Chapter 26 Chapter 26 (Minor Repair) Chen Ying's feet...
Chen Ying walked home briskly, humming a song. Cheng Xin was waiting for her in the yard.
Chen Ying subconsciously wanted to go forward and hug her arm and act coquettishly, but Cheng Xin pulled her arm away faster than her. Chen Ying caught a glimpse of Cheng Xin's watch with her sharp eyes.
She felt jealous and unwilling, and she almost smiled through gritted teeth: "Where did you get the watch, cousin? Can you lend it to me for two days?"
Cheng Xin got straight to the point: "Yingying, Wang Jiangang found me today and said that I took his things. Do you know what happened?"
Chen Ying had already thought of a strategy to deal with it. She concealed her panic and said, "Cousin, please listen to my explanation. I actually didn't know how to tell you. Wang Jiangang wants to pursue you. I don't want to accept his things. He asked me to find a chance to give them to you. I know you are in love with Brother Geng and I don't want to ruin your relationship, but I don't dare to refuse Wang Jiangang. His father is the captain and I don't dare to offend him."
Chen Ying said with tears in her eyes: "I didn't embezzle the things. I just wanted to find a chance to return them. If you don't believe me, go search my room. I haven't touched anything Wang Jiangang bought for you!"
Cheng Xin still had doubts: "I never said I wanted the vanishing cream. Wang Jiangang said he gave it to me because I wanted to buy it. Please explain it to me."
Chen Ying angrily cursed Wang Jiangang in her heart for being stingy. She was eager to tell the world about the two-dollar gift she had given him.
Chen Ying pushed the blame onto Wang Jiangang: "He misunderstood. I clearly said that I would buy vanishing cream for my cousin when I made money."
Cheng Xin believed her words for the time being, but there was still a thorn in her heart.
"Don't accept anything from anyone in my name anymore."
Chen Ying quickly swore: "I will return the things to him!"
Cheng Xin took off her watch before going to bed, feeling that it would not be safe no matter where she put it. The poor house made the watch seem even more valuable. She was immediately angry about why Geng Yunye gave her such an expensive gift.
Cheng Xin hid the watch under her pillow and couldn't sleep well the whole night.
When she woke up the next day, she debated whether to wear the watch, but finally decided to wear it to prevent her brother from finding it and damaging it.
Cheng Xin brought breakfast to her mother and brother. Last night, her mother and brother had built a shed in the drying yard to watch over the grain overnight to prevent it from being stolen.
It was her turn to be on duty during the day, and Cheng Xin went to the drying yard with a small notebook and a pencil.
After finishing the work in the fields, Cheng Xin thought Geng Yunye would not come today, but she saw him after lunch.
She glared at him and said unhappily, "Take the watch back. I can't sleep well at night."
Geng Yunye laughed: "What's wrong?"
"I feel uneasy with such a valuable thing. Yesterday, Wang Jiangang's eyes were glued to the watch. I'm not afraid of thieves stealing it, but I'm afraid of thieves thinking about it."
Geng Yunye comforted her: "Don't be afraid, the price of the watch is enough to file a case. I have someone engrave your name on the back."
Cheng Xin took off her watch and saw her name on the back. She felt a sweet feeling in her heart.
Geng Yunye came here today to help her reinforce the barn at home and raise the bottom.
Cheng Xin wondered, "There's nothing wrong with my barn. It was the only one that didn't leak when it rained this year."
Geng Yunye asked her to watch from the side: "Just in case, I'll check your roof again."
Now that things have come to this, it would be ungrateful to refuse.
Cheng Xin suddenly remembered something important. "Take some time to sell the dried goods. The two batches of mushrooms are almost done drying."
Geng Yunye was thinking the same thing: "Sell it. There's something wrong with the mushrooms recently. The price of dried mushrooms is good."
Chen Ying strolled to the old bachelor's house as if nothing had happened. His woodshed was now everyone's secret base. She came up and complained that Wang Jiangang had betrayed her.
She pulled Wang Jiangang's sleeve and said coquettishly, "Brother Jiangang, I haven't given the things to my cousin yet. You have disrupted all my plans."
Wang Jiangang was so excited by her coquettish voice: "It's my fault. I got angry when I saw her walking with Geng. I didn't discuss it with you in advance."
Chen Ying pouted and said, "What should I do now? My cousin has a very bad impression of you. She asked me to return the things and won't accept your things."
The old bachelor and others started to make a noise, "The eldest daughter of the Cheng family has a bad temper."
"That's right. He doesn't even take our brother Jiangang seriously."
"If you ask me, I would not want such a blind woman. Look how considerate our sister Yingying is."
Wang Jiangang lost face in front of his brothers and deliberately concealed the fact that Geng Yunye gave Cheng Xin a watch. "If she doesn't want it, forget it. Keep it for yourself and say it was given to you by me."
Chen Ying was secretly delighted, but embarrassed: "This is not good, what if my cousin gets angry?"
Zhang Mazi persuaded her to accept it: "It's better to make her angry. Let her regret missing such a good man like Jiangang. She won't meet another one in the future!"
Chen Ying's plan succeeded and she got the skin care products without spending a penny.
Cheng Xin sat in the yard helping Geng Yunye mend his straw hat. Geng Yunye raised the barn by four bricks so that he would have to use a stool when he wanted to get things from the barn.
He checked the roof again. It hadn't rained since the last repair, and the house hadn't leaked for a long time.
Cheng Cunzhi held the ladder for him and said, "Xiao Geng is kind-hearted. If it were someone else, who would care so much about our family?"
Geng Yunye did not miss a single tile: "We were in a hurry to repair the roof last time. Uncle, your family just harvested the grain, so you need to check it a few more times."
He helped put some crooked tiles back in place, and then he took a sack to the river to dig sand, running back and forth several times.
Cheng Xin had finished mending his straw hat, but Geng Yunye was not done yet.
Xu Fengxia went home to get something and couldn't help but sigh: "Xiao Geng is really hardworking. He never has to rest when he comes to our house."
Geng Yunye stayed at home to accompany his father, while Cheng Xin and her mother went to her aunt's house to help harvest the grain. They were still working on the thresher to thresh the grain.
Old Man Cheng squatted on the edge of the field, biting his pipe and complaining: "We are all harvesting grain together, but you insist on leaving the mass organization. What can you do if you are one day late?"
My uncle and aunt were busy harvesting millet. Their family divided the land according to the six people, and it took two of them most of the day to finish harvesting the millet.
Wang Xiuping stood up and wiped the sweat off her face with the wet towel hanging around her neck: "Dad, others are going up the mountain to hunt, and no one from our family is chosen. We can't just sit there and wait."
Old Man Cheng cast his eyes towards Xu Fengxia, very dissatisfied: "This is about the faults of the second son's wife. She loves her daughter the most, but she introduced a jobless vagrant to her for no reason. I guess she can't even farm. There are so many good young people in the brigade who know her background well, but you don't like them."
Xu Fengxia stopped and said, "Dad, Xiao Geng is not as bad as you say. He is a veteran and often comes to our house to help. He is very hardworking. Even if he doesn't know how to do it, he can learn it."
Old Lady Cheng suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said, "Let's talk about hunting. If Cheng Xin marries a young man from the brigade, she will be selected without even having to do anything. We can get paid without doing anything at home. What's the point of marrying an unemployed vagrant? We don't know his background. Their brigade has less arable land than ours. If she marries him, she will probably starve."
Xu Fengxia felt tired. Her parents-in-law scolded her together, which made it seem like she was deliberately not doing good for her daughter.
"Mom, which young man in the brigade do you think is good?"
It’s not that she didn’t think about the young men in the brigade, but those of the right age were either idle or had difficult parents to get along with, so she really had no choice.
"I think Wang Jiangang is a good candidate. He is young and promising, knows Cheng Xin well, and his family is well-off. Everyone in the team knows that he is pursuing Cheng Xin."
Xu Fengxia unconsciously raised her voice, her face full of surprise: "Who? Wang Jiangang?!"
Cheng Xin tugged at her mother's sleeve, worried that she would quarrel with her grandmother:
"Mom, I'll tell you when I get back."
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