Eating melons

Chapter 631: Collecting Firewood

At the beginning, Wang Ying and Li Hong didn't get along well, but now things are much better.

In fact, it cannot be said that the two of them do not get along. They just have some arguments from time to time, but their relationship is not particularly bad.

Seeing this group of new educated youth acting like this, Wang Ying couldn't help but complain to Li Hong.

"Li Hong, didn't the new educated youth go to dry water? They didn't seem to go to collect firewood either. They won't use our firewood tonight, will they?

It's really not tiring to collect firewood. It's summer now, so we have time to collect firewood. Who would be willing to give them firewood in winter? We all buy it, right? "

Hearing this, Li Hong felt helpless and sighed, "They not only don't have water to dry, they didn't even buy basins. I don't ask them to buy one each like Wei Wei and the others. Since there are so many of them, they should buy one for each man and one for each woman, too."

There are so many of us here, we need water too. As for drying water, they don’t have basins or water either.”

Wang Ying felt a little dizzy after hearing this, "Looking at this situation, they don't take a shower at night, right?

They seemed to have sweated quite a bit this morning, and the room would be stinking by then!"

Li Hong felt a headache when she thought of this. "Fortunately, I only have to hold on for a month."

If she had to live with such a person for several years, she would suffocate.

Seeing this, Wang Ying didn't care anymore. "I'll go to the captain's house tonight. I want to build a house and move out, too."

Before, she wondered if Li Hong and the others were crazy to build a house and move out to live in, as they couldn’t take the house with them when the time comes. But now it seems that it would be better to build a house and move out.

If we build it a little smaller, even a little smaller than Wu Mei's, it will only cost about fifty or sixty yuan.

But now looking at the behavior of these new educated youth, they may take advantage of us in more ways than just this.

And I have to endure their dirty living habits, which makes me want to collapse just thinking about it.

Therefore, Wang Ying was not so reluctant to part with the fifty yuan. She gritted her teeth and was still able to take it out.

But if she continued to fight with those people in the Youth League Institute like this, she didn't think she could hold on.

Also, Wang Ying still has some self-awareness. If she wants to go back to the city, it is impossible for her to rely on her family.

But if you rely on yourself, even if all conditions are ideal, it will still take at least three years.

That is the most ideal situation. Under normal circumstances, it might not be her turn in five years, let alone three years.

Relying on herself would only allow her to get a place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, but Wang Ying also knew her own limitations.

For example, at the Youth Educatorate Institute, even if they were given a quota, there would still be Liu Yang and Li Hong ahead of her, and it would be her turn only after Li Hong and Liu Yang left.

However, there are not quotas for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University every year. Even if there were, it would be impossible to give them two quotas at the Educated Youth Institute at one time, and it is also impossible to have quotas for them every year.

So she would have to wait at least five years before it was her turn, which was still too little.

Therefore, if she built a house, she could live in it for at least five years. If she could return to the city after five years, she could sell the house to other educated youth and get some of her money back. So the house could still be built.

Li Hong and Wang Ying guessed correctly, and the group started arguing again in the evening.

This time the new educated youth learned their lesson and arranged for someone to come back early to cook.

But they overlooked one problem. They had no firewood, and these pots, pans, and utensils were all bought by the old educated youth. If the new educated youth came to use them, they would definitely have to pay for them as well.

But now they didn't contribute any money. They had neither the money to buy pots and pans nor the firewood, yet they wanted to grab the pots and cook first, and they felt justified in doing so. The old educated youth immediately became unhappy.

"You don't even have firewood, how are you going to cook? Why don't you collect firewood first and then cook?"

Hearing this, the new educated youth choked and said, "How can we have time to go and collect firewood? We are unfamiliar with the place. What if we lose it in the mountains?"

The most important thing is that they didn't dare to go to the mountains because they had heard that there were wolves and bears in the mountains here.

"How dare you grab the pot? Don't say you have no firewood. Even if you have firewood, this pot was bought with our money and tickets. What right do you have to use it after you paid for it?"

The new educated youth had nothing to say but still talked back, and the old educated youth immediately became unhappy and even compared them with Wei Wei and the others.

"I really don't know why this year's educated youth are so slow. The group that came two years ago already got everything done on the first day.

They picked up some firewood at noon and returned it to us in the afternoon."

After saying that, he looked at his partner next to him and said, "Look how much firewood we used this year, and they didn't even complain. They really acted like firewood was free."

The newly arrived educated youth were a little thin-skinned and couldn't help but get angry when they said that.

But there were only two female educated youth who came back to cook. They didn't know what to say, so they could only wipe their tears and go to the fields to look for male educated youth, of course mainly looking for Wang Shiyou.

There was no way to let the two girls go up the mountain alone, they didn't dare to do it.

Not only that, they also found that there was no water. The place to fetch water was so far away and the buckets were so heavy. It was impossible for two girls to carry them, not to mention that they had to cook too. They were simply too busy to handle it.

Moreover, the people who collected firewood and carried water among the old educated youth were all male educated youth.

When Wang Shiyou heard what the two educated youth said, his forehead twitched, his brows furrowed, and he felt a headache. He just wondered why there were so many things.

But there was no other way, so we had to arrange for people to go up the mountain to collect firewood and then arrange for people to fetch water.

The new educated youth who were assigned to collect firewood were a little excited at first when they heard that they didn't have to work anymore, but when they heard that they had to go to the mountains to collect firewood, they became sick and immediately unhappy.

"Why are we going alone? We are not familiar with the conditions in this mountain. What if we get lost?

Not to mention that there are wolves, wild boars, and tigers in this mountain. What would we do if we encountered them?"

When they went to work today, the old men in the team were afraid that they would cause trouble for their team, so they told them about what happened in the mountains, saying that they had encountered blind bears and the like, and that the village had been attacked by wolves before.

The people in the brigade did not say this intentionally to intimidate them, but this was what they had told every batch of educated youth.

Their worries were not unfounded. After all, some educated youth from the neighboring village had secretly gone up the mountain and went deep into the mountains, but they never came back. When they went up the mountain to look for them later, they only found some fragments.

Because of this incident, the brigade was severely punished and scolded.

They absolutely could not allow such a thing to happen in their brigade, because the quota for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University from the previous year had been filled, and nothing could happen this year.

The result of what they said was naturally that this group of new educated youth were extremely afraid of the mountains.

Now is a time of fear. Asking them to go up the mountain alone is no different from asking for their lives.

Wang Shiyou felt a little annoyed seeing them like this. They didn't want to do this or that, so what could he do?

"Even if you don't want to, you have to do it. We take turns. All the male educated youth take turns going up to collect firewood. If you don't go today, you have to go tomorrow.

If you don't want to, then don't eat together, go out and eat by yourselves.

Of course, if you're willing to pay for the vegetables, that's fine too. That way, you don't have to go up the mountain. You can pick them up yourself or pay for them. Hurry and choose one."

After hearing this, the two new educated youth had no choice but to go ahead and do it.

They were unwilling to pay. They had already spent a lot of money during the few days they had been in the countryside. If they continued to spend like this every day, the little money they had would be too much to spend.

The most important thing is that there is free firewood on the mountain, but they still have to spend money to buy it. It’s a pity to spend it no matter how much.

The two people who went up the mountain to collect firewood went up reluctantly, but when they saw that there were still some people on the mountain, especially some old people and some children, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Since both the elderly and children dare to come here, it means that it is still safe here.

However, for safety reasons, the two of them asked someone whether this place was dangerous.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that there would be no particular danger as long as they didn't go into the mountains.

However, when they heard that there might still be wild boars and snakes outside, they became worried again.

After all, there are still poisonous snakes outside, and there are quite a few of them. If you get bitten, you may die.

The two men were so terrified as they walked in the mountains that they never put down the sticks in their hands. They would not dare to walk into any place with grass without hitting it with the sticks first.