"You don't want to be the captain anymore. Since you are no longer arguing, just follow my instructions. I have no other requirements for you. Just four words, stay safe and complete your work."

Anyway, this is what he gives every time a new educated youth comes. Whether they can listen or not is their business.

"Now I will take you to the educated youth point. Whoever wants to live there can live there. Whoever wants to be with the villagers can just say it. Now I will take your rations. It is only for this week and the rest.

We still have to find the commune."

All the educated youth put away their little thoughts and followed Zhang Hongguo honestly.

In Zhang Hongguo's heart, these educated youths who stir up trouble are just grasshoppers after the fall, and they cannot jump up at all.

The houses in the educated youth spots are those abandoned houses in the village that have no descendants or whose people are no longer there.

After all, there was no one to inherit them, so these vacant houses were directly returned to the village.

When the group of people walked to the short and old courtyard, Lin Mu and Li Yan's expressions changed slightly, and they became a little bitter and aggrieved.

In fact, they could imagine that the house would be very dilapidated, but they really didn't expect it to be so dilapidated.

They knew that going to the countryside would be hard work, but they never expected that the house they lived in would be like this. Even though it was narrow and short, it actually looked like it was about to collapse. The wooden pillars had been eaten away by insects and rain.

Many of them have become corrupted.

It seems like it will collapse at any time.

Chen Zixuan was mentally prepared. After all, a modern man who had lived in a villa could live in a loess house with his grandma.

Chen Zixuan, who was mentally capable, was the first to walk in and found that there was a lot of dust on the ground here.

It’s a bit strange that this house with its back facing the sun has no trace of human habitation. And if you look closely at the house, it doesn’t look very dilapidated. Is it simply because there is no sunlight?

"Captain, is there no one living in this house?"

The room that Chen Zixuan walked in to check out was relatively small, with a large kang inside for sleeping.

"There has been a death in this house in front of me. Those old educated youths would not dare to live here if they had other housing options."

As soon as Zhang Hongguo finished speaking, Li Yan and Lin Mu couldn't help but tremble.

I didn’t expect that this seemingly okay house would have had a death, so no wonder it’s still empty now.

They dare not live in a house where someone has died!

"Captain, can I choose to live with the villagers?"

Seeing this, Li Yan directly chose another path.

Anyway, only three more people can live here, and this room only occupies two people. She doesn't want to squeeze in with the old educated youth.

"It's up to you. If there is anyone else who wants to squeeze in with the villagers, tell them all now and I will make unified arrangements for you."

No need to run around, just arrange it once and for all.

Zhang Hongguo waved his hand, he still had a lot of things to do, and he had wasted a whole day today.

In addition to Chen Zixuan and Li Jie, there is another educated youth named Li Mu who chose to stay in the educated youth spot here.

Everyone else has to follow and huddle with the villagers.

"Okay, now that I've made my choice, I can't go back on it anymore, I can't change it, and I don't want to care about it anymore."

Zhang Hongguo directly took the other educated youths to find the villagers, leaving Chen Zixuan and the three of them to clean up here.

"Zixuan, I thought you would be afraid, but I didn't expect you to be not afraid at all."

Li Jie patted Chen Zixuan gently. He had lived in the countryside before. Isn't this house quite normal?

Which family in this world has never had a death? Does it mean that if a person dies, the house will no longer be available?

"Don't be afraid. My grandma and I have lived together in this kind of house. In fact, it's all psychological. Let's go get water and clean it up now."

Clean up and make your stay more comfortable, otherwise it will be a mess, with dust and cobwebs everywhere, and it will look uncomfortable.

Go out of the loess house and open another door. Inside is the kitchen. It is said to be a kitchen, but in fact it looks similar to a pile of stones randomly built outside.

The only good thing is to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

In addition to the three of them, the old educated youths are still working in the fields and have to wait until it gets dark before returning from work.

The surrounding area was originally loose soil, but now it has been firmly trampled by people walking all year round.

Chen Zixuan couldn't help feeling a little: It's such a difficult era, I didn't expect that one day I would be able to be in it.

I remember my grandma mentioned before that there was cement back then, but not everyone could use cement.

Only the houses of officials or the offices of leaders can have a cement floor.

Even people in the city have no way to lay concrete floors, let alone rural areas where even red bricks are limited.

"Li Jie, let's go get water."

The two kangs placed in the loess house were covered with dust. They had not been occupied for an unknown period of time and were full of mold.

"Hey, Zixuan, I've never lived in a Tukang, what about you?"

He has always stayed in Jiang City, where there are all beds. This is the first time he has seen such a thing as a kang, which is a bit novel.

"Me too, it's the first time I've seen it."

This was the first time for him to see two lives with his own eyes. He was a southerner before and now, and he had never lived there before.

When you see under the kang, there should be a place for burning firewood.

The passage above is probably to allow smoke to be discharged, and it can also heat the entire room.

This is probably the principle, but he has never practiced it.

Chen Zixuan first put down his luggage and looked around carefully. In fact, this room is quite big for two people.

It just looks messy. There are many small pits on the kang. The work is not perfect. There are lumps here and pits there, which greatly affects the experience and appearance.

It would be nice if it could be completely filled with cement.

Thinking of this, Chen Zixuan suddenly remembered that there was still half a bag of cement in the space, but it had been left there for a long time.

Maybe my grandma used it for something in the past, but I don’t know if it can still be used now.

"It will definitely be difficult to sleep if you lay a straw mat directly on it. The uneven top will make sleeping on it very uncomfortable."

Li Jie discovered this problem, but he just didn't know how to solve it.

Looking at Chen Zixuan with pleading eyes, he felt that Chen Zixuan was calm at all times and confident in whatever he did.

"How about we look around to see if there is any straw? We can spread it on it and lie down and it will be comfortable. But this is the north, so there should be very little straw."

Chen Zixuan immediately thought of straw. Straw is so soft that his whole body feels soft when he lies down.

"Let's go look for it. How about asking the captain?"

Li Jie thought of the captain. After all, the first person they met when they came here was the captain.

Just when Chen Zixuan was about to retort, there was suddenly a loud noise outside.

"Xie Yang, hurry up and cook, I'm almost starving."

It turned out that the old educated youth had returned from work. Chen Zixuan guessed this possibility and thought that it would be better to do less than to do more.

"Zixuan, let's go say hello. Don't let them say we're rude then. After all, we have to live together for several years, and we don't know when we can return to the city."
Chapter completed!