Bringing space back to the 1970s to develop rural areas

"You don't know, Li Hongqing now relies on Liu Anbang's support, and often sneers at Sister Xuan, and then says, 'I said this because I think it would be better to do so. Shen Zhiqing is so generous, he shouldn't bother with me, right?' or 'I'm sorry, Shen Zhiqing, I'm young and don't understand much, and I've caused trouble again.'"

Qu Dongdong even gestured and imitated only 50% of the tone and expression, but Yang Qingdai and the others could imagine all kinds of scenes in their minds. Except for the confused Yang Ziling, even Chen Xiao got goose bumps all over his body.

"Also, aren't there four more male educated youths here? There's one called Li Dagou, who only came a few days ago and fell down and became a fool. His brother had no choice but to apply to send him back home.

The other two new male educated youth seemed to know Li Hongqi. On the surface, they were just nodding and greeting each other. One time when I got up at night, I found Li Hongqing talking to them outside. I was so scared that I hid on the kang and dared not move.

Unfortunately, we were too far away, so I could only see the people but couldn’t hear what they were saying.”

Speaking of the new male educated youth, Chen Yu also talked about what he heard from Zhang Daqiang.

"They kept trying to get close to Xiao Qiangqiang, asking about us brothers in a roundabout way, and whether they had a good relationship with you two siblings, and why they hadn't seen you two working with the people in the Youth Home, and so on."

Yang Qingdai was troubled, "Where are these two from?"

These characters kept popping up, and she couldn't kill them directly. She had only managed to kill Li Dagou through Li Laoer until now. Others would pop up from time to time, disturbing her interest in making big money, which was annoying.

"Oh, by the way, I heard that after the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Chunxing will marry to the Mangrove Commune."

"what?"

This even surprised Chen Xiao.

Chen Yu told him about this kind of person, who inexplicably hated them and loved to speak ill of them behind their backs.

Hasn't she always looked down on people from the countryside?

How come there was suddenly a huge thunderbolt that blew them all away into the sky?

"Tsk, isn't it the same old routine?" Qu Dongdong took a sip of Yang Qingdai's special winter melon tea and "gave them some pointers".

"Last time you took a break from work and went to town, didn't you almost get blackmailed? Her purse was stolen on another street, and a man from Mangrove Commune helped her get it back. But she didn't know what happened, and she was hit hard from behind, and the two of them hugged each other in the street and rolled into a ball.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, Li Chunxing had no choice but to marry the man. It was said that the man was a widower with a son who was not a good-for-nothing.

Mangrove Commune?

Isn’t that the commune where Wang Changfeng lives?

I went to see him secretly last time and brought medicine to his mother.

I took a quick look and saw that many of them were still mud houses, unlike the ones in Qingshan Brigade, where most of the houses were red bricks.

The conditions are really bad. How could Li Chunxing not have a falling out if she married him?

"Hey, Comrade Chen Xiao, don't put so much glutinous rice. You also need to put quail eggs, ginkgo nuts, mushrooms, red bean paste, pork belly, and salted egg yolks, one of each." Yang Qingdai instructed Chen Xiao on how to complete the semi-finished rice dumplings in his hand.

Then he asked Qu Dongdong, "Does she know about the man's situation in Hongshulin Commune? I heard that the living conditions there are not as good as our Qingshan Brigade."

Turning around, Yang Qingdai saw Chen Yu using a few reed leaves to arrange the dumplings neatly and adding glutinous rice and other ingredients. She immediately went berserk: "Comrade Chen! Yu!! What are you wrapping? Have you ever seen a square dumpling that's bigger than your face?"

“Hahahahahaha~~~”

Qu Dongdong burst into laughter, tears welling up in his eyes: "Comrade Chen Yu, how come you can't even make a zongzi as well as Xiao Ziling?"

Chen Xiao shook his head in disdain, "Brother, what else can you do besides eating fast?"

Every day while they were busy washing vegetables and cooking, he would hide under the wall of the vegetable garden in the backyard, digging something and acting mysteriously without letting them know.

Are you trying to wrap this rice dumpling into the eight Beijing dishes?

"Go away, what do you know? This is innovation, do you understand? You are too conservative, it's so exquisite but not filling.

The rice dumplings are wrapped so small that you have to eat several to feel full. It is so troublesome to eat one and peel it after each one.

Mine is different, one is enough to fill you up, it’s much easier.”

Chen Yu's twisted logic made Yang Qingdai so angry that she chased him away.

"You're the one who should go away, Ziling, drag him to the backyard to work, don't let him mess up my ingredients."

Yang Ziling obediently put down the reed leaves he had just picked up, grabbed Chen Yu by the back of the collar with one hand, pulled him off the chair, and took him directly to the backyard wall to let him continue working.

Qu Dongdong asked curiously, "Comrade Chen Yu, are you going to the backyard to pick vegetables or turn the soil?"

"No, he helped me set a trap under the backyard wall. If someone climbs over the backyard wall, the trap can serve as a certain defense."

Ever since the last time six people climbed over the wall from the back, she had been thinking about who to find to set the trap. When the Chen brothers first moved in, they learned that Chen Yu was a retired field soldier, so they immediately caught him to do the work.

"Let's talk about this later. Sister Dong, please continue talking about Li Chunxing. Do her family agree? Aren't they waiting for her to come back to earn the dowry for her brother to marry?"

"I don't know about that." Qu Dongdong said, while wrapping the dumplings quickly and beautifully. "She said the man promised to give her three roubles and one ring, and a hundred yuan as a gift."

"Wow! What a generous gesture!" Yang Qingdai gave a thumbs up.

"I don't know if I can come up with these by then." Chen·Budao·Xiao came online, "A person without a job in the city needs hundreds of dollars and so many tickets to buy three turns and one ring. How can I buy it? How can I take out such a large sum of money?

Do you think everyone is like Xiao Yang, the educated youth, who spends 800 yuan to buy a house here and dozens of kilograms of meat coupons and grain coupons there?"

Qu Dongdong thought about it and realized that, yes, it was still a question of where the man from Mangrove Commune got so many industries.

Yang Qingdai: ...You can listen to my excuses.

"You have money but don't spend it. You are so stingy with yourself. Are you a self-abuse person?" She rolled her eyes at him. "You talk as if you didn't spend money to buy a house, or don't have a lot of food and meat coupons. Your brother even left 50 kilograms of cotton coupons with me, asking me to buy cotton for him when I have time."

Chen Xiao: "??? How come I didn't know my brother had so many cotton tickets."

When they came, Mr. Li's family didn't prepare anything for them. It was the old father who had been bullied that secretly gave them the private money he had saved for many years.

The food coupons and meat coupons were given by my uncle.

Where did his brother get the cotton coupons? And 50 kilograms?

"Oh no, someone's brotherhood is broken."

Qu Dongdong, who likes to watch the fun and enjoy the trouble, tried hard to fan the flames.

"Comrade Chen Xiao, when you go home tonight, are you going to torture your brother to find out how many good things he has secretly hidden behind your back?"

Chen Xiao: ...That’s not necessary.

Anyway, his brother needs him for food and clothing.