The two people came looking for her early in the morning, and Jiang Shufen couldn't help but ask, "Then why did they leave behind a machine and two cans of food and leave?"
"The engine is broken. They said I only graduated from high school and asked me to take a look."
Jiang Shufen placed the rice bowl on the table. "Do you think I don't know what level you were at after graduating from high school? You're always going to Hezhuang... Why don't you go to work and rest at home? You've been planting trees for a while now, so stay home, read some books, and take a nap. You haven't finished the sunflower seeds and biscuits that Gu Chen brought over the other day. Eat some if you're hungry."
"There's some food warming up in the pot. Just heat it up yourself at lunchtime. I won't be back until evening."
Except for Lin Yuxi, who is not working, the other four members of the family still have to go to work.
The tasks at each branch are different; we only get together when there's a rush to harvest.
Jiang Shufen also finished her meal in a hurry and left.
After having breakfast, Lin Yuxi took out her old tools again. The soldering iron was indeed much less useful than the electric drill. At least it could be easily disassembled in no time. She left it there, not intending to fix it, but to do so in a few days.
Normally, Lin Yuxi would have preferred to lie down and not work, but she went to work anyway. She couldn't stay at home all day; there would be too much gossip, so it was better to keep a low profile.
Chen Dajiang didn't want to put pressure on Lin Yuxi, so he didn't tell anyone that she was the commune's technical advisor. He only revealed it to the production team leader and a few close confidants, and specifically instructed them not to tell anyone else.
Lin Yuxi was still busy cultivating sweet potatoes. A few days later, her sweet potatoes had sprouted tender shoots, which was just the right time for grafting. She used the two sweet potatoes she had as the female parent, and then took advantage of these few days to go to the mountain to dig up a lot of wild sweet potatoes as the male parent for crossbreeding.
Just as she was about to head up the mountain with her hoe, Wang Xiulan's son from the next house returned.
Back in the village, after listening to his mother Wang Xiulan's embellished account, he angrily confronted Lin Yuxi, stopping her in her tracks. "Comrade Lin Yuxi, my mother hasn't offended you. She's in her fifties or sixties, and you still made her sweep... sweep those things? Aren't you going too far?"
Dong Dafang is short, in his thirties, but his height is about 1.7 meters. When he stands next to Lin Yuxi, the two are almost the same height.
"Who went too far? Your mother threw feces and urine into my yard, and she won't clean it up herself. Am I supposed to clean it up for her?"
"How could that be! You're the one who bullied my mom, and why would my mom throw excrement and urine into your yard?" Dong Dafang retorted. Although his mom could be unreasonable at times, she would never do such a despicable thing.
The girl in front of him was pretty, but she didn't say a single nice thing. No matter what, her mother was in her fifties or sixties, so she should be called "auntie" by age.
"If you don't believe me, go ask Zhang Shufang. She was watching your mother sweep. And also! Stay away from me." Lin Yuxi snorted coldly, picked up the hoe, and turned to leave.
I have no idea what kind of trouble Wang Xiulan is stirring up. Her affair has been known throughout the village for a long time. You can ask anyone you ask.
Ever since that incident, Wang Xiulan has stayed indoors for a week, weeping with her eyes closed every day, hoping that Dong Dafang would come back. But she waited and waited, and half a month passed, and her son did not come back to see her even once.
Lin Yuxi didn't want to get involved in these trivial matters. She just wanted to go up the mountain to find some sweet potatoes and see if there were any better varieties. When she left, she locked the gate to her yard.
Believe it or not, it's up to you.
You can't reason with a damned devil. If he keeps acting like this, he'll suffer a lot in the future.
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