Xi Lang spoke first, breaking the silence.
But Qin Ting never expected that the first sentence he said would be.
"Qin Ting, do you have a partner?"
Qin Ting answered subconsciously: "No."
After he said this, he realized that his heart was beating faster and looked at Xi Lang in disbelief.
Did she hear it wrong?
I must have heard it wrong.
What kind of nice guy would start by asking a girl from the same village if she has a boyfriend?!
She waited for Xi Lang to say that she had misheard or misunderstood, and that she had asked a different question.
However, Xi Lang just smiled and concentrated on driving without saying anything.
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The truck drove fast and it took less than an hour to go to and from the county town.
When Feng Jingrou finished her work and returned home, Qin Ting was already sitting at home reading a book as if nothing had happened.
All those who bullied her were arrested, and the police are making every effort to hunt down the human traffickers.
Feng Jingrou loaded four more cars today.
It costs 50 cents to load a car, and I make a total of 2 yuan.
Their odd jobs were supposed to be paid monthly along with their wages at the coal mine, but with their family now broke, Feng Jingrou couldn't wait another two weeks, so she went to the foreman to negotiate an advance on her wages.
The foreman is Li Shan from the same village.
As a fellow villager, he knew Feng Jingrou's family situation. As soon as Feng Jingrou asked, he readily paid her salary in advance.
2 yuan today, 3 yuan yesterday, a total of 5 yuan.
Before the supply and marketing cooperative closed, Feng Jingrou bought some flour and made hand-rolled noodles with clear soup for dinner, which she ate with pickles.
Feng Jingrou had long since run out of milk due to malnutrition, so Qin Anan followed suit and ate noodles. Feng Jingrou cooked her portion a little longer, making it soft and easy to digest.
After dinner, Feng Jingrou made a basket of pancakes overnight and put a bottle of pickled vegetables in a can, which she would take to Qin Ting to school tomorrow.
Qin Ting studies at Linfeng County No. 1 Middle School. She only has one day off a week, which is for her to go home and bring dry food for the next week.
When Feng Jingrou was making pancakes, several children gathered around the griddle, adding firewood under the griddle and telling her about the "fight" between Qin Yunjiao and Yu Bin.
Feng Jingrou was shocked when she heard this.
"Yun Jiao has always been a smart girl. How could she be so confused about something like this?"
"If her reputation is ruined, what will happen to her life if Yu Bin doesn't marry her?"
"Her mother must be so sad! No, I have to go over and take a look."
After making the pancakes, Feng Jingrou asked Qin Ting to scoop water to put out the stove fire. She wiped her hands on her apron and was about to go out to comfort her sister-in-law Fu Hongmei.
Her parents-in-law and her second brother's family bullied her, but her eldest sister-in-law always treated her well. Feng Jingrou treated her as her own and couldn't bear to see her sad.
Qin Anan nibbled the fragrant and crispy pancake in her hand with her two little teeth, her eyes always following her mother's figure.
[Qin Yunjiao has a vicious mind, is her mother a good person?]
Feng Jingrou paused when she heard this.
Although he wanted to listen carefully to An An's thoughts, his attention was drawn to the pancake in his hand. He ate the toasted pancake with his little mouth.
All she could think about was, "Mom's pancakes are so delicious! Ahhhhh!"
Qin Ting suddenly thought of herself. She had always thought that her cousin had a good relationship with her, but she didn't expect that her cousin was actually harming her behind her back. Isn't the relationship between her mother and her aunt the same?
Qin Ting trusted An An's prediction 100% and said immediately.
"Mom, you've been tired all day. Go to bed early! Don't go to uncle's house."
"After something like this happened, my uncle and aunt need to calm down."
Feng Jingrou is quick to accept advice.
Late at night, the entire Huaihua Village fell asleep, except Feng Jingrou who couldn't sleep.
The rice jar and the flour jar are both empty. Tomorrow the children will go to school, so she will have to stay at home to take care of An An and Qin Che, and will not be able to go out to earn money.
There are six mouths to feed at home, what should I do?
"Qin Zheng, where have you been?!"
Feng Jingrou covered herself with the quilt and cried silently.
If Qin Zheng doesn't come back, she's really afraid that she won't be able to hold on any longer!
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The next day, Qin Ting got up and went to school before dawn.
It takes an hour to walk from the village to the county town. She twisted her foot and walked slowly, so she left home earlier than usual.
As the weather turned colder, Feng Jingrou hurriedly took out the sweater she had knitted a few days ago and gave it to Qin Ting.
It was knitted from Qin Zheng's old sweater. The ginger yarn was a bit stiff, but Feng Jingrou's superb knitting technique made the sweater appear very soft. A crane was crocheted on the chest with blue and white yarn, its wings spread high, symbolizing soaring into the sky.
As soon as Qin Anan woke up, she saw the crane on her sweater.
【Wow, it looks so good! 】
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and saw that the style of the sweater was very similar to the fashionable styles of later generations. She thought she had traveled through time again.
Qin Anan was completely awake only after Feng Jingrou held her up and helped her pee.
[Ahhh, is this the sweater Mom knitted? It looks so good!]
The two little hands held Feng Jingrou's hands, looking left and right, and the more they looked, the more they liked her.
[Are these two babies knitting sweaters? ]
Twenty years later, custom-made sweaters are selling for a hefty price tag, comparable to luxury goods.
[Wow, I hate that I can't speak. I can't tell Mom that I can make money knitting sweaters. It's easier to earn money with a craft than with physical labor.]
Listening to An An's inner thoughts, Feng Jingrou's eyes became brighter and brighter.
She remembers that before she went to the countryside, there was a wool processing shop in Shanghai. Her mother was too busy with work to knit her a sweater, so she went to the shop and bought her one. She thought the sweater was so beautiful that after school she pestered the shop's master craftsman to take her in as an apprentice.
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