After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 17, Episode 0017: Harvesting the Goods - First Day at Work

"...You, you come to see your sister like this? I think it's a good thing that Xixi is still unconscious and wasn't frightened by your current appearance, otherwise you might have to eat bamboo shoots stir-fried with meat for ten years."

Aside from being cleaner than a beggar, they are no different from beggars.

Leng Xingran: "..."

Looking down at himself, he let out a "whoop" and quickly tidied himself up.

Fang Ze wasn't much better off; he had buttoned all the buttons on his shirt incorrectly, so he quickly unbuttoned them and re-buttoned them.

As the two were tidying up, the outer courtyard gate was quickly pushed open and then quickly closed, and Uncle Wei led in a person who was bent over and had a limp the whole time.

Fang Ze: "..."

He said to himself that tonight he was like a lamb entering a tiger's den.

He noticed that, apart from his best friend, several people were staring at him with sharp eyes, especially the soldier at the entrance of the main room, whose eyes were quite frightening.

Fang Ze silently turned around and stood facing the wall. He saw nothing and knew nothing. He asked everyone to ignore him.

Everyone turned their attention to the trembling person next to Uncle Fang.

The first impression was that he was thin. He was wearing thin clothes and was slightly hunched over, so his skeletal frame was so clearly visible through the patched-up clothes, forcefully drilling into their eyes.

My second impression was that he was cowardly. He seemed very timid; even the slightest sound could make him tremble with fear.

The slight rustling of clothes as Fang Ze turned around was enough to make his hands tremble.

&
This batch of new educated youth was not very lucky. They arrived during the harvest season and didn't even have time to rest before having to go to the fields immediately.

For ordinary people, the harvest is more important than life itself. Even those already working in the commune would put aside their current tasks and rush to the fields to harvest as soon as possible.

With school out for the holidays, teachers and students alike rushed to the fields to harvest the crops.

When you're tired, eating some melon seeds and chatting is the best way to relax. No Chinese person in any parallel world would lie to another Chinese person.

"Are these educated youths stupid? They could have rested for half a day, but they insisted on working through the night and then going to the fields with us early in the morning. They couldn't even get many work points. They were just working themselves to the bone, doing nothing but fooling around."

"Old Wu, I just can't stand what you're saying. That kid has a high level of awareness, what do you mean by being stupid?"

What he said was true, but the new educated youth were right there. What could we do to save face for them?

Granny Wu rolled her eyes. The woman in her fifties was still nimble as she bent over to cut wheat. "The new educated youth have arrived. Is the younger sister of the former educated youth here too? I heard she's so beautiful she doesn't look real."

Aunt Lu wiped the sweat from her brow with the hand that held the sickle. “This morning I heard from my sister-in-law that she came last night too. What do you mean by not looking like a real person? But you’re right about that. My sister-in-law said she’s as beautiful as a fairy, but she’s not in good health. She went to see her this morning, and she was still fast asleep.”

Granny Wu became interested and turned to ask the new educated youth who had been assigned to her to tie wheat that day, "Little Qian, have you seen Little Leng? How pretty is she?"

Coincidentally, the two new educated youths assigned to her and Aunt Lu were Qian Duoduo and Li Laidi. Since there was already one old educated youth with the surname Qian, the villagers called Qian Duoduo, the new educated youth, "Little Qian Educated Youth".

The moment the name of that person who was so beautiful that she seemed to exist only in a painting was mentioned, Qian Duoduo, who had been exhausted, immediately brightened up. “Lin Zhiqing, oh, I can’t describe her. It seems like any good word would be right to describe her, yet it also seems like no word is enough.”

"Wait, that's not right. Why is it Lin Zhiqing? Isn't she Leng Zhiqing's sister?"

Aunt Lu rolled her eyes at the new bride who interrupted, "One takes the father's surname and the other takes the mother's surname, it's not uncommon for us to have that."

The previously enthusiastic atmosphere seemed to suddenly turn cold because of the new bride's voice. Qian Duoduo and Li Laidi both felt a little strange. Who is this person? How can she be so powerful?

After a while, the new bride suddenly clutched her stomach and sat down on the ground, crying out, "Ouch, ouch, my stomach hurts! Mother-in-law, Erban, something's going to happen to your grandson and son! Ouch, ouch, it hurts so much!" This sudden outburst startled Qian Duoduo and Li Laidi, who stood up abruptly, unsure of what to do.

One called out anxiously to Granny Wu, and the other called out anxiously to Aunt Lu.

Granny Wu and Aunt Lu were incredibly composed; they didn't stop moving for a moment, and their eyes didn't even glance in that direction. They even took turns trying to persuade them, one after the other.

"Don't worry, it's alright."

"It's not the first or second time. Every time she gets pregnant, it's like she's carrying a golden egg. The Erban family is practically worshipping her."

"I was wondering why she came out today. I thought she had changed, but it turns out she was just trying to cause trouble."

"She has changed a bit. Before, she would blame others when she fell down, but at least she didn't blame us just now."

Upon hearing this, Qian Duoduo and Li Laidi both shuddered and glanced at the spot where the new bride had fallen.

Fortunately, they were in pairs, each assigned a plot of land, and they were quite far apart, so it couldn't be blamed on them.

A short while later, a kind-looking man about 1.7 meters tall rushed over in a hurry, and without saying a word, he rushed into the field, picked up his new bride, and ran away.

It's probably just as Granny Wu and the others said; everyone has seen this scene many times, and perhaps because they're more focused on the harvest, the people around them don't even bother to make fun of it.

They had nothing to say to each other, but they could chat endlessly about this and that, and the morning passed quickly.

During the rush to harvest, everyone worked against the clock. Instead of going home for meals, they brought their own food to eat in the fields, rested briefly, and then continued harvesting.

The educated youth naturally sat together, while the new educated youth all wilted like eggplants after a frost.

I'm so tired, I feel like crying.

Even though she didn't want to cry, Hsu Chuan-mei was already sobbing uncontrollably with her head on her knees.

It would have been better if she hadn't cried, because once she started crying, the other new educated youth would have cried too. The harvest was exhausting; anyone who's been through it knows how tiring it was.

Even if a sent-down youth is someone who is not favored or valued at home, like Wang Qin, who had all the housework piled on her shoulders, she was so tired that she couldn't straighten her back.

The levels of fatigue are completely different.

The older generation of educated youth had all experienced the period of the new educated youth, and no one mocked the new educated youth; they all silently ate their meals.

For some educated youth, Heilongjiang Province was a good place, as they could rest for nearly half the year and only get to work during those few months, unlike the south where there was no rest all year round.

Moreover, Heilongjiang Province is sparsely populated and has fertile land. As long as there is no disaster year, it is definitely possible to ensure that people have enough to eat and wear, and those who are hardworking can even have a lot of surplus.

Moreover, there are countless mountain products in the continuous mountain ranges.

It's safe to say that in Heilongjiang Province, as long as you're willing to work, it's unlikely that anyone will starve to death.

However, the other group of educated youth who were not well-intentioned or lazy suffered a lot. They had an easy life, but the food they earned was not enough to feed themselves.

Even worse are those who are not favored at home but still demand that their parents send them money back; it's hard to imagine how they manage to survive.

During the busy farming season, the villagers would try their best to eat something good, but for these educated youth, lunch consisted of a small, hard cornbread and a lunchbox of wild vegetable porridge with just a handful of grains of rice.

(End of this chapter)