Chapter 129 Zhang Jian
Since there's a ride available, there's no need to make Wei Yang make the trip.
Song Lubai didn't want to trouble him too much: "Comrade Wei, you go back, I'll take the tractor back."
Feeling a little regretful, Wei Yang turned to Zhang Jian and said, "I'll have to trouble you to take Comrade Song to the 25th Company."
Zhang Jian's gaze swept over the two of them, then he smiled and said, "What trouble? We're all on the same side anyway, and it's on our way."
Wei Yang grabbed Song Lubai's bicycle and put it in the back of the tractor.
The tractor's bed was loaded with a lot of things, including farm tools and grain.
Song Lubai asked, "Company Commander Zhang, is this cargo for the 25th Company?"
Zhang Jian said, "Yes and no. They're digging a canal over at Guhekou, but they're lacking farm tools. The farm manager, oh, that is, my dad, asked our mechanized farming team to go and help out. These are the things they're currently lacking."
After thanking Zhang Jian again, Wei Yang said to Song Lubai, "Tell me if anything happens."
Song Lubai roughly understood why he had acted that way before. She felt a strange mix of emotions, but she wasn't in the mood to argue.
Liu Mei and Lin Jinyao have become a thorn in her side these past few days, leaving her no time to think about anything else.
She suddenly realized something: his kindness towards her was based on his desire to be in a relationship with her.
She glanced at him again before looking away.
Wei Yang sat on his bicycle watching the tractor drive further and further away until it disappeared from sight, then he walked back in a good mood.
His lips unconsciously turned up, like strands of hair being blown by the wind, and his whole body exuded a lightness.
On the back of the tractor, Song Lubai sat on the miscellaneous items, holding onto the edge of the vehicle.
Zhang Jian sat on the other side smoking, his short hair blowing wildly in the wind.
"Comrade Song, how many more months will you be working?"
Song Lubai grabbed her hair, which was being blown by the wind, and said, "I don't know, I have to wait for instructions from above."
Zhang Jian said with a smile, "I admire Comrade Song very much. He can speak calmly and composedly in front of the leaders. Comrade Song is obviously a cultured person, unlike us roughnecks."
Song Lubai felt something was off. She glanced at Zhang Jian and met his smiling eyes. For some reason, she felt a little nauseous.
She said politely, "What kind of cultured person is this? Only college students can be called cultured people. I can't be considered a cultured person. Zhang Lianchang can be a company commander, so he must have at least finished junior high school. We're actually not that different."
Zhang Jian chuckled, "Oh no, I only finished fourth grade, which is far worse than you high school graduates."
Song Lubai: "High academic achievement is nothing. What our country needs now are people who can get things done."
Zhang Jian looked at her and smiled, saying, "High school students really know how to talk."
Song Lubai didn't like him staring at her, so she simply turned her head to the side and stopped talking.
"Comrade Song, what is your relationship with Comrade Wei? You two seem quite familiar with each other."
Song Lubai turned around and stared straight at him, deliberately saying, "We knew each other before we came to Xinjiang Province, and we were quite familiar with each other."
She took the initiative and said, "Company Commander Zhang, judging from your age, you should be married by now. How many children do you have?"
Zhang Jian flicked his cigarette butt, the ash scattering in the wind. "Two children, both daughters. My wife works at the Women's Federation."
The two men in the back of the tractor chatted casually until the tractor reached the 25th Company, at which point Song Lubai finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn't that she was being paranoid, but Zhang Jian's eyes were just too unsettling.
He seemed to be speaking to her in a proper manner, but the way he looked at her made her very uncomfortable. This look was very different from the way Wei Yang looked at her.
Although Wei Yang stared intently at her, his gaze was not frivolous.
Zhang Jian put the bicycle on the ground and said with a smile, "Comrade Song, if you have any difficulties, you can come to me. We are all on the same side, so please don't be shy."
Song Lubai felt surrounded by the phrase "Come find me if you need anything."
These are words that Wei Yang said, Chen Weiliang said, Li Guangming said, and Zhang Jian is saying now…
She knew these people meant well, but for some reason, she felt a strong aversion to their words.
The only people in the camp right now are the cooks who are preparing meals.
Lu Shuangshuang approached Zhang Jian with a rolling pin, smiling, and said, "Company Commander Zhang, what brings you here? The meal will be ready soon, so you can have a bite to eat."
Seeing Lu Shuangshuang smiling like a flower, Song Lubai thought to herself that Lu Shuangshuang was quite generous to Zhang Jian.
Zhang Jian waved his hand, "No, no, I still have to go to Guhekou. It's getting dark soon, I can't waste time here."
Lu Shuangshuang said with a smile, "Then please take care. I'll treat you to watermelon next time you come."
Having been hungry all day, Song Lubai picked up a basket of tomatoes and started eating.
Lu Shuangshuang rolled her eyes: "All you do when you get back is eat. You're the one who cooks."
Song Lubai ate with a straight face, "Yesterday and today, I missed five meals in the company. What's wrong with me eating a few tomatoes? I won't overcharge. For the next four days, you have to give me two extra pancakes every day."
She hadn't had a proper meal since Lin Jinyao arrived, and now that Lin Jinyao was gone, she naturally had to make up for it.
Lu Shuangshuang wanted to refuse, but had no reason, so she could only mutter, "The calculation is quite accurate."
Song Lubai said sarcastically, "You're inviting Company Commander Zhang to dinner? What, do you think you're in charge of the company's food supply?"
Lu Shuangshuang glanced at Song Lubai and said, "This is just how I treat my guest. If the political instructor and company commander knew that Company Commander Zhang was here, they would have invited him to stay for dinner too. Besides, what do you know? He's the farm manager's son, and the company commander of the mechanized farming company. Isn't it only right to be polite to him?"
Song Lubai had nothing to say about her self-righteous remarks.
After looking around, she casually asked, "Have they all left?"
Lu Shuangshuang chuckled and said, "They were taken back by their company commander at noon. Our company got a truckload of sweet potatoes and three big bags of millet. The company commander was overjoyed."
Li Huijun, carrying two buckets of water, approached and asked, "Was that Zhang Jian just now?"
Having received a clear answer, Li Huijun said to Song Lubai, "Company Commander Zhang is a good man. When I was in the Seventh Company, a female comrade who was in very poor health got transferred to teach at the Eighth Company's primary school through his connections."
The woman next to Lu Shuangshuang added, "I've also heard from others that in some company, when a young woman was bullied, Zhang Jian was the one who stood up for her..."
Song Lubai hadn't expected that Company Commander Zhang had done so many good deeds.
But the look in his eyes made her feel that he wasn't a person with pure intentions.
It wasn't dark yet, and the main force that had gone to the fields hadn't returned. As Song Lubai stood in front of the blackboard checking Liu Xiaolan's work, the sound of a tractor chugging came from afar.
As the tractor approached, Liu Fengshou's shouts came from inside.
"Lu Shuangshuang, come up quickly, your man is in trouble, come with us and get him to the hospital right away."
The people in the camp all crowded around the tractor, and when they saw Zhao Aiguo's miserable state lying in the truck bed, their faces changed.
Lu Shuangshuang cried out, "Aiguo, Aiguo, what's wrong with you...?"
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