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

Chapter 20 It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice
Since Liu Li is willing to be the middleman, Chen Huaiyang naturally has to give her face. After all, there is still a long time!
We have to live in the same place, and we will see each other every day. There is not much point in having a quarrel.

"Thank you, Comrade Liu Li. You are indeed an old educated youth. You always do things properly. If I have anything I don't understand in the future, I will have to consult you more. Please don't be annoying when the time comes."

Liu Li could feel that the other party was showing goodwill to her, so there was naturally no reason for her to refuse.

"If you don't understand, you can ask. We are all comrades in the educated youth camp, and we should unite and help each other."

Chen Huaiyang negotiated for a few words and then went to ask the new educated youth about their lunch. Finally, he also helped to cook sweet potato and millet porridge. As for Liu Jun, who had the time to take care of him? It was better not to bring the matter to his face.

I just looked at the grain and found out that the fine grains are mostly millet, plus half a pound of flour and half a pound of rice.

Coarse grains are what the locals call corn flour and sorghum flour!
They hadn't started work yet, so they didn't plan to eat or drink too much. A meal of millet and sweet potato porridge would do.

I still have no idea how to cook pasta.

Chen Huaiyang looked at the two new educated youths in deep thought, and finally discussed with a lazy attitude, "Why don't you two new educated youths go and discuss with Comrade Liu Li how to prepare noodles?"

This is the shortcoming of southerners, they don’t know how to make noodles.

Make bricks without straw.

Now we have food but no skills, so just shamelessly go and learn!
Yang Xiaolin, Lin Zhen turned to look at him and asked with a puzzled tone, "Didn't we have a falling out with the old educated youth? Are they willing to teach us?"

Chen Huaiyang was speechless when he heard this. He looked at the two of them and said, "Who told you that we had a falling out with the old educated youth?"

"We are all from the educated youth camp. We are a group in the eyes of others. There is no such thing as a breakup."

“Not only must we not fall apart, but we must unite and help each other.”

"You should stay away from Liu Jun in the future. You can interact with other educated youth normally. They are old educated youth and have experience living here."

"You can discuss with them and understand them better, which can help you avoid a lot of suffering!"

"You need to be flexible and don't be stubborn. Nothing is absolute, so you need to be flexible."

Do you think the educated youth are loved when they come to the village?

Perhaps the arrival of the educated youth would arouse the curiosity of the villagers, but as more and more educated youth came down the mountain, they would be met with unanimous resistance from the team members.

What’s the reason?
One is that the work is not efficient enough.

In addition, the educated youth were all educated people, and some of them would unconsciously look down on others and look down on the people in the team.

The team members felt that the educated youth were incapable of doing heavy work, were aloof, and looked down on others. Naturally, they no longer liked them.

Over time, two factions will form.

Members of the brigade and educated youth at the educated youth point.

If you don't want to be bullied, you have to unite all your strength.

No matter what happened at the educated youth site?

To outsiders, they must appear to be a tight rope.

The two female educated youth looked at each other in bewilderment. This was another hint they had inadvertently received.

Chen Huaiyang looked at the two people who didn't know how to start the conversation, so he had to do it himself, otherwise there would be no one to ask when they started working.

"Comrade Liu Li, I want to ask, where can we buy an iron pot here?"

"In the morning, time is tight and we can't make a pot in time, so we negotiated to buy a pot ourselves. But we are not familiar with the place, so we have to ask Comrade Liu Li for advice."

"I also want to ask you how to cook pasta." As long as Chen Huaiyang wants to, he can flatter anyone. The main thing is to make the corners of his mouth a little more cheerful. What can't he do?
Liu Li naturally told him, "The town's supply and marketing cooperative has it. It costs 10 yuan for a pot. You need a ticket."

"The only noodles are steamed bread and corn cakes, or corn soup. You will learn how to cook them after reading them twice."

Chen Huaiyang nodded in understanding, "Thank you Comrade Liu Li for telling me, you are really a good comrade who serves the people."

Then he changed the subject and asked something else, "I saw there is a private plot in front of the house. Can we cultivate it and plant some cabbage and radish? We just arrived and know nothing about it. Food is always an indispensable ingredient."

Chen Li nodded, "It can be reclaimed. We reclaimed these three ridges, and the team supports it. After all, the team is very considerate."

"As for where to fetch water, you'll find out once you go with me."

Chen Huaiyang found out everything while chatting, without disturbing anyone. After taking a nap, he had to go back to work.

The speed was so fast that the two female educated youth were dumbfounded. They felt that the corners of his mouth were unmatched.

Chen Huaiyang looked at the three people who were looking at him and said, "The mission has come. We need to eat vegetables. These grains are not enough to eat. It is urgent to grow vegetables. We need to stock up on winter vegetables."

"We still need to buy a pot. How about assigning one person to buy the pot and the other three to cultivate the vegetable garden?"

"Time is short and the task is heavy. Plant the vegetables today, otherwise you will not be able to work when the work starts. I see that you have never done hard labor, so you will not have the energy to work when the time comes."

"You can plant radish and cabbage seedlings. Go to the team and see if you can plant some small seedlings. This way you can save time." After all, it takes time for the seedlings to grow.

As soon as Chen Huaiyang finished speaking, the three of them said in unison, "We will stay and cultivate the land, and you go buy some pots and find some seedlings." This kind of thing that requires a lot of talking should be left to someone who is capable!
Before they could even open their mouths, they were too shy to speak.

This kind of shameless thing has to be done by Chen Huaiyang, no one else can do it.

Chen Huaiyang: "..." His face was full of indescribable words. Wouldn't it be easier to buy a pot? Reclamation is a hard job.

"Are you sure?"

As a result, the three of them left decisively and went to borrow hoes.

Chen Huaiyang shook his head and could only follow behind. There was someone to manage the tools of the brigade, and borrowing hoes required a signature.

There are some twists and turns in this matter. After all, it's easy to get what you want from someone. Judging from the fact that they don't know how to operate the machine flexibly, I'm afraid that even with the borrowed hoe, they won't be able to open even a ridge in half a day!

"I'll go with you!"

The three looked at him and shook their heads. "No, we can just ask. Are you worried that we can't borrow the tools?"

Chen Huaiyang looked at their confident expressions and nodded, "Okay, I'll go and take a look."

We have to let the facts hammer home.

This is where the team used to receive tools.

A woman was lazily sleeping on the table. At this time, few people came to borrow hoes, so she took a nap too. The job of distributing hoes was easy, 6 work points a day, and you basically needed some connections to do this job.

Sure enough, after waking people up, the educated youth became angry and glared at them.

"What is it?"

Yang Xiaolin said weakly, "We want to borrow a hoe to cultivate our own land and grow some vegetables."

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest. We have to go to work tomorrow and we only have half a day free."

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(End of this chapter)