Reborn in the ’80s as a Group Favorite Bigshot – Chapter 62

Chapter 62: This Is How Misunderstandings Arise

After the crowd of villagers who had gathered to watch the excitement went home, their families were also excited and gathered around.

Tang Qing and the other two carried their clothes back, and after their whole families had finished admiring them, their parents repeatedly urged them to work hard and not to be lazy like they used to be.

Now, many people in the village were eyeing the jobs at the oil pressing workshop. If they messed around, their families would break their legs.

After Song Chu’s older male cousins （father’s side） and older male cousins （mother’s side） returned home, their two aunts （father’s side） and three aunts （mother’s side） were all smiles. Helping Chu Chu was indeed the right thing to do.

The other older male cousins （father’s side） and older male cousins （mother’s side） were a little envious, and their wives were a little regretful that they had held their husbands back.

If something like this happened again in the future, they would be the first to stand up and let their husbands sign up, without any hesitation.

After Tang Qing and the others left, Song Chu handed a work uniform of a different color and style to Gu Yue.

Gu Yue raised an eyebrow, “I get one too?”

Song Chu smiled, “You are our technician. Of course, you get one too.”

She pointed to the clothes Gu Yue had taken, “To distinguish your special status in our oil pressing workshop, I even got you a different one.”

When choosing the clothes, she had seen this work uniform by chance. It wasn’t originally part of the exchange, but she had persuaded Director Wu to swap it in.

The fabric was more comfortable, the cut was better, and the light blue color suited Gu Yue’s appearance and temperament.

A hint of a smile appeared in Gu Yue’s eyes, “Then should I thank you for the special treatment?”

If it had been before, he might have suspected that Song Chu had ulterior motives for treating him differently, but now he was more relaxed.

Song Chu patted his shoulder, “Gu, the Academic God, just knowing that I’m good to you and working hard to come up with more things is the best way to thank me.”

“…” Gu Yue was at a loss for words. This woman really knew how to take advantage of a situation.

The two walked out of the oil pressing workshop together. Song Chu said, “Now that your leg is better, I won’t be bringing you meals anymore.”

Gu Yue nodded, “Alright, starting today, there’s no need to deliver them. I’ll make my own.”

Song Chu’s family’s meals were very good. There was meat almost every day. The ten yuan was not a loss at all.

But now that his leg was better, he couldn’t have Song Chu keep bringing him meals. Otherwise, the villagers would gossip.

He was a man and didn’t care about rumors, but Song Chu was a girl, and it wouldn’t be good for her to be talked about too much.

If he cooked for himself, he could also make extra to bring to his grandfather and the others.

“If you hunt any meat in the future, can you give me some? I’ll pay you.” Gu Yue wasn’t one to deprive himself.

Song Chu chuckled, “It’s just a bit of meat, no problem.”

They parted ways at the fork in the road. Gu Yue went back to the Educated Youth Point.

Two other educated youths who had also started working at the oil pressing workshop had already changed into their new clothes and were showing them off to the other educated youths.

One was a man and the other a woman. The man was the accountant, and the woman was the record keeper.

The other educated youths gathered around them, looking at the clothes. Those who hadn’t signed up earlier were a little envious and regretful.

Seeing Gu Yue come in with his clothes, the male educated youth smiled and asked, “Little Gu, did you get this from the workshop too?”

He was a senior educated youth and was quite caring towards the newer arrivals like Gu Yue.

Gu Yue smiled faintly, “Yes, Song Chu gave it to me.”

“Huh, your clothes are different,” one person said.

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Gu Yue said, “I’m the technician at the workshop, so my clothes are different.”

“I see. Your set is really a nice color,” the female educated youth said with a smile.

Gu Yue nodded, “You guys chat, I’ll go in first.”

After he went inside, the educated youths exchanged ambiguous smiles.

This was definitely Song Chu giving special treatment to Educated Youth Gu. Sure enough, even the fiercest woman acted differently towards the man she liked.

These educated youths’ impression of Song Chu had completely changed, and they thought the two looked more and more compatible.

Later, when they went out to work and were chatting, they spread the word about this. Almost everyone in the village knew that Song Chu had given Gu Yue special treatment.

Everyone sighed. Even the Village Bully had a tender side.

Song Chu, who had just returned home, was unaware of this. Otherwise, she would have been speechless.

She simply thought that the set of clothes suited Gu Yue better, and she wanted to win over this academic god and technical talent. It had nothing to do with liking him. But this is how misunderstandings arise.

After dinner, Song Chu looked at Song Youfu and said, “Dad, do you want to do something?”

Song Youfu was taken aback. He tentatively asked, “You don’t want me to go with those old people to exchange oil for things, do you?”

Actually, it wasn’t impossible. He had just seen those old people carrying their work uniforms home, and he felt a little moved and envious.

But he couldn’t possibly bring it up to his daughter. That would be too embarrassing. Besides, he wasn’t that old.

Song Chu smiled and said, “No, I remember that you’re good at carpentry, so I wanted you to help me make a few wooden boxes.”

“Make wooden boxes? To store clothes?” Song Youfu remembered that his daughter seemed to have a lot of clothes.

Song Chu shook her head, “Not for storing clothes, for growing vegetables.”

She had recently eaten at the canteens of the machinery factory and the clothing factory and noticed that the dishes were quite monotonous.

Actually, it was the same in their village. The communal fields were almost all used to grow grain. Each family would grow some vegetables on their private plots, but the quantity and variety were limited.

Because her eldest brother had planted a lot of Chinese cabbage and greens on the wasteland outside the pigsty, their family could often have stir-fried vegetables. Many families in the village had multigrain porridge and pickled vegetables for lunch and dinner.

Song Youfu was puzzled, “You can grow vegetables in wooden boxes?”

“Yes! I saw a method of growing vegetables in wooden boxes in a book. It doesn’t take up the village’s communal land. I thought we could grow some at home to eat and also give some away.” Song Chu remembered the one-meter vegetable gardens from her modern world.

A one-meter vegetable garden is about creating a perfect home garden in the smallest area, using a balcony or courtyard space to grow vegetables.

She could use the courtyard and unused space outside to do this here.

She had once seen a report that a 1.2*1.2 square meter wooden box garden could produce more vegetables than a traditional 2.4*3 square meter vegetable plot.

Each wooden box could also be divided into sixteen grids, with different vegetables planted in each grid. Not only could they often eat fresh vegetables, but the variety could also be diversified.

She wasn’t planning to do this at the oil pressing workshop. Her family would do it first. The first two batches of vegetables could be sold by her fourth brother at the black market to earn some money to exchange for daily necessities and malt extract, and also to save some money for the family.

Once their family was successful, other villagers would probably follow suit. It wasn’t something that required a lot of technical skill. It was easy to learn and easy to popularize, so there was no need to keep it a secret.

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