Chapter 24 Help Me
Going to the Fu family seems to be the best choice. I work in the morning and pass by there when I come back at noon. Who would know if I turn there on the way?
Lu Miao's mind was racing. When she turned around, she saw Fu Jingyou pursing his lips and looking at her seriously.
She puffed up her face blankly, "What?"
Fu Jingyou turned on the godfather mode: "You are a girl, how can you casually say that you want to go to a boy's house? What if you encounter danger..."
Lu Miao rolled his eyes at him. "But wasn't I telling the truth? Where else can I go except to your house? Besides, aren't we friends?"
Since we have chosen to be friends, there must be basic trust, right?
Fu Jingyou understood what she meant, but he still couldn't help wanting to remind her. Lu Miao thought he was nagging, so she stuffed a piece of peach cake into his mouth and hummed softly:
"I've noticed, Fu Jingyou, you're more likable if you're quiet!"
“…”
After exchanging steamed buns with Fu Jingyou, Lu Miao took a small bite and felt like vomiting before he could even chew it.
This steamed cornbread seems to be made of flour. It crumbles into powder when you bite it. It tastes like chewing sand!
And the wild vegetable in it, called purslane or something, is sour and tastes weird.
Lu Miao wanted to vomit, but because of Fu Jingyou's deep gaze, she didn't dare to. She stretched her neck and waited for a while before swallowing it, but she refused to eat the rest.
“It’s not tasty!”
"I told you you couldn't eat it."
"But you said it was delicious!"
Angrily stuffing the steamed bread back to Fu Jingyou, Lu Miao quickly picked up a piece of peach cake to clear his mouth, glared at Fu Jingyou and said, "Big liar!"
Food rations were precious, so Fu Jingyou naturally wouldn't waste them. He didn't mind the shallow teeth marks on the steamed bun from Lu Miao, so he picked it up and bit off most of it.
The rough, dry food passed through his esophagus, and Lu Miao clearly saw the veins in his neck twitching from choking. But even so, Fu Jingyou still emphasized in a low voice: "It's delicious if it can fill your stomach."
Lu Miao pursed his lips and turned away unhappily.
For some reason, she suddenly felt a little complicated.
Lack of food and clothing is probably the sadness of this era.
He forced Fu Jingyou to eat a few pieces of peach cakes, and Lu Miao ate the remaining pieces himself.
The peach pastry was dry and the more she ate, the thirstier she became. Fu Jingyou helped her wash the sweet potatoes in the puddle. After she ate the sweet potatoes, her stomach felt a little bloated, but the little bit of water in it was not enough to quench her thirst.
Lu Miao leaned against the stone wall of the bridge hole. A cool breeze blew by, and she felt so comfortable that she felt drowsy. Her body tilted unconsciously, and her head rested on Fu Jingyou's shoulder as expected.
She rubbed him obediently, and her warm breath in the hazy state sprayed on Fu Jingyou's neck.
Fu Jingyou straightened his back, his body tense and he dared not breathe, but she softly and coquettishly said, "Fu Jingyou, I'm so thirsty~"
Fu Jingyou's Adam's apple slid up and down. "Sleep for a while. I'll find some spring water for you when we get to the fields."
Lu Miao hummed softly, "Don't lie."
"Go to sleep."
Fu Jingyou vaguely looked up at the tips of the swaying reed leaves upstream, his voice becoming increasingly soft and low: "I'm not lying to you."
When he returned to work in the afternoon, Fu Jingyou really found mountain spring water for Lu Miao.
A small spring meandered down the mountain, cold and clear. Fu Jingyou didn't bring any water with him, so he took two sips of the water before moving away.
Lu Miao was disgusted at first, fearing that the water was not clean, but after taking a small sip, she found it sweet, and her resistance subsided a little.
With his stomach full and thirst quenched, and with the capable Fu Jingyou by his side to work in the afternoon, Lu Miao could take advantage of the situation.
At first she was called a soybean leaf worker, and she only worked in the corn fields.
The sun was setting in the west, and the shade of the forest was getting smaller and smaller. She simply threw away her hoe and hid under the shade of the trees.
Whoever wants to do this job can do it, but she doesn’t want to do it anyway!
Even though he was thinking about it, Lu Miao was embarrassed to hold Fu Jingyou back for no reason, so he huddled in the shade and raised his voice and shouted:
"Fu Jingyou, I'm so tired..."
"Please help me! When the rations are distributed, I'll give you half of mine!"
In the field, Fu Jingyou was looking at her while holding a hoe.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Lu Miao thought he was unwilling, so he stood up and put his hands on the sides of his face, and continued to shout: "Then I'll give you most of it, most of it, okay?"
“…”
Fu Jingyou was speechless and hadn't counted on her in the first place.
Afraid that Lu Miao would say something about giving him all the rations, Fu Jingyou replied in a low voice: "You take a rest."
Lu Miao bared his little white teeth and immediately ran back to the shade to continue fighting the hateful ants.
After having fun for the whole afternoon, Lu Miao's mood became good again. On the way home in the afternoon, she hummed a tune that Fu Jingyou didn't know the name of.
Thinking of the vegetable patch in front of the educated youth's station, Lu Miao's black jade eyes glanced aimlessly. He ran forward for a while, turned around, and slowly stepped back and asked:
"Fu Jingyou, you know how to farm, so you should also know how to grow vegetables, right?"
"A little bit."
"Hmm...what's suitable to plant in this season? There's a piece of land in front of the educated youth station that I'd like to use."
Fu Jingyou pondered for a moment and said, "You can plant melons and beans around Grain Full. Cucumbers, winter melons, eggplants, cauliflowers, beans, lettuce, and radishes are all fine."
Lu Miao seemed to be lost in thought. "The tomatoes my aunt gave me last time were delicious. Is it too late to plant tomatoes now?"
"There's still time. My aunt planted her tomatoes early this year, so she should still have some seeds."
Lu Miao stood on tiptoe and circled around Fu Jingyou.
Fu Jingyou was afraid that if he wasn't paying attention, the hoe on his shoulder would hit her, so he whispered to him, "Be quiet, be careful."
"Hey, I'll go back and ask Auntie..." Lu Miao chuckled softly, "What about the other seeds? Where will you get them?"
"Vegetable seeds are worthless. Whoever plants the seeds and starts the seedlings will get them for free when it's their turn to plant them."
In order to ensure the survival rate, more seeds will be planted, but the area of private plots is limited. If too many seeds are planted, they cannot be planted, and it would be a pity to throw them away.
"When you get to the team, go to your aunt's house first, and I'll go over later. I'll talk to your aunt."
Fu Jingyou thought that there might be new seedlings in his aunt's private plot, and if Lu Miao liked one, he could just pick the ready-made ones.
Lu Miao nodded repeatedly, "Okay."
Every time she went to work, she would go to Chen Guifen and plead for mercy. Now that this happened, she really didn't know how to start.
Fu Jingyou shook his head and said, "They are all trivial matters."
Lu Miao said "hmm" and chattered like a little sparrow, not caring whether Fu Jingyou heard or understood what she said or the jokes she brought up. She was smiling and happy all the way.
On the other side, Chen Miaomiao squatted in the cotton field for a whole day. Not only did she not wait for Fu Jingyou, but she was also watched by the team's scorer and worked intensively all day.
(End of this chapter)
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