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Huang Yingying felt a gaze directed at her from behind.
Turning her head, she saw Su Niannian’s beautiful face.
She couldn’t help but furrow her brows.
In Huang Yingying’s mind… in her impression, Su Niannian shouldn’t have been this beautiful.
How did Su Niannian, who had just been sent down to the countryside, suddenly become so attractive?
On the other hand, Lu Xingguang was still the same as in her memories from her past life!
That’s right, Huang Yingying didn’t know why, but she had also been reborn.
In her previous life, when she was first sent down to Kaoshan Village, she had fallen for Lu Xingguang.
The polite and handsome son of the factory director.
At that time, this girl named Su Niannian also liked Lu Xingguang.
Huang Yingying had secretly resorted to many dirty tricks to ruin Su Niannian’s reputation, making her despised by others, all to win Lu Xingguang’s attention.
Huang Yingying orchestrated it so that Lu Xingguang married her. After the college entrance exams were reinstated, Huang Yingying failed to get into university, but Lu Xingguang was admitted to a university in Huaguo Capital City.
Later, Huang Yingying shamelessly followed Lu Xingguang to the capital to attend university.
However, Lu Xingguang then got involved with the daughter of a high-ranking official in the university, abandoning Huang Yingying.
With no support in Huaguo Capital, Huang Yingying was left with no choice but to return to Hushi, where her family forced her to marry an old man, wasting her life.
It was through the words of other returned Educated Youths from the countryside that Huang Yingying learned of Gu Nan, a man from Kaoshan Village who had been living a prosperous life. Riding on the wave of China’s reform and opening up, he made a fortune, earning money hand over fist.
For some unknown reason, such a promising man like Gu Nan ended up with that Su Niannian. The two even got married. A few years after their marriage, Gu Nan died, leaving Su Niannian with a large inheritance—so much that she could never spend it all.
Thinking about this, Huang Yingying felt a sharp pain in her heart. So much money, and it wasn’t hers?
This time, after being reborn, Huang Yingying was determined to win over Gu Nan. Although he was now an unrefined man with little success, his future potential was limitless.
As for Lu Xingguang… Huang Yingying wouldn’t choose to make an enemy of him for now. She planned to use Lu Xingguang as a stepping stone. Once she married Gu Nan and enjoyed the life of a wealthy wife, she would make sure Lu Xingguang paid the price he deserved.
If it hadn’t been for Lu Xingguang abandoning her in her past life, how could she have ended up in such a miserable situation?
In this new life, Huang Yingying was determined to change her previous fate and become someone admired by all.
With this thought in mind, Huang Yingying gave a gentle smile and nodded toward Su Niannian, who was looking at her.
However, Su Niannian found it a bit strange. The fleeting glance in Huang Yingying’s eyes had made Su Niannian sense something was off.
Soon, all the Educated Youth returned to their designated points.
The newly arrived Huang Yingying, Su Niannian, Song Zhaodi, and Zhao Sulan were assigned to the same room.
In addition, five other female Educated Youths who had arrived earlier were housed in another room, with nine girls per room.
As for the male Educated Youths, they were assigned three rooms per block. If six people stayed in one room, there would be two extra people.
Therefore, the two older Educated Youths moved to other rooms to squeeze in with the others.
The six newly arrived male Educated Youths stayed in one room, while the remaining two rooms housed seven people each.
This was considered a way of taking care of the six newly arrived Educated Youths.
Now, the Educated Youths’ point had a total of nineteen people. Afterward, Liu Yang asked if anyone wanted to team up to cook meals together.
Before Su Niannian could speak, Zhao Sulan, for some unknown reason, had already communicated with Huang Yingying and said that the two of them would cook separately.
In the previous life, it had been the same.
Huang Yingying, always dressed in fine clothes, had actually used most of the money her family had given her before going to the countryside to buy these things. The purpose was to show off that her family was wealthy, creating the false impression that they were doing well.
In reality, she wasn’t favored at home. Her family was just an ordinary dual-income household, not as wealthy as she portrayed herself to be. However, through her own methods, she still managed to gain quite a few advantages.
In the end, she achieved her wish and married Lu Xingguang, the son of a factory director in Hu City.
Su Niannian wasn’t particularly surprised.
Then, Song Zhaodi also spoke up, saying that she would cook separately with Su Niannian.
Liu Yang and the other Educated Youth didn’t have any objections.
After everything was settled here, the ten newly arrived Educated Youth, led by Liu Yang, went to borrow several dozen kilograms of grain from the team.
These grains would need to be deducted and repaid when the work points were settled at the end of the month.
So, one could borrow any kind of grain. If their work points were insufficient, they could also pay in cash to settle the grain.
Most people exchanged for cornmeal and buckwheat flour.
Only Huang Yingying, Zhao Sulan, and Su Niannian exchanged for some extra rice and white flour.
After returning to the Educated Youth spot, the group repaid the grain they had borrowed for the two previous meals.
With not much time left for lunch, Su Niannian cut half of her meat and made a meat sauce dumpling soup.
The aroma filled the air, and many of the Educated Youth could smell the fragrance, their mouths watering as they almost drooled.
The big pot of rice also made a cabbage stew with a few slices of meat, and there was some oil floating on top of the soup. However, despite this, the taste was nowhere near as fragrant as the dumpling soup Su Niannian made.
Song Zhaodi took a bite without saying a word.
Her eyes widened in surprise.
“This is too delicious! How can something taste this good? Su Niannian, you really know how to cook!” Song Zhaodi exclaimed after finishing a bowl, licking her lips in genuine admiration.
“The pot still has more. You’ve eaten enough, I just need a little bit,” Su Niannian smiled and said to Song Zhaodi.
Song Zhaodi scratched her head awkwardly. “It’s your white flour, and you’re eating so little… I feel like I’m taking advantage of you.”
“It’s fine, I can’t eat much. Besides, you protected me this morning,” Su Niannian replied with a smile.
“Then I won’t hold back,” Song Zhaodi said, clearly still hungry. The meal Su Niannian had made was simply too fragrant and delicious to resist.
She thought to herself that in the future, she would handle the water fetching and firewood gathering, not letting Su Niannian, with her small arms and legs, take on so much work.
Su Niannian was so kind to her, even more than her own family ever had been.
As she ate the dumpling soup, Song Zhaodi felt her nose start to tingle with a bit of emotion.
After the meal, it was time to get back to work in the afternoon, so the two of them continued down to the foot of the mountain to prepare the pigweed.
As for Lu Xingguang, ever since Su Niannian started cooking, he had been sneaking glances at her.
He had seen many beautiful women in Shanghai, but none of them were as striking as Su Niannian.
Moreover, judging by her clothing and demeanor, she seemed very elegant and poised, far from the image of a girl from a humble background.
And on top of that, the way she cooked was simply irresistible. To be honest, Lu Xingguang had already started developing an interest in Su Niannian.