Nanzhi looked up and saw Cheng Zhouyuan, who had delicate features, pursing his lips as he looked at her ankle.
"Has it gotten worse again?"
Before Nan Zhi could speak, Cheng Zhouyuan said, "Stop being stubborn, I'll take you to the clinic."
"No, I still have to pick tea..."
"What are you picking? Is tea more important than your legs?"
Nan Zhi looked at her ankle and realized she really couldn't continue, so she followed Cheng Zhouyuan to the clinic.
After examining her, the village doctor advised her not to move around too much for a week, otherwise her condition would worsen.
Later, the village doctor applied medicine to Nanzhi inside the house.
Cheng Zhouyuan stood outside, watching the usually delicate girl, who was clearly in a lot of pain but didn't utter a sound, just biting her lip and enduring it.
His eyebrows twitched slightly, and his gaze toward Nanzhi deepened.
The secretary's office was located near the educated youth station.
As soon as Nan Zhi and Cheng Zhouyuan arrived at the educated youth station, she saw a tall figure enter the secretary's office.
It's Xu Min.
Nanzhi couldn't hear what Xu Min and the secretary were saying, but she guessed they were discussing the tea trees that had been damaged by pigs.
When Xu Min finally left, his expression was somewhat somber.
"What did he say to the Party Secretary?"
Although Cheng Zhouyuan hasn't had a chance to tell the secretary yet, the secretary already knows.
The pig damaged many tea trees, and the Party Secretary ordered Xu Min to pay fifty yuan in compensation.
Fifty yuan?
In those days, the average wage earner could only earn about thirty yuan a month.
In the countryside, income was barely enough to cover expenses, not to mention Xu Min, who also had to take care of her younger sister.
He didn't know how long he would have to work hard to earn fifty yuan.
Nanzhi returned to her dormitory, but Su Yun had not yet come back.
She took a box from under the bed, unlocked it, and took out a small wallet.
The original owner's family was quite wealthy, and her parents gave her a lot of money because they were afraid she would suffer when she went to the countryside.
She counted out five ten-yuan bills, put them in her pocket, and went to the secretary's office.
The secretary was somewhat shocked when he saw the money.
"You're going to help Xu Min pay for the tea trees?"
"Yes, Secretary, but please don't misunderstand. The reason I helped Xu Min is because he did me a big favor yesterday, and I want to repay him."
The secretary adjusted his glasses: "But I heard that you saved his sister today. Shouldn't that favor already be repaid?"
"For me, it's not over yet." Nan Zhi pushed the money towards the secretary. "But please keep this a secret. I don't want him to think he owes me again."
The Party Secretary couldn't understand what these educated youths were thinking, that they would be willing to compensate a villager.
However, Xu Min is penniless; if we really ask him to compensate us, who knows when it will be.
He accepted the money and agreed to her request.
Seeing that he had accepted the money, Nanzhi thought for a moment and then said, "Secretary, my ankle is injured. Dr. Zhou said it's not suitable for me to do any work for the next week. I wonder if I can..."
The secretary stared at her ankle; although it was wrapped in gauze, it was still swollen.
"You're asking for leave, right? Okay..."
Before the secretary could finish speaking, Nan Zhi interrupted, "I don't want to ask for leave. I just want to ask if I can go to the clinic to help Dr. Zhou during this period of foot injury, and learn from Dr. Zhou's experience."
The secretary was stunned.
He adjusted his glasses again, looking at Nanzhi in front of him with some disbelief.
As the village secretary, he had access to information on all the educated youth.
Of course he knew that Nan Zhi's family had powerful connections, and he also knew just how spoiled she was.
He thought that since she was injured, she would take the opportunity to ask for leave, but he did not expect that she would volunteer to help at the clinic.
That's quite surprising.
Although he didn't quite believe that a young girl would really take learning from Dr. Zhou's experience seriously, he still agreed.
"Thank you, Secretary."
Nanzhi bowed to him and left happily.
The secretary watched her retreating figure, finding it increasingly intriguing.
Most of the educated youth who came from the city were quite arrogant, except that Nanzhi was a bit more pretentious.
They looked down on him, the village secretary, from the bottom of their hearts.
This was the first time a former educated youth had bowed to him.
The story of Nanzhi rescuing a rural girl in the tea field spread rapidly throughout the entire educated youth station in one afternoon.
Su Yun worked exceptionally hard in the potato field, and her teammates all liked her very much. Even Song You glanced at her a few more times.
She was very satisfied, but when she returned to the educated youth station, she heard about Nanzhi being praised for saving people.
Her expression changed immediately.
She returned to her room and angrily kicked Nanzhi's chair. Just as she was about to yell at Nanzhi behind her back, she heard Nanzhi's voice coming from outside the door.
"Yunyun, why did you kick my chair?"
Su Yun was startled. She quickly righted the chair that she had kicked and turned it upside down. When she turned around, she had a fawning look on her face: "Zhizhi, I'm sorry, I thought it was my chair and kicked the wrong one."
"It's alright, Yunyun," Nanzhi comforted her. "But you seem a little down. Did something happen?"
Su Yun's eyes darted around, and she stepped forward to grab her hand: "Zhizhi, you don't know, Lin is on our team, right? Today when she was digging potatoes, she kept getting close to Song You. I think she's trying to seduce Song You."
"Such a thing is true?"
Seeing that Nan Zhi's face had turned cold, Su Yun continued to add fuel to the fire: "Yes, she even unbuttoned her shirt and wiped her sweat in front of Song You, looking all wanton."
[Zhizhi, it was she who unbuttoned her shirt and wiped her sweat.]
Tsk tsk.
Nan Zhi never expected that in order to slander Lin Ke, she would actually pin the things she had done on Lin Ke.
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