Chapter 40: Going to the Countryside, Ankang Village
“You! You!”
Zhong Xuexi had never seen anyone so shameless, and she had no way to deal with Lin Ziqiu.
Seeing that she was broken, Lin Ziqiu smiled even more. "Either pay money or call for help. You have to choose one, right? Or, little sister, you can't even take out a dollar?"
This provocation made Zhong Xuexi so angry that she took out a dollar from her pocket reluctantly and handed it to Lin Ziqiu with great reluctance.
She gnashed her teeth and said, "Lin Ziqiu, just wait for me. Sooner or later, you will come to me for help!"
Lin Ziqiu didn't expect that she, a money-grubber, would rather give money than call her "sister". She accepted the money with peace of mind and waved her hand, "I've been waiting for this day, too."
Seeing her go upstairs, Zhong Xuexi returned to her room and was so angry that she couldn't sleep.
I had originally changed my opinion of Lin Ziqiu, but who knew that I was just overthinking!
On the second floor, Lin Ziqiu happily put the money into his pocket, and thought of Zhong Xuexi's heartbroken look and found it funny.
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Ankang Village.
Lin Mengyao was originally a member of the third batch of educated youth who went to the countryside, but in order to escape from the Lin family, she spent some money and followed the second batch of people to go to the countryside and went there early.
It was already evening when we arrived at Ankang Village.
Among this group of people, there were only three or four female educated youth of her age, and the rest were younger than her.
Lin Mengyao herself is very pretty, and with a little dressing up she stands out among the many educated youth.
Especially when everyone was talking about their family situation, Lin Mengyao deliberately said that her brother-in-law was the group leader, and many people wanted to get close to her.
There was a female educated youth named Qi Yanyu who also came from a well-off family. She couldn't stand others fawning over Lin Mengyao, so she deliberately asked, "Your brother-in-law is the regiment commander, so why don't you ask your family to find a soldier for you so that you don't have to suffer in the countryside!"
Lin Mengyao glanced at her, then cleared her throat and said excitedly: "Going to the countryside is a training, it is very hard, but it is of great significance! Soldiers defending their country on the front line do not complain about the hardship, so what is our hardship compared to it!"
Her words won applause from many people present.
A hint of jealousy flashed across Qi Yanyu's eyes, but she still joined others in praising her.
Lin Mengyao didn't think Qi Yanyu was targeting her on purpose. Instead, she was somewhat grateful for her question, which gave her the opportunity to stand out.
She didn't care much about other people. Anyway, her purpose of coming to the countryside was to marry Shen Nanfeng, the son of the team leader.
But she could gain a good reputation among the educated youth, which would only benefit her in getting close to Shen Nanfeng, not harm her.
The female educated youth were all arranged to live in the educated youth site. Fortunately, the educated youth site was very close to the team leader's home! It's only a five-minute walk.
There was limited housing at the village's educated youth center, so the male educated youth were assigned to live in the homes of various farmers and were arranged by the team leader.
The female educated youth were placed by Fang Hui, a female teacher and accountant of the production brigade.
Qi Yanyu took the initiative to ask to sleep next to Lin Mengyao. There were four people living in the same room, all sleeping on couches.
Apart from these two, the other two are honest and decent girls from ordinary families, one is called Chi Nian and the other is called Yin Xinyi.
While the three people in the room were packing up, Lin Mengyao went out on the pretext of going to the toilet.
Fang Hui had just finished arranging all the female educated youths when she saw Lin Mengyao walking towards her, so she asked, "What's the matter?"
Lin Mengyao took out a box of hand cream from her pocket and stuffed it into Fang Hui's hand. "Aunt Fang, I'm new here and don't know much. I'll trouble you to take care of me in the future."
Fang Hui is nearly 50 years old. Due to the division of labor, she seldom goes to work in the fields on weekdays.
They are all women, so of course they love beauty. Especially when she saw these female educated youth from the city, each of them so pretty, she naturally felt a little unbalanced.
She lowered her head and weighed the things in her palm, and said calmly, "This is what I should do. If you have any questions in the future, you can ask me. If you need help, just come to me."
"Aunt Fang, I feel relieved with your words."
Seeing that she accepted it, Lin Mengyao took her arm and said in a low voice, "You can use this first. If my family sends me something later and there is this, I will send you some more."
Fang Hui nodded, "Okay, it's getting late, pack up and go back to your room to rest."
"You have to get up early tomorrow morning to assign tasks to you."
Lin Mengyao didn't expect to start working so soon, and she was a little hesitant, but she still asked curiously: "Is the work assigned by the team leader?"
Fang Hui explained: "Our village was assigned by Captain Shen because he was the leader of the production brigade."
Seeing other female educated youth coming out of the yard, Fang Hui hurriedly ended their conversation.
"Okay, hurry back to the house."
Lin Mengyao originally wanted her to help introduce the captain to someone, but she swallowed the thought back.
She was very disdainful in her heart, thinking that Fang Hui, an ignorant woman from the countryside, was putting on airs in front of her.
When the time comes, she will marry Shen Nanfeng and become the captain's daughter-in-law. Let's see if Fang Hui can still be proud of it.
No sleep all night.
Early the next morning, Lin Ziqiu rubbed her sleepy eyes. She didn't expect that Zhong Heyang really didn't come back all night.
After she finished cleaning up and went downstairs, she saw Zhong Xuexi had already gotten up and was sitting in the corner eating a bun.
Lin Ziqiu kindly reminded, "You'd better not eat so much."
Li Guixiang doesn't know much about weight loss, but she dotes on her granddaughter from the bottom of her heart. "It should be okay to eat more in the morning. If you don't eat any meat, it will have no nutrition!"
Zhong Xuexi supported her grandmother's words with both hands and feet.
Lin Ziqiu smiled helplessly, "Grandma, nutrition is not only supplemented by meat."
"I can usually eat five meat buns, so I can eat four today."
Zhong Xuexi looked at the remaining buns in the pot, feeling reluctant to eat them.
Lin Ziqiu did not stop her. Losing weight cannot be done too drastically at the beginning. It must be done gradually. As long as Zhong Xuexi has the awareness of eating less, it will not be in vain.
After breakfast, Zhong Xuexi went to work on foot first.
Before she left the military compound, she ran into Ruan Qing on the road.
"Qingqing! Have you had breakfast? My grandma steamed some meat buns. They're so delicious. I'll take you back to get some."
Ruan Qing held her back and said, "I've eaten. Where's your car?"
Zhong Xuexi felt a little embarrassed, "Isn't this for losing weight? I plan to walk to work."
"Lose weight? Why do you suddenly want to lose weight?" Ruan Qing was a little surprised. She had suggested to Zhong Xuexi that she should lose weight before, but Zhong Xuexi didn't listen, so she gave up.
"I heard that being too fat is not good for the body. For the sake of my life, I have to control myself."
Ruan Qing couldn't help but say something sarcastic: "Heard? Who told you? It couldn't be your good sister-in-law."
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