Traveling through time and space, wanting to lie down, but being forced to move forward

Chapter 730: Friends are coming (3)

Liu Jingxue brought the bamboo bag over and without saying anything, stuffed one into each of them's arms.

“When I was out shopping for groceries, I saw some women carrying these and thought they were something new and interesting, so I privately asked someone to order a few for me.

Thinking that you may not have seen this thing before, I prepared it for you.

Originally it was a souvenir I brought back for you from my long journey, but now it has become a gift for your wedding and return to the city."

At this point, Liu Jingxue deliberately teased, "But this is also a good thing, it saves me a gift.

It's not worth much, so don't despise it."

“Xiaoxue, I’m afraid you have some misunderstanding about it being worthless.

Such a beautiful bag must cost at least a few dollars, how can it be worthless? "

“Yes, Xiaoxue, we dare not accept such an expensive gift.

Even if we get married and return to the city, you don't need to give such an expensive gift.

You should keep it for yourself."

In fact, the two of them fell in love with the bag as soon as they saw it. After all, this bag was very different from the bags they had seen before.

Just thinking that he couldn't take advantage of Liu Jingxue, he refused ruthlessly.

Seeing the two people refuse, Liu Jingxue quickly said, "I have a few more of my own, these two are really specially prepared for you.

You all know my temper, and I'm not being polite to you.

And this thing is really not expensive. I asked someone to make it custom for me and it only cost one dollar and fifty cents each.

We will be separated next year, so you must accept this gift as a token of your remembrance."

Seeing that Liu Jingxue was sincere, one dollar and fifty cents was indeed not expensive for the two of them.

The two were not the kind of people who would shy away from giving in. They looked at each other, nodded, and accepted it.

But they all thought that when they came back from visiting their relatives, they would bring gifts for Xiaoxue.

Since they agreed to accept it, the two of them picked up the bag and studied it carefully.

"Xiaoxue, this bag is a bit hard and cold. It doesn't seem to be made of cloth."

Liu Jingxue said proudly, "You have to trust my judgment.

If it were a cloth bag, I wouldn't be so excited to order so many at once.

This is made of bamboo, so it can be considered a handicraft."

“It’s made of bamboo, how is that possible?

Bamboo can be woven into such beautiful bags." Zhang Yingchun said in amazement.

Xia Lan studied it for a long time and said with certainty, "It is really made of bamboo.

You can’t see it from the outside, but if you look inside, you can still see it.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yingchun hurriedly opened the bag and studied it carefully, "It's really made of bamboo.

In this way, it is really as Xiaoxue said, it is a real handicraft.

I can’t bear to carry this novel thing out with me, so I have to keep it well.”

“I have a good eye.

I knew you would like it.”

Xia Lan gave a thumbs up and said, “You really have a good eye.

I really like this bag.”

"We agreed that this is the gift for your marriage and your return to the city. I won't have anything else to give you later." Liu Jingxue said deliberately.

Zhang Yingchun rolled her eyes and said, "You don't have to say it twice. We won't force you to ask you for a gift.

Actually, it's reasonable for you to give Xia Lan a gift when she gets married, but I don't need to give her a gift when I go back to the city."

"Isn't your return to the city a happy event, and shouldn't you send me a gift?

But you will leave next year, and I am afraid we won’t have the chance to meet again.”

After Liu Jingxue said this, the room fell silent, and an indescribable sadness filled the entire room.

After realizing that she had said something wrong, she quickly tried to make amends.

"But it doesn't matter, we can still communicate.

Rather than letting the rest of us suffer here together, I would rather you two leave here quickly.

After all, you are not like me, who are strong and not afraid of doing farm work.

With your small bodies, you must have suffered a lot here in the past two years.

It’s a joy to be able to leave here now.”

When Zhang Yingchun heard this, she immediately started complaining.

“Farm work is not something that ordinary people can do.

Especially during the autumn harvest, it was really tiring and we had to survive on one breath.

Looking back now, I don’t know how I managed to get through it.”

“I feel that the suffering I have endured in the past few years in the countryside is the most difficult time in my life.

With these years of experience, I am not afraid of anything in the future." Xia Lan sighed.

Zhang Yingchun agreed, "Me too."

Liu Jingxue was a little amused, "Come on.

You two usually stay in the fields and lie down at home after completing the monthly work points.

It's only a little hard during the autumn harvest, but how can you have the nerve to say that you suffer in the countryside?

Think about Feng Chunyan, Liu Zhaodi, Chen Jiaojiao, and Zhou Wenbing; they are not much more miserable than you.

Compared to them, you are living a life like a god."

Zhang Yingchun stuck out her tongue when she heard that, "Then I don't want to compare myself with them, I can't live the same kind of life as them.

The three female educated youth were fine, as they could just support themselves, but Zhou Wenbing still had to support the people at home.

Sometimes when I see him, I feel tired for him.”

"Compared to before, Zhou Wenbing is now much better. After all, he is now one of the three tractor drivers in the production team.

In addition, Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing were willing to support him and teach him how to do business with others.

This year, he made some money from selling vegetables, eggs, and poultry." Xia Lan said.

Zhang Yingchun said, "This is because Zhou Wenbing is a good person and smart, otherwise Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing would not have taught him.

Look at the other male educated youth, they didn’t pay much attention to it.”

"As for Tang Qiangjun, Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing also tried to lead him, but he was not the right material, so they had to give up.

Zhou Zhiqing and his colleagues also taught the cousins ​​Chen Guoqing and Zhang Pingan.

As for the two newcomers," Xia Lan sneered, "let's not even talk about them. I don't even want to bother with them even though they live in the same educated youth camp, let alone Zhou Zhiqing and the other one."

Zhang Yingchun frowned and complained, "Why do you mention them for no reason? Don't you find it offensive?"

In the first half of this year, two more educated youths came to the production team, both male, and lived in a large dormitory.

However, they were not very nice people. Zhang Yingchun and Xia Lan came to complain to Liu Jingxue several times and were quite dissatisfied with them.

Liu Jingxue has never had any contact with the two of them and has no comment.

But occasionally I could tell from the villagers' words that they didn't like the two newcomers very much.

Those two men seemed to be unaware that they were unpopular, and they were somewhat conceited and looked down on the villagers.

"After you two left, there were only three female educated youths and four male educated youths left at the educated youth center, all of them living in large bunk beds. No one was left to rent a single room.

It was me who proposed to build the single room, but I feel like I betrayed the production team." Liu Jingxue frowned.

I don’t know whether the team leader and his colleagues regretted expanding the educated youth site.

"How can you be blamed for this? If the youth educated camp had not been expanded, there would have been no room for people to live there.

But I didn’t expect so many things to happen afterwards. Some educated youth left, some got married, and the house became empty.

But you don't have to worry. It's not like there will be no more educated youth coming to the production team in the future. Who knows how many batches will come next year.

There will always be someone who will rent a single room by then." Zhang Yingchun said indifferently.

"That's right. Besides, the houses won't be wasted if they're built. Even if the educated youth return to the city, the production team can still sell the houses to the villagers."

At this point, Xia Lan sighed, "It's just that we don't know when the policy will change and the educated youth will be allowed to return to the city.

Yingchun and I have made the arrangements, but we don’t know when the others will be able to go back.

Those who marry into the village or marry village girls may have problems again.”

Liu Jingxue looked at Xia Lan in surprise. This child has a very sensitive sense of smell.

In her time and space, the educated youth were allowed to return to their hometowns. However, many of them abandoned their partners and children and returned to the city alone, causing many ethical tragedies.

Feeling Liu Jingxue's inexplicable gaze, Xia Lan touched her face and said curiously,

"Why are you looking at me like that? It feels weird."

Liu Jingxue looked away and said nonchalantly, "Nothing, I just wanted to see if the bride-to-be is any different from usual."

Zhang Yingchun laughed when he heard it, "You have to take a closer look.

I feel that Sister Xia Lan seems to be much more beautiful than before.

It really fits the saying that when good things happen, people feel refreshed. "

Xia Lan was a little embarrassed, "You two teamed up to bully people."

The three of them immediately started fighting.