As soon as they entered the cornfield, Tian Xiaoke couldn't wait to cup Xia Minglei's head and kiss him. She had missed him terribly after not being together for several months.

Xia Minglei was taken aback by Tian Xiaoke's enthusiasm, and then hugged her tightly. It wasn't that he missed Tian Xiaoke, but rather that he hadn't been with her for several months and couldn't take it anymore.

After all, the fate of those people really frightened him.

"Xiao Ke, why did you come here to the countryside? Don't you have a job that everyone envies?" Xia Minglei asked. He didn't expect that Tian Xiao Ke would give up such a good job. If he had known, he would have asked her a few more times and asked her to give up the job for him. Even if he couldn't go back to his own home, as long as he was in the city, he wouldn't have to do farm work anymore!

"It's because you haven't come to see me for so long. I missed you so much, so I came to the countryside to find you." Tian Xiaoke pouted and looked at Xia Minglei pitifully.

He hasn't visited her for several months. How is she supposed to know if he's seen other people in the countryside? He's so handsome, I bet all the girls in the countryside are swarming around him like hungry wolves.

Xia Minglei is the man she has chosen. She is here to assert her dominance and make those bitches back down.

"What about your job? Are you just going to give it up like that?" Xia Minglei still felt regretful.

"How could that be? I'm not stupid, how could I give up such a good job?" Tian Xiaoke put her arms around Xia Minglei's neck and said with a smile, "I took sick leave and said I wasn't feeling well and needed to rest for a few months. My relatives will do my work for me during this time, and I'll go back to work in a while."

Tian Xiaoke didn't want to become a complete country person. She only came to the countryside to pursue love. After marrying Xia Minglei, she would go back to work.

Hearing this, Xia Minglei breathed a slight sigh of relief. He still had this job, so he didn't have to support Tian Xiaoke. Otherwise, he couldn't bear the thought of Tian Xiaoke eating and using his things.

He's going to a private restaurant for a treat!

"Brother Minglei, I don't know how to do any of the work in the countryside. Please help me out when I go to work the day after tomorrow!" Tian Xiaoke said pitifully.

"Don't worry, you've just arrived. Captain Qian won't assign you anything too important. After all, grain is of utmost importance. At first, he'll probably give you some easy work. If you don't know how, that's okay. The villagers will teach you. You're so smart that you can do your job well, so farm work will be a piece of cake for you."

Xia Minglei turned Tian Xiaoke around so that her back was facing him.

No one will refuse food that is offered to them, even if it's not something they like or want to eat. But when you're bored, eating something casually can help pass the time.

As for helping her with chores, that's naturally impossible. He can't even finish his own work, so where would he find the time and energy to help her?

Tian Xiaoke held onto the corn stalks in front of her with both hands, a satisfied smile on her face. Xia Minglei still loved her. As long as he stayed with her honestly and treated her well from now on, she would forgive Xia Minglei for lying to her with a fake name before.

The two spent a long time in the cornfield, pouring out their hearts to each other. Afterwards, they reluctantly parted ways and returned to their dormitories one after the other. Tian Xiaoke went back to her dormitory first, while Xia Minglei returned ten minutes later.

Wenxi and the others ate for a long time before they finally parted ways. Although the fruit wine had a low alcohol content, it still had some alcohol. Wenxi drank a little too much and felt a bit dizzy.

After washing the oil off her hands and mouth, Wen Xi took out the birthday gift she had prepared from the basket and handed it to Lin Yiwan. "Yiwan, happy birthday. This is a birthday gift that the three of us pooled together to prepare for you. We hope you don't mind."

"Xiaoxi, why did you spend so much money?" Lin Yiwan was embarrassed but also very touched. Even friends she hadn't known for long were willing to prepare birthday gifts for her, but the people she had grown up with had never even said 'Happy Birthday' to her.

Because she didn't tell outsiders that she was going to have a birthday celebration, only her family prepared gifts and red envelopes for her. Lin Jing, Lin Lan, and Lin Qing gave her gifts during the day, but the rest of the people didn't even bother to show their faces.

How could Lin Yiwan not be moved by Wenxi and the others' generosity and consideration?

There are many girls in the brigade, but most families prefer sons to daughters, especially in the countryside. Few families treat their daughters well. In addition, many girls have to do a lot of work from childhood to adulthood and have no time to go out and play. As a result, Lin Yiwan is surrounded by her brothers and a few other boys, and there are very few girls around.

Actually, Lin Yiwan used to be quite nice to the girls she knew. When they were hungry, she would give them some food and occasionally share fruit with them, lying that she picked it from the mountain. As a result, they secretly followed her, wanting to see where she picked the fruit, because they thought Lin Yiwan was secretly hiding more fruit.

This made Lin Yiwan realize their deep scheming, and she gradually distanced herself from them. She knew that everyone had their own little schemes in order to survive, which was to be expected, but they doubted her, did not trust her, and ignored her kindness to them. This made Lin Yiwan feel deeply betrayed.

The girls behind her were busy with work, while Lin Yiwan was studying at school, so she didn't have many opportunities to meet them and naturally lost contact with them.

However, when she turned fifteen or sixteen and was ready to go on blind dates and get married, everyone set their sights on Lin Yiwan, wanting to get close to her brothers and cousins ​​through her. Because they had all achieved good success, they were highly sought-after in the blind date market. Everyone wanted to marry them, live a good life with them, and then use the Lin family's money to help support their younger brothers.

Lin Yiwan's brother and cousins ​​stated that they would only look for girls from the city, not from the village, and told everyone not to waste their time and ruin their youth, otherwise Lin Yiwan would be annoyed to no end.

So Lin Yiwan was naturally happy to have met a friend like Wenxi.

Lin Yiwan's mother washed the three basins that Wenxi had used and handed them to Wenxi, saying, "Xiaoxi, thank you for tonight."

"We should thank Auntie for her hospitality, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to eat such delicious crayfish!" Wenxi took the basin, put it in the basket, and waved to everyone. "Then we'll go home. We'll be harvesting wheat tomorrow, so everyone should get some rest tonight!"

Lin Yiwan nudged her older brother's arm and whispered, "Brother, could you take Xiaoxi and the others home? You know better than I what kind of men in the village are. It's not safe for the three girls to go home alone in the dark."