Xu Xingchen became even angrier. She shouted several times but no one answered. Instead, there was an inexplicable rustling sound around her, which made her angry and scared. She complained in a trembling voice.

"Jun Haoyue, you petty bastard, you brought me to this godforsaken place and then ran away."

Xu Xingchen's eyes became filled with warmth as he spoke more. "I thought I finally had someone on this planet who understood me, but I didn't expect him to be a liar..."

With tears in his eyes, Jun Haoyue, who was hiding behind a tree, realized that he had gone too far and felt regretful.

He walked up to her and half-knelt down, reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and took out a small yellow flower from somewhere and gently inserted it into the end of her hair.

Jun Haoyue's face slowly approached Xu Xingchen, and stopped when their foreheads touched. He said softly with a slight sigh, "I was wrong. Don't cry, okay?"

The corners of Xu Xingchen's eyes were red. The two of them were very close to each other. She saw herself in his eyes. She didn't know when she held her breath. She only felt the heartbeat in her chest getting faster and faster, so fast that her eardrums vibrated.

She saw her reflection sway for a moment, and then a soft laugh reached her ears. "Little fool, breathe."

Xu Xingchen suddenly reacted, pushed him away, gasped and took a quick breath of fresh air, her whole face flushed, and she touched her burning cheeks.

This must be because of holding my breath, she comforted herself.

Jun Haoyue was pushed down by her and sat on the snow. He stood up, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, brushed off the snow on his body, and 'demanded justice': "Xingchen, I just heard you scold me."

When Xu Xingchen mentioned this, he got angry again, "Where were you just now?"

He blinked: "People have three urgent needs."

Xu Xingchen choked. Her heartbeat had not yet completely slowed down. She wanted to complain, but she felt that she was being unreasonable. The other person just went to the toilet. Could it be that she had to control other people's use of the toilet? She could only swallow the complaint that was about to come out.

But Jun Haoyue was acting very abnormally today. He insisted on teasing her with words, which made her angry with him.

The two of them had a small quarrel and walked back while arguing.

The sun shines on the two of them, feeling warm.

......

After a period of time, Xu Xingchen's foot injury was completely healed, and two waves of wheat were harvested. Then he planted hybrid wheat.

She gathered Zhou Xiaoniang and others to make malt sugar together. After two or three days of hard work, they made a considerable amount of malt sugar.

Xu Xingchen first gave a piece to every household in the village, allowing them to try it and show them the deliciousness of malt sugar.

After the families who got the malt sugar ate it, people began to come one after another to ask for advice on how to make it, and the small greenhouse was surrounded by villagers.

"Sister Xu, this is so delicious. How did you make it? Teach us."

"Yes, I have never eaten such delicious candy."

"Teach us."

......

Everyone was talking at once, and Xu Xingchen's head was aching from the noise. She raised her voice slightly and said, "Don't worry, this is what I mentioned earlier about building a factory to produce. Since everyone agrees, I won't hide it. After winter is over, I will teach everyone how to make it, so that our village can become prosperous!"

The villagers' enthusiasm was aroused. "I'm on board! I'll trouble Miss Xu when spring comes."

"I also..."

"Me, me, me."

Xu Xingchen felt somewhat relieved. God will not let down those who work hard. This first step has finally been taken.

The villagers went back one after another. Xu Xingchen watched them leave and was about to turn around and go into the house, but he saw Aunt Wang looking at him furtively.

Aunt Wang had followed when the villagers gathered, but she was squeezed outside. The villagers' chatter drowned out Xu Xingchen's speech. She only heard something about teaching production and being rich, but the word rich attracted her.

"Aunt Wang, what are you doing sneakily?"

Aunt Wang was startled and reflexively retorted, "Tell me, what are you talking about? Who is sneaking around?" She rolled her eyes as she spoke.

Xu Xingchen showed disgust on his face, but Aunt Wang didn't care at all and stretched her neck to look into the greenhouse.

With this reaction and this attitude, Xu Xingchen guessed without surprise that Aunt Wang had some feelings about her malt sugar.

"Aren't you afraid of breaking your neck?" Xu Xingchen said sarcastically.

Aunt Wang retracted her gaze and asked accusingly, "What's wrong? Look what's wrong."

"Don't look at it, there's no place for you."

Aunt Wang was immediately furious: "Widow Xu, why don't I have a share? I found this fertilizer and made it myself! Everyone else has it, but I don't?"

Xu Xingchen laughed angrily, "Aunt Wang, that's your obligation, not a paid contribution."

"You..." Aunt Wang certainly knew what she meant. She worked to compensate Mai Miao for her labor.

"If you have nothing to do, please go back. I don't have time to waste with you." Xu Xingchen pointed at the path and drove him away rudely.

Aunt Wang felt guilty and left cursing.

After everyone left, Xu Xingchen returned to the greenhouse and packaged the remaining malt sugar, planning to find time to go to the town to sell it.

"Clang—"

There was a strange noise outside the door. Xu Xingchen was busy with malt sugar. Without thinking too much, he just called out, "Jun Haoyue?"

Silence returned outside, and Jun Haoyue did not answer.

Xu Xingchen felt a little strange and called out again. A figure flashed by. Xu Xingchen called out Jun Haoyue for the third time, and a light cough was heard.

Xu Xingchen understood, walked quietly to the door with light steps, picked up the thick bolt, and used stillness to control movement.

The person outside the door was probably wondering why there was no sound from inside the house, and slowly approached the door.

"Bang—"

The door was kicked open, and Zhang Tiansheng looked in sinisterly. After glancing around and seeing no one was around, he bravely walked in. He had no idea that there was someone standing at the door, Xu Xingchen with a weapon in hand.

Xu Xingchen did not give him a chance to search, and just swung the wooden stick over. When Zhang Tiansheng heard the sound of breaking wind and turned around, he was hit hard on the head by Xu Xingchen.

Before he could even make a sound, he slid softly to the ground.

"Stardust, you called me..."

Jun Haoyue asked as he walked, still holding a sieve in his hand. When he entered the house and saw the person lying on the ground, he immediately stopped the conversation and hurried to see Xu Xingchen.

Xu Xingchen still had the wooden stick in her hand. She poked the person on the ground with it and explained to him in a daze, "He just pretended to be you and tried to sneak in, but I saw through him."

Jun Haoyue frowned. He naturally wouldn't doubt Xu Xingchen. Thinking that the other party wanted to attack Xu Xingchen, his face darkened. If Xu Xingchen hadn't defended himself, who knew what Zhang Tiansheng could do.

"Just throw it out."

Xu Xingchen was still wondering what to do if someone got hurt. When she heard Jun Haoyue's words, she exclaimed, "That's not right. It's freezing outside. What if someone dies? Aunt Wang will definitely turn our house upside down."

It wasn't that she was worried about Zhang Tiansheng's safety, but about Aunt Wang, that unreasonable woman.