Transmigrating into a Novel: My Cannon Fodder Husband is Almighty

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Chapter 33 – Room

Although it was called the educated youth spot, it was actually two connected houses.

The boys lived in one house, and the girls lived in the other.

Each house had three rooms. Upon entering, there was a living room that also served as a kitchen. On both sides of the kitchen were two large pots, each connected to a room with a heated bed (kang).

In this way, they could cook in the kitchen and heat the bed at the same time.

In the cold winters of northeastern China, most rural houses had this layout.

Lu Xia and the others quickly glanced at the rooms and then two educated youth, one male and one female, returned.

The female educated youth was in her twenties, looking capable, but the roughness and weariness on her face revealed that she had been in the countryside for a long time.

Upon seeing them, she smiled and introduced herself, “I’m Sun Shengnan, in charge of the female educated youth.”

The other male educated youth also introduced himself, “I’m Zhao Hua, in charge of the male educated youth. Unfortunately, everyone has already gone to work. Let me first show you the rooms where you’ll be staying and help you settle in.”

They nodded in agreement. They were truly tired at this point and weren’t in the mood for small talk. They just wanted to rest as soon as possible.

Sun Shengnan led the three girls to the room designated for the female educated youth on the right side.

Upon entering, they saw that a bed had already been made near the wall next to the kitchen and pots.

Sun Shengnan pointed and said, “That’s the spot for Yu Fang, one of our educated youth. You can sleep here.”

The three of them looked at the large heated bed and were momentarily stunned.

They couldn’t possibly expect the four of them to sleep together, right? There wasn’t even a partition in the middle.

But judging by Sun Shengnan’s expression, it seemed that was the case.

Lu Xia looked around and decided to place her luggage at the foot of the kang, the farthest position from the kitchen.

Lu Xia had experience sleeping on a kang. Although she had lived in a county town at the orphanage, they also lived in bungalows, and northeastern bungalows always had kangs. So she was familiar with them.

This position might not be as warm, but it was comfortable to have only one side touching another person.

Although Su Man felt reluctant, she knew there was no changing it, so she took the spot next to Lu Xia.

Only Zhuang Hongmei didn’t want to stay, “Are there no other rooms? How are we supposed to fit so many people?”

Sun Shengnan listened to her and said, “There are no more rooms. The educated youth spot only has these two houses. We’re lucky here. There are four people in each room, but on the boys’ side, there are five people in each room, even more crowded.”

After saying all this, she saw that Zhuang Hongmei still looked disgusted, so she suggested, “If you really don’t want to stay, you can apply to live with a local villager. You’ll be provided with food in that case.”

Zhuang Hongmei was somewhat tempted by the suggestion, and even Su Man seemed to be considering it.

But that was a matter for later. For now, they needed to settle down.