Stargirl's guide to life in the 70s

Yu Jiang never went to the Educated Youth Courtyard in the next few days.

I only heard that the female educated youth named Jiang Miao went to the brigade early the next morning to cause trouble. She disliked the crowded and crowded place where she lived, and said that Li Xiaoya went to bed without taking a shower. In short, they just want the brigade to find a place for him to live.

But everyone in the office:….

Can they listen to Li Xiaoya not taking a shower?

Is this Chiang Kai-shek sick? Bring the private affairs of other lesbians to these grown men.

Hey, I need to clean my ears when I get home tonight.

As for Jiang Miao's complaint, the secretary expressed it generously. As long as she can find a place to live in the village, she can move wherever she wants. Or you can spend your own money to build a house.

Jiang Miao had no choice but to return to the Educated Youth Institute first.

Afterwards, the news about Li Xiaoya not taking a shower finally got out.

The autumn harvest officially began. When Yu Jiang was picking up tools, he saw Jiang Miao, whose face was still bruised.

Hmm... It seems that life in the Educated Youth Institute is very exciting these days.

Generally speaking, the brigade took good care of these educated youths, allowing them to do easy tasks such as breaking corn, digging potatoes and picking beans.

Yu Jiang, He Zhile, Zhang Tong and Lu Nanchi were divided into a group to break corn. Breaking corn is to break off the fallen corn from the corn stalks and put it in the basket. Although this work requires bending all the time, it is better than the work of harvesting rice, which requires constant bending.

They only need to put the baskets filled with corn on the field ridge, and then someone will drive a tractor to transport the corn away.

I don’t know how Father Yu did it. He could get such a rare thing as a tractor every year. During the spring plowing and autumn harvest seasons, a tractor would shuttle through the fields.

Every time, I would be so envious that the captain of the village next door would drink more than two taels of wine when he came home, and in the end he would be beaten by his wife and run around the courtyard.

Yu Jiang gave each of his three friends a pair of gloves for working. Yu's mother specially took apart the old sweaters and knitted them again.

Yu Jiang looked at the hands of the four of them that were obviously not working much, and felt that her mother was very prescient.

Yu Jiang's group is very fast.

Although He Zhile and Lu Nanchi moved a little slower, their team had Zhang Tong, who was in his prime and had experienced spring plowing, and a man who chopped wild boars with his bare hands (by mistake) and tore apart Zerg with his bare hands. The person chosen—Yu Jiang.

Therefore, their speed was much faster than other groups of children and educated youths breaking corn.

Grandma Yu, who didn't go to work at noon, brought lunch to the four people in Yujiang.

The two men, especially Lu Nanchi, who was not very familiar with them, felt very embarrassed.

Grandma Yu saw the awkward look of the 15-year-old kid in front of her and couldn't help but pat his head, "Just take what grandma gives you. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Neither Jiang Jiang nor Xiao Le can work. My child, I need your help during this time."

Lu Nanchi opened his mouth to say that Yu Jiang was very capable and could chop more corn than him.

Zhang Tong had quick eyesight and quick hands. He put his hands on Lu Nanchi and bowed to him, "Then let's thank grandma. It happens that we don't have time to cook, so during this time, I'll ask grandma to help us make one for lunch. After the autumn harvest, we will return the food you have eaten during this period to you."

Grandma Yu looked at Zhang Tong's expression of "Oh my God, I finally don't have to cook", and couldn't help but feel funny: "Okay, grandma won't be polite to you anymore. Just tell me what you want to eat, and I'll give it to you the next day." You do it.”

Grandma Yu also knew that if she kept rejecting Zhang Tong and the others, they would feel that she had taken advantage of them, and there would probably be a lot of wrangling over bringing them food later.

It's better to accept it openly and not be afraid of people's comments later.

After Grandma Yu finished speaking, she left to prevent the children from feeling uncomfortable when she was here.

Yu Jiang and He Zhile walked aside, sat down, opened the tin lunch boxes and started eating.

He Zhile felt at ease. After all, the two families were like one family, and Grandma Yu was also her grandmother. While eating, I exclaimed to Yu Jiang: "The food cooked by our grandma is still so delicious!"

Zhang Tong also took Lu Nanchi to find an open space nearby, and sat down to eat with gusto.

After accepting Zhang Tong's suggestion to return the food to Grandma Yu, Lu Nanchi also opened the lunch box and ate it.

The child who has never done farm work has not had much rest today after working all morning. He is so hungry!

The progress of Yu Jiang's group can be said to be quite impressive. Not only did they finish the work assigned by the brigade, they also harvested an extra acre of corn.

Originally, Yu Jiang and the others could only get 8 work points each after finishing their work, but they each received 10 work points.

On the other hand, looking at other groups of new educated youth, what they did can be expressed by pulling their crotch.

What's even more exciting is that, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the two current elites in the Educated Youth Courtyard, Li Xiaoya and Jiang Miao, were grouped together.

Li Xiaoya couldn't break a piece of corn in three minutes, while Jiang Miao acted coquettishly with the young man in the same group and asked him to help her work.

In the end, their group didn't even finish the assigned part.

Moreover, when the team leader and scorekeeper came to inspect the corns, there were still many corns visible to the naked eye on the corn stalks that should have been broken off.

The scorekeeper was so angry that he deducted half of the few people's work points.

In this way, Jiang Miao and Li Xiaoya would have their four work points reduced to two.

And early the next morning, the families of the two young men who worked with Jiang and Li came to the brigade and refused to let their children work with those two men.

The team had no choice but to change partners for the two, but the situation reappeared again the next morning.

In the end, the brigade separated Jiang and Li alone and let them go on their own. Anyway, if you don’t work, you won’t get any work points. If you don’t get food after the autumn harvest, it’s none of the brigade’s business.

In the next few days of work, the friendship between the four people in Yujiang improved by leaps and bounds, especially Lu Nanchi, who called each other brother and sister.

Although all four of them inevitably had blisters on their hands.

The four people represented by Lu Nanchi and He Zhile also suffered from inevitable backache and leg pain.

But Yu Jiang taught them muscle relaxation massage techniques.

Zhang Tong and Lu Nanchi went back to help each other.

Every day after work, Yu Jiang would go to He's house to give He Zhile a relaxing and restorative massage, and then go home to massage several other people at home who were working.

Yu's mother originally wanted her daughter to have a good rest when she came back, but she couldn't resist her daughter's coaxing. After trying a massage, Yu's mother needed to be massaged every day to feel comfortable.

Fortunately, Yu Jiang didn't feel tired at all. He went out full of energy and came back full of energy every day.

But the job of helping Yu's mother was eventually taken away by Yu's father.

Father Yu, who was always busy, specially studied with Yu Jiang for two or three days. From then on, Father Yu took care of Mother Yu's massage.

I don’t know how Father Yu pressed it. Although Mother Yu’s face was glowing when she got up the next day, she was not as energetic as the previous two days. She also felt that Mother Yu’s back was even more sore. What was going on?

Zhang Tong and Lu Nanchi also suddenly became the most enviable children in the entire educated youth compound.

While everyone in the Educated Youth Institute was getting up early to prepare lunch and take them to the fields, Zhang Tong and Lu Nanchi were already comfortably enjoying Grandma Yu's feeding. And only they themselves know how delicious the meals made by Grandma Yu are!

For such an autumn harvest, they would be happy to give them ten.