Of all the people in the village, only Liu Ying was happy about this marriage.
"What a shameless woman, letting a man crawl between her legs before even getting married. She acts all high and mighty all the time, like a proper person."
"They're from the city, they know how to have fun."
"Pshaw, when we were young, if we had a girl like that, we would have jumped into the sea long ago. How dare you cause a scene in the village?"
The two elderly women in the group, one surnamed Li and the other surnamed Liu, had been huddled together since the start of the workday. Their whispers were quite loud, and Liu Ying's ears turned bright red from their criticism. She buried her head in the bean bushes, and all traces of her earlier arrogance had vanished.
Bai Jiaojiao is replacing Ding Shifang in the group. Before, when Ding Shifang was still Bai Shifang, her older brothers and sisters doted on her and arranged for her to be in such an easy group.
Ding Shifang was the fastest worker in the group, but when Bai Jiaojiao took over, she dragged everyone down. The difference was like night and day, and Chen Hong almost hated her to death.
Bai Jiaojiao wanted to do a good job, but when she actually started, it was a different story.
The beans grew in clumps, so she had to squat down to hoe them. Coupled with her period, Bai Jiaojiao soon felt aches and pains in her back, but she gritted her teeth and persevered. Only when she couldn't bear it any longer did she lift her back and rub her back with her hand.
"Bai Jiaojiao, don't be lazy!"
Chen Hong had been watching Bai Jiaojiao closely, and when she finally saw Bai Jiaojiao straighten up, she immediately scolded her.
Bai Jiaojiao glanced back at Huang Meijuan and Liu Ying, who were behind her, and said meaningfully, "Team leader, I've done quite a bit too."
Huang Meijuan had just finished her postpartum confinement period, so no one dared to say anything.
However, Bai Jiaojiao kept staring at Liu Ying. Liu Ying originally wanted to straighten up and rest, but she felt Chen Hong staring at her, so she kept squatting and weeding.
Chen Hong has always been known for her harsh words, and nobody wants to be scolded by her.
Chen Hong looked down on Bai Jiaojiao and Liu Ying, and after what happened yesterday, she felt disgusted even looking at Liu Ying.
He demanded, "Liu Ying, what's wrong with you today? You can't even beat Bai Jiaojiao? If you work slower than Bai Jiaojiao today, I'll deduct your work points!"
"Why are you deducting my work points?!"
While refuting her argument, Liu Ying straightened up and rested for a while.
"What? On what grounds? Because you slacked off!"
Liu Ying dared not offend Chen Hong. She glared fiercely at Bai Jiaojiao and said, "Let me tell you, Bai Jiaojiao, you don't need to be jealous of me. This is your fate. Just keep working hard. You're going to marry a peasant and spend your whole life toiling in the fields!"
Bai Jiaojiao glanced at Liu Ying and waved her hand: "What, you look down on those who toil in the fields?"
Old Mrs. Liu immediately sneered, "If it weren't for us country folks saving every penny, all those people in the city would starve to death! Who do you look down on? Aren't you also toiling in the fields for food now?"
Chen Hong retorted angrily, "The country sent you educated youth to the countryside for re-education, and this is your attitude?! Liu Ying, you're not working today. Two days' work points will be deducted from your pay. Go back and write a self-criticism!"
"No! Sister Hong, that's not what I meant!"
Liu Ying was almost in tears.
She has five siblings, and her parents have no time to take care of her. She doesn't do much work to begin with, and every work point is crucial. If she loses two work points, she won't have food for two days.
"What, you're not listening to me? You look down on me, a farmer who makes a living from the land, don't you?"
"No...no..." Liu Ying gritted her teeth, glaring hatefully at Bai Jiaojiao.
Bai Jiaojiao kept her head down and did not pay attention.
Because she knew that Liu Ying's misfortunes were yet to come.
Shen Heng kept his word and arrived at eleven o'clock.
"Brother Heng!"
When Bai Jiaojiao saw Shen Heng, it was like seeing a savior.
Shen Heng glanced at Bai Jiaojiao in the field. The little girl standing there made the field seem much bigger.
He strode over, took off the hat hanging around his neck, and put it on Bai Jiaojiao's head: "Are you out of your mind? It's so sunny, why aren't you wearing a hat?"
Bai Jiaojiao hadn't done farm work for many years, and there was no sun when she started work in the morning, so she had completely forgotten about it.
Bai Jiaojiao straightened her straw hat, looked up and gave Chen Heng a silly smile.
Shen Heng: "..."
Wasn't he being mean to her?
What is she laughing at?
Why does she look so beautiful when she smiles?
Shen Heng had a lot of questions in his mind, so he reached out and snatched the small hoe from Bai Jiaojiao's hand.
The hoe, which seemed heavy in Bai Jiaojiao's hands, was handled by him like a toy. In no time, he had cleared most of the land that Bai Jiaojiao had been allocated.
"Heng-ge, I'll go back and cook for you first."
"Go."
Being watched by Bai Jiaojiao while working made Shen Heng extremely uncomfortable.
It's not that he dislikes being supervised, it's just that he always feels like Bai Jiaojiao's eyes have a temperature; wherever she looks at him, that part of her feels hot.
With the farm work handed over to Shen Heng, Bai Jiaojiao had plenty of time to cook.
Bai Jiaojiao didn't mind the trouble and made dumplings. When Shen Heng returned, he saw the kitchen was steaming hot and Bai Jiaojiao was scooping dumplings out of the kitchen.
The dumplings in the pot were plump and bubbling, and Bai Jiaojiao was surrounded by steam, making Shen Heng feel a sense of unreality for a moment.
"I put the dumplings in as soon as I heard the sound of people finishing work, and they were ready by the time you got back!"
A restlessness gradually rose in Shen Heng's eyes. He entered the courtyard and closed the gate tightly.
"Dumplings for lunch?"
His young wife is not like what the villagers say; she's actually quite capable.
However, compared to her competence in this area, what Shen Heng finds even more remarkable is Bai Jiaojiao's competence in another aspect.
Bai Jiaojiao turned around with a smile and looked at Shen Heng, but Shen Heng hugged her: "Let's not eat first, let's do something else with Heng-ge."
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