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

Guo Hongtao looked unhappy: "That's more than a month's salary, and you dare to ask for it."

Zhu Xiaomin said, "Fur is expensive to begin with. This is the price set by the supply and marketing cooperative, but it's not what we want. Sister Guo, we are doing rural work, and we can't take advantage of the farmers, right?"

Guo Hongtao's face turned pale and blue as she spoke word by word: "Xiaomin, you just got here, so you have to pay attention to your interpersonal relationships in the unit. It will be good for you if you maintain good relationships."

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and said, "I do my own job and don't expect others to give me any benefits."

Guo Hongtao bit her lip, her fingers still grasping the rabbit-skin mattress, and asked unwillingly: "Then this rabbit-skin mattress..."

"I can't give it to you, and I won't change it either." Zhu Xiaomin said bluntly, "Sister Guo, you messed up my bed. I hate it when others look through my things. Can you come down?"

This was said directly to her face. Guo Hongtao could no longer bear it. She gritted her teeth and got off the bed. She stared at Zhu Xiaomin and said, "Xiaomin, you are too disrespectful to me."

Zhu Xiaomin lowered her eyes and said in a colder tone: "Face is given by others, but you lose face yourself. You must respect yourself first."

Guo Hongtao was choked by her several times and was so angry that she couldn't speak. After a long time, she said, "I just reminded you a few things because you are young. If you don't like to hear it, forget it and just pretend I didn't say anything." She made up for herself with a few words and left in a hurry.

He Lanfang watched the door close, heaved a sigh of relief, and said to Zhu Xiaomin: "Xiaomin, just now I really thought she was going to snatch me away, but you dared to say it."

Zhu Xiaomin lowered her head slightly. She clearly heard the door closed, but the footsteps only went three or four steps and then died down. She waved at her and said with a smile, "Maybe she was just talking and didn't really want it. I'm like, how could there be such a shameless person who would take other people's things without saying anything? Sister Guo shouldn't be that kind of person, right?" As she spoke, she blinked at her and pointed at the door.

He Lanfang heard her words with a hint of sarcasm and exclaimed, "Ah!". She finally realized what was going on after seeing her gesture. She was stunned for a moment before nodding, "Yes... yes, I guess you don't really want it."

This child really won't cooperate.

Zhu Xiaomin laughed and said, "Well, I hope she is just talking. Otherwise, this is a really bad habit. It is very uncultured to rummage through other people's things. People will scold your parents."

This is even more direct.

He Lanfang stuck out her tongue and stopped talking.

Zhu Xiaomin smiled at her and said nothing more. She slowly made the bed and listened to the sounds outside. After a while, she heard footsteps quietly walking away from the door.

He asks for other people's things casually and likes to eavesdrop on other people's affairs. What kind of person is he?

Zhu Xiaomin shook her head.

The next day when Zhu Xiaomin went to work, she saw Zhang Yujie listening to Guo Hongtao's words with a helpless look on his face as soon as he entered the office. He immediately waved when he saw her and said, "Xiaomin is here."

Guo Hongtao immediately shut up and turned around to look at her warily.

Zhu Xiaomin pretended to know nothing, responded with a smile, and sat down at her seat.

Zhang Yujie actually had a favorable impression of Xie Chengzhi and said with a smile, "Why did I hear from Xiao Guo that Xie Chengzhi is getting married?"

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and said, "Yes, in the twelfth lunar month, everyone is free, so it's good to have some free time to make arrangements."

Guo Hongtao turned around and asked, "Are you free during the twelfth lunar month? Doesn't your commune have a literacy class?"

Zhu Xiaomin replied: "There are more than 40 educated youths in the entire educated youth center, but only 22 of them go to class. The remaining half are enough to help arrange the work."

"Will you go to their wedding?" Guo Hongtao asked.

Zhu Xiaomin nodded: "Of course I will go."

Guo Hongtao curled her lips: "Doesn't that mean I need to ask for leave?"

Zhu Xiaomin said, "It's also a good opportunity to check out the literacy class."

She can apply for a business trip.

Zhang Yujie smiled and tried to smooth things over: "It's the twelfth lunar month, and we don't have much to do. It's okay to ask for leave. Besides, the porcelain pit is still working." Fearing that Guo Hongtao would continue to make trouble, he changed the subject, "Xiaomin, you are helping the entire commune to achieve literacy. How are you going to do the rest of the work?"

Zhu Xiaomin said: "In the past two months, I have only walked around the vicinity of each brigade. I will go to some of their geographical locations again. Several brigades can also develop breeding industries. After the spring plowing, we will start to build them."

Guo Hongtao started to pick a quarrel again: "Didn't you say that if there were no saline-alkali land, other brigades would occupy farmland?"

Zhu Xiaomin answered every question: "Besides farmland, there are also a lot of barren hills in that mountain. If you work harder and walk around more, you can find a suitable place. You don't need to keep your eyes on the farmland."

This female comrade went to the countryside and complained of foot pain before she even finished visiting the base. In the end, someone had to be taken back to the brigade headquarters.

Guo Hongtao heard the sarcasm in her words and her face turned cold again.

Zhang Yujie asked with interest: "Well, for example, where?"

"For example, if a hillside is not very steep, the soil is mainly rocky, not suitable for growing crops, and no trees have been planted, it can be built into a breeding base," Zhu Xiaomin explained.

Guo Hongtao interrupted again: "Hillside? How can we build a base if it's not flat ground?"

Zhu Xiaomin still has a good temper: "People in the mountains have plenty of strength. They can level a hillside with a little digging. But they are not as skilled as people in the city. They only want to talk but not do anything."

"You..." Guo Hongtao was furious.

Zhang Yujie couldn't help but laugh, nodded and said, "When you've done it, I'll go see it again if I have a chance. This time it's too hasty."

Zhu Xiaomin smiled at him: "Sure."

Guo Hongtao pouted and muttered, "Why should we care so much? No matter how many sheep there are, we can't even get a sheepskin."

Zhang Yujie asked: "What sheepskin?"

Guo Hongtao immediately said, "You don't know. Xiaomin said they slaughter sheep at the end of the year. I asked for money to get the sheepskin."

Zhang Yujie immediately asked Zhu Xiaomin: "Why can the sheepskin be bought separately there?"

Zhu Xiaomin nodded: "Originally it was sent to the fur factory, but they are my own things, so I can still buy a few as a favor."

Zhang Yujie asked hurriedly: "What's the price? Can you buy two for me?" He said a little embarrassedly, "I live a long way from home. In winter, I ride my bike in a cotton coat, but the coat is too heavy and doesn't block the wind. I've always wanted to make a big fur coat, but sheepskin is hard to find."

Zhu Xiaomin nodded to show that she understood, and said, "Generally, the sheepskins from the sheep we slaughter are not processed. We send them to the supply and marketing cooperatives and buy them at 18 yuan. But for our own use, it is best to process them, so we have to go through the fur factory and buy them back at cost price, 25 yuan for goat skin and 30 yuan for sheep skin."

It doesn't sound cheap.

Zhang Yujie was thinking in his mind and didn't say anything.

Guo Hongtao immediately said, "Look, we have to pay for it."