People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 11

Gu Nianwei came back just when Jiang Youtao was about to reach the educated youth point.

Her face was flushed from running. Jiang Youtao pretended to be indifferent and asked, “What did that aunt ask you to do?”

Gu Nianwei fanned herself with her hands and said, “She asked me to go to her house for dinner, but I didn’t agree.”

The relationship between Aunt Wei Hong and Gu Nianwei was the same as the relationship between Jiang Youtao and Xu Dazui today. They were both the people who took Gu Nianwei to work after she went to the countryside. After

Gu Nianwei traveled here, and she felt that Aunt Wei Hong was pretty good. She was not like other women who liked to gossip or pry into things. It was quite pleasant to work with her.

But recently, she doesn’t know what happened. She always wanted to ask her to have dinner.

Gu Nianwei had no shortage of food and drink. She had a lot of food in her space. She even packed one or two hundred portions of spicy crayfish and kept them. Anyway, things put in the space would not deteriorate, and it didn’t matter how long they were kept.

Aunt Wei Hong’s family is large, with more than ten people in total, including her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren. There are few strong laborers in the family and many children. She doesn’t want to join in the fun, nor is she willing to do favors. Since ancient times, favors have been the most difficult to owe.

“Oh, so that’s it.” Jiang Youtao didn’t intend to talk about it in depth. Everything should be done step-by-step. Her relationship with Gu Nianwei is not good enough to interfere with other people’s feelings.

If she talks about it now, it will not only hurt feelings but also easily leave a bad impression.

What she has to do is lurk in the early stages and wait until Gu Nianwei and Lin Jianzhong go on a blind date before she can make a move, so that she can ensure a one-shot kill.

Gu Nianwei didn’t say much, and they went into the educated youth site hand in hand. They went to get a basin and towel to wash their faces and hands.

Zhao Yonglan and Zhang Huihui also came back. Zhao Yonglan pouted and was angry, and Zhang Huihui leaned against the firewall without saying a word, and her face didn’t look very good.

Jiang Youtao didn’t ask or care; she washed her hands and face and went to the kitchen with Gu Nianwei.

Li Yunying was already setting up the table. Gu Nianwei walked over to her and helped her serve the dishes. She asked, “What’s going on in our house?”

“Zhao Yonglan asked Zhang Huihui to work for her.”

Li Yunying and Zhao Yonglan were in the same group. She had been complaining about being tired and hot since they went to the fields in the morning. She didn’t do much work; everyone knew about it.

Zhang Huihui was in the fourth group. She worked well and got along well with the villagers. When it was almost time to get off work, Zhao Yonglan ran to Zhang Huihui and asked her to work for her.

This move shocked the villagers around.

Every year, educated youth went to the countryside, and there were many educated youth who couldn’t do farm work, but it was the first time that she had seen such a big guy who asked another educated youth to help her work so confidently.

Li Yunying knew with her toes that this matter would spread throughout the production team within an afternoon.

By then, the reputation of these educated youth would be damaged again.

After working in the countryside for many years, Li Yunying knew that, in the eyes of the villagers, the educated youth were all the same.

If someone did something out of the ordinary, they would not name someone, but would only say which brigade’s educated youth.

Gu Nianwei and Jiang Youtao thought of the same sentence at the same time: Are you okay?

Li Yunying continued: “This incident has a big impact. To put it simply, there are bullies among our educated youth.

The phenomenon exists. To put it in a broader sense, isn’t this just the way the maids and young ladies in the old society did it?”

In this world, even an ordinary thing can be misinterpreted to mean something else. It is hard not to think too much about Zhao Yonglan’s attitude.

“Just wait; the team leader will have to talk to her in a while.”

Li Yunying’s words came true. Just after she finished her meal and was about to rest, the team leader came and called for Zhao Yonglan by name. Zhao Yonglan was stunned.

She never thought that the team leader would look for her, and she hesitated to go out.

The team leader called out again outside, and Zhao Yonglan opened the door and went out. When she went out, the educated youth in the entire educated youth point could not sleep and all pricked up their ears to listen to the sounds outside.

In order to avoid suspicion, the team leader talked to Zhao Yonglan directly in the yard.

“Comrade Zhao Yonglan, I just received feedback from the masses that you were not only lazy when you went to work this morning but also behaved like a capitalist lady, asking Comrade Zhang Huihui to help you with your work.”

When the hat of Miss Capitalism was put on Zhao Yonglan, her face turned pale.

As the daughter of the deputy factory director, no one knew better than her what would happen if this hat was put on. Not only would she be sent to the farm for labor reform, but her father’s job at the TV factory would also be affected.

As the initiator of all this, she would definitely be criticized by the whole family. By then, her parents would not only not send her money or tickets, but it would be good if they didn’t come to the countryside to strangle her to death.

She hurriedly explained: “Captain, don’t listen to nonsense; I don’t have such an idea. Huihui and I are good friends who grew up together. We were just joking today. If you don’t believe me, ask her.”

The captain didn’t have to put this hat on Zhao Yonglan. The emergence of a capitalist on the team was not friendly to him as the captain. The main purpose of the captain’s visit today was to curb Zhao Yonglan’s evil spirit so that she would not go further and further and make a mess.

Zhang Huihui, who was named by Zhao Yonglan, hurriedly opened the door and went out. When the captain asked her, she nodded slowly under Zhao Yonglan’s gaze.

Zhang Huihui thought clearly that her parents were working under Zhao Yonglan’s father. If Zhao Yonglan’s family could not be completely crushed today, then today’s matter can only be hastily dealt with like now.

Even the current result is the best result for her. If the team doesn’t care about Zhao Yonglan, then she will definitely be like before, not only doing her own work but also helping Zhao Yonglan.

No one is born to be someone else’s slave, and Zhang Huihui is the same.

She believes that after today, Zhao Yonglan will never dare order her or Liu Yingjun so unscrupulously again.

The team leader looked at Zhang Huihui for a long time and nodded: “Since you all said so, then this kind of thing will end here. I don’t want similar incidents to happen again in the future. Okay, you take a nap; I’m leaving.”

The team leader left, and Zhang Huihui didn’t look at Zhao Yonglan and went straight back to the house. Zhao Yonglan followed a while later. She lay on the quilt, and soon there was sobbing.

No one went to comfort her.

After doing the morning’s work, everyone was very tired, and everyone fell asleep listening to Zhao Yonglan’s crying.

There was a gong sound outside. Gu Nianwei pushed Jiang Youtao, who immediately woke up. Gu Nianwei rummaged through the cabinet at the foot of the kang, took out a pair of knitted gloves, and handed them to Jiang Youtao.

Jiang Youtao thanked her, got off the kang, and went out to work.

Li Yunying, Zhang Huihui, and Zhao Yonglan also got up. Zhao Yonglan’s eyes were red and swollen, but no one asked any more questions.

The work in the afternoon was still weeding, but this time Zhao Yonglan didn’t dare to complain about being tired or hot, nor did she dare to go to Group 4 to ask Zhang Huihui to help her.

Jiang Youtao still got along well with the aunts.

This time she still heard a lot of gossip, and the most exciting thing for them was that the eldest grandson of the branch secretary, Su Yang, would get married at the end of the month.

“That girl is 18 years old and graduated from junior high school. It is said that she is a classmate of Su Yang and is a good match for Su Yang.”

Su Yang, the grandson of the village party secretary, is one of the few students in Liushugou Brigade. Su Yang is now in her second year of high school and will graduate at the end of September. When high school students graduate, they can go to the commune to eat state-owned grain by making some connections.

“If you ask me, Dingbang from the party secretary’s family is not bad. If he hadn’t had diarrhea when he was taking the high school entrance examination, he would be a high school student now.”

The third child in the village party secretary’s family is called Su Dingbang. He is the son of the village party secretary and his wife, who is one year older than Su Yang.

It is not uncommon for mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law to have confinement at the same time in this era. It is also common for the eldest sister-in-law to breastfeed the younger sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

“It’s a pity for Dingbang.” Xu Dazui and others sighed.

“Doesn’t that mean that the young wife and Su Yangdingbang are classmates?”

“That’s right.”

Jiang Youtao was completely clueless. She had no idea who they were talking about, but this did not affect her following these middle-aged and elderly women to eat melons.

Listening to them talk about what dishes and meats were cooked at noon, she felt very emotional.

The intelligence of this group of women was too detailed, and there were too few secrets in the village. Nothing could be hidden.

Xu Dazui and others talked about the things in the village over and over again. They felt that they were all old things and were not fresh, so they set their eyes on Jiang Youtao.

“Youtao, there are not as many things in your city as in our countryside, right?”

The farthest place Xu Dazui had been to in her life was the county town. She could never imagine life in a larger city, and because of this, she was particularly curious about life in the city.

Jiang Si Aunt and Zhang Er Aunt also set their eyes on Jiang Youtao.

Didn’t this question touch upon Jiang Youtao’s true nature? She thought to herself, what are these little country stories of yours? The bloody novels I’ve read can be put together and lined up from the Shanghai Railway Station to Pudong.

She straightened her face and said to Xu Dazui and the others, “Where there are people, there are many disputes, and the city is no exception. There are many cases of fathers and sons turning against each other and brothers becoming enemies, just like you said.” It was the first time that Xu Dazui and the others heard people talking about gossip in the city, so they listened very seriously and even slowed down their movements.

As soon as Jiang Youtao finished speaking, Xu Dazui took over: “Tell me in detail.”

Jiang Youtao looked at the grass in her hand and said to the aunts: “It’s okay to talk, but I have a problem. When I talk too much, I work slowly…”

Aunt Jiang pulled the grass in Jiang Youtao’s hand: “Just talk about yours; we sisters have the work. We sisters are quick.”

Aunt Zhang pulled the grass in front of Jiang Youtao directly: “Hurry up.”

Jiang Youtao groaned in her heart, thinking that she couldn’t be perfunctory to these lovely old sisters, right?

She turned her mind, and when it came to the words “exciting” and “dog blood”, a story called Temptation of Going Home jumped into her mind.

“It’s about two girls, one named Xiaoru and the other named Xiaoli. They grew up together and had a very good relationship. When it was time for them to get married, Xiaoru married the son of the factory director, while Xiaoli married a person who was neither too high nor too low.”

“Although Xiaoru married well, her mother-in-law was not a good person and always bullied her. Xiaoli felt distressed and came to comfort her.”

“Once Xiaoru came back from shopping and saw her husband and Xiaoli on their wedding bed…”