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He Monian quickly walked up to Nan Qing and squatted down. He turned his body to the side and glanced at the somewhat messy kitchen. Then he looked at Nan Qing's little face, which was covered in dirt, and he knew what had happened. He immediately tried to make amends for Nan Qing.
"That stove wasn't done properly when it was built, so it's never been very good. So don't bother fixing it next time. If you need anything fixed, just tell me and I'll do it."
Nan Qing then realized he wasn't so useless after all; sure enough, it was the stove that was the problem!
Seeing that Nan Qing's face no longer looked so aggrieved, He Monian got up and went to the well to fetch some water for Nan Qing to wash her face.
Then he turned around to make lunch. It was quite hot, so he only fried two eggs and cooked clear soup noodles. However, he added some dried scallops from the dried goods that Nan Qing had given him, so the soup had a sweet and savory taste.
"He Monian, let's have those prawns for dinner tonight, I want to eat them."
The dried goods were sent home from Shandong by Nanqing's brother some time ago, and the rest were also sent to her by her mother.
He Monian nodded in agreement. He had just finished the double harvest season a while ago, so there wasn't much work assigned to him by the team recently. He was thinking of going to the mountains again in the afternoon to see if he could catch a rabbit to eat.
After finishing her meal, Nanqing went back to her room for a nap. The sun was too strong at the moment, and the team would arrange for her to do manual labor when the sun wasn't so intense at three o'clock.
However, when Nan Qing got up, she didn't see He Monian and didn't know where he had gone. She waited for a while but didn't see him. In the end, she could only go out by herself to the square where she had arranged to meet Guo You and the other children.
It was past four o'clock when she returned after cutting the pig feed, so after registering the basket of pig feed, she went back and spent the day taking advantage of the situation.
However, when she entered the courtyard, she found that He Monian was already home, and he was drawing water from the well.
"He Monian, did you go out at noon? I didn't see you when I woke up."
He Monian saw Nan Qing casually pick up a basin from the side, fill it with some cool water, and put it on the stone mill next to him.
"Well, I'm going to the fields at noon. Oh, by the way, I caught a rabbit in the back hill. How do you want to eat it?"
"Make it spicier? Or just stir-fry or braise it?"
He finished all the work in the fields at noon, and then went for a walk in the back mountain. He was lucky and found a rabbit burrow, but he only caught one. It's not good to keep anything out in this weather, and it's troublesome to keep it at home.
So he can just catch it for Qingqing next time she wants to eat it.
Nan Qing was enjoying the cool well water with her eyes closed when she heard this. She immediately opened her eyes, looked at He Monian, and quickly said:
"Stir-fried rabbit meat, the really spicy kind!!!"
Nan Qing felt that her taste was quite strange. She liked spicy food, but she also liked sweet food. However, she could also eat bland food, and she also liked to try some strange things.
Speaking of rabbits, spicy rabbit heads are so delicious...
Thinking of the spicy rabbit head, Nan Qing swallowed hard. She then said to He Monian:
"He Monian, did we buy too few chilies yesterday? I want them to be a little spicier."
He thought about it and decided it probably wouldn't happen. Besides, the weather was so hot now, and he couldn't eat such spicy food every day, or he definitely wouldn't be able to stand it.
"There's still a lot, don't worry. By the way, how were you this afternoon? Did you have that guy from the state help you with the cut?"
Nan Qing picked up a towel and wiped her hands clean, then lay back down on her personal recliner and lazily replied:
"He helped me cut it, and some other children helped me too."
Nan Qing's words carried a hint of pride, but she made no mention of how much candy and jerky she had "bribed" those kids.
When she went out in the afternoon, she took a lot of lollipops with her and gave one to each person. The rich woman had no idea how heavy the two lollipops and one piece of jerky she gave out that day were.
Even if she knew, she wouldn't care. She enjoys playing with the kids, so what's wrong with sharing some food with them? Besides, it's all her own stuff. Even if someone is jealous, they can't really say anything about her.
In this way, Nanqing became very familiar with a group of kids by offering various snacks and dried meat.
Moreover, some of the children probably told their families about it when they got home, and Nanqing clearly felt that the aunties and other women in the village greeted her with smiles and were even more enthusiastic than before.
So now, besides lying in the courtyard under the trees, Nanqing has another little hobby.
For example, it's already past five o'clock, and the sun is about to set. Nanqing is sitting obediently on a small stool, leaning slightly forward, listening intently to the gossip being told by Aunt Hua next to her.
"I heard that their battalion commander went up to break up the fight, and even the battalion commander got hit several times, his face was covered in marks."
"If you ask me, she deserves it. Her family doesn't treat her like a human being. Everyone in the surrounding villages knows how they mistreat their daughter-in-law."
Sitting on the other side of Nanqing, Guoqiang's mother, Aunt Lin, spat, "That's right. I heard that their daughter-in-law is the only one who gets the work points, and they don't even give her a full meal. Their girls are also incredibly thin. In our commune, which family treats their daughter-in-law like that?"
Nan Qing nodded frantically with a straight face, but before she could process it, Aunt Hua spoke up again:
"Of course, do you know about what happened in Liujiagou Brigade?"
Upon hearing this, Nan Qing immediately moved closer to Aunt Hua and shook her head along with the others to indicate that she didn't know. Her little face couldn't hide her curiosity. She stared intently at Aunt Hua, who had started by keeping everyone in suspense.
"I heard that a couple of days ago, the brigade caught two people in a haystack. Oh my, I heard that when they were caught, they were both naked, and their white buttocks were completely exposed."
The women around the large banyan tree giggled and nudged each other, even Nan Qing covered her mouth tightly with her small hand, but you could tell from her eyes that she was very excited!
"Furthermore, do you even know what the relationship is between these two?"
Aunt Hua looked at everyone with a mysterious expression, and Nan Qing's little radar immediately jumped. Based on her extensive experience of watching gossip and melodramatic dramas,
There's definitely some big gossip in here!!
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