After washing it, I rinsed it twice with clean water, and finally the handkerchief was clean.

Li Qinqin found it quite novel to see him washing his handkerchief.

"Cousin, is this your handkerchief?"

She suddenly noticed the character "Yan" embroidered on the corner of the handkerchief. "Cousin, you actually have things from girls? You, you've already started dating, haven't you? Where is that girl from? Why didn't you tell us? If we knew, we wouldn't have called you a monk."

When Grandma Li heard Li Qinqin mention dating, she quickly came over.

"Your cousin has a girlfriend, why hasn't Xiao San'er told us yet? Xiao San'er, why are you keeping it from us? Tell Grandma who she is and what kind of girl she is?"

Li's mother, Li Gang, Li Fang, and Li's sister-in-law also came over, buzzing around Lu Zhengting like flies that had smelled rotten eggs, asking him about his girlfriend.

“My nephew’s wife must be very beautiful. When will you bring her over to meet us?”

"Third cousin, you have a girlfriend now. When are you getting married and having kids? I want to attend the wedding banquet!"

"Zhengting, how old is the girl, and what does she do?"

Lu Zhengting frowned. He had only been washing a handkerchief, yet he had attracted a whole circle of people.

He wasn't washing his own partner's handkerchief; he was washing someone else's partner's handkerchief.

"Um, let me tell you, I really don't have a boyfriend. This is a handkerchief from one of my benefactors."

"A benefactor's handkerchief? Oh~" The group seemed to understand a little, but their eyes still held doubt.

Lu Zhengting then told the Li family about the origin of the handkerchief.

Looking at Yanzi, who was also a sent-down youth, Li Qinqin immediately thought of Lin Qingyan.

"Cousin, is this woman named Lin Qingyan?"

"yes."

"Cousin, what a coincidence! I know her, and we're actually quite close."

"Yeah?"

Li Qinqin told Lu Zhengting how she met Lin Qingyan and how Lin Qingyan treated her acne.

"Sister Qingyan is a very nice person, and she knows a lot. Hey, maybe if you develop a relationship with her, she could become my sister-in-law."

“She already has a partner, what’s the point of developing a relationship?” Lu Zhengting said.

"You have a boyfriend?" Lin Qinqin was very disappointed: "I didn't hear Sister Qingyan mention it. So she already has a boyfriend."

Lu Zhengting hung the handkerchief on the clothesline in the yard, and then went back to washing clothes.

Li Qinqin was still very curious about Lu Zhengting and Lin Qingyan's relationship.

"Cousin, when are you going to deliver the handkerchief to Sister Qingyan?"

"Let it dry in the sun."

Do you need me to come with you?

"It's fine whether you go or not, his partner won't misunderstand me anyway."

After Lu Zhengting finished washing the clothes, it was time for him to eat.

Li's mother took the unburnt wood from the bottom of the pot outside to prevent it from producing too much smoky smoke inside.

The handkerchief was hanging in front of the kitchen. It was thin and half-dry. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew it to the ground. After tumbling a couple of times, it rolled onto the still-sparkling wood.

Lu Zhengting looked up and saw that the handkerchief was missing. He quickly went to look for it and found that the handkerchief was covering the piece of wood. He immediately picked it up, but a hole had already been burned in the handkerchief.

Lu Zhengting inserted his little finger, and it fit perfectly. He stared at the hole and immediately frowned.

What did this handkerchief do to deserve this?

When can I return it?

The handkerchief not only had an extra hole, but it was also stained with soot, so it had to be washed again.

After Li Qinqin discovered this, she asked, "Cousin, the handkerchief is burnt. How are we going to return it?"

Lu Zhengting was also worried, "Why don't we just not give it to them? We can't just return a broken one."

But if I don't give it to her, I always feel like I owe Lin Qingyan something.

He asked Li Qinqin, "Do you have any way to mend it?"

Li Qinqin studied the hole for a while and said, "We can embroider flowers on the middle part, and then you won't be able to tell that it was burned. I just don't know what kind of flowers Sister Qingyan likes. I'll ask her later."

"When you ask her, don't tell her about the burnt handkerchief yet. See how well you repaired it."

"knew."

In the afternoon, Lu Zhengting went to work in the fields with the brigade leader's family, while Gu Mingzhou continued to rest at the educated youth settlement.

The next day, the team leader said to Lu Zhengting, "You were working and rescuing people yesterday, so don't go to the fields today. Go wherever you want."

“Okay.” Lu Zhengting agreed: “I’ll go out for a walk and then go to the fields in the afternoon.”

"Whatever you want."

Educated Youth Settlement

Lin Sisi didn't receive a gift from Gu Mingzhou, so she thought that Gu Mingzhou could help her with some chores here.

Yesterday, Gu Mingzhou went to the county town in the morning and stayed in the dormitory in the afternoon. She was too embarrassed to ask him to help her with the work in the fields.

It was almost time to start work, and all the other educated youth had already left, but Lin Sisi was still dawdling.

Gu Mingzhou asked, "Sisi, why aren't you leaving?"

Lin Sisi immediately put on her signature pitiful and aggrieved look: "Brother Mingzhou, if you hadn't come, I definitely wouldn't have mentioned it in the letter. The autumn harvest here is simply unbearable for a human being. It's too tiring. I'm exhausted from working in the fields every day, and my body aches even when I'm trying to sleep."

Gu Mingzhou frowned: "Is it really that tiring? I see that the other educated youth are all doing well, and they are quite energetic. Look at Qingyan, she has been sick since she was a child, but she can still go to work every day."

"Can my work compare to hers?"

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