Chapter 14: So many people like you

Chen Xiang nodded: "Well, we're done talking."

After the words fell, the kitchen fell into silence again.

There was only the raging fire devouring the wood, making a crackling sound.

Seeing that Zhou Dongmeng didn't say anything, she didn't take it to heart.

Bending down, he took out a few potatoes from the basket and said, "Let's make some shredded potatoes for lunch and heat up the cabbage soup left over from the morning, okay?"

Zhou Dong raised his head in silence and asked again, "Lin Shiqi lives next door to you?"

You still call him Brother Lin.

He has been back to the village for half a year and has lost count of how many times he has heard it.

Chen Xiang found a knife, lowered her eyes and peeled the potatoes, and replied casually, "Yes, our two families are next door."

After saying this, the girl paused slightly.

She raised her head and looked at the man in front of her, a little puzzled: "Haven't you been to Qiancun?"

Huangjia Village is divided into the front village and the back village. There is a river in the middle that runs through the entire village and the fields. In the summer, all the boys around would go there to swim.

Zhou Dong suddenly stood up and came to Chen Xiang's side.

Then he took the potato and knife from the girl and said in a low voice, "Let me do it."

His hands are already in that condition, yet he still tries to be brave and do this and that.

Chen Xiang did not fight with him, but took the initiative to give up her seat and stood next to the man. She tilted her head and thought for a while, then said softly, "Lin Shiqi is the accountant of the village."

Zhou Dongmeng's expression was indifferent: "Yeah."

Chen Xiang looked up at him and said, "We will have many more interactions with him in the future. I must say hello to him next time we meet."

You can't just leave without even taking a look like you did today!

Lin Shiqi's mind is as small as a sesame seed. Who knows, he might take revenge someday.

Zhou Dong raised his head suddenly and chuckled: "Do you think he would like me to say hello to him?"

"ah?"

It's just a greeting when we meet on weekdays.

Does this need to be liked?

The man threw the peeled potatoes into the basin with a thud. Chen Xiang subconsciously followed the sound and turned to look. When she turned around, Zhou Dongmeng had already turned around and was facing her.

He also bent his waist slightly, put one hand on his thigh, and his eyes were level with hers.

His eyes were dark and extremely powerful.

Chen Xiang was startled and leaned back. The next moment, a strong arm was around her waist.

Zhou Dong raised his eyebrows fiercely: "He likes you, not me!"

"ah?"

What's going on?

Chen Xiang felt dizzy and almost doubted whether Dai Jinhua had really hurt her in the morning.

Otherwise, why couldn't she understand a word Zhou Dongmeng said?

The man's arm withdrew from the girl's waist.

I scooped some water, rubbed a few potatoes, then pressed them on the chopping board and started cutting them.

Zhou Dongmeng is an excellent knife worker.

The potato shreds are cut into even and thin strips.

Chen Xiang's mind raced, and after analyzing it for a while, she finally understood, and said in a daze, "You mean, Lin Shiqi likes me? How is that possible? Hahahaha..."

She laughed heartlessly and innocently.

After laughing, Chen Xiang pouted and muttered, "Strange, I'm such a nice girl, why doesn't anyone like me?"

Zhou Dongmeng disagreed and chuckled, "If everyone who likes you raises their hands, the entire earth will turn into a sea urchin."

By the way, this girl has never seen sea urchin...

Zhou Dongmeng was a little angry, but he had no way to vent his anger, so he could only purse his lips.

Chen Xiang: “……?”

How could it be so exaggerated? For someone who likes her, shouldn't it be like heavy snow in the summer? She has never seen it before!

She couldn't help but scream in her heart——

Is he okay?

When did you go blind?

Don't forget, she was married to him because she was fat and ugly, okay!

Maybe now everyone in the village is waiting to see these two make a fool of themselves.

One is a woman who has been ridiculed for years and is called a fat pig and a fat woman, and the other is a man with a bad temper and is as poor as a bottomless pit.

They lived together...

Come to think of it, they are a perfect match!

Chen Xiang smiled and started to brag about her business: "You are not bad looking either, there must be a lot of girls who like you."

Zhou Dongmeng said: "No one likes me."

She curled her lips and didn't believe him at all: "If you hadn't joined the army, your children would probably be able to make soy sauce."

"will not!"

"Are you so sure?"

"Um."

"So, when will you have a child?"

Zhou Dongmeng suddenly turned to look at her, his eyes deep, and answered seriously: "Seven years later."

Chen Xiang was amused: "Ha, you never know what will happen to your child. What if next year..."

She was halfway through her speech when the smile on her face suddenly froze.

Seven years?

Why seven years?

Chen Xiang thought about it and suddenly understood that he wanted to divorce her in a few years so that he could have children with his next partner.

Otherwise, why seven years later?

Why not next year?

The year after next, the year after next!

Chen Xiang threw away the potato shreds she had been ravaging for a long time and said angrily with a stern face, "Do it yourself. I'm going back to the house."

After saying this, she turned around and went back to the east room.

Zhou's mother was talking to Zhou's father. When she saw Chen Xiang come in, she asked worriedly, "Xiao Xiang, how are you? Are you feeling better?"

Chen Xiang smiled and said, "Mom, I'm fine."

"Let me see your hand." Zhou's mother sat on the edge of the kang and leaned over to pick up her daughter-in-law's hand.

She had not forgotten every word Xiaoxiang said when she cried in front of the village party secretary and villagers that morning. Li Qiuju was extremely shocked when she heard what Xiaoxiang said!

Every child is a piece of flesh that fell out of his mother's belly.

Why can Dai Jinhua be so cruel!

Mother Zhou held her daughter-in-law's hand, rubbing the scars on it, and said with heartache: "Look, the child's hands..."

"Silly child, your hands are already like this, and you were still rushing to work this morning. Don't do anything recently. Take care of your hands first. Don't underestimate the frostbite on them, they are the most likely to cause disease."

Zhou's mother tongue is serious and sincere.

Father Zhou was breathing heavily, and after suppressing a few coughs, he said, "Let Mengzi go buy some medicine!"

“Yes, I have to buy some.”

Chen Xiang shook her head: "No need to buy medicine, it will be fine in the spring!"

My family is short of money, so how can I have extra money to buy medicine to treat the injuries?

Zhou's mother frowned and said in a tough tone, "How can it be cured without applying medicine? Frost sores can be cured in the spring, but they will recur immediately when winter comes! We can't be careless."

Before Chen Xiang wanted to say anything, Zhou Dongmeng came in holding the table in one hand and four bowls in the other.

Mother Zhou patted her daughter-in-law's hand.

This signaled to her that the matter of buying medicine was settled.

Then he stood up, took the table from his son, put it in the middle of the earthen bed, and said, "Mengzi, go buy medicine for your wife this afternoon."

"Well, the meal is ready, let's eat."

Zhou Dong threw away the dishes and chopsticks, and placed the bowl that was not chipped in front of Chen Xiang.

Chen Xiang glanced at the man and said nothing.

She snorted in her heart. He had no say in when the baby would be born.

It’s even more impossible to change wives in the future!

Just give up on that idea.

Zhou Dongmeng had no idea what was going on in Chen Xiang's mind. He went back to the kitchen to bring back rice and dishes. Soon, the family of four sat down to eat.

Since everyone was there, the lunch was quite sumptuous.

There was a large plate of stir-fried potato shreds, the cabbage soup she had made in the morning, a bowl of pickled radish strips, and next to it a pot of wowotou that was as chubby as she was.

Chen Xiang licked her lips, her taste buds urging her.

Zhou Dongmeng served her a bowl of white rice: "Eat it."

She was stunned for a moment, then naturally understood that they had cooked this specially for her.

Chen Xiang pursed her lips. It was funny to say that she had never eaten white rice in the twenty years she had been in the Chen family.

She married into the Zhou family, a poor family that was reluctant to spend every penny, but on the first day she ate hot white rice.

How ironic...

Chen Xiang picked up a piece of the food with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth, savoring it carefully.

The sweet and glutinous rice could not overcome the soreness in her nose.

After Chen Xiang tried her best to suppress the redness under her eyes, she said in a low voice, "Mom and Dad, you don't have to cook white rice for me. I can just eat the same food as you."

Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Eat, eat."

"Child, eat more." Zhou's father also said.

Chen Xiang nodded: "Yes."

Halfway through the meal, Zhou Dongmeng suddenly said, "After dinner, I have to go back to the engineering team."

Chen Xiang: “So fast?”

The man nodded: "Yeah."

The situation at home didn't allow him to rest any longer.

Chen Xiang was a little reluctant and asked again: "When will you come back?"

Zhou Dongmeng sat opposite the girl. He could see worry on her chubby face as soon as he raised his eyes. He finally felt a little better.

He said, "Around eight o'clock in the evening."

After thinking for a while, he added: "From now on, I will have to go out at four in the morning."

"So early?"

Chen Xiang's eyes were filled with heartache.

In her previous life, she knew that Zhou Dongmeng had a hard life, but she didn't know it would be so hard!

I left home at 4am and came back at 8pm. I was working in a railway construction team, doing all the hard work...

After dinner.

Zhou Dongmeng changed into a more worn-out set of clothes and left.

As soon as the man left, the house suddenly felt empty. It took Chen Xiang a long time to adjust and finally cheer herself up again.

She got up and went to the east room.

I mentioned to Mr. and Mrs. Zhou what I hadn’t finished discussing this morning.

Chen Xiang: "Dad, Mom, I want to sell the sweet potatoes in the cellar!"

Zhou's mother glanced at the calendar and said, "There will be a market in the commune the day after tomorrow. We will go there early in the morning to sell our wares."

Chen Xiang shook her head and said, "Mom, I want to sell roasted sweet potatoes."

"How can a girl like you sell roasted sweet potatoes? It's so dangerous to go from street to street!" Zhou's mother said anxiously.

“No need to go through the streets.”