As he spoke, he pointed at Qian Chunxing and Li Wei, "No matter who seduced whom first, neither of you are good people. One seduced someone else's fiancée, and the other is fickle and promiscuous."

Qian Chunxing's face turned extremely pale after Zhao Mingzhu's words, turning a deep purplish-red. While her marriage to Zhao Mingzhu was indeed something she had schemed for, it wasn't because she liked him, but rather…

“Zhao Mingzhu, let me tell you the truth, I don’t like you at all. I know Ling Xiao likes you, but I only got engaged to you because I didn’t want her to have a good time. We’re both girls, so why was I not allowed to continue my studies after I didn’t finish elementary school, while she was allowed to graduate from junior high…”

Qian Chunxing's words caused an uproar. No one expected that Qian Chunxing would actually harm her own friend and ruin someone else's marriage. Wasn't she afraid of being struck by lightning?

"What?" Upon hearing this answer, Zhao Mingzhu trembled and took two steps back.

No wonder Ling Xiao looked at him with red eyes the night before their engagement. He thought someone had bullied Ling Xiao. Now he realized that he was the one who had bullied Ling Xiao. He hadn't noticed Ling Xiao's feelings and had unknowingly cooperated with Qian Chunxing to hurt Ling Xiao badly.

"Fine, very well, Qian Chunxing, you're really something. Since you like Li Wei, then I'll grant your wish. Let's annul the engagement. But return all the betrothal gifts and the things my family gave to your family, or I'll never forgive you." Zhao Mingzhu said, pointing threateningly at the two bitches in front of him.

No one with any sense of decency could silently endure such humiliation.

He was merciful not to retaliate against them, but he would never let himself suffer a loss.

"Fine, I'll return everything to your family this afternoon. If I had known you were such a stingy person, I wouldn't have argued with Ling Xiao. I would have let her live a miserable life with you." Qian Chunxing said viciously.

Zhao Mingzhu sneered, "I'm stingy, yes, I really am stingy. I'm only generous to my own women. What do other people's women have to do with me? Why would I support someone else's woman?"

"I need to see something before evening, or don't blame me for being impolite." Zhao Mingzhu spat fiercely and left this place of trouble.

He wanted to find a different place to work and didn't want to see those two bastards.

"Chunxing, I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position, but I truly love you." Li Wei reached out and carefully wiped away Qian Chunxing's tears, then his own eyes also reddened, making him look like he had suffered a great injustice and was about to cry.

This really distressed Qian Chunxing, who hurriedly reached out to wipe Li Wei's eyes, but ended up wiping nothing.

The incident involving Li Wei and Qian Chunxing caused an uproar, like a drop of water getting into a hot oil pan. Everyone started discussing the relationship between the villagers and the educated youth, and their perception of the educated youth worsened. They all planned to go home and give their young men and women a good talking-to, telling them to stay away from the educated youth.

"What are you all doing gathered here? Don't you know that the double harvest starts today?" Captain Qian rushed over after hearing a report that there was a fight. The weather was hot, and Captain Qian was panting heavily as he ran. When he arrived, he saw a group of people gathered together, whispering to each other, but he didn't see the people fighting.

"If you don't work, everyone will have fifty work points deducted," Captain Qian said sternly.

At that time, work points were the lifeblood of farmers, and no one wanted to have their work points deducted for no reason. So, with just one sentence from Captain Qian, everyone scattered.

However, the news of Zhao Mingzhu and Li Wei fighting over Qian Chunxing quickly spread throughout the entire Fengshou Brigade, and also reached Captain Qian's ears.

Qian Chunxing is a relative of his, and doing such a thing has brought shame to the Qian family.

Today is the first day of the double harvest season. At noon, Wenxi is making stir-fried cicadas for everyone, because cicadas are only eaten during this season, and you won't be able to eat them after this season.

People are reluctant to send good ingredients; they usually send things like pumpkin tips and sweet potato tips. However, there are some loofahs. When loofahs get old, the inner fibers are used for scrubbing pots and washing dishes. Many people don't like to eat loofahs, so they are willing to send them.

However, Wenxi would make whatever people gave her.

On the first day at noon, Wenxi cooked stir-fried cicadas, stir-fried pumpkin tips with green peppers, stir-fried sweet potato tips, stir-fried celery, and loofah soup for everyone.

Cooked loofah is soft like water and has a distinctly sweet taste. It's actually quite delicious; otherwise, Wenxi wouldn't have found a place to grow loofah near the waterfall.

At noon, everyone walked into the canteen and immediately saw a large green ball soaking in a wooden basin. No one recognized it, and they all asked if it was a winter melon.

Wenxi smiled and told them that they would find out what it was that afternoon.

After everyone finished eating, they went to the woods outside to cool off. Wenxi and her two friends carried the bowls, chopsticks, and large wooden basins containing the dishes to the river bend to wash them. While Chen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue were washing, Wenxi went over and lifted the fish basket that was placed in the middle of the water. As she lifted it, water flowed out from the gaps, like a waterfall.

Seeing Wen Xi struggling with the fish basket, Shen Jiaojiao came over to help. The two of them grabbed the bamboo pole and lifted the basket up to the bank. The white fish were jumping and leaping in the basket, and just looking at them made one's mouth water.

Wenxi took all the fish and snails out of the fish basket and put it back into the water. She waited for the carpenter to finish weaving all the fish baskets for her. Once she took out all the fish baskets, it would be enough for the whole village to have a meal!

In the afternoon, Wenxi cut the watermelon and asked Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to pick out the seeds with chopsticks. Then she cut the watermelon flesh into small pieces and put them into a wooden bucket.

Wang Xiaoju couldn't help but swallow hard as she smelled the sweet aroma of the watermelon. "Wenxi, what is this? Why does it smell so good?"

"You'll find out when we get back," Wen Xi said casually. She didn't want Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei to eat the sweet watermelon so soon!

The two of them took over the cooking task. After rinsing the rice, putting it in the pot, and setting up the firewood, they didn't care about anything else, not even washing the vegetables.

They didn't want to deal with the dishes either. As Wenxi suggested, since everyone was eating in shifts, they would handle the dishes in shifts. Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei would be in charge of the first batch of dishes, while Wenxi and the other two would be in charge of the second batch.

Unable to get any answers, Wang Xiaoju returned home dejectedly.

Wenxi and Shen Jiaojiao each carried a bucket of watermelon to the field, and asked everyone to bring their own bowls of water and line up to pick watermelons. Everyone got a big spoonful. If there weren't enough watermelons to go around today, she would just go home and bring two more.