Before Han Xiaoyu could finish speaking, Xu Yan's head began to droop uncontrollably.

This was the original owner's instinctive reaction.

Whenever Han Xiaoyu got annoyed by her pestering him, he would speak to her in this tone. Or when the female educated youths at the educated youth settlement asked her to borrow something and she didn't want to lend it, and they were about to start arguing, Han Xiaoyu would also speak to her in this tone.

She would obediently lower her head and give away her things.

She would never embarrass Han Xiaoyu in front of anyone.

Because in her heart, he was the man of her future; they were already engaged and would get married in the future.

Her mother used to tell her that no matter how much a woman makes a fuss at home, she must not embarrass her man in front of outsiders.

Xu Yan: "..."

I'm numb!

It's beyond saving!

But she's not the original owner of this body, and she can't make her feel so stifled and swallow her anger!

Xu Yan tried her best to straighten her back, her knuckles aching from clenching her fists, just enough to keep her eyes on Han Xiaoyu.

But I just couldn't bring myself to say anything else.

“Everyone’s already exhausted from working in the fields every day to earn work points, and now they have to deal with you when they get back,” Han Xiaoyu continued, frowning. “Since you want these things so badly, how about I give you mine?”

"Brother Xiao Yu."

Before Han Xiaoyu could finish speaking, Ye Wei suddenly interrupted him.

Meeting Han Xiaoyu's gaze, she smiled gently and continued understandingly, "You men usually do heavy physical labor. If you can't do your job well because you haven't eaten enough, the brigade leader will probably... I think you should give my share to Xu Yan. I, I don't have to eat it."

The last few words lingered in her mouth for a few seconds before she finally uttered them with a resounding tone, conveying a sense of generosity that seemed to say, "I'll suffer for the sake of everyone else's happiness."

Sure enough, the male educated youth at the settlement started looking at her differently.

As expected of Ye Wei, who never competes or fights and always thinks of others!

Hearing her say that, Han Xiaoyu's expression faltered slightly, and his gaze toward Xu Yan grew even colder.

Look at other people.

How could someone like Xu Yan, who doesn't know how to be modest and doesn't unite and love his comrades, possibly expect to be interested in her and marry her?

joke.

Han Xiaoyu scoffed inwardly, somewhat regretting listening to his parents and proposing marriage. Although Xu Yan hadn't told anyone about their affair at his request, Han Xiaoyu still felt uncomfortable at the thought of their relationship.

To be his wife, she must be a virtuous, kind, humble, polite, gentle, and generous woman.

Just like Sun Jiarou, the daughter of Sun Guoan, the brigade secretary.

Ye Wei noticed Han Xiaoyu's gaze lingering on her, her face flushed slightly, and she nervously and silently moved her fingers.

“I… I can give mine to her too,” Zhou Jingjing said, her heart skipping a beat when she heard Ye Wei’s words.

Could it be that Ye Wei also likes Xiao Yu?

But now is not the time to dwell on these things. She pushed Ye Wei back a little and shoved the peach shortbread she had just snatched into Xu Yan's arms.

"Alright, here you go. Brother Xiao Yu does the most work and earns the most work points every day. If you make him give you his food, how can you even eat it?"

Sorry!

If I could eat people, I'd have no shame eating you all!

Xu Yan roared inwardly.

But she just couldn't open her mouth. She strained until beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, but she could only keep her back straight and not bow her head.

Depend on!

What exactly is going on?

Does that mean that even if she transmigrates into a book, she can only follow the original plot?

No, no, no, she's not going to be a simp!

Hearing Zhou Jingjing speak, Han Xiaoyu snapped out of his daze and turned his gaze back to Xu Yan. Seeing that she was still holding her head high but was no longer arguing back unreasonably, he felt a little better.

But the words that came out already carried the flavor of commands: "When we distribute the things later, you'll get some too. Be sensible and stop making trouble."

Sensible my foot!

Xu Yan's head was throbbing with anger.

When the others heard Han Xiaoyu's words, they instinctively wanted to refute him, but when they thought that if it weren't for him, Xu Yan would have shamelessly taken their things back, they all fell silent.

Let's just share what we have; there seems to be more stuff this time than usual.

"I don't know what suddenly happened today, wasting everyone's time," Wu Shi muttered. "I was planning to rest for a while after distributing the items."

“What’s the point of resting?” another male educated youth complained. “The brigade leader will probably come to call us again soon. In this heat, we still have to go to the fields to weed. This countryside is no place for humans.”

"That's right," someone chimed in, "and they always give us the land with the most grass. I think this brigade leader is deliberately making things difficult for us!"

They chatted back and forth, and as the topic drifted further and further away, someone took the opportunity to grab a few fruit candies and stuff them into their mouth.

Is this how it's going to end like this?

Xu Yan felt a chill run down her spine.

Although she had a thousand words to say and wanted to get everything that belonged to her back, she was like a gourd with its mouth sawed off whenever she faced Han Xiaoyu.

Just as Xu Yan was feeling an unbearable ache in her heart, a voice suddenly rang out from outside.

"Oh, is this the quality of educated youth from the city? Anyone who didn't know better would think they were shameless scoundrels who crawled out of some ditch. To be able to say such shameless things is truly eye-opening!"

The people in the kitchen were startled by the sound outside and turned to look outside.

A tall figure was seen leaning lazily against the door frame of the courtyard gate, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.

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