Chapter 208
Girl Li Jiejun is sick, and Xiao Ruan has asked for leave to go home. With two people missing, the printing office is incredibly busy these days trying to send newspapers.
She tripped and twisted her ankle while moving paper to the warehouse. There were only a few people working there, and she felt bad about delaying the process, so she endured the pain and continued to work.
When she was about to go home in the evening, she felt her feet hurt even more as she walked out the door. She almost fell down the stairs and cried out in pain.
Duan Fengming saw it and asked, "What's wrong?"
She smiled and said, "Nothing, I just twisted my ankle."
"Then let me help you."
If you sprain your ankle, holding on to someone won't relieve the pain, but will instead become a burden.
He went out to do some work today and came to take over in the evening. When he saw her like this, he asked her and found out that she had sprained her foot.
"Then I'll carry you on my back. You can't walk like this."
He carried her down the stairs and walked back.
It takes about half an hour to get from here to where they live. Because the place of exile is remote and transportation is inconvenient, they simply spend an hour on the road every day, which actually saves time and money.
"You really are such a fool! Don't continue working if you're injured."
She rested her head in the crook of his neck and watched as his ears turned red again.
When I took off my shoes, my instep was terribly swollen.
He went out and bought some medicinal wine to rub on her.
"It's already so serious, why don't you take a rest?"
"Xiao Jie has already asked for leave. How can I handle this situation when we are short of staff?"
"Xiao Jie is so embarrassed, why aren't you embarrassed? Whoever gets sick first is right? You limped while working, Duan Fengming and Lao You must have seen it, but you pretended that no one saw it. You injured your foot like this. No one will cherish your unpaid comeback. You silly girl."
"That's annoying. I'm just worried I won't be able to finish the work."
"Even after you're done, no one will be grateful. They'll just say, 'No one forced you to work while sick, it was your own choice.' If you're seriously injured, they'll say, 'No one forced you, it was your own fault. You didn't tell me you were injured, it's you who doesn't know how to take care of yourself, what does it have to do with them?'"
"What about you? You have to do everything. You are exhausted."
"Because this is my responsibility. I'm in charge here, and I have to have an overview of the overall situation. If I weren't in charge, I'd just do my part."
"ah!"
"Does it hurt?!"
"Not bad."
"Don't do that again."
"Um."
He rubbed her bruises with both hands. The swollen area felt cool and the pain was relieved.
Everyone came back one after another, tired and hot, and found that dinner was not ready.
He said her leg injury was so severe that she couldn't cook. Duan Fengming took over the cooking duties, but found the kitchen empty and empty. It was already seven o'clock, so she had no choice but to go buy groceries.
As Duan Fengming was about to leave, he came out and said with a smile, "Please buy me two bottles of ink on the way."
The stationery store is about 40 minutes away from here, and the people selling vegetables have already packed up and gone home by now, so it takes another 20 minutes to get to the vegetable store.
Everyone knew that in the afternoon, only Lao You and Duan Fengming worked with her. They turned a blind eye to her foot injury, and the team leader was angry.
She gradually came to realize that, while they didn't appear to be acting in a superior-subordinate relationship, they were actually quite afraid of him. Even Lao You was no exception. He was so because he had someone backing him. He couldn't help but tolerate Lao You out of consideration for his supporters. But their tolerance and impudence were like one side holding down a spring, maintaining it within a certain limit. If Lao You went beyond that limit, the other side would erupt.
She sighed that it was no wonder that the two of them became like that when they got old, as the ice was not formed in a day.
And although they kept quiet, she gradually learned that several of the girls in this group were transferred later, merely helping with the newspaper. Several of the boys had gotten into trouble due to a major incident, and because of the gravity of the situation, they had been temporarily exiled here. She wasn't sure what they'd done before, as she didn't know when they'd started. Because of this, even if it was just a newspaper operation, they had to be wary of certain people, and adding new people was extremely cautious. And since she'd joined so easily, it was no wonder they'd treated her this way.
She watched him applying medicine to her feet. She thought to herself, "You can tell a person's age from the age of three. Whether you are old or young, you can't tell me."
She saw the hem of his trousers revealing his woolen trousers, which were barely visible above his ankles. The furry trousers she loved could only be seen but not touched.
After applying the medicine, he asked her to lie down, covered her with a quilt, and said with a smile, "Sleep well." As if he was taking care of a seriously ill patient.
She laughed and said, "I hurt my foot, I'm not sick. It's only seven o'clock."
After a while, he bought her some strawberry cake and some fruit, including a plate of green apples cut into the shapes of rabbits.
She felt like crying after seeing it.
He went out and suddenly realized, "Oh, how long will it take for Fengming to come back? I was so confused that I thought it was very early. Let's go out to eat."
He invited everyone out for dinner, and by the time Duan Fengming came back with the ink and food, it was almost nine o'clock.
Duan Fengming had been walking for more than an hour and was already sweating all over.
But when I put my things down, I found that the house was quiet and everyone was asleep.
Entering the room, Jie Jun said, "The team leader saw that you haven't come back yet, so he asked everyone to go out for dinner." Then he pointed at the noodles on the table and said, "This is specially left for you. Eat it while it's hot."
"Ah!" Duan Fengming said.
He called Lao You to work overtime with him, leaving him up all night. The next day, he told him it was too much work and that since they were the most senior, they deserved to sacrifice some rest time. He then made him work another day and night. Of course, it wasn't a full two days and two nights of sleep; they still had to get some sleep in between. Every time Lao You slept less than an hour, he'd wake him up to work. He'd get really angry and want to fight, but Lao You couldn't beat him.
He still has an advantage in staying up late.
When they finally finished printing and came back, he had become the person she was most familiar with. It always happened. Anyway, when the door opened the next day, he actually slept on the floor all night. She didn't know when he fell off the bed. He was so sleepy that he didn't even notice.
Wang Jiazhi felt a little guilty. After all, he was right. She had been forcing herself not to say it. Others had no obligation to show concern for her, even though they were both eyeing her covetously.
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