"What's going on? Why is the meal so rich today?"

There are four dishes on the table, including cold salad and stir-fried dishes.

There are many kinds of dishes. If there is no meat, the rich dishes can be compared with the New Year's meal.

These educated youths have a tight life. They have never eaten so much since they came to the countryside.

Every day, they have to make do with as much as they can.

Some of the educated youths are 17 or 18 years old, and some are just in their early 20s. The remaining old educated youths have reached the age of starting a family and career, and have chosen to marry and have children in the local area.

17 or 18 years old, early 20s, are the stage of growing up, there is endless work to do every day, and sometimes they can't eat enough.

Lunch suddenly became rich, and they were naturally very excited and couldn't wait to enjoy it immediately.

Liu Ling smiled and said, "This is all thanks to our Chuchu. She bravely fought against Sister Hu with the red armband. After a few words, Sister Hu compromised. You should thank Chuchu."

"Ah, Ling Chuchu? She dared to argue with Sister Hu? And she won?"

Everyone couldn't believe it.

In everyone's eyes, Ling Chuchu was just a useless beauty. She could get red-eyed when she said a few words loudly. Sister Hu was famous for her good words. I haven't heard of anyone who can get the upper hand from her.

Ling Chuchu finally baked a dozen potato cakes and cooked half a pot of cornmeal soup. She mixed white flour with a few handfuls of cornmeal. The pot was a big iron pot, which could easily cook for more than a dozen people at a time.

She came out again and prepared to inform everyone to go inside and serve themselves, and found that everyone was looking at her with strange eyes.

Ling Chuchu asked uncomfortably: "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Ling Chuchu, you are really good." One of the male educated youth gave Ling Chuchu a thumbs up.

"Huh?" This made Ling Chuchu a little confused.

Seeing that everyone's attitude towards Ling Chuchu had changed, Wen Xiaoyan was the first to feel uncomfortable. She had only made such a small achievement, but she attracted everyone to look at her with new eyes. Why? In her opinion, what Ling Chuchu did was not good enough compared with the contribution made by Lu Yunshan.

Wen Xiaoyan was not used to Ling Chuchu being in the spotlight. She pursed her lips unhappily and said sarcastically: "I didn't know you were so good at talking. You even defeated Sister Hu. Since you are so capable, I think you, Ling Chuchu, will be in charge of picking vegetables in the vegetable garden from now on."

When Wen Ziyan said this, Ling Chuchu didn't understand.

She was not annoyed. She glanced at Wen Ziyan coldly and said calmly, "I will go when it's my turn."

After that, she ignored her and said to everyone with a smile, "I baked some potato cakes and cooked some cornmeal vegetarian soup noodles. Everyone can take rice bowls and get their own food."

In this era, school cafeterias use rice bowls to get food, and workers in the city also use rice bowls to get food. Almost everyone has a rice bowl.

Liu Ling was the first to take the rice bowl, and she didn't forget to say to everyone, "What are you waiting for? Hurry up and get your food."

She walked up to Wen Ziyan with the rice bowl and squeezed her deliberately.

Wen Ziyan stared at Liu Ling angrily, wishing she could pull her braid and scratch her face to vent her anger.

The educated youths took their rice bowls and lined up to get rice. They divided into two teams. One team got potato cakes first, and the other team got vegetarian noodle soup.

Each person got one potato cake, and no one would take more.

The smell of potato cakes filled the noses, and the educated youths who had already got potato cakes wanted to take a bite to taste it immediately.

The noodle soup was red and green, not only beautiful in color, but also with an alluring aroma.

The red ones were tomatoes, and the green ones were green vegetables and coriander.

The educated youth who got the rice first, holding a bowl of vegetarian noodle soup, couldn't help but take a deep breath, and could smell the salty aroma of the soup and the fresh fragrance of the noodles.

There were many people in the Youth House, but only a limited number of stools. To be fair, everyone simply abandoned the stools and ate standing around the table. This standing eating became a habit.

A bite of potato cake, a chopstick of food.

The Youth House had already mastered the action of picking up food quickly, and soon the food on the table was gone.

In the end, there was only the sound of slurping noodles in the silence.

"I'm not saying, Chuchu, why does the food you cook taste different from before?"

The food Ling Chuchu cooked before didn't taste as good as it does now.

Without waiting for Ling Chuchu to respond, Wen Xiaoyan interrupted: "Humph, I think she just didn't want to work before, and deliberately perfunctorily treated everyone."

"Enough, Wen Xiaoyan, is it fun to keep being sarcastic like this? You said Chuchu used to cook perfunctorily, but I think you used to eat a lot. If you really ate less, how could you still be so strong?"

Not only did she say that, but she also looked at Wen Xiaoyan with disgust.

"When Ling Chuchu cooked like that, did I have any choice?"

Wen Xiaoyan was furious. She couldn't stand others saying that she was strong and didn't look like a girl.

She was not a country girl, so she had different ideas from the country. In the country, strong was a compliment, and only children who were strong were healthy.

But it's not the case in the city. It's a derogatory term to praise a girl as strong. Generally, strong girls find it difficult to find a good family.

Liu Ling rolled her eyes at her, "Yes, you can choose not to eat."

"You..."

Wen Xiaoyan and Liu Ling are simply a pair of enemies. Even if Ling Chuchu is not around, the two of them will quarrel.

Wen Xiaoyan never wins the quarrel.

After dinner, everyone washes their own rice bowls.

Ling Chuchu washes the pot.

After cleaning up, there is still 40 minutes of rest time. Taking advantage of this time, everyone returns to their own rooms.

Ling Chuchu walked to the door and stopped, staring at the strings of corn hanging on the wall. She thought about taking them into the manor again.

She picked the bunches of corn off.

She went back to the house and bolted the door.

She didn't forget that someone had come into the room before she entered the manor.

Ling Chuchu entered the manor with a few bunches of corn in her hand.

Such a large manor, planted with plants needed for dyeing cloth, flowers and some grasses and fruit trees related to dyeing cloth, not a single grain of food.

She did have her own house in the manor, but it was not a permanent residence. There were two small bags of rice weighing ten kilograms in the small kitchen, and the white flour that was already empty.

These things were enough for half a month.

And she had to make plans for the future.

She must have enough living expenses and food when she was about to give birth.

That's why she thought about growing vegetables and food in the space manor.

She doesn't know how to grow seedlings and plant crops. Although she has her own estate, she knows nothing about it. Usually, workers take care of the estate. She only has some dyeing skills and some handicrafts. She usually posts pictures of the estate or clothes made of cloth dyed from natural plants on the platform.

Occasionally, she will live broadcast the estate scenery to attract tourists and live broadcast the simple dyeing process.

She brought back some vegetables from the vegetable garden. She first picked out the cucumber seeds one by one.

Scattered them on an empty black land.

Ling Chuchu was surprised to find that the number 24h appeared on the upper left of the cucumber. 24h means 24 hours. Does it mean that the cucumber will mature in 24 hours?

How many times has the time for the food to mature been shortened? Why does she think it is so unreal?

When Ling Chuchu tried to pick out other seeds and spread them, peppers 16h, beans 18h, corn 36h...

The numbers above indicate that different crops will mature at different times.

Ling Chuchu is still unsure whether the numbers above will really mature when the time comes. If that is the case, it is really too incredible.

She doesn't have much time left, and she has to go to the mountain tea garden in the afternoon.

She will study it after closing the door when she comes back in the evening.

There are many types of work on the farm.

Ling Chuchu was assigned to the tea garden and worked with a group of women.

When it comes to the season of picking autumn tea, she has to work in the tea garden for the next two months.

There are educated youth herding cattle and sheep. The brigade is not confident that the educated youth will do the work alone, so they always send an experienced villager to accompany the educated youth.

There was only one cow in the whole village, which was very precious, so people were reluctant to use it to plow the land and carry grain.

There were three or five sheep, though.

It was usually the male educated youth who did the work.

There were also male educated youth who worked in the fields, and in the harvest season, they carried bags of grain on their backs to the brigade.

They had cows, but they were reluctant to use them, and instead used the young people as laborers.

In contrast, the women's work was easier, working in the fields, harvesting wheat, breaking corn, growing vegetables and tea, raising pigs, feeding chickens, etc.

When the grain was about to mature, the educated youth had to take turns to look after the grain so that it would not be spoiled by pheasants and wild boars, or stolen by others.

It was okay during the day, but at night, I was alone, with a dog, staying in the fields and living in a thatched hut.

Male educated youth were fine, they just got through it if they persisted.

It was simply a nightmare for female educated youth, but it was also a job that they could not avoid.

Because at night, female educated youth were alone and were easily bullied by evil people. Even if they had dogs to accompany them, some female educated youth were unfortunately killed. Everyone was asleep at night, and no one responded no matter how much they shouted for help.

Every year, female educated youth were killed.

In about a week, it would be Ling Chuchu's turn to live in the thatched hut in the field.

When the book wrote about the murder of many female educated youth, Ling Chuchu was very confused. Knowing that she would be killed alone, why did the female educated youth go into the mountains alone? Why couldn't she ask the educated youth who accompanied her to accompany her?

Anyway, after a week, she didn't want to guard the mountain alone, she had to find someone to accompany her.

She didn't have anti-wolf spray, but homemade chili water was good.

The tea garden is on the mountain, and climbing the slope is very tiring. Ling Chuchu was a little out of breath while climbing the mountain.

The tea garden covers a very large area. It is said that it is not artificially planted, but is mountain camellia, which grows naturally.

The mountain is full of mountain camellia, which is a wealth given by God.

But it is difficult to export the tea here every year.

Modern tea is sold by tael, and the price is still very expensive. The tea here is difficult to sell even if it is sold by jin.

Yes, in this era, people can't even afford to eat, who has spare money to buy tea and taste tea, only cadres can afford to drink tea.

The tea of ​​this era doesn't even have a nice name, just two words, mountain tea, another name, bitter tea, the kind of bitterness that most people can't enjoy.

It is called bitter tea for a reason.

Because in this era, tea leaves did not have a complicated tea-making process. Tea was made by simply picking, drying, and boiling it in water.

In her time, good tea leaves had to go through multiple processes, such as withering, rolling, etc. before they could be made into good tea, and tea leaves were also divided into different grades.