HBWnovel Chapter 46 Young Educated Youth of the Era 5
Chapter 46 Young Educated Youth of the Era 5
One can only say that the eldest son of the Zhang family is courageous, but not worthy of encouragement.
After all, Jiang Xiaozhiqing's reputation didn't come from doing good deeds. Didn't you see that there weren't many hooligans around Shiqiao Village and the commune area?
Once, Jiang Yaping went out to buy food at a state-run restaurant. On the way, he was ambushed by several people. Even though he tried to hold back, he still "accidentally" broke someone's bone.
They went to the hospital before they went to the police station.
The young women and female educated youth in the village looked at Jiang Yaping differently, feeling safer living in the same village as her.
I used to think that Xiao Jiang, a former educated youth, was efficient at work but didn't like to talk to them and had little presence.
I never expected her to be such a capable educated youth.
Actually, when Xiao Jiang, a young educated woman, didn't like to talk when she was working in the fields, it was because the puppet was doing the work for her. It was set to a serious work mode so as not to scare people.
Buying new items from the system shop's special offer section allows the puppet to completely replicate her appearance.
She felt like someone had deliberately put it in the mall for her to buy and use, sigh.
However, when she goes to work, she will gravitate towards Aunt Zhang and Aunt Wang, so others only think that she is hot and cold for a while.
As soon as the gong sounded, the crowd immediately dispersed, putting down their work and heading home.
Jiang Yaping was in a hurry to get home for lunch, but she wasn't in a rush; in fact, she took a few steps slower than usual.
Liu, the widower's three sons, were waiting at the door. She used her mental power to control a small wild boar to rush over there and scare the people away.
Anyway, when they finally got home, they twisted their ankles, tore their clothes, and were covered in mud.
You can't cause trouble for anyone, because you were chased by a wild boar.
Other villagers also saw the wild boar and were about to take their farm tools to give it a good whack, but the boar turned around and went back into the forest.
Jiang Yaping plans to keep it for future use.
Some sharp-eyed people noticed that the children from the other village had already left safely, and they didn't think much of it.
Later, whenever the child left the village, the system would alert her, and she would control the pig and make them run in both directions.
After several such incidents, the person was so frightened that they dared not leave the village for six months.
Liu Shengli changed his target, but after failing to get what he wanted, he was even beaten so badly by the other person's parents that he was crippled.
Back home, I used my puppet to make some cornbread to soothe my throat, boiled eggs, wild vegetable and mixed grain porridge, boiled water, and flatbread...
Since I have to pretend to cook every day anyway, I might as well make a little extra so I can store it in my space. These things can be used in different eras, ancient times, and post-apocalyptic worlds.
She found a vacant lot in the black soil and set up a mobile villa where she could cook, shower, and rest.
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Before we knew it, it was 78.
Among the many educated youth who came and went in the village, Jiang Yaping was considered to have a stable position.
Chen Yuhua's family had already arranged for her to return to the city to find a new job.
Some educated youth even went back to visit their families and took over their parents' jobs.
Even worse, some people were so ill that they had to apply to return to the city due to illness.
There's always a way to overcome difficulties, and everyone used all sorts of ingenious methods to get back to the city.
However, now that everyone is preparing for the college entrance examination, the brigade leader is relatively easy to talk to and does not stop the educated youth from studying.
Anyway, no educated youth married into the villagers in Shiqiao Village, so he didn't need to worry about it.
Even educated youth and young children from the village could get together to study.
The main reason is that people heard there are subsidies for going to university, so the villagers are quite supportive of their children giving it a try.
After the college entrance examination results came out, it turned out that eight college students came from Shiqiao Village, one of whom was Jiang Yaping.
Zhang Qiuqiu next door missed this year's college entrance exam and could only look at Jiang Yaping with starry eyes.
She encouraged herself, hoping that she could get into university in the future, and then she would take her grandmother with her to school.
Amidst the congratulations of the crowd, Jiang Yaping packed her luggage and even pretended to go to the post office to mail a few packages.
Items that were not readily available for taking were distributed among the aunties. Dictionaries, notebooks, pencils, textbooks, comic books, and other similar items were also given to them to take back to their children.
Before she left, she received pancakes, steamed buns, and boiled eggs made by her aunts, which were prepared for her to eat on the train.
I don't know if we'll ever meet again after this parting.
Apart from a slight sense of regret, she felt completely unmoved. Could it be that she was a butcher in her past life?
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Jiang Yaping managed to return to the city on his own, but Jiang Dabao, who was far away, did not have that ability.
After the charm failed, life returned to normal.
He couldn't even get a bite to eat, and he became ascetic and apathetic.
He had truly lost all his energy and spirit, and was eventually taken in by a widow who married him into her family.
She knew Jiang Dabao was very attractive, so she was thinking of getting married as soon as possible. But on their wedding night, she discovered that he was more like a eunuch than a eunuch.
Not wanting to get a divorce right away, he could only grumble and complain every day, asking his parents to make him do more work.
She was indeed too conservative; it would have been better if she hadn't been so reserved.
The widow secretly thought to herself, "No wonder those people stopped coming to see me afterward. It turns out it was because this man was no good."
Without the filter, all that so-called melancholy looks like a miserable face in her eyes.
What bad luck!
After a few years, the educated youth in the village gradually left, but Jiang Dabao felt that life was alright.
With someone in charge of the household and land allocated to them for cultivation, life is much better than before.
Anshi's parents hadn't replied for a long time, and he already understood what they meant, so he had no desire to question them anymore.
The widow didn't kick him out in the end. The two of them even went over mountains and valleys to find an abandoned baby girl and raised her as their own.
Before passing away, he looked back on the past and realized how many regrets he had.
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The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) is here.
Grandma Jiang was particularly excited. She wondered if she could go to university with her grandson, so that her life wouldn't have been in vain.
She didn't want to stay in Anshi any longer anyway.
Jiang Lin did not disappoint his grandmother's expectations. He was admitted to a university in Haishi and even took his grandmother with him to Haishi.
The two ignored Jiang's parents' reactions, took the admission notices back to their village to pay respects to their ancestors, and then boarded a train to leave Anshi.
Only the two people who were used to being arranged by Old Lady Jiang were left sitting at home, somewhat dazed.
Suddenly it dawned on me: have they run out of people to take care of them again?
Then I thought, Xiao Bao really probably won't come.
Then they need to save money even more for their retirement.
As for Jiang Dabao, the last time they contacted each other was when Dabao wrote a letter about marrying into the family, and Jiang's father got angry and wrote back saying he would sever ties.
Jiang's mother also secretly contacted him and heard that he only had one daughter and did not plan to have any more children, and did not even have a son.
This is something hopeless.
After that, their lives seemed unchanged.
After get off work, they would go from street to street picking up trash, continuing until they were laid off. Then the couple started working full-time as scrap collectors.
They made a lot of money, but they argued every time they met, and never thought about breaking up.
Before, when Grandma Jiang was at home, they would put on a show, but now that no one is keeping an eye on them, they simply rented a small courtyard in the suburbs.
During the day, they each collect their own junk; at night, they go home and sleep separately; and they manage their own money.
Being extremely stingy can make someone look at least ten years older than their peers.
Outsiders think the two are really poor, but in reality they are just reluctant to spend the money.
The thought of retirement weighed heavily on my mind for so many years, and I've become obsessed with it.
The two of them are now in the same boat; they can't even bear to get treatment when they're sick, and just sit at home doing nothing.
This situation is really frightening, otherwise Old Lady Jiang wouldn't have run away so quickly.
She only urged them to be hardworking and thrifty, never said they should be stingy with themselves. Even this old woman who farms knows to treat herself specially...
Jiang's parents worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk collecting scraps until they were too old to move. They eventually passed away one after another in that small courtyard, and were buried by the villagers.
After burying them, we divided up the belongings in the yard.
I wonder how much regret they have in their hearts throughout their lives.
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Jiang Yaping has lived a relatively fulfilling life. During her university years, she took time to start her own business, made money, and bought many houses and shops to collect rent.
After graduation, I opened a small bookstore, hired two employees, and raised two cats.
She herself spends her days curled up on the sofa reading, living a very comfortable life.