At the Educated Youth Corps, Wen Lan is picking vegetables while grumbling non-stop:
"You two really give me a new surprise every day—each day you're more useless than the last, while others only seem to become more capable with time. You two silly girls, why is it the opposite for you? Normally sharp-witted, why can't you apply yourselves to these tasks and learn from what's done well?"
"Especially you—Meizi, what's the matter with you? It's normal for Hezi to be useless, but why have you become useless too?"
Wang Shumei: "...?"
This isn't a veiled criticism, is it? Surely not, right?
Lin Nianhe: "...?"
What does it mean that it's normal for her to be useless? How is that normal?
But Lin Nianhe is also a bit curious: "Yeah Sister Shumei, for the past two months, the thing I've been doing the most is sitting down. What's happened to you?"
