It was a hot and busy farming season, and everywhere you looked were villagers working hard. Occasionally, a few educated youth were so tired that they could not bend their backs and lay on the ridges of the fields to rest. The wind blowing in their faces was hot and dry.
Yuan Jiangwo was enjoying the coolness under the shade of a tree. Her fair and delicate skin was flushed with heat, and crystal clear beads of sweat were stuck on her fair forehead. She took out a White Rabbit milk candy from her pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper, put it in her mouth, and squinted her fox eyes comfortably.
This White Rabbit milk candy is the snack that Ma Hongxia gave her.
The little fox, who used to be a picky eater, now treasures even a piece of candy.
Yuan Jiang, who was comfortable and relaxed, soon attracted the attention of the female educated youth. They couldn't help but secretly glance at her a few times and spat at her fiercely.
"She doesn't look like an educated youth at all. Everyone else is working, but she's the only one slacking off. She must be a capitalist princess!"
"Hush, don't say that!" A pale and withered female educated youth glanced at Yuan Jiang and said in a low voice, "Who knew that she would live a more comfortable life than us after marrying a country boy? But thinking about living with a fool in my next life, I'd rather work."
"That's true. If you marry a fool, you'll end up with a little fool too. I'm afraid Yuan Zhiqing will never be able to leave this mountain in his lifetime."
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Listening to the voices of discussion around her, Zhu Chunhe gritted her teeth and said lightly, "This farm work is not something that ordinary people can endure!" She regretted it now. If she could do it again, she would definitely choose to marry a fool first.
After the big boss shows up, she should be more alert and avoid the fool who is with the big boss!
This way, you don’t have to suffer, and you can even become an official’s wife in the future!
Zhu Chunhe touched his face, then turned his head and glared at Yuan Jiang fiercely.
Yuan Jiang was unaware of these discussions. She looked at Pei Zhuo, who was working frantically, with a look of satisfaction, then lowered her head to count the foxtail grass on the ground. Suddenly, a shadow fell in front of her. She raised her eyes and saw a boy in a short coat and shorts.
The first thing you see is not his worn, white, patched clothes, but his skinny body. You can even see the dry bones of his exposed hands and feet. There is no flesh on his face, and his cheeks and eyes are deeply sunken. He is so thin that he looks like a skeleton covered with skin.
He held a sickle in his hand and had many scars on his left arm. Probably due to years of farm work, his skin was frighteningly dark, like mud from a stinking ditch.
"What are you doing?" Yuan Jiang screamed in fright, her heart beating fast, her breathing quickened, and she looked at him with watery eyes.
The little boy pursed his lips and stretched out his bony hand stiffly: "Can you give me a piece of the candy you just ate?"
"What's your name?" Yuan Jiang asked in a hoarse voice with her eyelashes trembling. This was a little boy who looked to be about four years old. He was frighteningly thin. She had never seen such a thin child.
"My name is Lu Ergou." Lu Ergou stared at the candy wrapper in Yuan Jiang's hand and asked stubbornly, "Can you give me a candy?"
Yuan Jiang looked at his thin body and couldn't bear it, so she took out a pill from her pocket and gave it to him.
Lu Ergou took it, said "thank you" and ran away. Yuan Jiang frowned suspiciously, and his scrutinizing eyes fell on Lu Ergou's thin and fast back.
She only saw that after Ergou ran a hundred meters away, he gave the candy in his hand to a ragged middle-aged man. The man grinned and suddenly raised his eyes, his turbid and dark eyes met hers.
Yuan Jiang's pretty little face was tense. This middle-aged man was Liu Xueliang. She glared at him without showing any weakness.
Liu Xueliang smiled faintly, then peeled off the candy wrapper and threw the White Rabbit milk candy into the yellow-toothed mouth. He lowered his head to glance at the skinny Ergou, raised his foot and kicked him hard, then left with his hands behind his back.
Ergou got up silently, picked up his sickle and went into the rice field to continue working.
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