Ye Qingshui knew that when Xie Tingyu said he held a grudge, he was not just joking, he really held a grudge.
She deliberately picked three short passages to recite, but was stopped by Xie Tingyu, who kindly reminded her: "The slow bird must fly first. You are so far behind others, how can you only pick the simple ones?"
"Just these three articles. Finish today's work today. You have to memorize them all before you go to bed."
He picked out three pieces of classical Chinese and asked Ye Qingshui to recite them by the wall.
Ye Qingshui stood at the foot of the wall, reciting from the afternoon until dinner, and continued at night after dinner. Chinese was really her lifelong obsession. At nine o'clock in the evening, the kerosene in the lamp was almost exhausted.
Ye Qingshui saw Xie Tingyu taking out her quilt from under her bed, looking like she was getting ready to go to sleep.
She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, her eyes brightened and she said, "Why don't we check it tomorrow? I'm sorry to disturb your sleep at night."
Xie Tingyu was very vengeful and he had not forgotten how the little girl scolded him.
He said calmly, "It won't be a problem at all. You recite it, and I can sleep while listening."
Ye Qingshui gritted his teeth and began to recite, "In the spring of the fourth year of the Qingli period, Teng Zijing was exiled to Baling County..."
Xie Tingyu lay comfortably on the floor. The quilt was newly made this year and exuded a brand new smell. The floor was cool and cool, penetrating into the body like a breeze. The little girl's soft voice of reciting was gentle and soft, like a pair of soft hands, with the magic of hypnosis.
Xie Tingyu was half asleep and half awake when he said, "I recited it wrong. Try again."
Ye Qingshui opened her bright eyes and said angrily, "No!"
She lowered her head and recited it again honestly.
Xie Tingyu added: "You missed a sentence, start over."
"It's for your own good to recite it a few more times."
…
"Still wrong, do it twice more!"
"Wrong again, three times..."
Xie Tingyu sighed: "Oh, read it five times before reciting it again."
Ye Qingshui recited it ten times over and over again, and only after he memorized it by heart did Xie Tingyu stop talking. She rubbed her tired eyes. The man who was already asleep on the ground was sleeping soundly! The faint moonlight sprinkled on his fair face, and his Adam's apple was particularly prominent. The breeze was very comfortable. If he was not used to snoring, his snoring would probably be loud enough to shake the world.
This man was her dream when she was young. Now Ye Qingshui felt her teeth itching just looking at him and wanted to step on him.
…
The next day, Ye Qingshui stopped working with the men and women. She went to the animal husbandry station and brought back three piglets. The weight of each pig was recorded in the production team's booklet. She also received some rations for the pigs from the animal husbandry station.
The pig rations obtained from the supply and marketing cooperative are very little. If they are only fed with this little, the piglets will definitely not grow fat. Ye Qingshui will definitely have to go up the mountain to collect grass for the pigs every day.
It is not easy to get rich by raising pigs these days. A pig weighing 20 to 99 kilograms can earn two work points a day, and a pig weighing 100 to 300 kilograms can earn a maximum of four work points a day, which is far less than the work points earned by working in the fields. However, if you can raise all three piglets into fat pigs, it is still more cost-effective.
Ye Qingshui was afraid that if he killed the pigs, he would be left with no work points and no food rations at the end of the year, so he went to find out about Liu Zhiqing, who was good at raising pigs in the brigade. He heard from others that he worked at the animal husbandry station.
Before Ye Qingshui came to the educated youth center, she put on a mask in order not to cause trouble. She knew that the educated youth at the educated youth center had some opinions about her because of Xie Tingyu.
It's really laughable to say that Xie Tingyu was quite popular in the educated youth center. Ye Qingshui knew that there were no less than three female educated youth in the center who were eager to date him, not to mention the girls of the right age in the village.
In the end, she snatched away such a good opportunity. You can imagine how many people were secretly scolding her. The educated youth from the city called her a country bumpkin, the rural intellectuals called her shameless, and those with better family conditions than her called her a toad wanting to eat swan meat.
Ye Qingshui couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this.
Ye Qingshui went to the educated youth dormitory and asked for Liu Zhiqing. The female educated youth shouted at the top of her voice: "Liu Saner, someone is looking for you!"
Liu Yiliang quickly ran down and asked, "Comrade, who are you?"
When Ye Qingshui saw Liu Zhiqing, her eyes lit up. Wasn't this the young man who had come to her place for a meal that night when he caught the snake? He had a round face and looked very honest. He was so scared by the snake that night that he couldn't speak clearly.
When Liu Zhiqing saw Ye Qingshui wearing a mask, he politely asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ye Qingshui secretly took off his mask, "Do you still remember me?"
"I have raised pigs, and I came to ask you for advice."
After taking off the mask, Ye Qingshui's chapped and red bloodshot face were almost gone, revealing her fair skin. Her nose was straight and her thin lips were a light pink, as if painted with rouge, and moist like a touch of flowing light. Liu Yiliang was stunned.
Ye Qingshui applied beauty medicine every night, and also wore a mask and straw hat to protect herself from the sun and smoke. In her eyes, her face was recovering at an average rate, but in Liu Yiliang's eyes, she became the most dazzling girl in the surrounding area. In the countryside, he had seen many women who were unkempt, covered in dust and raising pigs, and when he looked at Ye Qingshui, Liu Yiliang felt that he could hardly speak.
He... finally knew why Brother Yu got married suddenly!
Liu Yilian seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.
He asked Ye Qingshui: "Why did you come to the educated youth center?"
He couldn't help but gossip and say, "You've become a celebrity in our educated youth site recently! After all, you're Brother Yu's wife..."
Liu Yiliang specifically mentioned what happened yesterday to her:
"I guess it's you. Yesterday, Brother Yu said you were not feeling well, so he asked for leave for you. He also asked the Party Secretary to give you a job raising pigs. It seems that Brother Yu is very considerate and loves his wife..."
Liu Yiliang's voice finally disappeared in a meaningful smile. He stared at Ye Qingshui's slender body and couldn't help frowning.
How can such a slender body withstand the torment from Brother Yu?
Brother Yu was able to carry 200 kilograms of stone up the mountain in one breath. Although he looked frail, he was much stronger than the strong laborers in the educated youth camp, and even the big men in the village could not compare to him. When they first went to the countryside, the second-rate people in the countryside saw Brother Yu as being gentle and polite, so they stopped him to collect protection fees, but he beat them up instead.
Liu Yiliang asked Ye Qingshui to put on the mask. He gossiped mysteriously, "You've become a celebrity recently. If Sun Lingyu and her gang saw you, they would be so annoying that you wouldn't be able to leave."
"Those women are so good at talking. They can say ten sentences without using a single curse word. Even a grown man like me is afraid of them. You are not good at talking and cannot win over them. Hey! Where are the piglets? Take me to have a look. You should have asked me to help you look after the piglets. I can tell which piglets are prettier at a glance."
It seems that Liu Yiliang did not see the heroic scene that day when Ye Qingshui picked up several female educated youths at the educated youth site. In his heart, Ye Qingshui was still the weak and timid rural girl.
When Liu Yiliang talked about Zhuzai, he smiled and kept talking like a chatterbox, speaking fast and fluently. Ye Qingshui couldn't help thinking: Liu Yiliang was trembling when he spoke that night, which really scared him.
Ye Qingshui wrote down a lot of key points in a short time and couldn't concentrate on the conversation.
Liu Yiliang said: "In the summer, there are many mosquitoes and germs. The pig sty needs to be ventilated and cleaned every day. If you are diligent, you need to use lime to disinfect it every month."
Ye Qingshui kept nodding his head busy.
Liu Yiliang went to the Ye family and took a look at the piglets. "I'll come and vaccinate them in a few days. They won't get sick easily and will be easier to keep. Ahem..."
His round face showed a trace of embarrassment and shyness. After not seeing each other for a few days, he missed Ye Qingshui's food a little. He couldn't eat the food in the cafeteria these days. He and Shen Weimin also tried to catch snakes to make soup, but they just couldn't make that delicious taste.
"The food my sister-in-law cooked is quite delicious. I wonder—"
Ye Qingshui remembered the key points, and when she heard the word "sister-in-law", she raised her head in confusion. She was about to correct Liu Yiliang's wrong address. Unexpectedly, a cold voice interrupted:
"Who are you calling sister-in-law—"
"she?"
The owner of the voice was Xie Tingyu, who was standing outside the pigsty. He looked fresh and clean, and didn't fit in with the dirty pigsty. The dacron shirt stuck to his skin, making him look gentle and handsome. In this era, besides the masculine beauty of soldiers, Xie Tingyu's gentle and elegant appearance was popular.
His dark pupils narrowed slightly as he looked at Ye Qingshui and Liu Yiliang...
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