"Lan Yin, now that your boyfriend is here, let him do the work for you. As for me, I still have to help with my own family's chores. Not only will I not help your family this time, but I will never help your family with chores again." As Xiao Moran said this, his eyes were always on Su Xiaonuan. He was actually saying these words to Su Xiaonuan.

"Hmph, if you won't help, then don't." Lan Yin turned and ran away.

"Son, you did the right thing." Zhang Yulan praised him. "You should mind your own business less in the future. What's the point of being so good to her? You should treat the person in front of you well and not let her hurt your relationship with Xiaonuan."

"Mom, stop!" Su Xiaonuan hurriedly clarified. "I have no feelings for him at all. Everyone in the village knows that. He's dragging his feet on getting a divorce because he's afraid I'll ruin Lanyin's happiness."

“That was true before, but I don’t think it’s necessarily true now.” Xiao Moxi smiled mischievously. “My brother’s eyes haven’t left you these past two days. Wherever you go, his eyes follow you.”

"You talk too much!" Xiao Moran felt a surge of anger and embarrassment at being seen through, and picked up her chopsticks to tap Moxi's head a few times.

"Mom, look, my brother is bullying me!"

"You deserve it!" Zhang Yulan said with a laugh. "Some things are better left unsaid. Since you said it out loud, of course he'd feel embarrassed. Who else would he hit if not you?"

On her way back after dinner, Hao's wife walked from the east to the west of the village, praising Su Xiaonuan to the skies. She told everyone she met how capable and kind-hearted Su Xiaonuan was, otherwise, God would not have arranged for her husband to rescue her.

When Lan Yin returned home, her mother told her what she had heard, which made Lan Yin so angry that she gritted her teeth and her facial expression became somewhat ferocious and terrifying.

"Yinzi, what's wrong?" Li Chunxiang tugged at her daughter's hand.

"Mom, where's Jiang Yi?"

He went out with a book in his hand, saying he was going for a walk.

"He took a book with him and went out?"

"Hmph." Li Chunxiang's eyes remained fixed on the doorway. "Where's Moran? Why didn't he come with you? Or did he go straight to the fields to harvest the rice?"

"It's his mother's birthday today, so he won't be coming."

“Then let him come tomorrow!” Li Chunxiang nudged her daughter. “You should go find Jiang Yi and keep him company. Mom won’t go harvesting rice today. We’ll leave this work to Moran tomorrow. He’s tall and strong, and he’s as good as several of us. Let him do it all.”

"He won't work for our family anymore." A deeper hatred welled up in Lan Yin's desolate eyes. "Mom, find someone else to help."

"Why?"

He said he would have Jiang Yi harvest the rice for our family.

"Oh, he's jealous." Li Chunxiang laughed again, patting her daughter's shoulder. "Don't worry, Moran will come and help us with the chores."

"Mom, he really won't be coming again." Lan Yin took some money out of her pocket and stuffed it into Li Chunxiang's hand. "Go and hire two people. In case the weather changes, hurry up and harvest the rice while the sun is out, otherwise it will rot in the fields when it rains."

“He’ll come. He can’t let you go.” Li Chunxiang put the money away and raised an eyebrow at her daughter. “Mom has more experience with these things than you do. What you can’t have is always the best. Just wait, he’ll definitely come to help us tomorrow.”

Lan Yin was too lazy to continue talking to her, as it wouldn't make sense anyway. She turned and ran outside, searching the village but couldn't find Jiang Yi. Seeing some children playing in the village, she had no choice but to ask them about him.

"Sister Lanyin, are you looking for Brother Jiang Yi?"

Before Lan Yin could ask, a little girl asked her first.

"Yes, have you seen Brother Jiang Yi?"

Several small hands pointed together to the back mountain. "Brother Jiang Yi took a book to the back mountain."

Jiang Yi going to the back mountain is nothing unusual; when he was a sent-down youth here, he often hid in the back mountain to read books.

When Lan Yin ran breathlessly to the back mountain, she found that the place where Jiang Yi was sitting was the very place where Su Xiaonuan and Xiao Moran had rolled around in the past. The back mountain is so big, why did he choose this place?

Lan Yin walked right up to Jiang Yi without him noticing, which made her so angry that she stomped her feet twice. "Jiang Yi, why did you come here all by yourself? I've been looking for you all over the village."

Jiang Yi seemed to wake from a dream, looking up at Lan Yin. "Why are you here? Weren't you going to harvest the rice?"

Seeing that he had brought not only books but also a pot of water, she asked, "Are you planning to stay here all afternoon?"

“If you want to do something, I can’t help you. You know I hate doing farm work, so I came here to find some peace and quiet.”

“Jiang Yi, come on, let’s find another place. This place isn’t clean.” Lan Yin pulled him up from the grass and kept patting his clothes. “This kind of thing is especially taboo in our village. People would avoid it like the plague, but you insisted on coming to this dirty place.”

"You're overthinking it!" Jiang Yi said, displeased. "How is this place unclean?"

"You're asking a question you already know the answer to." Lan Yin was angry. "This is where Su Xiaonuan and Xiao Moran were having an affair. Everyone in the village has designated this place as a forbidden area. The adults don't even allow the children to play here. But you, you deliberately come here to be abused. Are you still thinking about Su Xiaonuan?"

"Incomprehensible!" Jiang Yi's face darkened, and he turned to leave.

"Jiang Yi." Lan Yin hugged the man who was about to leave, her voice choked with sobs. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to, please don't be angry, okay?"

"Lan Yin, you're a college student, you should have some class. Why do you keep bringing this up with me?" Jiang Yi said coldly. "Su Xiaonuan and I are a thing of the past. Now, you are my girlfriend, Jiang Yi's girlfriend. Su Xiaonuan has her own family, her own husband and her own children."

"I...I don't feel safe..."

"You leave and I chase after you right away. You still don't feel secure. I really don't know how I'm supposed to date you?"

"Jiang Yi, I'm sorry." Lan Yin hugged him and cried uncontrollably. "It's all my fault, it's all my fault. Because I love you so much, I acted this way, so anxious and insecure. It won't happen again. Once things at home are settled, I'll go back to the provincial capital with you."

"No rush." ​​Jiang Yi took her hands. "It's too hot. It's quite cool here in the mornings and evenings. Just think of it as escaping the heat here."

Hearing that Jiang Yi would be staying here for a long time, Lan Yin's heart sank to the bottom. She didn't know what would happen next. This time when she came back, she found that Su Xiaonuan had completely changed. She had become smart and capable, completely different from the brainless Su Xiaonuan of the past. Before, she was just good-looking, but now she had both beauty and wisdom.

What surprised Lan Yin even more was that Su Xiaonuan actually knew martial arts and beat Xie Jun so badly that he couldn't even get out of bed. She heard that Xie Jun's injuries wouldn't heal for at least a month. Too many variables caught her off guard.