The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Zhu Xiaomin picked up a branch and drew a long strip on the ground: "This is the table in our yard. Comrade Zhao and Comrade Meng sit here when eating. Lu Mingzheng is next to Comrade Zhao, and here is Xing Qingsheng... …”

As she spoke, she wrote the last names of these people on the ground.

"I'm next to Comrade Meng, and next to me is Song Zhian." Xie Chengzhi immediately understood what she meant, and picked up a branch and wrote on the other side.

"Next to me is Gu Liansheng. Gu Liansheng used to be Chen Xudong." Xing Qingsheng also said.

"I'm on Song Zhian's side, and Zhou Dongyi is on the other side." Yang Aijun also took over.

After that, the educated youths talked to each other and marked out the seats where more than thirty people were sitting. Finally, Zhu Xiaomin said: "The last place Miao Shiwen and I sat at was the seat closest to the stove. On this side was Zhang Qiaomei. And Wang Xiaoya."

After she marked all these people and was connected to the people on the other side, she shrugged and looked at Shi Meijun: "So, Shi Zhiqing, where are you with us?"

The table in the courtyard of the Educated Youth Point is a slender strip made of stone slabs. There are only five female educated youths in total. In these sitting positions, the four female educated youths are next to each other, and Zhao Zheng and Meng Zihao are almost at the same table. On the one hand, if Shi Meijun is with them, she will be visible at a glance. If she is sandwiched among male educated youths, she will only be more eye-catching.

Listening to everyone talking one after another, Shi Meijun's face gradually turned pale, and he was speechless for a while and said: "You... how can you guarantee that you remember correctly?"

Zhu Xiaomin was amused: "One or two may have been remembered incorrectly, but with so many people here, could it be that they have all been remembered incorrectly?"

Shi Meijun asked loudly: "Why not?"

Xia Laosan next to him was also confused: "Yes, why not?"

Zhu Xiaomin pointed to the words written on the ground: "There are thirty-seven educated youths in the Educated Youth Point. Adding Lu Mingzheng and two comrades Zhao and Meng, that is forty people. It is indeed possible to say that the memory is wrong, but as long as it is wrong, it is most likely The problem is that there are missing people, or there are people with duplicate names.”

Yes!

Everyone nodded immediately.

Li Chi suddenly said: "But you wrote thirty-eight people here. Even if Shi Zhiqing didn't eat together, there is still one missing."

Really?

People in the yard gathered around to count names.

Sitting on opposite sides of the table, one could see that there was an even number, but one person was really missing.

"Nie Yifei is not here." Several educated youths said almost at the same time.

"Huh?" Li Chi looked around at the names and couldn't find Nie Yifei's name. He was a little confused and puzzled, "Why do you remember it so clearly?"

Zhu Xiaomin spread her hands: "Because evening is the time when most people gather, and most of the people cooking are us female educated youths and these nimble male educated youths, so we mostly sit on this side, and those who don't cook sit first. It's on the side near the gate. Over time, the position becomes more fixed."

"Others, as long as there is nothing special, will go back to the educated youth spot to eat. Only Nie Yifei, we don't know when he will go back, and we don't know if he will go back. If there is one person missing, it must be him." Yang Aijun intervened, pointed to Gu Liansheng's position with a branch, and said, "Originally, he used to sit here, but he had a fight with us last year and stopped sitting even when eating. He always took it to himself to eat."

Miao Shiwen said: "Lu Mingzheng was sitting where he was used to sitting. Comrades Zhao and Meng sat next to him, and the others just moved back in order, so it is easy to remember."

It turned out to be the case.

Everyone understands.

"So!" Zhu Xiaomin looked at the crowd, "Where is Shi Zhiqing sitting so that we didn't notice?"

"I...I..." Shi Meijun was stunned for a moment, and quickly said loudly, "I said we would eat together, but I didn't say I would also sit at the table. You are drinking wild vegetable porridge. Could it be that I sat over and let you watch me eat meat alone? ?”

Who are you trying to anger?

Several male educated youths couldn't help but frown.

Indeed, every night when they eat, they can smell the aroma of meat in the air, which is really a torture for them.

Zhu Xiaomin was unmoved: "So, where are you sitting alone eating meat?"

"I...I'm sitting on the stool next to the stove." Shi Meijun replied.

Zhu Xiaomin nodded: "The stool next to the stove is used to sit on when lighting the fire. In other words, it is right behind the poem." As he said, he marked a position on the ground, and then asked, "You mean, Lu Mingzheng asked you out so far away, and we didn't even hear about it?"

The Educated Youth Point is a large courtyard with twelve rooms in a row. The stove is against the innermost wall, but the position where Lu Mingzheng is sitting is closest to the courtyard gate, and she is the farthest person in the courtyard. Location.

Shi Meijun frowned: "I told you, it's time to clean up after dinner."

Zhu Xiaomin nodded and drew on the ground: "Our water tanks are lined up with the stove, with a fence in the middle. There is a chicken coop over there. There is space under the fence. There is a chicken trough over there. We will put the remaining The vegetable soup is poured into the chicken trough from here, and then the water is scooped directly into the water tank to wash the dishes.”

This is a routine practice for all educated youths after eating.

The educated youths all nodded in agreement.

Zhu Xiaomin continued to draw: "Beside the stove, there is a granary and a warehouse. This is your dormitory. In other words, after you have eaten, you don't have to move at all. You can clean up here, and then go back to the dormitory. How can we come into contact with Lu Mingzheng when we come to the courtyard?"

At this point in the painting, it is already the layout of the entire courtyard of the Educated Youth Point.

Shi Meijun said with a cold face: "I told you, it was Brother Lu who came to ask me out."

Zhu Xiaomin raised her lips, glanced at Lu Mingzheng, and said slowly: "Yes, if it were before, Lu Mingzheng would walk from here to the stove after eating and wash the dishes like us. But since he returned to the city , back to the educated youth point, we are already half a guest, no matter how ignorant we are, we will not let the guests wash their own dishes, so Qiaomei washed the dishes for the three of them yesterday. "

Zhang Qiaomei nodded: "Xiaoya went to collect it."

Miao Shiwen also nodded: "Because they are going back to the city today and are talking about the work at the breeding base, so I washed the dishes and sat over there."

Xing Qingsheng nodded: "That's right!"

Zhu Xiaomin added: "The leaders of the five life groups of educated youth have passed by, and I am preparing for tomorrow's breakfast, so I am on the stove." Then he drew a position farther away from the water tank.

Shi Meijun heard each of them say a word, but no one spoke to her. Even Chen Xudong and Gu Liansheng, who came in the same batch with her, also echoed. She felt full of grievances and shouted loudly: "You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense, Brother Lu, come here Yes, he clearly came over to ask you to go to the county seat with him, why don’t you admit it?"