An Qingbai and Su Mengmeng took turns driving the tractor, while the other person assisted. It was spring plowing season, a busy time.
That day it was Su Mengmeng's turn to drive the tractor, and An Qingbai assisted her.
Su Mengmeng started the tractor, and An Qingbai sat in the back. With a sputtering sound, the tractor came to the field and stopped. An Qingbai got off the tractor and attached plowing tools to the front and back of the tractor. When it was time to plow, he started from the left and then the tractor plowed all the way to the right.
Since the brigade got tractors, it has greatly saved manpower and animal power. In the past, when it was time to plow the fields, they could only rely on manpower and two oxen in the village, which not only exhausted both the people and the oxen, but also took a long time to plow all the fields.
An Qingbai found an open space to wait. He would need to change tools again later; that's what the assistant did.
Suddenly, a wild rabbit hopping around caught An Qingbai's eye. He picked up a pebble and threw it at the rabbit. The rabbit seemed to be stunned and didn't move. An Qingbai walked over, picked up the rabbit, and checked it. It turned out that the pebble had hit the rabbit's hind leg.
An Qingbai was carrying the wild rabbit, thinking that when he went back, he would give it to Zhizhi so that she could cook it.
Originally, he thought that whoever caught the wild rabbit found in the field could keep it, but unexpectedly, someone else disagreed.
Zhuang Zhimeng suddenly had a whim to bring water to An Qingbai, and she planned to go to the fields to see how they drove their tractors!
Zhuang Zhimeng even added honey to the water. She grabbed her water bottle and set off, thinking of quenching Qingbai's thirst and also hoping that if Mengge wasn't busy, Su Mengmeng could have some water too.
Zhuang Zhimeng arrived at the field and saw An Qingbai surrounded by several people, who seemed to be trying to snatch something from his hands.
She quickly approached and vaguely heard their conversation.
An Qingbai held onto the rabbit tightly, refusing to let go. "I won't give it to you. I found it, so it belongs to me. If you want to, go and hunt it yourself!"
An Shitou, who had just been fighting with An Qingbai for the rabbit, said, "An Laosan, if you're so good at hunting, go hunt some more. Give me this rabbit; I haven't had meat in ages!"
"Uncle Stone, I'm planning to take this rabbit back to Zhimeng so she can eat it! I can't give it to you!"
"An Laosan, this won't do! You're not even married yet! How can you spoil Zhuang Zhiqing like this?"
"Yes, I'm willing to spoil her!"
"An Laosan, you won't listen to anything I say! Give me the rabbit right now, Zhuang Zhiqing isn't here!"
Before An Qingbai could speak, Zhuang Zhimeng arrived. She had heard everything they had said earlier. She walked up to An Qingbai and asked, "Brother Qingbai, what's wrong?"
When An Shitou saw that the person in question had arrived, he went straight to Zhuang Zhimeng and said, "Zhuang Zhiqing, let me tell you! An Laosan caught a wild rabbit in the field. Although it is said that whoever catches it keeps it, he doesn't know how to respect the elderly and care for the young at all. I told him that I haven't eaten meat in a long time, and I asked him to give me the rabbit, but he wouldn't. Don't you think he's going too far?"
“I don’t think Brother Qingbai did anything wrong. If you had caught the rabbit and he had taken it from you, that would be fine. But the situation is that he caught it and already had it in his hands. Isn’t it inappropriate for you to try to take it from him? Besides, if you want to eat meat, you can go catch it yourself. We’re not your children, so we don’t have to be responsible for whether you eat meat or not, right?”
"You and An Laosan are in a relationship, so of course you'll speak up for An Laosan. I don't care, you have to give me this rabbit now! No amount of persuasion will change anything!"
"Then you're being unreasonable!"
"Hmph! I'm not going to be reasonable. What can you do to me? What can you do to me? I'm not afraid even if the captain comes!"
"Hehe, is that so?"
Zhuang Zhimeng casually picked up a clod of dirt, squeezed it in her palm, and the clod crumbled into dust.
"If they're unreasonable, we have our own unreasonable methods, don't you think?"
An Shitou was stunned and laughed awkwardly: "Hehe, hehehe, well, Zhuang Zhiqing, I was just joking with An Laosan. Uncle doesn't want rabbits anymore. If Uncle wants meat, he can go hunt it himself. You guys are busy, you guys are busy, I'll be going now!"
An Qingbai had been watching Zhuang Zhimeng perform ever since she arrived, and he thought she looked incredibly cool at that moment, especially the way she protected him—he loved it!
"Zhizhi, you're amazing! Uncle Shitou is notoriously difficult to deal with in the village. I was so unlucky when he saw the rabbit I caught. I was prepared to argue with him for ages, but then you came and scared him away!"
"I've come to bring water to Brother Qingbai. Here, take your water bottle!"
An Qingbai took the water bottle, tilted his head back and took a sip of water before continuing to talk to Zhuang Zhimeng: "Thank you for thinking of me, Zhizhi. I was thirsty just now. I was so thirsty talking to Uncle Shi. He kept asking me for rabbit!"
"Yeah, Qingbai, it's best not to let him see you hunting rabbits next time. You can't reason with people like that!"
"Okay! I'll listen to Zhizhi! I just wasn't paying attention this time and he saw me!"
Zhuang Zhimeng nodded and asked him again, "Brother Qingbai, where's Brother Meng? I was thinking of letting him have some water if he's not too busy."
When An Qingbai heard Zhuang Zhimeng ask Su Mengmeng, he pointed it out to her, "There, Zhizhi, do you see it? It's Mengmeng's turn to drive the tractor today!"
Zhuang Zhimeng looked in the direction An Qingbai pointed and indeed saw a tractor in the distance. It must be Meng Ge'er driving it. Then she turned to An Qingbai and said, "I see it. I'll leave the water bottle here, and Qingbai-ge will give it to Meng Ge'er to drink from later!"
"Okay, but I reckon Mengmeng probably won't get to drink any. That's how it is for us. We don't dare drink too much water when we're driving a tractor, because we're afraid of having to go to the toilet and wasting time!"
"Brother Qingbai, you guys really have worked very hard!"
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