"Come back and eat quickly," Jiang Qiaoqiao said to Huo Beixiao before turning and going into the house.

Huo Beixiao had no choice but to follow her into the house.

After finishing her meal, Jiang Qiaoqiao had already washed and tidied up the dishes.

When Huo Beixiao entered, she was already busy baking meat jerky again.

She didn't even glance at Huo Beixiao. Hearing footsteps, she said directly, "The rice and soup are in the pot. Help yourself. There's some chilled offal in the water vat. Chop it yourself."

"Okay," Huo Beixiao replied.

Looking at Jiang Qiaoqiao's indifferent profile, his Adam's apple bobbed a few times, but he still couldn't say anything.

After finishing his meal, Huo Beixiao quickly cleared away the dishes and table.

Seeing that Jiang Qiaoqiao's face was flushed from working by the coal stove, I noticed that she was already quite hot.

My heart skipped a beat involuntarily.

He instinctively walked over to Jiang Qiaoqiao and asked, "How do you do this? I'll help you."

"No need." Jiang Qiaoqiao refused without even thinking.

Besides marinating, the key to making pork jerky is controlling the heat.

The pork she bought today was wild boar meat. Although it has the unique aroma of wild game, it also has a gamey smell. When she marinated it, she managed to suppress that gamey smell.

Now, it's crucial to control the heat during roasting to fully bring out the wild boar's natural flavor, so as not to waste the life of the pig that died for her.

Jiang Qiaoqiao worked for another two hours before she finally finished baking all the pork jerky.

She poured the last batch of dried meat from the grill into a winnowing basket, ate a piece with relish, and then turned around to see Huo Beixiao's tall figure standing right next to her.

She was startled.

"Have you been standing here the whole time?"

Huo Beixiao did not answer her question, but said, "You sweated a lot just now. I'll take you to the factory's bathhouse to take a shower. You'll feel better after washing up."

Jiang Qiaoqiao knew that there was a public bathhouse in the factory.

However, non-factory employees have to pay to take a bath in the bathhouse.

When she was brought back from the countryside by the Jiang family, Peng Cuiying disliked her for being dirty and took her to a public bathhouse to wash once.

Peng Cuiying kept grumbling about it for a long time because it cost her a dime.

But at that time, Jiang Yiran already had her own bathtub and soap that seemed particularly expensive to her.

After that, the Jiang family repeatedly reminded her, through one event after another, of the vast difference between her and Jiang Yiran.

"Okay, thank you for your help." Jiang Qiaoqiao replied after regaining her senses, "I'll go pack my things."

For some reason, Huo Beixiao felt that Jiang Qiaoqiao's tone was not only unfamiliar, but also carried a sense of vicissitude.

She's just a twenty-year-old girl. Even if her life experiences are more complicated than others because she was switched at birth, she shouldn't have this sense of vicissitudes that comes with having seen it all!

Jiang Qiaoqiao took the basin she usually used for washing up, packed all her toiletries, and gathered a bag of clean clothes before coming out.

Let's go!

"Okay." Huo Beixiao met her eyes and nodded.

At this moment, the sense of vicissitude in Jiang Qiaoqiao's eyes disappeared again, and she was still that stubborn and energetic twenty-year-old girl.

The cement plant is very dusty, so the first thing the workers do after get off work is take a shower.

Huo Beixiao also took a shower before going back.

He waited outside the bathhouse while Jiang Qiaoqiao went in to take a shower.

Some workers who had just finished showering came out of the bathhouse.

I was a little surprised when I saw Huo Beixiao standing outside.

However, he quickly realized that Huo Beixiao had just gotten married and was probably waiting for his wife here.

"Engineer Huo, are you waiting for your wife?"

"Um."

"Engineer Huo, you and your sister-in-law are newlyweds, why are you making her come to the public bathhouse? Just get a big basin at home, boil some water, and let her bathe at home. You can even help her scrub her back..."

As the man spoke, he patted Huo Beixiao's shoulder suggestively, "You know what happens next, right?"

Huo Beixiao's deep gaze fell on that person.

The ambiguous smile on the man's face froze instantly.

He chuckled dryly, "Hey, Mr. Huo, I was just kidding, just kidding. You wait here for your wife, I'm leaving now..."

As he spoke, the man quickly ran away.

He hadn't run two steps when he slipped and almost fell to the ground.

When Jiang Qiaoqiao came out of the bathhouse, her face was flushed from the steam.

Those round, almond-shaped eyes looked as if they had been washed with water, beautiful and bright.

She approached Huo Beixiao.

Huo Beixiao felt an even more enticing aroma than the meat smell emanating from his home, which was wafting into his nose.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rising within him.

He could even clearly feel a surge of restless blood rushing up his body.

It was completely dark, and the streetlights were dim, so Jiang Qiaoqiao didn't notice anything unusual about Huo Beixiao.

She felt completely refreshed at that moment. She had enjoyed a comfortable bath in the public bathhouse, and the cool breeze outside had swept away the summer heat.

When she got home, she noticed that Huo Beixiao's ears were slightly red.

"I know the way to the bathhouse now. I can go and come back by myself from now on. You don't need to wait for me outside. It's so hot outside."

Jiang Qiaoqiao had no doubt that his ears were red from the heat.

“Okay,” Huo Beixiao replied.

She probably disliked him because of his attitude towards Jiang Yiran.

That's good, so when they get divorced in the future, there won't be so many complications.

That night, Jiang Qiaoqiao, who usually falls asleep as soon as her head hits the pillow, tossed and turned in bed for a long time.

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