Wenxi put down her basket of wild vegetables and lowered her voice mysteriously, saying, "I was digging for wild vegetables on the mountain just now when I overheard the villagers talking about the educated youth settlement. I listened quietly for a few minutes, and it turns out there was a male educated youth named Lu Xiaoyun who was dating Nie Xiulan, who was also an educated youth. But he also had another girlfriend back home. That girlfriend always wrote him letters, and he secretly hid in the mountains to read them. He accidentally dropped one of the letters, and that's how everyone found out he had a girlfriend back home and another one outside!"
Lu Xiaoyun is Xia Minglei's best friend. He is nineteen years old and has a crush on Nie Xiulan, who was sent to the countryside in the same batch as him.
The two were considered a good match, with similar family backgrounds.
However, Nie Xiulan kept Lu Xiaoyun hanging and refused to accept him. So, during this time when Nie Xiulan hadn't agreed, Lu Xiaoyun started flirting with Shen Jiaojiao. Shen Jiaojiao had never experienced anything like this before and quickly fell for him, giving herself away. When Nie Xiulan found out, she hurriedly accepted Lu Xiaoyun. So, Lu Xiaoyun went home with Nie Xiulan and got married. After that, he returned to the city, leaving Shen Jiaojiao all alone.
As Wen Xi spoke, she kept looking at Shen Jiaojiao. She wanted to instill in her the idea that Lu Xiaoyun was a scumbag, so that she could control her heart and not be easily swayed when faced with Lu Xiaoyun's flirting and seduction in the future.
Lu Xiaoyun didn't actually like her; he just wanted to provoke Nie Xiulan into accepting him. And that Nie Xiulan was disgusting too. She liked him but deliberately acted coy and didn't accept him until he hurt someone else. She was like a rotten cucumber that she would pick up and eat. It was truly disgusting.
In short, she will never let that scumbag Lu Xiaoyun hurt Shen Jiaojiao again in this lifetime.
"How can there be such a person? This is disgusting!" Shen Jiaojiao frowned, feeling nauseous as if she had swallowed a fly.
"And then there's Nie Xiulan. They say she's incredibly jealous. If she sees anyone talking to Lu Xiaoyun, she'll secretly do something bad. So when we go to the educated youth settlement for dinner at night, we shouldn't look at Lu Xiaoyun or talk to him, lest Nie Xiulan get jealous and try to harm us. In terms of family background, we can't compare to Nie Xiulan." Wen Xi gave Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue a heads-up.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue both nodded in agreement. "Such a disgusting person, I feel disgusted just looking at him. How could I possibly talk to him?"
Now that Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue know about Lu Xiaoyun's character, Wen Xi is relieved. No matter how much Lu Xiaoyun tries to cause trouble in front of them, they shouldn't be so foolish as to get involved with him.
After finishing her business, Wenxi took out the wild vegetables and chestnuts, washed the basket and shovel clean with water, and then returned them to Chang Qingqing.
After returning, the three of them started processing the wild vegetables together. Shen Jiaojiao asked curiously, "Xiaoxi, didn't you trade a basket of vegetables with the girl next door? You can't even finish eating all the vegetables, why did you dig up so many wild vegetables?"
“Aren’t we going to the educated youth settlement for a welcome feast tonight? It wouldn’t be right to go empty-handed, but I don’t want those people to get all the good stuff, so I specially prepared some wild vegetables for them. You can separate the wild vegetables and wash them clean, and I’ll stir-fry them and bring them over tonight.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh. A scumbag like Lu Xiaoyun didn't deserve to eat the good stuff in their hands.
At noon, Wenxi stir-fried some shredded potatoes with vinegar, heated up the leftover sweet potato porridge from the morning, and ate it for lunch.
Jiang Yue picked up a piece of shredded potato with her chopsticks, and her eyes lit up after eating it. "Xiao Xi, this shredded potato is so delicious! You're such a good cook, why don't you take charge of cooking from now on? We don't need to draw lots anymore. Jiao Jiao and I can take turns doing the rest, okay?"
While eating, Wenxi said, "Of course I can be in charge of cooking, but you two have to agree."
“Although I’m the one who cooks at home, my grandma always watches me closely. She won’t let me put in even a tiny bit of oil or salt. My cooking is edible, but it’s definitely not delicious. I agree to let Xiaoxi cook, but it’s too tiring and hot to cook in the summer. It’s not fair to let Xiaoxi cook alone. How about this, we’ll take care of washing Xiaoxi’s clothes?” Wenxi has provided her with a lot of help since she was a child, and she’s not such a heartless person.
Jiang Yue nodded repeatedly, "Okay, Xiaoxi, next time you take a bath, just wash the clothes underneath, and we'll wash the rest."
“Okay, then I’ll be in charge of cooking from now on. I’ll make all kinds of delicious food every day and fatten you up.” Wenxi put a chopstick of shredded potatoes on each of their plates. “After dinner, you can take stock of what furniture you need. We’ll go to the carpenter’s house later and ask him to hurry up and make it for us. Otherwise, if someone else cuts in line, we don’t know how long we’ll have to wait.”
After dinner, Shen Jiaojiao tidied up the kitchen, and the three of them went back to their rooms to count the furniture they needed. Then they locked the doors and headed to the carpenter's house.
Arriving at the carpenter's house, Wenxi reached out and knocked on the door.
"Coming, coming," came a response from inside the courtyard, and then an elderly man covered in sawdust came out.
“Uncle Zheng, we are new educated youth. Didn’t Captain Qian send someone over yesterday to buy some furniture for us? But we still need some more furniture,” Wen Xi said politely.
Uncle Zheng said with a smile, "Come in and talk!"
As they walked into the courtyard, Wenxi said, “Uncle Zheng, I need three more desks with drawers, and then I need to add a five-tiered bookshelf on top of the desks. That way, I won’t have to make another bookshelf. I also need three five-tiered shoe racks, three large cabinets, three large wooden chests, and a hook, the kind you use to hang things on the roof beam.”
Uncle Zheng listened and nodded. "I can make everything else, but I've never made one with a bookshelf on it. What does that look like?"
Wenxi quickly handed over the blueprints in her hand, "Uncle Zheng, this is how it is."
Uncle Zheng took the blueprints and looked at them carefully. Then he said, "Let me take a look first. As long as the other furniture is finished, I'll have my family send it over to you, how about that?"
“Sure, then I’ll trouble you, Uncle Zheng.” Wenxi said with a smile. “Do you have any baskets or carrying baskets here, Uncle Zheng? We need these things to collect firewood on the mountain.”
Uncle Zheng led the three of them to his storeroom where he kept furniture and let them choose what they wanted. There wasn't much left in the storeroom because it had been emptied out yesterday by people taking the furniture to Wenxi and the others.
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