Xu Shanshan said timidly, "I'm sorry, I'll be quick. You guys take a rest first."

The group remained silent, turned around, and left, preferring to stay out of sight.

After sitting down at the table in the courtyard, Zhou Yunze was still unwilling to give up. "Wang Zhiqing, this can't go on. How about we change the people in their group?"

"How do you suggest we switch?" Wang Zhiqing threw the difficult question at him.

Some people at the educated youth settlement got into trouble or left, leaving only five people. After being reassigned, Wang Jiaxing and Huang Xinrui were in one group, and the Zhou siblings and Xu Shanshan were in another.

After her two cousins ​​arrived, Xu Shanshan was assigned to take care of them. The idea was that the three of them would work together, so each person would have less work. However, the two cousins ​​refused to do any work, and all the work fell on Xu Shanshan alone.

Xu Shanshan was a submissive and weak person who didn't dare to resist at all, which allowed those two to take advantage of her.

Wang Jiaxing understood Zhou Yunze's thoughts, but Xu Shanshan herself was incapable of standing on her own, and outsiders simply couldn't help her.

“Brother, I know you’re worried that Xu Zhiqing will suffer, but you’ve stood up for her several times, and it still turned out the same way. If you ask me, Xu Zhiqing has to learn to fight back herself,” Zhou Yunxia said.

Wang Jiaxing and Huang Xinrui both agreed.

Zhou Yunze knew this principle all too well. "But you all know Xu Zhiqing's personality. Asking her to resist is harder than climbing to heaven."

Huang Xinrui shrugged, "There's nothing we can do about it. We can't keep helping her forever."

One can be honest, but not too honest. If one can't even protect one's own share, then it's not honesty, it's cowardice and incompetence.

Zhou Yunze sighed and said nothing more.

Chu Xun asked in confusion, "It's so lively at the educated youth settlement, could it be that new educated youth have arrived again?"

"That's right, two of my cousins ​​came, and wow, they're quite the troublemakers." Li Xiyue shook her head helplessly.

Before, during the busy farming season, I was exhausted but things were relatively peaceful. Now that the busy season is over and I have more energy, I'm starting to cause trouble again.

"Is there anything wrong with the person? Should we get them checked?"

"It doesn't seem like they're after me."

Chu Xun was still worried. "I'll have Chen Yu check it out tomorrow."

"Ah Xun, Chen Yu and Xiao Zhou, the educated youth, are having an affair," Li Xiyue said with a smile.

Chu Xun clinked glasses with her, took a sip of wine, and said, "I know." That's why that kid hasn't been thinking very well lately.

"What else do you know?" Li Xiyue asked with a smile.

"I also know that you cheated someone out of a thousand yuan."

How do you know everything?

"Of course, who am I?"

"..." How narcissistic.

Chu Xun went to cook, and Li Xiyue took out a bunch of pills from her spatial storage and went to the kitchen. "Take these medicines with you."

"So many, what kind of medicine are they?" Chu Xun asked with a smile while chopping vegetables.

Li Xiyue said, "This is for treating severe internal bleeding, this is for stopping bleeding from external injuries, this is for detoxification; it can be used to treat bites from venomous snakes or insects, and it can also be used in cases of poisonous miasma, and..."

She held a bunch of small bottles and rattled off seven or eight kinds of medicine in one breath, her fair face full of seriousness.

Chu Xun smiled throughout, listening attentively and taking careful notes. "Thank you, Yueyue."

He knew that Yueyue was frightened by his injury and was afraid that something might happen to him again, so she gave him a bunch of life-saving medicines.

He sensed that Yueyue cared about him more and more, and he was overjoyed.

"I've put it in your room, please remember to keep it with you at all times."

"good."

This is Yueyue's heartfelt gift to him, and he will never let her down.

After dinner, Chu Xun went to clean up the kitchen, while Li Xiyue went to take a shower.

After taking a shower, I changed into new pajamas, grabbed a palm-leaf fan, and lay down on a chair in the yard to cool off.

A gentle night breeze dispersed the smoke from the burning mugwort nearby.

A bright moon hangs in the sky, and the stars twinkle.

Li Xiyue gazed at the twinkling starry sky and fell asleep without realizing it.

Little Whitey lay at her feet, fast asleep.

In the distance, insects chirped in the grass.

Chu Xun came out of the kitchen and saw this scene.

Tranquil, peaceful, and beautiful.

At that moment, he felt that all the wounds he had suffered and the blood he had shed on the battlefield were worth it.