78 Chapter 78
He stood out from the crowd when he appeared. Even though he was wearing the same clothes as everyone else, people felt that the clothes he wore looked much better.
It was enough for him to become the focus of others' attention. As he was passing through the bullock cart, Song Lingjun was stopped by someone. The person who called him was the son of the village chief of Xiaohe Village and the captain of the Red Star Brigade, Cheng Shuili.
He was a sturdy young man in his early twenties, with muscles all over his body and he looked very powerful. He was wearing a yellowed white sweatshirt that had been washed, and old green pants.
Cheng Shuili didn't say much when he called Song Lingjun, and said directly: "Song Zhiqing, this is the educated youth arranged by the township to come to our village this year. You happen to be on the way, so do me a favor and take it back to them."
As he spoke, the dark-skinned young man glanced at the house in the distance. Anyone with a discerning eye would know what he was looking at.
It was for the little Ahe from the house at the entrance of the village. This little Ahe was lazy and greedy, and her brain was not very good. But there was no way she was from their village. If something happened, they village officials would have to take care of it.
Understanding what he meant, Song Lingjun nodded and agreed. Then he took the new boy and girl to the educated youth spot.
Because he talks less, he looks cooler.
The two of them were a little afraid to talk to him, but they got along well with other educated youths and exchanged names with each other.
Then the male educated youth among the two new educated youths asked, as if he had been puzzled for a long time, "What happened just now?"
What he asked was self-evident.
Someone saw the confusion between the two of them and kindly explained: "Are you asking that person just now?"
"She is a villager in Xiaohe Village. I don't know what her name is, but everyone likes to call her Xiao Ahe. She has never read a book and her brain is not very good. By the way, she is still an orphan. She is a bit pitiful and a bit disgusting.
Anyway, you two just need to stay away from her from now on, it’s always right to stay away.”
"Hmm...can you be more specific? I feel like everyone is very malicious towards her." After Lin Yue heard these words, she frowned slightly, obviously not agreeing with her.
Hearing her question, someone laughed: "That's because you haven't seen her yet. You didn't know it when you first arrived. After a while, you will understand."
"You have to ask Lingjun about this. He has suffered the most."
As they talked, the topic turned to Song Lingjun again, but it was also at this time that the educated youth hit the spot.
Song Lingjun didn't like to gossip with others, and he didn't want to waste words with others. He took the person to the educated youth point and then returned to his room. If someone wanted to find him again, it would be a little difficult.
His cold attitude was embarrassing. Several other people quickly explained: "Lin Yue, don't get me wrong."
"Lingjun doesn't have a problem with you, he treats everyone the same. By the way, your room has been cleaned up, I will take you there."
"What I haven't finished just now is that little Ahe likes Lingjun and often pesters him, so Lingjun doesn't like hearing everyone talk about her. You should talk less about her in front of him in the future..."
"Okay." The two of them said in unison, and then they laughed. It turned out that she was a village girl who wanted to rise above others. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Song Lingjun's family background was good, and it was certain that she would return to the city sooner or later.
Since he wants to rebel, how can he have anything to do with the village girl?
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On the other side, the entrance of Xiaohe Village.
Yu He was pinned down by the crowd. She coughed for a long time, but finally some ladies got hold of her and she was so confused that she vomited.
After vomiting, the person also collapsed.
She was hungry and tired. She didn't care whether she was embarrassed or not, so she just sat down on the ground.
His big black eyes were filled with tears, and he had a look of grievance on his face. He was indeed aggrieved. His newly filled stomach was made hungry again by them.
Now I am not only hungry, but also tired.
The ladies and uncles saw her like this and knew what she was thinking. They cursed and cursed, but they kindly helped her up, patted the grass clippings off her body, and pulled her into the dilapidated and dirty yard.
One of the aunts, perhaps feeling that she was too pitiful, took the trouble to bring some food from home in this era of food shortage.
Yuhe was lazy and greedy, so he took the food from Auntie and stuffed it into his mouth. He shouted happily: "Thank you, Auntie, thank you, Auntie."
Yu He is lazy, but she is not stupid.
When the other party gave her food, she was also very happy, so happy that she almost got rich.
When the aunts saw her acting stupidly, they wanted to scold her, but they had no choice. They touched the little girl's hand and sighed: "Skinny, too thin." As they spoke, there was not only disgust but also a trace of intolerance in their eyes.
"Whether it's the grass that tastes better, or the pancakes that taste better." One of the ladies looked at the room where she couldn't stand, and rolled her eyes. In the end, her instinct for cleanliness overcame her.
He picked up the clothes and quilts that the little girl had thrown everywhere, threw them aside, and piled them in a basin. Then he picked up the broom and cleaned up the garbage and dust on the ground.
After doing all this, the yard was still too dirty to set foot on.
"The pancakes must be delicious." She replied seriously, without being sloppy at all. After speaking, she made a big smile and showed her small white teeth.
Looking at the half-grown girl who was smiling stupidly, the lady who asked the question smiled: "So you are not stupid either. You know that pancakes made from grain are delicious."
Due to seed problems, the fine powder produced from wheat of this era has a somewhat grayish-yellow feel. It does not look so clean, but it tastes very fragrant.
I still want the fragrant Yuhe, but it's gone. My aunt's family is not rich either, so she has to pay work points for everything she eats.
In addition, Yuhe was very hungry, and her stomach became smaller when she was hungry to a certain extent. One big cake was enough.
She was sitting on her big wooden bed. Because the bed was high, her feet couldn't reach the ground. She was dangling her legs out of boredom, making her look even younger.
Because of the previous incident, several people in charge came to the village. Cheng Shuili was one of them. They felt that if they allowed Yu He to live like this, he would die sooner or later.
So, several people gathered at her house.
Talk to her nicely and ask her not to be too lazy to eat or lie in bed all day long. If she continues to lie down, her legs will degenerate and she will become paralyzed.
"Now in the summer, you can go hungry when you are hungry, and you can go out to pull weeds to eat. In the winter, there will be no firewood, water, electricity, or food. It will be a good thing if you don't freeze to death."
"And be a girl who loves to be clean. Don't take a shower every ten days or so. The house is almost smelly. Do you have any sense of yourself? Say something ugly. If you continue to behave like this, no one will dare to marry you in the future.
Don't become an old girl when the time comes, you may cry if you do."
Because she was a little girl, or a young girl. Cheng Shuili couldn't come forward, so he asked a group of older ladies to help persuade him.
He leaned against the door, and the faint moonlight shone on him, making the rough man feel a little more tender. He listened to the conversation inside and remained silent.
Then he put out the cigarette in his hand, picked up the broom and started cleaning the yard. After sweeping the floor, he went to repair the broken furniture.
The little girl sat by the bed and listened to their chatter. As she listened, her body was uncontrollable and she wanted to lie down on the bed again.
When the others saw her, they immediately pulled her up.
"Standing has a standing posture, sitting has a sitting posture. Look at what you look like now."
Yuhe also knew that they were doing it for her own good, but she just didn't want to do anything. She was so tired that she wanted to find a coffin and just lie down in it and be done with it.
"But I'm very, very tired."
"And I'm very weak and can't do it." Yu He didn't lie. She just didn't have much strength. It's not like she hadn't done it before. After doing it for a while, she was out of breath and almost exhausted her to death.
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Then the work he did was not half as good as others.
"You are lazy and lazy. Anyone who lies up all day long like you will be ruined no matter how good your body is."
Yuhe is not a ungrateful person, and she also knows that these aunts in the village are doing it for her own good. But she just can't support the wall and is unwilling to do it.
This man felt sleepy after eating enough, and Yu He began to yawn again. But these ladies still had no intention of stopping.
He chattered endlessly and made her uncomfortable.
She sat crookedly on the bed, wondering whether to lie down or not. As soon as the ladies left the yard, she would lie down immediately.
For sleeping and lying down.
Yuhe could only agree to their request first, and nodded quickly in agreement: "I know, I know, I do it, I do it! Do a lot of work, a lot of work."
"Ladies, hurry up and go home, otherwise it will be too dark to go back later." She is a good girl, and at this time she did not stop talking sweetly and smiled to please her.
The little girl has a dark face, but maybe it's because her eyes are big and bright. So she doesn't offend them, and it also makes them think she's pretty good-looking.
"It's good that you know." They didn't believe it after hearing her words, because if they could really change, this girl would have changed long ago.
But it was indeed dark, and they still had a lot of things to do at home. They couldn't waste it all here, so they could only nod and show that they knew.
"It's been so long since you took a shower, you're so dirty that you can smear a layer of black ash on your face.
Okay, let's go, you quickly get some water to wash yourself, and we will take you to work in the fields tomorrow."
Yu He looked at the backs of several people and smiled brightly and said that he would definitely get up tomorrow and earn work points with them.
Then when she saw them walking away, she immediately lay back on the bed. It was impossible to take a bath, and she had to boil water. After the bath, she had to change clothes. She was too tired, too tired, and she would not take a shower anymore.
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Yuhe's family was very poor, and they didn't even have money to light a lamp. Late at night, the house was so dark that it was hard to see.
Yuhe didn't lock the door, since no poor mice would visit her house anyway, and she wasn't afraid of anyone coming to steal things. She lay on the bed and felt extremely comfortable.
It's just that her calf is a little itchy and she always wants to scratch it. It must be a mosquito bite.
There were a lot of mosquitoes in the countryside in the summer, and they were so many that they were so noisy that she couldn't sleep. The chirping of insects and frogs in the summer dragged her weak nerves into sleep.
But it was also at this moment that the lights in her home suddenly turned on. The light was so dazzling that it startled Yu He, who had adapted to the darkness.
Yuhe fell asleep instantly. She was not afraid, but curious. At this time, she heard someone push open the door to the courtyard outside the house.
Driven by curiosity and unwilling to move, Yu He sat up from the bed, and then came to the door barefoot. She opened the door without saying hello. She saw a tall man standing outside the door, about to knock on the door, it was Cheng Shuili.
Seeing that it was him, the girl frowned: "Brother Shuili, why are you here?" Both of them were from Murakami, so it was normal for them to know each other.
What's more, although Cheng Shuili is a rural man, he is upright and decent in appearance. He is one of the best young men in their Red Star Brigade, and he is also the sweetheart of many girls.
Chapter completed!