Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 191 - 190: More Than One Family

Chapter 191: Chapter 190: More Than One Family

Sie Yufei was on the brink of collapse.

Very much on the brink.

Because this Educated Youth Corps spot he was enjoying all to himself... aside from a heated brick bed, there was nothing else.

No firewood, no water, and not a single sprout in the reserved land.

Even a rat would cry and leave.

He hadn’t closed his eyes for three days and finally entered the room, only to find not even a drop of water to drink.

Young Master Sie had lived for eighteen years, and for the first time experienced the biting chill of hunger and cold.

Whether to fetch water or gather firewood first, to eat or catch some sleep first, countless choices swirled in Sie Yufei’s head, and each option seemed painfully difficult.

Just as he was engulfed in despair and irritation, Cao Dayue arrived, bringing a sea-bowl of egg soup and four pieces of cornbread.

Cao Dayue was dressed in a no-patched but whitewashed outfit, her plain face flushed with red.

She looked at Sie Yufei, thinking he was very handsome, even the actors in movies were not as good-looking as him.

"Here, I brought this for you to eat." Cao Dayue handed over the warm meal specially made by her mother, her tone timid and soft, "My name is Cao Dayue, my dad is the brigade leader."

Sie Yufei looked at the girl before him, instantly remembering Uncle Li’s instructions.

He grinned and said: "Thank you."

Then he took the bowl.

Cao Dayue’s eyes suddenly brightened, just as she was about to say something according to her mother’s teaching, she saw this handsome comrade hand her a half jin National Food Ticket and 20 cents.

Sie Yufei, holding the bowl in one hand and the money ticket in the other: "I don’t have much grain here, take the money and tickets, and please also thank your parents for me."

His sparkling white teeth dazzled Cao Dayue’s eyes, whisking away the soul of the young girl.

Cao Dayue couldn’t remember how she took the money ticket, but on her way back, her steps felt light and airy.

"What? He gave money and tickets?"

Cao Manfu looked at the money and tickets before him, happy, but not extremely so.

Their accustomed strategy of coercing marriage was to have their own daughters or sons bring something to eat or drink for the newly arrived Educated Youth, get acquainted, then make a move.

For female comrades, reputation is paramount; they’d have to get married even if things went astray.

As for male comrades, not marrying would be regarded as hooliganism, and they’d be sent straight to a detention cell.

To date, their success rate in coercing marriage is one hundred percent.

No one wants to tarnish their reputation, and no one wants to go to jail.

But now, this familiar tactic seemed ineffective.

No one used to give money and tickets before!

Cao Manfu furrowed his brows, pondered for a moment, then said to Cao Dayue: "Go over with your mom, say that the Educated Youth Corps place is too shabby to live in, ask him to come over and board with us."

Aunt Cao was displeased, glaring with eyes wide and hands on her hips: "What? Have him live with us? How much grain would that consume?"

Cao Manfu fluttered the money and tickets on the heated brick bed.

He snorted: "Long hair but short on wit, old ladies, what do you know? That lad is from Beijing, he’d care about your meager offerings? Hurry, bring that person home first, don’t let others snatch him away."

Watching the tangible money and tickets, Aunt Cao harbored some doubt but still took her daughter and left.

However, before the mother and daughter reached the Educated Youth Corps, they heard laughter coming from inside.

"... This isn’t work fit for you, lordship. Put it down quickly, Guihua, come and make Young Master Sie’s bed."

"Hey hey, Auntie, that’s not suitable, wow, Guihua is so young, this isn’t proper."

"I’m right here watching, what’s there to worry about?"

Aunt Cao spat: "The whole Old Wang family are crafty as rats, always burrowing where it’s warm!"

After cursing, she quickened her pace with Cao Dayue, walking briskly then breaking into a jog, and like a whirlwind, they stormed into the Educated Youth Corps.

Only upon entering did she realize that the cunning rats she mentioned... were not just from one family...

...

When Uncle Guan came to pick them up, the Wen family’s sisters, who had just felt a world of boundless opportunities, couldn’t hold it together again.

Each grabbing one of Lin Nianhe’s arms, they looked at her with disbelief: "Nianhe, are you a teacher too?"

Lin Nianhe blinked innocently: "Hmm, didn’t I tell you?"

"..."

"No, you didn’t!"

"Oh, maybe I forgot," Lin Nianhe said as she pulled her hands away. "Now you know."

Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan exchanged a glance, then grabbed her again.

"Nianhe, tell us, how did you become a teacher?"

"Yeah, yeah, look, we’re not good at farming either, if we could be teachers too... obviously, we could contribute better!"

Lin Nianhe spread her hands: "A while ago the village school was recruiting teachers. It was a test, and they hired based on the rankings."

Wen Qingqing’s eyes sparkled with surprise — a test? That was something they weren’t afraid of; they had always done well academically.

Wen Ruannuan asked immediately: "When will there be another test?"

"I have no idea about that," replied Lin Nianhe, trying to shake them off, but this time they held on tight, and she couldn’t break free.

She glanced at Wen Lan, lifting her eyebrows and making faces, gesturing for her to come to her rescue.

Wen Lan caught Lin Nianhe’s eye signal, but didn’t understand what it meant.

"What’s wrong? What is it?"

As Wen Lan approached Lin Nianhe, asking her question.

Lin Nianhe: "..."

See, she knew she shouldn’t dabble in such deceitful business like success theory; she just thought about it, and immediately karma struck back.

Looking at Sister Lan’s innocent eyes, Lin Nianhe could only play dumb: "I’m fine, what’s wrong with you?"

Wang Shumei was in the midst of helping Principal Wu onto the ox cart, and she was momentarily distracted, not noticing Wen Lan, which led to the awkward scene.

Seeing Wen Lan about to speak up, Wang Shumei quickly raised her voice: "Xiao Lan, Nianhe, hurry up and get on the cart, we’ll be delayed for the meeting soon."

"Ah, coming." Lin Nianhe sighed with relief.

With a Shumei in the family, all was well.

She took the opportunity to wriggle free from the grasp of the Wen sisters and dragged Wen Lan towards the ox cart.

They got on board, Uncle Guan cracked his whip, and the ox cart rumbled away in the distance.

Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan looked at each other, their gaze shifting to Yu Xiangqin.

Yu Xiangqin, however, didn’t notice their stares and went straight back to her room to take a nap — she had to work in the afternoon!

The other party’s unilateral refusal to engage left Wen Qingqing and Wen Ruannuan without a plan, and they stood there for a while before silently returning to pack their belongings.

On the ox cart, Lin Nianhe rested her chin in her hand, silent.

Wang Shumei stuffed a piece of fruit candy into her mouth, asking: "What are you thinking about? You seem so preoccupied."

Lin Nianhe, candy in mouth, mumbled vaguely: "I have a bad feeling."

Wang Shumei grew a little nervous: "What’s wrong?"

Lin Nianhe squinted towards the verdant hills, silent for a long while before she said: "About sending those two to buy grain for Fourth Sie... I feel something is going to go wrong."

After thinking for a while, Wang Shumei laughed: "What could they possibly do, rob the Cooperative Society? Don’t worry..."

Having finished her sentence, Wang Shumei suddenly realized that might not be the kind of thing that could happen.

What on earth could those two get up to? Who knows?

Sure enough, Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian did not rob the Cooperative Society.

Instead, they had taken over the recently stocked dormitory that belonged to Sie Yufei.