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

Grandma Li is a lonely old man in the village. Her husband disappeared many years ago, leaving only one son. Later, the son went into the mountains and encountered a wild boar. When he found it, only half of his body was left. Now only the old man is left.

Seeing someone coming in, Grandma Li squinted her dim eyes and looked at them for a long time before she burst into laughter and said, "Whose daughter is she from? Hurry! Sit on the kang quickly."

"Grandma Li, happy New Year!" Zhu Xiaomin held the old man's hand and greeted her sweetly.

Hearing her voice, Grandma Li smiled: "It's Xiaomin, you always remember grandma." After saying that, she gave up her seat and went to the stove to pour water.

Zhu Xiaomin went over, took the thermos pot from her hand and poured it himself, then went back and straddled the edge of the Kang to talk.

After leaving Grandma Li's house and walking two more houses, the whole village had been walked. The three of them turned back. Before they reached the end of the village, they saw Qian Baldy coming out of Grandma Chen's house again. When he saw them, he immediately came over. .

Seeing that he was very close to her, Zhu Xiaomin was a little impatient. She responded to him casually and said directly: "We are going to the team, so we won't delay Brother Qian."

Qian Baldy was surprised: "If you don't go to work, why do you go to the brigade?"

Zhu Xiaomin replied: "I didn't see the secretary or the team leader, they should be on duty."

Qian Baldy smiled and waved his hand: "No way, they are probably going to Uncle Ming's place to drink. I will accompany you there."

The village is divided along the river. Most of the villagers live in Hedong, and only a few live in Hexi. Zhu Xiaomin and the others visited most of the people in Hedong for the New Year, but the Uncle Ming that Qian Baldy mentioned was in Hexi.

Miao Shiwen saw Qian Baldy following him with a playful smile. Thinking about the scattered families in Hexi, Miao Shiwen felt nervous and said hurriedly: "Xiaomin, yesterday Xie Chengzhi and the others said they wanted to discuss things with the secretary. Hexi, who happened to be going there first, should have already seen them. , we don’t need to go yet, right?”

Zhu Xiaomin was also surprised as to why this bald man was so crazy. After hearing what she said, he nodded: "Well, they went, as long as they feel like it, let's go back first."

Qian Baldy asked: "Aren't you going? Why don't you come to my house and I'll get you some fruit candies with sugar wrappers that I bought in the county."

Zhu Xiaomin smiled: "No need, we are not children."

Baldy Qian also laughed: "Why not a child? You city girls are more delicate than the children in our village."

Although this was true, it was still awkward to hear him say it like this.

Zhu Xiaomin remained silent and did not speak.

Miao Shiwen's sharp eyes saw several figures on the other side of the river, and immediately shouted: "Look, Xie Chengzhi and the others are coming out." He immediately raised his voice and shouted, "Xie Chengzhi, Song Zhian!"

The river was not wide, so the shouts were already heard over there. When Xie Chengzhi saw that it was Baldy Qian who was with them, he immediately waved his hand and walked a few steps quickly to cross the bridge in front.

Miao Shiwen smiled apologetically at Baldy Qian: "Brother Qian, let's go first." He pulled Zhu Xiaomin and walked quickly towards the bridge.

Baldy Qian stopped and shouted: "Sister Xiaomin, come home when you have time."

Zhu Xiaomin didn't even look back, responded casually, and followed Miao Shiwen onto the bridge.

Zhang Qiaomei, who had remained silent, looked at the two of them, then looked back at Qian Baldy, and asked softly: "Xiaomin, why do I feel that Qian Baldy seems to be interested in you?"

Zhu Xiaomin: "..."

Don’t you know that you don’t tell the truth when you see through it?

Miao Shiwen frowned for a moment and whispered: "Qiaomei, don't say this casually. Qian Baldy is a well-known fool in the village. It's his business what he thinks. Saying what he says will bring bad reputation to Xiaomin."

Zhang Qiaomei pursed her lips and stopped talking.

The river was only a dozen meters wide, and they quickly joined a few male educated youths. Xie Chengzhi looked at Zhu Xiaomin and asked Miao Shiwen, "Why is Qian Baldy following you?"

Miao Shiwen frowned: "When we met Aunt Qian, we went in to sit down and he came and followed us out." He briefly explained what had just happened.

Xie Chengzhi nodded, looked at Zhu Xiaomin again, and said, "There are few people outside now that the farming season is slack, so you girls had better not go out alone."

Although they were across the river just now, he could clearly see that the bald man with money had been crowding around Zhu Xiaomin.

Miao Shiwen nodded: "It's just New Year's greetings today. Who knows, he will follow."

Listening to the two people talking, Zhu Xiaomin felt indescribably strange.

In the last life, although she knew that Bald Qian bullied men and dominated women, he never thought about her. What happened in this life? She didn't know whether Bald Qian was ill or she was possessed by evil spirits.

Xie Chengzhi and the others were originally from the previous group who came out to pay New Year greetings. When this happened, they didn't feel comfortable letting the three girls go back by themselves, so they followed them back to the educated youth point.

It's just that Zhu Xiaomin and the other two are unmarried girls, and it would be bad for their reputation to be rich and bald, so they all tacitly agreed not to mention it. When they returned to the educated youth spot, some male educated youths had already started playing cards at a stall, and Xie Chengzhi and others quickly joined in. There was laughter again in the yard.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, according to the custom in Yunzhong area, fried cakes are eaten.

At around noon, several male educated youths helped to light the fire, fetch water, and steam the cake noodles first. The three female educated youths here mixed the two fillings to be used, mixed the flour, and cut shredded radish and potatoes. Add some home-grown bean sprouts and mix two large pots of cold vegetables.

The other thing is to make soup with the removed mutton bones, add some mutton offal, vermicelli and various vegetables. Zhu Xiaomin started to stir-fry the red chili oil for seasoning.

During the Chinese New Year in previous years, the oil used was all cobbled together by everyone, and there wasn't much. It was said to be fried cakes, but they were reluctant to pour the oil. At best, they were just baked.

This year, with the support of Lu Mingzheng, he filled two bottles of oil. When the oil cake was fried thoroughly and taken out, it was yellow and had an alluring aroma.

There are two kinds of fillings for oil cakes, one is bean paste, which was cooked a few days ago before the stove was turned off and has been frozen in the yard.

The other is a vegetable filling, which includes shredded cooked potatoes and radishes, as well as celery leaves dried in autumn and chopped mountain mushrooms.

There are two flavors: sweet and salty. The sweet one naturally fills your mouth with the fragrance of bean paste, while the salty one is even more delicious. The male educated youths who eat it are full of praise.

Different from the few dishes on New Year's Eve, this big pot of mutton soup, big pots of cold dishes and big pots of fried cakes were brought in. It was a different kind of excitement, but everyone was more satisfied with the food.

Yang Aijun said sincerely: "Fortunately, there are three of them girls. If there were only us guys, it would be nice to have food from the team during work. But during the Chinese New Year, we can only eat raw food."

Xie Chengzhi nodded in agreement: "Yes, the potato slices Zhu Xiaomin cut last time were burnt even if we just fried them."

Thinking of what happened that time, several male educated youths laughed.

Zhu Xiaomin smiled: "Although we won't burn all the potato slices, Qiaomei is the main force during the New Year. Shiwen and I are just starting out."

Zhang Qiaomei waved her hands hurriedly: "So many of the tricks yesterday were your idea, and the white flour dumplings were also your insistence."

That's true, if it weren't for Zhu Xiaomin's insistence, they still wouldn't be able to eat real white flour dumplings yesterday.

Thinking of the clean dumplings they had eaten yesterday, the male educated youths immediately nodded in agreement.

I have to admit that if my family is better off, I can eat better than them.