Zhou Xiaoran has been on this train many times, and the feeling is still a little different this time, almost all of the educated youths on the train are from the countryside, everyone's mood is particularly high, looking at the energetic faces, Zhou Xiaoran and Zhou Xiaojun glanced at each other, and sneered, both of them thought in unison, they were really out of place.

When the train arrived at the county seat, everyone took the bus to the commune, where there were already many people waiting, all of whom were sent by various production teams to pick up the educated youth.

A man about forty years old squeezed through the crowd and walked in front of Zhou Xiaoran.

"Xiaoran, but I found you, I received a letter from your father the day before yesterday, saying that you came to us, let's go, let's go home."

The person who came was Yang Yougen, the captain of the locust tree brigade.

Yang Yougen shouted loudly again: "The educated youths who went to the Locust Tree Brigade have all come to gather. ”

"Uncle Yougen, my sister is going to the poplar brigade, where is the person who came to pick her up?" Zhou Xiaoran and Zhou Xiaojun searched for a long time but couldn't find it.

Yang Yougen squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time before pointing to a corner and saying, "There, go, I'll take you over." ”

found the people from the poplar brigade, and the two separated, and Zhou Xiaoran followed Yang Yougen to the tractor.

There were six people on the tractor, just three men and three women.

On the gay side, the man who combs his hair and wears black-framed glasses is called Zheng Weiguo, a southerner, who is soft-spoken. It's a little more lively, as soon as I come up, I can't stop talking about Yu Xiangyang, a native of this province, who just happened to have the same name as the commune, and I have been sighing there endlessly. The remaining one was very silent, and barely opened his mouth after just saying one name, his name was Zhou Yi.

In addition to Zhou Xiaoran, the other two are from neighboring provinces, I heard that they are still classmates, the short-haired one is called Zheng Hongbing, the round face looks quite affinable, and the long-haired one is called Xu Hui, which is a bit of a cold beauty.

None of them seem to be difficult people to get along with at the moment.

Moreover, except for Yu Xiangyang, he doesn't seem to be that kind of hot-blooded young man.....

When they arrived at Qiangang Village, Uncle Yougen first took them to the Zhiqing Point, which had just been repaired some time ago, and the place was relatively large, saying that he was afraid that someone would come in the future.

"Today you will have a good rest and rest, and tomorrow you will be assigned work." After Yang Yougen finished speaking, he pulled Zhou Xiaoran aside: "Xiaoran, do you want to go to grandma's house to have a look?" ”

Zhou Xiaoran didn't want to go.

"Uncle Yougen, you help me talk to my grandmother and uncle, I can't go first, I just came today, I'll clean up first."

"Okay, you clean up first, if there is anything, come to Uncle."

"yes, got it."

Zhou Xiaoran sent Yang Yougen out of the door, and when she turned around, she found that everyone was looking at her.

"Comrade Zhou Xiaoran, do you know the captain?" Yu Xiangyang said in surprise.

"Yes, my dad is the leader of the team, and now my uncle and my grandmother are still living in the team."

Zhou Xiaoran didn't think about hiding it, after all, the whole team knew her, and they couldn't hide it.

Zheng Hongbing said enviously: "Your luck is so good, you can come here, and you still have relatives by your side, unlike me, it's so far away from home.... As soon as I arrived today, I started to feel homesick. ”

"Actually, you're not far away, it's in a neighboring province, and it's very convenient to go back in the future." Zhou Xiaoran said politely.

"I don't know what kind of unsightly means have been used, how can there be such a coincidence." Xu Hui said coolly on the side.

Zhou Xiaoran was a little embarrassed, and he was really right.

"Ignore her, she's like that." Zheng Hongbing whispered to Zhou Xiaoran.

Zhou Xiaoran was about to speak, but Yang Yougen came over again, carrying two bags.

"Even if the team lends you this food first, it will be deducted later when you earn your share of work." As he spoke, he put down two bags of grain.

After Yang Yougen left, the educated youths came forward to see, a bag of cornmeal, a bag of sweet potatoes, the amount is not much, at least three months to eat.

The educated youths looked at each other, thinking in their hearts that this real life seemed to be more difficult than they imagined.

Zhou Xiaoran was thinking about whether to leave the team of educated youths and go out to live alone.....

Early the next morning, the captain sent someone to wake up all the educated youths, and they all estimated that they had never gotten up so early, and they were all sleepy-eyed.

There is not much work in the field this season, just after the autumn harvest, there are still some varieties of miscellaneous grains left in the field, the amount is relatively small, and the educated youths are also arranged to work in the field with everyone.

Qiu Tiger is very powerful, and soon, Zhou Xiaoran felt that the skin on his face was about to be sunburned, and he knew that wrapping his face with a cloth would be hot.

"Xiaoran, why didn't you come to the house yesterday, go back to dinner with your aunt in the evening."

Zhou Xiaoran was drinking water slowly, wanting to take a break when he was startled by the sudden voice, Where did it come from?

"What do you want? Remember, go home for dinner in the evening. ”

Zhou Xiaoran thought about it and agreed.

"Okay, thank you, auntie, I'll definitely go."

After getting off work in the evening, Zhou Xiaoran said a word to the educated youths and went to Grandma Zhou's house.

Grandma Zhou was quite surprised to see her, and glared at the eldest aunt, in the end, let her sit at the dinner table.

Zhou Xiaohong rarely didn't say anything sour, but the schadenfreude at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes was undisguised, probably because she saw that Zhou Xiaoran was like her now, and her heart was balanced.

Next to Zhou Xiaobing is a woman in her twenties, who should be the new daughter-in-law married by Zhou Xiaobing, she looks really good, no wonder Zhou Xiaobing didn't marry her, and she is also very enthusiastic.

"It's Xiaoran, I've heard of you for a long time, I'm your sister-in-law, my name is Wang Hong, I received a letter from my second uncle two days ago, saying that you joined our team, but I'm looking forward to you."

said that he took the initiative to bring dishes and chopsticks to Zhou Xiaoran to serve rice.

A bowl full of polenta, still quite dry.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhou Xiaoran thanked with a smile.

Grandma Zhou was a little unhappy when she saw this, remembered the letter sent back by her second son, and said in a deep voice: "Eat all." ”

Zhou Xiaoran felt that Zhou Xiaobing was the same as the uncle Zhou Zhifei, who was carved out of a mold, silent, and didn't care about anything, this Wang Hong was a bit like the eldest uncle, really, it's not that a family doesn't enter the door.

However, Zhou Xiaoran doesn't hate this kind of person, his selfishness is indeed very heavy, but his emotional intelligence is also very high, as long as it doesn't involve too many interests, he can still deal with it.

Zhou Xiaoran was ready to ask the eldest aunt to do him a favor.

The next day, Zhou Xiaoran took the time to call the eldest aunt aside, took out a piece of flower cloth, and muttered again, the eldest aunt's teeth were blind when she smiled, and promised again and again that she would get things done.

The results were available that night.

"Your grandmother was not happy, but I said, 'Xiaoran is from our old Zhou family, and it is not natural to live in our old Zhou family's house, not to mention, his second uncle and aunt have treated us well over the years, and Xiaoran is willing to give us fifty catties of food every year, and the house is empty, so what's wrong with letting Xiaoran live in.' That's when your grandmother agreed. ”

Zhou Xiaoran gratefully took the eldest uncle's hand, "Thank you so much, when I write to my parents about this, they will definitely thank you and my grandmother." ”

"You kid, it's all a family, what do you say, okay, the captain will go and say it yourself, move over when you have time, and if you lack anything, you can go to the house to get it, I'll go."

"Okay, auntie go slowly."

Zhou Xiaoran is so happy, he can live alone in the future, and it will be more convenient to enter and exit the space, even more convenient than at home before, which should be the biggest benefit of going to the countryside.

It was easy for the captain to say yes, and Yang Yougen carried a small bag of grain to Zhou Xiaoran alone, and Zhou Xiaoran thanked him sincerely.

When the educated youths learned that Zhou Xiaoran was going to live alone, except for Xu Hui, who pouted, the others didn't have much reaction.

The old Zhou's previous house was really not good, not as good as the new house of the educated youth, but it could also be used to live in the tidying up, Zhou Xiaobing and Wang Hong also came to help Zhou Xiaoran clean up and brought some firewood.

"You don't have a pot here, I found you a crockpot for you to use first, you can boil some cornmeal or something." After Wang Hong finished speaking, Zhou Xiaobing handed over a crockpot.

Zhou Xiaoran happily took it and thanked him repeatedly, which helped a lot.

Before leaving, she wrapped some snacks that Chen Yun forced into her and gave them to Wang Hong, which was a thank you for their help.

On the night of moving over, Zhou Xiaoran went into the space to soak in a hot spring, and his skin was a little sunburned in the past few days, so he went to the medicine field to pick some aloe vera, squeezed out the juice and wiped it on his face, the method was a little rough, but the effect was really good.

Zhou Xiaoran, who finished applying his face, walked around the space, he hadn't come in for a long time, and there were a lot more eggs, about a few thousand, which took up a bit of space, so he had to find a way to come up with some.

After the farm is busy, let's go to the county seat, and by the way, I will go to see my sister.

didn't wait for the farm to finish, Zhou Xiaoran was idle.

The reason is that she doesn't have to go to the ground.

Yang Yougen sent her to feed the pigs!

The daily job is to feed the pigs and clean the pigsty.

Comparatively speaking, the work is very leisurely, and it counts as 5 points a day.

The female intellectuals all looked at Zhou Xiaoran with sympathetic eyes, Zhou Xiaoran could probably guess the reason, girls love cleanliness, and it is normal to feel that feeding pigs is dirty and disgusted.

"Xiaoran, come over and I'll explain it to you."

Zhou Xiaoran followed Yang Yougen upside down.

"Don't look at the job of feeding the pigs, in fact, this is a light job, many daughters-in-law on the team didn't let me come, don't do the rest in the future, just take care of these two pigs."

"I know that Uncle Yougen is taking care of me for my father's face, I must feed the pigs well and strive to kill more meat at the end of the year." Zhou Xiaoran understood that this was Yang Yougen, afraid that she would not be willing.

"Well, by the way, there is your letter, I went to the commune in the morning to get it, and I told you at noon, I forgot about my brain, I put it in my pocket." As he spoke, he took out a letter and handed it to Zhou Xiaoran.

The person who wrote the letter was Tan Shiguo.

After reading the letter, Zhou Xiaoran was a little disappointed, the letter was very short, so he greeted a few words of greeting, are you not used to it, are you tired? Are you well fed? The letter also contained a stack of food stamps and money......

Hmph, lump of wood.

Zhou Xiaoran immediately wrote a reply.

Dear Comrade Tan: Hello, I am very happy to receive your letter, I am fine, I just miss home, my parents, my brothers and sisters, and you..... You okay? Do you eat on time? Sleep on time? Time...... Miss me? You have to take good care of yourself, the next time we meet, I will see a Tan Shiguo who is as lively as before. Your little comrade Zhou

Zhou Xiaoran finished reading the letter he wrote, and laughed while rolling on the bed, really wanting to see Tan Shiguo read the letter.

However, he still has to show his reserve, and Zhou Xiaoran is ready to send a letter in two days.

I got up again and wrote a letter to Zhou's father and Zhou's mother to report safety, and sent it together when the time came.