The educated youths lived, worked, and ate in the village without spending money. But each month, their families would give them two or three yuan for living expenses to buy things like soap, matches, and salt.,Tang Zhenzhen looked at the disdain in Li Yan's eyes, her delicate face flushed red, her chest rising and falling.,Her mother, however, thought it was teaching her manners and even wanted to give her away to her childless aunt. It was only because her father saw how much she cried that he refused.。