Chapter 481: The Lazy, Fair-skinned Youth and the Hardworking, Strong Laborer (4)
The lazy, fair-skinned educated youth and the hardworking, strong laborer (Part 4)
"Isn't this a new educated youth? Where are you going with this luggage?"
"Hello fellow villager, I'm not used to living in the educated youth camp, luckily fellow villager Song Ning is willing to let me stay at his home, I'm moving in with him."
"Song Ning? Why is he..."
"Of course, I won't let my fellow villager suffer. I have made an agreement with him that I will live in his house and pay him two dollars a month."
The fellow villager who originally wanted to teach Song Ning a lesson suddenly remained silent.
He looked at Lance with surprise, "Two dollars a month? Are you really going to give it to me? What about your work points?"
Lance naturally understood why the other party asked this, but he pretended to be innocent and confused.
"What's wrong with work points? I can earn work points. Even though I'm from the city, I'm pretty strong. I should be able to earn ten work points."
When the fellow villager saw that he was white but tall and strong, he fell silent.
It seems that he is more reliable than that old educated youth Dong Cai who only knew how to take advantage of others, right?
Lance explained all the way as he walked. Song Ning had originally followed him to help carry the luggage - it was just a small bamboo bookcase, not heavy. He didn't expect that there were only a few books in it, and it was so light.
Song Ning couldn't help but walk faster to catch up, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
After a long while he finally grunted.
"You don't have to tell anyone about this."
Dong Cai never told me about it before, I just secretly went to live in his house.
It’s just that there were also such educated youth living in the homes of fellow villagers in other places, and everyone thought it was like that and didn’t ask any more questions.
Lance felt a little embarrassed, his eyes fell on Song Ning's slightly yellow hair whorls.
"Is that so? But the fellow villagers are so enthusiastic. Isn't it a bit impolite not to talk to them?"
"No, there are no such things in our countryside."
"When you have time, just stop and talk for a few words. If you don't have time, just say something and leave."
Song Ning wanted to snatch the luggage from Lance's hand. His small bookcase was too light and he felt uneasy holding it, mainly because he felt sorry for the two dollars a month.
Lance took a few quick steps forward to avoid it.
"So that's how it is. I learned it. Thank you for teaching me this."
Song Ning was at a loss.
"What did I teach?"
Lance turned to look at him seriously.
"How to get along with fellow villagers? We educated youths who went to the countryside must learn this. We are supposed to integrate into the collective."
“B-but?”
But didn’t Dong Cai say this before?
Song Ning's eyes became even more confused. At that time, Dong Cai always blamed him when he couldn't eat meat.
They asked why he was not an educated youth who went to the countryside like Dong Cai. Apart from earning work points, he only cared about the chickens and pigs at home, or swept the floor, collected manure and grew vegetables. Dong Cai said he had no education at all, and that being friends with him would be a great loss to Dong Cai.
Dong Cai also said that his fellow villagers always smelled bad and he couldn't stand staying there, and that one day he would have to go back to the city.
Song Ning didn't think much about it at that time. He had never thought about this - Dong Cai was an educated youth who went to the countryside and was supposed to integrate into the collective.
The second half of the journey was silent, and Song Ning naturally didn't notice how many fellow villagers Lance greeted like a peacock spreading its feathers.
The Song family was right at the end of the village. Almost half of the village knew that the former educated youth Dong Cai had left the Song family and that the new educated youth Lan Si was now living there.
Moreover, he also said that he earned work points and tried to see if he could earn ten points. He also gave two yuan a month to the Song family as accommodation fees.
As soon as these words were spoken, many fellow villagers immediately had a much better impression of the new educated youth.
The contrast is really too tragic. Look at the old educated youth Dong Cai, who not only didn't pay the money but also always asked the Song family to buy him candy and meat. He didn't even earn work points. Every month, Song Ning went to help him and he could barely earn three work points.
How can this be compared with the new educated youth?
Dong Cai had no idea that his reputation had plummeted in just a short period of time. He felt as uncomfortable as if a rat had escaped from his body after losing the money.
"No, I must find a way to get the money and tickets back. Song Ning is blaming me. It was obviously him who found a new man first and refused to spend the money and tickets on me. Otherwise, why would I fall in love with a country bumpkin like Lin Caifeng?"
He completely forgot that he had been eyeing the most attractive Lin Caifeng for a long time, and he often thought of Lin Caifeng when he was chatting about dirty jokes with other men.
The angle Song Ning saw that day was actually incomplete. Not only did he kiss Lin Caifeng, he also reached into her clothes and touched the big stuff he had been dreaming of several times, without missing a single one.
Even he and Lin Caifeng didn't have a serious relationship. It was just a hookup between one who wanted a man and the other who needed a woman.
He has money and tickets, and that's all Lin Caifeng wants, so they are both willing.
But Dong Cai never thought that those things belonged to Song Ning. When he took away the money and tickets, he even thought about scolding Song Ning severely after Song Ning found out.
He had done that before.
Dong Cai was different from other educated youth. Many of those educated youth came from well-off families and voluntarily went to the countryside. They would receive packages from home from time to time.
The most common things were malt extract and White Rabbit milk candy. Last time, a male educated youth even sent a fountain pen to his family. That pen was sold for 20 yuan in the supply and marketing cooperative, which made Dong Cai's eyes turn red.
"I can't just let it go like this. Those things should have been mine. He should have given them to me. He lied to me and kept it from me. I was right to do this."
Dong Cai couldn't calm down when he thought about the money and tickets.
Song Ning had kept so much money and notes hidden from him! There were even several times when he thought Song Ning really had no money and notes, and had to go to work to help earn some work points. He had never worked in the fields before, and that was not what he was supposed to do.
It was Song Ning who deceived him first!
"It must be because of that new educated youth. Who is he?"
Dong Cai thought about it and felt that the problem still lay with the new educated youth.
That educated youth was indeed quite handsome.
This idea made Dong Cai very angry.
Because he originally thought that Song Ning fell in love with him because of his talent, but now it seems that maybe Song Ning was just attracted by his beauty?
So when a new person comes, the old one is immediately forgotten.
Dong Cai trembled with anger when he thought about how little value he had in Song Ning's heart.
"Damn it, bitch, he is such a fickle bitch!"
A figure took half a step forward and then retreated silently.
Sun Yingying looked at the elder brother Xu Meng from their educated youth camp, who looked unhappy. Didn't Xu Meng go to find Dong Cai? Why did he look so unhappy?
"Brother Xu, didn't you go to look for that Dong Cai?"