Seeing her like this, Sun Liangsheng's eyes flashed and he shook his head.
"I didn't say that. I'm just afraid you'll be unfairly blamed."
Jiang Wenwan nodded.
"Sun Zhiqing, you're a really nice person!"
Sun Liangsheng laughed as he dug a hole, pleased by her praise.
“Jiang Zhiqing, if you’re tired, just tell me. Let’s take it slow.”
"Okay! Then take your time. By the way, was the person who came to find you earlier a sent-down youth from the next village?"
"I didn't expect you to have acquaintances here. That's great! Look at my two acquaintances, they're always acting like they're green with envy."
Sun Liangsheng chuckled.
"It's an old classmate of mine. I only found out about it a couple of days ago when my family wrote to me."
"Which brigade did he serve as an educated youth in?"
"Could it be the 38th Brigade? I heard the educated youth there are often bullied."
"No, it's the 19th Brigade, in a village not far from ours."
"Oh, that's good."
Jiang Wenwan nodded and asked no more questions. The two of them worked all morning and were left behind.
Lanxiang sighed, "Life is easy or difficult, and it also depends on who you're with."
“Zhao Zhiqing, Jiang Zhiqing, you’ve barely earned three work points.”
"Jiang, you've completely lost the drive you had with Zhou the other day!"
Before Jiang Wenwan could speak, Widow Wang, who was passing by, snorted:
"Lanxiang, don't say that. She probably broke Zhou Zhiqing's leg because she thought he was working too fast."
This frightened the young educated youth, Sun, so much that he dared not work quickly.
That makes it sound like she's some kind of unreasonable tigress.
"Aunt Wang, are you deaf? Didn't you hear that I mistook him for a thief and that's why I hit him last night?"
Why are you trying to label me right off the bat?
Last time, I even sent you meat because your kid helped me gather pig feed. If I had known you were like this, I wouldn't have sent you meat at all! Forget about it!
Widow Wang's face stiffened, and she spat out a curse.
"Who wants your meat!"
"Oh, Widow Wang, you don't even care about meat anymore?"
"I'd love that. Jiang Zhiqing, please bring some to my house next time."
Widow Wang's expression changed the moment she saw Granny Sun approaching.
"Grandma Sun, don't take her for a good person. If you ask me, back on the mountain, if she hadn't been so late in coming down to deliver the message, maybe your Lai Zi could have been saved!"
When Sun Laizi was mentioned, Granny Sun was overcome with grief.
Jiang Wenwan quickly said:
"Aunt Wang, what do you mean by this? When I heard the bear roar, I immediately ran down the mountain to look for people."
It's so late and you're still blaming me? If I hadn't come down to look for someone, would no one have known?
Besides, I didn't have a gun at the time. If I had a gun, I would definitely have fired two shots.
And is it because of this that you don't like me?
Ah! I know, you don't want to be Sun Laizi's stepmother, do you?
Granny Sun kept a sullen face, and she was also resentful that Jiang Zhiqing hadn't come down to call for help sooner.
But she disliked Widow Wang even more. Don't think she didn't know that this slut had rolled around in a haystack with her grandson.
She's a natural-born seductress, a shameless woman who managed to seduce her own grandson twice, leading him to propose marriage to her.
"Pah! What a piece of trash! She wants to be my daughter-in-law? She should take a piss and look at herself in the mirror."
When Widow Wang heard her cursing, she realized that Sun Laizi was no longer around, and her family hadn't received any money or meat for a long time. It was all because this old hag wouldn't budge back then.
"Aunt Sun, why are you swearing at me? When did I say I wanted to be your daughter-in-law?"
"What, you don't want to be my granddaughter-in-law but you want to be my daughter-in-law!"
Bah! You shameless bastard! My grandson is gone now, why don't you go down and be with him?
If you ask me, it's you who killed my grandson.
Widow Wang was so angry that she started cursing back. Sun Laizi was gone, so what did she have to worry about?
"You old hag, don't you even look at your own home? You still dream of marrying a goddess!"
"You dare insult me? Anyone I marry would be better than you!"
"So what if I curse at you? Huh! You dare to hit me?"
Good grief, these two started hitting each other right away, combining old and new grudges, scratching each other's faces and pulling each other's hair.
Jiang Wenwan carried a bag of corn seeds in one hand and a bag of fertilizer in the other, moving away from the battle.
Sun Liangsheng looked at Jiang Wenwan with mixed feelings. This woman had stirred up a fight between the two fellow villagers with just a few words, while she herself had run away quite quickly.
"Oh dear, Sun Zhiqing, look at me, it's so hard for me to be a good person!"
Oh, right, when I get back I'll go check on that educated youth Zhou's legs. If she tries to frame me after I didn't break them, I won't let her get away with it.
Sun Liangsheng reached out and adjusted his black-rimmed glasses, smiling faintly.
"Then don't tell anyone I warned you. What if the educated youth retaliates against me later?"
Jiang Wenwan patted his arm generously, with such force that Sun Liangsheng winced and his face contorted in pain.
"Don't worry, I have many good qualities, and loyalty is one of them. I would never betray you."
Besides, you're doing this for my own good, so I should be thanking you!
Seeing his expression, she withdrew her hand.
"Did the slap hurt you? You're not in good shape! You look like an intellectual, you need to do more physical work to get some exercise."
Sun Liangsheng smiled, and the two of them joined the others and returned to the educated youth settlement to prepare a meal.
In May, things are quite different here compared to the south where all kinds of vegetables are available. The mountains may look green, but the fields are still mostly planted with vegetables.
Just when early cabbage and radishes were in season, she loved to eat water radishes, which were about the size of a baby's fist, crisp, tender, and sweet, and not spicy at all.
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