautiful.

Outside the main island, there are small islands scattered in the shallow sea. Of course, these islands are very small and short, and it is impossible for people to go there, but they are very beautiful.

The boat galloped quickly on the sea, always giving Zhizhi an illusion, as if she was on a speedboat.

About ten minutes later, the thin monkey cried and said to Zhizhi, "Look at that... that's Xiling Island! Uuuuu, our Justice Island has to go west..." ——Justice

Island?

From the introduction of the islands posted at the entrance of the Educated Youth Office, Zhi Zhi knew that the six islands under the jurisdiction of the 12th Production Brigade were all named after birds. The largest main island is called Egret Island, followed by Cormorant Island, Osprey Island, Seagull Island, Petrel Island, and Little Bird Island.

It was the first time that Zhizhi heard members of the 12th Brigade call their main island "Justice Island".

Think again about what Shouhou said earlier about "the head of the family"...

A wonderful connection arose in Zhi Zhi's heart.

Seeing the thin monkey crying with snot and tears, and the movement of rocking the boat so sloppy, Zhi Zhi couldn't help laughing, and deliberately teased the thin monkey, "Is that why you don't welcome us?" The thin monkey

cried It was even louder, "Not welcome! We can't even eat enough..."     Zhi Zhi smiled and said,

"We eat very little."

Zhizhi then blushed and lowered her head, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"

She had a hunch that the 12th Brigade should be a very interesting place.

Shouhou took Zhizhi and the others all the way westward, and after about half an hour, they finally arrived at the main island where the 12th brigade was located—Justice Island.

Oh no, the official name of this island should be Bailu Island.

The area of Zhengyi Island is very large, not comparable to Nanling Island, but similar to Xiling Island. According to official data, the number of the 12th production brigade is 242 people.

Now adding Zhizhi and the others, it becomes 250 people.

This is really an auspicious number!

Shouhou led Zhizhi and the others down the island.

Zhizhi looked here curiously.

This place gave her a feeling... as if she was filming a costume movie in Hengdian.

——The wharf is actually a platform built with wooden piles and boards. As soon as it landed, a wooden archway was erected, with the words "Egret Island" written on it. Then there are green grasslands and rolling mountains in the distance, as well as a not-so-wide gravel road that winds into the distance.

Except for Shouhou and Zhizhi, there was no one else on the pier.

Zhi Zhi asked the thin monkey, "Have you all gone to work in the fields?"

The thin monkey squeaked, "Is this...uh, what, um... I'd better lead you to see the boss first. .”

Then he led them up the mountain along the gravel road.

Everyone turned around and came to the middle of the waist, and saw a very simple house.

The style is the same as that of ancient houses, with bluestone walls, high ridges, and carved wooden windows, tall and magnificent.

There is also a plaque hanging in the middle of the main room, with the words "Justice Hall" written on it.

The thin monkey said to Zhi Zhi in a low voice: "The head of the house should not have woken up yet...you wait here." After he finished speaking, he ran away in a flash, and disappeared in an instant.

——It's already noon, and the boss hasn't woken up yet?

Besides, the person in charge should be the captain of the twelfth production brigade, right? Why do you call people in charge? This is too much like... a bandit den, right?

The educated youths looked at each other in blank dismay.

Li Qingyu and Fang Yujuan whispered to their ears,

"It's weird here!"

"That's right, who is the boss?"

The male educated youths were also secretly looking at this place.

After a while, there was movement in the big house.

The educated youth immediately became nervous.

"Squeak—"

Someone pushed the door open from inside.

A white and good-looking woman's hand supported the door frame...

The educated youths stared blankly.

Then I saw a charming and lazy gorgeous woman with her hair half in a bun and half loose. The woman has a slightly plump figure, and her skin is as white as jade. She is wearing an old-fashioned blue cloth-lined button-down dress. There is also a very bright "belt" around her waist, but it is a rose-red gauze scarf. She was sleepy at the moment, and she was yawning with her hand half covering her mouth, her movements lazy and inattentive.

Seeing the educated youths suddenly, the woman was stunned and looked at them suspiciously.

The educated youths were also stunned.

The woman asked, "Who are you?"

Tao Rongye stammered and said: "I, we... are looking for you, you are the masters!"

The woman looked him up and down again, then lazily leaned against the door frame, and said weakly: "I am here The head of the family...what do you want from me?"

The educated youths were all stunned.

Zhizhi suddenly laughed out loud.

The woman turned her head to look at Zhi Zhi, her eyes suddenly lit up, revealing an astonishing gaze.

"Oh, this little sister is so beautiful!" the woman praised in a charming voice.

"Hello, Sister Tangtang!" Zhizhi greeted the head, "My name is Bie Zhizhi, and I am a new educated youth who jumped into the queue. There are eight people in our team, and it was hard for us to report to the superiors to join our 12th brigade... I need to ask my sister to take care of me in the future!"

The head of the family came back to his senses, stared at Zhi Zhi for a long time, his red lips parted slightly, "...educated youth?"

Zhi Zhi nodded with a smile.

The boss sneered, and raised his hand to pick up the long whip hanging behind the door—

all the educated youths opened their mouths wide open.

I saw the head of the family carrying the whip aggressively to the open space outside, flicking the whip fiercely, and I don't know where she hit it, and there was an extremely loud "pop" sound instantly.

The head of the family sternly shouted: "Skinny monkey, get out, old lady!"

The thin monkey who had run away just now came out from nowhere, and cried and said: "Woooo...You, the head of the house, please forgive me! , I, I, I... I don't know, I don't want

them come, but they, they... The one from the educated youth office called me to go over and touch my fingers, and let me bring them back..."

Big The master said angrily: "Then you won't press your fingerprints?"

The thin monkey asked stupidly, "Ah? It's okay... not to press?"

The boss was so angry that he swung the whip again, and there was a loud "pop", which scared the thin monkey into crying again. The thin monkey suddenly saw Zhizhi standing aside watching the fun, and quickly pointed to Zhizhi and said to the big boss: "The big boss, she said, she said that they eat very little..." The big

boss let out a "bah" , cursed: "A woman's mouth is a deceit!"

Zhi Zhi: ...

The skinny monkey took the opportunity to run away.

The head of the family was angry, but he gave Zhizhi a sideways look, and then shouted at the thin monkey, "Go and call Xu Yongjun! Put the door on the door!" The thin monkey

responded and ran fast.

Then the head of the family turned his head, stared at Zhizhi for a while, and suddenly asked, "Are you an educated youth?"

Zhizhi nodded.

The boss hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Then you will... mend clothes?"

The educated youths looked at each other.

Zhi Zhi said bluntly: "It depends on the situation, too broken can't be repaired." The

head of the family said to Zhi Zhi: "Come with me! They are waiting outside!" After saying that, she twisted her waist and entered again. Room.

Zhi Zhi put down her luggage and followed the head of the house into the yard.

The yard is paved with bluestone slabs, which is really antique, much like an ancient house. And it's a big family, looking like a courtyard with four entrances.

There are several rows of shelves on one side of the yard, and all kinds of iron forks are hung on them. Zhizhi has no research on weapons, and she can't name them. I only know that most of the iron forks have wooden or bamboo long handles. , the sharp part has a single fork, a double fork and a three fork, and the size is different.

There are also several rows of shelves on the other side of the yard, where all kinds of dried fish are drying, and there are quite a few of them.

"Don't look around!" The head of the family proudly yelled, "You don't deserve to see it!"

Zhizhi smiled and rolled her eyes.

——Sure enough, just as she imagined, this place is really interesting.

The head of the family led Zhi Zhi to her room.

— This is also an antique room. There is not much furniture in the room, just a big bed with a pavilion, antique desk and chair, plus a wardrobe.

There is not much furniture in the room, but it is quite neat.

It was an opened rattan box in the corner, with all kinds of clothes piled up in a mess.

The head of the house pointed to the rattan box and said, "Go and see which clothes can be mended."

Zhizhi picked up the clothes and looked at them one by one.

Many of them are made of old-fashioned silk material, delicate and light, with bellybands and double-breasted clothes. She checked one by one, picked out seven or eight pieces, and said: "These can be mended, the others are too rotten, they can be cut into rags and assembled into patches to mend other clothes.

" Said: "One piece of clothing for one fish!"

Zhi Zhi was taken aback.

What a fish and a piece of clothing?

In fact, when Zhi Zhi looked at the clothes carefully, there was already a commotion outside. By this time the uproar had grown louder, and someone had knocked on the tin washbasin. Bang bang bang, the sound is quite loud.

The head of the family found a piece of furring cloth, packed the clothes in the rattan box randomly, held it in his hand, and signaled to Zhi Zhi, "Let's go!"

Zhi Zhi

followed the head of the house out again.

The open space at the entrance of the Hall of Justice was already crowded with people.

When the educated youths saw Zhi Zhi coming out of the yard, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Hong Hehe rushed up and pulled Zhizhi aside, and said in a crying voice, "Zhizhi, have we fallen into a bandit's den? Look at them... Look, it's scary!" Zhizhi turned to look at the crowd

. The crowd.

She almost spit rice.

—if she was holding a rice bowl in her hand.

It turned out that there were more than one hundred or two hundred people crowded at the gate of the yard, most of them were middle-aged men. Everyone has weird looks, and none of them look like a good person.

Let's take an example:

a strong man who is as fat as three Zhi Zhis is sitting on the ground, not only looking at Zhi Zhi and the others with resentful eyes, but also holding a piece of clothing and needlework in his hand, and is flying a needle with his orchid finger Walking the line, the posture is quite skillful.

A skinny old man in his forties, with all white hair and a sky-high braid, also stared at Zhizhi and the others with sinister eyes, as if they were his enemies, and in his hand... Impressively holding a pair of needles and balls of wool, she is knitting... I don't know if it's a sweater or a scarf or something.

The rest of the brawny men were either making shoe soles, weaving fishnets, or weaving bamboo strips...

the scene was quite spectacular.

Zhi Zhi looked at them curiously.

Then he stepped forward to the little old man with sky braids and said, "Here you missed a stitch."

The little old man with sky braids: ...

he counted the stitches on the stick needle suspiciously, and suddenly collapsed, "I'm so inferior! It's really missing One shot..." He howled ghostly.

Zhi Zhi didn't know how to knit sweaters in her previous life, but in this era, because her two sister-in-laws knit sweaters all the year round, and sometimes the sisters-in-law went to work, she would pick up their work when she was free, and poke it a few times. Needle.

She can still do simple stitches.

Immediately, he took the sweater of the little old man with sky braids, carefully returned it stitch by stitch, and then reattached it to him.

The little old man with braided braids was so excited that he gasped for breath, and held the sweater that Zhizhi had re-stitched for him like a treasure, and said tearfully, "Excuse me, baby!" The accent was so heavy that Zhizhi almost heard it

. don't know.

The head of the family stood at the door of the Hall of Justice, holding a long whip and swung it hard!

"Paji!"

The crisp sound made everyone quiet, and they looked at the head.

The head of the family pointed at Zhi Zhi with a whip, and said, "I will say three sentences. The first sentence, the eight of them... are the educated youths who just arrived today, and they will be people on our island from now on. The second sentence, You can do whatever you like on the island, but if you leave the island, someone dares to bully them... I will take your skin off! The third sentence, %^@# an educated youth will do it for you, and then I will try to use it!" The more the boss said, the more

angry , I got excited and whipped the long whip.

A group of strong men were also very excited, and they scolded the Educated Youth Office bloody!

In the end, the boss said angrily: "Xu Yongjun! The educated youth will be handed over to you... Then come a few people, follow me to the educated youth office, %^#% I must demolish the educated youth office today! lest they try to give it to my mother in the future Cypriots!"

Immediately, a few strong men responded immediately, followed the leader and left aggressively.

A young man with the appearance of an educated youth walked up to Zhizhi and said politely: "Hello, my name is Xu Yongjun. Are you new educated youths? Come, follow me, and I will settle you down.

" Well, I am quite curious about everything on this island.

The other friends were frightened into a cold sweat.

But there were so many strong men at the scene, and no one dared to speak, so they followed Xu Yongjun quietly with their luggage.

Xu Yongjun took everyone to... a karst cave on the back mountain.

Zhizhi and the others were dumbfounded.

"Comrade Xu, I... do you live in the cave?" Li Qingyu couldn't help asking.

Xu Yongjun nodded, "This cave is very big, and it's dry and warm inside. Come in quickly...but the light in the cave is not very good, so follow me closely." Sure enough, the light immediately dimmed as soon as we entered the cave

.

After a while, Zhizhi's eyesight adapted to the environment, and she could see torches lit everywhere in the cave, like stars twinkling in the dark night.

Xu Yongjun introduced to everyone, "Our educated youths have been divided into two dormitories here, one male dormitory, and currently there are six people living in it. The female dormitory lives in three people...don't worry, the space is very spacious, and ten more people can live there. No problem."

Hong Hehe couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Comrade Xu, is this, is this a bandit den?"

Xu Yongjun smiled, "You can say that."

Everyone gasped in surprise.

Xu Yongjun told everyone about the situation on Bailu Island.

Bailu Island used to be a place occupied by pirates.

The head of the family is Tang Tangniang, who used to be from Nanling Island. All her family members were tortured to death by the landlord bully, and even she was bullied... She couldn't bear it, and escaped by boat overnight. The landlord sent people to chase her and threw a burning kerosene bottle on her boat. Later, she swam in the sea all night, and was finally rescued by the pirates on Bailu Island, and became Mrs. Yazhai, the leader of the pirates.

Tang Tangniang's men took their brothers back to Nanling Island, slaughtered the landlord's family, avenged Tangniang, and opened the landlord's granary, allowing the poor to move.

At that time, before the liberation, the Guojun organized troops to go to Bailu Island several times to suppress the bandits, but because the people's hearts were towards Tang Niang and the others, they repeatedly warned Bailu Island, and the Guojun rushed to the air several times, and finally had to let it go... out of return

... , as long as ordinary people are willing to go to Bailu Island to join them, they will take them all in.

Later, when the Guo army was fighting with the attacking army, Tangniang's men not only lent all their boats to the attacking army, but also helped themselves to fight... Later, Tangniang's men died

fighting the Guo army, and Tangniang became the head of the family. .

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the new government went to Bailu Island to recruit, but Tangniang refused to accept it. She was afraid that this government would still eat people like the previous one. So as long as the government sends someone to recruit, she will drive them away...

And because the grassroots of the new government of Nanling Island knew that Tang Niang and the others were not bad people, of course they would not use extreme methods to recruit them. It took several years to come and go.

After five or six years, Tang Niang observed the new government for a long time. She knew that the government favored the poor, so she agreed to accept the recruitment and took the pirates on the island to become the 12th Nanling Island. Production team.     At its peak, there were seven or eight hundred pirates on the island!

After Tang Niang accepted the recruitment, most of the people bid farewell to Tang Niang when they saw that the situation was stable, and returned to their hometown.     Among the more than 100 people on the island, almost all of them are homeless except for those whose whole family is present. These people have followed Tang Niang for nearly thirty years. They are illiterate and very gangster-like, but they are actually kind and poor people. It's just that he has been lazy for many years, and his spirit may not be as good as the people on Nanling Island.

Then, Xu Yongjun explained: "The Hall of Justice was built by a man who came to the island to avoid the war in the late Qing Dynasty. But the pirates are used to living in the cave. Because this large cave is connected at both ends, if officers and soldiers come to encircle and suppress , the terrain here is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also convenient for running...

After liberation, they are also used to living in caves, and because of their laziness, they are unwilling to build houses anymore." Then he introduced himself, "I am     Nanchang Man, the first educated youth who came here to jump in the queue, I was not acclimatized when I came here, and I lay in bed with a high fever for three or four days in the educated youth station, it was Tang Niang who carried me back..." As he said, Xu Yongjun was a little surprised,     " At that time, I wanted to set a good example and lead them to learn how to read and do a good job in farming, but I didn't expect... Hey, I was assimilated by them instead." Zhizhi nodded with a smile     .     Li Qingyu asked in a low voice: "Comrade Xu, how old is the head of the family?"     Xu Yongjun said: "She is over forty! It is said that she became an orphan at the age of thirteen, and became Mrs. Yazhai at the age of fifteen... Ten Became the head of the family at the age of nine. The people on this island love her very much, she has a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, and she is very defensive." While speaking, a woman in the cave suddenly screamed     sternly——

"Help!"

Everyone froze.

Chapter 38

In the dark, empty and huge cave, I suddenly heard the woman's terrified screams—

and coupled with the fact that the cave was relatively sealed, the sound was particularly loud.

Hong Hehe, Li Qingyu and Fang Lijuan were frightened and hid behind the male educated youths.

Tao Rongye was so frightened that his face turned pale, he rushed over and protected Zhizhi behind him.

Xu Yongjun explained: "It's okay, you don't have to worry... It's Liu Xiaoyun, she is also an educated youth, she came a month earlier than you... Maybe it's because she's not used to this place, so... always making such a fuss.

" Drink in a low voice, "Liu Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you?"

The woman stopped screaming, but started crying again.

Zhizhi and the others are not very used to the dark environment, not only can't see anything, they can't even identify the direction. I don't know where Liu Xiaoyun was screaming and crying.

Xu Yongjun led Zhizhi and the others away, and explained, "In the future, you will find your way in and out, just look at this fish oil lamp. This lamp is placed about ten meters away... we educated youths live on it, remember to turn around three times Now, this is the first turn...the second turn...this is the third turn. Once you turn this turn, you will go directly to our dormitory." This time, Zhizhi and her friends

watched Be clear.

——In front of me are the entrances of two caves.

At the entrance of the cave on the left is a wooden sign with the word "male" written on it, and an oil lamp is placed under it to illuminate the character "male"; There is also an oil lamp on the card, just to illuminate the female character.

Zhizhi really couldn't hold it back, and laughed out loud.

It really looks like the sign of men's toilet and women's toilet!

Xu Yongjun was also a little embarrassed, and scratched his head, "I wrote that... it's a bit ugly."

At this time, there was crying from the girls' dormitory.

Xu Yongjun couldn't go in either, so he stood at the door and asked, "Liu Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you     ?

"

They all want to go home, but the Educated Youth Office doesn’t issue a letter of introduction, so it’s hard to move.” Then he said, “Liu Xiaoyun, today we have new educated youths on our island, there are four girls, and they just came in.” Then Xu

Yongjun Said to Zhizhi: "You go in and rest for a while, I will take you to lunch later."

Zhizhi thanked Xu Yongjun, and walked into the girls' dormitory with Hong Hehe and the others.

In fact, after entering the dormitory, the light became much brighter, and there were two oil lamps in the room. So it can be seen that this is indeed a very spacious space, the floor is covered with thick straw mats, and three sets of bedding are placed side by side in the corner.

On one of the bedding, sat a young girl, sobbing and crying.

Presumably this is Liu Xiaoyun.

The four Zhi Zhi sisters looked at Liu Xiaoyun, and Liu Xiaoyun also looked at them.

Seeing the unbelievably beautiful Zhi Zhi, Liu Xiaoyun opened his mouth blankly, looking extremely shocked.

Zhizhi introduced herself to Liu Xiaoyun, but Liu Xiaoyun ignored her, and just fell down on the bed and pulled the quilt to cover her head, as if she didn't want to be disturbed.

Zhi Zhi put her luggage on the other side and spread it out. When Hong Hehe, Li Qingyu and Fang Lijuan saw each other, they laid out their bedding one by one next to Zhizhi.

Zhi Zhi looked at the cave.

It's really like what Xu Yongjun

said, the cave is dry and ventilated, and there is no peculiar smell, except for the bad light. Moreover, the terrain of this dormitory is very flat, the walls are irregular but half of them are completely sealed, and the other half has hollows but is blocked by wooden boards, so the privacy is still very good.

Hong Hehe and Li Qingyu were chatting quietly.

"It's dark here, there won't be rats and snakes, right?"

"Yeah, didn't those men live in this cave when the meeting was held just now?" "

It's so scary, we can't build a house outside Is it?"

"Let's ask Zhizhi later..."

Fang Lijuan sighed, "You two still have the energy to build a house... My God, I'm going to die." She is the most seasick among the eight people The powerful one still can't slow down at this moment, and still feels dizzy.

After a while, there were footsteps outside the dormitory.

The two girls came in while talking,

"I heard that there are newcomers here today, and there are four female educated youths—ah, are you here?"

"Xiaoyun, are you feeling better today? Oh, there are really four people here !"

Zhizhi also saw two young girls.

Everyone quickly introduce themselves to each other.

——The tall and thin sister-in-law is called Kong Lanwei, who came at the end of last year; the round-faced girl is called Lin Xiaoman, who came in March this year.

The two of them said to Zhizhi and the others: "It's almost time for lunch, we'll take you to the kitchen first... You should get used to the rules here soon. Xiaoyun, come to eat later!" Liu Xiaoyun didn't say a word

.

Bie Zhizhi couldn't wish for it, and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, then we'll go and have a look." The

four sisters followed Kong Lin and the two to go out, Zhizhi looked back at Liu Xiaoyun again, seeing Liu Xiaoyun still sitting on the bunk with his knees bent, sad crying.

Kong Lanwei seemed to see Zhizhi's worry, she tugged on Zhizhi's sleeve, and signaled Zhizhi to follow her quickly.

After leaving the dormitory, Kong Lanwei yelled at the male dormitory next door, and together with Lin Xiaoman led Zhizhi and the others out of the cave. Only then did Kong Lanwei say to Zhizhi in a cryptic manner, "Liu Xiaoyun doesn't quite fit in."

Lin Xiaoman also nodded, and said with lingering fear: "Don't talk to her about hometown, just say something... Do you want to eat, take a bath, these simple things." Zhi Zhi thought to

herself , have been here for more than a month and still haven't gotten used to it? It seems very contradictory.

She nodded and didn't ask about Liu Xiaoyun again.

Kong Lanwei and Lin Xiaoman led Zhizhi and the others out of the cave, turned around and walked through a forest to a gentle hillside.

Here, a large bamboo shed was built according to the mountain. One side of the bamboo shed is a steep mountain, and next to it are four or five pools pasted with cement. Fresh water should have been drawn down from the mountain, and it first flowed into the highest place. The cement pool then flows into a pool with a slightly lower terrain, and then flows into three pools with a lower terrain.

Kong Lanwei introduced: "The water in the first pool is used for sedimentation and cannot be used directly. The water in the second pool is used as drinking water. Hot water is provided after three meals a day, and each person is limited to one pot. You You can drink it or take a bath, but you have to get the water bottle yourself. You can buy three thermos bottles, so you can save three pots of boiling water a day..." "The remaining three pools, one     is for the kitchen. The one that kills the fish, and the two are for washing clothes. As long as there is water, you can use it, if there is no water, just wait, it will always be full..." Zhizhi nodded repeatedly     .

Kong Lanwei led them into     the kitchen at the back of the bamboo shed.     There are four or five people busy here.

As soon as Zhi Zhi walked into the bamboo shed, she was shocked!     ——The roof of the bamboo shed is densely hung with dried fish, and each dried fish is almost half a meter long! One can imagine how big they would be if they were still live fish! And there are so many dried fish, maybe there are... more than a thousand? ? ?     It is said that there are only 250 people on Bailu Island.     If this grain reserve is shared among individuals, wouldn't each person own at least four or five large dried fish?

God, how rich are the people on this island?

The few people who are busy in the kitchen are all gentle young men.

It is estimated that it is also an educated youth.

Sure enough, they were also very happy to see Zhizhi, and the two introduced themselves.

It turns out that they are really educated youths!

Zhizhi saw that they were processing fish.

The ground on the side is full of plump sea fish, of different sizes, and it is not clear how many there are, but it is roughly estimated that there are at least one or two hundred. The big ones seem to weigh about ten catties, and the small ones weigh three to four catties, and there are various varieties. Zhizhi doesn't know many sea fish, but they are common fish such as grouper, green spot, and eastern star spot, but Zhizhi doesn't know many of the fish piled on the ground now.

Kong Lanwei added: "The people on the island don't like to grow crops, they only love to fish. They feel that farming is too tiring. Since fishing is fun and a kind of enjoyment, they can also catch fish...so they usually go to work at noon. Get up, eat around two o'clock... We educated youths are responsible for cooking for them, and cook two meals at a time. One meal is eaten immediately, and the other meal is taken to the boat for them. After eating, they go out to sea by boat until midnight. So we have to make another supper for them in advance..."

Zhizhi suddenly realized.

Lin Xiaoman also said enviously: "You haven't seen them in the sea...they are one and two, and they can swim better than fish. The head of our family, don't think she is a woman, she is already in her forties , It is said that you can hold your breath for about ten minutes, and dive directly into the bottom of the sea more than ten meters deep with a harpoon, pricking three or five fish in one breath before surfacing..." "

Wow——"

Zhizhi burst into star eyes.

——The head of the family is really A and sassy!

But there is one more thing that Zhi Zhi can't figure out, "Lan Wei, Xiao Man, why do people outside say that the 12th Brigade is poor?" Zhi Zhi asked.

Kong Lanwei sighed, "Others have no time to learn from poverty, our brigade is indeed poor... so poor that only meat is left to eat!"

Lin Xiaoman also smiled wryly, "Yes! Think about it, all of the 200 or so people on the island are willing to go out to sea and fish, but no one is willing to stay on the island to open up wasteland and farm. To tell you the truth, I It’s been almost half a year since I’ve been here, and I can get enough fresh fish every day, but rice, noodles, etc... I almost forgot what it tastes like! We can’t even eat vegetables... There are wild vegetables, but we just rely on them Five or six of us educated youths are tired enough to kill fish and cook every day, how can we have the energy to go to the back mountain to pick wild vegetables!" Li Qingyu couldn't help but said, "Can't the

pirates be allowed to dig wild vegetables?"

Kong Lanwei said quietly : "You will also say that they are pirates, and you want them to grow vegetables? Then they would rather be hungry..."

Zhizhi raised her forehead.

Anyway, Zhi Zhi and the others didn't finish their breakfast because they were too nervous, and now their stomachs are growling with hunger. Seeing that the male educated youths handled the fish quickly and swiftly, Zhi Zhi and the others would not be able to help if they could not kill the fish, so they might as well go to the back mountain to get some wild vegetables, and count as much as they can pick.

At this time, Tao Rongye and the others also came.

Zhi Zhi called them, took bamboo baskets and

baskets , went to the back mountain together, picked wild vegetables they recognized, and soon came back with two big baskets.

The educated youth discussed how to stew these wild vegetables with fish heads.

The fish body still adopts the usual method: rubbing salt and roasting. This approach is the easiest and takes no time.

So Kong Lanwei and the others were in charge of cleaning the wild vegetables, Xu Yongjun and the others were in charge of killing the fish, Zhi Zhi and the others were in charge of making the soup, Tao Rongye and the others were in charge of lighting the fire... Xu Yongjun and the others were in charge of killing the fish,

cleaning them, drying them, and wiping them. Salt... After Tao Rongye and the others lighted the fire, seven or eight sea fish whose heads had been removed and which had been smeared with salt and marinated for a while were put on the grill made of bamboo strips.

When one side of the fish is roasted until it is golden brown, it is picked up with a bamboo tong and turned over, and then roasted.

Soon, a batch of fish is cooked, and another batch is replaced...

Two hours later, more than 200 sea fish on the scene were all roasted until golden and crisp, and they were stacked high on the bamboo sieve.

Xu Yongjun took a clothes stick and a tin washbasin and knocked at the entrance of the cave——

"Bang bang——"

"Dinner is ready! We have fish soup today! Remember to bring your own bowls to drink the fish soup!"

Zhi Zhi and her friends also ate their first meal since going to the island.

The grilled sea fish is so delicious! In fact, this is the simplest cooking method. Xu Yongjun and the others only smeared salt on both sides of the fish, and there was no seasoning, not even oil... But the fish is really

super fresh and tender, and the surface is crispy and crispy. There is a rustling sound in the mouth, but the fish meat is as tender as tofu, and it melts in the mouth. It not only locks in the delicious fish juice, but also has the sweetness of seafood. Sea fish has big thorns but no small thorns, so you can eat them without being stuck in the throat.

After eating the grilled fish, drink a bowl of wild vegetable soup with fish head boiled into milky white.

The gelatin and milk of the fish head are dissolved in the soup, which is particularly thick and thick. The fish soup is delicious and has a very delicious oily taste; at the same time, the wild vegetables are also boiled until soft, which not only reveals a fresh aroma, but also neutralizes the fish. The heavy oil of the soup...

was absolutely delicious!

Zhi Zhi hadn't had a meal with meat since she left home, and she drank a bowl of broth.

Now that she had something to eat, she opened her belly to eat, and together with Hong Hehe, they killed a grilled fish that weighed at least four or five catties, and drank a whole lunch box of fish soup.

Hong Hehe's mouth was full of greasy food, and he said with emotion: "Let me eat like this every day, even if I don't eat rice or noodles, I don't care... hiccup." Kong Lanwei, who was sitting by the side, slowly ate grilled

fish He smiled wryly and shook his head.

Lin Xiaoman said: "I thought the same way when I first came here... Now that half a year has passed, I think it is acceptable for me to skip a meal of fish and replace it with a bowl of white rice."

Liu Xiaoyun held a lunch box of soup and didn't drink it, just watched silently.

After eating and drinking enough, Zhi Zhi rubbed her belly in satisfaction, feeling extremely comfortable all over.

She saw the thin monkey suddenly.

The thin monkey was holding a grilled fish that was bigger than his head, and was eating it.

He pouted, with an unhappy expression on his face, "You said you eat very little, huh, that's not the case at all"...

Zhizhi was amused and laughed.

Chapter 39

As Xu Yongjun said, the pirates on Justice Island... No, the villagers of the 12th Production Brigade were lazy, disorganized, and undisciplined. They didn't even want to wash their own dishes after drinking the fish soup. After licking the oil stains on his face, he wiped them casually with the dirty corners of his clothes and sleeves, and then went back to the cave with the bowl.

Zhi Zhi supported her forehead.

After a while, they came back again and left with a piece of grilled fish.

Kong Lanwei and Lin Xiaoman led Zhi Zhi and the others up the back mountain.

Standing in an open place and looking down, you can see the topography of the island and the vast ocean on all sides, as well as a few small islands a little further away.

Kong Lanwei pointed to the small islands and told Zhizhi, "...that is Seagull Island, that is Osprey Island, that is Haiyan Island..."

Zhizhi looked carefully.

The Twelfth Production Brigade has a total of six islands under its jurisdiction. Except for the main island, the basic conditions of the other five islands are as follows: ——Cormorant

Island is the second largest island after the main island, with a very high terrain and a steep side On one side of the cliff is a gentle hillside, and there are jungles, beaches and fresh water on the island. The only fly in the ointment is that this island is also the farthest from the main island. Zhizhi stood on the hillside of the main island and looked into the distance, all she could see was a toothpick stamp that was as big as a toothpick. Kong Lanwei said that from the main island to Cormorant Island, it would take at least two hours by manual boating.     ——The overall appearance of Osprey Island looks like a big bird with wings spread, but Kong Lanwei said it is more like a butterfly. In other words, it has a huge bay on the north and south sides. Therefore, whether the tide is high or low, the downstream sea fish will be trapped in its bay. This island is the granary of the residents of the main island, oh no, it should be called the reserve fish warehouse. Pirates like to fish and catch fish near this island, and they also repel outsiders from approaching this island.     ——Seagull Island and the main island are actually the same island. The two islands are not far apart. When the water level drops, the two islands can be reached on foot. When the water level rises, it becomes two islands nestled next to each other. And the vegetation is similar, and the island also has fresh water.

——The scenery of Haiyan Island is very good, with a stretch of coastline, the sand is soft and gentle, and a large coconut tree grows. However, there is no fresh water flowing on the surface of the island, so it is not suitable for living.

——Little Bird Island is actually a piece of coral reef. When the water level drops, it will reveal the whole picture. It has a large area but cannot be inhabited. When the water level rises, it will be submerged by the sea, exposing dots of reefs, which look like flocks of migratory birds queuing to return north from a distance, hence the name.

While Kong Lanwei was explaining the various situations of the islands to Zhi Zhi, the fishermen on the main island had already gone to the pier in twos and threes carrying grilled fish (their dinner).

They jumped into the boat straight away, holding on to the oars and shaking it a few times...

Soon, the boat was far away.

Within three to five minutes, boats left the shore one after another. From a distance, there are at least thirty or forty small fishing boats, which looks very spectacular.

Kong Lanwei continued to introduce to Zhi Zhi, "There are more than 200 people on the island, and there are 170 to 80 men. They basically take five or six people in a boat. If there are many catches, they will come back before dark. If If they couldn't catch any fish, they went to Osprey Island to fetch fish. Osprey Island is quite far away, and it takes at least four hours to go back and forth, so they have to wait until midnight to return." Zhizhi nodded repeatedly

.

Li Qingyu couldn't help asking: "Lan Wei, when they had a meeting just now, I saw that they were dressed in rags... a lot of elders are still sewing clothes and knitting sweaters, and they can even do this."     Kong Lanwei smiled, "There are more than 200 people on the island, three-quarters of them are men. Although there are few women, there are some...but the women on this island are tougher than men     . The work, even the cooking...is very rough. So, the cooking depends on us male educated youths, and the mending of clothes basically depends on us female educated youths..."

"Before you came, there were only three female educated youths in total, and Liu Xiaoyun was still unwilling to move. It was just me and Lin Xiaoman... To tell you the truth, last year I sewed old clothes for them for a whole year. Don't look They look fierce and ugly, but they are actually pretty good people. I helped them mend their clothes, and they were very happy, and gave them a lot of good things. I didn't want to help them mend their clothes, and they didn't say anything..." Zhizhi

said I understand what the meaning of "one piece of clothing, one fish" was when the boss threw her some clothes and asked her to mend them.

"What good things can there be on this island?" Hong Hehe immediately got excited.

Kong Lanwei lowered her voice and said, "Isn't seafood a good thing? A scallop the size of a thumb, fish maw bigger than my palm, and dried sea cucumber... even natural pearls can Pick it up! I saved it all up and put it at the head of the house, and when I can go home to visit relatives after three years, I will take it back to my family!" Hong Hehe burst into

star eyes, "Wow, I will mend clothes Yes!"

Zhi Zhi patted her head, "Your first task is to learn to swim and row a boat! Today is our first day here, so I will give you a half-day rest. Starting tomorrow, the eight-hour workday. Work The time is used to learn rowing and swimming, and if you still have strength after work, you can help others mend their clothes...then I won’t stop you.”

Kong Lanwei looked at Zhizhi and then at Hong Hehe in surprise, with an expression on her face Some doubts.

For dinner this day, Zhizhi and the others ate a full meal of fish and prepared to go to bed early.

During the day, Kong Lanwei took Zhizhi and the others to pick some herbs on the back mountain, saying that they dried the herbs and burned them every night before going to bed. The ashes were mixed with fresh herbs and smeared on the ground around the dormitory. It can prevent insects, ants and snakes. At least she has been here for more than a year, and she has never seen such things as rats and snakes just by following the fishermen's method.     Zhizhi watched with interest how Kong Lanwei and the others burned the dried herbs into ashes, and how they pounded the fresh herbs into green mud, mixed them with the medicine ash and applied them on the door and corner of the dormitory...

The cave was pitch black and very quiet, and Zhizhi soon fell asleep.

Even because it was dark and quiet, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning when Zhi Zhi woke up naturally!

She got up quickly and called her friends to wash up.

Then Zhizhi gathered the friends together and announced the arrangements for the coming week.

——There is no other arrangement, that is, I must first learn to swim and row in this week.

But before that, they had to do something for the Twelfth Production Brigade.

After all, they also need to integrate into this big group.

Therefore, Zhizhi first led everyone up to the back mountain to pick wild vegetables, and observed the vegetation on the island by the way.

After one morning, they brought back a lot of wild vegetables, some of which were eaten fresh, and some were dried and collected as dried vegetables...

So today's lunch is still grilled fish with minced salt, plus wild vegetable soup with fish head.

On this island, what Xu Yongjun said yesterday is fully reflected: the fishermen are basically unorganized and undisciplined. They go fishing every day because of instinct and because they regard fishing as a hobby to pass the time. Anyway, since Zhi Zhi came here, the head of the family didn't arrange any work for her at all...

On this day, the head of the house only said three words to Zhi Zhi.

"When will you mend my clothes?"

"

This fish soup is delicious."

The third sentence was that she was about to take people out to sea for fishing. When the educated youths were learning to swim in the shallows, they asked in surprise, "You don't know how to swim?"

——She was born a fisherman, illiterate, and the farthest she has ever been to is Cormorant Island. Children from fishermen's families were thrown into the sea by their parents to learn to swim when they were two or three years old. For them, swimming and sailing are instinctive. It is unimaginable that there are still people who can't swim in the world.

However, the head of the family also said that, and took the people away by boat.

Kong Lanwei didn't know how to swim either, but yesterday she heard Zhizhi say that she wanted to teach Hong Hehe and the others how to swim, so she also rushed over to learn along with her.

The educated youth practiced swimming with Zhi Zhi and Tao Rongye all afternoon.

The summer evening came late, and the sun was still shining after six o'clock. The educated youths went ashore exhausted, went back to the kitchen to fetch water, and went to the bathroom to take a shower, wash their hair, and do their laundry.

After the tossing, it was already past seven o'clock, and the sun was setting slowly.

The educated youths hurried to cook again—they wanted to cook another meal for the late-returning fishermen before dark.

Liu Xiaoyun has been waiting here for a long time.

She was a little impatient, and sat on the small bench and said angrily: "It's getting dark, why don't you cook! What are you doing!"

Kong Lanwei and Lin Xiaoman bit their lips, daring not to say anything.

Hong Hehe is a little chili pepper, so he glared at Liu Xiaoyun and said, "Won't you help me if you are in a hurry to eat? If you grow a mouth, you will just bark and wait to eat? Where are your hands and feet? You are disabled." Is it?"

Kong Lanwei and Lin Xiaoman's expressions changed drastically!

Lin Xiaoman quickly grabbed Hong Hehe and motioned her to stop talking.

Kong Lanwei said to Liu Xiaoyun, "We are cooking now, Xiaoyun, please wait a little longer! By the way, there is still grilled fish left at noon, why don't you eat that first?" After the fishermen left the island, the educated youth's

dinner It is also grilled fish at noon, but when I help the fishermen prepare supper, I also eat some warm ones myself.

Liu Xiaoyun stared at Hong Hehe, his chest heaved violently with anger, "Are you despising me?"

Hong Hehe

raised his chest and said loudly, "Yes !" Come on, why do you despise me?"

"You're lazy!" Hong Hehe said strangely, "We came here yesterday, and today... today is almost over. Tell me, what else do you do besides sleeping and eating? Besides, You are not the only one on the island, we have something to delay the supper, and no one else has anything to say... If you are hungry, you can eat the grilled fish at noon, and we also eat that, so what are you talking about?"

Liu Xiaoyun was so angry that he picked up a fish that the male educated youths had just dissected and threw it at Hong Hehe.

Zhizhi couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a low voice: "Liu Xiaoyun, do you dare to waste food?"

Liu Xiaoyun was stunned.

She looked at Zhizhi again in disbelief.

"If you have something to talk about, don't touch it. What's more, the fish you are holding was caught by the fishermen on the island, and the educated youth spent their labor to kill it. What right do you have to waste everyone's rations? , Wasting the fruit of everyone's labor?" Zhizhi said seriously.

Liu Xiaoyun stared blankly at the dead fish in her hand, and was so frightened that she threw the fish into the barrel again.

The greasy and disgusting feeling in her hands made her feel nauseous, and the eyes of the educated youths looking at her... made her feel ashamed.

She ran away crying.

Kong Lanwei said anxiously: "Oh, why don't you go and see her, but don't do anything stupid!"

Zhi Zhi said, "I've already jumped in the queue as an educated youth, is she still a child? Something happened to such a big person Take charge yourself!"

Kong Lanwei, who had already followed Liu Xiaoyun for a few steps, stood still and walked back, "Zhizhi is right... Hey, let's work quickly, or we won't be able to see anything when it gets dark It’s clear, and it’s not easy to work.”

What are you going to do for the fishermen to eat at night?

According to Xu Yongjun's usual practice, of course it is roasted with salt.

——The cooking method is simple and no condiments are required.

Zhi Zhi suggested making a pot of braised fish soup with soup and water.

The method is also simple, that is, put the half-baked fish into a large pot and add water to boil. Also only put salt powder, also reduces the time of grilling fish, but also does not waste fish.

——It takes more than an hour to bake the fish completely. To make braised fish soup, you only need to grill one side. And it is more economical to make soup. Before, no matter what, it was necessary to prepare about two catties of fish per person. If you want to make soup, a maximum of one catty of fish per person with soup and water is enough.

In this way, the educated youths worked together to make two big pots of braised fish soup.

There are also a lot of wild vegetables in the soup.

After the educated youth and the fishermen of Liudao had eaten, they left the fish soup in the pot and covered it with a lid. In order to fear that the rats would come and steal it, everyone still filled the gap between the pot cover and the pot with white cloth to death.

When returning to the cave, Kong Lanwei brought a bowl of fish soup to Liu Xiaoyun.

It's already nine o'clock at night.

Liu Xiaoyun was starving, sat up from the bed with red and swollen eyes, took the fish soup from Kong Lanwei and devoured it all. It wasn't until she finished eating all the fish with soup and water that she angrily smashed the empty lunch box against the wall of the dormitory.

"Boom—"

There was a loud noise.

The female educated youths did not speak.

The male educated youths who lived next door were startled, and they ran out and stood at the door of the girls' dormitory, shouting,

"Zhi Zhi, what's wrong with you?"

"What happened?"

"Hong Hehe Kong Lanwei... what's wrong with you?" "

"Is someone sick?"

"What's the matter? Zhizhi, talk!"

Zhizhi stared at Liu Xiaoyun, and said word by word: "Go and pick up the lunch box, and then apologize to Lan Wei."

Liu Xiaoyun Lifting his chin, he asked in a crying tone, "Why should I listen to you?"

Chapter 40

Zhizhi stared at Liu Xiaoyun, and said word by word: "You are right, you don't need to listen to me." After speaking, she packed her bedding, got into her sleeping bag, and lay down.

Everyone is embarrassed.

Liu Xiaoyun felt a little guilty.

The male educated youths outside didn't know what happened and kept asking.

Hong Hehe ran out and told them everything that happened in the dormitory.

Liu Xiaoyun heard what the male educated youths said—

"Talk to Zhi Zhi that it's not worth it to tell her not to get angry over such a thing.

" We have nothing to do

with half a dime." "Hehe, tell Kong Lanwei, don't spoil anyone, why give her food if she eats or not... Others despise us, we can't help it, but we can't Belittle yourself."

"It's fine as long as it's okay, and you all go to bed early."

Liu Xiaoyun cried.

Hong Hehe ran in without even looking at Liu Xiaoyun. He also tidied up his bedding and prepared to go to bed.

"I don't want to stay here!" Liu Xiaoyun whimpered, "I miss home and I want to go back..."

Nobody paid any attention to her.

Kong Lanwei also felt uncomfortable.

She was the first female educated youth to come to the island. When Lin Xiaoman came, she was already familiar with and used to life on the island, and took care of Lin Xiaoman like a big sister. The relationship between her and Lin Xiaoman is also very good, so when Liu Xiaoyun came, she took care of Liu Xiaoyun just like she took care of Lin Xiaoman back then.

Liu Xiaoyun has been throwing temper tantrums, and she has always been used to it and protected her, always thinking that as long as Liu Xiaoyun gets used to it, it will be fine.

I didn't expect to have an ancestor.

Today I heard the male educated youth call her name and tell her not to belittle herself...

Kong Lanwei silently picked up the tin lunch box thrown to the corner by Liu Xiaoyun, put it away, and then made the bed to rest.

Early the next morning, Zhi Zhi woke up early.

Looking at the watch, it's seven in the morning!

Zhizhi called Hong Hehe, Li Qingyu and Fang Lijuan to get ready to go out.

Kong Lanwei fell asleep in a daze, and asked "Zhi Zhi, where are you going"... But before Zhi Zhi and the others could answer, she fell asleep again, even snoring.

Lin Xiaoman woke up, and asked in a low voice, "Zhi Zhi, what are you doing up so early?"

Zhi Zhi smiled and said, "Early to bed and early to wake up, you're in good spirits."

Lin Xiaoman hesitated for a moment, looked at Kong Lanwei who was soundly asleep, I didn't say anything more.

Zhizhi left with her friends.

Liu Xiaoyun sat up from the bed and looked at Zhizhi and the others' backs hesitantly...

After a while, she snorted softly and continued to lie on the bed and fell asleep.

Zhizhi and Tao Rongye gathered in the big kitchen.

——Because the sea water is relatively cold in the morning, Zhizhi decided to work every morning and learn swimming and rowing in the afternoon.

So everyone divided the work and cooperated: the female educated youths went to the back mountain to pick wild vegetables, and the male educated youths wanted to open a vegetable field near the big kitchen.

Thin monkey is one of the few young people on the island who does not go to sea.

The other fishermen who don't go out to sea are either sick and injured and need to recuperate, or they are too old to work. It is precisely because of this that the head of the family often asks the thin monkey to go to the town to do some errands.

Now there are more educated youths like Zhizhi on the island, and the thin monkey is particularly interested in them.

When Zhizhi and the others were picking wild vegetables, the thin monkey squatted and stared; when Tao Rongye and the others opened up wasteland, the thin monkey squatted and stared...

Hearing Zhi Zhi and Hong Hehe talking about Seagull Island and Seagull Island, the thin monkey couldn't help asking curiously: "What's so special about Seagull Island? Isn't it the same as ours? If you want to go to Seagull Island Take a look, then go!"

Zhizhi said in a good-tempered manner: "We don't have a boat, and we don't know how to row a boat."

——Now that the water level is high, although the main island is adjacent to Seagull Island, the area in the low-lying area is submerged It's so big that they can't get through without anyone punting the boat.

Thin Monkey raised his chest and said proudly: "I can row a boat."

Then he took Zhi Zhi and Tao Rongye to the pier, and rowed to Seagull Island next door.

Sure enough, as Kong Lanwei introduced, Seagull Island and the main island have similar topography and vegetation types, and there is also surface fresh water.

Fishermen usually don't go to Seagull Island for activities, mainly because they are lazy.

When they arrived at Seagull Island, the more Zhizhi looked at the environment, the more satisfied she became——Seagull Island is not far from the main island, and they can take care of each other at ordinary times. The most important thing is that the island is rich in fresh water resources, there are streams, and the soil on the island looks relatively fertile, and because there are so many birds, there is a thick accumulation of guano... These are good for agricultural

research .

Zhizhi walked around the island, and then returned to the main island with the others on the boat of Shouhou.

Just at this time, Xu Yongjun and Kong Lanwei also rushed to the big kitchen, ready to start cooking lunch. When they saw the hills of wild vegetables and the plowed vegetable field next to the big kitchen, they were stunned with shock.     Zhizhi smiled and said to Xu Yongjun: "We got up early and were hungry quickly, so we used firewood and ate the two fish brought back by the masters. Is it okay?"

Xu Yongjun shook his head quickly, "It's okay... ..."     After a pause, he made up his mind, "Zhizhi, Rongye, from tomorrow onwards, when you get up to work, call me too!"     Tao Rongye didn't say anything, and looked at Zhizhi eagerly.

Zhizhi smiled and said to Xu Yongjun: "We got up early... mainly to make time for swimming lessons in the afternoon. You already know     how to swim, so there's no need." Rush to join her small group.

Xu Yongjun is not stupid, he heard that he was rejected very tactfully, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and he dealt with it.

Lunch is still grilled fish with wild fish head soup.

The head of the family is the same as everyone else, sitting on a big rock with a rice bowl, gobbling up grilled fish with one hand, and drinking soup like a mountain with a bowl in the other hand. After eating and drinking enough, she went to look at the newly cultivated vegetable field, and asked Xu Yongjun what to plant in this field.

Xu Yongjun blushed.

——He was the first educated youth who came to the island, and he also thought about growing food and vegetables in the wasteland. But no one on the island supported him, so he... had no intention of doing anything.

Now Zhi Zhi and the others have only been here for a day, and they have already resolutely opened up the wasteland.

This made Xu Yongjun feel ashamed.

But he didn't take credit for it, and honestly said to the head of the family: "Zhizhi and Rongye opened up the wasteland... They said that in the future, they will plant some wild onions and wild ginger here, and put some when cooking fish, it will taste better There are a lot."

Then he pointed to a piece of open space below and said to the head of the family: "At that time, we will open up the wasteland there, and you, the head of the house, go to the seed station to get some vegetable seeds, and we will plant some vegetables.     " Thinking of the delicious fish head and wild vegetable soup these days     , she licked her lips, "Good!"

Then she went to find Zhizhi, "The fish soup that was left for us last night is better than the one that was boiled directly at noon today. Eat, I still want tonight. Before you go to bed, get some firewood and put it by the stove, we will come back in the middle of the night to make a fire, and drink some hot fish soup before going to bed." ——She had never drank it before Zhizhi     came Fish head soup with wild vegetables, the fish head soup last night was very different, it must be Zhi Zhi's idea.

When she brought her people back from fishing in the middle of the night, everyone was wet from head to toe, and they never said that it was because of laziness that they were cold. After returning to the main island to take a shower, change into dry clothes and drink a big bowl of hot fish with soup and water, it is so comfortable.

Zhi Zhi said with a smile: "Okay, no problem."

"Have you mended my clothes yet?" the head of the family asked again.

Zhizhi said: "Only two pieces have been mended. If you are in a hurry, you can take two back first." "Bring

me the mended ones first." The head said, "You can send it to me in a while."

After a pause , she told Zhi Zhi, "You bring it alone."

After lunch, Zhi Zhi sent the two pieces of clothes that had been mended to the head.

One is a silk jacket. It should have been a white material at first, but it has been washed yellow, but the texture is very soft and comfortable. It may be because of the age, the fabric of a piece of clothing is a little torn, and the corners are also rough. .     Zhi Zhi dismantled the tattered silk dress of the head of the family, wrapped a thin layer of thin borders on the middle coat, and made the rough corners neat and tidy. Gradually restored the gauze feet bit by bit.     The other thing was a broken bellyband. In the beginning, it was only the tether that was broken. It is estimated that the head of the house sewed a rope on it and continued to wear it for a while. When it broke for the second time, the fabric directly connected to the tether was also broken.     When Zhizhi saw the broken apron, she thought about the plump figure of the big boss, and realized that the big boss must also have too much trouble.     So Zhi Zhi simply used this apron and another piece of clothing she dismantled to make a bra by hand.     ——The size of the two cups can be adjusted with the strap on the neck. Considering that the head of the family always dives, she may not want others to see her curvy figure, so Zhi Zhi sewed a layer of tulle on top of the two cups.

When the head of the family saw this strange "belly bag", he was a little at a loss, "How do you wear this thing?"

Zhizhi smiled and put the bra on her body and gestured.

The master's style was quite tough, he took off his shirt and asked Zhi Zhi to help her wear it...

Looking at the magnificent scenery of the waves, Zhi Zhi blushed.

The boss didn't take it seriously at all, "What's so embarrassing, we are all women, and you're not without it!" With

Zhi Zhi's help, the boss finally put on this new "bellyband" , and had a live event, and praised: "Although this thing is a bit troublesome to wear, it is very comfortable...and it is easy to move."

Then he asked Zhizhi, "Do you people in the city wear this?"

Nope.

In this day and age, the average woman wore underwear that was no different than a man's singlet vest.

There are basically no bras on the market.

Zhizhi lied casually, "I used to be a little fat, and it was uncomfortable to wear a vest, so I thought about changing it myself." The

boss said "Oh", and asked Zhizhi, "Have they learned to swim? Zhizhi

smiled and shook her head.

The head of the family

thought for a while and gave Zhizhi an idea, "You let them go out with our boat and push them into the sea halfway...but before that, tie them with ropes. When they are about to drown I will fight desperately, won't I do it!"

Zhizhi looked at the head in surprise.

The headmaster said seriously: "We all learned this way when we were young."

Zhi Zhi laughed, "I'll teach them my method first, if they still can't learn it... just do as you said Come."

The big boss nodded.

Then he took the small bundle that had been prepared and handed it to Zhizhi, "Here are these."

Zhizhi opened it and saw that there were two large and white cuttlefish bones and two oval pearls the size of little fingers inside. There are also three or five fish maws the size of Zhizhi's fist!

"These are too precious!" Zhizhi said.

The head of the family didn't care, "These things are not rare, everyone on the island has them. But the whole island can't find a few spare clothes... It's alright, take these things, and help me when you have time." Mend the other clothes as well."

Zhizhi thought for a while, but she didn't refuse, "Thank you Master!"

She said, showing a troubled look.

The head of the family noticed it immediately and asked her, "What's wrong?"

Zhi Zhi looked at the head of the house.

She could feel that the head of the family was kind, simple, innocent and innocent, and she couldn't guard against the head of the house like Liu Xiaoyun and Xu Yongjun...

"Tangtang, I, I have a dream." Zhi Zhi said.

The head of the family looked at Zhi Zhi strangely.

If she remembered correctly, Zhizhi should have called her Tangtang for the second time.

It is not uncommon for these educated youths to know that her name is Tang Tangniang. But most people habitually call her the master, and she almost forgot her own name.

And -

why didn't Zhi Zhi call her Tang Niang, but Tang Tang?

However, the head of the family soon stopped entangled in the titles of Tangniang and Tangtang.

She quietly listened to Zhizhi tell her dream.

——Zhizhi wants to own an island?

Then do various experiments on the island... um, plant trees? No, I also plant flowers... Well, it seems that I will also plant a lot of edible fruits and vegetables?

The head of the family thought for a while and asked Zhizhi, "Which island do you have your eye on?"

If it was an island under her jurisdiction, then it would be fine.

If not, it's a bit of a hassle.

She still had to lead people to fight out and snatch back the island that Zhizhi was looking for.

Now that it has been peaceful for more than ten years, she has not fought in more than ten years. She may have to spend some time practicing whipping skills, and at the same time train these people on the island... After all, it has been more than ten years for everyone In the stable life, the only fun is catching fish or something, and I have no fighting spirit at all.

Then she heard Zhizhi say—

"I want Seagull Island."

The head frowned and confirmed again and again, "...Seagull Island? The one next to us?"

Zhizhi nodded.

The head of the family heaved a sigh of relief, feeling a little disappointed in his heart.

—— Still don't need to fight!

"Then I'll give it to you!" The head said without interest.

Zhi Zhi was overjoyed!

But she can't just have an island.

So she said again: "I... still want some food, farm tools for digging... hoes, shovels, axes, hatchets, etc., and two small boats..." The head said: "There is no food,

we There is also a shortage... No, we have no food. But we have fish, and we will give you fish in the future. The boat will give you two. You can eat and live on the main island, and row to work every day! The ones you want Farm tools can be given to you, the town rationed us but we can't use them, they might be rusted..."

Zhizhi took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Tangtang, we are going to move there, because Seagull Island will be our home, we live there, and we will build it... When we build a new island, You can also learn from us here, we will build a beautiful and comfortable house to live in, and grow delicious fruits and vegetables... okay?" The

head master stared at Zhizhi for a while, and suddenly asked: "Why do you call me Tangtang? Zhizhi

pursed her lips and smiled, "I have a younger sister named Tangtang."

The head frowned, "Your sister? You are only seventeen, how old is your younger sister?" "

My younger sister is fifteen." Zhi Zhi corrected.

——No matter your age, you are as innocent as my sister! You believe everything I say, and you give me anything I want.

The head sneered, "Comparing me with a fifteen-year-old child, I've already..." After

a pause, she asked casually with a stern face and a little curiosity that she thought she had hidden well. : "Is your sister good-looking?"

Zhi Zhi laughed out loud.

"My sister is different from you. She is still young and hasn't bloomed yet... she will definitely look good when she grows in the future. But you are also very good-looking... you are different from my sister." Zhizhi said seriously.

The head of the family was so praised that his face turned red, and he smiled with his lips pursed.

"Well, I'm in my forties and I've been treated like a child by you! You won't be able to take care of me from now on?" When the head was happy, the charm in his bones burst out naturally, and he smiled coquettishly.

Zhizhi said in her heart: "It's because of your support and trust in me based on a one-sided relationship. I will definitely take care of you in the future."

But she didn't say it.

After all, she now has no ability and has to rely on the head of the family.

She must grow up as soon as possible!

"Tangtang, thank you!" Zhizhi said sincerely, "I'm still quite weak now, and when I become stronger in the future, I will definitely take good care of you.

" Sister."

Then she waved her hand towards Zhi Zhi, "Okay, when you want to go there, just let me know. Now you go back first, I also want to pack up and go fishing." Zhi Zhi nodded

, Carrying the things that the big boss gave her, she left.

Next, Zhizhi and her friends got up early every day, picked wild vegetables, cultivated vegetable fields, planted vegetables, helped to improve food and so on... After lunch, they worked hard to learn swimming and rowing.

A week passed, and the educated youths learned to swim one by one, and also learned rowing skills such as steering and rowing.

Zhizhi felt that the time was ripe, so she proposed to the head of the family to go to the next door to Seagull Island.

The boss agreed without saying a word. She took out the warehouse key and threw it to Shouhou, who asked Zhizhi and the others to pick out farm tools, and repeatedly asked: only take farm tools and not weapons!

Zhi Zhi and the others took a few hoes, a few hatchets, and some shovels, picks, and harpoons.

They packed their luggage and prepared to go to Seagull Island next door.

The characters of the fishermen are very similar to those of the master. They were all very reluctant to leave Zhi Zhi, because this little girl is very good at cooking. But they are generally in their 40s or 50s. They have experienced the replacement of the old and new worlds. As miserable as the old world is, they are as happy as the new world. They are very open-minded and not willing to care about it.

——Since the little girl wants to go to Seagull Island, then go, it's not a big deal.

However, this incident caused an uproar among the educated youth!

Xu Yongjun was very surprised, "What? You, you guys are going to open up wasteland on Seagull Island? Isn't it the same to open

up wasteland here?" Kong Lanwei also didn't understand, "Why do you go to a deserted island? There are so many people here, it's safe!"

Liu Xiaoyun: Hehe, there is no cure for stupid people. Following the boss and the others, they could eat enough and sleep well without working, but in the end they went to a deserted island to open up wasteland... Don't you think Zhizhi is out of her mind?

Zhizhi smiled and said to Xu Yongjun: "The chairman said, 'Eagle hits the sky, fish flies in the shallow bottom, and all kinds of frosty sky compete for freedom. Feel melancholy, ask the vast land, who is in charge of the ups and downs'...we are so young, of course we chase after dreams. It’s just a classmate boy!”

She also smiled and explained to Kong Lanwei, “Even if we went to Seagull Island, it’s not far from the main island. We will come back often in the future, and you can come to visit us when you are free. It doesn’t matter. Yes."

Zhizhi didn't look at Liu Xiaoyun at all, and led the little friends, carrying luggage and agricultural tools, and brought a dozen salted fish and a dozen big fresh fish that the head gave them, and drove the boat Went to Seagull Island next door.