Chapter 4 Going to the Countryside

You look down on people, don't you? She, Lin Xiangnan, is well-rounded in morals, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. Is she afraid of going to the countryside to do farm work?

"Let's go."

She has food and drink in her space, and she has no shortage of work points from the team. She has already made up her mind that going to the countryside is just going to be a job, and she will just slack off when working. The important thing is to participate.

Hu Meili glared at her and said, "Go back to your room. I'm annoyed when I see you."

This mother is really vicious. Lin Xiangnan gritted his teeth in frustration and said after a long while, "Who told you to look at me?"

After saying that, she put oil on her feet, quickly went back to her room and closed the door.

"Hey~ You are such a troublemaker, how dare you argue with me." Hu Meili cursed, "You only grow older, but not wiser. I have raised you for nothing..."

Lin Xiangnan can be a keyboard warrior and curse at others online, but in real life, he has rarely quarreled with others, especially with middle-aged women like Hu Meili. The key is that Hu Meili will fight when she can't win the argument. She is simply invincible.

She hid back in her room and just as she breathed a sigh of relief, there was a knock on the door.

Hu Meili would not knock on the door, so the person coming must be her younger brother Lin Xiangxi.

Lin Xiangnan said without even raising his head: "Just come in."

"Hey, the roasted sparrows are still hot. Do you want to eat them?" Lin Xiangxi pushed aside the leaves, and the roasted sparrows wrapped inside gave off bursts of burnt aroma.

Nowadays, ordinary people cannot go to college, and people around them do not value learning. When the school was in chaos a few years ago, the children in the family also took a few years off from school. If it were not for the fact that high school could delay going to the countryside for two years, Hu Meili would not have supported her children's education.

It's obvious at first glance that Lin Xiangxi got this roasted sparrow when he skipped class in the afternoon.

Lin Xiangnan grabbed a sparrow leg and said, "I just want to taste it. I haven't moved much today, so I'm not hungry."

"Oh, Mom even made rice porridge for you." Seeing that the porridge was hardly touched, Lin Xiangxi knew that his second sister was indeed not hungry.

"I can't drink that porridge anymore, do you want some?"

Lin Xiangxi nodded quickly, took the bowl of porridge, and drank it all in two gulps, "It smells so good."

Lin Xiangnan disagreed with this assessment. Hu Meili had no cooking skills at all. She only cooked rice and fry vegetables by adding water and stewing until they were cooked.

At dinner time, Lin Xiangnan did not come to the table. She stayed in her room packing her luggage. When Hu Meili said she would send her to the countryside to work, it didn't seem like a joke.

The house was small, so Lin Xiangnan and Liu Hongying lived in the same room and slept in the same bed at night. This made Lin Xiangnan very uncomfortable. He tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep at all.

Liu Hongying suddenly asked, "Mom wants you to go to the countryside to adapt for a few days?"

Lin Xiangnan didn't want to answer, so he stopped making any noise and pretended to be asleep.

"If our family had money, you and brother Honghe could have stayed. Unfortunately, our family is still in debt." Liu Hongying sighed, "You are better than me. Mom is thinking about you. Even if you go to the countryside, your family will send you things, so it won't be so hard."

She and Lin Xiangdong went to the countryside together. Hu Meili often sent things and food coupons to her son. Liu Laohei seemed to have forgotten that he had a daughter and left her to fend for herself in the countryside.

After returning to the city due to illness, Hu Meili despised her for eating free meals and wanted to marry her off, so she introduced several blind dates to her. She had just returned from the countryside, was dark and thin like a stick, had a limp, and had no job, so the candidates introduced to her were not very good, and someone even introduced her to a fool.

Of course Liu Hongying didn't want to marry into a family like that. Until now, not only did Hu Meili dislike her, but her biological father Liu Laohei also disliked her and wanted her to marry a fool and get a higher bride price.

Liu Laohei spent a full five hundred yuan to buy a job for his son, and Hu Meili was unwilling to share the debt with him, so Liu Laohei was very short of money.

Liu Hongying continued with the attitude of a caring sister, "Xiaoxi will graduate from junior high school next year. The private money that Mom has saved is definitely not enough to buy a job, and she might even be thinking about your betrothal money. Instead of just marrying someone, you might as well stay in the countryside for two years."

Wanting to go to the countryside is one thing, but having others persuade you to do so is another.

Lin Xiangnan stopped pretending to sleep and asked directly, "The countryside is so nice. What are you doing back in the city?"

"Isn't this something that can't be helped?" Liu Hongying said as a matter of course: "Even though things are going badly at home, the reality is there. Honghe will definitely go to the countryside. The same goes for you."

In order to make her position clear, Liu Hongying even brought up her own younger brother.

In a family without power or influence, no matter how many children there are, they can basically only keep one.

There are 6 children in their family now, and it is bound to sacrifice a few. But although other families' children also went to the countryside, they did not make as much trouble as theirs. It was because Liu Hongying was so miserable when she returned to the city, which frightened her family and made them regard going to the countryside to work as a dangerous place.

"It's easier to talk while standing." Lin Xiangnan turned his back and said, "I'm going to sleep, don't talk to me."

The bed was too hard and Lin Xiangnan didn't sleep well that night. In the morning, she wanted to stay in bed for a while, but Hu Meili came to urge her.

"Hurry up and get up and have breakfast. You have to go to your second uncle's house today. I was not kidding you yesterday."

"knew."

Breakfast consisted of multi-grain cakes and pickled vegetables. The multi-grain cakes were choking and the pickles were too salty. Lin Xiangnan took a long time to finish a piece of cake.

Hu Meili urged impatiently, "Why are you dawdling? Hurry up and pack up and follow me after dinner. It took half a day to go to my second grandfather's house last year, and I have to rush to work in the afternoon."

Knowing that Lin Xiangnan had asked for leave to help with work in the countryside, her stepbrother Liu Honghe looked at her with uncontrollable pride.

When Hu Meili went to the yard to borrow a bicycle, Liu Honghe came over and said, "Sister, work hard and adapt first, otherwise you will not be able to adapt if you suddenly go to the countryside in the future."

Lin Xiangnan glanced at him with disdain and said, "I think you should adapt. It's not certain whether I will go to the countryside, but you will definitely go there."

Liu Honghe was very confident. "I am my father's biological son. How can you, a girl, compare with me? Your mother will have to count on me to take care of her in her old age."

Hu Meili is counting on her step-son to take care of her in her old age? Lin Xiangnan chuckled, "You'd better shake your brains before talking to me."

"You must have eaten poisonous mushrooms and become stupid, how dare you say that to me..." Liu Honghe wanted to say a few more words, but when he turned around, he saw Hu Meili pushing a bicycle towards him. He immediately became scared, picked up his schoolbag and left quickly.

Hu Meili parked her bicycle, took a cloth bag, opened the cupboard to fill it with food, because she had to bring her own food when she stayed at her relatives' house for such a long time. In addition, she also brought a bag of peach cakes.

After the things were loaded, Hu Meili patted the back seat of the bicycle domineeringly and said, "Hurry up, get on the bike."