Chapter: 45 The Educated Youth Point 0f Unity

Zhou Rongrong dragged the luggage directly into Feng Yuzhen’s room, and Wang Ping quickly followed.

Cui Hongying glanced at Lin Weiwan and followed in.

Lin Weiwan carried the luggage into the room where Wu Erqiao and Lin Huahua were.

As soon as she entered the room, there was a stove on the left, and on the right was the wall separating the room of another female educated youth.

Through the wooden door between the inner and outer rooms, there was a heated kang connected to the stove.

A quilt was already spread near the heated wall, and another piece of luggage was spread out in the middle with two empty spaces.

Lin Weiwan carried the luggage to the end of the kang and piled the luggage on the ground.

Du Shanshan frowned when she saw that Lin Weiwan had chosen a separate position at the end of the kang, and quickly chose the position in the middle so that she could be closer to Lin Weiwan.

Wang Qiaoyun stood at the head of the kang and stared at the kang mat in a daze, then sat down on the edge of the kang and started crying.

Lin Weiwan found a rag and walked out to clean her place. The kang mat had not been occupied for a long time and there was a layer of dust on it. After some cleaning, it was finally clean.

“The food is ready, everyone come out to eat. Remember to take out your lunch boxes.” Feng Yuzhen stood at the door and shouted inside.

Two wooden tables were put together, and the old educated youth had already sat down on the bench.

Lin Weiwan looked at the thatched house. It turned out that this room was where people cooked.

He came out with a lunch box of corn paste and sat down next to the female educated youth.

Just then he saw Ye Jibai looking at him, and Lin Weiwan looked away after just one glance.

He didn’t know why Ye Jibai was here. Since he treated him as a stranger, he would definitely not go and make trouble for him.

Twenty-one new and old educated youths sat together in the entire educated youth center. On the dining table, there was a basket with freshly cooked corn steamed bread, in the middle were two bowls of pheasant stewed with potatoes, two bowls of fried leeks, and two large bowls of cold cucumber salad.

“Today’s meal is a treat from us, the old educated youth, to you, the new educated youth. Welcome to join our big family.

We now have 20 educated youth in the educated youth center, not counting those who have left. There are also six educated youth in the village. Four female educated youth have married into local farmers’ families, and two male educated youth have married girls in the village.

Now we have formed a big family again, we are a collective, I don’t want to see anything that splits the collective or destroys the unity among the educated youth. We must advance and retreat together at all times.

As the person in charge of the educated youth center, Dong Daqing took the lead in saying some welcoming opening remarks and also demonstrated the united stance of the educated youth center.

Feng Yuzhen nodded slightly under Dong Daqing’s gaze, “Come on, everyone, pick up your chopsticks and eat. This chicken is not available every day. It was brought back by the educated youth at night. We are in for a treat today.”

The old educated youth picked up their chopsticks much faster, and the table was bustling with activity.

Cui Hongying was very happy eating the dry cornmeal steamed bun, and her eyes kept glancing in the direction of Ye Jibai.

Lin Weiwan drank the corn paste that made his throat dry, and ate a few mouthfuls of cucumber vegetables, and was lucky enough to get a piece of chicken.

At this moment, he was slowly eating a cornmeal steamed bun the size of his fist.

The dishes on the table had already been eaten up, and Wu Erqiao had picked up the bowl and rubbed it twice with the cornmeal steamed bun.

Looking at the clean bowl, Lin Weiwan felt that the bowl did not need to be washed.

The female educated youth had only two cornmeal steamed buns the size of a small fist each.

The male educated youth had it much better, with more dishes than the female educated youth, and also two cornmeal steamed buns, but they were as big as the two steamed buns on the female educated youth side.

“From now on, we are a whole. Let me tell you some of the rules of our educated youth site.

Now that the weather is warm, we male and female educated youth eat together. When it snows heavily after the autumn harvest in winter, we will cook and eat by ourselves in each room.

At that time, the weather was cold and it was difficult to go out. Each room would decide how to eat and how much to eat.

Starting from March every year, the female educated youth would be responsible for cooking, while the male educated youth would be responsible for going up the mountain to chop firewood and fetch water. When winter came, we would go to the mountain together for a few days to chop firewood and come back to prepare for the winter.

The heavy work in our private plots was also done by the male educated youth, such as turning the soil and watering. The female educated youth were responsible for weeding the private vegetable plots.

We now have exactly ten female educated youth, so from now on, two people will be responsible for cooking. You new educated youth will be responsible for the main team. We will arrange the shifts later.

Since we are all educated youth, there is no distinction between you and me. We will eat the vegetables in the vegetable plot together. In the future, we will work together. In addition to the vegetable plot in the front yard, we also have a vegetable plot in the back yard.

There is also the issue of food rations. The educated youth who came in their first year only had half a year’s subsidy of 30 kilograms per month. As you saw just now, it was 20 kilograms of cornmeal and 10 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

The rest of you have to work hard to earn work points. Although we are a large collective, we don’t have much food rations. If you don’t work hard to earn work points, we can’t help you when you don’t have food rations.

Our food rations for each meal are two taels now. You have to hand in six taels of food rations every day. After dinner every day, you should send your food rations for the next day to the small kitchen, and the two people who cook for the next day will collect them.”

Feng Yuzhen slowly explained the basic situation and work distribution of the educated youth point.

The group dispersed, and Lin Weiwan returned to the room, took out the enamel basin from the luggage bag to collect water, and took out a towel to wipe his body.

He also found a set of clean clothes and changed them together with his underwear, and started to fetch water to wash clothes.

He took the washed clothes out of the outer room and hung all the washed clothes and pants on the clothesline set up between the two small trees next to the thatched house.

This is probably the place for drying clothes set up by the educated youth point, with two clotheslines and two clothes racks made of bamboo poles.

Lin Weiwan saw a female educated youth . Lin Weiwan’s clothes were hung on the clothesline, and they were also hung there.

Underwear and small clothes could only be pressed under the shirt, and it was really embarrassing to leave them outside.

After shaking off the water in the enamel basin and preparing to go back to the house, I saw Ye Jibai also carrying clothes to dry.

When Ye Jibai saw Lin Weiwan, his dark eyes deepened slightly. He nodded slightly to Lin Weiwan and walked away.

Lin Weiwan returned to the house and placed his things under his feet.

Looking at the small wooden boxes placed under the feet of Lin Huahua and Wu Erqiao. Decided to get one for himself tomorrow.

Lin Huahua was sitting on the edge of the kang and soaking her feet. Seeing Lin Weiwan come in, she smiled.

“Lin Zhiqing is so beautiful, with such fair and tender skin. What do you usually use to wipe your face?”

“Lin Zhiqing’s skin is also very fair. I usually use some vanishing cream.”

The two were amused by the three words Lin Zhiqing at the same time.

“I’m older than you. From now on, I’ll call you Xiaolin in our Zhiqing site. Otherwise, I won’t know who I’m calling when I say Lin Zhiqing.”

Lin Huahua said as she looked at the incredibly beautiful Lin Weiwan in front of her.