Chapter 108 New Educated Youth Arrive for the Autumn Harvest (2/3)

He looked at the incredibly familiar road before him; in his past life, he had walked this road for a full ten years.

I wonder if I'll ever meet that person again in this lifetime...

That man, as cold as an iceberg, saved his life in that snowy winter.

If I had become his friend sooner and stayed by his side, would he not have disappeared silently that winter?

Among this group of educated youth, besides the Jin sisters from Beijing and Tao Yuming from Tianjin, there were also two boys.

One of them was named Lü Hongwei, a native of Jicheng. He looked honest and simple, and had the air of a peacemaker.

The other one was named Duan Zhou, from Chengdu. He wasn't tall, but his eyes were very sharp, and he had a menacing air about him.

The little leather shoes Jin Yuhong was wearing were specially bought by her mother, and she was quite proud of them on the train.

But now, these shoes have become nothing short of torture instruments.

The thin soles of her shoes hurt her soles, and the uneven dirt road nearly caused her to twist her ankle several times.

She grew increasingly agitated as she walked, then turned to look at her older sister, Jin Zhihong, who looked exactly like her.

Jin Zhihong has always been a quiet and reserved person since childhood, and her parents don't like her. If it weren't for the trouble that happened to the Jin family, she wouldn't have had the chance to go to the countryside with them.

Jin Yuhong was seething with anger. Looking at her sister's sturdy black cloth shoes, she became increasingly annoyed.

"Sister." She stopped, her tone commanding, not persuading, "My feet hurt so much, can you switch shoes with me?"

Jin Zhihong paused for a moment, looked down at her own cloth shoes, then at her sister's pretty little leather shoes, and hesitated.

“But… Yu Hong, your feet are bigger than mine, you can’t wear my shoes.” Her voice was soft, with a hint of innate timidity.

These words were like lighting a powder keg.

Jin Yuhong's temper flared up instantly, her voice sharp and sarcastic.

"I'm happy even if I can't wear them! Slippers are better than these old, worn-out shoes of mine!"

"Just tell me if you're going to change it or not! Are you trying to make me walk my feet off on the way here?!"

When she yelled at him like that in front of everyone, Jin Zhihong's face instantly turned bright red, then quickly turned deathly pale.

She was most afraid of her younger sister getting angry, and even more afraid that she would go back and complain to the family.

In that family, no one would ever listen to her explanations.

She bit her lower lip, said nothing more, and silently squatted down to untie her shoelaces.

The other three male educated youths had different expressions.

Duan Zhou, who came from Chengdu, curled his lip and muttered in a voice only he could hear, "Sick."

The honest and unassuming Lü Hongwei blushed, awkwardly turned his head away, and pretended to look at the sky.

Only Tao Yuming watched quietly, his gentle eyes revealing a barely perceptible furrow in his brow.