Away from the big book, the educated youth became the village favorite by running errands

After entering the village, the team leader asked Old Wu to drive the donkey cart directly to the educated youth's home. At this time, the educated youth had not finished work yet, so the team leader asked the four of them to move their luggage in first. He had already said hello to the old educated youth before leaving to pick them up. He would arrange beds for them when they came back from work. At the moment, he had other work to deal with, so he briefly explained a few things and left first.

Song Shuangshuang only had two pieces of luggage, one large and one small, so she didn't rush to move them. She took out two candies from her pocket and stuffed them into Old Wu's pockets, saying sweetly, "Thank you for your hard work on this journey. I have two candies here. Take them back for your grandson at home."

Old Wu didn't expect the young educated youth to give him candy, so he refused, "No, no, the village arranged for me to pick you up, so why do I need you to give me anything, especially such expensive candy. What will happen if I take it? No, no, just put it in your pocket and keep it for yourself."

"Please keep it. I will inevitably trouble you in the future. You also saw that I didn't take much luggage. My family will send me the quilts and other things in a while, and I will have to trouble you to bring them back for me." Song Shuangshuang pushed the candy forward again, as if to say, "If you don't take it, I won't ride in your donkey cart."

After hearing what Song Shuangshuang said, Old Wu stopped refusing. He took the candy and carefully put it in his pocket, saying, "Thank you very much, uncle. My little Zhuzi has never eaten candy before. If you have any problems in the future, just come to me. Don't say you, you, you, you. Just call me Uncle Wu."

"Uncle Wu, you are too polite. How can I trouble you with everything?" After saying that, seeing that the other three people had almost moved their luggage, Song Shuangshuang also hurriedly picked up her own luggage.

Uncle Wu was afraid that Song Shuangshuang couldn't carry the luggage, so he reached out and picked up the remaining luggage in the car and walked straight to the Youth House. Song Shuangshuang fell behind and saw this and quickly quickened her pace to catch up.

When they entered the yard, they saw that Uncle Wu was still carrying his luggage. Song Shuangshuang looked around and found that there was no place to put the luggage in the yard. She could only find a relatively clean place and ask Uncle Wu to put the luggage there.

Song Shuangshuang knew that this amount of weight was nothing to a farmer, but she still thanked him, "Thank you so much, Uncle Wu. I feel bad for having to trouble you to help me carry my luggage for just two steps."

Uncle Wu waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's just a piece of luggage. Are you afraid of tiring me out? Okay, I'll go back first." Uncle Wu left the Youth League Home, jumped on the donkey cart, waved the whip and went home.

Song Shuangshuang: "..." Uncle Wu is a very nice person.

Bai Lingling, who had been paying attention to the movements here, saw Old Wu helping Song Shuangshuang move her luggage, and she felt very disdainful. 'He was just glaring at me, but now he is taking the initiative to help this little bitch move her luggage just for two pieces of candy. He is really a country bumpkin.'

Tan Anjing finally moved her two large packages in. Seeing that Song Shuangshuang had no intention of going in, she asked, "Song Zhiqing, aren't you going in?" Just now on the donkey cart, she felt that these three people seemed to know each other, but none of them spoke to each other, as if they were not friends.

Song Shuangshuang glanced at the locked door and said, "Let's wait until the old educated youth comes back before going in." The door was not locked, but only had a padlock. But they had just arrived, so it was not appropriate to go in rashly. If someone lost something, they would not be able to explain it even if they had eight mouths.

Tan Anjing instantly understood what Song Shuangshuang meant, and moved her luggage next to Song Shuangshuang and didn't plan to go in.

If you say Bai Lingling is smart, she has offended both the team leader and Old Wu along the way; if you say she is stupid, she still knows to wait in the yard for the old educated youth to come back.

Gao Wenyuan actually planned to move into the dormitory for the male educated youth, but when he saw that the female educated youth did not go in, he also stayed in the yard.

Fortunately, it didn’t take long before the educated youth returned from work.

Three female educated youth and six male educated youth came in one after another.

"You must be the new educated youth, right? I'm Feng Aiguo, the person in charge of the educated youth site. I heard from the team leader this morning that there would be new educated youth coming. I didn't expect there would be so many female educated youth this time. Welcome to the Jiangjia Village educated youth site." The speaker was Feng Aiguo, the oldest male educated youth, who had been in the countryside for 5 years.

"Hello Feng Zhiqing, my name is Song Shuangshuang. The team leader sent us to the Zhiqing point, but he said he had other things to do and left first. I'm sorry to bother you with how to arrange for us."

Feng Aiguo pointed at Wan Xue who was standing nearby and said, "This is Wan Xue. She has also been in the countryside for four years. You can follow her instructions on how to arrange the beds for the female educated youth."

Song Shuangshuang looked at the educated youth, nodded and said, "Thank you for your help."

"What's the trouble? Come in quickly." Fan Lanfang, who was standing next to Wan Xue, walked to the door, took off the door lock, pushed the door open and let Song Shuangshuang and others come in quickly.

Seeing that the three people's luggage were all on the ground, Wan Xue and another female educated youth, Lu Xiaotao, picked up the largest piece of luggage on the ground and helped move it into the house.

Tan Anjing quickly said, "No, no, I can carry it myself." Her luggage was the biggest among the group of people, so she didn't feel comfortable asking others to carry it.

Lu Xiaotao said indifferently, "It's okay. It won't be that tiring for the two of us to move. Hurry up and move into the house. You make the beds and we'll come out to cook."

As for the male educated youth, Feng Aiguo stayed behind to lead Gao Wenyuan into the dormitory, while the other five people took backpacks and axes and left the educated youth compound together, preparing to go up the mountain to chop some firewood.

The female educated youths all entered the house. Wan Xue pointed to the empty space on the kang and said, "There are few of us female educated youths. There are no empty spaces with bedding. You three can decide where to sleep."

The newcomers looked at the blackened earthen kang in the room and the yellowed newspapers pasted on the walls, and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Song Shuangshuang sighed and thought, fortunately I was mentally prepared before coming here, knowing that the environment would not be very good.

The educated youth courtyard was surrounded by a simple fence. There was a well in the courtyard and a firewood room on the left. The main room was in the middle of the courtyard, where people ate and cooked. On both sides of the main room were the educated youth dormitories. The larger house on the west was the boys' dormitory, and the one on the east was the girls' dormitory. The internal structures of the dormitories were basically the same, with a wide and long kang in the room.

"You guys go pack up first, we have to go out and cook. Your dinner today will be paid from our rations of old educated youth." The girls in their educated youth camp cook, and the boys usually chop wood and fetch water. When it's time to hibernate, everyone goes up the mountain to collect firewood. The winter in Heilongjiang Province is long and cold, and if you don't collect more firewood, it's not enough to burn.

Song Shuangshuang was not in a hurry to choose a bed. She didn't want to sleep next to Bai Lingling and planned to choose after they had both finished choosing.

Bai Lingling quickly placed her luggage near the stove, thinking that winter was too cold and she didn't have a thick cotton coat or quilt, so she wouldn't be cold if she slept here.

Song Shuangshuang looked at the remaining positions and thought that it didn't matter where she slept, as it was better than the position chosen by Bai Lingling anyway, so she chose a position next to the wall, four people away from Bai Lingling. Because the stove pit is in the middle of the kang, it can ensure that both sides of the kang are evenly heated when the kang is heated in winter. If the stove pit is at the edge, the head of the kang will be too hot in winter, but the foot of the kang will be cold in the middle of the night.

There was a separate straw mat on the kang, which seemed to have been unused for some time. Song Shuangshuang asked Wan Xue if she could use it. After getting a positive answer, she went into the house, rolled up the straw mat and took it to the yard. There was a clothesline in the yard, and Song Shuangshuang hung the straw mat on it and knocked it with a long wooden stick, which really knocked out a lot of dust. She went back to the dormitory and took a rag made of rags sewn together, ready to wipe it with water.

There were six male educated youth in total, and they used more water, so one person was left behind every day to fetch water and fill the water tank. This was also a way of taking turns to rest. Otherwise, it would be really tiring to work and chop wood every day. Feng Aiguo, who was left behind by the male educated youth, arranged for Gao Wenyuan to come out and fetch water. When he went out, he saw Song Shuangshuang struggling to turn the wooden handle of the well to fetch water, and hurried over to help.

"Thank you, Feng Zhiqing." Song Shuangshuang wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at the half bucket of water she had finally fetched. She didn't expect that fetching water would be so difficult.

Seeing that there was still a lot of water in the water tank, Feng Aiguo asked, "Why don't you use the water in the water tank?"

Song Shuangshuang pointed at the straw mat hanging on the clothesline and said, "Just now I saw Wan Zhiqing and the others cooking with water from the water tank. I plan to wipe the straw mat and fetch some water myself."

After that, she poured water from the bucket and soaked the rag, wrung it half dry before wiping the straw mat. Song Shuangshuang wiped it three times before the water for washing the rag was clean. The straw mat continued to hang in the yard to wait for drying, and she went to inquire about other things first.

Song Shuangshuang went into the house and grabbed another handful of candy from her luggage bag. Candy is hard currency in the village, and it’s easier to get things done with candy~

"Song Zhiqing, aren't you going to pack your things?" Tan Anjing just saw Song Shuangshuang taking a straw mat out, and now he came back without packing his things, but was going out again.

Song Shuangshuang said, "The straw mat is not dry yet. I'll go out for a while and make the bed when I come back." She only had the system but no space. She couldn't carry so much money with her to work all the time, and it was not safe to keep it all in the dormitory. She had to ask someone where to get a locker, and she even brought the lock with her.

"Ah? The straw mat still needs to be washed?"

Song Shuangshuang guessed that Tan Anjing had simply spread the mattress on the straw mat, and explained, "It's not necessary to wash it. This straw mat hasn't been used for who knows how long, so it needs to be dusted off and wiped down briefly."

"Then why didn't you tell me just now!" Bai Lingling stood on the kang and shouted at Song Shuangshuang.

Song Shuangshuang rolled her eyes at Bai Lingling and said, "Why should I tell you? I'm not your mother." Then she turned and left.

Tan Anjing did not blame Song Shuangshuang like Bai Lingling did. She just wanted to clean up quickly and lie down for a while. She did not think too much about it and thought that the old educated youth would usually wipe these straw mats.

Now the two of them could only roll up the bedding and put it on the baggage, and take the straw mat to the yard to deal with it.