People who eat melon are in 70 - Chapter 9

Jiang Youtao raised her eyebrows. She read the novel last night. There weren’t many scenes about the educated youths’ camp. The people and things that happened in the educated youths’ camp were only briefly mentioned. The focus was on how Gu Nianwei took care of the children after marriage, how she loved Lin Jianzhong, and how she helped him in his career.

The more she thought about it, the more her heart hurt. Jiang Youtao looked at Gu Nianwei as if she was looking at a big wronged person, with a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

Gu Nianwei didn’t see the look in Jiang Youtao’s eyes and continued, “Zhou Zhenyuan has been in the countryside for quite a while. His family conditions are not good. He has an older brother and a younger brother. It is said that his older brother and his younger brother are married, and he is the only one stuck in the middle.”

“I saw him getting along with several female educated youths from other educated youths’ camps before. This kind of person will get into trouble sooner or later.” Gu Nianwei’s dislike for Zhou Zhenfeng was written on her face.

Jiang Youtao suddenly realized: “Don’t worry, I will definitely stay away from him.”

Jiang Youtao has kept her distance from Zhou Zhenfeng, a sea king who casts a wide net and focuses on training.

Seeing that Jiang Youtao listened to her words, Gu Nianwei’s smile became more sincere.

The two of them cleaned the kitchen together and returned to the dormitory for a nap.

Li Yunying was tired all morning and had fallen asleep. Zhao Yonglan lay on the quilt and didn’t know what she was reading. She laughed from time to time, and Zhang Huihui had her back to her.

After waking up, Gu Nianwei and Li Yunying had already gone to work. Jiang Youtao had nothing to do, so she sorted out her things. She didn’t bring much with her when she left Jiang An’s country, but Ying Caixia and Hao Juxiang prepared a lot for her. She had everything she needed to eat, use, and wear.

Jiang Youtao played with the two wood carvings in her hands again and again. She felt that Ying Chaorong was really born in the wrong era. If he was born in the future, with his woodcarving skills, he would have no pressure to support his family.

Thinking of the Ying family, Jiang Youtao thought of Ying Dexing’s wheelchair with huge resistance. She always felt that she had to do something for them.

[Ding~ The melon-eating system is at your service. It detects that the host has a strong desire to shop. Do you want to open the mall?]

Jiang Youtao’s eyes lit up. Who among the young people living in the Internet age doesn’t like to browse shopping websites?

She couldn’t wait to say to the system: [Open it, open it quickly. I didn’t expect that Tongzi would actually have this function.]

The electronic sound of the melon-eating system was full of melancholy: [If the host had blocked me less a few times, you would have discovered this function long ago.]

Jiang Youtao didn’t feel guilty at all. It was impossible not to block the melon-eating system. Without blocking it, she always felt that someone was watching her all the time, and she didn’t feel safe at all.

Jiang Youtao clicked the mall button behind the bookshelf. The light screen in front of her flashed, and then a picture similar to Bing Xixi in her previous life appeared in front of Jiang Youtao.

Jiang Youtao: … Good guy, this little thing can keep up with the times.

She swiped her finger to browse the products and soon found what she wanted, wheelchair wheels.

She immediately clicked the purchase button and then got stuck on the payment column because the system showed that her balance was insufficient.

Jiang Youtao: [What kind of currency is Guabi?]

The Gua system is helpless. Jiang Youtao asked this question, and you can tell it at a glance.

She didn’t read the system introduction it sent. The melon-eating system sent it to Jiang Youtao again.

Jiang Youtao read it this time, and she read it very carefully.

Guabi, as the name suggests, is the currency randomly awarded by the system after eating melons, and Guabi can be used for consumption in the system mall.

As long as you have Guabi, the melon-eating system can sell airplanes, cannons, and spaceships!

And the things in the system mall are not things you can buy whenever you want. There is a limit on the number of purchases, and you can only buy five times a month.

Jiang Youtao closed the system introduction expressionlessly.

Why is there such an anti-human design for limited purchases in this world!

Jiang Youtao couldn’t figure it out.

She put the wheelchair wheels into the shopping cart and closed the mall interface.

It takes five Guabi to buy wheelchair wheels, and she doesn’t have any Guabi now. The bright 0 in the upper right corner of the mall made her particularly distressed.

She had been used to being poor since she was a child. After she started to earn money, she would save a fixed amount of money every month. When she started her internship, her salary was only more than 2,000 yuan, and she could save 200 yuan. Later, her salary increased, and her savings also increased. Before she traveled through time, her savings could already allow her to buy a two-bedroom apartment in a small, fourth-tier city.

Jiang Youtao felt very sad. The past could not be retrieved. Now, all the money she had on her body did not add up to more than 200 yuan.

Zhao Yonglan fell asleep outside at some point. Zhang Huihui tilted her head over the firewall and spoke to her in a low voice.

Jiang Youtao responded casually.

At 4:30, Gu Nianwei came back to cook, and Jiang Youtao went to help as she did in the morning. Zhao Yonglan learned her lesson this time and put more food in the lunch box than in the morning.

In the afternoon, she fried a leek and stewed a pumpkin, but there was still no oil or water.

As soon as it got dark, everyone washed up and went to bed.

She had a dreamless night. Jiang Youtao was woken up by Gu Nianwei the next day. She called the system to check the time; it was only five o’clock.

But judging by the light coming in through the window, it was already bright outside.

“It’s time to go to work.” July is the hottest time of the year. If you go earlier in the morning, you can do more work, and you can rest longer at noon when the sun is strong.

Jiang Youtao wiped her face and said, “I’ll get up now.”

She put on her clothes, folded her quilt, and took the basin and toiletries to the well to wash up, while Li Yunying was busy in the kitchen.

It was her turn to cook today.

Not long after she came out, Zhang Huihui also came, yawning as she walked.

When the two of them washed up and went back, Zhao Yonglan was still sleeping soundly on the kang with the quilt in her arms.

Jiang Youtao walked past Zhao Yonglan’s kang without looking at her. Zhang Huihui had to wake her up herself. Unsurprisingly, Zhao Yonglan took out her morning grudge on her.

Zhang Huihui dared not say anything.

Jiang Youtao sighed in her heart and went to the kitchen with her lunch box. In the morning, they had corn porridge and coarse-grain steamed bread. Each person had two, each as big as Jiang Youtao’s fist.

Jiang Youtao didn’t eat in the kitchen but took it back to the dormitory.

Gu Nianwei was there too.

Jiang Youtao took out the pickles that she hadn’t finished on the train and shared them with her. Gu Nianwei was not stingy either, she took out mushroom sauce.

The mushroom sauce was spicy, and it was especially fragrant when you spooned a spoonful into the steamed bread.

The two of them ate a mouthful of steamed bread and a mouthful of porridge, and they finished their breakfast quickly.

At this time, Zhang Huihui and Zhao Yonglan also came back, and they also came back to eat breakfast.

Jiang Youtao nodded to Zhang Huihui and went to wash dishes with Gu Nianwei.

At six o’clock, all the educated youths in the educated youth point gathered in the yard. Wang Shanxi saw that everyone was there, so he took them to the wheat field.

The wheat field was at the entrance of the team. There was an open space as big as half a basketball court. The land was rammed very hard, and there was basically no dust when stepping on the ground.

Many villagers were already standing on the wheat field.

They looked at the educated youths coming over and commented on them.

“These educated youths don’t look very old. Look at their small arms and legs. They must be unable to do anything. When the sun comes out soon, they will be sunburned and cry.”

The incident of the educated youth crying in the field on the first day happened two years ago, but that educated youth had already returned to the city with the help of his family.

It was not a big deal for her to leave, but every time a newly educated youth came, the villagers would talk about her crying in the field.

“Cry if they want; it has nothing to do with you. But these new female educated youth are really good-looking.” The person who spoke first was retorted, and then what this person said was supported by many people.

Isn’t it true? Among the three female educated youth who came this time, each of them is good-looking, and Jiang Youtao is the most outstanding among them.

“How long do you think they can last?” Except for a few stubborn ones, most of the female-educated youth who went to the countryside got married locally.

There are two families in Liushugou Brigade who married educated youth as their daughters-in-law. Apart from other things, the children in the family are different. Children of the same age run around outside all day, but our children can already count.

On the one hand, the villagers think that reading is useless. If they are useful, why do they go to the countryside to compete with the people for food? On the other hand, they want their children to read some books and recognize some words.

Who wants to be blind when there is a chance to read and learn to read?

“Who knows. What’s the matter, Xu Dazui? Do you want to find an educated young wife for your son?”

Xu Dazui was in her forties and wore a green headscarf. She spat at the person who was talking: “If you don’t spit shit, no one will know that you have a hole in your face! What are you talking nonsense about?”

Xu Dazui’s scolding had just begun when he was interrupted by the team leader, who came out of the team headquarters.

“We’re still going to weed the fields today. In addition, we have to assign a few new educated youth. Group 2, Group 3, and Group 4, each of you choose one person to lead.” The team leader meant that the leaders of several groups should each lead a female, educated youth.

Liu Yingjun would be welcomed by everyone, no matter which group he joined. At least he was a man, right? Even if he was useless, he was better than those female students, right?

The team leaders who were called by the team leader stood out from the crowd with some reluctance on their faces.

Jiang Youtao was called over by the leader of Group 2.

“Just follow us. Aunt Xu, you take her.” The Aunt Xu called by the leader of Group 2 happened to be Xu Dazui, who had just been scolding people.

Xu Dazui was not dissatisfied when he saw that the second team leader asked her to lead the educated youth, and he even smiled at Jiang Youtao.

Zhao Yonglan and Zhang Huihui were also asked in groups three and four, respectively.

Liu Yingjun was asked by the team leader of group three, and he was in group one with Zhao Yonglan. Seeing this assignment, his face almost turned green.

When the newly educated youth joined the team, the team leader came out carrying a red flag. He placed the red flag on the open space in the front, and after reciting some quotations, he walked in the front with the flag in a heroic and high-spirited manner.

The villagers consciously lined up in two teams and followed him.

When they arrived at the end of the field, the team leader found a high place to plant the red flag, and the team leaders took their team members to the task fields of each group.

Gu Nianwei was in group one, and their task field was a bit far from group two, so Jiang Youtao could only greet her from a distance.

Xu Dazui took Jiang Youtao to her sister’s group in a familiar way. They squatted together, pulling the grass on the ground with their hands and talking about the gossip of other families. Jiang Youtao was amazed.

What Xu Dazui and the others were talking about now was the affair between a daughter-in-law and her father-in-law in the neighboring Xiaonancha Village. Jiang Youtao was listening with great interest when Xu Dazui stopped talking.

The heart of the melon-eating person was eager to move, and she felt so itchy that she couldn’t help but ask: “What’s next?”