Xu Yan certainly didn't want any wedding supplies.
She was completely blinded by lust.
After seeing Xie Zhuo, he held back and followed him. When they arrived at the field, Song Guangming asked him about it, and he made up a reason on the spot.
Now that the two of them were standing in the ground, with people constantly glancing at them from time to time, Xu Yan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
She pressed her straw hat down, squatted down, and began to hoe the grass with a shovel.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of summer. The ground was like a warm oven. Squatting face down like this, you would soon start sweating.
Xu Yan came to the field for the first time in the morning and had no experience. When she came out in the afternoon, she brought a towel with her so she didn't have to wipe herself with her hands anymore.
"It's too sunny, let's go sit under the shade of the trees over there for a while," Xie Zhuo pointed out to the outside of the ground.
"Hmm?" Xu Yan looked up.
“This little bit of land isn’t enough for you,” Xie Zhuo said, taking a step toward the sun to try and block the sunlight from shining on Xu Yan’s face.
Seeing that she was still squatting there without moving, he continued, "It will be over by four o'clock at the latest. I will borrow a bicycle and take you there then, so you don't have to stand here in the sun."
Xu Yan wanted to say something, but Xie Zhuo reached out and pulled him up.
“Go ahead,” Xie Zhuo said.
After saying that, he squatted down and started working.
The workload in the afternoon is much lighter than in the morning.
Both men and women have two plots of land; once they've finished, they can leave.
Because of the heat, many people, even though they had been called to the fields, would still sit under the shade of a tree for a while and chat after the team leader had divided the land.
We'll go down to the ground when the sun isn't so intense anymore.
Xu Yan didn't know if Xie Zhuo usually chatted with everyone, but today, because of her, he was squatting in the field weeding at this time.
“Little Xu, the educated youth,” Liu Mancang saw Xu Yan and immediately waved to her.
Xu Yan glanced in his direction.
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng occupied a shady spot under a tree, with no one else around.
Xu Yan walked over.
“Little Xu, you’re so good to my third brother,” Liu Mancang said with some emotion. “You even came to help him weed on such a hot day.”
"I'm not here to hide in the shade with you guys," Xu Yan glanced at the field, "your third brother is working there all by himself."
“Hey, how could I really let you do it?” Liu Mancang said, “but it’s good that you have the intention. What’s that called again?”
He looked at Zhao Jisheng.
“I don’t know,” Zhao Jisheng said.
“Call me…” Liu Mancang thought hard, his face contorted in pain, “Call me… Oh, something like Tick!”
What Tik?
Xu Yan was somewhat confused.
“What you educated youth say,” Liu Mancang said, “is all about giving flowers to girls and buying them candy, what kind of nonsense is that!”
What kind of tic-tac are they?
It took Xu Yan a few seconds to realize that Liu Mancang meant "romantic," a transliteration of "romance."
She was both amused and exasperated.
Liu Mancang, who is close to Xie Zhuo, is quite interesting.
“Come, Third Sister-in-law, sit down,” Liu Mancang pulled the sack Zhao Jisheng was holding and put it on the ground. “Standing is tiring.”
Xu Yan shook his head.
After a while, he looked into the field again.
Then, she took off her straw hat, and before she could say anything, Liu Mancang grabbed the hat and darted into the field without a word.
No one knows what he whispered to Xie Zhuo, but Xie Zhuo kicked him in the butt, and he quickly darted back.
Everyone waited on the road for more than an hour before gradually getting down to the fields; any later and they might not be able to finish.
Once the crowd left, Xu Yan was left alone under the shade of the tree.
There were a few gossipy old women who happened to be assigned to the same group as Qian Yingxiu. When they saw Xu Yan sitting leisurely on the ground outside, they felt displeased.
"I don't know what Xie Laosan was after, marrying such a troublesome woman."
"I think Xie Laosan is bewitched and has been bewitched. He married such a troublemaker. He's sure he won't be able to live like this in the future."
"Exactly! This little slut is already thinking about being in charge. Those two brats from the Xie family will be tortured to death in the future!"
“Auntie,” someone called to Granny Tian, who was standing nearby, “I think that thing you mentioned before can work out.”
Granny Tian was a thin, frail old woman who was blind in one eye. It was said that when she was young, her husband had whipped her eye with a belt, causing her to go blind.
She has four daughters and one son.
The eldest and second eldest daughters are married. Although the third daughter is of marriageable age, she has refused to marry because she thinks the dowry is too low. Now she is twenty-two years old and still stays at home taking care of the whole family.
Her only son had another litter of girls who were a financial burden. She heard from others that if she brought a boy over and raised him for a few years, she would be able to have a son.
She then set her sights on the Xie family.
The Xie family's two kids happen to be orphans, wouldn't it be perfect to take them in and raise them?
A few days ago, she kept asking Hei Ya to bring the two of them home to play. Unexpectedly, after a few visits, they suddenly stopped coming, which made her so angry that she beat Hei Ya up again.
A good-for-nothing brat.
They can't even handle such a small matter.
"This young educated youth has such fair and delicate skin. She's been in our brigade for half a year and hasn't gotten a single tan," the man said. "Her family is well-off too. Could she be the kind of person to be a stepmother?"
"Maybe they're planning to send the child away these days."
The man spoke with such conviction that Granny Tian was somewhat tempted.
She glanced outside again and saw the female educated youth picking a few pale purple wildflowers from the ground and tying them to the ends of her hair.
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