"If she's angry, just let her go. Who is she throwing a tantrum at? We're really giving her face." Feng Mingxun said, slamming the table.
So Su Xiangyu turned around and walked out without saying anything.
This farm is called Chaoyang Farm No. 1 Branch. There are several thousand educated youths in the entire farm, and there are 500 educated youths in No. 1 Branch. The position of director of No. 1 Branch is currently vacant. As the production director, Feng Mingxun is in charge of all production management.
"Comrade Xiao Su, what's wrong with you?" After all, it was his target who chased him out of the office, Feng Mingxun said.
Once upon a time, just calling her Comrade Su could bring tears to Su Xiangyu's eyes, and she felt that he always treated her differently from others.
Of course, under normal circumstances, as a girlfriend, or fiancée, or partner, Xiangyu should ask him why he is unhappy, and go to his single dormitory to do housework, wash clothes, and chat with him to help him dissipate his unhappiness.
Even Feng Mingxun's underwear is washed by her. He can maintain such a clean and decent image now, all thanks to her supporting him like an old nanny.
But Su Xiangyu won't do that now. She has been a fairy to an educated couple for 19 years. She will never belittle herself again.
"I'm fine. I just want to give everyone some suggestions." Su Xiangyu said calmly.
"Then you can talk to me in private. Why do you have to bring it up in public? Besides, your sister's idea is very good and can help us make a breakthrough in our work. When you make such a request in front of her, it seems like you are targeting her." Feng Mingxun added.
"I am just expressing my true thoughts," said Su Xiangyu.
Digging drainage ditches in the cold and snowy weather was Feng Mingxun's political achievement, but it was a huge chore for the educated youth on the farm.
The male and female educated youth were all frostbitten. Not only were they frozen terribly, but there was no gender distinction between men and women. In order to survive and complete their tasks, they were all extremely selfish and only thought about themselves. You reported me and I reported you. You tried to get my food and I tried to get your qualification to return to the city. In the end, few of the educated youth on this farm had a good ending.
In the end, many innocent lives were sacrificed.
In this life, Su Xiangyu would never dig drainage ditches or karez again.
"Okay, go to the breeding farm by yourself. We can't sacrifice a farm of 500 educated youth to accompany you in your madness. But you also know how much honor you have on your shoulders. If the egg production rate cannot be improved and your qualification to return to the city is revoked by the higher-ups, I won't be able to help you then." Seeing that Su Xiangyu didn't speak, Feng Mingxun said coldly again.
Apparently, he still considered raising chickens a trivial job.
Xiangyu: "My salary..."
"My mother was sick, so I sent all the money to her. How can you be so vulgar now and ask me for money?" Feng Mingxun's tone showed that he was trying hard to suppress his anger.
That's right, as educated youth, everyone received a salary subsidy of eight yuan per month.
Although Su Xiangyu had her own salary every month, Feng Mingxun's mother was ill and borrowed all her money.
As a result, she herself lived penniless on this farm.
"Give me ten dollars first. After all, raising chickens requires investment, and I need to buy some things." Su Xiangyu said.
Feng Mingxun fished for a long time before he took out five dollars: "I'll get the rest together and give it to you."
No matter how important he is the production director, everyone is poor now and he only has these five dollars.
Of course, in his heart, he must still be muttering to himself, "Vulgar, extremely vulgar."
"Sister!" A coquettish voice made Xiangyu's scalp numb.
She really wanted to say, Excuse me, do we know each other?
"Developing water conservancy will benefit the country and the people. This is the national policy. My brother-in-law, oh no, Director Feng is also considering the overall situation. How can you raise objections to the director at this time? How can you go against him?" Xiangxiu came over, took Su Xiangyu's hand and said.
Xiangxiu has a unique quality, which is that no matter who her superior is, she will worship him wholeheartedly.
This kind of worship makes a man feel like he has instantly expanded five or six times and turned into a giant.
"This is my own business. You just go and dig the drainage ditch." Xiangyu said.
"But I always feel that it was wrong of me to let my sister live alone in the chicken farm." Xiangxiu said with a pout.
Holding back the roar in her heart, Xiangyu caressed Xiangxiu's face and said, "Be good, go quickly. What I'm doing now is probably wrong. Don't learn from me."
In her first life, Feng Mingxun snatched her quota to move to the city and gave it to Su Xiangxiu. Her future husband, together with his stepmother, took away all of Su Xiangyu's mother's real estate and inheritance and gave them all to Su Xiangxiu. In the future, Su Xiangyu even had an adopted son who eventually recognized Su Xiangxiu as his mother. Su Xiangxiu's life was a win without doing anything.
As for Su Xiangyu, she was just lying there being abused.
Work, house, career, all were taken away and given to Su Xiangxiu, who won without any effort.
However, Su Xiangyu wanted to leave, but Su Xiangxiu wouldn't allow it and insisted on sticking with her.
"Sister, I don't have much biscuits and milk powder. I'll give you half, okay?" Xiangxiu said halfway when she suddenly covered her mouth: "Oh, I forgot, you never eat biscuits, you will definitely be angry if I give you biscuits."
Yes, when Xiangyu was a child, she was so happy when she faced her new, delicate sister and her beautiful, glamorous stepmother who was completely different from her biological mother who died of illness. She felt that she had a mother and a sister again.
My father, Su Yao, worked in the Propaganda Department. Since he was good with a pen, people always asked him to write things, so he received a lot of cookies.
Her stepmother always told her father that her sister liked to eat biscuits but she didn't. Gradually, Su Xiangyu also felt that she didn't like to eat biscuits.
At one point, Su Xiangxiu got so irritated from eating so many biscuits that her mouth was full of sores, which was simply terrifying.
"Although I don't like to eat it, but since you gave it to me, would it be bad if I didn't accept it? Otherwise, you will feel so wronged and say that your sister doesn't want your things?" Xiangyu said, and took the biscuit jar from Xiangxiu's hand.
It is very necessary to add some nutrition to yourself and replenish your current skinny body.
And Su Xiangxiu took away a whole can of biscuits for Xiangyu, her two charming big eyes sparkling.
Su Xiangxiu didn't care about biscuits, which she was used to eating and which her parents kept sending her, but she was keenly aware that her sister didn't seem to be as close to her as before.
This wouldn't do. She had to write a letter back to Shencheng and tell her parents that her sister had changed and no longer loved her.
In the dormitory, Su Xiangyu has three close friends, Zhu Xiaojie, Yu Weiwei and Xu Wenli.
Zhu Xiaojie will get divorced three times in the future, and Yu Weiwei will marry a local herdsman and become a Gobi mother, the kind who will give birth to a bunch of children.
And Xu Wenli will commit suicide soon.
When the three heard that Su Xiangyu was going to raise chickens, they were very happy that she would stop digging the drainage ditch. They excitedly helped her roll up her bedding and sent her out.
When leaving, Zhu Xiaojie originally wanted to give her a handful of noodles, but thinking that she didn't have many noodles, she gave Su Xiangyu five noodles.
Yu Weiwei wanted to give her an egg, but after much hesitation, she couldn't bear to give her the egg and gave her half a sweet potato instead. As for Xu Wenli, she was also very poor, but she took away a pair of autumn shoes from Su Xiangyu that were so rotten that the heels were gone.
Just like that, Su Xiangyu came out of the dormitory.
"Su Zhiqing, what the hell, are you really going to help me raise chickens?" The educated youth in the chicken coop is called Yu Lei, a young man from Northeast China with a round face.
In his own words, he was just out of his mind. He originally thought that the Northeast was too cold and wanted to join the queue and find a warmer place. Someone lied to him and said that the border town was not cold and that he could eat watermelon in the afternoon in winter while wearing a long veil.
So Yu Lei came.
It is true that it is so hot at noon that he can run naked with a veil on, but no one tells him that it is so cold at night that he can freeze into an ice stick even if he is wearing a sheepskin coat.
"This is wheat bran, this is shriveled beans, and this is shriveled millet. Forget about laying eggs. As long as it snows, a group of our chickens will freeze to death, and if a group of them die, we will be scolded by the higher-ups," said Yu Lei.
Xiangyu touched the grains. Although they were all shrunken millets and beans filled with stones, they were still grains no matter how shrunken they were.
And she, an eighteen-year-old girl, has been eating sweet potatoes and corn for two years and has hardly eaten a grain of rice. Her current appearance can only be described as skin and bones.
In this situation, he can still insist on helping others every day. Maybe there is something wrong with his brain. Very good. Now, Su Xiangyu is ready to drain all the water out of his brain.
Yu Lei was wearing a raw sheepskin coat with the felt exposed, and the ropes on his trousers had so many knots that they were almost hanging down to the ground. If it weren't for his face that was as chapped as Xiangyu's and his mouth that spoke Mandarin, Xiangyu wouldn't have believed that he was once a city kid.
"Do we have coal? Can we light a stove?" Xiangyu said.
Yu Lei touched his head and said, "Coal? Su Zhiqing, you are kidding me, right? There is no coal in your dormitory, so where can we get coal?"
The book "How to Make Hens Lay More Eggs in Winter" says that the most important thing to make chickens lay eggs in winter is to warm up the house. No matter what, the room temperature must be maintained at around ten degrees. If it is too high, the chickens will think it is summer and will not lay eggs. If it is too low, the chickens will feel cold and will be unwilling to eat, and will not lay eggs.
"Think of a way. Do you have any idea how to raise the temperature in our chicken coop?" Xiang Yu patted the chicken coop. Seeing Yu Lei staring at his biscuit jar thoughtfully, she opened it solemnly and handed him a biscuit.
Yu Lei took the biscuit carefully and licked his hands quickly: "Let me think of a way."
Without coal and fuel, it would be a pipe dream to raise the temperature of the chicken coop in such ice and snow.
"If you can think of a way, I'll give you three more biscuits." There will always be brave men when there is a big reward. Yu Lei was forced by Feng Mingxun to raise chickens because he was too good at fighting.
It was generally believed by all the educated youth on the farm that he could make people want to beat him up after spending just three seconds with them.
Even if a rabbit stares at him for three seconds, it will bite him.
But Su Xiangyu had been with him and found that although he looked like a troublemaker, he was actually quite smart, so she asked him for help.
Sure enough, Yu Lei slapped his head and said, "How about we fill the chicken coop with sorghum stalks? If you have money, I can help us get coal, which will heat up faster."
As the saying goes, cats have their own ways and crabs have their own ways. Yu Lei is in contact with a large number of criminals roaming around the border town. Xiangyu knew that he must have a way.
The chicken coop is divided into two floors. The lower floor is used for discharging chicken manure, while the upper floor is used to raise chickens. The gap in the middle is where the chicken manure is swept down.
There isn't much else on the farm, but there are a lot of corn stalks.
Xiangyu looked at Yu Lei, and Yu Lei also looked at Xiangyu.
"Su Zhiqing, since we have to move the corn stalks, let's do it together," said Yu Lei.
Xiangyu placed the cookie jar on the prepared bed, took out a few cookies and ate them herself before saying, "Okay, I'll be right there."
Isn't it just carrying corn stalks? Thinking back to the previous life, during the three years of high school, when the classmate from the next class couldn't stand the pressure and jumped off the building, Su Xiangyu's pen only paused on the paper for three seconds.
When her deskmate suffered from depression and cried, she just quietly grabbed the earplugs and put them in her ears, concentrating on studying and taking the exam.
Thinking back to her previous life, she was still carrying a shovel and digging alkali in the snow and ice, daring to challenge the heaven and earth, in an attempt to defeat nature.
It's just raising chickens, so just do it. If she can achieve results, the system will not let her down.