The life of a female cannon fodder

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Soon Li Qiu had no time to think about it, as she had to get up and go to work the next day. Now the centimeters of work were tied to the food to be distributed. If there were no subsidies from their families that allowed them to live in the countryside without worrying about food and clothing, other educated youth would choose to work. Even educated youth who had no worries about food and clothing had to go out to work during the busy farming seasons of summer planting and autumn harvest. After all, going to the countryside was for educated youth to receive re-education from poor and middle peasants, not for educated youth to enjoy themselves.

Li Qiu had money, food, supplies, and subsidies, so she always went out to work with them. One reason was that she didn't want to appear too different. She was already a hot commodity in the eyes of the people in the team, and she couldn't become a maverick just because she didn't go to work, otherwise those jealous people would frame her.

Secondly, because she could use most of her abilities when working in the fields, she could also use this opportunity to exercise and improve her abilities. She would not waste this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone by being lazy.

On the day of work, the educated youth all got up early. Because they had to work, they could not be careless about eating. The night before, they had corn porridge that was so thin that you could see your reflection in it. This morning, they had sweet potato, bran, and wild vegetable wowotou. They all had to work in the fields, so of course they had to have a full meal. Even if they had to eat coarse grains, they should fill their stomachs.

Li Qiu took her own portion of wowotou and nibbled a little, and a small pimple appeared between her eyebrows.

Liu Meiling ate a head of wowotou and immediately started coughing so hard that her face turned red and her lungs were about to cough out. Wei Kangmei quickly handed her some water, and Yu Hongying also helped her to recite: "Eat slowly, no one will snatch it away."

Liu Meiling, who had finally stopped coughing, was almost scolded again because of this sentence. She looked at Yu Hongying with tears in her eyes: "Who would come to snatch this?" The bran inside the wowotou was still coarse bran, which would cut her throat when swallowed.

"You think so? I was so hungry that I could even eat tree bark, not to mention sweet potato stalks." When I was young, I ate Guanyin soil. Even in recent years, when the conditions have improved, it is normal to eat bran and vegetables. How can I eat fine grains every day?

Liu Meiling was speechless, looking at the stalks in her hand with a sad face. It was true that her family had subsidies, but this month's subsidy had not arrived yet. She had eaten up the ones she brought and the ones sent by her family. Now she had everything else in her hand, except food.

The old educated youths were obviously used to it, but the new educated youths ate the stalks as if they were half dead. The eldest brother Jiang Yue shook his head and said, "If you can't eat now, take the wowotou with you. You can eat it when you are hungry at work later." When you are very hungry and have nothing to eat, it is good to have a dried sweet potato wowotou. Why bother to be picky?

Liu Meiling was as if she had been pardoned. She wrapped the wowotou and stuffed it into her pocket, then gulped down a glass of water. Several new male educated youths insisted on eating a few bites and also put the wowotou into their pockets. Only Zhao Xiaoxiao was still eating in small bites with a frown on her face.

Although she was not as pretty as Li Qiu and Liu Meiling, she had a delicate temperament, and her frowning face while eating wo wo tou was really pitiful. Unfortunately, the educated youths in the educated youths' home knew Zhao Xiaoxiao's nature, so they just looked at her and pretended to be fat to help her.