Luo Jingyan suddenly saw Xue Ningnan, but didn't pay much attention to her, treating her as just an ordinary passerby. She glanced at him and then looked away.

Xue Ningnan stared at her for several seconds until she turned and walked away, then gradually looked away.

It wasn't because she recognized Luo Jingyan; because she opposed Luo Jingyan and Xue Yanchen's relationship, Xue's mother hadn't let her see Luo Jingyan's photos.

The main reason was that she found the girl in front of her to be too beautiful. Of course, she wasn't there to admire Luo Jingyan's looks, but rather because she was there to help her younger brother drive away the fox spirit. The fox spirit's most prominent characteristic was its beauty, which gave it the potential to bring ruin to the country.

This woman is so beautiful, she looks like a seductive fox, she must not be a kind person.

I wonder if the vixen in the village who bewitched her brother is as beautiful as this woman.

However, being able to bewitch people is not necessarily just about being beautiful. Some rely on cunning and other seductive methods, or even have both beauty and cunning.

Hmph, no matter how beautiful they are or how seductive they are, Xue Ningnan is here, and she will break them up.

After Luo Jingyan looked away, she had no idea how long Xue Ningnan had been staring at her, nor did she know how Xue Ningnan perceived her.

She walked quickly and soon arrived at the oxcart, where several people were already seated. After she got on, Grandpa Zhang saw that there were enough people, so he drove the oxcart back to the village.

Xue Ningnan stood there in a daze after seeing Luo Jingyan, and since she didn't know that it was the oxcart of the Victory Brigade, by the time she got there, the oxcart had already gone nearly a mile away.

However, there were other oxcarts nearby, belonging to the neighboring Forward Brigade and Peach Blossom Brigade.

Xue Ningnan walked up to the oxcart of Taohua Brigade and asked the old man driving it, "Excuse me, is this the oxcart going to Shengli Brigade?"

Xue Ningnan was quite polite to strangers, and since she needed their help, her attitude naturally had to be better.

The old man pointed in the direction the oxcart from Shengli Brigade had gone and said, “That cart went to Shengli Brigade. You see, it’s already far away. You probably won’t make it. But our brigade is right next to Shengli Brigade. You can take our oxcart there. I don’t think you’re a local. Just give us five cents for the fare. There are about the same number of people from our village.”

"I'm not a local. I came from Beijing to visit relatives."

As Xue Ningnan spoke, she took out five cents from her bag and gave it to the cart driver before getting on the oxcart.

The oxcarts in the countryside were quite dirty. Xue Ningnan, a city dweller from Beijing, usually rode bicycles or trams in the city and had never seen such dirty vehicles before, let alone ridden in one.

Her clothes were cleaner than those of the others on the cart. She not only disliked the dirty oxcart, but also the people she was riding with.

But she was new to the place and didn't know anyone, so she couldn't say anything. She could only grit her teeth and bear it, sitting in the middle of the group of older women, trying not to interact with them or talk to them much.

The older women rarely saw people from the city, especially from big cities like Beijing. They were all incredibly curious about her, looking at her with the same kind of curiosity one might have for a monkey.

Xue Ningnan inwardly despised these people. What was so interesting about them? People who had been sent to the countryside were just ignorant.

An older woman asked her, "You're here to visit relatives. Who are your relatives? Do you know them?"

Xue Ningnan didn't want to talk to these people because they didn't brush their teeth for years, and their breath made her want to vomit.

She forced herself to shake her head, saying, "I was an educated youth in Shengli Brigade, you don't know me."

These people didn't actually know any of the educated youth from the Shengli Brigade, so they stopped asking.

When the oxcart reached the border between Peach Blossom Brigade and Victory Brigade, the old man pointed out the direction of Victory Brigade to her.

"Girl, look, that's the Victory Brigade over there. It won't take you long to walk there."

Xue Ningnan had long been fed up with the smell in the cart, so she quickly grabbed her luggage and jumped off the oxcart. She almost fell to the ground because she jumped so fast.

The old man called out, "Young lady, be careful."

She managed to stand up, smiled at the old man, and said, "It's alright."

But after the old man walked away, she frowned and her face turned extremely ugly.

Because of the dirty oxcart ride, her clothes and luggage got dirty as well. She patted the dust off her body and bag with disgust, saying, "If I didn't have something important to do, I wouldn't have come even if you asked me to."

Following the directions given by the old man who drove the cart in Taohua Brigade, she arrived at Shengli Brigade.

Being unfamiliar with the area, she didn't know how to find Luo Jingyan even after arriving outside the Victory Brigade.

Luo Jingyan is an educated youth, so she should live in the educated youth settlement. Just go to the educated youth settlement to find her.

She saw an old man walking towards her from the opposite direction, so she asked him for the address of the educated youth settlement. After the old man told her, she hurried over to the settlement.

She was probably about to meet Luo Jingyan; her steps quickened, and she looked energetic, as if she were going to war.

She was eager to see what the fox spirit looked like, and whether it was the same as she had imagined.

She arrived at the entrance of the educated youth settlement and went inside without stopping for a moment. It wasn't time to start work yet, and the educated youth were all taking a midday nap in their rooms. Jiang Manyue was going to the toilet when she saw her in the courtyard and walked towards her.

I asked her, "Who are you looking for?"

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