Chapter 034

Han Ting stared at Lin Xiaohan angrily for a while, then said, "It's not your turn to take care of her business!"

Lin Xiaohan smiled with cold eyes, "Really?"

Han Ting looked at Lin Xiaohan for a moment and did not continue to argue with Lin Xiaohan verbally.

He said in a dark voice, "Let's go!"

After saying that, he turned around.

After hearing his shout, the others naturally followed him.

Lin Xiaohan stood there and watched them walk away.

After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and smiled disdainfully.

Han Ting and the other ten people left their private plot along the river bank.

A few people were still focused on the fields and looked back at the fields several times as they left.

The four girls, Li Qiao, Su Yun, Gu Yuzhu and Chen Sisi, walked at the end.

The ghostly expression on Li Qiao's face had not yet completely disappeared. She thought about it for a long time but still couldn't digest what had just happened.

He took a few more steps while thinking.

She turned around and asked Chen Sisi: "Was that really Lin Xiaohan just now?"

Is it Lin Xiaohan who is always unfriendly to others and is unwilling to even raise a hand to help?

Chen Sisi nodded and replied, "Yes, it's Lin Xiaohan."

Li Qiao looked at Chen Sisi and said, "If I heard correctly, he is supporting Tang Chuxia, right?"

Chen Sisi nodded again, "It should be a warning for us not to touch Chuxia's vegetable garden."

Of course, Li Qiao still couldn't understand what was said.

She reached out and grabbed Gu Yuzhu's arm, looked at Gu Yuzhu and whispered, "This is too weird, is he possessed by evil spirits? Why would he stand up and support Tang Chuxia?"

Gu Yuzhu was also very annoyed at the moment.

She said impatiently: "How should I know? I'm not Lin Xiaohan."

What Lin Xiaohan said just now also made her feel very unreal.

A selfish, profit-seeking person like Lin Xiaohan would never stand up for others like this. He is the kind of person who would never let useless people bother him.

He never tries to save face in front of girls and never worries about anything for others.

Chuxia follows Lin Xiaohan shamelessly every day, licking his face.

They have been waiting for Chuxia to suffer a great loss at the hands of Lin Xiaohan.

As a result, after such a long time, Chu Xia not only did not suffer any major losses, but also got Lin Xiaohan to stand up for her?

How is this possible?

This is as bizarre and outrageous as the sun rising from the west.

Chen Si thought for a while and then asked, "Is he just trying to piss off Han Ting?"

Li Qiao denied this possibility and said, "I think with his personality, he would rather use some insidious means to sow discord and use Chu Xia, so that Chu Xia would quarrel with Han Ting and us without knowing right or wrong because of this matter. Wouldn't it be better for him to just watch the fun from the side? Now he actively involves himself in the conflict between Chu Xia and us. What's the purpose? Even if he doesn't do this, Chu Xia will rush to follow him."

Chen Sisi felt that what Li Qiao said made sense.

So he thought about it again and said, "Then he couldn't be really moved by Chu Xia and fall in love with Chu Xia, right?"

Hearing this, Gu Yuzhu immediately denied it, "How is it possible? Lin Xiaohan is such an arrogant person who doesn't even look at Su Yun. How could he like Tang Chuxia? In the first half month or so when he went to the countryside, he looked down on Tang Chuxia the most. He despised her to death. What does Tang Chuxia have? She looks ordinary, has an ordinary personality, and has no talent. She has nothing. There is nothing attractive about her. How can she impress Lin Xiaohan? Shame on her?"

Chen Sisi felt that whatever everyone said made sense.

She couldn't figure it out, so she asked again, "Why is that?"

I can't think of any reasonable reason at all.

Gu Yuzhu turned to look at Su Yun and asked, "Su Yun, what do you think?"

Su Yun shook her head and said, "I don't know."

In fact, although she didn't say anything and didn't want to say much, she was the most upset in her heart.

She had sensed that Chu Xia was very scheming before.

She felt that Chu Xia approached Lin Xiaohan in order to use Lin Xiaohan and play hard to get to stimulate Han Ting.

During this period of time, although Han Ting did not mention Chu Xia and seemed to really not care about his sister Chu Xia, she could feel that Han Ting's mood had always been affected by Chu Xia.

Han Ting was carefree towards other people and things. Even with the noble and perfect Tong Rui, he said he would break up with her and never read or replied to her letters. But he was not carefree towards Chu Xia.

Chuxia has been following Lin Xiaohan around every day these days, and Han Ting has been feeling very upset. He would show signs of annoyance and irritability from time to time, and he has not let go of Chuxia at all.

She originally thought that early summer could only influence Han Ting.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xia's scheming and methods were much more powerful than she had imagined. Now, not only did she affect Han Ting's emotions, but she also made Lin Xiaohan stand up and protect her.

Two men who were originally incompatible and at odds with each other.

Now, because of her, they are even more incompatible and at loggerheads.

Compared to affecting Han Ting's emotions, the most difficult thing is to get Lin Xiaohan to stand up.

After all, Chu Xia and Han Ting have been in love for more than ten years, so it is reasonable for her to influence Han Ting.

But there was nothing between her and Lin Xiaohan.

Even at the beginning, Lin Xiaohan disliked her very much.

There were five girls in their educated youth point, and Lin Xiaohan initially looked down on Chu Xia the most.

Su Yun couldn't think of a reasonable reason.

Just like Gu Yuzhu said, Chu Xia is so ordinary and inconspicuous, without any attractive shining points on her body, how could she possibly impress Lin Xiaohan?

In the final analysis, it's just that he is very scheming and has powerful means.

Although Su Yun thought so in her heart, she said nothing.

She didn't want to get entangled in such matters and make Han Ting dislike her, and she didn't want Han Ting to think that she was a vulgar person who loved to gossip. She was different from other ordinary girls.

She also never said anything bad about Chu Xia in front of Han Ting.

She would only understand and comfort Han Ting.

***

Because he was angered by Lin Xiaohan in front of the private plot, Han Ting walked in front of everyone with a gloomy face on the way back to the educated youth point, without saying a word.

Apart from Lin Xiaohan's extremely annoying face, the rest of his mind was all about early summer.

He didn't know what the relationship between Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan was now, and why Lin Xiaohan had to stand up and control Chu Xia. Anyway, he felt extremely unhappy.

During this period of time, every day when he saw Chu Xia rushing to follow Lin Xiaohan like a brainless fool, he couldn't help feeling annoyed and unhappy.

I also always think of the days when Chu Xia followed him silently and called him "Brother Han Ting".

Everything was apparently fine, but I don't know how it suddenly changed.

Sometimes he would feel that Chu Xia seemed to be treating Lin Xiaohan as him.

Sometimes he would even think of what Su Yun said, that Chu Xia actually liked him.

But every time he thought of this, he would deny it.

Because in his eyes Chuxia has never been a woman, but a well-behaved and obedient sister.

They grew up together and had even seen each other wearing open-crotch pants. It was impossible for them to develop feelings beyond brother and sister.

Love is the most instinctive impulse and throbbing, it is passionate and burning.

Obviously, there was nothing like this between him and Chu Xia, and it was impossible for these things to exist.

The relationship between them is the purest brother-sister love.

Thinking about these things, Han Ting returned to the educated youth center and took the lead to sit down in the kitchen.

The other nine people followed into the kitchen and each found a place to sit at the table.

No one spoke and the room was quiet for a while.

Then Wang Xiangqian spoke first: "Tell us what you think. Since both of them can grow things on their land, then we can also grow things on our land. What do you think?"

Everyone here is a normal person. Although they are a little afraid of being tired and lazy, they are not very bad people, and naturally they don’t have the idea of ​​living by stealing vegetables.

If you really want to make a living by stealing vegetables, you would have gone to steal from your fellow villagers long ago.

When they first went to the countryside, they stole things from the production team. They did that because they were so hungry.

Later, I ate the early summer steamed buns because something unexpected happened at that time. There was a reason for it, and I didn’t have the mentality of stealing and not giving back, but borrowing it.

Lin Xiaohan just came out and said that they were going to team up to steal vegetables, which was pretty fucking insulting.

It’s not like they don’t have land, they just didn’t expect that they could actually grow anything on that land.

Since they can grow something, they can just grow it themselves.

Chaozi replied, "Grow them. You can't just sit there and watch others eat them."

Guo Gai was still envious of the cucumber he hadn't plucked just now, and said in a sonorous and forceful voice: "Let's do it! We have only one acre of land, we can grow more things, we can grow whatever we like to eat."

After Guo Gai said this, the others naturally nodded in agreement.

Just when everyone was getting excited, Gu Yuzhu suddenly sighed and said, "It's a huge project to weed, loosen the soil and plant vegetables on one acre of land. It's tiring to work during the day, and we have to continue to do farm work after work. It's really unbearable. It's better to be in the city. If you have a job, you have everything. It's not like now, you have to grow your own vegetables."

Li Qiao suggested: "Then plant a few less acres of land, just enough to eat."

The others nodded in agreement, and Han Ting said, "How about this, after work, we boys will take care of the private plots, and you girls will be responsible for cooking, ok?"

Hearing this, Gu Yuzhu instantly perked up.

She smiled and looked at Han Ting and said, "Han Ting, you are the most manly!"

Li Qiao also agreed and continued, "Some people want to learn from you to stand up for others, but in fact they are not as good as your little finger. They are just villains pretending to be important, and you are the real man!"

Han Ting found these words very useful.

The other boys didn't benefit from it, but they didn't say anything.

After Li Qiao and Gu Yuzhu said a few words in unison, Hu Yang said, "It's fine for us boys to do the work in the fields, but we can't bear all the money for buying the seeds. Let's all pay for it together."

Hearing this, Gu Yuzhu, who was originally very happy, suddenly became speechless.

She looked at Hu Yang and said, "You are too narrow-minded. You make it seem like we girls are all dependent on you girls for support. Did we ever say that only you boys should pay for the vegetable seeds?"

It’s okay if it’s not.

Hu Yang didn't argue with her, he just said: "Okay, I'll just be careful."

Gu Yuzhufei said again: "You are narrow-minded!"

Hu Yang's face darkened, he gave her a cold look, and said nothing more.

When it came to money, everyone pooled their money on the spot.

They didn't have much money, so they each took out a dime and pooled together a dollar.

The money was collected and put into Han Ting's hands.

Han Ting put the money away and said, "Let's prepare the land in the next two days. Once the land is prepared, Su Yun and I will ask for leave and go to the commune to buy vegetable seeds during the market."

Hearing this, Gu Yuzhu and Li Qiao were stunned.

Gu Yuzhu and Han Ting spoke politely, and asked with a smile, "Why are you and Su Yun going?"

No one would be unhappy about taking a leave from work to go shopping.

Han Ting looked at Gu Yuzhu and was stunned for a moment, "You want to go too?"

Li Qiao continued, "Since we went to the countryside, we have only been to the commune a few times, let alone the market. How about we go together?"

In life, the most important thing is to be happy together.

Han Ting said in a positive tone: "Okay, let's go together and have fun in the commune for half a day!"

Everyone was very happy to hear this and looked at each other and smiled.

This brought up the topic again. When going to the commune to go to the market, what else can one do besides buying vegetable seeds?

That’s about it.

Han Ting didn't let them talk any more and said to them, "There's still some time before work starts in the afternoon, so you all should go and take a rest."

Everyone else stood up and left, but Han Ting did not stand up.

Seeing that Han Ting was not leaving, Su Yun just sat there and didn't get up.

After everyone else left, Su Yun stood up and sat next to Han Ting.

Seeing Han Ting's unable to hide his emotions, she looked at Han Ting and asked, "Are you thinking about Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan?"

There was no one else in the kitchen, so Han Ting was much more casual.

He raised his hand and placed it directly on Su Yun's shoulder, and said with a relaxed smile: "With you by my side, how can I have the mind to think about other people's affairs?"

Su Yun looked at Han Ting and said, "I'm not that petty. Chu Xia is your sister, and you should care about her. I just want you to know that you can tell me when you're in a bad mood."

Han Ting looked at Su Yun for a while and said with a smile: "You are still the best."

Su Yun also smiled at Han Ting, then leaned over and snuggled into his arms.

***

School office.

Chuxia was sitting at her desk looking in the mirror.

Recently, her face has become clearer in the mirror and the general outline of her facial features can almost be seen.

Just when I was feeling happy, Lin Xiaohan came in from outside.

Hearing the footsteps, Chu Xia raised her eyes and looked at him. She wanted to say hello and ask him where he had been, but she was afraid that he would be annoyed, so she hesitated for a moment and said nothing.

After their work at school became stable, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan would come directly to school after lunch every day if there was nothing important to do, and would not stay at the educated youth site with Han Ting and the others.

When I come to school, I either correct the homework handed in by students, read books or materials, or do some exercises, or take a nap on the desk.

Chuxia had just arrived at the office after lunch and went out to the bathroom.

When I came back from the bathroom, Lin Xiaohan was no longer in the office.

I don't know where he went.

Of course, Chuxia wasn't particularly curious.

She didn't ask because she was afraid he would think she was staring at him.

After Lin Xiaohan came in, he didn't say hello to Chu Xia and sat down directly at his desk.

Chuxia withdrew her gaze and looked at the mirror again, and suddenly wanted to ask him something else.

Chu Xia looked at Lin Xiaohan and asked first: "Can I ask you something?"

Lin Xiaohan was flipping through a book in his hand. He didn't look at Chu Xia and directly responded, "Ask."

Chu Xia asked again with anticipation in her voice: "It's my face, has there been any changes recently?"

When Lin Xiaohan heard this, he turned his head, looked at Chu Xia, and then looked at the mirror in her hand.

After finishing reading, he looked away and said indifferently, "Why do you cling to something you don't have?"

Chu Xia: “…”

Forget it, I shouldn’t have asked him.

She put the mirror back in the drawer and pretended she hadn't asked him.

Seeing that Chu Xia didn't say anything, Lin Xiaohan turned his head and looked at her.

Then he added, "Not all men in the world are like Han Ting, who only like pretty girls. You don't have to care too much about these external things just because Han Ting doesn't like you."

Upon hearing this, Chu Xia turned and looked at Lin Xiaohan.

She was not interested in talking about Han Ting. She just looked at Lin Xiaohan and asked, "Don't you like pretty girls?"

Lin Xiaohan said with no interest in his tone: "It doesn't matter."

Chu Xia looked at him and blinked.

Yeah, he really doesn't care.

He doesn't care about beauty or not, but he doesn't care about all women.

Let's not talk about this with him anymore.

Chuxia picked up the pen and focused on math, physics and chemistry.

But after a while, she couldn't help but look at Lin Xiaohan and asked, "Is there any change?"

“…”

Everything I just said was in vain.

Lin Xiaohan rolled his eyes at her and replied, "No!"

If not, then no.

I have lived for more than ten years with this face that is so ordinary that it has no memorable features in the eyes of others. I don’t mind having a little more time. Let’s take it slow.

Chuxia put the matter behind her and focused on doing the questions again.

But after finishing five or six more questions, it was time for the afternoon class.

Lin Xiaohan went out and rang the bell for preparation, and three minutes later rang the bell for class. Then he took his textbook and lesson plan and went to the classroom next door for class.

Chuxia sat at her desk and continued to work on her own things.

After being busy for a while, she raised her eyes and looked outside the office to relax her eyes.

Just as I was relaxing, I suddenly saw the girl carrying the baby coming in quietly from the gate.

Of course, she still came here to attend classes secretly, and she would come here every day these days.

When she disappeared from his sight, Chu Xia withdrew his gaze and continued to do his own thing.

After finishing her work, she put down her pen, thought for a while, then stood up and went out of the office door.

Looking towards the classroom from outside the office door, I saw the girl hunched over a corner of the classroom window, shaking her body to coax the baby on her back while listening to the class.

Seeing that she was listening intently, Chu Xia did not call her.

She walked lightly towards the classroom, came to the side of the girl, and patted her on the shoulder.

The girl was startled by her, turned around and saw it was her, and subconsciously wanted to run away.

Chu Xia held her and whispered, "I'm not here to chase you away. Come with me."

The girl looked embarrassed and frightened, but still followed Chuxia to the office.

After entering the office, Chu Xia asked her in a friendly voice: "What's your name?"

The girl answered in a small voice, "Wang Xiaoyan."

Chuxia sat down at the desk, waved at her and called her to the desk.

In fact, Chuxia is not much older than Wang Xiaoyan, only two or three years older at most.

Wang Xiaoyan looked like she was afraid of being scolded for doing something wrong.

She slowly walked to Chu Xia's desk and whispered, "I'm sorry, I won't come here anymore."

Chu Xia called her over, of course, not to ask her not to come again in the future.

She smiled and explained to Wang Xiaoyan in a soft voice: "I didn't call you over to scold you. In fact, I have always seen you coming to school. You don't need to be nervous."

Wang Xiaoyan couldn't help but be nervous.

She pinched her fingers, looked at Chu Xia and asked in a low voice: "Then why did you call me here?"

Chuxia smiled and took out a dictionary from the drawer.

She put down the dictionary and asked Wang Xiaoyan: "How are you doing with pinyin now?"

Wang Xiaoyan still whispered: "It's okay, I heard some outside the window, and Xisheng..."

Perhaps because she had some concerns in her mind, she mentioned Li Xisheng's name and stopped talking.

Chuxia thought about it and thought that it would be good if Li Xisheng could teach her.

Chu Xia then asked her: "Can you use a dictionary?"

Wang Xiaoyan had never seen a dictionary, so she naturally shook her head.

Chuxia opened the dictionary on the desk and said to Wang Xiaoyan, "How about I teach you how to use the dictionary? After you learn it, you can look up words you don't know in the dictionary yourself."

Wang Xiaoyan stared at Chu Xia for a moment, and after a long while she said, "Really...really?"

Chu Xia nodded at her, "It's very simple."

Wang Xiaoyan was too happy but was too embarrassed to show it, so she looked at a loss.

Chu Xia naturally took the initiative. She stood up, took Lin Xiaohan's chair over, and asked Wang Xiaoyan to sit next to her.

After Wang Xiaoyan sat down stiffly, she carefully and patiently taught Wang Xiaoyan how to look up a dictionary.

Wang Xiaoyan is very smart and can basically learn after being taught once.

In this way, Chuxia enjoyed teaching very much.

After teaching, she took out two comic books from the drawer and handed them to Wang Xiaoyan along with a dictionary, saying, "I'll lend these to you. You can read them yourself when you go back. The stories in these comic books are relatively simple. If you encounter a word you don't know, just look it up in the dictionary."

Wang Xiaoyan looked flattered.

Of course she didn't dare to answer it, and quickly stood up and said, "I'm very grateful to you for teaching me how to use the dictionary."

Chu Xia still put the dictionary and comic book in front of Wang Xiaoyan, looked at her and said: "I teach you to use the dictionary so that you can learn to read books by yourself. These are also lent to you, not given to you. You don't have to feel any psychological burden. Just return them to me after you use them."

Wang Xiaoyan's heart was already extremely excited.

She really wanted to take it, but was nervous and reserved. Then, with Chuxia's encouragement again, she finally reached out and took the dictionary and comic book.

The moment she caught it, her eyes suddenly became wet and her voice choked slightly: "Thank you, Teacher Tang."