People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 13

Jiang Youtao also turned around to look. She really didn’t realize that the woman was an educated youth.

Li Yunying took a deep breath: “Let’s go.”

After walking a few more steps, Li Yunying couldn’t hold it in any longer. She said: “She and I were educated youths in the same group. Her name is Wang Yuan. In 1968, we went to Liushugou to work on the production team together. At that time, there were only two of us female, educated youth. We had a very good relationship.”

“After the autumn harvest in 1969, the team invited a film team to show movies. People from ten miles around the village came. It was at this time that Wang Yuan met her current man, Zhang Zhihui.”

“Zhang Zhihui looks good. There are five brothers in his family. He is the third oldest. He is very capable and treats Wang Yuan very well. Our production team and their production team are close to each other, so Zhang Zhihui would come to help her with the work whenever he had time.”

“At that time, we had just gone to the countryside, and we worked very slowly on the farm. We were often scolded by the team leader of the production team. The appearance of Zhang Zhihui was like a god sent down from the sky to Wang Yuan. It didn’t take long for them to start dating.”

“She said they wanted to get married after only two months of dating, saying that Zhang Zhihui’s family was urging him to get married, and she had already decided to spend the rest of her life with Zhang Zhihui. I thought it was too hasty at the time and advised her to wait and see, but she didn’t listen. Because of this, we often quarreled.”

“When they got married, Zhang Zhihui said he couldn’t afford the bride price, but she didn’t care. She married Zhang Zhihui with the money she got from going to the countryside and the things she got from her parents.”

“She had a good life for a while after getting married, but when she got pregnant, her life suddenly became difficult. She had to do all the work at home and outside the house. If she didn’t do it, she would be scolded by her mother-in-law. The man who had obeyed her before the marriage also became cold.”

“After giving birth to three daughters in a row, her in-laws no longer treated her as a human being. Look at her; she is the same age as me. We went to the countryside at the age of 17, and she was not even 27 years old.”

When they quarreled and offended each other, they were in a cold war until the eve of Wang Yuan’s marriage.

She was reluctant to part with the first friend she made after coming to the countryside. At that time, she gave all the money she had to Wang Yuan as her gift.

After Wang Yuan got married,

she often visited her. But as Wang Yuan became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Wang Yuan looked colder and colder when she visited her. After going so many times, she stopped going.

Gradually, they stopped communicating. When she knew that Wang Yuan was not doing well, she went to see Wang Yuan again, but Wang Yuan no longer wanted to see her.

Every time it rained, Wang Yuan would take the things she grew to the bridge of the commune to sell—sometimes eggplants and cucumbers, sometimes wild fruits and mushrooms she found in the mountains. Li Yunying also developed the habit of strolling around the commune every time it rained.

But Wang Yuan still didn’t dare to face her, and she was afraid that she would irritate Wang Yuan, so she would just leave the money and take the things and leave.

Li Yunying smiled bitterly and said to Jiang Youtao: “You may not believe it, but Wang Yuan was very beautiful at the beginning, and there were countless young men who were interested in her. Unfortunately, they all lost because of their lack of consideration.”

Li Yunying told Jiang Youtao and herself: “Youtao, in this life, you never just want a man to be nice to you, because apart from being nice to you, he has nothing. When one day he suddenly stops being nice to you, you will become the one who has nothing.”

Jiang Youtao said that this sentence was often said on the Internet in her previous life, and as a surfing expert, Jiang Youtao has seen it a lot. But Li Yunying also had this awareness, so she was surprised.

When she saw the pain in Li Yunying’s eyes, Jiang Youtao nodded: “I remember it.”

Li Yunying had been holding back the matter of Wang Yuan in her heart for a long time, and she felt much better after she said it out. Many educated youths in the Liushugou production team came and went, and there were not many people who remembered Wang Yuan.

Wang Shanxi was in the same group as her, and the two often talked about Wang Yuan, but every time they started, they would fall silent. Many people liked Wang Yuan at the beginning, and Wang Shanxi was one of them.

It’s just that his temperament was too cautious. At that time, he always thought that they were still young and that love was too far away. He thought about waiting until Wang Yuan was older, but before Wang Yuan grew up, she got married.

So every time Wang Yuan was mentioned, Wang Shanxi would feel sad. And Li Yunying was no less sad than Wang Shanxi.

“Let’s go back quickly; it might rain again soon.”

“Okay.” Jiang Youtao didn’t continue the topic.

The dark clouds in the sky were clustered together, rendering the entire sky dark. Li Yunying and Jiang Youtao quickened their pace. The summer rain came quickly and urgently. They walked and jogged back to the educated youth point. As soon as they entered the dormitory, raindrops as big as beans fell.

The two stood at the door of the dormitory, looking fortunate: “Fortunately, we ran fast; otherwise, we would have been soaked.”

Jiang Youtao was a southerner in both her previous life and this life, but after coming to Liushugou to join the team for half a month, her accent changed: “That’s right.”

Li Yunying listened to Jiang Youtao speaking Northeastern dialect in a soft and sticky tone, as if she had been poked at a funny point, and couldn’t stop laughing.

Jiang Youtao looked at her and laughed with a confused face.

Li Yunying wiped the tears from her eyes and said, “I found that no matter where you come from to join the team in the Northeast, you will speak with a Northeast accent after a long time.”

Just like her and Wang Yuan, when they first came to join the team, they spoke with the accent of their hometown, but after a long time, they all spoke the Northeast dialect.

Thinking of Wang Yuan, the smile on Li Yunying’s face froze for a moment.

With a “crack”, thunder and lightning sounded from the sky, blowing away the trace of melancholy in Li Yunying’s heart.

She herself was not living a happy life, so what right did she have to feel sad for others.

With the sound of thunder, Jiang Youtao said, “Before I came here to join the team, I heard people say that the Northeast accent can lead people from any province astray. I didn’t believe it at the time, but now I think it makes sense.”

“Yes.” Li Yunying answered casually.

The rain outside was getting heavier, and Li Yunying began to worry. She turned on the flashlight and shone it on the roof. Jiang Youtao looked at her curiously.

Li Yunying said, “It’s raining hard this time; let me see if there’s any leak.”

Having lived in the Northeast for so many years, Li Yunying is no longer surprised by this.

Jiang Youtao was stunned.

She lives in an orphanage, but the orphanage is also a building, and there has never been a leak in the roof on a rainy day. When she saw it raining, she never thought about this problem at all.
Li Yunying has already checked the dormitory.

After looking through it, she breathed a sigh of relief: “Fortunately, our house was just overhauled two months ago, so it’s still pretty solid.”

The youth camp where they lived was a blue brick and tile house. Apart from the team headquarters, this was the best house in the village, but no matter how good the house was, it would leak.

Because they didn’t overhaul it in advance after the beginning of spring this year, the house leaked when it rained in May.

After the rain stopped, they tinkered with it for most of the day before they fixed the house.

Jiang Youtao didn’t understand this. She felt that her knowledge was not deep enough, and she couldn’t deal with things like the house leaking on rainy days. She felt that she had to read more and learn more.

After all, as a single woman, she didn’t plan to find a partner for the time being.

Ten minutes later, the rain stopped, and the sky covered with dark clouds showed a little bit of blue. Li Yunying went to the garden to pull ginger and walked to the kitchen: “Let’s make ginger soup to prevent colds.”

In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, drinking ginger soup is considered by everyone to be the most effective way to prevent colds.

The ginger soup was ready, and Jiang Youtao drank a whole bowl of it. Zhao Yonglan, Zhang Huihui, and the other two also came back. Their clothes were wet, and they went to change clothes as soon as they entered the house.

Li Yunying asked them to drink ginger soup. She boiled a whole pot—enough for all the educated youth.

After drinking the ginger soup, her body was warm, and Jiang Youtao fell asleep on the kang. Before going to bed, she was still thinking that the people at the post office said that the recipient would receive the telegram in two to six hours, and she didn’t know whether Ying Chaorong and Ying Caixia had received it.

When Jiang Youtao fell asleep, Gu Nianwei was experiencing an escape in the county town 20 kilometers away.

Gu Nianwei’s space brought a lot of supplies, but she didn’t have money in this era.

In her previous life, she relied on renting a house to have food and clothing, but in this life, she became a little-educated youth who was not loved by her father and mother. Gu Nianwei’s biggest obsession was to buy a house. But this time she didn’t plan to buy a house in her hometown in her previous life. Her eyes fell on the more prosperous capital city of Shencheng.

But one of these two places is the capital of the country, and the other is an international metropolis, and the housing prices are not cheap. If she wants to make a fortune in real estate, she must have saved enough money before the reform and opening up.

Reselling the materials in the company has become her only way to get funds now.

She has a lot of cosmetics and wigs in her space, and she always disguises herself before reselling the materials. During the year of traveling through time, her business has been very successful, and she has more and more money in her hands, but it is not enough.

After finally traveling through time, she wants all the villas in the capital and the small Western-style buildings in Shencheng, not just one.

This time she came to the county town to meet a more famous black market manager in Harbin. He wanted half a ton of refined rice, and she happened to have it.

They had agreed on the price half a month ago, and this time she came to deliver the goods.

The transaction was going well, but at the moment of payment and delivery of the goods, something strange happened. A group of people broke in with weapons in their hands, wanting to rob them.

In this era, of doing such things, Gu Nianwei has always been very alert. When she found something unusual, she hid and entered the space in the chaos. But the space would not move. She waited for an hour until the noise outside became quieter. She took off her disguise and waited until the noise outside died down before leaving the space.

The rain that had stopped a long time ago started again, without knowing when. This was the first time she encountered such a thing. Even if she appeared calm on the surface, she was still a little scared. She turned several times in the alleys of the county town before turning to the main street. Because she was in too much of a hurry, she bumped into a tall man head-on.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Gu Nianwei apologized immediately after she stood firm.

“It’s okay.” The voice was unexpectedly nice.
Gu Nianwei raised her head and was stunned for a moment.

The man was wearing an olive green military uniform with an upright posture. His appearance was not outstanding but very elegant, and his eyes were clear and upright.

This was the first time Gu Nianwei had seen a soldier of this era. She couldn’t help but look at him a few more times. The soldier nodded to her and left.
Gu Nianwei touched her hair and left.

After she left, the man she had bumped into stopped, and a man wearing a red armband appeared beside him: “Director Lin, we didn’t catch the supplier.”

The man called Director Lin frowned and nodded: “Keep investigating; he can’t get far in such a short time.”

“Yes.”