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Chapter 35: Educated Youth Institute (Additional Update, Please Vote)

There are a total of ten educated youths in the educated youth center, three females and seven males. They are on vacation today, but few people go out, and most of them are resting.

Hearing the noise, both male and female educated youth came out. Seeing Xu Qinghuan's appearance, everyone was a little dumbfounded. This new female educated youth was too beautiful, like a white jade. Can she do any work?

Qiao Xinyu introduced the educated youth here to Xu Qinghuan and Yu Xiaomin one by one, pointing to an older male educated youth and saying, "This is the educated youth team leader Zhang Tieshan, and this is the deputy team leader Qu Qiongfang."

Qu Qiongfang was a female educated youth. She was wearing a plaid shirt, baggy black trousers, and two messy pigtails. She held onto the door frame, nodded at Xu Qinghuan and the others, and smiled.

"Why are there so many people here again? Is there still enough room to sleep?"

Another female educated youth next to her looked up and down at Xu Qinghuan critically, then looked at Yu Xiaomin, snorted coldly, flicked her braid, walked into the room, and then kicked the door hard, making a clanging sound.

From the introduction just now, Xu Qinghuan knew that this female educated youth was called Duan Qingmei.

Qu Qiongfang smiled and said, "Come in quickly and put your things away. Although Qingmei has a bad temper, she is a very good person. You will understand after spending more time with her."

Xu Qinghuan nodded at her, and together with Qiao Xinyu and the other two, they put the things in the west wing. Two male educated youth came forward to help, but they only took the luggage out of the truck bed and put it at the door. It was not convenient for them to enter the room.

"Thank you very much!" Xu Qinghuan thanked him.

"You're welcome. You came here today and should take a day off. You don't need to work tomorrow, but starting the day after tomorrow, you will definitely have to work." Zhang Tieshan didn't help and gave a few verbal instructions.

"You will need to go to the warehouse to collect your rations. Each person will get 30 kilograms of grain, 10 kilograms of fine grains, and 20 kilograms of coarse grains. If you can't carry it, you can ask the male educated youth to help you."

"Okay, thank you!" Xu Qinghuan was not worried about the information. With Xinyu, he could ask her if he didn't understand.

There are only north-south kangs in the west wing. The kang on the north side has only one position, and the kang on the south side faces the door. It has not been heated for many years. Not only is it cold, but there are also concerns that the chimney is blocked.

Fortunately, it is summer now, and there is generally no need to heat the kang. However, Xu Qinghuan has heard that even in summer, heating the kang in the morning can be good for the body to remove the cold.

"We can sleep two more people here if we squeeze in. You two can squeeze in with us." When Qiao Xinyu said this, he glanced at Qu Qiongfang, obviously asking for her opinion.

"Sure! We're not fat!" she said playfully.

"What's good about that? I don't agree!" Duan Qingmei roared.

Only then did Xu Qinghuan look at her straight in the eye. She had an oval face, rough and dark skin, two patches of high altitude red on her face, small eyes, and thick lips. It wasn't that she was ugly, but she hadn't taken good care of herself, and she looked really shabby.

Qiao Xin was so angry that he wanted to go up and argue with her, but Xu Qinghuan stopped him and said, "No need. Let's clean up the south kang. Xiaomin and I will sleep on it."

The southern kang is smaller and is spacious enough for three people to sleep on, but it would definitely be a bit crowded for four people.

There are two more women, Kong Lijuan and Lu Nianying who are coming over, so let the four of them sleep over there.

Qiao Xinyu whispered, "The south kang isn't very warm in winter."

Because the flue of the north kang leads to the kitchen, and the south kang is right in front of the door, it feels very sour and refreshing going in and out.

Xu Qinghuan squeezed her palm, and Qiao Xinyu nodded quickly. Although she didn't know what her best friend's plan was, she would definitely stand by her side.

"Then I'll sleep on the south kang too!"

Ignoring the two men's surprise, Qiao Xinyu pulled over the kang mat she had bought. Xu Qinghuan and Yu Xiaomin had already scrubbed the kang from top to bottom, and piled the luggage aside, waiting for the moisture to dry before laying the mat on top. "We need to buy two more kang mats," Qiao Xinyu said. "Wait a minute, I'll go get two more."

"I'll go with you." Xu Qinghuan also wanted to familiarize himself with the environment, so he said to Xiaomin, "Xiaomin, are you okay here alone?"

"What's the matter? Go quickly and help me change another one. I'll pay you later." Yu Xiaomin said.

In those days, speculation was strictly prohibited and private transactions were not allowed, but barter was allowed. Therefore, as long as you were not buying things from the government, you would use the word "exchange".

As the two of them came out of the main house and crossed the courtyard, Xu Qinghuan pointed at the east and west wing rooms and asked, "Why is there no one living here?"

"It's just a shell on the outside. The partitions inside used to be antique shelves, but they were all destroyed. There's no kang either. There aren't many educated youth in our brigade, so the rooms at the back can accommodate them. The brigade couldn't possibly spend money to repair this useless house."

Qiao Xinyu knew what her friend was thinking and asked, "Don't you want to live with them?"

"Do you still remember my biological mother?" Xu Qinghuan asked.

"Why don't you remember? I still have a lot to ask you."

"There were two female educated youth this time. One was the one who pushed me. You've met her. She's my biological mother's adopted daughter, from the Lu family. The other one is Kong Lijuan. Before I came here, she took the exam to recruit workers for the lighting factory to earn money. That's how she became my enemy."

Xu Qinghuan smiled. "Living in the same room with people like this, I have to keep one eye open at night. Besides, I'm not used to sleeping in a dormitory. Living with so many people, there's no privacy at all."

It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, and she doesn't want to make things difficult for herself.

Qiao Xinyu understood this very well. She had been here for a while and still hadn't adapted. "If you want to move into the west wing, you'll have to spend money to renovate the house. Will you eat alone or eat in the same pot with them?"

"If you eat alone, you cook by yourself. If you eat in a big pot, who will cook?" Xu Qinghuan didn't really want to eat from the same pot with so many people.

"The male educated youth are responsible for fetching water and chopping firewood. The female educated youth are in charge of cooking in shifts. Originally, one person was responsible for one day, but now the shifts are arranged by the deputy team leader." Qiao Xinyu said.

Xu Qinghuan hasn't made up his mind yet.

The brigade headquarters was at the easternmost end of the production team, on a relatively high ground. After going down a small slope, there were rows of untidy houses, most of which were adobe houses with thatched roofs. The only better house was the one that was half made of blue bricks and half of adobe, and the roof was also covered with thatch.

According to Xinyu's introduction, this is the team leader's home.

In the entire production team, except for the brigade headquarters and the houses of the educated youth, there were no other blue brick and tile houses.

Qiao Xinyu brought Xu Qinghuan to a low adobe house across a large courtyard and called out, "Aunt Zaohua!"

Someone inside answered, and a short, dark-skinned, middle-aged woman with a blue-dyed cloth wrapped around her head came out. She wiped her hands on her apron and opened the gate. "Qiao Zhiqing is here? Is this your new Zhiqing?"

Qiao Xinyu introduced, "This is my good friend, Xu Zhiqing, a new educated youth. We would like to exchange two kang mats with you. By the way, has Uncle Yonggui finished making furniture these days? My friend also wants to exchange some furniture."

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