"Is the captain going to agree?" Zhang's father said, "Even if we don't care about saving face, the captain cares a lot about his reputation. I reckon he won't agree."
To his surprise, his words were immediately refuted by Zhang's mother: "What's wrong with the brigade leader wanting to save face? This time we went there on our own initiative, so we should give the brigade leader's family as much face as possible. Besides, if Qinqin insists on being with Shaopeng, how could the brigade leader disagree?"
Mr. Zhang seemed to have no reason to refute, so he nodded: "Alright, let's do as you say."
Zhang Shaopeng was overjoyed and couldn't wait to run to the next village to break off the engagement with Qin Chunhua.
They went home for lunch and then had to go to work in the fields. They didn't have time to go to the Qin family to break off the engagement. In the evening, they found a matchmaker and went to the Qin family with her to break off the engagement.
The matchmaker was initially reluctant, but she couldn't resist the Zhang family's firm attitude, so she went to the neighboring village to break off the engagement with the Qin family.
Zhang's mother and Zhang Shaopeng were also scolded by Qin's mother.
Zhang's mother was not one to be trifled with, and she immediately started arguing with Qin's mother, which ended in a fight that left both of them badly hurt.
The Zhang family finally broke off the engagement with the Qin family, so their trip wasn't in vain.
After returning home, they began to plan to find a matchmaker to re-arrange the marriage with the Li family, and asked the matchmaker to go to the brigade leader's house the next evening to talk to him.
The matchmaker went the next evening, but nothing came of it.
The Li family was furious when they heard that the Zhang family wanted to reinstate the marriage between the two families, and they refused outright, no matter what the matchmaker said.
Li Qinqin, in particular, was the most resolute in her refusal.
“Even if Zhang Shaopeng kneels down and kowtows to me a hundred times, I still won’t agree to this.”
The matchmaker could only slink away and tell the Zhang family the result.
Undeterred, Zhang's mother took Zhang Shaopeng to the Li family again. Despite her attempts to reason with the Li family, they were not only kicked out, but Zhang Shaopeng was also punched twice by Li Fang.
"Pah! Don't you even take a piss and look at yourselves? You want to marry my sister? You won't get a chance in your Zhang family in the next life or the next."
At this moment, the Zhang family was filled with deep regret.
I never expected the Li family to be so assertive.
Now that the marriage proposal from the Qin family is gone, and the Li family is not good enough for him, Zhang Shaopeng is extremely anxious. He went to the Qin family to make amends again, but was beaten up.
Zhang's mother was so upset that she fell ill.
Because Lu Zhengting wasn't in a hurry to return to the military region, he and the others carried out missions at night, spent half of the day sleeping at home, and the other half either helping the battalion commander's family with chores or going hunting in the mountains.
This time he must have been lucky to catch another white rabbit. He checked the rabbit's gender and found it was male, which would be a perfect match for Lin Qingyan's rabbit.
After descending the mountain, he took the rabbit and went to find Lin Qingyan.
Lin Qingyan didn't always find a place to cut pig feed, but he still managed to find her easily.
Lin Qingyan saw that he was holding a white rabbit, which was almost exactly the same as the one he had given her before.
Did he really find a male rabbit?
Lu Zhengting walked towards her and then put the rabbit in his hand into hers: "It's a male, you can take it back to mate with it. I only took seven days off, and I thought I could only mate with it next time I came, but I didn't expect to be able to extend my leave by a few days. So I found a rabbit that can mate with yours, and brought it to you."
Lin Qingyan felt embarrassed: "It's not good to keep asking for your rabbit. How about I give you money instead?"
"No, no, no." Lu Zhengting immediately refused: "I didn't get this by spending money, I can't accept money." But considering Lin Qingyan's self-esteem, he said: "How about this, didn't you say that these two rabbits were to be paired up? After they successfully pair up and have baby rabbits, you can give me one, and I'll have Qinqin raise it."
"I'll give you a pair when they have baby rabbits," Lin Qingyan said with a smile.
“Okay.” Looking at the girl’s radiant smile, Lu Zhengting couldn’t help but smile as well.
Two days later, the autumn harvest was completely over, and it was time to distribute the grain.
Whether they were commune members or educated youth, grain was distributed according to the work points they earned.
According to the brigade's rules, grain was distributed to the village members first, and then to the educated youth.
However, when distributing grain to Lin Qingyan, the brigade leader gave her an extra fifty catties of fine grain and one hundred catties of coarse grain.
Fearing that the other educated youth might misunderstand and complain, the brigade leader explained, "Because it was Xiao Lin who cured the cattle in our brigade, which is a meritorious deed. Later, our brigade's old sow had a premature and difficult birth. If it weren't for Xiao Lin's help, the sow and piglets probably wouldn't have survived. Without these pigs, our brigade wouldn't have been able to meet its pig delivery quota at the end of the year, and no one would have been able to eat meat for the New Year. This is a great achievement, and Xiao Lin must be rewarded. When we slaughter the pigs for the New Year, we'll give Xiao Lin an extra share of the meat."
He made it clear beforehand to avoid any complaints later if someone saw that he had given Lin Qingyan more meat.
After he finished speaking, no one expressed their opinion. Whether they agreed in their hearts or not, at least on the surface, no one objected. On the contrary, many people were envious of Lin Qingyan. However, they could not treat cows or deliver pigs, so they could not compare with Lin Qingyan.
But two people were very dissatisfied.
Those are Lin Sisi and Shen Man.
Lin Sisi hadn't expected Lin Qingyan to know so much after only a few years of studying, and she regretted not having learned more medical skills herself.
When Shen Man saw that Lin Qingyan had received so much more grain and would get more meat when the pig was slaughtered at the end of the year, she was not only resentful but also envious. She also deeply regretted not standing up for the old sow when she had a difficult birth.
She's a professional gynecologist; if she went to the pigsty, she'd definitely be a better midwife than Lin Qingyan, that good-for-nothing.
She secretly made up her mind that if something like this happened in the village again, she would be the first to rush ahead of Lin Qingyan and would never let such a great opportunity slip away to Lin Qingyan again.
Lin Sisi knew before the grain distribution that carrying grain to the educated youth settlement would be very tiring, so she asked Gu Mingzhou to help her transport the grain.
Ha, she has Gu Mingzhou to help her, while Lin Qingyan can only rely on her skinny younger brother.
Gu Mingzhou felt uncomfortable after hearing the captain praise Lin Qingyan.
After he broke off their engagement, she not only gradually became more beautiful, but also learned so much and was liked by so many people.
Why did he only gradually discover her beauty and all her good qualities after they had broken up?
Perhaps because he was feeling down, he kept his head down and didn't say a word next to Lin Sisi.
It was time to transport the grain to the educated youth settlement. Lin Qingyan and Lin Zhiheng's grain was combined. Lin Zhiheng said to Lin Qingyan, "Sister, you can stay here and watch over the grain. I'll carry it to the educated youth settlement."
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