As Xie Zhuo approached Xu Yan from the bookstore entrance, he told her about the wild ginseng.
Although Xu Yan had read the book before and knew that Han Xiaoyu had sold the wild ginseng for 30,000, he was still very surprised to hear Xie Zhuo say that if he sold it now, it could fetch at least 50,000.
Fifty thousand, even in this day and age.
That's a huge sum of money!
However, no matter how urgent the situation, they couldn't skip a meal. Since they had two little ones waiting at home, Xie Zhuo and Xu Yan didn't eat at the state-run restaurant. Instead, they asked the waiter to pack their food and take it home.
The road to Qingshan Brigade was still difficult to walk on. Even though Xie Zhuo was very careful to choose flat areas, Xu Yan was still almost thrown off.
She quickly grabbed the metal frame under her buttocks.
Unfortunately, it was no use. When the bicycle went over a large pothole that she could not avoid, she was almost thrown off again.
"You, perhaps..."
Xie Zhuo noticed her condition and was about to say that there were no people on the road, so why didn't she hold onto his clothes? A pair of warm, soft, and boneless hands passed through his waist and placed directly on his lower abdomen.
Xie Zhuo's breath hitched.
He pushed forward several times before turning his head slightly to look back.
He saw nothing; Xu Yan, wearing a straw hat, hid behind him.
The dirt road was rugged and uneven, and it only got a little better when they were almost at Qingshan Brigade. But Xu Yan didn't let go. She was really afraid of being jolted like that again. If it happened again like before, she would fall off the road.
Normally, the people in the brigade finish work and go home by noon, but today, for some reason, they were all carrying their farm tools and swaying as they walked home, almost until one o'clock.
Xu Yan spotted the figure from a great distance.
The swaying figure also caught sight of the two of them.
"Good heavens, isn't that Xie Laosan?" Li Aihua's voice was as loud as ever.
Hearing her words, her husband quickly looked in the direction she was pointing, and sure enough, it was Xie Laosan. "Hey, it really is him."
"He took the day off and didn't come to work today because he went to buy a bicycle?" Another woman's voice was quite loud.
"You actually went and bought it?"
"Didn't Sister Qian say that Xie Laosan's money was all borrowed, and then returned after a perfunctory visit? Where did he get the money to buy a bicycle?"
Who knows?
Someone glanced at Granny Qian and saw her glaring angrily at Xie Zhuo. Finding it pointless, they turned back to continue their conversation with the others.
"I think the person sitting in the back seat is Xiao Xu, a former educated youth?" someone asked uncertainly.
"I think so too. There's no one in our brigade who's fairer than her."
"This young Xu is really living a good life. I really didn't expect Xie Laosan to actually buy her a bicycle."
"Is this the third family in our village to buy a bicycle?"
"I wonder about the Sun family..."
As someone said this, they turned their head and quietly glanced at Chen Guizhen, who had been walking silently at the very back.
"Look, look, what are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen this before?" Chen Guizhen spat at them. "Don't fall into the pit if you're not careful!"
Those people gave her a disapproving look.
But some people with bad tempers immediately snorted sarcastically upon hearing her words, "I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as this. If it were me, I would never be able to show my face in public again after being caught stealing public grain."
"Wang Juan! Say that again!" Chen Guizhen snapped, her finger trembling as she pointed at Wang Juan. "I'll tear your mouth apart!"
“I won’t,” Wang Juan snorted again. “You think I’ll just say it because you tell me to? Who do you think you are?”
"You're so angry, could it be that you regret breaking off the engagement with the Xie family?"
"If you ask me, Xie Laosan didn't even like your family. Otherwise, why didn't he buy you a bicycle before? This young Xu has only been with him for a few days, and he already bought one for her."
"You, you're talking nonsense!" Chen Guizhen was furious.
Sun Jiarou, who was standing next to her, had her head hanging low and felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
She really couldn't understand why. In her dream, Xie Zhuo in her previous life was a penniless man, not only without a penny, but also with a bad character.
He's practically the control group for Han Xiaoyu.
I don't know what's going on in this life, but everything seems different from the last one.
And her parents...
Sun Jiarou glanced at her mother, then turned slightly to look in her father's direction.
Her parents used to dote on her so much that they basically never let her work in the fields except during busy farming seasons. Sometimes she didn't even want to cook, so her mother would arrange for her sister-in-law to cook and then she would deliver the food to the fields.
Everyone in the production brigade praised her for being beautiful and quick-witted.
But now everything has changed.
First, her parents didn't directly agree to her marriage with Han Xiaoyu yesterday. Second, her sister-in-law said she had an upset stomach today, so her mother made her come to work with her.
The fields are like a steamer in summer.
She was like a steamed bun thrown into a steamer; if she stayed any longer, she would be baked alive.
But her mother didn't care about her at all, and even said a few words to her when she went to rest under the shade of a tree.
That's really enough!
Sun Jiarou gritted her teeth.
Now, the moment she looked up and saw Xu Yan sitting on Xie Zhuo's bicycle, her fluffy braids flying backward in the wind, she felt that something was wrong with the scene.
How could those be the two people above?
The people up there should be her and Han Xiaoyu!
In their previous life, they were like this: Han Xiaoyu rode his bicycle with her on the back, and the two of them rode around Qingshan Brigade again and again amidst the envious gazes of everyone.
Fortunately, Han Xiaoyu is about to come and marry her with the money, and she's determined to have a grand wedding.
We should get Han Xiaoyu to buy a bicycle too, so he can ride it around on the main road.
At this very moment, Han Xiaoyu, whom Sun Jiarou was about to marry, was still on the mountain.
He circled around and around inside but still couldn't find the wild ginseng he had encountered in his past life.
The mountain was damp and sweltering at noon, and his clothes were soaked through, but he seemed oblivious to it, lying on the ground and feeling his body inch by inch.
He kept muttering to himself, "I must not have looked carefully enough. It's right here."
After searching one side, they turned around and continued searching in another direction, heading further and further into the mountains.
Xie Zhuo and Xu Yan were worried about their two children at home, so they ignored the gossip and rode as fast as they could to their doorstep.
A large group of children followed behind to watch the spectacle.
They didn't mind the heat and kept running enthusiastically alongside the bicycles.
After getting out of the car, Xu Yan took out a handful of candy from his pocket, handed one to each person, and then followed Xie Zhuo into the house.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao had been waiting anxiously at the entrance of the main room, looking quite dejected. When they saw them return together, Uncle San, pushing a bicycle, rushed over immediately.
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