Qi Chunhui: "I am your cousin, not your mother. I have no obligation to spoil you."
"You!" Zheng Wenjing was furious and blurted out, "You just switched places with me. Will you die if you do that?"
"You can die. It's just like this. You can sleep or not. If you don't want to, just stand outside." Qi Chunhui was also annoyed by her. He threw down a bowl and said, "You are so pretentious." Then he took the basin and went out to get water to wash.
Zheng Wenjing stamped her feet in anger, but she was just helpless and furious, and no one could do anything about it.
As the night deepened, the last female educated youth to sleep was about to extinguish the lantern. She asked Zheng Wenjing, who was sitting motionless at the head of the bed, "I'm going to turn off the light. Do you want to sleep?"
Zheng Wenjing was holding her breath and wanted to say "I won't sleep" out of spite, but the other person hadn't offended her, and she didn't want to argue with him for her own reasons.
So he sullenly uttered the word "sleep" and crawled into the quilt next to Yun Qiao with a wronged look on his face.
The lantern went out, leaving the female educated youth dormitory in complete darkness.
On the two kangs facing each other, the female educated youth, tired after a day's work, were both soundly asleep.
Yun Qiao vaguely heard the person next to her crying. She was woken up from her sleep, but she didn't want to pay attention and turned over to continue sleeping.
But the crying sounded in waves, and her ears were buzzing non-stop.
Yun Qiao was unable to sleep because of the noise, and said without hesitation: "Why are you crying?"
The person next to him stopped crying and was silent for half a minute before sobbing and answering: "I, I want to go home..."
"There's not even hot water to wash my face or feet here, and the kang is so hard it hurts my back. There seems to be a mouse in the house. I can even hear something crawling on the floor... Woohoo, will it crawl onto me?"
"..." Yun Qiao was speechless: "You think too much, mice are not so bold."
After meeting Zheng Wenjing for an hour, Yun Qiao felt like he had used up a month's worth of patience.
This little girl is so annoying. It's such a waste of her pretty face.
Zheng Wenjing sobbed softly: "The conditions here are too harsh. I have never experienced such hardship. I can't bear it anymore."
"You can't stand it on your first day, so why did you come to the Great Northern Wilderness? Didn't you hear what Captain Yang said? The Corps doesn't welcome spoiled young masters and young ladies who can't endure hardships."
"I, I don't want to come either, but if I don't come, my family will marry me off to an old man and I'll be a stepmother to three naughty kids."
"How could I possibly agree to that? I'm so beautiful, I must find an exceptionally handsome man to be my husband. He'll earn the money to support the family, and I'll be responsible for looking beautiful and being his good wife!"
At this point, Zheng Wenjing couldn't help crying again: "I really didn't expect that life in the Great Northern Wilderness would be so hard. If only I had known, if only I had known..."
"If I had known, you wouldn't have come, right?" Yun Qiao couldn't help rolling her eyes and deliberately said something sarcastic: "It doesn't matter who you marry. Being a good wife to an old man is just the same. At least being a stepmother doesn't mean you have to suffer hardships. Is that what you think?"
Zheng Wenjing pursed her lips and said with a guilty conscience, "I don't think so completely. I just have a little bit of this idea. Really only a little bit..."
“…”
Yun Qiao felt that he must be lustful to pay attention to her.
"Go to sleep." She wrapped herself in the quilt and closed her eyes.
Zheng Wenjing reached out and poked the corner of her quilt: "Ye Yunqiao, I'm sorry..."
"Stop arguing, or I'll sew your mouth shut." Yun Qiao said fiercely.
Zheng Wenjing shut up feeling wronged: "Oh... okay."
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