On the first day of the Lunar New Year, a serious incident such as coal smoke poisoning occurred at the educated youth site, and the whole village was worried that day.

Su Yuehua originally wanted these educated youth to go to the hospital for another check-up, but everyone refused.

Village Chief Shen wanted to suppress the matter, so she couldn't say anything more.

In the afternoon, she checked the educated youth again and made sure that everyone was fine before leaving with several aunts who came to help.

As soon as I walked out of the youth cadre site, I found that it was already dark.

This morning, the villagers witnessed the whole process of Su Yuehua rescuing the educated youth, and now they look at her with awe in their eyes.

One of the aunts was worried that she was afraid of the dark, so she took the initiative to say, "Chengyi wife, it's getting dark, I'll take you back."

Another aunt rushed to say: "I can just send Chengyi's wife home, our two families are close."

There is not even a street light on this dirt road in the countryside. In order to save electricity money, the villagers are reluctant to turn on the lights after dark, and it is pitch black at a glance.

The Shen family was some distance away from the educated youth center, and Su Yuehua was a little afraid to walk back, but was also a little embarrassed to trouble the aunts to send her back.

When she looked up, she saw a tall figure standing not far ahead. She called out tentatively, "Chen Chengyi."

"It's me."

Hearing Shen Chengyi's response, she was as happy as a little swallow, greeted several aunts, and ran over.

“Chen Chengyi, how do you know I want to go home at this time.”

Shen Chengyi did not respond, but walked forward silently. Seeing that she did not catch up, he slowed down his pace a little, "Mom, I left some food for you, wait for you to go back and eat it!"

A few days passed in the blink of an eye. On the morning of the fourth day of the New Year, Su Yuehua didn't see Shen Chengyi when she got up.

After asking Bai Xiuying, I found out that he had gone to the town to find his comrades.

It was not until the afternoon that Shen Chengyi came back from the town and handed the purchased train ticket directly to Su Yuehua, "Pack up, we will take tomorrow's train back to Kyoto. My comrade-in-arms used his connections to book two berths for us."

"Are you going back so soon?" Su Yuehua blurted out without thinking. She had developed some feelings for Bai Xiuying and Li Yumei over the past few days. And the most crucial point was that she was afraid that her fake identity would be exposed if she returned to the capital.

"Haven't you been clamoring to go back? Why don't you want to go back when the day comes?" Shen Chengyi looked at Su Yuehua suspiciously.

Su Yuehua quickly changed her words and said, "It's not that I don't want to go back, but when I think about going back to work, I don't want to go back."

There should be no problem with this excuse. Just ask yourself, which worker is willing to go to work?

Shen Chengyi thought she was just being childish, and sighed helplessly, "If you don't want to go to that class, don't go. Although my allowance is not much, I can still support you."

"Forget it." Su Yuehua didn't want to be a dodder kept by a man, so she turned around and started packing her luggage.

As soon as it got dark, Uncle Shen came in with a basket. When she saw Bai Xiuying, she asked directly, "Xiuying, his uncle asked me to come and ask when Chengyi is leaving."

Bai Xiuying held Aunt Shen's hand and walked towards the main house while saying, "Sister-in-law, come in and sit down. Chengyi is on the train tomorrow. He just said that he would come to your house after dinner to let you know!"

Aunt Shen sat on the kang and put the basket beside her. When she saw Su Yuehua and Shen Chengyi come in, she took things out of the basket and said, "Yuehua, Chengyi, these are the dried vegetables I dried in the fall. Don't be disgusted. Your uncle said that you have to pay for an onion in the city, so he asked me to bring some to you."

"This is dried eggplant, this is dried beans, and this is dried cucumber..."

Su Yuehua looked at the bags of dried vegetables on the kang and felt somewhat moved.

Most people of this era are very simple and honest. If you are a little bit nice to them, they will give you their all.

"Aunt, how could I dislike it? Some of these things cannot even be bought in our city."

Aunt Shen was obviously relieved to see that Su Yuehua didn't dislike it. She stood up from the kang and said with a smile, "Go back and try it. If you like it, tell me. I'll dry more this fall."

"Auntie, thank you and uncle." Shen Chengyi said politely.

Aunt Shen waved her hand and said, "Why thank you? We are all family. I'm going home first."

"Aunt, it's getting dark. I'll take you home." Shen Chengyi said as he helped her out.

Su Yuehua followed Bai Xiuying and accompanied Aunt Shen to the gate of the courtyard before turning around and walking into the house.

Bai Xiuying walked into the house and said, "Chengyi's aunt is a capable person, but it's a pity that she didn't have a good daughter-in-law. After Chengyi's father died, I brought the three siblings back to the village. Thanks to his uncle's family for taking care of us."

Not long after the family finished dinner, Village Chief Shen came over carrying a sack.

"Fifth Uncle, you're here." Su Yuehua was about to reach out to take the sack that Village Chief Shen was carrying, but the sack suddenly moved, and she almost jumped up in fright.

"Chengyi's wife, don't be afraid, there are two old hens in the sack." Village Chief Shen opened the sack and showed it to Su Yuehua. "I heard that you and Chengyi were going back to the capital, so I thought of giving you two old hens to take back to the capital for nourishment."

"Uncle Wu, I appreciate your kindness. We cannot take the old hen, so you can keep it for laying eggs." During the days she has been here, Su Yuehua knows very well how much rural people value chickens. The oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home all depend on the eggs laid by the hens!

Village Chief Shen said sincerely: "Chengyi's wife, you must take these two old hens. If you don't, you are looking down on your fifth uncle. You not only saved the lives of the educated youth, you also saved my life!"

"If you hadn't discovered it in time, if these educated youth had made any mistakes, my job as village chief would have been over."

Now, whenever Village Chief Shen thinks about what happened that day, he becomes terrified.

"But..." Village Chief Shen had said so much, Su Yuehua couldn't refuse, but she felt bad if she accepted it.

It was Bai Xiuying who spoke up again: "Yuehua, just accept your fifth uncle's kindness."

Bai Xiuying had said so, so Su Yuehua could only accept it, "Fifth Uncle, thank you."

"We are all family, there's nothing to thank me for. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. You should also go to bed early." When Village Chief Shen saw Su Yuehua accept it, a smile instantly appeared on his face.

They had to catch a train tomorrow, so Su Yuehua and Shen Chengyi went to bed early.

Su Yuehua was still a little uncomfortable as they were about to leave. She tossed and turned on the kang, unable to fall asleep.

“Shen Chengyi, are you asleep?”

"Falling asleep." Shen Chengyi was always alert, and he woke up as soon as Su Yuehua spoke.

Su Yuehua didn't believe what he said at all. She turned over and muttered, "You can still talk when you are asleep."

Seeing that Shen Chengyi did not respond, she tried to find a topic to talk about: "Shen Chengyi, why do you call the village chief Uncle Wu? Don't you only have one uncle?"