From the very beginning, Luo Jingyan had no intention of opposing his relationship with Lu Jiu'er. She hoped that with her and Luo Changtian's involvement in this life, Lu Jiu'er would learn more, develop more abilities and discernment, and not be manipulated by the female lead like in her previous life, ending up in such a tragic state.
Luo Jingyan nodded; she didn't mind Luo Changtian teaching Lu Jiu'er anything.
Luo Jingyan gave up her stool for Lu Jiu'er to sit on, and sat down on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) herself.
"Thank you, beautiful sister," Lu Jiu'er said.
Luo Jingyan smiled and said, "Don't call me pretty sister anymore, just call me sister."
"Okay, sister."
Luo Changtian gave Lu Jiu'er one of his notebooks and a pencil, saying, "Jiu'er, I'll teach you arithmetic."
Lu Jiu'er, worried about wasting Luo Changtian's notebook and pencil, said, "Brother Changtian, let's go outside and draw on the ground with twigs. That way we can save on notebooks and pencils."
"Good idea, let's go outside."
The sun was warm, and the two little ones were using the ground as their exercise book, writing numbers and doing math problems with twigs, with occasional chatter coming from them.
Luo Jingyan was bored in the house, so she took her yarn outside and sat down next to them to knit.
Jiang Manyue and Sun Tiantian also joined in the fun, helping Luo Jingyan to untangle the remaining yarn.
When three female educated youths get together, it's inevitable that they'll gossip.
Jiang Manyue said, "Jingyan, Song Zhiqing kept running away those few days, and then she came back with a bruised and swollen face. She said she bumped into something, but we all thought she was beaten up."
"Then who do you think hit her?"
"She was beaten by her boyfriend?" Sun Tiantian said. "She said her boyfriend was a sent-down youth here, and they probably had a fight. Judging from how badly she was beaten, her boyfriend must be a bad guy. I wonder if they've broken up."
"Could it be that she was beaten by another woman who likes her boyfriend?"
"That's possible."
They chatted amongst themselves, but no one guessed exactly what was going on.
The original novel doesn't describe Song Yinglan much, and Luo Jingyan doesn't know what happened to her. However, judging from the fact that she owes so much money, she definitely wasn't doing anything good.
If you do something shameless, it's inevitable that you'll get a beating after being discovered.
Sun Tiantian noticed that Luo Jingyan's knitting pattern was quite unique, something she had never seen before.
"Jingyan, how did you knit the little pleats on this sweater? My mom said that since it's getting cold, she'll knit a sweater for me and send it to me. I think yours is really pretty, and I want to learn from you. Once I've learned, I'll ask my mom to send me the yarn, and I'll knit it myself."
"Okay, I'll tell you how to knit it."
Not only Sun Tiantian learned, but Jiang Manyue also studied diligently on the side, preparing to knit a sweater for herself.
Around noon, Lu Jiu'er went back. In the afternoon, Luo Jingyan and Luo Changtian went up the mountain to collect firewood. They wanted to stock up on as much firewood as possible before it snowed.
On her way back, Luo Jingyan turned and went to Zhang Baolai's house, asking him to make a kang table for her. After the snow, the weather would be too cold, and she would basically have to stay on the kang every day, even eating on it, so a kang table would be necessary.
Two days later, Tong Jianxin's symptoms had begun to subside slightly. However, due to the rapid onset of the illness, he was still unable to get out of bed all day.
Since he didn't need to work, Tong Jianxin stopped thinking about going to the city hospital for treatment and just stayed at the educated youth settlement, slowly waiting for the symptoms to completely disappear.
Shen Ruyi told Luo Jingyan the news and said, "I also ate some of the apples you gave Jianxin. They are really sweet, sweeter than any I've ever had before."
The crops in Luo Jingyan's space are all irrigated with spiritual spring water. She wonders if Tong Jianxin's condition has improved because he ate apples, or it could be the result of Tong Jianxin's own immune system working.
Two days later, Tong Jianxin's condition had not improved much. Just as Tong Jianxin and Shen Ruyi were both worried, Luo Jingyan boiled the spiritual spring water with ordinary dried leaves to concentrate it and gave a bottle to Shen Ruyi.
"Sister Ruyi, this is a folk remedy from my family. It contains the juice of several herbs. Please give it to Tong Zhiqing to drink."
Tong Jianxin and Shen Ruyi treated her and Luo Changtian quite well; if it were other educated youth, she wouldn't have cared so much.
Shen Ruyi took the bottle. "Thank you, Jingyan."
"It's nothing, you've all been very kind to me and my brother." Luo Jingyan instructed her, "Sister Ruyi, the medicine used in this folk remedy is a bit rare, so please don't tell anyone else about it."
"I see."
Shen Ruyi took the bottle to Tong Jianxin. Tong Jianxin had been suffering greatly these past few days. Knowing that Luo Jingyan wouldn't harm him, he took the bottle and drank some.
After resting in her dormitory for a few days and recovering from her injuries, Song Yinglan did not give up the opportunity to earn money and went out again when she had time.
Tong Jianxin's condition improved further after drinking the folk remedy given by Luo Jingyan, and he and Shen Ruyi were very grateful to Luo Jingyan.
Lin Shanshan's mood soured. She had thought that Tong Jianxin's illness would continue until he was tormented to death, but unexpectedly, he improved.
This made her wonder again whether the medicine in the bottle was really effective.
Luo Jingyan finally finished knitting Xue Yanchen's sweater and was ready to send it to him.
After breakfast, she and Luo Changtian went to the Qianjin Brigade. Luo Changtian was going to school, while she was delivering a sweater to Xue Yanchen and some apples to him.
When they arrived at the educated youth settlement of Qianjin Brigade, she called Xue Yanchen out from outside the boys' dormitory and handed him a sweater and an apple.
"The sweater is finished. You can try it on and see if it fits."
Xue Yanchen took off his thin coat in the yard and put on his sweater. The sweater was the perfect size and comfortable to wear.
"Very good." He smiled.
"As long as it fits, that's fine. I'm just worried it won't fit you."
"I'll keep the sweater, but you can take the apple back and eat it with Xiaotian."
Luo Jingyan refused to take it back: "Since I've already given it to you, there's no reason for me to take it back. If you don't accept it, I'll return all the things you bought for the two of us before, and we won't want anything from you again in the future."
Xue Yanchen then stopped refusing, "Alright then, I'll accept it."
The two chatted for a while longer before Luo Jingyan left.
Lai Chunming didn't want to touch Song Yinglan these days because he had Luo Jingyan in his heart and didn't want to provoke other female educated youths for the time being.
But he's a womanizer; how could he possibly control his lower body?
Several days had passed since he last saw Luo Jingyan. He told her that she could come to him for anything, which was Luo Jingyan's way of hinting at something beforehand.
Luo Jingyan has never contacted him even once. Does she not understand what he means?
It doesn't matter. If she doesn't come to him, then he'll just go to her.
What's delivered to your door is never as good as what you get yourself.
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