"Ruan Sheng, come help serve the dishes, it's time to eat!" Ruan's mother called out loudly.

"Oh, you guys go outside and wash your hands first, it's time to eat."

"good."

At this moment, several sumptuous dishes were laid out on the table: braised pork trotters with peanuts, stir-fried pork belly with winter melon, stir-fried pumpkin, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a fish soup.

"Come on, everyone, don't be so polite. Thank you so much. Another day, my family and I will bring gifts to the village to formally thank you."

"Uncle, we don't need to, you can just take the gifts to thank the two female educated youths in the village," Lu Xiao said while drinking fish soup.

"Yes, Captain, get the food, get lots of it, as much as you want."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work on this meal."

"Oh, it's no trouble at all. You're the ones who have worked hard. You saved my daughter, and now I need your oxcart to bring her back."

Everyone ate and chatted, and before long, all the food was gone.

"Your family is so honest. This dish is really delicious, almost all of it is meat."

The captain put down his chopsticks and praised him happily.

"Where? I was worried you wouldn't eat well!" Mr. Ruan replied with a smile.

"Brother, it's getting late, we should head back to the village. Thank you for your hospitality today."

"Brother, I'll see you out."

Within the time it took to eat a meal, the brigade leader was already calling the other guy "brother."

Lu Xiao and Liu Jianfeng followed behind, unable to suppress their laughter. "Okay, that's enough for now, we'll head back first."

Lu Xiao and Liu Jianfeng got into the car, and the brigade leader drove the oxcart away.

After watching them leave, Ruan's family turned around and went back home.

"Xiaoyu, you're lucky you met some good people this time. You must never go to remote places by yourself next time."

"You need to learn from this lesson, understand?" Mr. Ruan said sternly.

"I understand, Dad."

"Okay, I'll go to the meat processing plant tomorrow to get some meat. We'll go to Songjia Village tomorrow to thank them properly."

"I'll bring money and ration coupons to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow to buy some biscuits, candies, and malted milk powder."

"We still have a lot of dried fish at home, your brother-in-law brought them over, we'll take them all tomorrow," Mother Ruan said.

"Alright, it's decided then," Mr. Ruan said, making the final decision.

"Captain, this family is so generous, I'm already stuffed."

Lu Xiao watched the brigade leader drive the oxcart and patted his belly.

"Yes, I'm also stuffed." Liu Jianfeng rubbed his stomach.

"Haha... Same here. Their cooking is delicious, no wonder you guys are stuffed."

By the time they returned to Songjia Village, night had already fallen.

"We've arrived, you can go in now."

"Thank you, Captain. Take care, Captain."

As soon as Lu Xiao and Liu Jianfeng entered the courtyard, they were startled by Ma Chunling's loud voice.

Why are you so late? Is everything alright?

Lu Xiao glanced at the two of them, smiled, and went into the house.

"I'm fine. The three of us went to that girl's house for dinner. They were so hospitable," Liu Jianfeng explained with a smile, holding Ma Chunling's hand.

"That's good, I've been waiting for you."

Back in his room, Lu Xiao sat on the bed and looked at Zhang Shang.

"Brother, I came home so late, don't you even care about me?"

Looking at Lu Xiao's irritating expression, Zhang Shang said calmly, "You're back now, aren't you?"

"I'm back so late, you should be asking me if I've eaten? What happened?" Lu Xiao said casually.

Zhang Shang glanced at him but didn't say anything.

"We went to someone else's house for dinner, and the food was so delicious that we came back late."

Braised pork trotters, pork belly, eggs, fish soup... I'm so full!

Lu Xiao looked at Zhang Shang with a wicked grin, waiting to see his reaction.

But he didn't react at all. Lu Xiao found it boring and picked up a book to read.

"You're such a boring person, you'd be perfect to be a monk, humph."

Lu Xiao complained as he opened the book.

The oil lamp was too dim for him to read.

Then, I picked up my clothes and went to take a shower.

The next morning, the team leader had just finished announcing the work schedule.

Ruan Yu and her family arrived with gifts, and most people looked puzzled.

Mr. Ruan smiled and said, "Brother, we meet again."

Have you divided the tasks? Has this delayed your work?

"Thanks to the help of several comrades yesterday, I've come today specifically to express my gratitude."

"Hehe, brother, you're too kind. Su, Ma, Lu, and Liu, you can all stay."

When Su Tian and Ma Chunling passed by the drying ground, they were stopped by the brigade leader.

The rest of them stayed behind. Ruan Yu pulled her mother to Su Tian and said, "Mom, these two female educated youths also saved me."

"No, I didn't help. It was her who saved you, my best friend. She took down those four people in no time."

"Thank you, young lady. What are your names?"

Looking at Su Tian, ​​who knew martial arts, Ruan's mother felt delighted. She was so beautiful, and the more she looked at her, the more she liked her.

"Auntie, my name is Su Tian, ​​and her name is Ma Chunling," Su Tian replied with a smile.

"Your names are so lovely. Next time you visit the meat processing plant's staff quarters in town, come and visit your auntie!"

"Oh, okay." Ma Chunling replied quickly, seeing how enthusiastic Ruan's mother was.

After talking with the brigade leader and the others, Mr. Ruan came over to Mrs. Ruan with two bags of things.

"These two female educated youths saved Xiaoyu, thank you so much. Here, take one of these bags each."

Next time you're in town and want to buy meat, come to the meat processing plant and find your uncle.

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