"I’m leaving the day after tomorrow morning, you two must take care."
"Dad, don’t worry, we’ll definitely be fine. You take care of yourself, your health is most important."
"Yeah, I’m eating at the canteen every day and staying in the dormitory, you don’t have to worry about ."
"Dad, is Uncle Yang going to send you off the day after tomorrow?"
"I guess so, because Uncle Wei currently can’t go out.
You two go to work as usual the day after tomorrow. I’ll write to you once I get ho. If you need anything, call .
Here’s two hundred yuan, one hundred for each of you, having money in your pockets gives peace of mind."
"Dad, I still have three hundred with , and my brother’s money is with too, you don’t need to give us more, just save it when you go back."
"You haven’t spent any money?"
When sending them over, he gave them each two hundred, and still more than three hundred remains, aning they haven’t spent any money.
"There’s nowhere to spend money, and last year we both even got a bit more."
Lv Beiguang didn’t give them more, instead planning to save it for them. Now he earns fifty-two yuan a month and can save about forty.
Originally, he thought he would need to support them. But seeing this situation, he doesn’t have to worry about it anymore. They’re able to make money and support themselves.
Early the next morning, it was still Lv Beiguang who got up to cook.
He prepared dough the night before, so today it’s white flour at buns, mixed with wild vegetables.
Life here is even better than in the city. After eating their fill, they went to work together.
Wang Shulin smiled and said to Lv Beiguang, "Your work is recorded too, and will be added to Lv Jingchu’s credits in the future."
"Thank you, Village Chief Wang, but it’s not necessary. I didn’t do much, just helped my daughter, so I really shouldn’t claim any credits.
Village Chief Wang, I’ll leave the two kids to you from now on. They’re still young, if they do anything wrong, you can scold or hit them, I won’t mind."
"Haha, Mr. Lv, you’re overthinking it. Both Lv Zhiqing are good kids, don’t worry."
"Thank you, Village Chief Wang, for thinking well of the two of them."
After so exchanges, they each went to work.
For lunch, it was still at buns, they had already prepared the al in the morning.
Having just finished their lunch and not yet rested, they heard knocking on the door.
Old Yang stood up to open the door, Huang Ying, seeing Old Yang opening the door, awkwardly smiled. She was really afraid of him, and standing in front of him felt suffocating.
"What’s the matter?"
"I’m here to find Zhao Zhiqing."
"What for?" Old Yang seed a little impatient.
Huang Ying was startled, "I just wanted to talk to Zhao Zhiqing."
"You can say the sa to ."
"I don’t have anything now." Huang Ying quickly ran away after saying this, she really didn’t have the courage to ask Old Yang to let her stay there.
She only stopped running far away. She felt very wronged but rembered the person she saw yesterday and firmly bit her lip.
Since it’s not possible at Zhao Xiaoli’s place, then she’d look for Lv Guodong. Actually, she was just a few years older than Lv Guodong, if the age difference was smaller, he would be a great match.
Her stomach was already rumbling with hunger. Earlier at Zhao Xiaoli’s doorstep, the sll of at was overwhelming. Why was their life so good? Why? She was always hungry, but they had at to eat.
Life is really unfair. They were all educated youth sent to the countryside, yet she lived so poorly. It wasn’t just about marrying a rich man, she could do it too.
After Huang Ying left, Old Yang closed the door, went back inside to find his wife already lying on the bed.
"Who’s there?"
"An educated young woman. The one who wanted to move in last ti."
"What did she want?"
"Didn’t say, just looking for you. I guess she still wants to move in?"
"Really unreasonable, we’ve already refused her."
"She must not be able to get by at the educated youth spot, plus everyone knows how well we’re living, she must be trying to take advantage."
"I won’t let her move in. She took quite a bit from back then. Does she really think I’m stupid?"
"Alright, don’t worry about it, quickly take a nap, I’ll wake you up at the right ti."
"Yeah, I’m really tired."
Old Yang looked at his sleeping wife, shook his head and smiled. She had a gentle nature, but that wasn’t bad, as long as she’s not fooled by others.
Lv Beiguang was also talking to his two kids about the educated youth.
"Dad, don’t worry. I definitely won’t be fooled by her. She’s just trying to take advantage, thinking everyone is stupid except for her."
"As long as you know, it’s fine. All these educated youth are older than you, Guodong is better off, but Jing Chu, you have to keep your distance from the male educated youth."
"Yes, I know, I don’t even pay them any attention. Seeing their affected behavior makes sick." Jing Chu really didn’t have a good impression of them.
She was soone who hated evil passionately. If she disliked soone, she wouldn’t wrong herself.
"Guodong, you should pay more attention too." Lv Beiguang truly worried about his two kids. He felt he couldn’t stop offering warnings.
Farm work in the afternoon didn’t start late, the sun was still blazing. Won wore straw hats, while n went shirtless.
Jing Chu and Zhao Xiaoli loved beauty, so they covered up tightly. There’s no other way, if they weren’t careful, they’d get tanned, especially Zhao Xiaoli, whose skin would blister under direct sun.
Before knocking off work, Old Yang found Wang Shulin, planning to go with him tomorrow to send Lv Beiguang off to the city to catch a train, so he needed to inform him.
"Mr. Lv is heading back?"
"His work is quite busy, doesn’t have much ti."
"Let him rest assured, the two kids won’t have any trouble."
Old Yang nodded, knowing Wang Shulin well. Though sowhat selfish, he was generally reliable.
In the evening, they made dumplings, with leek and pork filling. The leeks were bought from the village chief’s place, he refused paynt, so Guodong threw money and ran off.
Having said all the things he needed, Lv Beiguang felt there was nothing more to say. So many words, yet he didn’t know where to start.
"Dad, I’ll make you baked pancakes for the trip."
"No need, in this weather, won’t they go bad? There’s food on the train, you don’t need to worry."
Jing Chu thought about it and agreed. The weather was only going to get hotter, whatever food she brought would spoil.
They hadn’t started eating when the door was knocked on, Old Yang opened it to see a woman, "Who are you looking for?"
"Mr. Yang, I’m Lu Fengzhen, Wang Shulin’s cousin, I’m here to find Mr. Lv."
Old Yang looked at this woman, she didn’t seem troubleso, so he let her in. "Co in, then."
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