"Okay, then you contact them and wait for them on the road they must take tomorrow morning."
Seeing that Zhou Dong was about to drink, Lin Qingqing reached out and took the bottle away, saying, "Don't drink now. We can celebrate after we get things done tomorrow."
Zhou Dong wanted to get angry, but he also knew what was most important right now.
However, while the alcohol was optional, nothing else was forbidden. With a quick pull, the unsuspecting Lin Qingqing fell towards Zhou Dong.
What are you going to do?
Zhou Dong's lips curled into a wicked smile. "What do you think I want to do?"
Seeing that Lin Qingqing was somewhat resistant to him, Zhou Dong's mood worsened, and he slapped her. "Don't push your luck, Lin Qingqing. It's your good fortune that I'm willing to touch you. If you can't satisfy me, then I won't do it."
Sure enough, Lin Qingqing's resistance gradually subsided upon hearing these words.
These changes, of course, did not escape Zhou Dong's notice. He roughly ripped off the obstruction, while taunting her incessantly, "It's not the first time, why pretend to be a chaste and virtuous woman?"
Although the words were harsh, they were all true.
When Lin Qingqing left Zhou Dong's house, all she wanted to do was find a place to take a good bath, but she didn't have time, since the work in the fields was still waiting for her.
"Oh dear! Lin Zhiqing, what's wrong with you?"
When the scorekeeper arrived at the field, he found Lin Qingqing with red and swollen cheeks and thought she had been in a fight.
There hadn't been any fights or arguments in their village for quite some time. If anyone dared to disobey the village chief and disrupt production, she would have to report it to the authorities.
Lin Qingqing turned to the side. "No, I fell by accident."
The scorekeeper didn't believe it; the marks on his face were clearly from a slap, not from a fall.
But since the other person wouldn't tell her, and she couldn't get any information out of them, she had no choice but to give up.
“Then I won’t bother with it. Your work…” The scorekeeper frowned. “You still have a little over half of it left to do. I can only give you 4 work points. You can’t do this again tomorrow. You’re an old educated youth. How come you can’t even compare to those new educated youth? It’s one thing that you can’t match An’an’s full work points, but even Zhang, who looks weaker than you, does twice as much work.”
When she was compared to others again, Lin Qingqing's face turned as black as charcoal. Not wanting to anger the other party, she could only lower her eyes to hide her emotions and say, "I understand."
Li Yumei had been watching her closely, so she naturally noticed her sneaking away. Now, looking at her swollen face, she almost burst out laughing.
Serves you right!
"Hey, what happened to your face? Did you do something shameful again and get caught red-handed and beaten up?"
She didn't perform well last time, and afterwards she really regretted it.
"It's none of your business!"
Lin Qingqing went straight into the kitchen, took a basin and poured out all the water that Zhang Zhaodi had just boiled. Then she couldn't wait to wash herself, and only then did she feel like she had come back to life.
Where is my water?
Li Yumei pursed her lips as she thought of the direction Lin Qingqing had left in, "Among us, only that one shameless person is left."
Zhang Zhaodi immediately understood, "How did she become like this?"
"She has always been like this. It's just that I was foolish before, which made her seem like a snow lotus from the Tianshan Mountains."
Growing angrier by the thought, Li Yumei urged, "You're not just going to admit it, are you?"
Zhang Zhaodi didn't speak, but everything was understood without words.
"You're such a coward, just wait and see how I deal with her."
Since she was already in deep trouble, Li Yumei wasn't afraid of her at all.
"Bang, bang, bang!" A series of loud bangs accompanied her shouts, "Which shameless person poured water on others? Don't they have hands? They might as well just chop them off. What's the point of having them?"
"This dorm is unbearable. Before, they would steal money and food, but now they even steal boiled water. I must have been incredibly unlucky to have such a thief as my roommate."
Li Yumei was almost calling out names, and Lin Qingqing, of course, understood. She suddenly opened the door and said, "What do you mean? I didn't use your water."
"You talk as if you're the one who boiled the water. I'll give you five minutes to go fetch the water and boil it, or don't blame me for slapping you across the face."
"You dare!"
Seeing Li Yumei's smug and fearless attitude, Lin Qingqing felt incredibly frustrated, but she managed to suppress her anger. She glared at Li Yumei and turned away, saying, "Fine, I hope you won't regret this later."
In just a short while, Lin Qingqing had already figured out a way to deal with Li Yumei. Since that group of people had come, they would probably be happy to take one more person with them, right?
It's a pity that the woman surnamed Li isn't as good-looking as that bitch, so they'll definitely get much less money.
"Why is she so obedient? Is she plotting something?"
Zhang Zhaodi had once accidentally seen Lin Qingqing's crazed eyes, which were very similar to the eyes of someone from her hometown who had committed a crime, so she was very wary of her.
"Why be afraid of her! Maybe she'll run into a brick wall someday, and then our lives will be much more comfortable."
Zhang Zhaodi didn't understand the deeper meaning behind her words, but she was still looking forward to that day.
After that, things were relatively calm at the educated youth compound. No matter what Li Yumei said, Lin Qingqing seemed not to hear it and quietly waited for good news.
"Yu Mei, you'd better stop scolding her. She was smiling at you when you said those things, it was so scary."
Li Yumei could roughly understand her mindset, so she didn't continue to provoke her.
Gu An'an went for a stroll up the mountain and brought back quite a few things.
"Oh my, you've dug up ginseng again? I've gone up so many times and never found any. God is so unfair."
Gu An'an placed the ginseng along with the turf it was wrapped in in a shady spot. "I also think I'm pretty lucky. I was worried about not having a presentable gift to bring when I went to their house for dinner tomorrow. Who knew I would find such a good thing as soon as I entered the mountains."
Zhou Yue had originally intended to pay for it, but after hearing this, she didn't dare to say anything more. "The Xiao family has indeed treated you very well, and the two elders are getting on in years, so this gift is quite appropriate."
She didn't say anything about anything being too expensive to give as a gift. The item belonged to Gu An'an, and she could give it to whomever she wanted; that was her freedom.
Moreover, given how satisfied the Xiao family was with Gu An'an, they must have given her a gift upon meeting her; she just didn't know it.
The next morning, after the village chief called Gu An'an away to resolve a few issues, she returned to her courtyard, took a gift, and rode her bicycle to the commune.
Lin Qingqing was assigned a spot by the roadside today. As she hummed a song as she passed by Gu An'an, she couldn't hide the smugness in her eyes.
Laugh! Laugh now, or you'll miss your chance.
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