Chapter 66: Pampered and Spoiled
Fu Jingyou bent down and stood in the stream to wash the mud off his feet.
Lu Miao pouted, her slender figure standing on the small wooden bridge, her eyes following his body, she stammered with a bit of guilt.
Every time she went out with Fu Jingyou, she felt like they were on a picnic. It was originally a joke to herself, but now looking back, it seemed to be coming true.
"You're going to harvest rice? Which piece of land is ours? What can I do?"
“Just these two plots of land.”
Fu Jingyou pointed casually and saw two paddy fields adjacent to each other, one above and one below, about an acre in size.
"You don't have to do anything. Your job is to herd the cattle. Find a shady place and watch over them. Make sure they don't run into other people's fields and trample on the crops."
Lu Miao pecked at the rice, nodded, and said "oh" softly.
Fu Jingyou scooped up a handful of water to wash his arms and face, then picked up a sickle and walked towards the rice field to start working.
Lu Miao followed his back with his eyes, stood on tiptoe to watch for a while, and finally looked around. He chose a lotus leaf, folded it in half, flattened it, spread it on the small wooden bridge, and sat on the ground.
Apart from the reeds along the water, the only two things that can provide shade are the black-skinned spring trees on one side of the ridge.
As luck would have it, the black-skinned spring tree was at one end of the small wooden bridge, and the shade it cast under the sunlight just covered the small wooden bridge.
Lu Miao sat in the shade, testing the water by dangling her legs in the air. If she relaxed her legs and let them hang down, her feet would inevitably be immersed in the stream. She simply turned over and took off her cloth shoes and socks, placing them neatly at her side.
Then he rolled up his trouser legs and boldly put his pair of white feet into the water.
The air temperature had risen at this moment, but the water temperature was still cold. Lu Miao was so cold that he kept shrinking his neck. Only after he recovered did he calmly put his feet into the water.
She stuffed the sweet lotus seeds into her mouth, chewing them with her cheeks slightly puffed up, her calves unconsciously kicking the water with pleasure, and threw the emerald green lotus seed skins under the bridge, where they were swept far away by the flexible stream.
Fu Jingyou occasionally looked up while working. Lu Miao seemed carefree and happy. He also felt a little happy in his heart, and his diamond-shaped lips couldn't help but curl up slightly.
He chuckled, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and bent down to continue working.
Lu Miao ate lotus seeds and played with the water leisurely until she threw the last handful of lotus seed skins into the water. She stretched lazily, glanced at the lotus field with an unsatisfied look, and turned back to ask Fu Jingyou:
"Fu Jingyou, can I go in there and pick lotus seeds?"
Although it was just a question, by the time she finished speaking, she had already trotted barefoot to the edge of the lotus field, bent down to roll up her trouser legs higher, and was ready to go into the water.
The lake is drained every winter to dig lotus roots. Although the water here looks shallow, there are actually many hidden pits. If you are not familiar with it, you will definitely fall into the trap.
Suddenly, just as Lu Miao was about to be stopped, Fu Jingyou said in a counter-argument:
"Go ahead. There are a lot of water snakes in there. Three or five of them will come out and bite you one by one."
“…”
Lu Miao's leg, which was about to step into the mud, was retracted instantly.
She stared at Fu Jingyou and asked doubtfully:
"Then how dare you go in? Aren't you afraid of being bitten?"
Fu Jingyou held his hat steady as it tilted forward. "I'm not afraid of snakes. Besides, snakes only like to bite fair and tender skin like you. Biting me would just hurt my teeth."
"gab……!"
Lu Miao was speechless for a while. It was the first time he heard such a statement.
But regardless of whether Fu Jingyou was teasing her or not, when she turned her head and saw the shadows of lotus leaves swaying on the surface of the lotus field, for some reason, her mind suddenly remembered a documentary she had seen about giant crocodiles in the Amazon.
The crocodiles would hide in the shadows and murky water, waiting to strike a sudden and unexpected blow to humans or their prey.
Although there was no possibility of crocodiles here, after hearing about snakes and looking at the flickering water surface, Lu Miao was so frightened that he had to sit back in the shade of the tree on the small wooden bridge even though he was unwilling to do so.
"Fu Jingyou, I'm so thirsty!"
Lu Miao was a little unhappy, but Fu Jingyou could see more that she was embarrassed because she was scared back by the snake, and her cheeks puffed up.
She spoke in a coquettish manner, as if she was trying to stir up trouble and get back at someone, but in fact, she was just being arrogant because she had become familiar with the person.
Fu Jingyou, on the other hand, had no temper with her. "I didn't bring any water this morning. There are a few sour apricots in the basket at the edge of the field. Do you want to eat them? They can still quench your thirst."
“…”
Lu Miao was not really thirsty, but she felt that she had just lost face. Her arrogant personality made her think of some mean tricks and deliberately make things difficult for others.
When Fu Jingyou talked about sour apricots, no matter whether she was thirsty or not, or whether she liked to eat them or not, she decided to stop while she was ahead. She slowly went to the edge of the field to find the bamboo basket, took out two green apricots, put them in her pocket, and returned to the shade.
"Just bear with it. Once you finish mowing this area, you can go back and eat."
Fu Jingyou comforted and persuaded him from the side, his attitude and tone were like coaxing a child, but Lu Miao really liked it, "I understand!"
After a long morning of dawdling, it was finally time to get off work at noon. By then, Lu Miao had already finished working on two green apricots while watching over the cows and enduring the pain.
The lotus flowers that Fu Jingyou picked for her were made into an alternative pink and white flower ball according to the Thai dramas she had watched and her own ideas.
That was a craft that Fu Jingyou had never seen before. At first, he just thought it was very beautiful, but as he watched more, he became interested.
On the way back, Lu Miao walked in front, and he walked behind with Niu holding a sickle between his elbows. Along the way, there were foxtail grass of different heights and sizes.
He plucked them casually, and his slender hands with rough palms seemed to be embellished with magic. Several foxtail grasses bent and twisted in his hands, and soon turned into the shape of a rabbit.
He let out an "Ah", and when Lu Miao turned around, he handed over the little rabbit he had made. When Lu Miao exclaimed, he picked up several large and small dogtail grasses from the roadside again. This time, he didn't make a little rabbit, but a little fox with several tails.
“You’re amazing!”
Fu Jingyou is not only dexterous, but his imagination is even more amazing!
Lu Miao was pleasantly surprised. "How did you do that? Can you make up other stories? Um... Fu Jingyou, I want more! Make up another one for me!"
Pulling Fu Jingyou's sleeve and shaking him back and forth with both soft and hard tactics, Lu Miao looked so delicate and pretty that it was hard to refuse.
So, when she arrived at the Fu family, she had already gathered rabbits, foxes and dragonflies.
Lu Miao also followed suit and made a heart. It was her first time making this kind of thing, and her skills were not as good as Fu Jingyou's, so there were a lot of crooked marks on the weaving. But she was also a little clever. If her skills were not good enough, she would make up for it with some embellishments!
Pin the small wild flowers picked from the roadside on it. The wild flowers, the size of a little fingernail, perfectly cover up all the imperfections.
Lu Miao was very satisfied, and handed it to his side with a hum. He originally wanted to ask for a compliment from Fu Jingyou, but the latter misunderstood that it was a gift for him, so he took it directly.
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