After hearing Xu Yuanyuan's voice, Jiang Li quickly walked out of the kitchen: "How is your stomach? Does it still hurt?"

Xu Yuanyuan patted her belly and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm fine!"

"That's good. I bought some peaches and apricots in town. Go wash your hands and come over to eat them."

Xu Yuanyuan rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the water tank in front: "It rained heavily today, you didn't get wet, did you? What did you and Comrade Xiao Lu do in the town? Without me as a light bulb, did you two..."

“Cough cough cough!”

Hearing Xu Yuanyuan gradually straying from the topic, Jiang Li quickly coughed twice to stop her from continuing.

Xu Yuanyuan was squatting on the ground washing her face. She didn't pay any attention when she heard Jiang Li coughing. When she finished washing her face and was about to continue the previous topic, Zhou Guoqing and others came back.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang is back."

Lin Jiye and Xi Qingshan greeted Jiang Li.

Zhou Guoqing's eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Li in the yard, and all the fatigue of the day was swept away in an instant!

Jiang Li wore a lake blue long skirt today. The hem reached her ankles. The belt tied around her waist highlighted her slender waist. Her delicate skin looked even more smooth under the glow of the sunset, as charming and alluring as a flower bud about to bloom.

Zhou Guoqing stared at Jiang Li blankly, with no concealment of the amazement in his eyes.

Being stared at by him so intently, Jiang Li frowned in disgust.

Zhou Guoqing seemed not to notice her expression and walked up to Jiang Li to talk: "Comrade Jiang is back. I heard that you went to the town today. How was it? Was it lively?"

"It's very lively here. Comrade Xiao Zhou, why don't you go to the town to take a look tomorrow?"

Lu Chaoli put down the bowl and walked out of the kitchen. His tall figure stood beside Jiang Li.

Everyone present was stunned when they saw Lu Chaoli. Only then did Xu Yuanyuan realize what happened when Jiang Li coughed twice.

Zhou Guoqing's eyes suddenly widened, and he subconsciously asked Lu Chaoli: "Why are you here?"

"Comrade Xiao Jiang bought some rice, oil, grain and noodles. They are too heavy. I'll help her carry them."

Lu Chaoli explained, and Lin Jieye and the others understood what was going on, but they didn't take it to heart. However, Zhou Guoqing rushed up to them.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, are you guys going to the town together?"

Lu Chaoli didn't expect Zhou Guoqing to ask this. He was about to say that they met at the entrance of the village, but Jiang Li nodded.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

Lu Chaoli turned his head to look at Jiang Li in surprise. After Jiang Li noticed his action, she also turned her head away.

"Thank you for your hard work today. It's getting late. I'll take you there."

After Jiang Li finished speaking, she and Lu Chaoli walked towards the gate of the Youth Educatorate Institute. Zhou Guoqing, who was standing there in a daze, didn't come back to his senses until the two of them walked out of the Youth Educatorate Institute.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang went to the town with Lu Chaoli? They went to the town together?"

Zhou Guoqing stared at Lin Jieye and Xu Yuanyuan beside him, unable to believe what he had just heard.

"Yes, Comrade Xiao Jiang just said that. What's the matter, Captain?"

Is there anything wrong with Comrade Xiao Jiang taking a ride with Comrade Xiao Lu to go to town to buy things?

"How can they go together?!"

Zhou Guoqing stamped his feet in anxiety, as if Jiang Li and Lu Chaoli going to the town together was something shameful.

Xu Yuanyuan rolled her eyes. "What do you mean, Captain? Is there anything wrong with Xiao Jiang and Comrade Xiao Lu going to the town together? Why did the captain say something different?"

"Comrade Xiao Xu knows that Lu Chaoli has a criminal record. If Comrade Xiao Jiang gets too close to this kind of person, he will be corrupted sooner or later!"

Zhou Guoqing looked anxious, and his words were all for Jiang Li's sake, but Xu Yuanyuan knew that the reason he was slandering Lu Chaoli everywhere was just because he was jealous of Lu Chaoli's close relationship with Jiang Li.

"Captain, can you please stop believing everything you hear? Comrade Xiao Lu is a warm-hearted person, and the villagers praise him when they see him. How come he has a criminal record? How did he become a bad example for Xiao Jiang?"

"Once or twice would be fine, but the captain keeps saying these unfounded things everywhere. It's hard not to suspect that you are deliberately targeting Comrade Xiao Lu and trying to sow discord between us and Comrade Xiao Lu."

Xu Yuanyuan folded her arms across her chest and looked at Zhou Guoqing, ruthlessly exposing his little thoughts.

Zhou Guoqing was so angry that he said, "Comrade Xiao Xu, please be careful with your words! As an educated youth, is this how you should behave when you maliciously speculate about others?!"

Xu Yuanyuan sneered: "Captain, aren't you still making malicious assumptions about Comrade Xiao Lu? Before you educate others, Captain, please reflect on yourself first, so as not to shoot yourself in the foot and make others think you are ridiculous!"

“You, you!”

Zhou Guoqing gritted his teeth and couldn't say a word of rebuttal for a long time.

In the end, Xu Yuanyuan, who made sense in every word, had the upper hand in this argument. Xu Yuanyuan glanced at Zhou Guoqing, who was two-faced, and did not bother to say anything more to him, so she turned and went to the kitchen.

"Look at her, look at her attitude!"

Zhou Guoqing complained to Lin Jieye and Xi Qingshan about Xu Yuanyuan, but the two looked at each other, shrugged, and ignored him.

Although they are careless in character and not thoughtful enough, they are not stupid. After Comrade Xiao Xu said it, they also found that the captain had been talking about Comrade Xiao Lu all the time and saying bad things about him in the past two days.

Isn't this malicious speculation? If you can't even keep your own heart balanced, what qualifications do you have to demand others to do so?

After leaving the Youth League Institute, Jiang Li and Lu Chaoli walked towards the forest path ahead. Lu Chaoli wanted to say something several times but stopped himself, holding back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

Jiang Li tilted her head and looked at him: "Do you have anything to say to me?"

Lu Chaoli nodded and asked what he had been holding back: "Why did Comrade Xiao Jiang admit that we went to the town together today? What if they find out and say something bad? It will have a bad impact on Comrade Xiao Jiang."

Jiang Li had a faint smile in her eyes. She looked up at Lu Chaoli and asked instead of answering, "Is it shameful for us to go to the town together?"

Lu Chaoli quickly shook his head: "No."

Jiang Li raised her eyebrows slightly: "That's it, why should we be afraid of them knowing? Besides, we are just going to the town to have a meal and repay the favor I owe, not to steal or rob. If they know, then they know. There is nothing to hide."

Lu Chaoli scratched his head. "I'm afraid that the people in the village will misunderstand our relationship after knowing it. Comrade Xiao Jiang may not know that there are several grandmothers in the village who are loudmouths and can turn black into white. I'm afraid they will say something nonsense after knowing it."

Jiang Li stopped when she heard that and looked up at Lu Chaoli.

"What is the relationship between us?"