Zhao Xiaotong was startled and quickly turned around, her eyes flashing with panic.
"village head……"
“I saw this mud-brick house was still unfinished a few days ago, and now someone has moved in. So let’s see who moves in. We’ll all be from the same village from now on, and there will inevitably be times when we need to lend a hand.”
She sniffed; the aroma of braised pork was so strong that it made her even hungrier. She had never tasted meat so delicious before.
"This is the new family. There are no other houses in the village, only this room is available for rent," Gu Zhixiang said.
"It's getting late, you should go back and cook." He urged, and walked inside.
It was almost six o'clock, and the sky wasn't very dark; the ground and the village were all illuminated. But Zhao Xiaotong was starving, and her legs just wouldn't move.
She, a sent-down youth, hadn't eaten meat for a month, so why did her family, who had also been sent down to the countryside, still have meat to eat?
Is there meat in it?
Where did they get the money to buy meat?
Zhao Xiaotong wanted to take a few more glances, but then cheerful laughter came from inside. After watching Gu Zhixiang walk in, she closed the door to the main room.
inside the house.
The food is almost ready.
Just then, Aunt Gu brought some potatoes, so we made braised pork with potatoes. All the seasonings were ready, and the aroma was so enticing that it filled the entire mud-brick house.
Gu Zhixiang pulled an envelope out of his pocket and handed it to Lin Yuxi. "Girl, this is a letter from Chengzhuang City. The recipient is you. Someone brought it to me when I came back today. Check if this is yours."
The bright yellow kraft paper envelope had neat and legible handwriting. The address was Qinghe Village, and the recipient was Comrade Lin Yuxi.
He knew all two hundred-plus households in the village, and none of them shared the same name, so he took the name immediately after choosing it.
"A letter? What letter?" Old Master Lin narrowed his eyes and leaned over to take a look. "Why is it from Chengzhuang?"
Lin Yuxi opened the envelope; it was a letter of commendation from the train stationmaster for her act of bravery.
The contents of the envelope were read aloud by Grandpa Lin. It specifically emphasized that his granddaughter had subdued the knife-wielding assailant and that her story in Chengzhuang City had been included in her personal file.
Gu Zhixiang and his wife were shocked to hear this.
"A knife-wielding assailant on a train? That's terrifying! Were you hurt?" Aunt Gu listened with trepidation. She had always heard stories of knives going in and coming out, and she was horrified if someone had actually been injured.
She quickly felt around Lin Yuxi's arm and examined it carefully.
“Aunt Gu, I wasn’t hurt. Gu Chen was there to help me, and there were railway police on the train too. There were plenty of people, so he couldn’t have hurt me.” Lin Yuxi’s eyes were bright, and a smile appeared on her delicate features.
"It's good that no one was hurt. Luckily, Xiao Chen was in the car too..." Aunt Gu paused, then suddenly realized, "So you two met in the car?"
She seemed to have noticed something different, and her eyes darted back and forth between the two of them.
Gu Chen sat calmly on the stool.
Lin Yuxi met her gaze and replied without changing her expression, "No, he just helped me, we don't know each other."
Aunt Gu glared at Gu Chen inwardly. This brat, why doesn't he get it yet?
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