Return to 1981 and start from breaking off the engagement

Chapter 7 The Educated Youth
Yao Weijun, who left Xiheba, did not return to Jiachang Village. Instead, he took advantage of the help of bicycles to rush to another commune market.

In this era, markets in northern rural areas would deliberately stagger their times.

The Da Liu Commune holds meetings on the [-]th and [-]th day of each month of the lunar calendar, while other communes may hold meetings on the [-]rd and [-]th days of each month, and some on the [-]th and [-]th days of the month. The purpose of this is to ensure that several people nearby Each commune has a market every day for villagers to go to the market to buy goods.

When Yao Weijun arrived at the market, it was already past noon, and most of the people going to the market had already left.

He ignored lunch and found a stall selling peanuts. After negotiating the price, he bought a hundred kilograms of shelled peanuts for 21 yuan and [-] cents, enough to fill two full pockets.

Then I added some seasonings and coarse salt, then walked into a restaurant and ordered a plate of fried pork with green onions, tomato and egg soup, and a braised pork pancake, which I ate deliciously.

After eating and drinking, we bought wine and cooked food, and rode all the way back to Jiachang Village.

Yao Weijun came to the adobe house where the educated youth lived. At this time, Shunzi and others were not there. They probably went into the mountains to hunt with their shotguns.

He spread the two bags of peanuts out to dry on the edge of the threshing floor until the sun set. Then he put them back into the bags, carried them to another dining shed, and covered them with debris.

"Forget it, the village will end the work soon. It's better to return Shunzi's bicycle first, so as not to cause trouble to Shunzi and get a bear later. If he wants to use his bicycle later, he will have no chance."

Yao Weijun looked at the sky, pushed his bicycle into the village, went to Shunzi's house, opened the courtyard door, parked the bicycle quietly, returned to his home, dug out the seasoning bag he used yesterday, and went to the threshing floor again. .

He considered that instead of being stranded at home and being ignored by his family, he might as well stay with the educated youth, which would also be convenient for him to fry peanuts.

It was getting dark.

Shunzi and others were still missing, and the educated youth who had gone to work in the fields came back first.

"The guards are here, why don't you... leave me here to have some food tonight?"

The educated youth's surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Xiaobin. Now all the other educated youths have returned to the city, but he is the only one who has not completed the return procedures and continues to work in Jiachang Village.

He greeted Yao Weijun with a somewhat unnatural smile.

The main reason was that the food allocated to him by the team was about to run out. He stayed with Yao Weijun for dinner just as a courtesy, and he was worried that Yao Weijun would really agree.

"Okay, Shunzi and the others will be back later. Let's have some drinks together tonight."

Yao Weijun's words made his hand holding the enamel basin tremble, and his face became slightly stiff.

"But I'm treating you tonight. The food and wine have already been bought. In addition, we will have two kilograms of noodles. Whoever is hungry after the wine will cook them himself."

Yao Weijun pointed to the food and wine on the table in the back room and explained with a smile.

"Well, you should treat me when you come here, haha... Guard, you are making me embarrassed."

Zhang Xiaobin was suddenly pleasantly surprised. Just now, he put down his pickaxe and put it outside to fetch water to wash his face. He really didn't pay attention to the things on the table in the room.

"Brother Bin, my friends used to come to your place all the time. Today I have to express my gratitude to you. I know that you are going back to the city soon. As friends, I will act on your behalf! Haha..."

Yao Weijun took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhang Xiaobin, who was wiping his hands, showing a sincere smile.

"Weijun, thank you, thank you for treating me as your friend!" Zhang Xiaobin hurriedly took the cigarette, his tone was serious, and his eye circles were a little red.

As an educated youth, he has always been an outsider in the village even after so many years. At this moment, Yao Weijun's words moved him sincerely.

"We have known each other for so many years, and I will definitely treat you as a friend. When you return to the city to go to work, you can still recognize me as a poor friend!" Yao Weijun continued to say with a smile.

In the past, I just thought about fooling around and had no such things in my mind, but it is different now.

Shuyun County, where Jianchang Village belongs, is a proper suburb of Beijing. Zhang Xiaobin was not assigned to a remote area, but came here to work as an educated youth in the countryside. Obviously, his family's resources were extraordinary.

Although the process of returning to the city is currently lagging behind, it does not mean that the unit assigned to him after returning to the city will definitely be poor.

Yao Weijun came back from rebirth and knew the importance of personal connections.

Many friends lead to many paths. No matter what business you do in the future, it is not a bad thing to have such a friend in the capital.

"Don't worry, I, Zhang Xiaobin, will never care about my friends. Even if we return to the city in the future, we can still communicate and keep in touch!"

Zhang Xiaobin didn't care about lighting up his cigarette and said loudly and seriously.

"Haha... drink more at night!" Yao Weijun laughed and patted his shoulder, then pointed to the dining room and said: "What about that? I'll use your iron pot during the day tomorrow to tinker with something. , can it be done?"

"Use it as you like. The firewood is placed behind the wall. Just don't burn my two rooms, haha..."

Zhang Xiaobin took out a match from his pocket and lit Yao Weijun's cigarette, and asked casually: "What are you trying to do? Do you want my help?"

"I got two bags of dried peanuts and plan to fry them and sell them."

Yao Weijun had no intention of hiding it from him, so he exhaled a puff of smoke and said.

"..." The smile on Zhang Xiaobin's face gradually dissipated, and he looked at Yao Weijun seriously for a while before sighing: "I was wrong before, but you have a brain, and your life will definitely be good in the future!
Now that the policy is liberalized, the city has actually changed a lot. I admire you for being able to think of doing business so quickly in the village! "

"Hey, you are just fooling around. It's not like you who can go back to the city to eat public food, and I don't want to work in the fields, so I can only do some side projects." Yao Weijun waved his hand modestly.

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaobin quickly corrected him: "How can this be called partiality? It's good that the policy encourages doing this. It's just that information in rural areas lags behind, and many people don't know about it yet."

Yao Weijun smiled and didn't explain anything more, but sat with him in the room and chatted about other topics.

It wasn't until it was completely dark outside and the kerosene lamp was lit that footsteps could be heard outside, and Shunzi and the others came back.

"Hey, Commander Yao, what's going on today? Did something good happen to you when you prepared this table of food?"

The man with a dark face was the first to rush into the room, screaming in surprise.

His name is Zheng Yong, but my brothers usually call him Heizi.

"I said, since Commander Yao has food and wine, why don't we stew the rabbit?" Wang Xinbo, the second young man who came in, asked excitedly.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Why don't we stew it for the New Year? It's still early!" Another thin man named Hou Liang had a louder voice. He came into the house and said hello to Yao Weijun, then directly pulled Shunzi and carried the hare back. The food tent.

Yao Weijun's four buddies, Heizi, Shunzi, Xinbo and Monkey, are all here now.

Suddenly, the two small mud houses next to the threshing floor became lively.

(End of this chapter)