Yan Sumei hesitated for a moment, "Is this really okay? Don't you need to tell cousin Xiao Xue in advance?"
Yan Ning shook his head and sighed, "I can't tell her in advance, otherwise it won't have the desired effect.
Just do as I say and everything will be fine."
Yan Sumei thought for a moment and said, "Okay then, I'll go with Qingqing to the fields to look for Liu Zhiqing later..."
"You can't go in person."
Yan Ning interrupted her and said, "If you go to the fields to look for Liu Zhiqing, then everyone in the village will know about it.
Find a clever kid in the village, give him a piece of candy, and ask him to run errands and call the people over for you."
Yan Sumei nodded in understanding, "Okay, I'll dry my hair and go find Qingqing."
The two left the room and returned to the yard.
Yan Ning left the yard and took Xiao Xue and Qin Bingbing away from Yan Sumei's house.
The three of them were walking on the road.
Qin Bingbing took Yan Ning's hand and shook it, "Sister Ning, where are you taking us?"
Yan Ning: "Where do you want to go?"
"Let's go to the back mountain! Let's go to the back mountain to catch rabbits, okay? I haven't been to the mountains to play before. I want to catch a rabbit and take it home to raise."
Qin Bingbing excitedly shook Yan Ning's arm.
Yan Ning ruthlessly shattered her beautiful dream, "You can't go to the mountain in the next two days. The foot of the mountain is surrounded by people from the Public Security Bureau. No one can go up."
Qin Bingbing let out a disappointed "Oh".
Yan Ning asked Xiao Xue again: "Xiaoxue, is there any place you want to go? Besides the back mountain."
Xiao Xue: "It's all right. Sister Ning, you can take us around the village."
She was not interested in the village, but there was nothing interesting to see in the county town, so she didn't care where to go.
Yan Ning smiled and said, "Then I'll take you to the land area. It just so happens that this is my first time visiting the village since I came to Daliushu!"
The three of them chatted and laughed as they strolled towards the land at the foot of the mountain.
There are two forks in the road when you walk from the village to the foot of the mountain.
Walk a little to the right and you will reach the Yan family's yard.
To the left is the road to the fields.
On the road leading to the fields, after walking a while there is a small fork to the left, which leads to the wild pond in the village.
This section of the road starts from the fork in the road. The path, only half a meter wide, is lined with reeds, forming a reed pond.
The reeds grew so dense and tall that they obscured the view inside the fork in the road.
In summer, this reed pond is a secret base for the children in the village.
Here they catch loaches, eels and pick up wild duck eggs.
At half past eight in the morning, the sun was already high in the sky.
The sunlight at this time is warm and makes people feel warm.
Yan Ning took Xiao Xue and Qin Bingbing to a side road and sat under the reeds on the side of the road to enjoy the cool air.
Xiao Xue and Qin Bingbing looked around curiously.
Qin Bingbing broke off a reed and asked, "Sister Ning, are there really wild duck eggs in this wild pond?"
Yan Ning: "Yes! I heard from my grandma that the children in the village often come to this pond to look for wild duck eggs. If they are lucky, they can find quite a few."
Qin Bingbing looked at her with interest, "Sister Ning, let's go and take a look. I haven't seen what wild duck eggs look like yet!"
Yan Ning raised his eyebrows, "I can go, but I don't know where there are wild ducks.
Let's wait here. Sister Sumei, whom I went to see earlier, will pass by this intersection on her way to the fields.
When we see her, we'll ask her. She's a local and will definitely know where to find wild duck eggs."
Qin Bingbing nodded, and she and Xiao Xue took a reed and poked around in the pond, looking for loaches.
Yan Ning heard the sound of someone passing by on the road, turned his head and looked at the intersection through a patch of reeds.
I saw Yan Sumei and a girl walking towards the land.
That girl should be another love-brained Yan Qingqing.
Yan Ning waited patiently for a while.
After seven or eight minutes, footsteps were heard on the road again, followed by voices.
Yan Ning poked Xiao Xue's arm.
Xiao Xue looked at her and was about to speak when she was interrupted by Yan Ning.
Yan Ning put his slender index finger on his lips and made a 'hush' gesture.
She pointed at the main road at the intersection outside and whispered a few words, "There's someone outside."
Yan Ning stood up and carefully moved a little closer to the intersection so that he could hear more clearly.
Xiao Xue and Qin Bingbing also moved to Yan Ning's side quietly.
The three of them listened carefully to the voices of several people outside.
Liu Zhiqing glanced at Yan Sumei, then at Yan Qingqing, and spoke nervously,
"Qingqing, what's the matter with you asking me to come over?"
Yan Qingqing's eyes were red, "Sister Sumei said she saw you with a beautiful girl in the county town on Friday,
You accompanied her to the department store, and to the state-owned restaurant for dinner, and you behaved intimately..."
"Qingqing, I don't have any."
Liu Zhiqing interrupted Yan Qingqing and explained, "You and Comrade Yan Sumei have misunderstood me. I..."
"You, you, you, what do you mean by you? What else do you have to quibble about?"
He had just begun to speak when he was interrupted by Yan Sumei.
Yan Sumei looked at him with disdain, "You didn't two-timing? Or you didn't deceive Qingqing's feelings?
Or do you want to say that you and that girl are just friends?
That day at the state-owned restaurant, I heard that girl say with my own ears that you and she were dating."
Liu Zhiqing was so angry that he tried his best to suppress his emotions, ignored Yan Sumei, and slowly explained to Yan Qingqing,
"Qingqing, I didn't volunteer. The girl's father was the leader of Anping Commune and was in charge of the transfer of all the educated youth sent to the countryside.
She used her father's status to force me to marry her. She said that if I didn't marry her, I would never be able to return to the city.
Even if I have the opportunity to return to the city in the future, his father will block my transfer procedures and prevent me from returning to the city."
At this point, Liu Zhiqing looked at Yan Qingqing's somewhat moved expression, and said affectionately:
"Qingqing, you know me. I can't adapt to the life in the countryside. I must return to the city.
I promised you before that I would take you back to the city after we got married. This is my sincere promise.
I am just being hypocritical and flattering to that girl.
I am sincere to you."
Yan Qingqing was somewhat moved, yet also somewhat conflicted. She didn't know whether she should believe what Liu Zhiqing said.
Xiao Xue, who was hiding by the reed pond, was so angry when she heard these words that the rage in her heart surged up.
She recognized Liu Zhiqing's voice when they started talking, and after listening to their conversation, what else was there that she didn't understand?
Xiao Xue stood up and was about to go out.
Yan Ning held her shoulders, shook his head at her, and mouthed, "Wait until they finish talking before leaving. He can't get away."
Xiao Xue had no choice but to suppress the anger in her heart and continue to listen to the conversation between the people outside.
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