Xue Fu slept restlessly until dawn before finally drifting off to sleep.

But not long after she fell asleep, someone called her name in her ear.

"Xue Fu? Xue Fu? It's time to get up and get ready for work."

"Xue Fu..."

She opened her eyes with a frown, her drowsy eyes unable to make out who it was, but she instinctively responded.

After she agreed, the person who called her left the room to tidy up outside.

Xue Fu opened her eyes, but they were blurry and she was drowsy.

When the loudspeaker outside suddenly came on, calling for assembly, she jolted awake.

Looking at the rough thatched roof, she came to her senses; she had traveled through time yesterday.

Suddenly, I was transported to the 1970s.

When she woke up, she still hadn't traveled back to the modern world, and Xue Fu gradually felt hopeless.

It seems like we really can't go back.

Hearing the hurried voices outside, and thinking about what Li Jing had said about going to work yesterday, she hurriedly put on her shoes and clothes and went out.

However, when she went out, she found that everyone at the educated youth settlement had left, and she was the only one left.

Her heart skipped a beat. She grabbed her hair and combed it casually before running outside.

Because of the shouts, Xue Fu could probably find her way.

When she ran to the meeting point, Xue Fu could hear from afar that the person standing at the front had been talking for a while and was now assigning tasks for the day.

Xue Fu crouched down and quietly slipped into the last row of the line from a distance. Then, she pretended to naturally straighten her back and listen attentively to the speech in front of her.

She glanced around at the people and, finding that none of them were looking at her, breathed a sigh of relief.

She noticed that the tall man next to her looked somewhat familiar.

Gu Chong glanced at the 'shorty' who had sneaked in several times without making a sound. Looking at her messy, poorly combed braids, he knew at a glance what was going on.

She sneaked over here, thinking she wouldn't attract attention, but it was actually quite obvious.

Gu Chong found it amusing and looked back at the main subject.

When Xue Fu arrived, it was already nearing its end.

After listening attentively for a few minutes, the team leader called for everyone to disperse and get back to work. She completely missed the rest of the conversation; she heard nothing else.

Xue Fu: ? Her vision went black.

What is she supposed to do? What kind of work is she supposed to do?

Xue Fu was bewildered. The crowd around her began to disperse and walk into the field. Xue Fu quickly grabbed someone next to her and asked what was going on.

"Hello, did you hear what tasks the team leader just assigned to the new educated youth?"

She grabbed the person's clothes, and only after asking the question and looking up did she realize how coincidental it was that the person she had grabbed was someone else's.

The kind person who helped yesterday.

A smile immediately bloomed on her face as she stared at him expectantly.

Gu Chong was caught off guard when he was pulled back, and when he looked down, he saw her ingratiating smile.

Gu Chongzuo's eyelid suddenly twitched.

He sighed inwardly, recalling what had just happened, and still told her, "The new educated youth are tasked with pulling weeds."

Weeding...weeding!

Xue Fu thought, this is simple!

She was all prepared to go to the fields to plow! But it turned out to be weeding, and she suddenly felt relieved.

When Gu Chong saw her relaxed expression, he immediately knew that she had no common sense at all.

Gu Chong looked at her, noting that she was wearing a summer shirt, her two fair arms exposed to keep cool. She was wearing long pants, but no straw hat.

He tried to convince himself that it was none of his business.

But the image of her red, pleading eyes kept flashing through his mind. Gu Chong closed his eyelids, realizing he was bewitched.

Xue Fu's vision suddenly went black, and a weight appeared on her head, a force pressing down on her hair, which suddenly felt cool.

"Put it on."

The person in front of her spoke to her with a cold expression.

But his actions were warm, which gradually made Xue Fu no longer afraid of his coldness.

He gave her the straw hat that was hanging on his arm.

The hat brim is wide enough to cover her shoulders, neck, and collarbone, but it's a bit heavy, and wearing it for a long time makes her neck hurt.

His kindness softened Xue Fu's heart, and she stared at him expectantly, saying, "Thank you."

What a kind person!

In this simple and honest era, there are so many kind-hearted people!

Gu Chong thought she was troublesome and spoiled, and was afraid she would cry again.

He twitched his brow and prepared to turn and go to the field.

But as he walked, he realized that she was still following him, like his little shadow.

Gu Chong stopped and looked back at her.

Xue Fu also stopped, touched her ear, and blushed slightly.

She was afraid he would think of her as a perverted stalker and explain her behavior.

She said, "Um, Gu Chong...where is the place where I pulled the weeds?"

The educated youth had all left so quickly that she couldn't find a single one.

Gu Chong: ...He knew she was a troublemaker!

It was quite a coincidence that the land Gu Chong was reclaiming was right next to the educated youth.

"Keep up."

"Oh... okay!"

Xue Fu obediently followed him.

Gu Chong started by taking big strides, but after a few steps, he paused and then slowed down, taking smaller steps.

Xue Fu gazed at his tall and straight back and sighed once again.

Cold on the outside but warm on the inside!

The places were neither too far nor too near. After walking for seven or eight minutes, Gu Chong stopped and pointed to the field on the left ridge.

Xue Fu looked over there and saw Zheng Peipei, her face lighting up with joy.

"Thanks!"

She gave another crisp thank you, her smile sweet and gentle, and then Gu Chong saw her run off like a butterfly.

Gu Chong looked at her braids dangling in the air, then glanced at her bare arms and delicate fingers. He frowned imperceptibly, wanting to say something, but in the end he kept his lips tightly shut and turned to walk away.

He thought, "I shouldn't meddle in other people's business."

But while working, Gu Chong would still think of Xue Fu's beautiful, fair hands that were free of dirt from time to time.

Frustrated and irritable, I nearly uprooted the seedling with a single stroke of the hoe.

Gu Chong's face darkened even more.

When Xue Fu arrived, Zheng Peipei had already started working. Upon seeing her, Zheng Peipei straightened up and greeted her.

Zheng Peipei pointed to the work they had to do today.

“From here to the end of that land, we must uproot everything today.”

Xue Fu looked over there and felt that the distance between the two sides was about a hundred meters.

It wasn't as easy as she thought.

Xue Fu couldn't smile.

"I'm starting now." Zheng Peipei stopped chatting and got to work quickly, as the sun was getting even hotter.

Xue Fu also started working.

Weeding is very easy to do because there are no seedlings in the field yet; you just need to pull them all out.

But if you have to squat and bend over for a long time, your back will ache.

As Xue Fu was pulling the twigs, she suddenly looked up to check on Zheng Peipei's progress, only to find that she was the only one left on the plot of land.

Zheng Peipei kept a distance of at least seven or eight meters from her.

Why did you pull it out so fast?

Xue Fu started to panic, and in the end, she was left alone in the field pulling weeds.

So she sped up and tried harder to pull it out.

However, as I continued pulling, my palm started to hurt.

These weeds were nothing like the soft grass she had ever seen; they had barbs to the touch, and pulling them made her palms hurt.

She miscalculated.

She forgot to wear gloves.

The sun overhead was scorching hot, its rays stinging and burning my skin.

She threw on whatever clothes she had on this morning—a short-sleeved shirt with a turtleneck. She tried to keep her arms in the shade of her straw hat, but that made pulling weeds less efficient.

Even with a straw hat on, sweat was still dripping from his forehead.

Xue Fu wanted to raise her hand to wipe it, but her hand was dirty from touching the weeds and soil.

She suddenly felt lost.

She had read many novels, and while other characters who transmigrated into books lived a life of luxury and had special abilities, why did she have to suffer when she transmigrated into a book?

Xue Fu sniffed, trying to suppress the emotions welling up inside her, and continued to face the endless grass.

When Gu Chong was about to go home to cook, he passed by the educated youth's field and saw her disheveled and pitiful appearance.

Her fingers were stained with mud, patches of dirt scattered across the back of her hands.

He stood on the embankment for a while, watching her pull weeds, his thoughts unknown.

It's slow and dawdling.

Those who don't know the situation might think she's just dawdling.

Gu Chong noticed her blowing on her palms from time to time, and he understood that she was trying her best to pull them out.

He sighed deeply, not knowing what was wrong with him, and walked into the field.

"Xue Fu." He called her name again.

"Put it on."

A deep, familiar voice sounded above her head. Xue Fu adjusted her straw hat and looked up. It was Gu Chong.

He offered his hand, his palm outstretched in front of her, revealing a pair of gloves.

Xue Fu swallowed, her gaze moving upwards from the gloves to his expression, trying to analyze why he had helped her again.

He was really good to her.

From the moment Gu Chong first approached her, Xue Fu had a preconceived notion that he was a good person.

Xue Fu was never short of people who liked her. From childhood to adulthood, many people liked and pursued her, and many people tried to please her.

But Gu Chong is not like that.

There was no fawning in his eyes, and his expression was cold.

Occasionally, Xue Fu would feel that when he looked over, he carried a cold and austere feeling, as if he were looking at a thorny problem.

Gu Chong said, "Take it."

Xue Fu obediently accepted it and wanted to thank him, but Gu Chong didn't give her the chance and simply turned and left the next second.

Xue Fu saw him walk in another direction.

She turned her gaze and looked around again.

No one noticed what happened just now.

The gloves she was holding were a bit old, with some frayed edges, but they were thick and not dirty at all.

It's like it's been washed clean and never been used.

Xue Fu didn't stand on ceremony; her hand really hurt, so she put it on.

However, the gloves are a bit big, and my wrists are exposed.

Xue Fu raised her hand to straighten her straw hat, thinking that she had to repay him.