Transmigration: On the Gossip Front -
Chapter 315 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 15_1
Chapter 315: Chapter 315 Unlucky Female Educated Youth 15_1
After enduring two long weeks of hazing, everyone finally had two days of rest.
Knowing they could take two days off, the first thing everyone thought of was to get some good rest.
Huang Lei too slept in until the sun was high in the sky, simply because she was truly exhausted.
Once she got up, she quickly prepared with Zhang Xia and Han Qian to pick up the cabinets they had commissioned from the carpenter.
Honestly, they were all quite surprised, having not expected the work to be completed so fast.
When the three arrived at the carpenter’s house and checked the cabinets, they realized a big problem, "How should we move these back?"
After all, it was a large item, and not something you could just take away whenever you wanted.
Luckily, the carpenter often helped the educated youths with tasks and had his son borrow a bullock cart from the farm to transport the cabinets to Huang Lei and the others’ dormitory.
Wang Nan woke up and initially wanted to find Zhao Aoran and the others. However, to her astonishment, while everyone was resting, they still had to work, collecting manure.
In her heart, whether it was Fan Xiaofei or Zhao Aoran, they gave off an air of superiority, as if they effortlessly excelled at anything they did.
Yet, to everyone’s surprise, having only been at the farm for a few days, they were now tasked with such work.
Wang Nan hesitated and felt lost, not understanding how things had come to this.
Here, she didn’t know who else to turn to for advice apart from Huang Lei.
When she finally got to Huang Lei’s dormitory, she learned that she had gone to pick up the cabinets. Wang Nan felt very unhappy about this news.
As Huang Lei and the others followed the bullock cart back to the dormitory entrance, they saw Wang Nan with a pouting mouth.
"Huang Lei, why didn’t you tell me when you went to get the cabinet made?" Wang Nan felt that Huang Lei’s actions were very inconsiderate.
Zhang Xia and Han Qian glanced at Wang Nan, helped move the cabinet down, then went inside to get a cloth to wipe the cabinet clean so that it could dry in the sun.
Wang Nan quickly mentioned the price of the cabinet, "Didn’t you say that you didn’t bring much money with you this time?"
"Does it make any difference whether I tell you or not?" Huang Lei responded indifferently.
What could Wang Nan say in response? She couldn’t just propose to have Huang Lei cover for her or suggest that Zhao Aoran pay for it first.
Although she often did such things, she didn’t want to say it in front of a bunch of strangers.
"Besides, many people knew we were going to get cabinets made. They all went to the carpenter and wanted to have cabinets made too."
"If you were to go, who knows when it would be your turn?" Huang Lei knew Wang Nan was short of money, but her admirers weren’t.
Okay, Wang Nan admitted she didn’t have money. No, wait, there were simply too many people in line, so she didn’t want to join the crowd.
"Do you know, from now on, Fan Xiaofei and Zhao Aoran’s job will be carrying manure, and it’s going to be a long-term task." Wang Nan spoke with distaste.
Ah, Zhang Xia and Han Qian, who had already begun cleaning the cabinets, were stunned to hear this.
"What, say that again?"
"They’re going to be carrying manure long-term?"
They had heard that after the review, they would be assigned to carry manure for maybe two months or more, but now it turned out to be an indefinite period.
"Apparently, if anyone causes trouble, fights, they’ll receive the same treatment."
While it seems there’s an opportunity to switch jobs, it would still require someone else to take over. Otherwise, one would still be stuck carrying manure.
No way, Huang Lei gasped, such punishment is not ordinarily harsh, it truly exceeded her expectations.
But upon further consideration, she felt it was a normal response, "After all, a wrong was committed."
"If not severely punished, the management fears everyone would follow suit." It’s the principle of killing the chicken to scare the monkey, everyone understands it.
Wang Nan sighed softly, glancing around, "Actually, the day Zhao Aoran left, he had already written to his family, but up until now..."
Merely a few days for a letter to be sent back, and yet two weeks have gone by without a single person from the Zhao Family showing up.
Zhao Aoran had already sent letters seeking reinforcements, and to this point, there’s been no response; Huang Lei felt the Zhao Family was likely making an assessment and might give up on him.
Zhao Aoran mechanically picked manure, his heart fluttering with panic. When he first insisted on becoming an educated youth, his parents had advised him to reconsider.
It was just that he had many cousins, all of whom were his rivals, all vying for the family’s support.
And he knew that even his own brothers were in fact rivals who might compete with him for resources in the future.
His insistence on coming here rested on his grandparents’ preference for this particular grandchild; thus, even after spending a few years here and then returning, he would still be the grandchild they favored.
But now, with no one from home coming, Zhao Aoran was in a state of panic. He didn’t know if his family had not received his letter, or if there was some other reason.
No matter what, he decided to make a phone call to inquire about the situation.
Zhao Aoran thought it over and decided to request leave, knowing that if he just left without regard, he surely wouldn’t end up well.
Fan Xiaofei, aware that Zhao Aoran had gone to the post office to call home, knew he must be panicked.
In fact, during these days, with no letters from the Zhao Family and no one coming, he knew the likelihood was that the Zhao Family was almost ready to give up on Zhao Aoran.
As his good friend and with the relations between their two families being quite good, Fan Xiaofei also knew why the Zhao couple was so fond of Zhao Aoran—it wasn’t just his resemblance to the old man but also because his character and temperament were virtually a carbon copy of the old man’s.
Yet the result was that this explosive temper led to immediate trouble for Zhao Aoran upon arriving here, the serious kind that ends up on your permanent record.
The old man was loath to give up on his cherished grandson, pulling strings to fix the archival issue, or otherwise to give up—Fan Xiaofei figured the odds were on the latter.
Fan Xiaofei, shouldering manure, walked toward the compost area, couldn’t deny that the smell in the heat of summer was truly unpleasant.
When he returned to the dormitory to rest at noon, he could distinctly sense the aversion from his roommates.
At that moment, Zhao Aoran hung up the phone lifelessly. He had gone to the county post office, waited in line for a long time until he finally got a chance to make a call.
But as soon as he connected and excitedly greeted the other side, before he could ask if his family had received his letter, he was met with a chilly decision.
Zhao Aoran truly hadn’t expected that just because of a fight, the consequences would be so grievous. His family didn’t intend to come out, instead saying he had to bear the consequences for his own actions.
Even when he expressed a desire to work back in the city, they politely refused him, reasoning that now he was registered at the farm, he should get on well there.
Of course, his father had preached a lot of principles, which Zhao Aoran had no desire to listen to.
No matter how eloquent or righteous the speech, it couldn’t conceal the most real reason—his family had given up on him.
They wouldn’t resolve the situation for him at the farm, nor would they transfer him back to the city.
As of now, he was a cast-off piece.
When Fan Xiaofei’s family met with misfortune, plummeting from heaven to hell, Zhao Aoran had mocked Fan Xiaofei countless times behind his back.
But now, he himself had become that cast-off, even without knowing whom the family would cultivate, it was certain he wouldn’t have good days ahead.
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