After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 34, Episode 0034: A Preliminary Understanding of the Old Educated Youth
The educated youth then quieted down, and at least the village appeared to be quiet on the surface.

The trouble hasn't stopped, but they're afraid to cause any more disturbances. They usually keep it to their own little corner of the world and no longer dare to exploit the villagers' ignorance like they used to.

Compared to the previous incidents, the captain and his team said they could tolerate this kind of thing.

What can I do if I can't bear it? Can you ask the educated youth not to come or what?
Fortunately, not all the educated youth were fools; there were good ones among them.

Many who saw no hope of returning to the city married village girls or married into the village, leaving the educated youth settlement and integrating into the village, living their own stable lives.

Although some of them didn't have a great life, they lived a down-to-earth life, and the villagers could see that.

The male educated youth who has been here the longest is Li Bin, the person in charge of the educated youth settlement, who has been in the countryside for 8 years; the female educated youth who has been here the longest is Yu Mengmeng, who has been in the countryside for 7 years.

The brigade leader and his team had just driven away a group of educated youth. That time, the brigade leader had made a tough decision. The remaining eleven educated youth in the educated youth settlement were all educated youth whose character had been observed for quite some time.

As the brigade leader and his men had hoped, these eleven people had indeed been relatively quiet and didn't require much attention from the village.

The eleven people always ate together, with the women in charge of cooking and the men in charge of fetching water and collecting firewood from the mountain.

The year went by peacefully. Some people got married and others married out, but it didn't affect the relationship between the eleven people. They kept in touch and it was considered a good story in the village.

Then, the new educated youth arrived.

There were quite a few new educated youths that arrived, a total of ten. They were troublesome, the kind who would cause trouble as soon as they arrived. Some were spoiled and complained about this and that, some stole grain, and there was even a pervert who liked to smell girls' smelly shoes.

Eating together with a large group of people is already inconvenient, and with these issues arising, the conflicts between the new and old educated youth are getting bigger and bigger.

When it was once again the turn of the new educated youth to cook, but there was no food for everyone, a conflict broke out, and the educated youth group fought and broke up.

Then another problem arose: there was only one stove at the educated youth settlement back then, so if people ate separately, they had to schedule cooking times.

There are also issues with water and firewood.

Some of the new educated youth were uncivilized; they would use the water others carried without returning it, and take other people's firewood without a word.

On the one hand, they don't want to be taken advantage of, but on the other hand, they want to take full advantage of the situation.

In summary: there are no major conflicts, but minor conflicts keep arising.

Among them was a male educated youth named Sun Hua, whose uncle was the deputy director of the commune committee. He was also the one everyone suspected of stealing everyone's grain, but there was never any evidence.

The landlord in this area used to be a big landlord. He lived in a very large place. Not only did the master's family live in a three-courtyard house, but there were also several rows of servants' quarters.

During the land reform movement, the landlord's three-courtyard house was demolished, but the servants' quarters were left behind, and those are where the educated youth live now.

Li Dayou was shrewd. He used the two large rooms in the communal dormitory as dormitories for educated youth, which were provided free of charge by the village. But if you wanted to live in a better, more independent place, or if you wanted to live in a small room by yourself, you had to rent one.

Each room in the small building is not big, about six or seven square meters. There is only one kang (a heated brick bed) measuring two meters by two and a half meters in the room, so each room can only accommodate a maximum of two educated youths, otherwise it would be difficult to even turn around.

The small houses were like row houses, with a firewall separating one side of each house.

Li Bin and Sun Hua rented rooms next door; there was no firewall separating their two rooms.

Ever since that group of educated youth arrived, things have been frequently going missing from Li Bin's room. One day, some dry food would be missing, and the next day, half of the dry goods would be gone.

The door to the house was always locked. He hadn't lost the key, and no one had touched the lock. How could the things just disappear for no reason? Surely there couldn't be a ghost, could there?
He didn't notice it at first, until one day he accidentally moved a cabinet in the corner and discovered that someone had hollowed out a large hole in it.

Good heavens, so that's how all his things disappeared.

This was conclusive evidence, and Li Bin, excited, reported it to the brigade leader.

However, Sun Hua and the male educated youth who shared a room with him refused to admit that they had stolen Li Bin's things. Since they were not caught on the spot, and there was only a hole in the wall that a child could pass through, it was really impossible to be sure that Sun Hua and his friends had stolen Li Bin's things.

To catch a thief, you need to get the stolen goods. Li Bin's stolen items were all food; where are they going to get them?!

Li Bin realized he had acted too impulsively. He should have apprehended the man on the spot before finding the brigade leader. Reporting to the police was an option, but as an outsider sent-down youth, Li Bin would have had concerns. If the police came, the village's reputation would suffer, which would offend the brigade leader and his men.

Most importantly, Sun Hua has connections in higher positions.

So the matter ended with the wall being rebuilt, and it was considered unresolved.

However, the feud between Li Bin and Sun Hua has now been established.

The two sides already had constant conflicts, and now their leaders have become enemies, so wouldn't they dislike each other even more?

From then on, Sun Hua kept making trouble for Li Bin. Since Sun Hua had a cousin who was the deputy director of the committee, Li Bin and his colleagues could only endure it.

Because Sun Hua had a cousin who was the deputy director of the committee, he had more and more lackeys around him, including not only educated youth, but also hooligans from the Fourth Brigade and old bachelors from the neighboring brigade.

In other words, with the brigade leader and the branch secretary, these old revolutionaries, keeping things in check, Sun Hua and his group didn't dare to do anything in the brigade. As long as Li Bin and his group stayed in the brigade, they were basically safe.

Now the educated youth settlements are not just divided into two groups, but generally three groups, and if you want to be more specific, there are six or seven groups.

One group consisted of Sun Hua and his henchmen, another group consisted of Li Bin and his nine companions, and the remaining eleven people lived their own lives in pairs or small groups, without getting involved with either of these two groups.

"On the first night of the autumn harvest, they had already fought, apparently because of Xiao Liu, an educated youth."

"That day, Luo, an educated youth, finished work early and went up the mountain to hunt a rabbit. They made a bowl of braised rabbit meat with potatoes. While they were eating, Xiao Liu, an educated youth, overturned their table."

Speaking of braised rabbit meat with potatoes, Old Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but swallow her saliva, and everyone listening seemed to smell the aroma of rabbit meat.

Meat is such a rare treat. Their village is considered one of the richest in the area, but they rarely get to eat meat, even a few times a year.

However, none of them were jealous that Li Zhiqing and the others had meat to eat. They were straightforward people from Northeast China; those who were capable deserved to eat meat, and those who weren't should get lost.

Besides, all the men in our family went up the mountain today, so we can at least have some meat at home tonight.

If we're lucky, we might even get to eat a "pig-killing feast" tonight.

No, I can't think about it anymore, or I'll drool all over the place.

Old Mrs. Hua found it amusing to see Old Mrs. Zhu's greedy expression, even though she was also craving it. "Is that young educated youth, Liu, sick?"

This is such a waste of a perfectly good bowl of rabbit meat.

That's it, another troublemaker has come to the village, and the eldest son is going to have another headache.

Old Mrs. Zhu gestured for everyone to gather around and whispered, "It was all that Sun, the educated youth, who did this. Xu, the educated youth, comes from a wealthy family. His parents are both workers. It seems that his family gave him a lot of money when he went to the countryside. Moreover, I heard that he didn't have to go to the countryside originally. He was forced to go because of Xiao Liu, the educated youth."