This lesbian is too good at talking! I can't afford to offend her!

Chapter 258 Chen Shuning comforts Chen Feng about the return of the educated youth to the city

Chen Feng squatted in the yard with a downcast look on his face, puffing on his pipe.

He has been like that ever since he came back from the meeting. Li Zhen called him several times, but he refused to go in for dinner.

Chen Shuning walked out, sat next to Chen Feng, and asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong with you? You've been unhappy since the meeting. Is it because of the land division?"

"Hmm..." Chen Feng exhaled a puff of smoke and said dejectedly: "The land is divided according to the number of people. We have a large family, so we could have been allocated a lot of land.

However, your father, your eldest brother and his wife, and your second and third uncles' families are not registered in the village. As a result, only your grandmother, your mother, and I can get a share of the land.

Chen Shuning frowned and asked, "Aren't there still me and my second brother?"

Chen Feng extinguished the engine, tapped his pipe on the bluestone slab, and said, "If you and Jiawang get into university, your household registration will have to be moved. Even if we divide the land this year, the village will take it back next year.

Land is the lifeblood of us farmers. Only with land can we grow food, and only with food can we have enough to eat. We have so little land, and we are at a great disadvantage.”

"Grandpa, you're a veteran Party member, but how can your ideological awareness be so low?"

Chen Shuning put his arm around Chen Feng's arm and said with a clear voice and a smile, "Grandpa, even if the village gives our family 30 mu of land, there are only three of us at home: you, grandma, and my mom. Can we farm it?

The three of you, barely counting my dad, my eldest brother and his wife, you spend all day working in the fields, how much can you manage thirty acres of land?"

Chen Feng's face flushed. He wiped his face with his hand and replied, "Thirty acres of land would tire me to death. I can't even cultivate it. Even if I raise a cow, it would be exhausted to death."

During the wheat and autumn harvests, crops need to be harvested and seeds planted in just ten days. Any delay will affect the harvest.

"Grandpa, don't you always say that we should use as much effort as we can?" Chen Shuning said earnestly, "We can't plant that much land, so there's no need to worry about it.

Besides, this is land contracting. Do you understand what contracting means? Every year, you have to pay public grain. The more land you cultivate, the more public grain you pay. Are you willing to pay the grain you have worked so hard to grow?"

Chen Feng said stubbornly, stiffening his neck: "I used to pay public grain..."

"In the past, the village was the unit, and the village paid the public grain to the higher authorities. Now it is the family unit, and what is paid is our family's grain. Are you really willing to do that?"

Chen Feng lowered his head and murmured, "If you put it that way, then I really can't bear to..."

Although Chen Feng's ideological awareness was high, he was still a farmer at heart. Food was the primary need of the people, and farmers depended on grain for survival. Who would be willing to give away the grain that had already entered their homes?

"Don't worry," Chen Shuning advised. "Our family was allocated little land, but the grain we paid out was also little. Even if we have to pay the public grain, you are not allowed to feel bad.

You are an old party member, but you are not active in paying public grain. How will the villagers see you? How can Fourth Uncle carry out his work?

Chen Feng lowered his head even lower. He reflected on his words and actions and realized that he had indeed lost face for his old party members. He felt extremely guilty.

Li Zhen walked to the door, looked at the grandfather and grandson sitting on the steps, and shouted, "Are you two going to eat? I've been hungry for a long time. If you don't eat, I'll eat it all!"

"Eat, eat, eat!" Chen Feng stood up with his hands behind his back and glared at Li Zhen: "I didn't say I didn't want to eat!"

Li Zhen glared back and said angrily, "You stubborn old man, you're stuck in a rut again. You deserve it! You deserve to be scolded by your granddaughter."

"Don't talk nonsense. Shuning is a very filial child. When has he ever scolded me?"

"You're just being stubborn!" Li Zhen sat down at the eight-immortals table, picked up the chopsticks, and continued to scold: "Who just scolded my granddaughter so badly that she couldn't even raise her head? It was that old party member who had no ideological awareness at all.

Now Aijun is the village chief, and you, as his uncle, not only don't support his work, but you're also trying to hold him back. Aren't you afraid of your brothers scolding you? "

Chen Feng was embarrassed by Li Zhen's words and said with a fierce face, "Hurry up and eat! Even eating can't stop your mouth."

"Humph……"

Li Zhen glared at him, picked up her chopsticks and snatched the vegetable leaves that Chen Feng had picked up.

"Hey? You old woman..."

Li Zhen said sarcastically, "Hurry up and eat! Even eating can't stop you from talking."

Liu Xianghua took a bite of the steamed bread and lowered her head to chew. Her shaking shoulders betrayed her. Li Zhen saw how hard she was holding it in and kicked Chen Feng. It was all because of that old man...

Chen Jiawang strode in, scooped a bucket of water from the water tank, poured it into the washbasin, and squatted down to wash his hands.

Liu Xianghua, eating a steamed bun, asked, "Jiawang, what did Secretary Lin say when he detained the educated youth?"

Chen Jiawang dried his hands, sat down at the table, and said calmly, "The educated youth can return to the city, but they have requirements, and they will not be released until they are met."

Li Zhen raised her head and asked curiously, "What's the request?"

"You need an employer to take you there," Chen Jiawang replied, taking a bite of wild vegetables. "Or you can get into university. Well... you could transfer your household registration back to the city, but that would require a lot of documentation."

Chen Jiawang took a bite of the steamed bread and said vaguely, "Actually... there is another way."

Chen Shuning looked up and asked, "What's the solution? Tell me quickly, second brother."

"Wang Na said that you can actually return to the city if you apply for medical retirement." Chen Jiawang said while eating, "Just like Xing Fangcao, she went to the health center to get a certificate, and then used the certificate to apply for medical retirement and return to the city.

The procedures for returning to the city due to illness were not that complicated, so many educated youth planned to apply for medical retirement. But I am not optimistic about this path. Medical retirement certificates are not easy to issue.

Chen Shuning nodded in agreement, "Indeed, Xing Fangcao was able to bloom because she was truly ill. I always felt that she was mentally unstable."

"If you meet her again, stay away from her." Chen Jiawang paused for a moment and said, "I don't think I'll meet her again, right?"

There are so many people in this huge sea of people, how could it be so easy to meet someone?

Liu Xianghua looked up at Chen Jiawang and urged, "Hurry up and eat!"

This summer, the villagers of Chenjia Village cheered because of the land distribution; while the educated youth of Chenjia Village were worried about returning to the city.

Life in the countryside was difficult and the conditions were poor. Who among the city-raised children would be willing to live in such a barren land? Letters flew from Chenjia Village to all parts of the country like snowflakes.

The conditions for returning to the city are too harsh, and it is difficult for them to return to the city without help from their families.

Compared with the anxiety of other educated youth, Wang Na and Ma Lanzhi were much calmer. They took the college entrance examination and only knew whether they needed to apply to return to the city after the results came out.

Even calmer than them was Xu Qingshan. If he passed the college entrance exam, he could go back without relying on his family. If he failed, it wouldn't be too late to transfer back later with the help of his family.

Seeing Xu Qingshan so calm, Jiang He couldn't help but tease him, "Qingshan, if you go back to Beijing, what will happen to Chen Shuning?"

Xu Qingshan's thoughts were written all over his face, so it was no surprise that Jiang He could see it.

"She can get into Beijing." Xu Qingshan's eyes were full of pride: "Once she knows my family's conditions, she will chase me without me having to say it clearly.

She wouldn't choose that young police officer over me, given such good conditions. It's not something someone as smart as her would do. Women are more realistic than one another."

Jiang He curled his lips and thought: Maybe not? I don't think Chen Shuning is the kind of woman you say she is.