Chapter 32: Read More and Learn More

"Aunt Jiang, I am nineteen years old. In the past, I would have been married and had children. Besides, I can think about things independently. I am not a child anymore!"

Li Jiajia chased Xia Mi for an answer, "Did he really come to see you?"

There is no wind without waves. Xia Mi wondered how Li Jiajia knew about it.

"Why do you suddenly want to ask me this?"

"Yiming admitted what you said yesterday. I don't know why, but I started to doubt him and you. I asked Aunt Lanhua, and she said he came to see you twice."

Li Jiajia felt embarrassed when she thought about what Aunt Lanhua said, and found it difficult to say what to say next.

"One time it was Captain Huo who scolded the man away, and the other time it was you who scolded him away...are they both true?"

Sure enough, once the seeds of suspicion are planted, trust will collapse.

Xia Mi's eyes changed when she looked at Li Jiajia. "Aunt Lanhua has no grudge against you. You don't believe her words. How can you believe what I say?"

The answer was already obvious. Li Jiajia's face looked ugly, her eyes were blank, and she suddenly lost her vitality.

Xia Mi covered the last piece of soil, stood up and leaned the hoe against the wall.

She passed by the dumbfounded Li Jiajia and reminded her, "Sister-in-law is here to testify for me, don't think of going out to dirty me and make up rumors about me."

She returned to the house, and Li Jiajia, who was standing in the yard, suddenly burst into tears.

Xia Mi calmly drank the water, sat down to rest, and patted her sore waist.

Jiang Shengmei glanced at Li Jiajia who was crying in the yard. Instead of feeling distressed, she laughed helplessly.

"Look at her. She just said she's not a child. What sensible adult would scream and howl in someone else's yard?"

Xia Mi smiled and her impression of Li Jiajia changed a little.

"Break up! I want to break up with Yan Yiming!" Li Jiajia vented her grievances by yelling.

She covered her mouth and cried, then left quickly.

Jiang Shengmei sighed and shook her head, "Jia Jia isn't a kid anymore, when will she grow up?"

After Jiang Shengmei left, Xia Mi opened the letter and sat on the small stool at the door to read it.

The letter began by asking whether Xia Mi had arrived on the island, and then began to blame Xia Mi for taking away too many clothes and jewelry, leaving Xia Yaoyao with no clothes to wear.

Then he started playing the emotional card, reminding her not to forget the kindness of raising her over the years.

The letter from adoptive father Xia Jinkuo was very short. The whole letter was teaching Xia Mi that she should not forget her roots and should think of the Xia family when things benefited her. He also added at the end that he would come to see her next month.

It’s strange. The Xia family in the novel never contacted the original owner after she got married. Why did they suddenly mention coming to see her this time?

"What are you thinking about so intently?"

As soon as Huo Jingchen entered the room, he saw Xia Mi sitting at the door in a daze.

"My adoptive father wrote to say that my adoptive mother and sister were coming to visit me."

While she was in a daze, Xia Mi had already thought of a plan. If they just came to take a look, then she would welcome them. But if they came to cause trouble, she would definitely not show any mercy.

Cut off the relationship with the Xia family as soon as possible and take back the initiative.

She thought about the household registration issue again, "Has my household registration been transferred?"

Huo Jingchen nodded, "Move, stay with me, do you want them to come?"

Xia Mi naturally didn't want to do that. The original owner's character was a vicious female supporting role who had done many evil things. All those things in the past were undeniable.

She finally settled down and started a family on Wind-Chasing Island, and had a new beginning.

Xia's visit was definitely not just a simple visit. When old things were brought up again, it was unclear whether she could live a peaceful life.

"I can't help it even if I don't want to. I can't just tie people's hands and feet to stop them from coming. If the enemy comes, we will stop him. If the water comes, we will block it with earth."

Huo Jingchen respected her choice and wondered about Xia Mi's biological parents.

"Have you ever thought about looking for your biological parents?"

He had read Xia Mi's file and found out that her household registration had actually been moved to the textile factory when she left home. He didn't mention it because he was worried that she would be hurt if she heard it.

"They are all dead. It seems that there is still an uncle left in the family, but he went to the imperial capital a long time ago and there is no news about him anymore."

Xia Mi got a headache when she mentioned the Xia family, so she simply changed the subject, "Let's have tomato and egg noodles tonight. I bought some tomatoes, and they gave me a lot of eggs last time."

"Okay, I'll go get some water first. You get ready now and light the fire when I come back."

Huo Jingchen took off his coat, found a shoulder pole and a bucket and went out. Halfway there he met Li Weimin who was fetching water.

"It's a rare thing, instructor. Why are you here to fetch water as well?"

Huo Jingchen walked in front.

Li Weimin followed behind with a dark face, full of resentment, "How dare you say that? Aren't housework and other things done by women? You are also responsible for clearing land, paving roads, and repairing toilets. Forget about all these, why do you also carry water?"

"Now, all the women in the family compound are resentful. Your sisters-in-law compare us to you, saying that life is hard to live and that your Xia Mi lives like a god."

"She is not a deity, but her name contains the word 'Mi' in Amitabha Buddha's name."

Li Weimin couldn't help but said, "...crazy."

"By the way, those thieves you caught in the city yesterday, were they really the pirates near us?"

The smile and love in Huo Jingchen's eyes disappeared, and he became serious when talking about work.

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"Yes, they are five of the twenty or so pirates who escaped last time. We caught them by accident this time. Maybe we can also catch the people hiding behind them."

"I thought these people had retired after disappearing for two years, but it turns out that they can't stop eating shit. It's almost like killing them to do something serious with their hands and feet."

As Li Weimin spoke, he quietly quickened his pace, trying to overtake Huo Jingchen.

Huo Jingchen caught the person behind him's thoughts and quickened his pace. The two were talking nicely at first, but as time went on they started to race each other.

When he rushed to the well, Li Weimin wanted to tear his face off and scold Huo Jingchen for not knowing how to respect the elderly and love the young, but he saw a familiar figure.

Captain Jiang stood beside the well, holding the rope and looking down at the well. The bucket floated on the water and took a long time to sink.

He sighed irritably and picked up the empty bucket skillfully.

Li Weimin looked at him in astonishment, "Old Jiang?"

Jiang Weidong looked over when he heard the voice, his eyes fixed on Huo Jingchen next to him, as if he had found an outlet to vent his anger.

"You bastard, how dare you come here? Look at what you have done!"

Huo Jingchen smiled and walked over to Jiang Weidong, "Hello, Captain Jiang."

"Thanks to you, I'm not feeling well at all!" Jiang Weidong glared at Huo Jingchen.

Huo Jingchen noticed that only one of Jiang Weidong's two buckets was full. He then looked at the man and saw that he was sweating profusely, and it seemed that he had been fighting for a long time.

"Lao Li, why are you here too? Didn't your wife bring back some water this morning?"

Li Weimin's face turned even darker.

"It's all this brat's fault. Chunhua only carried half a jar, saying that we were on the same shift, so how come Captain Huo was able to carry water for his family every day?"

As he spoke, he imitated his lover's tone of voice in the second half of the sentence.

Huo Jingchen took the bucket and said, "It's wrong to give your wife a headache these days."

"Watch carefully, I'll only demonstrate it this time." As he said that, he threw the bucket down, then shook it violently, and the bucket tilted and gradually sank into the well water.

Three big men gathered around a small well.

"You are disrespectful. This is all because of you. You like to carry water, so help me carry it back."

Li Weimin complained but he didn't dare to blink, for fear of missing any skills.

"That's right, what will other people think if they see this?" Captain Jiang was equally serious and still didn't let Huo Jingchen off the hook.

"It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. There is still a long time to go. The regiment commander and the instructor should complain less and learn more."

The two looked at Huo Jingchen with resentment.

Jiang Weidong closed his eyes in pain and tilted his head up at a 45-degree angle, "I want both face and love."

Li Weimin blew out a smoke ring and said with melancholy, "I miss the days when someone was not married. At that time, we didn't have to go out to fetch water after dark."