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

"How come?" Zhu Xiaofeng looked at her suspiciously, "You don't want us to go, do you?"

Zhu Xiaomin nodded honestly: "Yes, I don't want to!"

"Why?" Zhu Xiaofeng was puzzled.

"Why did you come to see me? You don't know it yourself." Zhu Xiaomin simply said, "Isn't it just to ask for my watch, to ask for my cloth coupons, to go to my house to see if there is anything you want?"

"So what?" Zhu Xiaofeng was even more confused. "You are my sister. We are a family. Why should things be divided between yours and mine?"

Zhu Xiaomin asked back: "If you don't distinguish between yours and mine, why don't you give me your things?"

"I didn't know I would meet you, and I didn't know what you were missing." Zhu Xiaofeng replied.

Zhu Xiaomin smiled: "Okay, now you see, I walk to and from get off work, and I need a bicycle. You can go home and send hers to me." Then he pointed at Sun Lijuan.

Sun Lijuan's eyes widened instantly and she immediately shouted, "Why? That's the betrothal gift your family gave me, why should I give it to you?"

Zhu Xiaomin spread her hands: "You see, you tried every means to take away the betrothal gift Mingzheng gave me, and now she gets angry when I mention the betrothal gift you gave her. What do you mean we are a family and we don't distinguish between yours and mine? In your eyes, anything that belongs to me is yours."

Sun Lijuan also shouted: "Isn't it? I married into your family, and you are just a daughter who married out. Besides, how good is your life? You are a cadre, you wear a Seagull watch, you can buy clothes whenever you want, and you wear leather shoes. How can you enjoy these by yourself?"

Zhu Xiaomin raised her eyebrows: "Why should I be embarrassed? My things were given to me by my husband and earned by myself. Not only do I not think about my elder sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law, I have not asked for a penny from my family. Living a good life is my own ability. If you are jealous, I have to give it to you and spoil you."

Zhu Xiaofeng said sullenly, "Xiaomin, you have to understand that I am a man, and the things in the house should have been mine. If you get married at home, your mother will not let you take these things away."

Zhu Xiaomin smiled, a little bitterly, and nodded: "Yes, it's a pity that I didn't marry out of my family. The recruitment quota originally bought for me was given to you. Before I got married, there was no place for me in the family. Don't you think it was a mistake? If you take me back, I can continue to receive blood transfusions. If you don't let me go back, I will only lose a few years in the village."

"You..." Zhu Xiaofeng was a little speechless for a moment, but she had expressed her thoughts implicitly, and she didn't know how to refute it all of a sudden.

Zhu Xiaomin had no interest in arguing with them anymore. She shook her head and said, "You don't need me to take you to the bus stop. Just go by yourselves. As you have just seen, our leaders don't like you to go to the company all the time. Don't go there in the future. It's embarrassing." After saying that, she turned around and walked back.

"Look at this!" Sun Lijuan pinched Zhu Xiaofeng and stomped her feet in anger.

"Hey!" Zhu Xiaofeng trotted over and stopped Zhu Xiaomin again. He said in a slow tone, "Okay, I don't want your things. I'll just go to your house and sit down."

Zhu Xiaomin sneered: "I told you it's inconvenient. You heard what happened just now. Do you think you can interfere with my work because I'm doing so well?"

Zhu Xiaofeng's face turned cold: "What are you talking about?"

"Tell the truth!" Zhu Xiaomin answered, shook him off and took a few steps. When she heard footsteps behind her, she turned back and warned, "If you follow me again, I will apply to go to the countryside tomorrow."

"What's wrong with going to the countryside? Do you think we won't be able to find you if you go there?" Sun Lijuan said immediately.

Zhu Xiaomin smiled and said, "I can find it, but you just have to guess. What will happen if I don't acknowledge that you are my family and say that you are scoundrels and liars?"

"You...you...you dare!" Sun Lijuan was furious.

"I dare!" Zhu Xiaomin nodded to give her an affirmative answer, turned around, and left without looking back.

Sun Lijuan stamped her feet in anger, and dragged Zhu Xiaofeng, pushing and pulling him: "Look, look, what kind of sister is this? She is too unreasonable. And, why are you arguing with her now? We haven't even bought our tickets yet."

Zhu Xiaofeng pursed his lips tightly, looking at the figure getting farther and farther away, with confusion in his eyes.

After all these years of separation, this sister has really changed. When did she become so sharp? She is no longer like when she was little, and she doesn't take whatever he says as her own.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Sun Lijuan got even angrier. She punched him and asked, "Why don't you say something? Are you just going to let it go?"

Zhu Xiaofeng grabbed her hand and said helplessly: "Don't you see, even if we follow her, she won't give in."

"Just let it go like this?" Sun Lijuan widened her eyes.

Zhu Xiaofeng looked at her and said, "If she really goes back to the village, we really have no way to deal with it."

"Why?" Sun Lijuan asked back.

"Didn't you hear what people there said about her? Not to mention that brigade, even the production of the entire commune depended on her. There was a conflict in a certain brigade, and she reported it to the police, and more than a dozen people from that brigade were shot. If we went there and really pissed her off, there would be no need for us to do anything else, those mountain guys would just beat us up and throw us out," said Zhu Xiaofeng.

Sun Lijuan shuddered for no reason, but she was a little unconvinced, muttering: "They are just a bunch of mountain men, do you believe them? Besides, do they have the guts to beat us?"

Zhu Xiaofeng shook his head: "Poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people, don't you know?"

"So, let's just leave it at that?" Sun Lijuan stared with a look of unwillingness.

Zhu Xiaofeng thought for a moment, then turned and left: "Let's go home. She won't be back for the New Year, so we'll bring mom over and see how long she can be stubborn."

Zhu Xiaomin walked for a while and made sure that the two people did not follow her, then she turned a corner and took a shortcut home.

He Lanfang had returned earlier, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her: "I was just thinking, if you don't come back, I'll ask Sister He and the others for help, and come with me to find you."

Zhu Xiaomin laughed and said, "They wouldn't kill for money." After saying this, she washed her hands, played with her son for a while, and then handed him to He Lanfang. She and Mrs. Jiang went to cook.

In the following days, Zhu Xiaofeng did not show up again. Zhu Xiaomin guessed that he had returned to Hedong, so she no longer took it to heart and focused on her work.

The meeting that day was indeed about the promotion of improved corn. The Agricultural Bureau had limited staff and power, so the administrative office planned to wait until the exact output was known, and then promote it to the counties in the name of the administrative office. The specific work would then be handed over to the Agricultural Bureau.

After coming out of the meeting room of the administrative office, Zheng Jianye called another short meeting with the people in his unit and said to Zhu Xiaomin, "You need to keep a close eye on the yield of the improved corn experimental field and report it as soon as you have the data. We need to promote the work in the entire region and cannot wait until the end of the year. We must start right away."