Chapter 022

After Liang Youtian, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan left, they were the only ones left on the river bank. Except for Han Ting and Su Yun, the other eight people started talking to each other, complaining without any scruples about the land allocated to them by the team.

The land is so poorly divided that it seems impossible to grow anything here.

Isn't it intentionally making things difficult for them by allocating such land to them, who have never farmed before?

Su Yun's attention was more on Han Ting, not on the riverbank in front of her.

Seeing that Han Ting didn't look away for a long time, she reached out and held his hand, shaking it gently twice.

Han Ting came back to his senses when she shook his hand.

Seeing Su Yun, his eyes softened subconsciously, "What's wrong?"

Su Yun looked at him with concern in her eyes, and said softly and considerately, "If you are really upset, I will go and help you persuade Chu Xia. She must have been bewitched for a while."

Han Ting said in a relaxed tone: "No, just let her be."

Han Ting has lived for more than ten years and has never had to humble himself for any woman.

Even a proud and arrogant young lady like Tong Rui could not really control him.

Chu Xia is now trying to break up with him and follow Lin Xiaohan around. He is indeed feeling depressed and unhappy, but he is not yet upset.

Everything that needs to be said has been said before, there is no need to repeat it again.

Now he just had to wait for Chuxia to see Lin Xiaohan's true character and come to her senses.

After talking to Su Yun, he no longer thought about Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan.

He walked between Chaozi and Guogai and started complaining with them about the land that the team had divided.

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After leaving the river, Lin Xiaohan went straight back to school.

Chuxia followed him and naturally went to school.

Seeing Chu Xia following him, Lin Xiaohan turned to look at her and reminded her, "There's nothing to do together now, so you don't have to go everywhere with me."

Chu Xia looked at him with clear eyes and replied, "I didn't mean to go with you. I plan to go back to the office to prepare for tomorrow's class. After all, it's my first time teaching and I have no experience. I need to prepare well. Are you going back to the office too?"

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia for a moment, then looked away and didn't say anything else.

He didn't chat with Chuxia anymore and walked quickly. When he returned to the brigade, he first went to the brigade headquarters to look for the tools Liang Youtian mentioned. He found a few usable ones and brought them back to school.

Chuxia returned to school before Lin Xiaohan.

She opened the door and went into the office, taking out her first and second grade math textbooks.

There are six main subjects they study in elementary school: Chinese, mathematics, music, physical education, ideology and politics, and labor.

Because of the special times, among these six subjects, the most important ones are ideology and politics and labor.

Chinese and mathematics come second, while music and physical education are just for entertainment.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan have already agreed to divide the six subjects equally.

Chuxia teaches mathematics, physical education and labor, while Lin Xiaohan teaches Chinese, music and ideology and politics.

Chuxia couldn't handle the fancy subjects, so she assigned them all to Lin Xiaohan.

They recruited a total of sixty students this time.

Among these sixty students, fifty-nine had never been to school. Their ages ranged from seven to ten years old, and all of them registered for the first grade.

There was one student left, Li Xisheng. He was older and had attended first grade before classes were suspended for the revolution.

After missing so many years of school, he is now in the second grade.

When Chuxia was reading the first-grade math book, Lin Xiaohan came back.

She didn't look up at Lin Xiaohan when she heard the noise, but just did her own thing seriously. She flipped through the book to familiarize herself with the content of tomorrow's class, while thinking about how to teach the first class tomorrow.

Lin Xiaohan didn't pay much attention to Chu Xia.

He brought back the tools, sat down at his desk, and concentrated and carefully tinkered with the horse-head clock that had been wound up but stopped working.

It took Chuxia more than half an hour to complete the preparations.

After finishing her preparations and putting away her teaching textbooks, she stretched her arms and stretched her body backwards.

After stretching, he glanced to the side and saw Lin Xiaohan taking apart the horse-head clock and tinkering with it seriously.

She had nothing to do now, so she sat at the desk, silently watching Lin Xiaohan tinkering with the horse head clock with a serious and focused look on his face.

She naturally didn't understand what he was doing, but she just thought that the way he worked seriously was quite attractive.

So she silently laid on the desk and watched him as if he were a movie.

Lin Xiaohan is such a sensitive person, so he naturally felt Chu Xia's gaze.

He raised his eyes, glanced at Chu Xia quickly, then continued to fiddle with the horse head clock and said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Chu Xia didn't dodge or avoid anything, and continued to look at him and said, "You are quite amazing, you know everything."

Lin Xiaohan focused most of his attention on the horse head clock and spoke in a low voice: "No one cared about me when I was very young. I knew a little bit about everything, so life would be easier."

Chu Xia was stunned. She didn't expect him to say such words to her.

She looked at him for a while and then asked, "Doesn't your father care about you?"

"My dad..." Lin Xiaohan suddenly came back to his senses after saying these two words.

Realizing what he was talking about with Chu Xia, he paused for a moment and said without further warmth, "Why are you still staying here if you are okay?"

I knew he wouldn't really continue the conversation.

Chu Xia didn't care, still looking at him and continuing the conversation: "Of course I don't want to stay in the educated youth camp. I've offended them all. If I go back and see them having fun, I'll be all alone. Isn't it uncomfortable?"

Lin Xiaohan continued to repair the clock, "You're still upset, but you still offended them?"

Chu Xia continued to lie on the table and talk: "If I don't want to offend them, I have to form a partnership with them. If I form a partnership with them, they don't know how to cook, and I have to cook for eleven people by myself. They don't know how to live, and things like side jobs will fall on me alone. I will become a sucker serving ten of them, and I don't want to do that."

Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia again, but didn't say anything else.

He seemed to have no interest in talking bad about those ten people behind their backs. What he liked to do was to ridicule and provoke Han Ting in person and liked to see Han Ting unable to hold back his anger.

So Chu Xia thought about it, followed the topic, changed the direction and asked him again: "Don't you feel uncomfortable being alone all day long?"

Lin Xiaohan answered decisively, "It's not uncomfortable."

Although Lin Xiaohan didn't seem to want to chat, he still responded.

So Chu Xia shamelessly continued to ask: "Have you ever thought about making a sincere friend and trying it? Or, find someone who shares the same interests as you and talk about feelings or something?"

Lin Xiaohan answered decisively: "No need."

Chu Xia felt that he might not have a heart, and couldn't help but pursed her lips.

Just as she pursed her lips and was about to end the topic.

Lin Xiaohan suddenly looked at her and said, "Without a woman in your heart, you will naturally become a god when you draw your sword."

Chu Xia: “…”

How come he still remembers what she said!

He also knows how to modify the application!

After Lin Xiaohan finished speaking, he put down the tools in his hands and wound the horse head clock a few times.

After the mainspring was wound up, the hands on the clock face paused twice, then smoothly moved to the next grid and started turning successfully.

Chu Xia sat up straight in surprise, her expression and voice brightened as she said, "You actually fixed it."

Lin Xiaohan, however, did not look surprised or pleased. While collecting the tools scattered on the table, he said, "Go find Secretary Liu and use his watch to adjust the time, and you can use it."

Chu Xia got up and ran out without saying a word, leaving a clear voice to Lin Xiaohan: "I'll go to Secretary Liu to borrow a watch!"

Lin Xiaohan followed the voice, but failed to catch up with Chu Xia's back as she had already disappeared outside the school gate.

“…”

Even rabbits can't run faster than her.

Chuxia went to Secretary Liu to borrow a watch.

Lin Xiaohan returned the tools to the brigade headquarters, and after coming back, he flipped through the Chinese textbook to prepare for the lesson.

After finishing the Chinese textbook, I flipped through the ideological and political textbook.

These days, raising the ideological awareness of the masses is the most important thing.

Chuxia ran out for about ten minutes and then ran back like a rabbit.

She ran into the office, handed the watch to Lin Xiaohan, and said to him breathlessly: "Adjust it quickly, I have to send it back to the secretary after it is adjusted."

Lin Xiaohan reached out to take the watch and began to adjust the horse head clock.

Adjust the pointer of the horse head clock to point the same as Secretary Liu's watch, and then wind up the horse head clock, and the task will be completed.

Seeing that Lin Xiaohan had adjusted the clock, Chu Xia stretched out her hand to him and said, "Give me the watch, I'll take it back."

Lin Xiaohan didn't give it to her. He placed the horse-head clock against the wall, picked up his schoolbag and watch oil, and said, "Let's go together."

Of course it’s good to be together!

Chuxia responded actively, hurriedly got her schoolbag, put it on her back, and left the school with him.