Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1169: New Educated Youths Make Trouble

Seeing Zhang Yu listening to their conversation attentively, an old man pointed to the kettle on the ground and said, "This is the tea my son sent from the army. Try it and see if it suits your taste."

Then he pointed to the bowls next to him and said, "Those bowls are clean. No one has used them yet."

Someone laughed and said, "Old ghost, you are showing off your son again!"

The old man puffed out his chest, looking proud: "So what? My son is filial and promising."

Unable to refuse the kind offer, Zhang Yu could only accept the bowl of tea. After learning from the villagers what happened yesterday, Zhang Yu almost spit out a mouthful of tea.

He touched his head, wondering if he was confused due to the fever, as to why he had such a dream.

What era is it now?

Although it wasn't the later years yet, people at that time were far from being so open-minded. Aren't Wang Qing and the others afraid of being drowned by people's spit?
Even in later times, if a man and a woman hug each other in the street, they will inevitably be gossiped about.

Not to mention the words they said, which made Zhang Yu for a moment dream back to those TV dramas that destroyed his worldview and were adapted from a certain aunt's novels.

He blinked and almost suspected that he was not the only traveler in this world.

After all, people who can say such things must have been brainwashed by many TV dramas and novels that destroy their worldviews.

At this moment, the old lady looked around and then lowered her voice and said, "When you go back, tell your children to stay away from those new educated youths."

"What's going on?" someone asked curiously.

The old lady said: "You also know that my grandson is herding sheep for the brigade. When he was leading the sheep past the educated youth yesterday, he heard those new educated youths making a fuss again.

After the fight, they were so angry that the old educated youth didn’t cook for them that they smashed the pot.”

"What, the pot was smashed?" Someone opened his mouth wide and said in disbelief.

You know, it's not easy to get a pot at that time. A few years ago, when the big steel was produced, all the iron products of each family were handed in.

Some were smart enough to secretly keep the pot, but some families felt that they didn't need a pot since they were eating in the cafeteria, so in order to show off, they even took off the pot and handed it in.

When collective canteens were just ended, many families only had a clay pot for cooking, and they had to be very careful with it for fear of burning it.

It took a long time for each family to finally buy a pot.

Speaking of this, we have to thank Xie Zhiying. If he didn't have connections and asked his friends for help, we would have had no place to buy a pot that year even if we had the money.

The pot at the educated youth's office was originally used by the team leader's youngest son. Later, his youngest son became a temporary worker in the county town. In order to facilitate his work, he moved to his father-in-law's house with his wife and children.

The pot was left empty temporarily.

The team leader was also heartbroken for the educated youth who had to leave their parents at a young age to come to their place, so he borrowed the pot without telling his wife.

They all heard that the captain's wife had been angry with him privately because of that blame.

Now the pot was smashed.

"How can they do such harm to things?" Some people covered their hearts, feeling heartbroken.

Even if it's not their own stuff, they can't stand seeing things destroyed. Just think about a good pot being smashed like that, it's heartbreaking!
"Who says it's not true? I heard from my grandson that the new educated youth were making a fuss and complaining that the old educated youth were ostracizing them and cutting their food."

When these words were spoken, everyone's eyes sparkled. They really couldn't believe that those old educated youth were such children.

The old lady looked at him and said, "It's not the fault of the kids who came here first, it's just the new kids who are causing trouble.

Didn't our captain give a few people advance rations earlier?"

Everyone nodded. Speaking of the advance rations, the group couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

This year, their situation is a little better.

If this had happened two years ago, there would be no advance payment of food to these educated youth.

The old lady continued, "The advance rations given to the new educated youth include a small amount of fine grains. I just heard from my grandson that the new educated youth have been eating only fine grains in the past few days since they came."

Someone opened his mouth wide and said: "We eat refined grains for three meals a day?"

"That's not true. I heard from my little granddaughter that she saw the educated youth cooking rice these past two days."

"Rice, they are really willing to eat it!" After hearing about the meals of these new educated youth, some people in the village couldn't help but feel jealous.

His family is the most populous in the village, with more than ten strong laborers to support the family, but they can't bear to eat like this.

"Who says it's not true? Think about it, we only have so much fine food. How can it sustain them eating it for several days in a row? There is no fine food today.

You all know the new educated youth. They are all reliable and know how to make steady progress.

Although he is not very agile at work, he is willing to work hard and was given some fine grains when grain was distributed last year.

Just now, the team leader of the educated youth team had his head broken by a new educated youth, so a few educated youth children thought of making some fine grains to feed the child.

I didn’t expect that some of the new educated youth were so shameless that they insisted on eating together with some of the old educated youth.”

The old lady spat on the ground and said with disdain, "Bah! When they were eating fine grains a few days ago, why didn't they eat with others? They finished their own western grains, and when they saw others eating fine grains, they were jealous and wanted to eat with them."

An old man who had been silent and focused on listening to the conversation finally spoke up when he heard this: "What you are talking about is just the beginning. I live close to the Youth League House. Yesterday I heard a few Youth League members quarreling there. They made the old Youth League members very angry. What do you think the new Youth League members are going to do?"

Seeing the old man's mysterious look, the old man who invited Zhang Yu to drink tea smiled and brought him a cup of tea. Then Yang Sheng said, "Sixth Uncle, don't keep us in suspense here. Just tell me now."

The old man took a sip of tea and praised: "Good tea!"

Then he said calmly: “I can’t learn the words they say, but I can tell you what they mean.

Several new educated youth wanted the old educated youth to help cook for them, but they didn't want to give out their own food at all. They even said that the old educated youth had more food, so what was wrong with helping them for a few days? "

After these words were spoken, everyone present looked at each other. After seeing the same surprise in others' eyes, they felt that this world was still relatively normal.

What is abnormal are those new educated youth.

"This is too shameless!" someone couldn't help but curse.

"Who said it wasn't? Aren't they just trying to take advantage? They think the educated youth have food. They earned their food through their own work. So it's theirs."