3. Educated Youth Who Abandoned Their Wives and Children

After Lin Dingding left, Yan Chu drank the medicine she had brewed for him, lay on the kang, closed his eyes and rested, and thought about his two tasks.

The protagonist of the main task was staying by his side, so he would not consider it for the time being. What gave him a headache was the side task, saving the life of Yan Xun, the biological father of the original body. In the memory of the original body, there were not many memories of his father. In addition to the almost forgotten images before the age of seven, there were only a few scenes after the other party's death.

What kind of personality and what kind of person the other party was, what kind of feelings he had for his son who had severed ties with his biological mother at a young age, these were all unknown to him at this time.

Yan Chu calculated the time in his mind. At this time, Yan's father had been sent down to reform for nearly ten years. In five months, he would receive the obituary of his death. Yan Xun was far away on a farm in the northwest, while he was in a small village in the south. As an educated youth, he could not leave the production team at will, let alone save a dying person.

Fortunately, there is no penalty for failing the side quest, otherwise Yan Chu would have a headache.

He opened his eyes and looked at the roof, which was stained with yellow-brown stains because of the leaking roof during rainy days. He sighed, got up from the kang, put on his cotton-padded jacket, picked up the paper and pen that the original body had placed in his own cabinet, and buried his head in writing a letter.

In the case that he could not go out at will, if he wanted to save the life of the original father, this might be the only way.

The number of scholars who died in this parallel space was no less than that of the world he lived in. The reason was that a large part of them could not stand the disparity in status and the difficult and hard life, and another part was that they could not find hope for the future, so they sentenced themselves to death. When a person's heart dies, it is not far from the decline of the body.

Yan Chu didn't know what kind of situation his father was in this world. Now he could only try his luck.

*****

"Yan Chu, how are you? Are you still having a fever?"

The educated youth who lived in the same room with Yan Chu came back. The leader Lin Qingshan wiped the mud off his shoes at the door, and asked Yan Chu while washing his hands in the room.

They were in the third production team of Hongqi Commune. There were eleven educated youth in the team, four women and seven men. Some of them had reached old age and either worked internally or married locals. They all moved out. Now there are only four young men and two young girls living in the educated youth courtyard.

Lin Qingshan is the oldest educated youth living in the educated youth courtyard. He is steady and enthusiastic. He has great prestige in the educated youth team. He is a big brother-like figure. He also treats other educated youth as younger brothers and sisters and cares about them.

Look, Yan Chu is still sick, so he couldn't help asking a few more questions.

"It's okay. The fever has subsided. I can go to work with you this afternoon." Yan Chu had gotten up from the kang and changed his clothes before they came back.

"I just cooked, let's eat together." Yan Chu is a real city dweller. He has never seen a clay stove in the countryside. Fortunately, his original body has been in the countryside for a long time, and he still knows the most basic skills of boiling water and cooking.

His simple two sentences attracted the attention of other educated youth. You know, the original body was sick every now and then. In addition to the fact that his body was really not adapted to the living environment here, another reason was that he couldn't stand the hardship and deliberately pretended to be sick to avoid being lazy.

These educated youths were basically used to Yan Chu being sick for two or three days. They didn't expect that this time he would break his usual habit and take the initiative to work in the fields.

"The sun really rises from the west." The last young man who came in glanced at Yan Chu and muttered in a low voice.

Hearing his tone, there was a hint of contempt and ridicule.

Yan Chu was not angry. Who made the original body such a failure? They were all educated youth. They worked hard in the fields, but you pretended to be sick and stayed at home. A normal person would not be happy. Besides, according to Yan Chu's memory, the educated youths' rations were put together and they ate together every meal.

At that time, the distribution of food was based on work points. The original body worked less in the fields, so he earned less work points. The little food distributed to him was definitely not enough for a young man like him. It was not that the educated youths were too thin-skinned to say anything to him, so he took advantage of him.

Let alone just muttering in a sarcastic way, even if they pointed at his nose and scolded him in person, Yan Chu could not get angry.

"Chen Jun, you should also say less."

Lin Qingshan, as the elder brother, naturally had to step forward to mediate the conflict. He patted the shoulder of the educated youth who had just spoken, and said to Yan Chu with concern: "Pay attention when you work in the afternoon. If you feel uncomfortable, tell us quickly."

He is six years older than Yan Chu. In his opinion, Yan Chu is just not used to rural life. After a long time, he will naturally change. Today, Yan Chu took the initiative to work in the fields, which further proved Lin Qingshan's view. This made him, the worrying elder brother, very happy.

Yan Chu helped several people hold the bowls and chopsticks, with his head down. His original body had been complaining about the world, but in fact, it was because he wrapped himself too tightly and blocked all the goodwill outside the armor.

The lunch at noon was relatively simple, sweet potato porridge, blanched cabbage, and only a plate of pickled vegetables pickled during the Chinese New Year last year. Yan Chu didn't feel uncomfortable eating it. He knew very well that this would be his meal for a long time in the future.

As for the other educated youth who had worked in the fields for half a day, they didn't care whether they looked good or not, and they stuffed porridge and vegetables into their mouths.

After eating, they lay on the kang for a while, and when the broadcast of the brigade sounded, they had to go to work again.

Lin Guangguo always felt that something seemed to be wrong today, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Dad, are you thirsty? I'll pour you some tea."

Hearing the familiar voice, Lin Guangguo finally figured out what was wrong. This afternoon, his precious daughter came to refill his water more than ten times. He asked why he kept going to the toilet today. It turned out that he drank too much water.

As soon as winter comes, people's hands and feet are prone to cold. Those who have good conditions and enamel cups at home are used to letting children who don't work to bring hot water kettles to pour hot water. Drinking warms the stomach, and if you don't drink it, it can also warm your hands and feet.

Lin Dingding is the most idle child in the Lin family. She comes to the field every now and then to add hot water for her father and several brothers. Usually, three or four times in an afternoon is enough, but today Lin Dingding's number of visits to the field is obviously a bit excessive.

"You little girl, you treat your father as a water buffalo."

Lin Guangguo couldn't bear to reject his daughter's kindness, so he drank the remaining water in the cup in one gulp and waited for his daughter to pour him more water. When he looked up, he found that his daughter was holding a thermos and looking at something.

He looked in the direction of Lin Dingding's sight and saw a young man who stood out from a group of people even though he was working with a hoe in the field.

Come on, I understand everything.

The girl looked out, and this girl used her father as an excuse to see her lover.

He snorted in dissatisfaction. Isn't it just good-looking? When he was young, he was also the grass of the third team. I don't know how many girls like him.

But Yan Chu seemed a little different today. He had been working in the field for so long, but he didn't take a break on the ridge. Although he was not very skilled in hoeing, he used all his strength every time and didn't slack off at all.

"Okay, go back. Your father and your brother are full. You don't need to deliver water to the field later." Lin Guangguo hummed to his daughter.

Lin Dingding didn't expect that she was so obvious. She embarrassedly helped her father and brothers fill up the hot water and ran away.

"Actually, I think Yan Chu is pretty good. He is a high school student. There is no high school student in our village." Lin Dingding's eldest brother Lin Dingnan is a simple man and loves his sister. He wants to help her to drum up support for his father.

"What do you know, you simple man?"

Lin Guangguo didn't have the patience for his son as he did for his daughter. He yelled at him: "Hurry up and work for me, or I will deduct your work points."

Well, it's too good. This is not a good match.

Lin Guangguo sighed as he watched his daughter leave, feeling somewhat helpless.

******

"Captain."

When the announcement of the end of work sounded, Yan Chu's body was about to fall apart, but he still remembered that he had something to do. After reporting to Lin Qingshan, he quickly followed Lin Guangguo and chased after him.

"Yan Chu, what's the matter with you?"

Lin Guangguo didn't know why the other party called him, so he handed the hoe to his son beside him, and asked Yan Chu after sending them away.

"I have a letter and want to ask the captain to help me mail it out."

There is a post office in the county. Now it is the busy farming season, and Yan Chu can't take leave to go to the county. In this way, he can only hand the letter to the captain Lin Guangguo. Every two days, the postman of the county post office will come to the commune to pick up the mail parcels to be sent. Each production team is registered by the captain.

"This is a letter sent to the Long Province Farm. I remember you are from the capital, right?"

Lin Guangguo opened the door of the captain's simple office in the brigade headquarters, looked at the address on the envelope handed by Yan Chu, and asked in confusion.

This year is different from the past. As the team leader, Lin Guangguo has the right to open any suspicious letters. He saw that Yan Chu handed over not only a letter, but also a small package, which contained something unknown.

"My father is reforming in the farm of Long Province. Now the weather is cold. I don't know how he is there, so I took off a piece of clothing and made him a pair of knee pads and gloves and sent them to him." The knee pads were made by Yan Chu in the morning, and the gloves were bought by the original body from the county town for himself.

Lin Guangguo paused. He remembered that when Yan Chu came, his parents were written in the file.

Looking at the other party's depressed mood, Lin Guangguo roughly guessed the truth. I'm afraid that the father column written in the file is not the biological father, but the stepfather.

This cognition made Lin Guangguo's impression of Yan Chu a little better. This child can always remember his father when his father's identity is stained and he is reformed, instead of trying to keep a distance from him. This filial piety alone is extremely precious.

Lin Guangguo is a rough man. He knows that there have been a lot of quarrels outside these years. The father is not the father, and the son is not the son. He only knows that if a person can not recognize his own father and mother, he is no different from an animal.

Yan Chu's behavior made Lin Guangguo feel very good about him, and even made him think that his previous understanding of Yan Chu was too one-sided. He was obviously a filial and sensible child. From this moment on, he decided to observe him again.

He said that his daughter followed him in everything, so it made no sense that the boy she liked was a bad object.

Lin Guangguo felt a little more relieved, and his eyes looking at Yan Chu were much more lenient.