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

After the meal was ready, a group of people sat around the table to eat. Lv Xiaotao made egg soup with the pheasant eggs, and each person got a bowl. If it was scrambled eggs, it would probably be gone with just one chopstick.

Although there was no meat, the shredded beans and potatoes were very fragrant, and the charred cornmeal pancakes had absorbed some of the soup, which was delicious. Plus a bowl of egg soup for each person, it was a very delicious meal for the educated youth.

Because of Tan Anjing's mistake and Song Shuangshuang's remedy, there were still three cornmeal cakes in the pancake bowl. The three people who knew the reason did not touch them, and the old educated youth probably knew that these cakes were not theirs, but were specially left out.

Everyone eats at different speeds. The old educated youth are used to taking their own portion of dry food as soon as the table is served, for fear of giving it to others.

But the newcomer Gao Wenyuan didn’t know, and no one told him anything, so he thought they were extra, so he reached out to take it, intending to eat another pancake with the soup.

The shredded beans and potatoes stewed by Lu Xiaotao has a lot of soup, and the potatoes are stewed until they are soft and some of them have melted into the soup, making it especially delicious with rice.

As soon as Gao Wenyuan's hand got closer, the ladle was taken away by Song Shuangshuang.

"Song Zhiqing, what do you mean by this!" Gao Wenyuan frowned and looked at Song Shuangshuang. "If you want to eat, just take one. Why are you taking them all? Others still want to eat."

Bai Lingling actually wanted to reach out and take a pancake. She had been scolded by the villagers for a while and couldn't even lift her head. The team leader seemed to be against her and gave her worse land than others. The work was more tiring and she could not get many work points for a day. She was not like Song Shuangshuang and Tan Anjing who had sugar to eat and malted milk to drink. The daily food at the educated youth center was not enough to replenish her physical strength. Seeing that there were extra pancakes today, she wanted to eat one more, but she saw that Gao Wenyuan stretched out his hand first, so she wanted to wait until he took his first before taking hers.

Unexpectedly, it was snatched away by Song Shuangshuang.

Bai Lingling wanted to agree with him, but she didn't dare to because she was afraid that Song Shuangshuang would remember what happened that day and report her.

"What do you mean? This is the ration I left for my brother." Song Shuangshuang thought to herself, is there something wrong with Gao Wenyuan's eyes? It's been so many days, and he hasn't noticed that everyone takes their own rations as soon as they sit down at the table. And there is no leftover every day, why is there only today, don't you think about it?

"Gao Zhiqing, you misunderstood. This ration is..."

Gao Wenyuan heard Tan Anjing, who was sitting next to Song Shuangshuang, speak, and thought she was going to help Song Shuangshuang. He interrupted her and said angrily, "Why do you take our rations to give to your brother? We are exhausted from working every day, and we have to subsidize your brother. You two are a family, why don't you take your own rations?"

Song Shuangshuang wanted to make the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone. Is Gao Wenyuan stupid because of hunger?

How bold was she to take the other educated youth's food and give it to her brother without their consent? Besides, she was not the one cooking today, so how could she steal other people's rations in front of Lu Xiaotao and Tan Anjing?

Song Shuangshuang wanted to explain it properly, but Gao Wenyuan got angry and pointed the finger at Tan Anjing.

"What's there to misunderstand? You two have a good relationship, so of course you're on Song Shuangshuang's side. Maybe Song Shuangshuang discussed it with you and took more rations from our food bags, otherwise how could there be so many extra biscuits. My food is all gone, how come you two still have food to eat?"

The male educated youth didn't know that Song Shuangshuang had Uncle Wu help her grind cornmeal, so Gao Wenyuan thought that Song Shuangshuang only had the 10 kilograms of cornmeal that she ground with Tan Anjing the first time.

Later, he also went to grind about ten kilograms of grain. Excluding the grain he gave back to the old educated youth, he had almost run out of it. Yesterday, Wan Zhiqing told him and Bai Lingling that it was time to grind grain, and the remaining grain they had was enough for two days.

Therefore, Gao Wenyuan naturally believed that Song Shuangshuang and Tan Anjing's rations had been finished. During this period, they had been eating the rations of other educated youth. It was possible that the rations left for her brother were also from the old educated youth.

She was falsely accused of being a thief and was spoken of in such harsh terms that Tan Anjing's face turned pale with anger and tears welled up in her eyes. She wanted to say a few words in defense but could not open her mouth.

Others were also stunned by Gao Wenyuan's words.

What did he mean just now? Song Zhiqing and Tan Zhiqing have been eating their food during this period?

The female educated youth knew that Song Shuangshuang still had ground cornmeal, and that the two of them cooked separately with the old educated youth, so the phenomenon Gao Wenyuan described did not exist at all. They felt that Gao Wenyuan's words were too vicious, how could he make random guesses and fabricate stories about the two girls.

Song Shuangshuang felt that Gao Wenyuan was a stubborn person. He was just imagining things on the train and thought that he was "upholding justice" for Bai Lingling. After being taught a lesson by her, he became much more honest. She thought he had stopped. Unexpectedly, he made trouble for her again because of his stuttering and accused them of stealing food from other educated youths!

It was really embarrassing for him.

We shouldn't have helped him on the day of moving the grain, and just let the bag of grain press him down.

Seeing his sister being wrongly accused of being a thief, Song Youlin immediately turned cold, threw his chopsticks on the table, stood up, walked over to Gao Wenyuan, grabbed his collar with one hand, and pulled him up. "Which eye of yours saw my sister stealing food? If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will beat you to death!"

Gao Wenyuan's face flushed red when his collar was grabbed. He was only 173cm tall and felt humiliated when Song Youlin, who was younger but taller than him, grabbed his collar. But he still said stubbornly, "Where did they get their food? They started grinding grain several days earlier than me. How come they still have some left after I've eaten all my food? They can even leave some for you to eat for one day. Did they not steal it from us? Or did someone else give it to you?"

Song Shuangshuang wanted to splash the egg soup in the bowl on Gao Wenyuan's face, but thinking that the egg soup was hard to come by, she resisted the urge to throw it away.

The female educated youth looked at Gao Wenyuan unhappily. What did he mean by this?

Could it be that Song Shuangshuang and Tan Anjing ran out of food and had been taking the rations from the male educated youth, and they couldn't see them normally?

Gao Wenyuan's words made the male educated youth wonder whether it was true that the female educated youth took their food as Gao Wenyuan said.

It was always the girls who cooked at the educated youth camp, and they had no idea how much grain was needed for each meal. The ground rations were put together, and the female educated youth would take them when they were cooking. If they told them when the rations were running low, they would take the grain to be ground. One grinding was enough for more than half a month.

They also didn't go to the kitchen to check the amount of food used.

These rations were all earned by their hard work. They only had two meals a day in the winter, and they were basically not full except during the spring planting and autumn harvest times.

If the female educated youth had taken their food, how much food would they have lost over the years!