Lu Zhengting was stunned when he heard him say he was looking for a partner.
I can't quite describe how I feel.
He glanced into the educated youth settlement and realized that she was one of the educated youth there.
He felt very lucky to meet her again here.
He felt inexplicably irritated again. Well, it was probably because he was annoyed by Gu Mingzhou. He had always disliked the guy, who was incompetent but always acted arrogantly.
Should he go in now and return the handkerchief to her?
Seeing that he didn't speak, Gu Mingzhou asked again, "Old Lu, what's wrong? I asked you how many days off you took, didn't you hear me?"
Lu Zhengting realized what was happening: "I've asked for seven days."
"And you?"
"Me too. We can go back to the military region together then, so we can keep each other company."
"OK."
Are you going to the fields?
"Yes, I'll do some work for a while. What are you going to do?"
"Go to the county town to buy something for my boyfriend."
Lu Zhengting felt it was best to return the handkerchief to Lin Qingyan as soon as possible. He asked Gu Mingzhou, "Is Comrade Lin Qingyan inside now? I want to return the handkerchief to her."
Although she guessed that Lin Qingyan should be working in the fields.
“She’s not here, she’s already gone to work.” Gu Mingzhou raised an eyebrow: “You still want to return the handkerchief to her, right? Give it to me, and I’ll take you to give it to her.”
"good."
Lu Zhengting reached for the handkerchief, but then suddenly remembered that he still had the fountain pen at his grandmother's house, so he decided to give it to her as well.
"Um, I suddenly realized I left something in my bag. I'll come back and run it over when I get back."
"OK."
After the two parted ways, Gu Mingzhou went to the county town to buy grain.
Lu Zhengting went to the field to dig peanuts. While digging, he looked around the field several times but couldn't find Lin Qingyan. He didn't know which field she was working in. He worked until noon. In the middle of the day, the team leader told him to go for a walk somewhere else, but he didn't go.
The group went home together. Lu Zhengting glanced at the educated youth settlement. After lunch, he came over early and gave Lin Qingyan a handkerchief and a pen.
At this moment, the rough-around-the-edges man had no idea how valuable his gift was, or whether the recipient would accept it.
At the other end of the peanut field was a small river, and they walked along the river on their way back.
There were large, dense reeds along the riverbank. As they were walking, they suddenly heard a splash, followed by a child's cries for help.
"Someone has fallen into the water! Help!"
They quickly took a few steps forward and saw a figure frantically splashing in the river. On the bank, two children were shouting, "Someone has fallen into the water! Help!"
Lu Zhengting, Li Gang, and Li Fang were all ready to jump in to save the person, but Lu Zhengting reacted the fastest. With his agile body, he jumped into the water with a splash, quickly swam to the drowning person, and brought him ashore.
The person who fell into the water was a boy of about ten years old. Lu Zhengting put him on the ground and carried out a series of drainage measures. The boy did not stay in the water for long and soon woke up.
"Uncle, uncle, thank you for saving me." The little boy's voice was still a little weak.
Lu Zhengting asked him how he fell into the water and reminded him to be careful when playing by the river in the future, and that it would be best not to come to the river at all.
The boy's parents were working in the fields nearby and soon arrived. They were extremely grateful to Lu Zhengting, and after learning that Lu Zhengting was the brigade leader's nephew, they planned to visit the brigade leader's house that evening to express their gratitude in person.
It's autumn now, and the weather is getting cool. Lu Zhengting's clothes are all wet, and the little boy's clothes are also wet.
"Hurry home and change the child's clothes, and light a fire to warm him up," Lu Zhengting reminded the child's parents.
"Alright, alright, comrade, you should also take good care of yourself."
"I will."
Lin Qinqin said, "Cousin, you're always worrying about others. Go home and change your wet clothes."
"Okay, let's hurry home."
He returned to the brigade leader's house, where Li's mother boiled water and let him wash up in the room.
The river was full of mud, and when he came out, his clothes and body were covered in mud. After wiping himself off, he changed into clean clothes and then took the wet clothes out to wash.
"Cousin, let me wash them." Li Qinqin offered to wash his clothes, but he raised his hand to refuse: "No need. We wash our own clothes in the barracks. A man can't just fight without knowing how to take care of himself. If he can't even take care of himself, how can he be a soldier?"
"My cousin is capable in all aspects of life, from formal occasions to kitchen duties, from handling guns to washing clothes."
"Hahahaha." The others present burst into laughter.
"You're quite good at making up rhymes, make up some more," Lu Zhengting said.
"Make up some more?" Li Qinqin thought for a moment: "The only downside is that he doesn't want to get married, he's like a monk."
"Ha ha ha ha"
Grandma Li said, "You silly girl, you can't talk about your cousin like that. It's not that your cousin doesn't want to get married, it's just that he hasn't met the right person yet. If he did meet someone he liked, I don't think he would be a monk anymore, he would definitely be a hooligan."
"Grandma, why am I either a monk or a hooligan? Can't I just be normal?"
"Yes, yes." Grandma Li nodded: "Everyone is hoping that you can find a partner soon."
"It's another potential partner, I'm not in a hurry."
As he washed the clothes, he reached into his shirt pocket and took out a handkerchief. However, the handkerchief could not escape the fate of being stained by the pond mud. It had been washed clean by him when he was in the military region, but now it had turned muddy yellow again.
He carefully unfolded the handkerchief, applied laundry detergent, and scrubbed it again.
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