Chapter 97: Becoming a Mud Monkey
After dinner, she got out of bed, poured water to rinse the lunch box, and splashed the dishwater directly into the yard. Just as she was about to go into the house, Xu Qingming came out of the shed with a bowl in his hand. They were so many people, and it was really not easy to improve their lives. The most they could do was to make some noodle soup. It was quite difficult to change it up.
"Did Lu Dongping bring you food?"
Wen Wan nodded: "Yeah!" She didn't try to persuade him anymore. Everyone has their own ambitions. If Xu Qingming wants to join the educated youth team, then let him do it.
The brother and sister stood against the wall, one holding a lunch box and the other holding a lunch box: "Did my uncle write to me?"
"A letter has arrived!"
"What do you think?"
Wen Wan looked at the water dripping down the eaves and said, "I've made up my mind. I plan to get a marriage certificate with him."
Xu Qingming was shocked by her words. He opened his mouth for a long time but no sound came out. "Anbao, do you know what you are doing? You have only known each other for more than half a year, and you are so anxious to get the marriage certificate? Is he pushing you? Can you understand him in such a short time? What if he is pretending now? What will you do in the future?"
Wen Wan sighed, "I don't know. Let's take it one step at a time and follow our heart! If I can't see clearly in half a year, will I be able to see clearly in another half a year? Not necessarily!"
"I told him to write me a letter of guarantee before we get the marriage certificate. If he treats me badly in the future and we can't live together anymore, we can divorce. I think this is a good idea."
We can talk about the future later, at least we are happy now, let’s be happy first. It’s tiring to keep thinking about things so far ahead.
Xu Qingming was almost choked by her: "What do you mean? A pre-marital guarantee? Can you do it like this? No, Anbao, what's the point of writing this thing? You can regret it just as easily."
Wen Wan said, "Write three copies. He keeps one, I keep one, and the other is for you. Please keep it for me. It's just for a rainy day. Since you want to get the marriage certificate, you must want to live a good life. You won't go that far easily."
Xu Qingming silently gave her a thumbs-up. Okay, you can do it! He had never met anyone more clear-headed and straightforward than Wen Wan. He didn't know what was wrong with her brain, but no matter what she did, there was nothing she wouldn't dare to do, except what you wouldn't dare to think.
Wen Wan glanced at him and said, "Eat your meal instead of worrying about yourself. You're only one year older than me, but you act like an old man. Don't forget what you were like at home. You were just a naughty kid!"
Xu Qingming raised his hand: "Do you deserve a beating?"
Wen Wan ran away.
The rain kept falling, and she couldn't go out or work, so she stayed indoors. She had almost finished sewing the clothes and pants she had made for Lu Dongping, except for the hemming. As she got busy, she put them down. It wasn't convenient for her to go to Lu's house to get them, so she had to pick up the long-abandoned yarn and continue knitting.
The weather in June is like a child's face, changing at any time.
The rain came heavily at night, crackling all night and then for most of the day, and the sky cleared up in the afternoon.
The sun struggled out from the clouds, and everyone who had stayed in the house all day ran out.
Wen Wan crawled out of the quilt, untied her braids, put on plastic sandals and went out.
Now that the weather is clear, there is no need for Lu Dongping to come over, she can just go over there.
The muddy road was not easy to walk on. By the time I reached Lu's yard, the original color of my sandals and feet could no longer be seen.
Lu Donglin was sitting quietly under the eaves writing, and when he saw her, he called out, "Sister, why are you here at this hour? The road is slippery!"
Wen Wan stamped her feet to get rid of the mud on the soles of her shoes. Lu Donglin stood up and went to get a basin of water for her: "That's not good. Come over here and rinse with water. It's a little cold."
"It's okay. I took the socks, rinsed them, put them on, and then I can take them off when I go back."
After saying that, she glanced at him and said, "Why are you alone? Where's your brother?"
"My brother and dad went to the fields, my mom and sister went to pick grass for the pigs. I wanted to go too, but I haven't done a single word on this homework! You said the busy holiday is for us to come back to work, but after working, how can we have the time? And you still assign so much homework? What are these teachers thinking?"
Wen Wan finished showering and stepped onto the eaves. She wiped her hands with a towel draped over the rope and said, "What can the teacher think? It's only been half a month. I'm afraid you haven't learned much to begin with, and after half a month, what little you have in your heads will be lost."
As he spoke, he glanced at his writing pad and said, "Hey, not bad. From a distance, it looks much neater than before."
Lu Donglin suddenly came to his senses: "Then look carefully?"
"You need to study hard and read carefully." After thinking for a moment, he added, "God, your teacher told me about you. He said you're quite smart and you've worked hard this semester. If you work harder, you'll have no problem getting promoted to the fourth grade next semester."
Lu Donglin scratched his head in distress: "Sister, seriously, I want to repeat the grade and be your student."
Wen Wan was sitting on the doorstep putting on socks. After hearing what he said, she snorted twice: "Don't tell me, tell your brother this."
Lu Donglin: ——It would be strange if he dared.
"Do you know where your brother kept the things I sent to heaven?"
"What?"
"It is God who made half of the clothes for me."
Lu Donglin stood up and said, "You know, do you want to continue sewing? My brother treats it like a treasure!" As she said that, she went into the house. When she came out, she was holding a cloth bag in her hand, which contained her unfinished needlework.
Wen Wan took a clean sieve from behind the door and sat down with Lu Dongping. She took out the things in her pocket and put them in the sieve, and then sat down to thread the needle.
The pants are actually already done, except for the waistband, which still needs some fine-tuning. The dress is almost done, too, except for the collar, which I'll sew on after it's hemmed. Then, I'll use a porcelain pot filled with boiling water to smooth it out and iron it.
Wen Wan was buttoning the collar of her shirt, and Lu Donglin stopped writing and just lay there looking at her eagerly.
Wen Wan's neck felt a little sore from looking down for so long. When she looked up, she saw him staring at her. She frowned and said, "Why aren't you writing properly?"
Lu Donglin sighed: "Hey! I was just wondering why my mother gave birth to me so late."
Wen Wan:?
Is there something wrong with this child?
"If you were born too early, would it still be you?"
That's true, but: "If I had been three or five years earlier, my brother wouldn't have had a chance to succeed."
Wen Wan, who was muttering, didn't hear clearly, so she paused and looked up at him: "What did you say?"
Lu Donglin said: "I don't know what incense my brother burned in his previous life that he could meet you in this life!" I am so envious of having a partner to make new clothes for you.
Wen Wan smiled and said, "What do you know, kid? Study hard. If you pass the high school entrance exam, you can go to the city to work as a worker and eat commercial grain. You will see more outstanding people."
Lu Dongping snorted, "You are the best and most outstanding person I have ever met. My brother didn't even graduate from elementary school and yet he met someone as good as you. This shows that this has nothing to do with diplomas, it's just luck."
Wen Wan ignored him. This child is good, smart and sensible, but his studies are such a headache.
No one spoke, and Lu Dong became bored. He lay down and continued to write, as if he was about to fall asleep.
After this rain, all the fields were filled with water. Lu Dongping and his team worked very hard and finally finished irrigating most of the paddy fields. Then they could go into the fields and pull out the seedlings.
Pulling the seedlings is still the job of women, while men will move the seedlings out of the rice fields and carry them to the fields where they are to be planted.
This was Wenwan's first time working in the fields. The fields were filled with years of mud, which didn't hurt her feet, but when she stepped in, her knees bent and she couldn't pull them out for a long time.
Wen Wan and Lu Chun'e started pulling the rope from the edge of the field. With Lu Chun'e's support, it was a little harder, but not impossible. Zhang Yun was in a terrible situation. She put her foot down and couldn't pull it out. She called out to Deng Hongjuan, "No, let's go together. It might be better if we pull and support each other, otherwise we won't be able to move at all."
Deng Hongjuan was the same. She had pulled out all the seedlings in front of her, so she had to move forward a little.
On her left was Xu Wenfang, and on her right was Zhang Yun. Xu Wenfang had ignored her since their last argument, and she didn't want to put her reputation on the line.
Although she despised Zhang Yun's hypocritical and timid behavior, it was better to have someone to talk to than to live in silence.
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Zhang Yun called out to her, and it was exactly what she wanted. She responded and reached out to grab Zhang Yun's hand. She couldn't pull her leg out, but Zhang Yun did, stepping on it and saying, "Try harder, I'll pull you up!" As soon as she finished speaking, the unfortunate girl suddenly felt a pain in her calf. She shivered and her feet slipped. The two of them staggered and couldn't stand. They screamed and stumbled and sat down in the muddy field. As soon as she sat down, Deng Hongjuan fell on her with an overwhelming posture, directly pinning her into the rice paddy.
The women who were watching the excitement at the side finally stepped forward and pulled the two people up. Both of them were covered in mud like monkeys, especially Zhang Yun, who was pinned down by Deng Hongjuan. Her entire body was buried in the mud, including her hair, ears, nose and mouth.
At this moment, she didn't care that she was the one who asked to go together first. She cried and tried to pull Deng Hongjuan away. If Deng Hongjuan hadn't pounced on her, she wouldn't be in such a mess even if she fell.
My goodness, this comrade who usually looks so weak and doesn't dare to speak loudly, but is like a little rabbit, is really powerful when she gets angry and starts to fight with others! The women next to her had to use a lot of effort to pull them apart. Gao Xiulan was so angry that she yelled at the top of her throat: "You are still making a fuss even though you are in such a state. Why don't you go wash up and clean up. You want to make people laugh and no one can stop you. Don't delay everyone from going to work."
Don’t say who bullied whom this time, you brought it upon yourself.
Really, she now feels a headache when she sees these female educated youth at the educated youth center. They cause trouble every other day. They have been here for several months, but they just can't really stop.
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