Quick Transmigration: Can This Kind of Scum Become the Chosen One?

Chapter 226 Childhood Sweetheart, Female Educated Youth 10

Gu Jianhua told Bai Chenggong what dishes to cook for dinner, and then went out with Wang Jianguo to gather firewood.

Bai Chenggong prepared the dinner dishes as instructed by Wang Jianhua.

Gu Jianhua quickly returned carrying two bundles of firewood.

He went directly to the house he had just visited and bought two bundles.

They are all dried and ready to be used for starting a fire.

Gu Jianhua has already made arrangements to go to the mountain with the old man to cut down trees tomorrow.

The old man knew best which trees were best for burning.

Some trees have a high moisture content and won't dry even after several days in the sun.

Some trees are hollow in the middle, some trees are not resistant to fire, and some trees are too hard to cut down.

I wonder if Bai Chenggong knows how to grow vegetables. If not, I'll have to learn from the old man sometime.

Gu Jianhua thought that Bai Chenggong was probably only half-baked, since he lived in the city and didn't have much experience in rural life.

However, this is something that can be learned quickly, and he believed that Bai Cheng could do it well.

Gu Jianhua's trust in Bai Chenggong was further enhanced when he saw that Bai Chenggong had already chopped the cabbage, tomatoes, beaten the eggs, and smashed the cucumber.

This person is capable of doing the work.

With firewood, Bai Chenggong quickly mastered the method of starting a fire, and the meal was successfully completed.

Gu Jianhua tasted it and found that Bai Chenggong's cooking skills were not bad. Although he couldn't compare to the chefs in big restaurants, it was clear that he was used to making these home-style dishes.

Wang Jianguo nodded in agreement. "Not bad, this meal is edible. Let Bai Chenggong cook the rest."

The two of them discussed it when they went out today.

For Bai Chenggong to cook for them for an extended period, the two of them would pay him extra money or exchange him for something else of equal value.

The two of them also walked around the village today and asked the villagers how much it would cost to eat at their homes for a month.

If you bring your own food and eat at someone's house, you only need to pay one cent per meal.

If you don't bring your own food, you can eat at their house and they'll give you two cents per meal. If you eat a lot, you'll have to give them three cents.

We eat whatever vegetables are available at home.

However, the dishes are limited to ordinary vegetables or pickled vegetables; eggs and meat are not available.

That's a different price.

But if you really want to eat meat every day, they can't do it.

They provide food, so they'll charge one cent per meal.

There aren't many people, so preparing three dishes at once is enough and it's not troublesome.

The two decided to pay each other three cents a day.

It's nine yuan a month, which I'll call the wages for hiring Bai Chenggong to cook.

During the meal, Gu Jianhua mentioned the cost of the vegetables and eggs he had bought that day.

This fee will be calculated monthly and split equally among the three of us.

Bai Chenggong never expected that he could earn money by cooking a meal.

Nine yuan a month, all you have to do is prepare three meals a day. These two young masters are indeed generous.

This is much better than Jiang Hena's job as a cafeteria worker, where she works hard but only earns eighteen yuan.

Bai Chenggong was overjoyed, and readily agreed to split the cost of groceries.

Vegetables are cheap, only a few cents a pound. The vegetables we eat tonight will probably only cost a dime or two.

If the three of them split the cost, it would only be a few cents.

He earns three cents a day.

No matter how you calculate it, it's a profit.

Bai Chenggong felt that things might be tough at first, but things would get better later on.

I've finally found a long-term job.

After dinner, everyone sat down together to discuss growing vegetables and raising chickens.

Gu Jianhua has already bought some vegetable seeds, and everyone will share the cost.

You can also find your favorite vegetables to grow and eat together.

Managing the vegetable garden requires everyone's joint efforts. Gu Jianhua found an old man to guide them in planting vegetables, so that they wouldn't be unable to grow them successfully due to lack of experience.

There was also the matter of raising chickens. Since he couldn't buy any chicks at the supply and marketing cooperative, Gu Jianhua also asked the villagers, but the chicks weren't ready yet.

Summer is too hot and the chicks will die from the heat, so the villagers don't hatch chicks at this time. They wait until September to hatch them, and then they buy chicks and prepare to raise chickens.

Just then, the vegetable growing issue was resolved, and everyone was more settled here, so they had the time and energy to worry about raising chickens.

Gu Jianhua had already inquired about the details, and everyone admired his thoughtfulness and unanimously agreed to appoint him as the person in charge of the educated youth settlement.

Gu Jianhua is responsible for arranging tasks that require everyone to work together.

Gu Jianhua accepted the role of person in charge, as he enjoyed the feeling of having things under his control.

On the third day, everyone prepared to clear the wasteland and plant vegetables.

Gu Jianhua approached the brigade leader and asked for a piece of wasteland, intending to grow vegetables.

The brigade leader generously approved the land, and if the educated youth wanted to do something, he let them do it.

It's just wasteland anyway, so even if it ends up being nothing but weeds, it doesn't really matter.

Gu Jianhua invited an old man to teach them how to grow vegetables.

Clearing land was the most tiring task, and this heavy burden ultimately fell on Bai Chenggong's shoulders.

Sowing, watering, and fertilizing each have their own specific requirements.

Everyone is learning diligently.

This was the first agricultural activity they encountered after going to the countryside.

After Bai Chenggong cleared the wasteland and started farming, he went to the mountains to learn how to chop firewood.

These were all tasks assigned to him by Gu Jianhua.

Bai Chenggong dared not object to Gu Jianhua's arrangements.

He was so exhausted that he could still burn firewood for a few more days, so Bai Chenggong just watched from the side and didn't cut down any trees himself.

Three days later, after the two bundles of firewood had burned out, Bai Chenggong went up the mountain to cut down trees.

However, the felled trees cannot be used for firewood immediately; they need to be dried first.

The firewood has gone out again.

Gu Jianhua then carried two more bundles of firewood, instructing Bai Chenggong to develop the habit of accumulating firewood.

We go to chop firewood every day so that it can be piled up in the yard, and we won't have to worry about not having firewood to use.

After the educated youth settlement was on track, the brigade leader also notified everyone to go to the fields to work with the production team members.

The brigade leader dared not let them go to those rice paddies, fearing they would ruin the crops.

That's the commune members' food rations for a year. It'll be ripe soon, so we can't be careless.

The brigade leader assigned the male educated youth to hoe the fields and the female educated youth to pull weeds.

This is a simple task. Let them get familiar with it little by little, and first distinguish between crops and weeds.

The captain knew he couldn't expect these people to do much work, so he just assigned them some tasks haphazardly.

I never expected that among a group of pampered people, there would be one who could work diligently.

Bai Chenggong was the first to complete the task assigned by the battalion commander.

It's just hoeing the ground. He's already hoeed so much land during his land reclamation; it's not a simple matter.

The faster ones finished half, while the slower ones only finished a third.

The captain inspected Bai Chenggong's work and found it to be quite good; he hadn't cut corners or tried to cheat him.

It seems he misunderstood the educated youth; they were capable of doing good work too.

The captain felt that Bai Chenggong had no problem with this, so he assigned him a new task.

The brigade leader went to check on the other educated youth and thought that if they were doing a good job, then they could do something else.

The result disappointed the captain; the others were about what he expected.

The female educated youth over there went to sit and rest under the shade of a tree after working for only a short while.

He was eating while complaining about being tired.

What kind of work did you do before saying you were tired?

"Never mind, I already knew that, didn't I?" The captain comforted himself, deciding that out of sight, out of mind, and walked away.