Chapter 15

After dealing with the troublemakers who disrupted the harmony in her home, Ji Wanqing was very relaxed. She went to the carpenter’s house to buy sawdust, then stored it in her space and added it to the compost heap.

In the apocalypse, she accidentally dropped a drop of spiritual spring water on the ground, and the withered wild grass instantly revived. She was so scared that she quickly collected the grass into her space to avoid being discovered.

Therefore, although she was growing vegetables in her space, she wasn’t worried at all about them failing to grow.

With the spiritual spring water as a cheat, she only needed to water them and harvest the crops.

With Ji Jian Guo gone, the remaining three women and children were even more obedient. Su Xiu even voluntarily handed over the eighty yuan she hadn’t spent yesterday, along with the money and ration coupons she received from the factory.

Ji Wanqing was very pleased. After dinner, she specifically said, “Thank you, Auntie Su, for your hard work,” but she didn’t want any real benefits.

This hypocritical compliment depended on her mood.

Ji Wanqing never worried about Ji’s family matters, nor did she care about how miserable Ji Jian Guo was in prison.

Anyway, she was eating and drinking well every day, nourishing herself until she was white and tender. Today, when she put on her clothes, she had even grown taller!

Could spiritual spring water promote growth? Why didn’t she grow taller in her previous life?

Ji Wanqing measured herself, she was 1.72 meters tall.

Not only was her height the same as in her previous life, but her body shape was also gradually becoming similar. She had a thin waist, long legs, and a curvy figure, a true beauty with a captivating charm.

Even the old scars on her body, thanks to the spiritual spring water’s internal and external repair, had faded considerably without her needing external treatments.

When she went out last time, Li, the old lady, had muttered to Ji Wanqing: “Don’t tell me you’re a demon, you’re already eighteen, how can you keep getting prettier?”

Ji Wanqing’s senses were sharp, and after hearing this, she immediately learned her lesson. Every time she went out, she would put on ugly makeup.

Yellow foundation, black shadows, she put them all on. When she went out, she would hunch her shoulders and stoop her back, the effect was immediate, even the flies that usually flew around her became fewer.

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Thirteen days after Ji Jian Guo was arrested and imprisoned, he suddenly returned home.

At that time, Ji Wanqing was eating the peach gum bird’s nest she had carefully prepared.

It was a bit of a pity.

He was actually released so soon? She thought he would be tortured for at least a few months.

Ji Jian Guo had lost a lot of weight, looked five or six years older, and his spirit was completely gone.

“Xiuxiu, make me a bowl of noodles, I want to eat noodles.” Ji Jian Guo slumped on the sofa, weakly.

Su Xiu looked at Ji Wanqing nervously, hesitating to move.

Ji Wanqing waved her hand: “Go ahead, use white noodles. My dad has just come out of the tiger’s den, he should eat something good to replenish himself.”

A flash of resentment crossed Ji Jian Guo’s eyes.

Who was responsible for his current state! Not only did she scare him by pretending to be a ghost, but she also reported him to the Revolutionary Committee!

He didn’t know how those red armbands had humiliated him for being cowardly, making him a little confused, wondering if he had seen things.

He quickly concealed the resentment in his eyes, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the sofa without speaking.

This time he was arrested by the Revolutionary Committee, he not only owed a favor but also lost a daughter. Not only did he not receive the dowry, but he also had to pay three hundred yuan in dowry!

Fortunately, his position was of some use to Captain Chen, so he was able to escape with a small punishment.

But when he thought about the task Captain Chen asked him to do, Ji Jian Guo couldn’t help but feel a chill.

That was stealing state property!

He was so bold!

But he had reached that point, he had to grit his teeth and agree to this condition, he had no way out.

As for Ji Wanqing, this ungrateful little beast.

Humph, tomorrow there will be a place for her!

Thanks to the improvement of her mental strength, Ji Wanqing felt like her brain was like an AI computer.

The information she captured with her eyes was automatically integrated and summarized in her brain. With a glance, she analyzed Ji Jian Guo’s temporary unapproachable, indifferent expression, and concluded:

——Oh, he’s found a powerful patron?

Su Xiu moved quickly, with tear-filled eyes, she cooked a large bowl of noodles and brought it out for Ji Jian Guo to eat.

“Lao Ji, our Xiaorou’s marriage…”

“It’s settled.”

Su Xiu lowered her head and sobbed twice, but didn’t say anything. She asked again: “Then…”

Ji Jian Guo gave her a look, Su Xiu immediately understood and kept quiet. The couple ate while the other sat silently.

After eating, Su Xiu quickly filled the bowl with water for her husband and washed him. Ji Jian Guo didn’t even give Ji Wanqing a glance. After washing up, he went back to bed.

Tsk.

Ji Jian Guo had always been a bully, his sudden change in attitude made her a little curious.

What kind of trick could he come up with?

Therefore.

The next day, Ji’s family welcomed people from the Up-to-the-Mountains-and-Down-to-the-Villages Youth League Office.

Yunhe City held a campaign to mobilize young people to go to the countryside every three months.

It was now the end of the campaign, and there were still more than thirty people missing!

The people from the Youth League Office were anxious! They were urging young people who had no jobs and were not married to submit applications to the Youth League Office as soon as possible. Those who went early could get subsidies and choose their location.

Those who went late would only have the northwest, where they could drink the northwest wind, waiting for them!

But in this era, who would want to go to the countryside to do farm work? Most of them chose to drag their feet, avoiding it for as long as possible, three months if they could.

Therefore, every time it was this time, it was the most headache-inducing time for the comrades from the Youth League Office.

However, Wang Daxi, a subordinate of Captain Chen, suddenly came to the Youth League Office and whispered something in Liu, the director’s ear. The northwest immediately gained an extra quota.

The next day, Director Liu went to Building 3-2 in the No. 4 Family Courtyard of the Steel Mill.

“Comrade Ji Wanqing, yesterday your father came to our Youth League Office to cancel his medical record. According to national regulations, you, as an unemployed vagrant, should go to the countryside to contribute to the construction of our country. Moreover, you have been evading going to the countryside for two years. I can’t assign you to places like Black Province or Hunan Province for such behavior. You should go to the northwest and contribute your strength.”

Going to the countryside to be a young intellectual.

Ji Wanqing raised her eyebrows slightly.

If she hadn’t taken her household registration booklet when she searched the house, Ji Jian Guo would have probably signed her up directly, right?

It has to be said, this trick was really a bit domineering, it had a feeling of “random punches that kill the master.”

After all, no matter how strong her fists were, she couldn’t go against national policy!

Tsk.

What a blunder. Although she had absorbed the original owner’s memories, she wasn’t a person from this era after all.

She didn’t think there was anything wrong with being unemployed and staying at home. She had never thought about finding a job and staying in the city, because the original owner and Ji Xiaorou had been like this for the past two years.

Seeing her silent, Director Liu threatened: “Comrade Ji Wanqing! If you resist going to the countryside, you are disobeying national allocation! I have the right to send you to a labor camp!”

Ji Wanqing twitched her lips.

Going to the countryside was impossible.

Even if she had money and space, she couldn’t just not work in the countryside. She was too lazy to even cut pigweed now, let alone spring planting and autumn harvesting.

Plus, those so-called young intellectual dormitories, eight people in one room!

It would suffocate her!