The Red Era: Starting from Being an Educated Youth in the Countryside

Chapter 17: The old and new educated youth quarrel
Yang Xiaolin and Lin Zhen looked at each other. There was not much to choose from, so they filled up half a bowl of sweet potato soup. In contrast, the man with glasses filled up a full box, and Chen Huaiyang poured the remaining half into his lunch box.

Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes. Don’t be picky when you eat them.

Everyone takes a piece of golden pancake and picks up whatever vegetables are in the bowl.

Next is the quiet meal time.

They were so hungry that they gulped down the food.

It doesn't taste good, but it fills my stomach.

A bowl of porridge in an aluminum lunch box is not enough to fill the stomach of a grown man. Even if he adds a piece of pancake and a bowl of pickled cabbage and radish soup, the watery soup is barely enough.

It is impossible to eat until your belly is full.

The corn cakes had no sugar or oil and were dry when chewed. They were completely incomparable to the buns I had eaten before.

But the old educated youth still ate with relish, and they drank the porridge with loud slurping sounds, and some even felt reluctant to swallow it all in one gulp.

Chen Huaiyang didn’t know that this food was considered good. It was only when they first arrived that the old educated youth gritted their teeth and had a meal.

Usually we only have steamed corn bread or cornmeal cakes with sauerkraut and radish soup, and it is rare to have white porridge.

Even if it is coarse grains, you can only eat them a few times a month. The golden corn tortillas are very fragrant when you bite them.

At that time, food was scarce, but extremely precious.

In the 30s, the standards for coarse and fine grains in the staple food ration were that fine grains accounted for 70% and coarse grains accounted for %.

Each person’s monthly food ration is 30 kilograms, of which only 9 kilograms are fine grains, and the rest are coarse grains, namely corn flour, sorghum flour, and sweet potatoes.

A total of 30 kilograms, the daily amount is fixed. If I eat more today, I have to eat less tomorrow. It's hard work, and when I'm hungry, my stomach rumbles and it's so uncomfortable.

After eating and drinking, some people's minds begin to wander.

Liu Jun looked straight at Yang Xiaolin and said with a smile on his face, "Comrade Yang, we have to clean up the dishes. Leave your lunch box here and I'll wash it for you."

Yang Xiaolin's face instantly turned bad when she heard this. The scene of him taking advantage of her and constantly pouring the porridge from the pot into her lunch box was still vivid in her mind!
The other person looked at her with such a blatant look that she felt extremely disgusted. "Don't bother, I can do it myself."

Liu Jun stepped forward and tried to snatch her lunch box. He grabbed her smooth little hand with his rough big hand and said anxiously, "It's not a big deal. It's just a piece of cake."

Yang Xiaolin struggled to shake off his hand, shaking with anger, "Don't touch me, I said no more."

Liu Jun showed a hint of savagery on his face, "Yang Zhiqing, you just got here, and you still need the guidance of the old Zhiqing! Don't be ignorant, otherwise you will suffer."

When Yang Xiaolin heard the threat, her eyes instantly turned red. "Don't try to take advantage of me, or we'll both be in trouble. If I can't stay here, you won't get any good results either."

Seeing his hand continue to reach out, he hit it with the lunch box. At this time, the man with glasses next to him saw it, rushed forward, pulled the man away and protected him behind him.

"We are all educated youth who came here together. Don't even think about taking advantage of your female colleagues."

Lin Zhen also ran to Yang Xiaolin to comfort her. Lesbians are more likely to empathize with each other, and she looked at Liu Jun with indignation in her eyes.

"He dares to act like a hooligan in public, so we can sue him and arrest him for hooliganism. Who is afraid of whom?"

Lin Zhen was usually a silent person, and she was actually afraid, but she couldn't just ignore the care that Yang Xiaolin had given her along the way.

We are all alone and cannot stick together. If we turn a blind eye to something, no one will care if we are bullied in the future.

There were originally four new educated youths, and three of them stood up. Chen Huaiyang couldn't just pretend that nothing had happened. He sighed and looked at Liu Jun with a fierce look. He didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but now he couldn't.

The old educated youth clearly wants to bully others, and we cannot tolerate it.

Something can happen once but not twice, otherwise it will become commonplace, just like just now, when everyone was serving porridge, they mixed sweet potatoes and porridge in half each, but Liu Jun was the only one who scooped up the porridge.

They had just arrived and didn't know the situation clearly, so they kept silent.

The result of indulgence was that he dared to do hooligan things in public under the watchful eyes of everyone.

If you don't use force to scare the tiger away, you will be treated as a weakling in the future!

Chen Huaiyang walked up to Liu Jun, grabbed his collar and pulled him up. The height difference made it easy for him to take advantage of him. "Comrade educated youth, are you bored? Do you want to meet a public security comrade?"

"You think we female comrades are so soft and easy to bully? Do you want to see whose fist is harder?"

Liu Jun was being pulled by the collar. He looked at the enlarged face in front of him. There was a bit of a smirk on his face and a strong masculine aura about him. He didn't look like someone who was easy to offend.

"Wrong, misunderstanding. I just saw that the educated youth comrade was tired from traveling all the way, so I wanted to lend her a hand."

Chen Huaiyang snorted coldly, "Please Liu Zhiqing open your eyes, we are not blind yet!"

"We are all new educated youths. We are exhausted from traveling by bus all the way. Why didn't you ask us to help us?"

"If I see you trying to bully us female comrades in the future, I will consider whether you have a thick skin. The emperor is far away and I cannot take you to see the police. But I will beat you so hard that even your parents can't recognize you."

Liu Jun nodded obediently and dared not make trouble anymore.

Tian Dong, who was standing by, turned a blind eye to what was happening. He had already eaten and drunk his fill, washed the dishes, and went to wash up.

Liu Li looked at the embarrassing scene and was unable to complain. Liu Jun was too impatient and it was just right for him to be taught a lesson!

He started to have impure thoughts when he saw the pretty female educated youth, and didn't even look at his short, fat and ugly appearance, so who would like him?

It’s better to kick the iron plate!

Otherwise you won’t be able to see clearly whether you are worthy of it.

Liu Xiaoyu lowered her head slightly with deep resentment in her eyes. Why didn't she have such good luck that there was someone to help her when she was taken advantage of?
He looked at Yang Xiaolin with deep dissatisfaction in his eyes, his fists clenched tightly, but he didn't dare to show it. He lowered his head to hide the thoughts in his eyes.

Everyone on the field has their own ideas.

Chen Huaiyang released his hand that was holding Liu Jun's collar and patted him on the shoulder with such force that it almost broke him.

It was also a disguised warning to him that if he dared to cause trouble, he would have to see if he was strong enough.

Finally, she straightened the wrinkles on his collar and gently smoothed it out. She changed her serious expression, as if the tense atmosphere just now was a dream, and spoke in a gentle tone,

"We are all comrades in the Youth League, so we should unite as one. Comrade Liu, do you think I am right?"

Liu Jun nodded obediently, and the thought that had just come to his mind disappeared at this moment.

The newly arrived educated youth formed a group, and the two male comrades were not easy to bully, so he didn't dare to have any more wishful thinking.

(End of this chapter)