Chapter 209 Mongols, True Men

After saying that, she followed along, feeling utterly exhausted. She decided that she would go on strike tonight and just wait to eat for free in order to mend her wounded heart.

Tao Lili clenched her fists, lowered her head, her face contorted with rage, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, the wooden door of the public storage room next to the private plot was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and Zhao Sufeng, the female educated youth administrator, came out.

His previously somewhat wooden face now held a sarcastic expression as he looked at Tao Lili and chuckled softly.

"What are you laughing at? What's so funny!" Tao Lili glared at Zhao Sufeng with red eyes, then gave a disdainful sneer. "You have the nerve to laugh at me? Don't you know you're ridiculous too? You went to the countryside with Xie Weidong, and it's been almost five years now. You've been by his side for so long, turning yourself into an old maid for him, and yet you're not as charming as a young educated youth who's only been here for half a year. Now Xie Weidong's heart and eyes are full of that Sun educated youth; he's probably almost forgotten who you are. Are you really willing to accept that?"

Zhao Sufeng chuckled lightly, her eyes filled with indifference and coldness: "Tao Lili, I'm not that fool He Xiangxiang, who can be used as a pawn by you all this time. This trick of yours won't work on me. Xie Zhiqing and I are just ordinary comrades. He has never said anything like he likes me, and I have never said anything like that either."

Besides, unlike you, I am very self-aware. I am not as likable as Sun Zhiqing in terms of appearance or personality, so I have nothing to be resentful about.

The reason I haven't married is simply because I don't want to. So... save your breath. I won't use you as a weapon to provoke people I can't afford to mess with.

After Zhao Sufeng finished speaking, she turned around and went back to the dormitory with the things in her hands.

She liked Xie Weidong, but she always knew very well that Xie Weidong didn't like her at all, and had never even considered her one of his own. Before those new educated youths arrived, Xie Weidong seemed gentle but kept his distance from everyone, as if no one could enter his circle.

So there's nothing to hate or resent. Although I can't help feeling a little jealous, I'm not resentful at all.

Because her greatest strength from childhood to adulthood is that she is very self-aware!

The atmosphere in the educated youth dormitory became more and more strange. The originally harmonious relationship between He Xiangxiang and Tao Lili gradually began to have conflicts. Previously, Tao Lili had always given in to the willful and difficult-to-please He Xiangxiang.

Perhaps because she was hit hard, Tao Lili has recently acted out of character, adopting a "what's the use" attitude and even arguing with He Xiangxiang over trivial matters on several occasions.

The Wang brothers, who were each being held captive by two different people, also developed a conflict because of the increasing discord between the two.

Anyway, the dormitory is getting more and more lively every day, and Bai Nuo and the others are so busy eating gossip that they can hardly keep up with it all.

Since using up all her check-in coupons in the county last time, Bai Nuo has saved up another twenty check-in coupons and has resumed her daily routine of making three check-in coupons every day. She either goes to the mountains to check in or wanders around the brigade. When she encounters a check-in point, she doesn't care whether she draws grain or crop seeds. She uses them all as long as they are usable.

Things that come for free, you don't feel bad spending at all.

However, sometimes when she really doesn't feel like moving around, she'll save the attendance coupons. Anyway, they don't expire, so she can use them whenever she has time to go to the city.

Recently, Fang Meng has rarely gone out. He has only gone out twice at night. The rest of the time he is working at the brigade. He is efficient and fast at his work. The rest of the time he either runs into the mountains and never leaves empty-handed, bringing back some game to feed his little girl, or he just sits in the brigade leader's office, happily being the annoying guy.

It has been more than a month since Xu Baoqiang was injured. I heard that he was discharged from the hospital a long time ago. However, because he needs to change his dressings from time to time, Xu Laosan and Xu Hong took their son and stayed at their second daughter's house in the county.

It's quite a coincidence that Xu Baoqiang's second sister's husband's family is also from a brigade in Yuanshan Commune, but it's a bit far from Qishui Brigade. The family is not short of money, and they also have a relative who is a leader in a state-owned factory in the county. However, he is quite old and is a divorced man with a child.

Not long ago, the family spent money to ask a relative to buy Xu Baoqiang's second brother-in-law a job at a state-owned factory in the county, and also rented a courtyard from the relative that no one lived in.

Xu Baoqiang's second sister didn't even go back to her parents' home to tell them about this, but by sheer coincidence, Xu Hong stumbled upon it and immediately showed up at their door.

During this period, Xie Weidong unsurprisingly became the new clerk of the Qishui Brigade headquarters. Naturally, there were many discontents in the village, but the brigade leader directly issued the commune's appointment document, so even if they were dissatisfied, they had to suppress it.

Following that, the assessments for scorekeepers and warehouse keepers were conducted simultaneously. This time, the brigade decided to formally separate these two positions to avoid any future problems that could lead to both positions being vacant at the same time.

Just as Bai Nuo and the others had expected, Wei Jia won first place and became the new scorekeeper, while the position of warehouse keeper surprised many people.

It turned out to be Jiang Zihang, who had always been relatively unknown in the educated youth compound.

However, Bai Nuo and the others weren't too surprised. After all, there was a reason why Jiang Zihang was always called a bookworm. Apart from working in the fields, he spent most of his time reading, especially high school textbooks, which he seemed to have almost worn out.

It's not surprising that they achieved this result. As for whether others are willing to accept it, no one in the brigade headquarters cares. It has already been made clear that these two positions are based solely on performance, and nothing else matters.