"What, do you want me to carry you all?" The team leader puffed on his pipe, walking beside the ox cart. The carter was Dong Gensheng, the village's cattle herder, who had joined the army early on, injured a leg, and then retired from the service.
"Team leader, we're still missing two people. Yu Xiaomin and Xu Qinghuan aren't here." Kong Lijuan felt that something was amiss, and only after a while did she remember that the one who had hit her was missing.
At that moment, a tractor puttered by, and Xu Qinghuan was sitting at the highest point of the load bed, looking the furthest out—who else could it be?
Staring blankly for a moment, the tractor moved away.
Her feet were blistering with pain, and Lu Nianying instantly broke down, angrily pointing at the tractor, "Team leader, isn't this too unfair? We're all educated youth sent to the countryside, so why can Xu Qinghuan and Yu Xiaomin ride the tractor while we have to walk on two legs?
No way, I'm not walking, I want to ride!"
