I wonder if this young educated youth came with her boyfriend. If she has a male educated youth protecting her, he'll have to think twice.
He stood at the edge of the field for a while, then went into a nearby cotton field, sat there to cool off for a bit, and then left.
Before she knew it, Lin Qingyan had been catching insects for half an hour.
The sun was getting higher and higher overhead, and the temperature was rising. She gradually started to feel short of breath and have difficulty breathing.
When she wasn't feeling well, she wouldn't force herself to keep working. Instead, she would stop, sit on the ridge under the cotton plants, and rest.
After checking that no one was around, he quickly went into the space, took several deep breaths of spiritual energy, and then ate a banana and threw the peel into the space.
After resting for about twenty minutes, I felt much better and got up to catch more bugs.
She took several breaks throughout the morning.
Although she didn't do much work, she did her best.
At noon, when others finished work, she also finished work; how much work she could do in a day was not her main concern.
She went back to eat lunch and could rest in the dormitory for a while. In the afternoon, she continued to catch insects in the cotton field.
She would work for a while, then rest for a while, and before she knew it, the sun was setting again. Everyone else had finished their tasks and were leaving one by one, but she still had half of her tasks to complete.
The squad leader came over and saw that she was still catching insects. He went over and looked at her: "Little educated youth, you still haven't caught half of the insects."
"Uncle, it's all because of my poor health. I was often sick when I was a child, which left me with chronic illnesses that are hard to cure. I have to rest after working for a while. Uncle, it's still light out, let me catch some more."
The squad leader sighed, "You're really working hard. Okay, I'm going to check out other places now. I'll come back later and calculate your work points."
"Okay, Uncle."
After the squad leader left, Lin Qingyan continued catching insects. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a figure entering the cotton field. Looking up, she saw it was Yi Zhiheng.
When she saw him, he was already standing opposite her, head down, rummaging through the cotton plants with his hands, probably catching insects on the cotton.
The child actually came to help her.
She took a few steps forward and asked, "Yi Zhiqing, are you helping me catch bugs? Why are you helping me?"
Upon hearing her voice, Yi Zhiheng suddenly looked up. The instant their eyes met, a look of panic flashed across his fair face, and he instinctively took two steps back, reaching out to her.
"No, no, don't come any closer. I'm... I'm just helping you catch the bugs. But please don't come any closer, please don't come any closer."
Lin Qingyan stopped in her tracks after receiving his inexplicable warning. She frowned in confusion, finding the child increasingly strange.
He always helps her, yet he's afraid of her getting close. What is he after?
But she had a gut feeling that he was a good boy and had absolutely no ulterior motives towards her.
"Yi Zhiqing, do we know each other before?"
Yi Zhiheng buried himself in catching insects and didn't answer, as if he hadn't heard anything.
Lin Qingyan shook her head and stopped asking. Knowing that he was very resistant to her getting close, she returned to her original position.
After that, Yi Zhiheng kept his head down and silently caught the insects, without making any small movements or looking around.
When he quiets down, it's as if he's the only person in the world.
And most of the time, he is just as quiet.
Tong Jiaojiao and Jiang Meihong spent the day weeding in the sweet potato field. Because the sweet potatoes had plenty of water, the weeds grew very lushly, and by the end of the day, their palms were swollen.
"Meihong, this is too much suffering! Look at my hands, they're all swollen, waaaah, it hurts so much!"
"Mine hurts too. I heard that if you pull weeds a lot, you'll get calluses on your palms and then it won't hurt anymore."
"Oh? I don't want my hands to get calluses, that would look awful. I'd love to do this kind of work too."
"You forgot? You told the squad leader today, but he didn't give you a different job and even scolded you. Jiaojiao, hang in there."
They were passing by a cotton field on their way home from work when Tong Jiaojiao saw two figures in the cotton field, and her gossipy nature immediately kicked in.
“Meihong, look, this is the land of the Sixth Team. Only Lin Zhiqing was assigned here. Yi Zhiqing came here to work, probably to help Lin Zhiqing. I didn’t expect the two of them to get involved so quickly. I always felt that there was something strange between them before, they must be dating.”
Jiang Meihong didn't understand what had happened between Yi Zhiheng and Lin Qingyan, but people generally choose to believe what they see on the surface first.
"Yeah, I think so too. Those two are really fast. That Yi Zhiqing looks honest, but I didn't expect him to be so cunning."
Tong Jiaojiao noticed that Lin Qingyan didn't seem to have much trouble working.
"Meihong, look what Lin Zhiqing is doing!"
"They must be catching bugs off the cotton plants. There's a cotton field right next to where I'm working, and someone is catching bugs off the cotton plants."
'Doing this doesn't seem tiring.'
"Yes, it doesn't require much effort, much easier than weeding and turning over sweet potato vines."
Upon hearing this, Tong Jiaojiao immediately felt uncomfortable.
She was working herself to the bone in the sweet potato field, so why should Lin Qingyan get to do this easy job?
She couldn't help but recall when they came here with the brigade leader, who only allowed Lin Qingyan to ride in an oxcart.
Now they're making Lin Qingyan do such an easy job, and not only that, there's a male educated youth helping her.
The more she looked at Lin Qingyan, the more displeased she became, and she snorted coldly.
"I don't think it's necessarily because Yi Zhiqing is cunning. Yi Zhiqing is honest, but some people can't resist seducing him. I didn't expect Lin Zhiqing to be that kind of person. Maybe she saw that Yi Zhiqing was honest and deliberately used some tricks to lure him to this field to work for her. Humph, he's only sixteen years old, so young, how could she do that?"
"That's true, there are cotton plants everywhere in this cotton field. You could lie down under them and do whatever you want without anyone seeing you. Who knew that Lin Zhiqing, with her slender figure, could attract men?"
"Jiaojiao, don't talk nonsense if you didn't see it."
"Meihong, do you think you'd be allowed to see what they're doing?"
"Hey, let's stop talking now and go, I'm tired."
"Mei Hong, she's a vixen."
Tong Jiaojiao and Jiang Meihong returned to the educated youth settlement. Most of the educated youth had finished their work and returned, but among the female educated youth, only Du Xiaoyue was not in the house.
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