Chapter 1908 Passerby Female Educated Youth 50

After finishing her meal, Zhang Yu was about to help wash the dishes, but Yao Ying stopped her and said, "I'll do it."

"Mom, it's just washing dishes. I can do it. Besides, I've already had the whole afternoon off."

"If you don't let me move a little, I'll be stiff." Zhang Yu cleaned the table quickly and went to wash the dishes. Her movements were very quick.

Yao Ying watched her daughter doing things so decisively, and tears could not be controlled and flowed down, "Lao Zhang, our daughter..."

Mingming was still a kid who knew nothing in the summer. After knowing that he would be sent to the countryside to work as an educated youth, Yao Ying gave him intensive training. Even so, she was still worried.

I was always worried about whether my child could adapt. Unexpectedly, after a few months, my daughter came back. She was just a little darker, but not thinner. She didn't feel any resentment towards them, but told them interesting things that happened on the farm with a smile.

Zhang Yu washed the dishes quickly and wiped the cupboards and countertops as well. They were spotless.

Yao Ying looked at the clean kitchen and almost cried.

"Mom, I know. You must think that I am much more diligent and efficient at work. You are happy for me, so there is no need to cry."

"Mom, let me tell you, I have learned how to make tofu, but unfortunately there is no mill at home."

“And that fermented thing.”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yu recalled that she had learned to make steamed buns from an educated youth. "Mom, I'll make steamed buns in a few days."

"You can make steamed buns?" Yao Ying was surprised and incredulous. Zhang Wei and the others were also very surprised. Although they also have steamed buns here, they usually eat rice.

I only eat steamed buns occasionally, and those are bought when they are supplied in the canteen.

"Yes, I can make noodles too. I originally wanted to make ramen, but I haven't learned it yet." Looking at the educated youth in Lanzhou Province, making ramen was really not difficult, so Zhang Yu thought about trying it himself.

As a result, the obedient dough in other people's hands could not be pulled out no matter how she struggled with it, so she could only give up helplessly.

"Daughter, didn't you go to be an educated youth?" Yao Ying was dumbfounded. How come her daughter only went to the farm for a few months, but she could actually make noodles and buns by hand? This, this.

"Sister, you can't, you are not going to work in the cafeteria." Zhang Jie began to know Zhang Yu's cooking level, which was just edible.

Who would have thought that even after being an educated youth for a few months, one would have learned all these things? This is too scary.

"I want to, too. But it's a pity that this kind of work has nothing to do with us educated youth. Even the families of the field leaders have no share. They are all the families of the soldiers who died or are seriously ill."

“They do a lot of the easy work on the farm.”

After hearing this, Zhang Wei and his team were not surprised at all. “Back then, the disabled soldiers did not go south, but put down their guns and picked up hoes to plant crops. It’s great that they have such a tradition.”

At least it shows that the leaders there are good. In the past, Zhang Wei and his friends only listened a little bit to the topic of educated youth, but did not have a deep understanding of it.

Now that his daughter has become an educated youth, he would listen to any topic related to them and has learned some of the situation.

Every time he heard bad things every day, he was particularly grateful that his daughter went to the farm and came back every year. Otherwise, if something really happened, he would cry himself to death.

Zhang Yu nodded, "Of course, as long as it's not the busy farming season, we can have one day off every week."

It was really better than being an educated youth in the countryside. "There was a female educated youth in one of our brigade. Her family had all girls who were educated youth. Her older brother and younger brother, one took over their mother's job, and the other went to school."

"Then why don't you get married?" Zhang Jie didn't understand. If he didn't want to be an educated youth, there was another way, which was to get married. As long as the other party had a job, it didn't matter if the other party didn't.

Why didn't she get married? "She probably didn't receive a high betrothal gift." Zhang Yu wasn't sure, "But I heard from that educated youth that her brother was getting married, and her family was planning to let her elder sister return to the city."

"I also asked her to mail her salary back to me. I often wrote to her and asked her to mail her salary back to me."

Zhang Jie was angry, "Isn't this blood sucking?"

"Yes, it's bloodsucking. This time, the educated youth did not go back home to celebrate the New Year, but went to her eldest sister's place, which is not too far from our farm." Zhang Yu has a pretty good relationship with the other party. Sometimes when they meet at work, they will help each other.

"My roommates and I think that being an educated youth is easier for them, because at least the income is in their own hands."

"As for the rice from our farm, if you don't want it, you can sell it to us at 20 cents per pound."

"My two roommates gave up, so Zhao Tong and I bought the rice from them at a price of 0.1 cent per pound."

Zhang Yu took out a list from his pocket and said, "I want to buy an extra 100 kilograms of rice and these things. You give me the money, and the rest is my gift."

"I have no money left. I used my salary these days to buy things, and there are still things I need to purchase." Zhang Yu explained briefly.

Some were filial, and some were bought by her for the family. "By the way, Mom, do you need soybeans when the time comes?"

"Do you need peanuts?" Zhang Yu mentioned several local specialties.

"Of course." Yao Ying was shocked, but immediately said that she absolutely wanted it.

"You can buy anything edible. You can take any of this stuff, no matter how much it is, and even give it as a gift." These days, the supply of materials really can't keep up.

For the same price, giving money or giving things, of course the latter is more popular, "What about rice?"

Zhang Yu shook his head. "At the moment, what I can guarantee is that I will bring back 100 kilograms of rice by the end of the year."

"If my roommate doesn't bring rice, I can bring an extra 100 kilograms. If I bring more than that," Zhang Yu said, "it will definitely not work. Everyone will know that you sold it at a high price."

Even though the rice from the farm is delicious, which large farmer can consume three to five hundred kilograms a year? If it is not traded on the black market, how can they need such a large amount?

Yao Ying got anxious when she heard this. All she could think about was, "Girl, bring back 200 kilograms of rice now. What about you?"

Zhang Wei and Zhang Jie also became nervous and looked at Zhang Yu worriedly, fearing that this would bring her trouble.

"It's okay. I asked. It's okay to bring 200 kilograms. After all, it's Chinese New Year. Giving 30 to 5 kilograms of rice to relatives is also a decent gift."

Zhang Yu was really shocked when he thought about the fact that when visiting relatives, giving three to five kilograms of rice was considered a generous gift.

"Yes, it's really nice to give such a gift." Yao Ying felt good when she thought of the people who came to visit her house in the afternoon.

At first they thought that when Xiaoyu came back they would be able to watch the fun, but it turned out to be irritating to her instead.

No matter how nicely they spoke, Yao Ying still remembered the expressions on their faces when they watched her family having fun. In any case, she would never give in.