Chapter 103: Under tacit understanding, the relationship changes subtly
"Do you have any free time these two days to harvest that cotton field before it gets busy?"
Fu Jingyou nodded and was about to respond when Chen Guifen said:
"Didn't Lu Zhiqing say she wanted to work in the shade? I remember you two went weeding together before. If you go again this time, take her with you."
"Okay." Fu Jingyou responded quickly, "I'll go back and pack up and go tomorrow."
"well!"
Chen Guifen nodded, and seeing that Fu Jingyou looked much better than before, she felt a little more at ease.
She was worried that the child would start a fire and wouldn't be able to take care of himself.
Now he is better. Not only does he look better than before, but he also seems to be a lot stronger.
Chen Guifen nodded in satisfaction, but when she saw Fu Jingyou's straw-like hair, she couldn't help but nag again:
"What's wrong with your hair? You're a good-looking guy, but you don't keep it neat. You look like that old turtle with its head stretched out all day long. You have no spirit at all."
"There's not much to do in the team these days. Once you've cleaned up the soybean fields, you can go to town and find a barber to give you a haircut! It would be so nice to have your hair cleaned up neatly. You're such a naive kid..."
Fu Jingyou pursed his lips, touched his messy hair uncomfortably with his big hands, and retreated to the door:
"Auntie, I'm going to the fields to pick vegetables first. I have to go back and cook dinner soon, so as not to delay my work this afternoon!"
After saying that, the man stretched out his long legs and ran more than ten meters away in a blink of an eye.
"Slow down!"
Chen Guifen followed him out the door, looking at his back and murmuring helplessly:
"Oh my, this is really... Watch your steps more carefully! You're so impatient. After all these years, it seems like you haven't grown up at all."
…
Wisps of green smoke rose from the chimney of the Fu family. Fu Jingyou returned with a fully loaded basket. As he stepped into the kitchen from the backyard, he bumped into Lu Miao, who was sitting at the stove behind the door and turned his head.
The little girl's fair and rosy face was covered with a lot of stove ash. People who knew her knew that she was making a fire, but those who didn't know the situation thought she was dismantling the stove.
There is not only a small pumpkin with green and yellow skin in the basket, but also beans, peppers, cucumbers, and quite a few yellow and red tomatoes.
"So many!" Lu Miao was delighted to see this, but after a moment, he became embarrassed again, "We can't even finish eating all the tomatoes in our yard, and you picked so many."
Fu Jingyou fetched water for her to wash her face and replied casually:
"Let's take care of ourselves first. If there's anything else we can't finish, take it back to the educated youth camp."
Lu Miao pouted and frankly told Fu Jingyou some bad news: "The educated youth camp also grows tomatoes."
The sun is too strong, so these fruits and vegetables ripen quickly. Not only tomatoes are abundant, but also cucumbers and beans.
Fu Jingyou said calmly, "This is the season... I'll give you some tomatoes mixed with brown sugar later."
"Forget it! I always feel sick when I eat too much tomato with brown sugar. Wash two small ones for me and I'll eat them."
Fu Jingyou laughed and said okay.
Lu Miao remembered something and trotted over to the old kitchen cupboard. He opened the door and squatted down.
"Fu Jingyou, I've finished what I was tinkering with. This thing is very important to me, but it's inconvenient to leave it at the educated youth camp, so I'll put it here for now. I have no other place to put it, so I'll put it in the corner of the cupboard."
Lu Miao patted the bottom shelf of the cupboard, where a tightly wrinkled oil paper package lay, containing the piece of red cloth that she had been mending recently.
"If it's important to you, is it appropriate to put it here?"
Fu Jingyou put down his handy things, walked over slowly, squatted down, looked at the oil paper package, and asked Lu Miao:
"I can find a better place for it."
Lu Miao's eyes curved and he shook his head, "No, just put it here."
After saying that, he took out a thin hemp rope from his neck and brought out two brass keys.
"I have the key to the kitchen. If you need it, it would be more convenient for me to come here and get it."
This makes sense.
Fu Jingyou nodded without any dispute.
The rice was already cooked. Lu Miao was afraid of oil, so she didn't dare to stir-fry the vegetables. However, she had drained the rice soup while Fu Jingyou was away.
Now we just wait for the dishes to be prepared. After steaming the rice and cleaning it up, we can start eating.
Fu Jingyou was also quick. He washed the pot in two strokes, quickly fried a plate of beans, and then poured the half-cooked rice into the pot. He took out the sesame oil he had brought back from Yanji before, and placed a bowl of sesame oil-soaked eggs on the edge of the rice and steamed them.
The two people are nominally friends, but in fact, they have developed a tacit understanding with each other in life.
Fu Jingyou's development has never been limited to this small kitchen. He only adheres to his own ideas.
Lu Miao has always been spoiled, and he lets her do whatever she wants.
If she doesn't like to do something, then let him do it.
It’s enough for her to be happy and carefree forever.
During the meal, Fu Jingyou mentioned the soybean field. Lu Miao thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, I have no objection."
The educated youth were still discussing it a few days ago, saying that it was almost cotton picking season.
Lu Miao is worried!
She had a traumatic experience with the cotton fields, and would not go there again even if the production team leader criticized her by name.
Now Fu Jingyou has extended an olive branch and asked her to go to the soybean field with him, isn’t that perfect?
She didn't even have to think of an excuse to deal with He Hongjin.
Lu Miao's mood became better and better, and when he couldn't help it, he would chuckle a few times.
Fu Jingyou glanced at her sideways, "What are you laughing at?"
Lu Miao straightened his back and shook his head seriously, "Nothing!"
Although she said so, the smile on her face became brighter.
…
Although the quiet days were joyful, it was not the busy farming season after all. Lu Miao met with Fu Jingyou every now and then. Even though they were cautious and rarely discovered, there was a big difference in their status after all. One was a black fifth-class household, and the other was the most beautiful, iconic, and also the most temperamental female educated youth.
The two of them are basically two celebrities in the team. There are always many people who love gossip in the countryside. Whenever they appear in the same frame, a lot of gossip will spread, not to mention that they are arranged to work together in the soybean field.
That evening, after finishing work in the soybean field, Lu Miao was sweating profusely. He walked along the road with the brim of his hat rolled up to use as a fan. He ran into Ma Tianzao and his two young sisters-in-law Chen Shulan and Wu Baoyin from the team washing clothes by the pond.
Seeing Lu Miao shaking his hat and walking slowly back from outside, Chen Shulan and Wu Baoyin looked at each other, pouted and pushed each other, and then Wu Baoyin took the initiative to talk to Lu Miao attentively:
"Hey, Lu Zhiqing, are you back from the soybean field?"
During his time in the countryside, Lu Miao had met many annoying people, but most of them were simple and honest.
This time, Lu Miao was not on guard. She just thought that the sister-in-law in the team saw her and casually called out to chat. She stopped and responded:
"Yes. My sisters-in-law are doing the laundry. It's really hot out here."
"Haha, yes, it's really hot."
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