Wenxi poured Qin Mi a cup of fruit tea. "Brother Qin, thank you so much for today. You've given us a great start and given everyone hope. If we hadn't sold the watermelons, the villagers would have hated us."
Qin Mi took the food from the pot and sat down at the kitchen table to eat, while Wen Xi went back to her and Shen Jiaojiao's room.
That noon, while Wenxi was cooking, she suddenly heard a knock at the door. Wenxi went into the yard and asked, "Who is it?"
"Wenxi, is that you? It's me, Jin Changqing." Jin Changqing's voice came from outside.
Upon hearing that it was Jin Changqing, Wen Xi quickly opened the courtyard gate and exclaimed in surprise, "Sister Changqing, why are you back again? Didn't you just come back for the New Year?"
Jin Changqing smiled and said, "I'm back. I'm working here in my hometown now, and I won't be going out anymore."
Wen Xi nodded and ushered the two inside. "Sister Changqing, who is this gentleman?"
“This is my husband, Gu Yuanshan, who works at the Public Security Bureau,” Jin Changqing introduced. “Yuanshan, this is Wenxi, my sister.”
"Hello, brother-in-law." Wen Xi greeted him with a smile, then went to brew two cups of tea. "Sister Changqing, brother-in-law, please have some tea. It's too hot outside. Please take a good rest."
Wenxi then went back to her room and took out the key to the next room. "Sister Changqing, here's the key. Now that you're back to work, will you be living at home permanently?"
Jin Changqing nodded, "Yes, we're working here in our hometown now, not far from home. We plan to come back often in the future; it's so comfortable staying in our hometown!"
Wen Xi nodded in agreement, "Yes, no matter how good other places are, you never feel a sense of belonging. You always feel like you don't belong there." She didn't feel a sense of belonging here either, so she had been waiting for the moment to return to the city.
After finishing her tea, Jin Changqing said, "Wenxi, let's go next door to tidy up the house first. We'll come back often in the future, so we'll have more opportunities to meet."
Wen Xi got up to see Jin Changqing and Gu Yuanshan out. "Sister Changqing, brother-in-law, come over for lunch. You just got back, so there probably isn't any rice or vegetables left."
Jin Changqing smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness. We brought some things back; we can just heat them up and eat them."
"Oh well!"
After the two went next door, Wenxi closed the courtyard gate and went back to the kitchen to cook. Of course, she didn't actually cook; she just made the house smoke as a formality.
She has such a high-end automated kitchen that she doesn't need to cook outside at all. It's so hot now; she gets drenched in sweat after just a short time in the kitchen.
Wenxi took some toon sprouts that Qin Mi from the mission world had picked for her, made a big pot of scrambled eggs with toon sprouts, and then put them into a large bowl so that she could just serve a plate of it each time she ate.
When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue returned, Wen Xi had already prepared lunch and brought it out. They were working in the watermelon field and had returned early, before the hottest part of the day. Wen Xi wanted to prevent them from seeing her cooking process, so she brought out lunch early.
However, they didn't eat early because they weren't hungry yet, and the food wouldn't get cold so quickly in this season, so it was fine to eat it later.
Jin Changqing and Gu Yuanshan did not go to Wenxi's house next door for lunch. Instead, they ate the steamed buns they had packed from the state-run restaurant that morning and drank some hot water, which solved their lunch problem.
Jin Changqing and Gu Yuanshan remarried a month after Gu Yuanshan returned to work. Zhu Ying's matter was thus forgotten. However, having learned her lesson, Jin Changqing would never trust anyone again.
She wouldn't completely believe Gu Yuanshan. Gu Yuanshan said he didn't marry Zhu Ying, but who knows? She wasn't eavesdropping under their bed.
And can men really resist touching young and beautiful women?
Gu Yuanshan said no, so she listened, but kept worrying about whether they should continue their relationship.
However, from now on, she will no longer prioritize Gu Yuanshan like before, nor will she follow him wherever he goes. Now that she has a job, she will work hard for herself. She will stay in her hometown from now on. If Gu Yuanshan doesn't want to stay here, he can leave, and she won't stop him.
If Gu Yuanshan knew what Jin Changqing was thinking, he would cry foul. He had never been treated like Zhu Ying. However, he also knew that after such an incident, it would be very difficult to rebuild a relationship of trust. He could only continue to work hard.
The two cleaned the old house, and Jin Changqing asked Gu Yuanshan to turn over the soil in the vegetable garden in the yard. She wanted to plant some vegetables in the fall so that she wouldn't have to spend money to buy vegetables anymore.
Living in the city is nice, but everything costs money, even firewood has to be bought from someone.
After Gu Yuanshan finished turning over the soil in the vegetable garden in the yard, Jin Changqing took Gu Yuanshan to the mountain to cut firewood. There were many thin bamboos on the mountain, which were not very useful, so they could cut some.
On the way up the mountain, Gu Yuanshan asked curiously, "Changqing, why did your older brother want to exchange our good house for someone else's old house?"
Jin Changqing shook her head, "I don't know either, maybe it's because of the good location!"
She hadn't seen her older brother for several years, so how could she know so much? Even the fact that her brother was injured and had taken Wen Xi as his sister was something Zhu Ying had told her!
Upon arriving at the bamboo forest on the mountain, Gu Yuanshan diligently cut bamboo, then chopped it into half-meter lengths suitable for firewood. Jin Changqing tidied them up and tied them up.
She's just a country girl, yet she's incredibly skilled at all these things.
The two of them cut down a few bundles of bamboo and went back in the afternoon. Jin Changqing had to work tomorrow, but she could come back and stay for a few more days during summer vacation.
After Qin Mi's unit ordered 3,000 jin of watermelons, many other units came to buy watermelons. However, there weren't enough ripe ones, so they all registered the quantity they needed, paid a deposit, and said they would deliver them directly once they were ripe.
In this way, Captain Qian no longer had to worry about the sales of watermelons, because watermelons were very rare at this time, and any watermelons that were available were snapped up by everyone.
In the village of Qin Mijia in the 21st century, Wen Xi stockpiled all the watermelons in the entire village, but she didn't want to affect the sales of the Fengshou Brigade's watermelons, so she didn't sell them outside.
Lin Yiwan also grew watermelons in her space, but she didn't sell them. She decided to sell them when she left.
That day, as Lin Yiwan was drinking tea in the thatched hut in the watermelon field, she suddenly felt a shadow envelop her. When she looked up, she saw that it was Lu Mingxiu, who was also working in the watermelon field.
"Lu Mingxiu, is there something you need?" Lin Yiwan asked.
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