"Comrade Feng Yuanchun, how...how could you do this?" He Hongyu burst into tears, choking back sobs. "I genuinely wanted to be your friend. I'm new here, I don't know anyone in the village, but I heard from the other educated youth that you're the most diligent and capable woman in the village. I wanted you to teach me how to do farm work." "
Yuanchun, the village chief said that we villagers have a responsibility to teach the educated youth how to do farm work. Otherwise, they won't know how to do farm work, won't earn work points, and will starve to death. Our village will also bear responsibility." "Yes
, Yuanchun, teaching people isn't tiring. Tomorrow when we go to the fields, you can teach them a few things."
"This He Hongyu is a good person. After coming to the countryside, she still knows to ask someone to teach her how to do farm work, unlike the other female educated youth who, even after going to the fields, still act all dramatic, crying and whining, wanting to go home, and saying that we rural people are just peasants and don't deserve to talk to them."
"Exactly! Every time they see me, their faces are full of disgust, like we're dirt from a cesspool."
"Hmph, now they've become peasants too, the people they despise the most."
"That's different. They're educated people, they're intellectuals, how can they be like us real peasants?"
"Yuan Chun is also an educated person, an intellectual." The woman suddenly called out to Yuan Chun, "Yuan Chun, with the grain and money distribution, have your grandma enroll you in school, get a high school diploma, so our village can have some pride."
Yuan Chun grinned, "Aunt Pan, my grandma said that after the New Year, my second brother and I will go to high school and get our diplomas. Then we can participate in the teacher recruitment exams."
"Oh dear, Yuan Chun, you and your second brother are going to study in town, that must cost a lot of money. Where will your family get the money?"
"My mother wrote a letter to borrow money from my maternal grandfather."
After the Feng family became wealthy, they wanted their children to go to school. After discussing it, the family decided to rely on Liu Qingqiu's family, because her family lived far away and were from the city.
In the eyes of rural people, city dwellers were wealthy.
"Yuan Chun's mother is so lucky to have a family in the city to help her out. Unlike us, we're lucky if our families don't come and take a bite out of us,"
a middle-aged woman said sourly, her eyes full of envy and jealousy.
Yuan Chun, too lazy to bother with the group of old women, squeezed to the front to watch the commotion.
He Hongyu lowered her sinister eyes, silently retreated to the back, and then quickly left the square.
She had just arrived, had no work points, and wouldn't get any grain distribution; she didn't want to stay in the square watching a bunch of bumpkins gossip.
A few minutes later, she arrived at the Chen family's house and knocked on the door a few times. "Fourth Brother Chen, are you home?"
The Chen family had all gone to the square to collect their grain; only Chen Shengjun was still at home washing clothes, but the basin only contained his own .
Chen Shengjun was clever; he knew that well-off girls liked clean men, so he always dressed impeccably, his fingernails spotless.
That was why Feng Yuan Chun had taken a liking to him.
She felt he was different from the three Chen brothers; he was hardworking, clean, good-looking, and knew how to sweet-talk.
But Granny Chen and Li Wuniu complained that he changed his clothes too often and wouldn't wash them for him, so he always secretly washed his clothes at home by himself, afraid of being seen by outsiders and being laughed at.
"Brother Chen, are you home?"
Chen Shengjun had just finished washing one garment when he heard a voice in the yard.