Zhao Ru finally ran away crying.

When Liao Yujie saw her return to the cave, she couldn't help but start to add insult to injury.

"You deserve it. Who told you to mess with Qin Hanshu? You're such a jerk!"

Liao Yujie smelled the chicken soup and had been peeping at the cave entrance for a while, so she naturally knew what was going on.

When Zhao Ru heard the word "cheap", she turned around suddenly and glared at Liao Yujie.

How could Liao Yujie be afraid? She pouted and said:

"Go glare at Qin Hanshu if you have the guts. What's the point of glaring at me? Besides, was I wrong to say you were a jerk?"

"Qin Hanshu only talks to you and you start crying. If he hits you, won't you jump into the river?"

Zhao Ru gritted her teeth in hatred, "Shut up!"

"I won't shut up! I won't shut up! I'm just going to laugh at you!" Liao Yujie swung her braids and said softly, "Go ahead and hit me!"

Zhao Ru's lips trembled with anger. After a while, she turned around and lay on the kang and started crying. The "woooo" sound was suppressed and painful, and sounded extremely pitiful.

Liao Yujie snorted and cursed a few more times, "You deserve it." Then she saw a half-roll of toilet paper on the edge of the kang. It must be that Zhao Ru had used it and forgot to lock it up.

She rolled it up quickly and took it away secretly.

***

Before going to work the next day, Qin Hanshu went into the space to find some snacks, wrapped them in a small cloth bag and took them with him. There were peanut nougat from a time-honored brand, and a large bar of Cheeseline chocolate.

The nougat and chocolate were all collected from home. Originally, Yang Aizheng always kept them at home to appease Hu Wenwen and Hu Bingbing.

Qin Hanshu packed a lot of things and prepared to give them to Zhou Ruilan.

The Zhou family didn't ask her for money for the bricks used for the floor and the cloth curtains. Now that the secretary was taking such good care of her in the farm work, she always felt that she owed them a favor.

Giving gifts to the branch secretary has a bad influence, but there are no such concerns when talking to Zhou Ruilan.

After packing the snacks, Qin Hanshu ate two more buns for breakfast before leaving the space.

When we reached the drying dam, we could already see a hint of red in the east.

Before Qin Hanshu handed over the snacks, Zhou Ruilan stuffed a handful of White Rabbit candies into her pocket.

"Take one when you're tired from work, and you'll feel energetic immediately!" Zhou Ruilan patted Qin Hanshu's pocket to make sure it was packed. "I have more, tell me when you're done!"

He looked at Qin Hanshu with his big, blinking eyes, looking very sincere.

Qin Hanshu swallowed his words of refusal, accepted the candy, and gave away the snacks he had prepared.

Zhou Ruilan opened the cloth bag in confusion, then quickly shook her head and said, "I gave you a few White Rabbits, and you gave me such good things in return. Wouldn't that make me someone who deliberately took advantage of you?"

The Zhou family was well-off, and Zhou Er's brother often brought some good things back home. Zhou Ruilan was not an ignorant girl. As soon as she saw the packaging, she knew that these things were not cheap.

Moreover, the snacks Qin Hanshu gave were all brought from the capital. They were specialties sold by time-honored brands, and the Zhou family couldn't buy them even if they had money.

Qin Hanshu smiled and said, "I didn't know you would give me White Rabbit today, so why did you bring these snacks with you to return the favor? These things were originally what I was planning to give you."

"I was planning to give it to me..." Zhou Ruilan asked in confusion, "Why?"

Qin Hanshu originally wanted to say it was because of the floor tiles and curtains, but after thinking about it he changed his words.

"Nothing else, I just want to make friends with you."

Zhou Ruilan smiled, "Just make friends, why do you need to give these gifts?"

Having said that, he wanted to return the cloth bag to Qin Hanshu.

Qin Hanshu hurriedly held him down, "You gave me a White Rabbit, too, and I accepted it. If you don't accept it, it means you don't want to be my friend."

"No, no! I want to hand it in, but..." Zhou Ruilan was in a dilemma.

The tug-of-war between the two of them attracted the attention of the nosy Auntie Qi, "Lanhua, what are you arguing about with the educated youth Xiao Qin?"

Qin Hanshu hurriedly stuffed the cloth bag into Zhou Ruilan's arms. Zhou Ruilan had no choice but to accept it.

Aunt Qi approached, her eyes scanning the two of them like a radar. When she saw the small cloth bag Zhou Ruilan was holding, her eyes were so curious that she wanted to stare a hole in the bag.

She had long suspected that this young educated youth Qin had given gifts to the branch secretary's family, otherwise why would the branch secretary take such good care of this young educated youth Qin?

I just don’t know what the gift is. What can such a small cloth bag contain?

Aunt Qi looked at Qin Hanshu again.

She is well-dressed, her face is fair and pink, and her hair is black and shiny. I wonder how many good things she has eaten to have such a shiny and glossy complexion!

The more Aunt Qi looked at him, the more excited she became. This young educated youth Qin must be a rich man!

"Xiao Qin Zhiqing, do you have a partner?"

Zhou Ruilan's alarm bells went off. She frowned and glared at Aunt Qi, saying, "Aunt Qi, what do you mean? Why do you care whether the educated youth Qin has a girlfriend?"

Aunt Qi: "I'm just asking..."

"Are you just asking casually? Don't think I don't know what you're up to!" Zhou Ruilan snorted, "Your son is almost thirty years old and still a bachelor, and you still dare to covet the young educated youth Qin? How can you be so shameless?"

Aunt Qi blushed, "My son is only 27... and except for his age, he is good in every other way. How can he not be worthy of Xiao Qin?"

"He's good at everything?" Zhou Ruilan laughed coldly. "A man of 27 doesn't even work in the fields. He spends all day working with women. I'm afraid he can't even support himself?! You said he's good at everything, then why hasn't he found a wife at 27?"

Aunt Qi was hit in the heart and became angry and embarrassed. "You are an unmarried woman, but you keep talking about men. Do you have any shame?"

Zhou Ruilan spat angrily, put her hands on her hips and cursed:

"You are the one who has no shame! You stare at the educated youth with your eyes, thinking that she is an outsider and you don't know her background, so you can fool her, right?"

"Bah! Why don't you take a piss and look at your own son's behavior? He is lazy and shameless! Just ask any person in the team, who wouldn't mind? Even the dogs passing by would roll their eyes at him!"

Aunt Qi was so angry and embarrassed by the scolding that she wanted to talk back, but she didn't dare. Not to mention that the second son of the Zhou family was a high-ranking official in the county, even Zhou Changan was enough to scare her.

In the end, Aunt Qi could only leave in embarrassment.

Qin Hanshu looked at Zhou Ruilan and was a little surprised. This girl looked innocent and bright, but he didn't expect her to be so good at swearing.

Noticing Qin Hanshu's gaze, Zhou Ruilan came back to her senses, quickly put down her left hand from her waist, and smiled sweetly.

"Actually, I'm not like this usually. The main thing is to scold Aunt Qi so that she won't have any thoughts about you. Otherwise, she will stick to you like a dog-skin plaster in the future."

Qin Hanshu smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing, you're fine this way."

Zhou Ruilan was relieved and continued, "You know, Aunt Qi was originally targeting Liao Zhiqing."

Qin Hanshu showed a surprised expression, "This Aunt Qi's taste... is quite special..."

Zhou Ruilan was also happy when she thought of Liao Yujie's personality.

“No one knew at first.”

"Liao Zhiqing was a handsome young man, and he was well-dressed when he first arrived. When arranging for old educated youth to live with their families, Aunt Qi was the one who rushed to let Liao Zhiqing live with her."

"Who would have thought that not long after they moved in, Aunt Qi started to complain, saying that Liao Zhiqing was lazy and greedy, and that he ordered her to do work while living in her house, as if he had invited a princess to come in."

"It's easy to invite him in, but it's hard to send him away. After a year of tossing and turning, Liao Zhiqing finally left the Qi family. After he left, he insisted on staying at my house."

Although her reputation was terrible, Liao Yujie became the whitest and fattest among the old educated youth.

The sun jumped out, spreading golden light all over the earth. The first batch of millet harvested from the fields today has been transported to the drying dam.

The people who were turning over and drying the grain also started to get busy.

At noon, an official from the commune brought Qin Hanshu a letter, saying it was brought back from the Red Star Farm.

When Qin Hanshu heard the name Red Star Farm, he knew it was Hu Wenwen.