Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Chapter 394: Cleaning the River

Originally, everyone didn't want to continue to care about Zhang Ming, but the situation is different now. Although he is really annoying, no one can watch him starve to death.

Zhao Chunjiang, who also holds the title of the head of the educated youth site, naturally has to shoulder his responsibilities, and he is duty-bound to take care of the injured Zhang Ming.

Xue Li packed up his things and was about to go out. When he was locking the door, he saw Zhao Chunjiang, who looked irritable, helping Zhang Ming out of the room, muttering, "When you go to the toilet later, hold on to the wall. Don't step into the pit by accident. Do you understand?"

Zhang Ming's face also turned pale and he looked uneasy. When he heard Zhao Chunjiang's instructions, he felt as if he had been greatly insulted. He wished he could kill the other person with his eyes.

Xue Li stuffed the key into his clothes and turned to leave when he saw Wu Xiaoxiao standing at the door of his room with a frown on his face. He seemed to be conflicted and didn't know what to do.

Has this girl still not sorted out her feelings? Just for such a disgusting man?

Love-brain is really scary. Xue Li shook his head slightly, put on his gloves, picked up his bicycle and went out.

A lively day at the educated youth site thus began.

When Chen Jinghan and Wu Aiqing got up, Zhao Chunjiang was looking for Zhang Ming's rations. When he came out with the light bag, he was puzzled. How did this man distribute his rations? How come there was only so much food left in the middle of the month? How could he eat until the end of the month? Otherwise, he would...

Zhao Chunjiang turned back and returned the bag of grain to Zhang Ming. "I'd better come and get it when I cook. This way you can see it and don't have to worry about not being able to explain it clearly."

Zhang Ming's expression froze for a moment. He actually divided the ration into two parts and hid them separately. He was quite happy when Zhao Chunjiang came to get it just now. After eating half of the food, he just had to bite off his own food to have enough to eat. A man like Zhao Chunjiang would probably be embarrassed to tell him that he had no food to eat.

At that time, he could keep half of his rations and get other people's food for free. It was really a great thing!

As a result, he hadn't been happy for two minutes when Zhao Chunjiang came back. Well, his plan had failed. What else could he do? He could only take out the things honestly.

As for how to deal with his broken leg, the brigade asked the village barefoot doctor to help him with a simple fixation yesterday morning. As for whether the wound can heal, that really depends on luck.

After finishing Zhang Ming's work, Zhao Chunjiang followed the main group and went to work tiredly.

It’s too difficult, it’s really too difficult. Life is like this in darkness!

Not only does he have to deal with the increasingly intensifying oppression from the brigade cadres, but he also has to be responsible for Zhang Ming, who is a drag. If he had known this earlier when the new educated youth went to the countryside, he would not have competed with Guan Wenbin for that crappy job of person in charge. It's a thankless job and he's so unlucky!

Zhao Chunjiang felt more and more unlucky the more he thought about it. He angrily kicked the gravel on the ground and sighed deeply.

Liu Qiang was walking beside him and sighed when he saw this.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Chunjiang said unhappily. Why are you, a person who has done nothing wrong, learning from me?

Liu Qiang glared at him, "Let me tell you, I saw Lin Zhiqiu going up the mountain yesterday."

"Let's go up the mountain, why are you sighing!" Zhao Chunjiang thought he was puzzled. She was just going up the mountain. Which woman in the team wouldn't go up the mountain?

Liu Qiang sighed, then leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Her husband never let her go out alone before. She looked sneaky when she went up the mountain yesterday, and she even went up from the back slope."

The hillside behind is mostly the graves of the villagers. Unless there are special circumstances, such as last year's rush to harvest when a lot of firewood was needed, generally people rarely go there. Even if they go, they will avoid the places where small earth mounds gather.

But he saw Lin Zhiqiu walking towards that place yesterday. Wow, it’s really weird to think about it.

"The hillside behind? What is she doing there? Collecting firewood?" Zhao Chunjiang was also a little surprised, but since the hillside behind was closer to her home, it was understandable.

Liu Qiang shook his head. "I saw her bending down to pick up something several times, but it was too far away for me to see clearly."

"Forget it, forget it. We haven't finished our own business yet, and we can't care what she does. Whatever." Zhao Chunjiang thought about it, but didn't figure it out, so he just ignored it.

Although Liu Qiang wanted to say something, he knew that Zhao Chunjiang was particularly irritable these two days, so he didn't continue.

Lin Zhiqiu was an educated youth who came to the construction team at the same time as them. She had a round face and loved to smile. She was a girl that people could easily like. He remembered that Zhao Chunjiang had liked her a little at the beginning, but everything that happened later was too sudden, and the vague good feelings gradually disappeared with the passage of time. Now she had become an outsider that Zhao Chunjiang had no time to care about.

After working in the fields for a whole morning, several team leaders suddenly appeared and informed the educated youth in their respective teams to go and clean the river together in the afternoon.

"Isn't this a job assigned to strong laborers every year?" Why are they suddenly asked to do this job by educated youth who are not physically strong? If they don't do it well and delay the use of water in the fields, who will be responsible? Zhao Chunjiang said in surprise and fear.

The team leader glanced at him lightly with contempt in his eyes, "Just go, why are you asking so many questions?"

The other educated youth looked at each other, feeling increasingly sad.

Zhao Chunjiang felt that his premonition was too accurate. What he said came true. The brigade really wanted to teach them a lesson...

What should he do... He lowered his eyes, his mind was full of thoughts, but since he could not go against the order from the brigade, he could only accept it.

The educated youth returned to the educated youth center in a daze, like eggplants hit by frost.

Zhao Chunjiang immediately found Wu Aiqing, who was rarely at home during the day, and told him the notice. "What should we do? Our work is average to begin with, and now we have to do heavy labor. By then, we will be so tired that we can't even walk, and we will be at a disadvantage."

Wu Aiqing pursed her lips. The brigade acted very quickly and was so impatient. Did they really want to completely control these educated youth before Jiang Yu came back?

How ridiculous! They thought they were local tyrants? They wanted to oppress the educated youth and let them do whatever they wanted. Wu Aiqing's mind flashed through the use of various poisonous drugs, but he immediately came to his senses the next moment. Using drugs could be a way to retaliate against those ignorant villagers, but it would also shift everyone's attention to him. After all, everyone in the brigade knew what he was good at.

But if they were targeting the educated youth group, he couldn't just sit there and wait for death.

Wu Aiqing's eyes fell on the light spots on the ground and he sighed softly.