Chapter 060
The two of them didn't speak anymore after that.
After finishing the meal in silence, they left the kitchen and went back to their respective dormitories.
Chuxia entered the dormitory, closed the door, walked to the bed and lay down on it.
She looked at the beams above her head and took two deep breaths. She couldn't help but think in her heart - Lin Xiaohan is indeed a heartless and unsympathetic person. She has been with him for such a long time, but he is still that cold stone without any humanity.
Especially since she had taken care of him for such a long time today and treated him so well, it would have been fine if he hadn't shown any emotion or gratitude at all, but he actually used that attitude to make her keep a distance from him.
If I had known he would be like this, I would not have taken care of him and would have let him lie there and burn for two days.
Although she had always been on guard and had never treated him as a friend, she still felt like being pricked by a needle when she heard him say that out of the blue.
It's a good thing that I didn't treat him as a friend with all my heart, otherwise it would be even more painful.
Thinking of this, Chuxia sat up again, took the mirror on the table and looked at her face.
Compared to when she first moved here, her face now has two more clear parts in the mirror, namely the two eyebrows above her eyes.
After looking at herself in the mirror for a while, Chuxia put the mirror down and thought again.
Just keep your distance. As long as you live together, work together and set up stalls together, there will always be many opportunities to get energy from each other, it's just a little slower.
According to the time point in the novel, it will take about ten months for them to get the return indicator and return to the city.
Ten months is not a short time, she just needs to complete her goal within this time.
She didn't want to be so shameless.
Once she accomplished her goal, she would never bother him again.
***
The dormitory next door.
Lin Xiaohan lay back on the bed, wrapped in the quilt and rested.
He closed his eyes despite looking sick, but he was not really asleep.
His body was weak when he was sick, which caused his willpower to be somewhat weak.
He closed his eyes, his mind was not quite under control, and all he thought about was the little details of his time with Chuxia in the countryside.
The more I think, the harder it is to breathe.
He naturally knew that he treated her differently.
During the six months they had been together, he had done a lot for her, things that normally he would never do to anyone else.
Before today, he didn't think there would be any problem.
He knew that Chu Xia followed him and pestered him not because she liked him. There had always been a clear distinction between them, and it had never escalated to the stage of a romantic relationship.
He was born to be an unpopular person. Even his biological father didn't have any love or affection for him. How could Chu Xia possibly like him?
Especially since she had loved Han Ting for so long without caring about anything, it was impossible for her to fall in love with him suddenly.
She approached him cautiously and got along with him. In addition to using him to get rid of Han Ting, she was isolated by the other educated youths in the center and wanted to find him as a companion to relieve her loneliness.
He knows everything.
But today, when he saw Chuxia busying around his bed taking care of him, he was actually a little confused.
There were several moments when he wanted to keep looking at her.
He even wanted to reach out and hold her, asking her to stay with him forever.
Therefore, what he said to Chuxia at the dinner table just now was said after careful consideration.
He had never thought about having a relationship with anyone, especially a love relationship with a woman.
There wasn’t one before, there isn’t one now, and there won’t be one in the future.
After he went to the countryside, he had only one goal - to perform well and be the first to get the quota and return to the city when the Tanxi Brigade had a quota to return to the city.
To him, emotions are a waste of time and a burden.
Apart from affecting your mood, causing trouble and delaying your future, there are no other benefits.
There is no way he would be a brainless scapegoat.
Even though he knew that the other person had no feelings for him at all, he still plunged into it regardless.
***
I didn’t stay in the dormitory for long in early summer.
After sitting for a while, he got up and went to school.
There was no one in the school at noon, and she sat quietly in the office, reading books and doing exercises.
When the noise of children going to school could be heard at the gate, she looked out, then at the time on the horse-head clock, and then when the time came, she went out to ring the afternoon preparatory bell.
After the bell rang, she came in and sat down, preparing for the class.
But she had just sat down for a while when she heard someone walking into the office.
Chuxia looked up and saw that it was Lin Xiaohan.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan sitting down on the desk next to him, Chu Xia hesitated for a while and asked, "The fever has just subsided, won't you take a rest for half a day?"
Lin Xiaohan said: "No need."
He just went to the health room to take his temperature. The fever has subsided and returned to normal.
Besides the fever, he had no other symptoms such as nasal congestion or cough.
If you really are not feeling well and cannot teach, just let the students study on their own.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan like this, Chu Xia didn't ask any more questions.
She made some preparations, went out to ring the bell for class at the appointed time, and then went to the classroom next door for class.
Lin Xiaohan naturally hasn't fully recovered yet.
After sitting in the office for a while, he felt cold, so he took his book and pulled a chair out, sat outside the office, and read in the sun.
***
Under the same sunshine.
Of course, Lin Xiaohan was not the only one sitting in front of the house basking in the sun during this period.
Outside the kitchen door of the educated youth center, there was Su Yun, who also looked sick, sitting in the sun.
She closed her eyes in the sun, coughing softly from time to time.
Su Yun didn't get sick today, she has been sick for three days.
Three days ago, Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai returned from labor camp. She had been struggling for three months, but after Han Ting came back, she could no longer bear it and collapsed.
Illness comes like a mountain falling.
With Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai around, Su Yun is no longer alone and doesn't need to carry it all on her own, so she took a leave of absence to stay at the educated youth site to recuperate.
Han Ting and his colleagues' re-education through labor ended, and Wu Changming's strict discipline of the rest of the people also ended.
Now they have returned to their previous life, doing the same work as other villagers every day, receiving the same supervision, and no longer dare to be lazy like before.
After Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai came back, the first thing they did was to have a quarrel with everyone else.
Of course, the others were rather timid, and Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai didn't want to cause any more trouble and be sent to labor camp, so their commotion was just a small one, with only their mouths.
After the quarrel, the ten people broke up completely and split into three groups.
The three girls, Li Qiao, Gu Yuzhu and Chen Sisi, formed a group, the three boys, Hu Yang, Wang Xiangqian and Sun Yao, formed a group, and the remaining four, Han Ting and his group, formed a group.
Su Yun thought this was a good idea.
Before, Han Ting and the other two had to take care of the affairs of the other six people. No matter what happened, they had to bear it. Especially the three girls, Li Qiao, when they encountered problems that they could not solve themselves, they would ask Han Ting for help, which also hindered them a lot.
And now, Han Ting and the other three only have to take care of her.
Other people can support a whole family on their own, and now Han Ting and his three men are supporting her alone. As long as they don't lack work and are not lazy, she will not have to worry about food and drink even if she does nothing.
Su Yun basked in the sun until evening.
The other nine people came back from outside in three groups.
Before, Su Yun couldn’t get the chance to cook first in the kitchen, but now she doesn’t have to fight for it anymore. With Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai around, Li Qiao and Hu Yang took the initiative to let the kitchen cook for them first.
I saw Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai enter the yard.
Su Yun struggled to stand up from the bench, coughed twice and said in a hollow voice: "You are back."
Han Ting responded: "Why don't you go inside?"
Su Yun looked at him and said, "I've been basking in the sun here this afternoon. I don't have any energy left and I'm too lazy to move."
Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai took her into the kitchen.
The three of them washed their hands with warm water. Chaozi and Guogai went to light a fire to boil water to heat the steamed buns. Han Ting poured half a bowl of hot water for Su Yun and took her to sit down at the table.
Su Yun drank the hot water, looked at Han Ting and said, "I feel much better after taking the medicine today. How about I go to work with you guys tomorrow? I can't keep holding you back like this."
Han Ting took the bowl from her hand, put it on the table and said, "Why work? Wait until you're well again. There's nothing holding you back, so stop thinking about it."
Su Yun looked sad and said, "If I hadn't been a bad farm worker and hadn't been holding everyone back, I wouldn't have been isolated by them after you left three months ago."
Hearing this, Han Ting was still upset.
He added: "It's not your problem. I'm back now. I won't let anyone bully you anymore, and I won't let you suffer anymore. Just focus on recuperating."
After hearing this, Su Yun looked more reassured.
She nodded to Han Ting and said, "Let's behave ourselves in the future and live a down-to-earth life. Don't take risks for irrelevant people. It's not worth it."
Han Ting responded: "I know what's going on."
Su Yun took a deep breath and said softly, "Han Ting, I've always felt that as long as you wanted to, you could do better than Lin Xiaohan no matter what you did. You're just too lazy to compete with him. If you get serious, he won't have a chance to shine."
Hearing Lin Xiaohan's name, Han Ting remembered that he met Chu Xia in the clinic in the morning. Chu Xia hurried to the clinic to buy medicine for Lin Xiaohan who was sick with a fever. Han Ting smiled disdainfully.
Chaozi and Guogai also agreed with Su Yun's words.
Following Han Ting's smile, Guo Gai said, "How can a snob like Lin Xiaohan be compared with Brother Ting? Brother Ting doesn't even take him seriously."
Han Ting really disdained to be compared with Lin Xiaohan.
Without letting Chaozi continue the conversation, he said, "Stop talking about those irrelevant people."
After Han Ting said this, Chaozi and Guogai stopped talking.
Su Yun did not continue talking at an inappropriate time. She only took Han Ting out for a walk after dinner before she told him what she was really thinking.
She said to Han Ting in a very sad and melancholy tone: "Han Ting, I really miss home. I really want to go home. I don't know how I managed to survive these three months when you were away. I was always afraid that I would not be able to make it, and would die here and never be able to go home."
Han Ting comforted her and said, "It's all in the past. I won't let you suffer any more in the future."
Su Yun hummed, and then said, "Now not only have we survived the most difficult times, but the unrest that lasted for ten years has also ended. I believe that the organization will give us educated youth more opportunities to return to the city. We will work hard and apply for quotas to go home together, okay?"
The civil unrest ended two months ago and the whole country knew about it.
But people at the bottom of society cannot see clearly how the country will develop next.
Han Ting didn't think much about this.
He has never been the kind of person who likes to bother himself with these things.
When facing life, he always holds the carefree attitude that "there will always be a way out when you reach the mountain".
He said to Su Yun calmly: "If there is a target and we can get it, then we must go back. No one wants to stay in the countryside forever. But we can't get stuck in a dead end because of this. After all, it's not as easy as it sounds. Keep calm, and you will get what you deserve."
Su Yun nodded to Han Ting: "Yes."
She believed that there would be one, because her dream was more real than reality.
But she might not be able to go back with Han Ting.
But it doesn’t matter. She will just go back to the city and wait for Han Ting.
Since the policies will continue to relax and change, Han Ting will go back sooner or later.
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