On the other side, the educated youth point.
After Zhou Tingting returned to the educated youth point, she unfolded Ye Qingshui's manuscript and read it carefully. As she read, she became fascinated.
When someone called her, she didn't respond. Seeing her absorbed look, others couldn't help but come closer to watch her. After watching, they whispered to Sun Lingyu:
"I saw Zhou Tingting looking at Ye Qingshui's things. Ye Qingshui wanted to make a water-finding instrument. I didn't expect that she would have such an idea."
"It looks pretty good. Are the points you measured really accurate?"
After hearing this, Sun Lingyu had no interest in going to Zhou Tingting to find out the truth. She replied, "Of course it's accurate. Ye Qingshui still wants to do the water-finding instrument. Isn't she crazy? She dares to think of anything."
She rubbed the snowflake cream on her face with her thumb and joked with He Fang: "I'm not looking down on her. If Ye Qingshui had such ambition, even a sow could climb a tree."
He Fang said with regret: "What a pity for Xie Zhiqing."
Zhou Tingting couldn't stand it any longer. She said, "No matter how good Mr. Xie is, he is already someone else's husband. What's the point of mentioning him every other day?"
"No matter how bad Ye Qingshui is, I think he is much better than you. Don't always look down on others through the cracks in the door, or you might end up making a fool of yourself!"
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The next day.
Ye Qingshui got up early and cooked glutinous rice chicken. She picked the lotus leaves that wrapped the glutinous rice chicken in advance, soaked them, and blanched them in water to remove the astringency. The glutinous rice was freshly dried in the summer. It was wrapped in lotus leaves and steamed. It was soft and delicious, with the fresh aroma of lotus leaves. The surface of the rice was oily and looked great. A bite was sticky and soft, and the rice oil was fragrant.
She made a total of 40 glutinous rice chickens, each costing 1 cent. After deducting the costs and labor costs, she could still earn more than 2 yuan.
Ye Qingshui also wanted to make a few more, but if he picked too many lotus leaves, the bald leaves would be too obvious and easy to be discovered.
When she handed the glutinous rice chicken to Qian Xiangdong, she couldn't help but ask, "I haven't been to the city these few days. Is Zhou Ke okay?"
Qian Xiangdong didn't quite understand why she suddenly asked about Zhou Ke. He touched his head and said, "It's fine. It's the same as before. I just haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you so much. He thought you quit."
Ye Qingshui said: "I will go to the city to buy some things tomorrow and visit Zhou Ke by the way."
Ye Qingshui spent the whole night thinking about the water-finding instrument, but she was stuck at one point and couldn't figure it out. At dawn, she suddenly thought: Isn't Zhou Ke's grandfather a great helper?
Qian Xiangdong said: "That will definitely work."
After making breakfast, Ye Qingshui stretched and went back to the room for a short nap.
When it was dawn, Shen Weimin came to Ye's house on time to take care of Xie Tingyu's daily excretion. When he walked into the house quietly, the two had already washed up, and Xie Tingyu had finished breakfast refreshingly.
When Xie Tingyu saw him, he didn't even blink.
When going to the toilet, Shen Weimin began to feel troubled. He asked Xie Tingyu: "How did Shui Ya behave yesterday? She didn't... anything, right?"
Xie Tingyu did not answer him and let him handle it.
After Shen Weimin carried his brother back to the house, he walked in front of Ye Qingshui and hesitated for a long time.
Ye Qingshui was holding her notebook and designing a water-finding instrument.
Seeing Shen Weimin's hesitation and stammering, she spoke without thinking:
"I know what you want to say. Forget about the apology. I know that's what you think in your heart and you look down on a country girl like me. Don't worry, your worries are unnecessary. I never thought of dragging your brother Yu down for the rest of his life. He and I have already agreed to divorce."
This call blocked all the drafts that Shen Weimin had prepared.
Xie Tingyu had never mentioned to Shen Weimin that he and Ye Qingshui had agreed to divorce. After all, this kind of thing was not something worth publicizing.
But Shen Weimin didn't know that.
Shen Weimin, who originally wanted to apologize, suddenly froze. He looked up at Ye Qingshui in disbelief, carefully observing her expression.
Ye Qingshui's face was covered with a mask. Her eyebrows and eyes were light and she lowered her head as she continued to write and draw in the notebook.
Because he couldn’t see Ye Qingshui’s expression clearly, Shen Weimin brought into his mind an image of someone being deeply hurt by his words.
Originally, Ye Qingshui was also frowning, puzzled by the problem in his hands, and this look was more consistent with Shen Weimin's guess.
Shen Weimin was used to acting recklessly in the past, and he had met too many women who chased after Xie Tingyu like bees around flowers, but this was the first time that he was forgiven so easily by Ye Qingshui over and over again.
He thought that she would at least get angry and scold him, or even persuade Xie Tingyu to stop associating with him.
But Ye Qingshui did nothing, and even his words were calm and indifferent, without any intention of blaming anyone. This made Shen Weimin feel complicated and subtle emotions for the first time.
He said, "I'm sorry, please don't be sad... I didn't mean it, please don't cry, please don't cry, I was wrong."
Shen Weimin wanted to say something, but when he saw Ye Qingshui rubbing her eyes, he thought she was going to cry. Shen Weimin felt embarrassed and turned around and quickly left the Ye family.
Ye Qingshui rubbed his sore eyes, raised his head and looked at Shen Weimin's fleeing back, and couldn't help thinking: What is going on here?
Xie Tingyu listened to the entire conversation between the two of them.
He comforted Ye Qingshui and said, "Don't take his words to heart. It's not worth being sad about."
Xie Tingyu was a little worried when he heard Shen Weimin say that she was crying. But he could only sit on the bed and couldn't move, and couldn't go to her side to see what was going on.
He looked at Ye Qingshui's back, his voice became much softer, and he said in a comforting tone: "Although there are many rules in my family, after all, I live my life by myself, and it has nothing to do with them. My family is simple and ordinary, no different from other families."
At this point, Xie Tingyu paused for a moment. "To be honest, my parents divorced when I was four years old. I have a younger sister who was brought up by my stepmother. My father is a soldier in the B Military Region. He is usually serious and quiet, and it's hard to get close to him. In addition to my parents, I also have my grandparents, two aunts, and a younger uncle."
Ye Qingshui couldn't help but laugh when she heard Xie Tingyu's words. These lines were just like when a blind date was going on in this era, when the partner explained his family background. She actually knew these things in her previous life, and she didn't need to hear them again.
Ye Qingshui lowered her head again and began to draw her own water-finding instrument. She frowned and thought hard, but her pen tip poured out one formula after another fluently.
On the other side, when Xie Tingyu saw Ye Qingshui, he lowered his head as if he was shy or avoiding her.
He took a deep breath, and his palms sweated a little. "I... I have never thought about my life, nor about finding a partner. Marrying you was unexpected. But if, if."
Xie Tingyu's throat suddenly felt like it was stuck, and his face turned red, very red.
"If I were to live and work together with you, Comrade Ye, I might..."
Ye Qingshui felt something was not right after hearing this. She pulled her head out of the sea of formulas, took off her mask, and took a deep breath of the fresh morning air.
"What are you talking about? I'm not sad. Didn't you say you treat me as your sister?"
"Why should I be sad? I was just thinking about something with Shui Yi, so I didn't say anything."
The word "willing" that Xie Tingyu had not said out of shyness was completely stuck in his throat this time.
For a moment, surprise and astonishment surged into his heart. Xie Tingyu had thought that Ye Qingshui would have a reaction, but he had never expected Ye Qingshui to react in this way. He was a little confused now and took a deep breath before calming down.
Xie Tingyu's face turned blue, then red, and then black.
If it weren't for the inconvenience of his legs and feet, and he couldn't see Ye Qingshui's expression, Xie Tingyu would have wanted to walk up to Ye Qingshui, look her in the face, and finish what he wanted to say in one breath.
No one knew what kind of ups and downs his mood had just experienced. Xie Tingyu's mind flashed with the scene of Ye Qingshui coming to the educated youth point with a red face to find him, the scene of her jumping into the river to chase his harmonica, and the scene of her playing Liang Zhu for him.
Finally, Xie Tingyu's turbulent mind finally calmed down.
After being interrupted by Ye Qingshui, Xie Tingyu no longer had the energy to try again.
His face looked a little bad, and his tone was a little low: "Well, I hope Shuiya is not sad."
Maybe it’s not appropriate to say these words to the little girl today. The atmosphere is not right and she is very unhappy.
He knew that the little girl usually looked gentle and amiable, but actually had a bad temper.
Xie Tingyu said: "From today on, Shuiya, don't bring him food. He just likes to eat steamed buns."
Ye Qingshui thought about it and decided to return the money to Shen Weimin. Although she had a good temper, she was not a person without temper. How could he eat the food she cooked when he disliked her so openly and secretly?
Xie Tingyu paused and said, "You don't have to return the money to him. Just keep it. He deserves it."
Ye Qingshui said: "That won't work. I always feel weird about owing him money."
Xie Tingyu pursed his lips and said coldly: "Don't worry about it. He should bear what he deserves. It's nothing for you to suffer these grievances for such a small amount of money. I will make him admit his fault to you another day."
Xie Tingyu held his breath in his heart and couldn't let it go for a long time. If it weren't for Shen Weimin, maybe he wouldn't have to hold back his words today.
Although Ye Qingshui had some doubts about what Xie Tingyu had said before, such doubts were quickly thrown behind him.
…
Ye Qingshui sorted out the questions he couldn't figure out, put them in his pocket, and rode his bicycle to the county town.
She first went to the department store to buy a can of malted milk, and when she took out the industrial coupons, she was particularly quick and straightforward in paying. Because the money and coupons belonged to Xie Tingyu, she just came by to help bring a bottle.
A can of malted milk costs five yuan, which is expensive, but you can get a big bottle. Ye Qingshui held it and thought that when she collected enough coupons, she would buy a can for her grandmother to try.
After buying the malted milk, she spent five cents to buy some fructose, put it in her pocket, and walked straight towards Zhou Ke's house.
Zhou Ke was washing the dung bucket at home with great difficulty. His skinny little hands were red from washing. The water from the tap was very little, almost non-existent. He was sweating profusely and couldn't help but sigh to his grandfather: "If the water is cut off today like yesterday, what will we do, Grandpa?"
Zhou Cunren snorted: "Isn't this just right? I don't have to clean the public toilet anymore."
Zhou Ke frowned and said awkwardly: "But then Grandpa won't have any salary or food to collect."
Zhou Cunren stopped talking. He also felt that it was very difficult for people to have no running water in the city.
Ye Qingshui handed over a bag of candy with a smile and called Zhou Ke: "Ke'er, I bought some candy, come and eat it."
At the same time, she took out her little notebook full of question marks and handed it to Zhou Cunren, asking cautiously: "Teacher Zhou, could you please give me some advice?"
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