1970s: Farming and Supporting Yourself

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Chapter 001 Little Educated Youth

"Dudududu..."

"Ye Zhiqing, are you here?"

The voice came from the courtyard door. Ye Xin originally didn't want to pay attention to it and let the other party go away. However, the other party refused to give up until the door was opened, and the knocking on the door gradually turned into a knocking on the door.

Ye Xin could only compromise, get up to relieve her dizziness, walk out of the room, and open the courtyard door.

Outside the courtyard gate was a woman in her forties or fifties, short and strong, looking very nimble. She was holding a babbling child who could not walk yet in her arms, and followed by her legs was a child who had just learned to walk.

Ye Xin pulled out the memory from the memory of the original owner. This was Huang Yuemei, the daughter-in-law of Li Xingguo, the captain of the Fengshui Brigade. The two children were her eldest granddaughter and youngest grandson.

Seeing that she finally came out, Huang Yuemei frowned and said, "Ye Zhiqing, why didn't you say anything? I thought something happened to you!"

Ye Xin was not taller than the other person at this time. After hearing these harsh words, she said weakly "I, I'm dizzy."

Huang Yuemei paused, took a look at her slightly pale face, and her thin and small body, which seemed pitiful, and then said softly: "Yes, I heard that You fainted from heat stroke in the morning. Our guy asked me to come in the afternoon and see if you are okay. If not, take another Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill."

Ye Xin lowered her head to avoid the other person's gaze and whispered: "I'm feeling better, thank you Aunt Huang."

Huang Yuemei changed the position of her little grandson in her arms and said, "As long as you are fine, just rest today and go to work tomorrow, otherwise the food distribution at the end of the year will not be enough. Yes."

Ye Xin nodded obediently, "I will go to work tomorrow, Auntie."

Huang Yuemei was a little surprised to see her being so obedient today. In the past, this little educated youth was like a firecracker, exploding when he heard something he didn't like. He didn't let anyone complain when he didn't do things well. It was quite unlucky for Fengshui Brigade to be assigned such an educated youth.

Huang Yuemei didn't think that she suddenly changed her gender. She only thought that she was feeling uncomfortable today, so she didn't choke.

However, seeing that it was rare for her to be so nice and angry, Huang Yuemei couldn't help but say a few more words: "I mean, Ye Zhiqing, Shen Zhuo is a good boy, and his father just passed away. He can't stand your troubles! If you If you really don't want to live with him, just move back to the educated youth dormitory as soon as possible. Speaking of which, you are not married. Now that you are separated, no one will be delayed!"

Then he whispered: "I haven't seen any girls, no. I dare to live in the groom's house after I get married..."

Sure enough, I still mentioned this matter! Ye Xin felt her scalp numb, and she wanted to call for help in embarrassment.

Seeing that she lowered her head and said nothing, Huang Yuemei said again: "Since you have settled here with us, you should work hard to earn work points so that you can have food, right? If you make trouble all day long, you will delay yourself and others, and make people laugh. . Do you think this is true?"

Ye Xin could only say: "Thank you, aunt, for the advice. I will think about it carefully."

Then Huang Yuemei took the child and left.

Ye Xin closed the courtyard door and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The weather in June was very hot. She avoided the white sunshine and returned to the room on the west side. Although the room was also stuffy, she didn't want to be outside.

I felt a little guilty and wanted to hide.

Ye Xin came through more than an hour ago, that is, after the original owner fainted from heat stroke.

She was originally a social worker in the 1920s. She graduated from college less than a year ago. Fortunately, she was admitted to the public education system. Although she was only at the grassroots level, with little money and many things to do, she was very busy, but compared to the large number of people who were unemployed or lost their jobs after graduation. She is very satisfied with someone who has not found a job.

In the morning, she was riding a tram to work as usual. She accidentally hit a stone on the road and the car fell violently. She was so dizzy from pain that she cried. She vaguely saw her knees were bloody, and then she lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, she was lying in this adobe house full of age. The injuries from the fall were gone, and she was a different person.

Now, Ye Xin was sitting on the hard wooden bed with a sad face.

According to memory, the original owner was also named Ye Xin, but he was only 16 years old. He was an educated youth who was part of the wave of going to the mountains and countryside. He came to Fengshui Brigade in March this year. It is now June, which is only three months since he went to the countryside to join the team.

Farming life in the countryside is not easy, but this little educated youth's character is a bit bad, which gives Ye Xin a headache.

Including the original owner, Fengshui Brigade now has a total of nine educated youths, four men and five women. For the educated youth who went to the countryside, the policy provided resettlement fees, which were used to build dormitories, buy beds, etc. The educated youths lived and ate together.

At first, because the original owner was the youngest, everyone took good care of her. Unexpectedly, she refused to cook when it was her turn. Every day when everyone got up early to go to work, she stayed in bed. She also liked to take advantage of others and took and used other people's things... In less than a month, it aroused public outrage. Not only the educated youth did not like to see her She also single-handedly ruined the image of the educated youth group of Fengshui Brigade.

The original owner also disliked the poor and loved the rich. This gave Ye Xin a headache and felt very embarrassed.

In the second month after the original owner arrived here, Shen Zhuo's father broke his leg while going into the mountains to collect herbs. He was seriously injured. He knew that he wouldn't live long, so he took the time to kiss Shen Zhuo. The Shen family is an outsider. In the local area where the common surname is Li, he is considered to have a poor family background, and those from well-to-do families look down upon his family. Dad Shen Zhuo looked around and fell in love with the original owner.

First, the original owner was only sixteen and Shen Zhuo was seventeen, so they were of the same age and could grow up together;

second, the original owner was an educated youth after all, coming from the city.

The original owner was in a state of isolation from the educated youth at that time. When Shen Zhuo's father asked someone to ask, he agreed without thinking for long.

Now other educated youths felt that she was short-sighted. Everyone was still holding on to the idea of ​​returning to the city, and even if they were looking for a partner, they would be looking among the educated youth. However, she actually wanted to get engaged to a villager, which was unthinkable.

The original owner no longer cared about it at this time. And I didn't want to live in a dormitory with a few people. I knew that Shen Zhuo's house was large and had its own courtyard, so I wanted to move there on the grounds of taking care of Shen Zhuo's father.

Shen Zhuo actually doesn't want this marriage, but his father is still worried about him even in this situation, and he wants to arrange funeral arrangements, so he can't refuse; besides, his mother died in childbirth, and there is no one else in the family, Shen Zhuo Zhuo usually had to work to earn work points, so he really needed to take care of his father personally, so he acquiesced to the marriage and let her move in.

The original owner moved to Shen's house on the slope regardless of other people's eyes. She had her own room. Taking care of the patients was just a good excuse not to go to work. She did not become diligent.

In more than a month, Shen Zhuo's father was taken care of and died.

In fact, it can't be said that the person died under her care. The physical condition of Shen Zhuo's father was there. Everyone knew that it would be a problem sooner or later, so Shen Zhuo's death was not blamed on her.

But as soon as Father Shen's affairs were settled, she started making noises to terminate the engagement. This was so unkind!

Especially when everyone knew that she wanted to break off the engagement because she found out that Shen Zhuo's family was very poor in the past month or so and spent all her savings to treat her father, so she fell in love with a wealthier family in the village, everyone despised her even more. She did.

The reason why she fainted from heatstroke today was because she had been away from work for a long time. In order to get closer to the person she liked, she rarely went to work. But before he could say a few words, it was too hot and he fainted on the ground.

You have to have someone carry it back, which will cause you to miss work.

"This mess...what evil have I done!"

Ye Xin couldn't help but sigh with her head in her hands.

So no wonder Huang Yuemei said this just now. The original owner has a character that others keep at a distance from, but those who are willing to sincerely say a few words of advice are all patient and good people.

"What should I do now?"

"Am I going to farm here?"

"It feels so hard..."

Ye Xin was filled with anxiety, muttering to himself while walking around the house.

And the original owner's engagement... She won't complain about being engaged at the age of sixteen. The times are different and the circumstances are different.

But she has never been in love before and doesn't know how to get along with boys. Now she suddenly has a fiancé living in his house, she dislikes him, and she wants to break off the engagement. This... gives her a headache!

Ye Xin walked around the house sadly for several times. When she was tired, she tried to lean against the wall for a while, but found that it was rough to the touch. When she looked up, she saw that it was an earthen wall made of yellow mud bricks.

"Eh..." She frowned, quickly retracted her hand, and patted away some earthy dust.

The house of Shen Zhuo's family was already in good condition, but to Ye Xin, who was used to living in city buildings, it was still very simple.

After dusting off the dust, she looked at the situation in the house again.

There was only a bed and a cupboard in the room, not even a chair. It was very simple. The bed and cabinet were purchased with resettlement fees. They are still very new and the wood is strong. They were originally moved from the dormitory of educated youth.

The bed is nothing fancy, just a wooden bed, which is obvious at a glance. The cabinet is quite tall and can hold a lot of things. Because the climate here is rainy and humid, the bottom is raised thirty centimeters, with pillars placed across it. There are a pair of cotton shoes, a pair of cloth shoes, and two enamel basins with towels and soap in the basins.

Two words were written all over the house: poverty.

The difference in living conditions made her sigh.

He looked down at his hands again. They were thin and skinny, with sallow skin, not at all as delicate as a sixteen-year-old girl should be. I pulled my hair again. It was quite long, but the ends of the braided hair were dry, yellow, very rough and unsightly.

This appearance of malnutrition is mainly due to not having enough to eat.

This is an era when there is not enough to eat.

Thinking of this, Ye Xin got up seriously, and while no one was in the main room, she found a very dated calendar on a wooden cabinet that was already somewhat decayed, and determined the current year.

After seeing this, her eyes darkened and she almost fainted.

In June 1970, ten years of turmoil were not even half over!

After returning to her room and holding her chest to relax for a while, Ye Xin managed to calm down.

There is no way, it's here now, and I can't put it back on, so I can only try to adapt to living.

In addition to being thin, she is also short, less than 1.6 meters tall. If she works hard and eats well, she might be able to grow taller.

Thinking of this, Ye Xin thought and appeared in a space.

The space is quite large, about seven or eight acres, with a house in the center. In front of the house is a large tree with lush branches, and under the tree there is a spring with gurgling clear water. In addition, there are eight fields surrounding the house, which are flat and tidy with fertile soil.

Ye Xin only discovered this space after she came here. She studied for a while before Aunt Huang came, and then felt a headache.

She feels that she got this space when she fell while riding a bicycle. The road was originally flat and smooth, but it was because of the sudden appearance of a stone that she was caught off guard and fell hard. Ye Xin thought that she might have fallen to death, so she traveled to someone else's body and resurrected her soul.

Maybe it was that stone that brought her through, because it killed her and made up for it... It's a bit strange to say it, but that's the logic.

Anyway, this is a cheat.

With a golden finger, you won't starve to death, right?

Ye Xin is hopeful.

This space looks like it can be planted, and it may be more productive than outside. You can always take good care of yourself!

But after looking around carefully, Ye Xin was disappointed to find that the house was empty, and nothing was planted in the eight fertile fields. This space was currently empty.

She could only exit heartbroken.

Her head seemed to be getting dizzy...

Ye Xin covered her head and sat on the bed, her face wrinkled.

After a while, there was a gurgling sound from her stomach.

I'm also hungry...

Goldfinger can't be counted on for the time being, so Ye Xin can only leave the room and walk to the simple wooden shed on the left side of the yard, which is the kitchen of Shen Zhuo's house.

I have to find something to eat quickly to fill my stomach. I really won't be able to grow taller if I continue to be hungry.

There is also a mottled and old wooden table standing next to it in the kitchen. There are pots and pans on the table, as well as a handful of wilted vegetables that have lost their moisture. She searched around the kitchen, opening every basket, bag, jar, jar... she opened and looked at it. Fortunately, there is still a lot of food, although most of it is coarse grains.

She rolled up her sleeves and got ready to cook.

"Ahem, it's so smoky!"

The stove was an earthen stove made of yellow mud bricks. Ye Xin was so disgraced that she finally started the fire.

While she was busy, the sun gradually set in the west, the glow was brilliant, and people started to go home after work.