But isn't the texture under my hand a little too soft?
It has some bumps and feels soft and fluffy.
"Have you touched enough?" Ye Lingyu's voice was somewhat annoyed. If she had known this person was so indecent, she should have made her fall down!
Realizing that his hand was in the wrong place, Cheng Qingyan immediately withdrew it.
"Sorry, sorry, I didn't know that was—" Before she could finish speaking, Ye Lingyu covered her mouth.
Ye Lingyu warned her fiercely, "You dare say that again?"
Cheng Qingyan instantly became obedient: "I won't do it again, I won't do it again. I really didn't mean to, how about I let you touch it back?"
"You still dare to talk!" Ye Lingyu's face and ears were burning red in the night, but the culprit in front of her showed no sign of stopping.
"I won't say anymore, I really won't say anymore. Don't be angry, I really won't say anymore."
Ye Lingyu ignored her and walked home in silence.
In the darkness, Cheng Qingyan opened his palm and looked at it. Then he sighed, "What a mess this is!"
Ye Lingyu walked for a while and realized that the person behind her hadn't followed. Could it be that her tone had been too harsh, and she was angry?
Looking at the dark figure not far away, Ye Lingyu rubbed her face: "Aren't we going back?"
"Coming, coming. Of course we're going back, wait for me."
"Who's waiting for you!"
He said he wouldn't wait, but he didn't move an inch.
Knowing he had made a mistake, Cheng Qingyan ran over with a grin and said, "You don't need to wait for me, I'll catch up with you myself."
These past few days, Meng Chuying has been going to the fields with Ye Lingyu to collect grass roots and stones.
Both Mr. Wu and the old ox were exhausted. Cheng Qingyan told Mr. Wu not to rush and to rest when he needed to. He said that he would give Mr. Wu some money later.
Old Wu sighed, "I've never seen anyone clear land like this before. No wonder they can't grow anything."
Cheng Qingyan sighed helplessly, "I was careless. I should have dug up the land and checked the soil before buying it."
"What do you young people know? You'll learn from your mistakes. If you suffered a loss this time, don't make the same mistake again next time. Don't you ever think about it? If the land could be cultivated, would it be left barren?"
"Uncle Wu, you're right, I've learned a lot."
The plan was to plow over ten acres of land in three days. But four days have passed and it's still not finished.
Turning over the soil, Cheng Qingyan felt that tilling twice was completely ineffective. Judging from the state of the land, it would need to be tilled two or three times initially, and then continued to be tilled and nurtured until crops could be grown.
The first round of tilling was finally completed on the fifth day. Because there were a lot of grass roots and stones in the soil during the first round, it was impossible to till deeply.
The second round of tilling was done right after the first. It was slightly easier than the first round, but some stones still came out.
The stones that were cultivated from these dozen or so acres of land are piled up at the foot of a nearby hillside, almost level with it.
Meng Chuying always comes to the fields with them, and recently she's been eating at their house all the time.
She was less resistant to Cheng Qingyan and could even joke and laugh with Ye Lingyu.
Cheng Qingyan was worried that she would get tired, so he told her to rest at home and not to keep going to the fields with him.
Meng Chuying had an accident on her day off.
Initially, she planned to go to the fields with Ye Lingyu and Cheng Qingyan, but Cheng Qingyan told her not to go, so she decided to wait until they arrived at the fields and then secretly follow them.
For some reason, when she was passing by the river at the entrance of the village, some naughty children stopped her and then pushed her into the river.
With the onset of winter, the river water was icy cold. Meng Chuying struggled in the river, but soon ran out of strength.
The children on the bank didn't offer her any help, because they were the ones who caused her to fall into the river.
While she was desperately struggling to survive, the children on the shore were laughing and talking without restraint.
It's so cold! She had no strength left, and she slowly sank into the river.
It was only then that the children on the shore realized that Meng Chuying couldn't swim, and they all looked terrified and ran away.
Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu saw someone fall into the water, but they didn't know it was Meng Chuying.
They were too far away to see more than a single figure fall into the river.
If Cheng Qingyan hadn't left the rake at home, they wouldn't have thought to go back to get it, and they wouldn't have seen anyone fall into the water.
Cheng Qingyan and Ye Lingyu ran and shouted that someone had fallen into the water, but there were only a few people in the field. They heard the shouts and ran out of the field.
When Cheng Qingyan arrived at the riverbank, there wasn't even a ripple on the water.
The slower child was caught and brought back: "Who fell into the water?"
Faced with the adults' questions, the child was so frightened that he burst into tears and refused to say a word.
Without thinking twice, Cheng Qingyan jumped into the water based on the general direction from which she saw someone fall in.
She immediately dived down into the river. Fortunately, the water was very clear, and she saw Meng Chuying slowly falling!
While the people on the shore were still asking who had fallen into the water, another person jumped into the river right after Cheng Qingyan.
Under questioning from the crowd, the child who had been brought back cried and said that the young lady from the Meng family had fallen into the water.
Ye Lingyu felt a sudden chill in her heart. How could it be Meng Chuying? Wasn't she told to rest today and not to come out?
Cheng Qingyan pulled Meng Chuying from the bottom of the river, gave her a breath, and then swam to the surface.
Later, the people who went into the water also saw them and swam over to help pull Meng Chuying out of the water.
The man checked Meng Chuying's breath and shook his head at the others.
As soon as Cheng Qingyan got ashore, she performed CPR on Meng Chuying and instructed Ye Lingyu to follow her example and take over from her later.
She had just swum out of the river; she was cold and tired and couldn't last more than a few minutes.
While performing CPR on Meng Chuying, Cheng Qingyan called out to her, "Meng Chuying, Meng Chuying, wake up."
She was met only with silence and the hushed whispers of the crowd.
Boys and girls should not sit together after the age of seven. In their eyes, it was indecent for Meng Chuying to be lying on the ground like this, with Cheng Qingyan, a "big man," having his hand on Meng Chuying's chest.
Cheng Qingyan only wanted Meng Chuying to wake up; she didn't care about the difference between men and women. Besides, she was a woman herself.
After performing CPR for a while, Cheng Qingyan was exhausted and called Ye Lingyu over to continue pressing on his chest.
Ye Lingyu had the strength, but perhaps she was using the wrong method. Several minutes passed, and Meng Chuying still hadn't vomited any water.
Cheng Qingyan switched places again, but Meng Chuying still didn't react.
People around her advised her to give up, saying that the person was already gone.
She was unwilling to accept this, wondering why things had turned out this way. She also felt a pang of self-blame; if she hadn't been allowed to rest, Meng Chuying should be in the fields right now, not in the river.
"Meng Chuying, wake up!" Cheng Qingyan punched Meng Chuying in the chest, and Meng Chuying coughed up a mouthful of water.
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