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

After a good night's sleep, it was still dark when Song Shuangshuang opened her eyes. She asked the system time and found out it was not yet 5 o'clock. Seeing that the others were still asleep, Song Shuangshuang carefully got off the kang and took the basin to wash up. The fire in the stove had gone out long ago. Song Shuangshuang thought there was still time, so she decided to try to light a fire and boil some water.

She took out some chopped firewood from the wood room and put it under the stove. She tried to light the wood with a match. After using two matches in a row, the firewood did not ignite. Song Shuangshuang was a little discouraged. She decided to wash her face with cold water to be more energetic. As for making a fire, she would ask the old educated youth for advice in the evening.

The door opened with a creak, and Song Shuangshuang turned around and saw that it was Wan Xue.

Wan Xue walked up to Song Shuangshuang and said, "The rooster hasn't even crowed yet, and Song Zhiqing is up so early."

"I'm sorry Wan Zhiqing for waking you up. Just call me Shuangshuang." Song Shuangshuang deliberately lowered her voice for fear of waking up others.

"It's about time to wake up. If you hear any noise outside, come out and take a look. Do you want to start a fire and boil some water?" Wan Xue saw firewood on the ground and guessed that Song Shuangshuang was planning to boil water for washing but failed to start a fire.

Song Shuangshuang scratched her face embarrassedly and nodded and said yes. She only had theories but had no practice, so it was indeed not very useful.

Wan Xue laughed, smoothed her hair which was a little messy due to sleeping, squatted in front of the stove and taught Song Shuangshuang how to make a fire. Seeing the whole process of making a fire, Song Shuangshuang suddenly realized that she didn't bring anything to start the fire, it would be strange if she could light a fire just by lighting the wood with a match. The remaining water in the pot began to steam, Song Shuangshuang quickly brought a bucket of water and poured it into the pot, thanking her, "Thank you, Wan Zhiqing, I was thinking of trying to share some water, but I didn't expect the fire didn't start, but woke you up."

"You are too polite. You definitely don't know these things when you first arrived in the countryside. Even though I seem skilled, I learned it slowly after arriving in the countryside. I couldn't even light it at the beginning, and the whole room was filled with smoke, making people think that the Youth League compound was on fire. Don't call me Wan Zhiqing all the time. Just call me by my name." Wan Xue comforted Song Shuangshuang and told her about the embarrassing things she had done in the past because of not speaking enough.

Song Shuangshuang smiled and said, "Then I'll call you Sister Wan. If there's anything I don't understand in the future, I'll have to trouble you again."

In Song Shuangshuang's opinion, Wan Xue had been here the longest and knew the customs and practices of Jiangjia Village the best. If she relied on herself to slowly learn about it, she didn't know how long it would take. She was also afraid that there were dishonest people in the village, and she was new here and didn't know anything, so she might be tricked.

The sky gradually brightened, and the people at the educated youth site got up one after another to wash.

It gets dark early in the Northeast, and it gets light early in the summer. There are only a few people who have watches, so they can only know the time roughly. So Jiangjia Village blows a whistle to notify people to go to work. If the whistle blows once, everyone has to get up quickly. If the whistle blows twice, they have to go out to work. When the sun comes out, they go home to have breakfast, take a break after eating, and then go to work again. They work until noon when the sun is full. They can take a two-hour lunch break at home. In the afternoon, the whistle blows twice again when they go to work. Of course, they also listen to the whistle when they leave work. This is a normal day.

If you catch the rush to harvest, you have to get up even earlier. There is no time for lunch break. You have to eat breakfast and lunch in the fields, and then continue working after eating. You have to work until you can't see anything at night before you can leave work and go home.

In the Northeast, except for the winter when the ground is frozen, people can rest during the winter when the land thaws in the spring of the following year. The rest of the time, people have to work all the time. This is indeed much better than the south, where crops are basically planted for one season, unlike in the south where they are cultivated all year round.

After asking the system time again and finding out it was already 5 o'clock, Song Shuangshuang decided to go to the village entrance.

"Song Zhiqing, are you leaving now? Wait a minute and I'll go with you." Tan Anjing spat out the toothpaste foam in her mouth, simply washed her face and quickly put the basin back to the dormitory.

Song Shuangshuang looked at the girl with some amusement, seeing that she hadn't even combed her hair properly, so she told the girl to slow down and not be in a hurry.

The two of them went out together and headed for the village entrance. The chimneys of the houses they passed by started to emit smoke. When they arrived at the village entrance, there were already two middle-aged women sitting in a cart and chatting. Old Wu, who was driving the cart, was sitting on a big rock at the entrance of the village, looking into the village.

Song Shuangshuang walked to the donkey cart and greeted Uncle Wu. When Uncle Wu saw that it was the educated youth who gave him candy yesterday, he immediately smiled and said, "Girl, are you going to the city?"

"Yes, isn't it that the team leader gave us new educated youth a day off to rest and then go back to work tomorrow? I plan to go to the post office to send a letter to my family to let them know I'm safe."

"I have to report to my family that I am safe. Come on board. I won't charge you any money today." Old Wu asked Song Shuangshuang to board the donkey cart and even vacated the seat next to him that was usually not used by anyone. "Girl, sit here!"

The two aunties who were chatting in the car stopped talking when they saw Song Shuangshuang and Tan Anjing coming over. They wondered where these two young and beautiful girls came from and why they were so familiar with Old Wu. They didn't expect that they were newly arrived educated youth.

The two were a little surprised. You know, Old Wu has always looked down on this group of educated youth. Occasionally when the educated youth came to sit, Old Wu always disdained them. Why did he change his temper today and even vacate the seat that was not allowed to be sat on for the little educated youth to sit on?

"Hey hey hey! Old Wu, why do you only accept our money?" The aunt who spoke was called Wang Dahua. When she heard that Old Wu would not accept the money from the educated youth, how could she agree!

The auntie sitting next to her also agreed, "That's right, why don't you charge this young educated youth?" A bus ride costs 5 cents, which is cents for a round trip, enough to buy an egg.

Uncle Wu waved his hands and said, "It's none of your business whether I charge you or not. If you don't want to sit, just walk into the city."

The two aunts shut their mouths instantly.

It is said that Old Wu has a bad temper and gets angry when he disagrees with others. However, the villagers can't do anything about him and dare not offend him. The village only has a donkey cart to pull people. Although there are cows in the village, they are only used for plowing and transporting grain. They are old, so the village chief will only agree to use the ox cart if there is an urgent matter and the donkey cart is not available.

If they were asked to get off the bus and walk to the county, it would take two hours, and they would definitely not be able to make it in time for work if they came back in the afternoon. They would waste half a day's work points and be laughed at by the villagers, so they had to hold it in.

【Ding~ Mission updated.】

Song Shuangshuang didn't expect that the system task would be updated before she even left the village. She quickly opened the system panel, and the moment she saw the task, she was overjoyed.

[Host, please build good relationships with the two aunties in the same car. The task reward is 10 points. ]

Song Shuangshuang sighed, "What do you call this~! This is called a windfall from heaven!" "It's not easy to build a good relationship."

After adjusting her facial expression, Song Shuangshuang said to Old Wu in a serious face, "Uncle Wu, you have to give me the money. You rely on this to support your family. How can I not give you money? What kind of person would I be if I didn't?" After that, she stuffed the five cents she had prepared into the hands of Old Wu.

Before Old Wu could refuse, Song Shuangshuang had already boarded the donkey cart. He sat next to the two aunties and did not forget to ask Tan Anjing to get on as well.

Tan Anjing seemed to have not expected that Song Shuangshuang could have such a good relationship with Uncle Wu, who kicked people off the donkey cart after a disagreement. Yesterday, she was only busy moving her luggage and did not pay much attention to it. She thought that Song Shuangshuang asked the uncle to help her carry it. Now it seems that the uncle took the initiative to help. After handing over the money, Tan Anjing also got on the donkey cart.

Song Shuangshuang pulled Tan Anjing to sit next to her and greeted the two aunties in the car, "Hello, aunties, I am an educated youth who just came to our village. My name is Song Shuangshuang, and this is Tan the educated youth."

Hearing herself being mentioned, Tan Anjing greeted the two aunts with an awkward smile.

Initially, the two aunts did not like the two new educated youths very much, but when they heard Song Shuangshuang say "our village", their attitude became better.

When the educated youth first went to the countryside, the villagers felt that it was not easy for them. The city kids had to leave their hometown and go to the countryside to farm at a young age. The villagers took good care of them, and the dormitories for the educated youth were better than those in other villages, and they even had wells dug.

At first, the villagers found that the educated youth behaved well, but they did not consider themselves as Jiangjia Village people. They would not say a word to the villagers and would not respond to them. They would only greet the village chief and the team leader. They felt that they should live in the city instead of farming in the countryside. They were not good at farm work, and often pretended to be sick and asked for leave to be lazy. They were unwilling to return the grain borrowed from the village, and even worse, they stole chickens from villagers' homes.

The educated youths were not good at farm work and often asked for leave. They could not earn many work points throughout the year. At the end of the year, they could not even get much coarse grains, let alone pork and fine grains. There were no chickens in the yard, so the food was naturally not as good as the villagers. Occasionally, when they were hungry, they would ask the villagers to exchange a few eggs to satisfy their hunger. The villagers then discovered that these educated youths had two faces. The educated youths who usually ignored them smiled warmly when they asked them to exchange eggs.

In addition, there were always educated youth causing trouble in the surrounding villages, and the villagers were afraid that these educated youth would cause trouble. They were also discouraged and gradually began to dislike them.

Of course, we can’t generalize. Most of the former educated youth left for various reasons. The educated youth in the Youth House now are those who came later. After finding that the villagers didn’t like them, they tried to repair the relationship with them. There are still some families with whom they have good relations, but most of the villagers still don’t like them.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Song Shuangshuang greeted them so warmly that the two aunts also responded to them with a smile.

After waiting for a while until the second whistle sounded and no one came to the village entrance, Old Wu waved his whip and set off.

Perhaps because of the presence of Song Shuangshuang and the other two, the two aunts were a little reserved for a moment and didn't know what to say.

Song Shuangshuang still had tasks to do, so she would not let the atmosphere cool down. She started the conversation by asking, "Are you two ladies going to the city to buy things as well?"

"Yes, we have run out of matches at home and need to go buy some. Does the educated youth Song also want to buy something?"

Song Shuangshuang answered truthfully, "I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a thermos. I'll also tell my family the address of our village and see if there's anything else I need to buy."

Aunt Wang nodded and kindly reminded Song Shuangshuang, "You must be short of things when you first arrived in the countryside, but there are many people in our county supply and marketing cooperative, so you must keep an eye on your money and don't let others steal it."

Another auntie also echoed, "Yes, last time I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy something, I heard that an old lady had all her money stolen, and the servant fainted from anger."

Tan Anjing, who was listening nearby, quickly covered her pockets tightly. She carried all her money and bills close to her, what would she do if someone stole them?

Song Shuangshuang pretended to be scared and exclaimed, "There is such a thing. I have to be careful and don't let anyone steal it."

The two aunties looked at the two people's frightened expressions and smiled to comfort them that they didn't need to be afraid and that they wouldn't get lost as long as they didn't get too close to others. Song Shuangshuang breathed out a sigh of relief and continued chatting with the two aunties. "I don't even know how to address you two aunties yet."

"You are too polite, Mr. Song. Just call me Aunt Wang. She is the wife of the carpenter next door. Her surname is Chang."

Song Shuangshuang!! There is such a good thing. He hurriedly said, "I just came to our village and I am a junior, so I must be polite. I also want to have a good relationship with the aunts."

Song Shuangshuang's words made the two of them smile. Originally, Old Wu was quite unhappy that he didn't take the girl's money, but now they can see how likable this girl is.