Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1287: Jealousy from Love 4

Chapter 1287: Chapter 1287: Jealousy from Love 4

As the voice faded, the person had already returned to the Youth Education Point.

Before stepping into the residence of the male youths, Chen Yuan turned around and looked at the group of male and female educated youths following him, then continued, "We are very fortunate to have been sent to the Wanglou Brigade. You all must feel lucky because the elders of Wanglou Brigade and the brigade leader are very kind. They didn’t withhold letters and packages sent by our families, didn’t deliberately undercount our work points, and arranged our food and lodging properly. They even allocated us small plots of land around the houses to teach us how to grow vegetables."

"Isn’t that to be expected?" Wang Huan said.

Liao Aidang and the other educated youths looked at Chen Yuan with bright eyes, not understanding the meaning of his words.

Zheng Huihui sneered at Wang Huan’s comment, "Expected? Then you should go investigate and visit the lives of educated youths in other brigades before saying that! Zhou Zhou, what are you dazing for? Hurry up and go wash and sleep. I’ve boiled the water already; it’s in the pot!"

"Oh oh!" Zhou Zhou nodded her head like a pecking chicken and followed her inside.

Two minutes later, the educated youths, who hadn’t dispersed because Liao Aidang had something to say to Chen Yuan, heard Zheng Huihui’s scolding voice coming from the female educated youths’ residence: "Which damn bastard used the bath water I boiled?"

No one responded, so Zheng Huihui cursed even more fiercely, "Deserves to be struck by lightning!"

The inconvenience of communal living is just like that. It’s either you using my water, or her using my soap or cold cream, or else she cooked one less meal than me, or you contributed less grain when making the communal meal, or you scooped one more spoonful of rice than me, or everybody went to gather wild vegetables to cook, except for you.

All sorts of trivial matters repeatedly occurred at the Youth Education Point, becoming more and more intense.

When Feng Qingxue invited a few uncles, aunties, and her younger aunt’s husband to her home for soup, she heard that the female educated youths had finally reached an impasse and decided to cook separately. Because of the limited conditions, the stove of the Youth Education Point was to be used in turns - today it would be your turn to cook first, tomorrow hers. Firewood, water, grain, and condiments like oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar would all be used individually.

Today was the start of the hottest period of summer, and the temperature was scorching. Feng Qingxue was at home cooking mutton offal soup.

These mutton offals and bones were not easy to come by. She asked Zhang Yuejin to reserve a sheep’s head and half a skeleton, along with a set of sheep offal for her in advance. It cost quite a bit, but thankfully, no ration coupons were needed.

In the summer, everyone craved the coolness, preferring to drink cold water and take cold showers, but the cold entering the body was harmful rather than beneficial.

Mutton, being warm in nature, could dispel the cold.

Hence, the well-cooked mutton offal soup was sent to both the cowshed and the teachers.

"Eating radishes in winter and ginger in summer, there’s no need for a doctor’s prescription. Actually, drinking some ginger soup would be fine. Who doesn’t grow a few plots of ginger? Instead, you specially stew a whole pot of mutton offal soup!" Miao Fengqin felt bad looking at the half-soup, half-offal in the bowl, "Saving that money to buy some nutritional supplements for Zhuangzhuang would have been so much better. Look how skinny he is."

Upon hearing his name, Zhuangzhuang, who was sitting in his mother’s arms, lifted his pale little face, "Huh?"

Saliva dribbled down, landing on his bib.

Feng Qingxue fed Zhuangzhuang a spoonful of carp soup and smiled, "I think everyone has had a tiring summer, and it’s time to replenish. Zhuangzhuang is weak; he won’t benefit from harsh supplements. Those nutritional products may not even be useful for him, let’s nurture him slowly."

Wang Zhengguo saw him happily drinking the fish soup and said, "Tomorrow, the reservoir will release water. There are bound to be some fish that escape the net and follow the flow into rivers and streams. Let’s get Guan Cheng and a few other lads to bring fish baskets and go fishing with Dachun. There’s been too much rain this year. Let’s tell all the villagers to go fishing. Whoever catches them gets to keep them, otherwise, if they flow into other people’s villages, it would just benefit outsiders."

... I have been up for several days in a row, having slept less than ten hours in total, with red eyes and a throbbing headache, so foggy that even typing has no quality. Therefore, I am going to get some early sleep, and the rest of the day will be spent typing and delivering the promised ten-thousand words without cutting corners.