Today is September 9st, and all schools have started. Gu Yuan and Gu Pan also paid their tuition a few days ago and will go to school today.

Gu Yuan's birthday is September, and she will be six years old after this birthday.

Gu Sen and Fang Xiaohong discussed it. There were only two children in the family, and only Gu Yuan was old enough to go to school. The family's burden was not heavy, so it wasn't much of a difference anyway, so they might as well let her go to school this year.

As for Gu Pan, as the third girl in their family, Gu Lin and Zhang Pandi, who wanted to have a son, naturally didn't like her very much after experiencing successive disappointments.

In addition, their long-awaited son has been born in the past few years, and they are so obsessed with giving things to his son. How can they spare the money for Gu Pan to go to school?

This time they agreed, but it was because Gu Daquan and He Chunlan couldn't stand it anymore. Originally, the old couple believed that their children and grandchildren would be blessed by themselves, and they did not want to get too involved in the affairs of their children's small family.

But this time, Gu Yuan also had to go to school. He Chunlan saw Gu Yuan going to school and remembered Gu Pan who had never been to school. After Gu Yuan went to school, except for Gu Ning, who was not yet old enough, among the girls in the family, only Gu Pan did not go to school.

Although He Chunlan herself also favors sons over daughters, they are all her own children, and there is no need to be so unfavorable in daily interactions.

Gu Lin and Zhang Pandi's income depends entirely on centimeters, and He Chunlan divides the money every year. She roughly knows how much money they have on hand.

Although Gu Lin was the worst among his brothers and sisters in the family, he was only compared with his brothers and sisters. In fact, the savings he has on hand are enough to support the education of several children.

Thinking like this, He Chunlan couldn't bear it anymore, so she called Gu Daquan and scolded the two of them together.

Gu Lin and Zhang Zhaodi did not dare to disobey the old couple's instructions. Although they were reluctant, they paid Gu Pan's tuition a few days before the start of school.

Gu Pan was naturally very happy. She had wanted to go to school for a long time. Watching her brothers and sisters go to school every day, but she could only stay at home, Gu Pan felt a gap in her heart.

But now I'm fine and I can go to school.

Gu Pan thought happily.

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It won't be long before the autumn harvest is ready. Gu Daquan and several old men in the brigade inspected the wheat in the field.

The wheat in the field has almost grown. As long as the weather is normal in the next few days, the wheat will continue to fill and mature rapidly, and it won't be long before it can be harvested.

Gu Daquan had a rough idea.

Back home, Gu Daquan told He Chunlan:

"Old lady, the autumn harvest is coming soon, and the labor intensity will be high. The recent food should be better and have more oil and water. Take good care of your body, so as not to be unable to bear the autumn harvest."

He Chunlan agreed.

"Okay, it's time to take good care of it. I'll cook more good dishes for the family recently."

Gu Daquan picked up his pipe, took out a handful of tobacco, took a puff, squinted his eyes and sighed:

"Hey, the world is in chaos now. I went to the commune for a meeting today, and the director said that six educated youths, three boys and three girls, would be sent to our brigade. They will arrive in two days, and he asked us to arrange them properly."

He Chunlan frowned.

"So many? Can we work? Last year, the Dongfeng Brigade next door was assigned a few educated youths, all of whom are thin-skinned and tender. They don't know how to do any work. In the end, we have to distribute food to them."

Gu Daquan blew out a smoke ring.

"Who says it's not the case? Time is so tight that I can only find a house in the village that is a poor house, and I will ask a few people to clean it up tomorrow. I hope that the six educated youths assigned to our brigade will all have a good temper, and will not be like those of the Dongfeng brigade. A few of them, they keep going day by day.”

"Cough, cough."

He Chunlan choked on the smoke and coughed several times.

"Come on, come on, stop talking. You old man, you have to smoke outside, not inside the house. Look, it's all over the house."

"Okay, okay, I'll go smoke it in the yard."

Gu Daquan reluctantly took the pipe and smoked outside.

The next day, Gu Daquan found a few young adults from the brigade and selected the best-preserved house among the unoccupied houses in the village. The house was briefly repaired, and it was finally habitable.

Early the next morning, Gu Daquan drove a brigade of bullock carts to the commune.

When we arrived at the commune, several captains of the brigade had already arrived.

Gu Daquan exchanged greetings with several captains as usual, including Wang Chunping, the captain of the Dongfeng Brigade.

Wang Chunping had a worried look on his face and couldn't help complaining to several brigade captains.

"You don't know, our Dongfeng brigade is so unlucky. Not every brigade has educated youths who came last year, so you don't know the troubles these educated youths have."

Liu Dagen, the captain of the Red Star Brigade next door, heard this and repeatedly echoed:

"Yes, Captain Wang is right. Only two of our brigades were assigned to educated youth last year. It was really unlucky."

With the approval, Wang Chunping spoke more and more energetically.

"Your Red Star brigade is still not as unlucky as our Dongfeng brigade. Your brigade is only assigned two, but our brigade is assigned three, and each one is much less troublesome than your brigade."

Several captains looked at each other, even more worried about the upcoming educated youths.

The captains waited in the commune for a long time, and finally the educated youths arrived.

Commune Secretary Li Jiamin assigned the educated youths to each brigade in turn, and asked the brigade captains to take good care of these educated youths before sending them back.

Gu Daquan took the list and did not return to the team immediately.

"Next, I will read your names again. Whoever's name is read will raise their hand."

"Lin Xiaoyun."

"Here, it's me."

A girl wearing a plywood shirt and black pants stood up.

Gu Daquan nodded and continued reading.

"Zheng Ying."

A girl with a round face and short hair wearing a twill top and dark blue pants raised her hand.

"Wu Jianshe."

"I."

A boy wearing protective shoes and cotton clothes responded.

"Li Juan."

The one who stood up was a little girl with two braids.

"Wang Aiguo."

Wang Aiguo is a tall young man with a simple and honest expression.

"Du Xuan."

Du Xuan wears glasses and has fair skin. He is a somewhat gentle young man.

After the roll call, Gu Daquan asked the six people to put their luggage on the bullock cart and prepare to return to the brigade.

Seeing the bullock cart in front of them, the six people were dumbfounded, and no one moved for a while.

Seeing that they were all staying there, Gu Daquan could not help but urge:

"What are you doing standing here? Hurry up and get your luggage, don't wait any longer. It's getting late, we have to get back to the group before dark."

Several educated youths looked at each other, and finally Du Xuan spoke first.

"Captain, this bullock cart is so smelly and dirty, can you ride on it?"

Gu Daquan looked over sideways.

"What's going on? You don't like this bullock cart? There's nothing you can do about it. This is the condition of our brigade. If you don't want to sit, just walk back to the brigade."

Du Xuan gritted his teeth, not daring to offend the captain in this unfamiliar place, and finally put his luggage on the bullock cart.

Seeing this, other people did not dare to raise any opinions. After all, after the first shot, everyone started to put their luggage.

Seeing this, Gu Daquan nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, put your luggage away. Come up when you've put it away. We have to go back to the group as soon as possible."

The educated youths put away their luggage, got on the bullock carts, and set off to the brigade.

The bumpy bullock carts, the strong stench, and the dust all over the sky made the educated youths uninterested in talking, so everyone was quiet along the way.

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