Chapter 12: Eating Together

Sun Xinxin followed closely behind and put her luggage next to Su An.

When Wang Zhaodi came, she could only sleep at the very end. Sun Xinxin finally understood why Su An didn’t say anything just now. 

Anyway, nonsense couldn’t change anything, so it was better to come in early and take a seat.

Su An put her luggage away but didn’t spread out the bedding for now. She planned to buy a straw mat to put on the kang and then spread the bedding on it. If the bedding was spread directly, it would get dirty easily.

Su An said to Sun Xinxin, Let’s buy a straw mat in the afternoon and don’t rush to make the bed. Sun Xinxin came to the countryside for the first time and didn’t understand anything, but she knew to follow Su An. Okay!

Su An looked at the situation in the house. The educated youth point didn’t provide furniture for the educated youth, so she had to go back to the production team to ask if anyone was selling furniture, and she had to buy a wardrobe.

Wang Zhaodi cursed for a while before entering the room. After entering, she realized that she could only sleep in the worst position, and she felt even more unhappy.

She looked at Sun Xinxin and said, I’ll sleep over here. You, a capitalist lady, are only fit to sleep at the end of the kang.

Seeing that Wang Zhaodi wanted to bully Sun Xinxin again, Su An looked at her coldly,

Don’t you understand the principle of first come first served? What? You still want to engage in capitalist exploitation? If so, we have to have a good talk in front of the captain.

Facing Su An’s cold eyes, Wang Zhaodi dared not to talk anymore. After all, this woman would really beat her up.

Sun Xinxin was very moved by Su An’s appearance of defending her. From now on, she would be Su An’s little henchman and would definitely repay Su An.

At this time, a female educated youth came in and introduced herself. My name is Li Chunling. I am the female team leader of the educated youth point.

You female educated youths can come to me if you have any problems in the future. Today is your first time here. We old educated youths will treat you to a meal later.

After hearing what Li Chunling said, Sun Xinxin took out a box of canned pork belly from her schoolbag and handed it to Li Chunling. Li educated youth, my name is Sun Xinxin.

I just came to the countryside and hope that you old educated youths will take care of me. Today you are treating us to a meal. Take this can of meat and treat it as my treat for everyone.

Li Chunling looked at the can of meat handed over by Sun Xinxin and couldn’t bear to refuse. They, the educated youths who went to the countryside, hadn’t eaten meat for a long time. Now they really wanted to eat meat.

Since Sun Xinxin treated them to a meal, Li Chunling took it generously. At most, she would take care of Sun Xinxin more in the future. Okay, Sun educated youth, then I thank you on behalf of all the old educated youths.

Su An didn’t object to Sun Xinxin giving these old educated youths some benefits. After all, they had just arrived in the countryside and were unfamiliar with the people and things here.

It was indeed better to have an old educated youth to take care of them than to have no one to take care of them.

Wang Zhaodi felt uncomfortable when she saw Sun Xinxin taking things out to please the old educated youths.

But after thinking about it, she would be able to eat meat later, and she felt much more comfortable.

After Su An put away the luggage, she reminded Sun Xinxin, Try to carry your money and tickets with you to avoid losing them.

There are many people here, and you don’t know who you live with. Sun Xinxin nodded heavily after being reminded by Su An, Okay, An An, I know.

Sun Xinxin didn’t call Su An Su educated youth, thinking that calling Su An like this would be a bit strange, so it was better to call him An An, which sounded more intimate.

Su An had nothing to do at the moment, so she might as well tidy up her bunk instead of waiting for dinner. She asked the old educated youth for a broom and a rag, and wiped the kang and the wall first.

Then she saw that the wall was covered with yellow mud, and there must be dust falling down. The walls of other places where people sleep are covered with newspapers, and Su An felt that she had to paste one too.

Although she might not live here for a long time, it would probably not be that fast to build a house. Even if she could only live in the educated youth point for ten days or half a month, she had to do a simple job.

Su An pretended to take out a few old newspapers from her luggage. These were put into the space when she looted the Su family.

She didn’t expect that the newspapers that Su Guohua usually read could come in handy now. Su An took some herself and gave some to Sun Xinxin,

Paste newspapers on the wall where we sleep to avoid falling residues. Sun Xinxin hurriedly responded and followed Su An to paste newspapers.

Wang Zhaodi saw that the two of them had already pasted the wall, so she had to do the same.

But she didn’t bring any newspapers, so she said to Su An, Su An, can you give me some newspapers? I want to paste the wall, too.

Su An didn’t like Wang Zhaodi, but she just thought it was just a few newspapers, so she gave them to her.

If Wang Zhaodi was next to Sun Xinxin, it might affect Sun Xinxin if she didn’t paste newspapers on the wall on her side.

Su An threw a few newspapers to Wang Zhaodi, and Wang Zhaodi started to paste together.

When they were almost done, Li Chunling called Su An and the others out for dinner. Knowing that there would be meat for lunch today, the old educated youths were waiting with their bowls in hand.

The dining place was a shabby big table, which was patched up and you could tell it was a bit old. The conditions at the educated youth site were really bad, and there wasn’t even a decent piece of furniture.

Wang Zhaodi and Sun Xinxin didn’t expect the countryside to be so poor, but Su An was used to these situations. In comparison, the Northeast is considered good, while the Northwest is really miserable.

Not to mention not having enough to eat, in summer, you may only be able to take a bath once a week, not to mention in winter, you may not be able to take a bath for several months.

Thinking of Su Qiang going to that kind of place to work in the countryside, Su An’s mood became cheerful.

Su An and a few others sat at the table with the old educated youth. There was only a pot of stew at noon, with potatoes stewed in pork belly, and it seemed that some beans and cucumbers were also cut into it.

Su An felt that the appearance was a bit bad, it was just a pot of stew. But the conditions in the countryside were like this, it was good to have something to eat, how could it be better?

Fortunately, she and Sun Xinxin could go out to eat alone later. If they continued to eat like this, Su An felt that she would definitely not be able to stand it.

Sun Xinxin frowned a little when she looked at the pot of stewed dishes. She had the same idea as Su An, and they were both glad to be able to cook alone.

She would cook for Su An when the time came so that Su An could eat better. Su An was so good to her and protected her in every way, so she could still be of some use in cooking.

Wang Zhaodi saw that there was meat in the dish, smelled the fragrance, swallowed her saliva, and picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks.

She quickly stuffed the meat into her mouth, and then tasted it with satisfaction. This taste is really good! Although Wang Zhaodi’s family is in Beijing, they are poor and have not eaten meat for a long time.

Now she is so greedy when she sees meat.