People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 14

The rain continued until dark, and Gu Nianwei missed the bus back to Zao Township that day. Gu Nianwei went to the house she rented in the county town. The next day, the sky had cleared up, and Gu Nianwei went to the station early in the morning. When she returned to the educated youth point, Jiang Youtao and the others had just gotten up.

Gu Nianwei hurried to wash and eat. It was Zhao Yonglan’s turn to cook for a few days. Zhang Huihui no longer humiliated herself after helping her twice and being scolded by her. Zhao Yonglan cooked alone.

Her family was well-off, and her mother was a full-time housewife who took care of everything at home. Zhao Yonglan had never learned how to cook since she was young. She boiled a pot of water like Zhang Huihui did and poured the cornmeal that everyone was going to eat in the morning into the pot all at once. Because she poured too much at once and didn’t know how to cook, the pot soon became burned.

The burnt smell attracted everyone who was resting in the dormitory.

“Are you a pig? You can’t even cook!”

Zhao Rongguang looked at the pot of cornmeal in the pot that was no longer edible, and he immediately made a fuss. He was wearing a lake blue work suit, and his hair was neatly parted in the middle.

He was an outlier in the educated youth camp. His parents were both government officials, and he went to the countryside just to gild his identity. On the first day he arrived at the production team, he had an agreement with the team leader that he would not share the team’s food but would pay for his food and drink. He would even help buy things that the production team could not buy.
The only requirement was that he wouldn’t go to work, but his work points would be recorded in the public centimeter book.

He was often not at the educated youth camp, and new educated youth like Zhao Yonglan had not spoken to him many times so far.

Zhao Yonglan was already feeling guilty for ruining the meal, and Zhao Rongguang’s shouting and the condemning eyes of the educated youth who came one after another made Zhao Yonglan turn the guilty feeling into anger: “How can you talk like that? You are a pig, and your whole family is a pig.”

Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei stood together, looking at Zhao Yonglan with emotion in their hearts. Sure enough, when you curse someone, the whole family is implicated, no matter what era it is.

As the children of cadres, Zhao Yonglan is aggressive, and Zhao Rongguang is no less aggressive, but most of his family members are in politics, so he is much more low-key and introverted.

Compared with Zhao Yonglan, who was hated by everyone after ten days, Zhao Rongguang is mostly praised by everyone.

But being low-key and introverted does not mean that he has no temper. On the contrary, he has a pretty bad temper.

Last year, there was a drought, and the Wangzhuang Brigade next door came to release water from their brigade’s fields in the middle of the night. Zhao Rongguang, who was coming back from playing cards in the town, happened to see it. He was very comfortable staying in Liushugou. Although he rarely participated in group activities, he still felt a sense of belonging to the Liushugou Brigade.

He rushed up to stop them without saying a word and fought with two people from the Wangzhuang Brigade. In the end, he was injured, and the two people didn’t get anything good.

This incident made Zhao Rongguang integrate into the Liushugou Brigade at once. He now gets along very well with the young people in the brigade. It’s almost like a family.

“What’s wrong with me saying that? If you can’t cook, just say it directly. If you pretend that you can cook and waste everyone’s food, you deserve to be scolded, and you should pay compensation.” Zhao Rongguang snorted, “Miss Zhao, you will pay compensation, will you?”

In less than half a month, Zhao Yonglan had revealed everything about her family. The deputy director’s daughter’s identity made her the focus of attention in the village.

Those young people in the village who originally didn’t like her also began to pay attention to her. Zhao Rongguang hung out with them all day and heard them talk about Zhao Yonglan.

Zhao Yonglan was unwilling to pay compensation. She had not prepared enough food during this period. If she didn’t have enough food, she would get it from others. In more than ten days, she had almost one pound of food left. She had planned that when she saved more, she would go to the grain station to exchange for fine grain and send it back.

Her younger brother was in poor health and had to eat fine grain every day. If she sent it back, her parents would definitely praise her.

But looking at Zhao Rongguang’s mocking face and thinking about the deeds she had heard about Zhao Rongguang in the brigade during this period, Zhao Yonglan was scared.

She stiffened her neck and said, “I’ll pay it, just wait.” Zhao Yonglan ran back to the dormitory and soon got food, which was almost the same as the food everyone had collected.

Seeing this, Jiang Youtao and the others had nothing to say. Anyway, they didn’t lose much.

Li Yunying said, “Zhao Yonglan can’t cook, so we won’t need her to cook in the future. Then let’s follow the old calendar. Pick up firewood or carry water. Zhao Yonglan, you have to choose one.”

Zhao Yonglan didn’t want to choose either. She wanted to do nothing and just wait for food. But she already knew that this was not a TV factory and that no one would spoil her.

After a long while, she stammered, “I’ll pick up firewood.”

The Northeast started to get cold after the beginning of autumn. In the current situation of coal shortages, the importance of firewood is self-evident.

This was an era when people in the village would take back a palm-length branch to burn on the road.

Zhao Yonglan felt bored and embarrassed just thinking about picking up firewood for the educated youth every day. She turned around and ran out. Zhou Zhenfeng, in the crowd, glanced at Jiang Youtao and quietly chased after her.

According to the educated youth’s shift schedule, it was Jiang Youtao’s turn after Zhao Yonglan’s shift. Now that Zhao Yonglan was not doing it, Jiang Youtao asked Zhao Yonglan to clean up the mess and rolled up her sleeves to cook.

She grew up in an orphanage. From a young age, they had to do what they could. When they were nine years old, just taller than the stove, they had to learn to cook. Most of the people who came out of their orphanage had very good cooking skills.

After entering society, even if they had no money, as long as they had rice and vegetables, they would not starve to death.

Soon, a pot of rice dumplings came out of the pot. Jiang Youtao cut some pickles that Li Yunying and the others had made before and went to the vegetable garden outside to cut a handful of leeks and stir-fry them.

After eating in a hurry, it was time to go to work. The educated youth hurried to gather. The team members had arrived at the place in advance, and Jiang Youtao hurried to the second group to find Xu Dazui to report.
Xu Dazui handed her a few red sand apples: “My sand apples are ripe, I’ll bring you one to try.”

Jiang Youtao was generous. After getting familiar with Xu Dazui and the others, she would especially take some snacks to share with the three of them.

When the food came into their hands, they only ate a bite, then took it home and shared it with their grandsons.

They were not ungrateful, and they had brought food to Jiang Youtao a lot these days.
Jiang Youtao took a bite, and it was sour, sweet, and very crisp.

The captain was walking in front with the flag,
Fourth Aunt Jiang approached Jiang Youtao and asked her secretly, “Youtao, do you have any brown sugar tickets? Can I buy some from you?”

Fourth Aunt Jiang’s daughter had just given birth to her third child, but brown sugar is hard to buy these days. Her daughter has not eaten brown sugar-poached eggs even halfway through her confinement. Fourth Aunt Jiang was heartbroken.

When Jiang Youtao went to the countryside, Ying Caixia gave her brown sugar, but she kept it in her space without eating it. Upon hearing this, she said, “Yes, but not much, only half a catty. If you don’t mind, I’ll bring it to you in the afternoon.”

Fourth Aunt Jiang was overjoyed and said, “What are you talking about, kid? You can give it back to me. I’m so grateful to you. Don’t worry, I’ll give you a little more, no matter how much it costs outside. I will never let you suffer a loss.”

Sugar has always been a scarce commodity. It is not necessarily available on the black market, even if you spend a lot of money. Fourth Aunt Jiang has asked her son to go twice but still can’t buy it. Give Jiang Youtao more money so that it will be easier to ask for it later.

Rural women have wisdom in all aspects.

If it were in the future, she would have given half a pound of brown sugar, but now she couldn’t afford it, so she nodded generously without being pretentious.

Fourth Aunt Jiang was even happier. With this brown sugar, she could stand up straight when she went to her son-in-law’s house, and her petty mother-in-law could look up to her daughter.

When they arrived at the end of the field, Fourth Aunt Jiang not only did her own work but also rushed to help Jiang Youtao. While Jiang Youtao was slacking off, she decided to give Fourth Aunt Jiang a white rabbit milk candy when she ate candy in the afternoon.

Milk candy is precious these days, and it was given to her by her uncle. She felt bad if she gave too much.

After slacking off until work was over, Jiang Youtao went back with Gu Nianwei. On the way, Jiang Youtao stuffed a piece of beef jerky into Jiang Youtao’s hand.

“My cousin is a soldier in Mongolia and sent some beef jerky. My aunt gave me some.” Gu Nianwei put the beef jerky in her mouth and chewed it.

The cousin and aunt were all her own nonsense, but this beef jerky was indeed from Mongolia. She had stored several hundred kilograms of it. She chewed it whenever she had time in the past two years, and it tasted very good.

Jiang Youtao hadn’t seen meat for more than ten days, and she was really greedy. The melon-eating system had also learned its lesson recently. As long as she wanted to take advantage of it, it would disappear.

This made Jiang Youtao, who had always been unilaterally crushing the system, a little depressed.

The beef jerky was spicy, and the beef flavor was very strong. It was spicy, fragrant, and numbing. It was so delicious that Jiang Youtao was about to cry.

She grabbed Gu Nianwei’s hand and said, “Sister, please help me contact your cousin and ask him to help me get two kilograms of beef jerky. I’m willing to pay any price.”

Jiang Youtao’s eyes were filled with tears.

She had seen clearly that the melon-eating system wasn’t just a pie-in-the-sky system. As long as you complete the task, you can eat well and wear warm clothes. You can also reach the peak of your life.
It’s all bullshit. Since she traveled through time, except for the batch of supplies she got from the melon-eating system at the beginning, she has never gotten anything from the melon-eating system.

There are no missions at all. The only use of the melon-eating system for her now is storage space.

Systems are just like men; they are all unreliable.

As a woman who likes meat to the point of being inseparable from it every day, Jiang Youtao ate meat dumplings yesterday and beef jerky today, which aroused Jiang Youtao’s appetite so much that she couldn’t bear it during this period.

Sure enough, if you want to eat meat, you have to rely on yourself! She decided that she would follow Gu Nianwei in the future. Gu Nianwei would be her big sister in the future. She would do whatever she asked her to do without violating the law or morality.

As for the melon-eating system and various melon-eating characters, let it go. Anyway, she has figured out that this melon-eating system is different from the awesome systems in the novels she read before that have punishment mechanisms for the host. The melon-eating system does not have it, so why should she be afraid of it? If you have the guts, just wipe her out.

As a melon-eater of the new century, Jiang Youtao possesses all the characteristics of young people in the new era, such as being bold.

The melon-eating system has been released by Jiang Youtao, and Jiang Youtao’s thoughts have been read by it without a single omission.

The melon-eating system was so aggrieved that tears were about to fall: [Host, you probably forgot that since we traveled through the gap in time and space to come to this era, you have unilaterally blocked me. Even if I want to send you a task, I can’t send it out. ]

Jiang Youtao was dumbfounded. She thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed the case.
The total time she released the system was estimated to be less than ten hours.

So after all the fuss, the clown turned out to be her?

In order to prevent Jiang Youtao from locking itself in the small black room, the melon-eating system quickly issued a task: [Ding~~~ Triggering the key plot, please take your position and go to the Lin family to eat melons immediately. The task reward is random.]