sbdcsierra Chapter 421 The troublesome educated youth is a spoiled child (5)
Chapter 421 The troublesome educated youth is a spoiled child (5)
Sui Yu didn't know about her secret criticism of how powerful she was.
As soon as the sun rose, she went out for the first time.
The sickle in her hand was a solid lump of iron, and it seemed to be wrong no matter how she held it. She was sweating from holding it.
The scorching sun baked her until she was almost cooked like a red shrimp.
She was surrounded by educated youth, who were bent over with their heads down, using sickles in the fields, and none of them looked very skilled.
But at least he is more skilled than her.
The golden wheat followed her all the way. It took her ten minutes to finally pick up the sickle after working in the field.
Sui Yu pouted and felt like crying.
As for the "hard work" or something like that, if she could really do it, she wouldn't have asked Huo Jianhua to specifically instruct others to take care of her.
Her hands were red from being rubbed by the sickle handle and the wheat straw. When she bent down and was about to continue cutting, she heard the sound of the wheat being cut cleanly, one after another, from behind her.
Sui Yu looked back following the sound and saw Zhou Yan wearing only a jacket, his arm muscles flexing as he gripped the sickle tightly.
The man's back was covered in sweat, and his hair, which had grown too fast and had not been taken care of in the past two days, was soaked with sweat and hung down in front of his forehead.
In this short while, he had already cut from his own piece to Sui Yu's side.
"Don't hold it too tightly. Just hold it loosely and pretend. I'll do the cutting."
As he spoke, he helped Sui Yu put on the straw hat he had brought with him.
The one he had prepared earlier was already soaked with sweat. He walked over from a distance and saw Sui Yu constantly moving it, so he knew it must be uncomfortable.
Fortunately I bought an extra one.
He bent his waist and moved nimbly, and soon he had walked a long way. Sui Yu could only see his back.
After getting off the bus and watching the whole process from a distance outside, Lu Chen said: "Ha."
He sneered and looked at Wang Peng, "Is this what you said...you want me to take care of you?"
He seems to be taking good care of other people as well.
Even normal labor has to be done by others, and I don’t know how they had the nerve to spread the news that they volunteered to respond to the country’s call.
Lu Chen, who came from the army and had a hard life, really couldn't understand the existence of such a delicate person.
At first, I tacitly agreed to Huo Jianhua's "care"...
He looked at Zhou Anbang who had hurried over to greet him and praised him, "Your village is really about helping each other."
Zhou Anbang: ...Huh? Hehe, not that bad. Thank you for the compliment, boss!
Lu Chen turned and walked outside, holding back for a long time before saying nothing more.
He also had a mission this time.
A new official has three things to do when he takes office. He had just arrived in Bei Province and urgently needed to establish his authority by achieving concrete political achievements.
Coincidentally, Honghe Village, which has not been well developed but relies on abundant forest resources, is a good breakthrough point.
Wang Peng thought that it was indeed necessary to conduct a thorough investigation.
It would be better for you to stay here for a while so that you can take better care of Miss Sui Yu.
By then...perhaps there will be significant changes in the policies regarding sending educated youth to the countryside.
He also figured out Secretary Lu's thoughts.
Knowing that Lu Chen would not go back on his word once he agreed, and that these requests did not infringe on the interests of others, the possibility of being rejected was infinitely reduced.
It can be said that every step is calculated clearly.
It was obvious to Secretary Lu that he was calculating, but he made it difficult for people to say it directly.
High, really high.
Thinking of Huo Jianhua's instructions, Wang Peng became more and more curious about what Miss Sui Yu looked like.
Everything has been planned out just so that she can have a good time in the countryside!
Wang Peng glanced at the undulating wheat waves in the field, turned his head unexpectedly, and met the death stare of his direct superior.
A huge drop of sweat rolled down his forehead. Wang Peng quickly came back to his senses and did his research seriously.
Lu Chen withdrew his gaze from casually scanning the field and listened calmly to Zhou Anbang's introduction to the basic situation of Honghe Village.
In the field, Sui Yu seemed to sense something, and stood up to look over there, but could only see a few figures through the steaming and distorted heat.
A tall, slender man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, who looked very gentle, was gathered in the middle. Even though he was also wearing a black linen shirt, he seemed out of place with the others.
She blinked, remembering the "care" Huo Jianhua had given her before leaving. Her eyes moved and she bent down to continue cutting the wheat.
Not to mention, if speed is not a concern, you can still cut slowly, and the "swish" sound of the sickle is quite pleasant.
A sense of solidity that comes only when you step on the ground.
The sun rose from mid-sky to noon, and it seemed that it had advanced from being able to roast people to being able to fry people.
Any part of your face, body, and scalp that comes into contact with sunlight will produce oil and sweat, and will immediately smell like salt.
Sui Yu sat under the shade of a tree, her legs dangling. She looked listless and didn't say a word. She just stared blankly and drank water.
"What's wrong with you? Don't scare me." Zhou Yan fanned Sui Yu with his straw hat, his tone a little anxious.
Sui Yu had been working in the fields all morning, not to mention being so tired. He was really afraid that something bad would happen to her from being exhausted.
Chen Muting, who was also extremely tired and had no one to care about him:
She sat next to Sui Yu and looked her up and down. Seeing that Sui Yu didn't say anything and her snow-white face was sunburned, she felt a little worried.
But the tone of his words changed as he spoke, "Are you going to feel dizzy in this little sunshine? We've been working for so many days. If you feel unwell, you'd better go to the nurse's station as soon as possible, otherwise you won't even be able to ride in the ox cart."
Sui Yu rolled her eyes at her and said, "If you don't know how to speak, you don't have to say anything."
With these two sentences, she handed herself candy, and Sui Yu was afraid that she had poisoned it.
Chen Muting peeled off the candy coating and stuffed it into her mouth. "She can still speak, so it seems she's okay."
Li Hong couldn't bear to listen any longer and ate a candy to replenish her strength.
The leader is coming today, and they received a notice that the villagers will bring them food. Although they are resting now, the food has not arrived yet.
It wouldn't be so bad to eat a candy first.
All the educated youth received candy from Chen Muting, except Gao Weibin.
He sat at the very edge, where a wilted sapling could barely provide him with some shade.
Ever since the incident with Chen Muting and Sui Yu, the educated youth no longer had any communication with him except for the most daily eating and sleeping.
Even when he was injured and needed care, they passed the buck to each other and at most helped to fetch him some water.
The meat and fish he could see when he first came to Honghe Village were no longer available to him as a sucker, just like candy now. He couldn't get any advantage at all.
Gao Weibin stared at Sui Yu and the others with resentment in his eyes.
The aunt who came to deliver the food was frightened by him. She raised her eyebrows and wanted to scold him, but then she remembered that her leader was there, so she put the food next to him without saying a word.
Just like feeding a dog.
Gao Weibin's forehead twitched. Seeing that even a country bumpkin dared to look at him in such a bad light, his psychological distortion became even more serious.
Lu Chen doesn't like to be treated specially. He didn't say hello to any departments at all this time and came directly to Honghe Village.
Village chief Zhou Anbang only knew that the person coming was a leader, but he didn't know what position he held. Seeing that he was young, he was not that scared.
At most, they were intimidated by his aura and didn't dare to say much.
"lead......"
"Just call me Xiao Lu. You are older than me, so I'll trouble you to take care of me during this inspection." Lu Chen said gently.
Zhou Anbang was also unambiguous and handed him a bowl of rice that was full in his hand. "Then I will respectfully call you Xiao Lu. Try to taste the vegetables we grow here."
"Recently, a group of educated youth have arrived in the countryside. They usually cook for themselves, but the harvest is almost over these two days, so we thought we could cook together so we can be more involved in production."
He spoke directly, but also made clear the areas that could be misunderstood.
In a subtle way, this meant that this meal was not just for show.
Lu Chen smiled, "Then I'll try it..."
His words were interrupted by a gloomy roar.
"Leaders! What should we do if someone deliberately evades labor and refuses ideological education?"
He roared hysterically, as if he had accumulated a lot of resentment, and successfully drew everyone's attention to him.
Gao Weibin stood in the center of sight, his whole body trembling with excitement, and limped towards Lu Chen.
"Leader, I heard that you are a leader. Can you also redress the grievances of our people?"
"I actively responded to the country's call and went to the countryside to serve as a pioneer in national construction. I suffered injustice on the land where I wanted to shed my sweat. Do you care?"
Wang Peng exclaimed, "Wow, man! With his accusations one after another, he almost elevated himself to the moral high ground."
If Lu Chen dared to say "no", he would probably jump out and spread the word that the leaders who came to the grassroots to inspect did not care about the people's sentiments and only cared about official business.
He raises the flag before going to war, he is indeed a man of culture.
Zhou Yan's face instantly turned sour, knowing that Gao Weibin was definitely going to do something weird.
He glanced at Sui Yu and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll go see what he's doing."
Sui Yu stood up, invigorated by the spectacle, and said, "What am I afraid of? Let's go and take a look together."
Chen Muting pulled Sui Yu and Li Hong and walked away, taking slightly bigger steps.
On this side, Lu Chen, who was put under a big hat by Gao Weibin, looked calm and raised his hand to stop the village chief from interrupting Gao Weibin.
Putting down the bowl, he said, "Tell me about your grievances."
He didn't say definitively whether he would care or not, and his tone didn't sound biased at all. It was different from the angry look Gao Weibin had imagined.
But he had already jumped out, and there was no room for regret.
"We educated youth went to the countryside with the spirit of building our motherland and becoming selfless contributors."
"It was originally a most exciting and shocking thing, but!" Gao Weibin stood on the podium as if giving a speech, waving his hands and pointing directly at Sui Yu.
"But! There are actually educated youth who maliciously evade glorious agricultural labor, eat and be lazy, and yet still receive higher work points than us. Isn't this torture and unfair to us?"
"Is this the behavior of a dedicated worker?"
Zhou Yan's eyes were cold and stern. He stood in front of Sui Yu to block her from being pointed at by his thick short fingers.
Sui Yu poked her head out from behind him and asked, "Are you talking about me?"
The voice sounded obedient and soft, but in the face of hysterical questioning, the atmosphere suddenly became dramatic.
Gao Weibin didn't expect her to dare to ask directly, so he gritted his teeth and continued, "She still holds a grudge against me for my hard work and beat me up like this."
"I can only limp and slowly harvest wheat in the fields. It is not only a severe blow to my body and mind, but also a disrespect for labor."
Wow, Li Hong even admires the way he tells lies with his eyes open.
"Bullshit!" Chen Muting, a firecracker that explodes at the slightest touch, couldn't stand it any longer. He pointed at Gao Weibin's nose and cursed, "Who hit you? Who hit you? Who can testify?"
"The wounds on my body are the witness!"
"Bullshit!"
"..."
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more out of control, Sui Yu winked at Li Hong, and Li Hong quickly rushed forward, covered Chen Muting's mouth and took him off the battlefield.
Sui Yu didn't let Zhou Yan speak either.
Zhou Yan's big and strong appearance made Gao Weibin look pitiful just standing there.
There's no need to argue by then, because I'm afraid I'll already be at a disadvantage.
When it comes to quarrels, of course whoever looks pitiful is right.
Sui Yu rubbed her forehead, looking pitiful and red from the sun, and stood there, about to cry, "I hit you?"
"Yes, you..." Gao Weibin was lost for words, bewildered by the way she looked like she was about to cry. Then, his face flushed red as he realized, "You asked Zhou Yan to hold me down, and I couldn't resist."
Sui Yu didn't say anything, just pursed her lips.
A kind-hearted woman couldn't stand it any longer. "Look at you, you're such a grown-up, why are you still talking nonsense? How could a young educated youth hit you like that?"
"Zhou Yan has been busy with factory matters these days. You are just talking nonsense."
The villagers subconsciously sided with Zhou Yan, and their constant chatter almost pissed Gao Weibin off to death.
"You, you..." He leaned back angrily and looked at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen looked around at everyone, especially at Sui Yu, who was about to cry and looked aggrieved and pitiful. He stayed there for a while and roughly knew what was going on.
"How about this educated youth first tell us what happened that day?"
Chen Muting was not vague when scolding people, and he was even more blunt when explaining things. He told what happened that day in just a few words.
Of course, he didn’t say Zhou Yan was there, nor did he admit to beating Gao Weibin.
Isn't it just telling lies with open eyes? Gao Weibin can do it, so of course he can do it too.
Anyway, it's 70% true and 30% false, and she didn't lie.
The other educated youth also didn't like Gao Weibin very much. It was really because he had morally blackmailed them into giving him too much food and helping him too much in the past few days.
So I didn't say anything.
This is completely different from what Gao Weibin had imagined.
He thought that he had memorized so many lines of speech early on that he should be able to stand in a superior position and criticize them. Didn’t Chen Muting also dislike Sui Yu for not working at the beginning?
Gao Weibin pointed at the group of people in frustration. From Lu Chen's expression, it was clear that he had begun to believe Chen Muting and the others and was still unwilling to give up.
"If the boss doesn't believe me, go check the work points booklet. It's impossible for Suiyu to get so many work points at the speed she works."
"She's profiting from the farmers' hard work without putting in any effort. This is the behavior of a capitalist lady. We must resolutely resist it."
Zhou Anbang finally got a chance to speak up. He glared at Gao Weibin with disgust and quickly denied it, "That's not true."
"The work points of the young educated youth are absolutely real."
Zhou Jianguo, who had just been ordered to run back to get his work points book, was panting and agreed, "Yes, she was sick and didn't work for the first few days after she came here, so we didn't give her any work points at all."
"Today we haven't harvested enough wheat to make one, so let's record our progress first. When we have enough wheat to make one, we'll record it together."
"There is absolutely no element of fraud. Please review and approve it."
Lu Chen took the work points book, which contained every entry clearly recorded, including the time, place, and what was done, without any false information.
He returned the notebook to Zhou Jianguo and asked, "Is there anything else you need me to redress?"
Gao Weibin was stunned and shook his head frantically, "Impossible, impossible. She eats so well and lives so well, how could she not have extra work points?"
He never thought that Zhou Yan would give work points on his own initiative. After all, if Zhou Yan wanted to have the opportunity to go to the city in the future, he also needed work points.
When it comes to fundamental interests, he never thought there would be such a possibility.
"Alright, it looks like Gao Zhiqing isn't quite conscious. It's better for him to recover from his injuries and actively contribute to society."
“There will be many more opportunities in the future.”
Lu Chen spoke softly as he watched the villagers help Gao Weibin back to the educated youth site and asked the village chief to continue eating.
"By the way, Xiao Lu, you can sleep at Zhou Yan's place for the next few days." Zhou Anbang ate the rice in his bowl and brought up another topic.
"no!"