"A new village chief?" Shen Heng glanced at Bai Jiaojiao. "You changed him?"
Shen Heng clearly had a 'you're the most unruly person in the whole village' look on his face, which made Bai Jiaojiao laugh in exasperation: 'Can't you speak reasonably? He got fired because he brought it on himself, what does it have to do with me?'
"I'm just saying you're ridding the people of a scourge," Shen Heng grinned.
Bai Jiaojiao had a small appetite to begin with, so she didn't eat much before pushing the bowl towards Chen Heng.
"You're not going to eat anymore?" Shen Heng frowned slightly.
"I'll boil some water for you to wash up. When I get back, I'll tell you what's happened these past few months."
Bai Jiaojiao got off the kang (heated brick bed), and Shen Heng called out, "Come back and eat a couple more bites!"
To everyone's surprise, Bai Jiaojiao didn't even turn her head, and Shen Heng gritted his teeth.
So disobedient! It's only because he's sick that he's starting to act so aggressively.
Deng Min was weaving a net by the window inside the kang (a heated brick bed), while constantly glancing at Bai Jiaojiao's room to see if there was any movement so she could go there in time.
Seeing Bai Jiaojiao come out of the house, Deng Min immediately put down what she was holding and went out to see Bai Jiaojiao enter the kitchen.
"Is this enough for the two of you? If not, I'll make two more cornbreads."
"That's enough, sister-in-law. I want to boil a pot of water to clean up Heng-ge."
After helping Shen Heng back that night, Bai Shihai helped Shen Heng take off his wet clothes and put on clean ones.
Now, due to the effects of the seawater, Shen Heng's skin is starting to harden and peel off in patches. Bai Jiaojiao wants to boil a pot of water and go home to get Shen Heng a set of autumn clothes to change into, so that Shen Heng can be more comfortable.
"I'll burn this for you, it's a small thing. You go back and keep an eye on your brother-in-law."
Deng Min waved her hand.
"No need to trouble yourself, sister-in-law."
"Don't be so polite. I'm not working these days, so I'm just sitting around doing nothing anyway."
"Then I'll go home and get Heng a set of clothes. Please help me boil some water."
"Go and come back quickly. Do you need your older brother to come with you?"
"Sister-in-law, do you think I'm a three-year-old child who needs someone to accompany him?"
Bai Jiaojiao found it amusing, went back inside to get her keys, and changed into a thicker cotton-padded coat.
"Are you going home?" Shen Heng asked, seeing Bai Jiaojiao's actions. "Let's go home together."
"How can you go out looking like this? You're not fully recovered yet, and if you catch a cold, you'll develop health problems later and I'll have to take care of you when you're old!"
Shen Heng glared at him: "You can look down on me for whatever you want, but you can't look down on my physical condition! This little bit of cold wind can't hurt me!"
"Stop talking, you're having trouble even getting off the bed."
Bai Jiaojiao glared at Shen Heng, pulled her hat over her head, and went out the door.
Shen Heng: "..." He's getting bolder and bolder.
Bai Jiaojiao quickly returned with her thermal underwear, just as Deng Min's water had boiled.
"Thanks to you, sister-in-law."
"This firewood was all carried from your home, and my water is free."
The Bai family didn't have a well, so they had to fetch water from the reservoir, which was very inconvenient. But the least valuable thing for a peasant family was their physical strength.
Bai Jiaojiao said, "When Third Brother makes money next year, let's dig a well for our family. The groundwater here is sweeter than the water from the reservoir."
“Your older brother also has this plan,” Deng Min said with a smile. “At first, I thought Bozi was honest and wouldn’t do something like this. But your older brother was quite at ease with him. Now it seems that you sisters understand each other best.”
Bai Shibao is doing quite well in the black market thanks to his good stuff. For one thing, people are already willing to let him deliver goods to their door.
Speculative trading is no joke; the fact that the buyer was willing to give Bai Shibao his address shows that they genuinely trusted him.
"Small profits rely on intelligence, big profits rely on virtue. Those people in the black market are all cunning and shrewd. If an honest man like Third Brother comes along, won't they treat him like a precious gem?"
After Bai Jiaojiao finished speaking, Deng Min laughed and said, "You speak so eloquently, that's exactly the point!"
Deng Min helped Bai Jiaojiao fill two thermos flasks with hot water and carry them into Chen Heng's room. There was still a little water left in the pot, so Deng Min picked up the two children to give them a bath.
Shen Heng had just finished eating and was feeling a bit lazy: "I'll wash up later."
"Look at your body, aren't you afraid of getting a skin disease?"
“I grew up in the sea, don’t try to scare me.”
Shen Heng rubbed himself and found that his skin felt like it had been peeled off: "I don't even know how long I've been soaking in the sea this time, damn it."
Shen Heng recalled that when he was surrounded by a group of people by the side of the ship, the ship was about to dock in five or six hours.
He knew then that those people definitely didn't intend to let him go, so Shen Heng simply jumped in himself to take control. He held his breath in the sea and waited until the ship was far away before swimming back against the waves.
With no direction at sea, Shen Heng could only rely on the waves to roughly determine his location. By the time he could see the mountains leading to Shili Village, his vision had become blurred.
He also felt lucky to be alive, as the tide was coming in. Otherwise, he wouldn't have survived to drift back, and by sheer coincidence, he was picked up by Bai Jiaojiao on the dock.
Seeing Shen Heng's expression change repeatedly, Bai Jiaojiao felt sorry for him: "Don't worry, I'll avenge you."
Shen Heng smirked: "Fine, this time you'll take the captain down too."
"I already said I didn't masturbate Li Lide!" Bai Jiaojiao wrinkled her nose at Chen Heng, snorted, and said, "Take off your clothes, hurry up."
Bai Jiaojiao mixed the water, placed it on the stool by the kang (a heated brick bed), and used a damp towel to wipe Chen Heng.
At first, Shen Heng was quite pleased, but soon he was annoyed by Bai Jiaojiao's little hands: "How long are you going to keep wiping like this? Are you taking this opportunity to be a pervert to me?"
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