Chapter 9 Brother Mingchuan is with me
Su Heng rolled up her trouser legs to her knees, revealing two straight, white calves.
Her top was also a little wet and stuck to her body, revealing her slender waist.
Lu Mingchuan's cold eyes suddenly turned away as if they were burned.
"Why are you here?"
Su Heng couldn't walk fast barefoot, and she also had to take care of the wild duck eggs in her pocket.
Maybe it was because of the great harvest today, or maybe someone still cared about her, anyway, she smiled happily at Lu Mingchuan.
But Lu Mingchuan looked very grumpy.
"If I don't come, you still want to swim in the middle of the river twice? Do you know how deep this river is?"
"I didn't intend to go into the river. I was picking up duck eggs from the reeds along the shore..."
Su Heng felt a little embarrassed, as if she was back to her childhood when she was scolded by her parents for playing too much. She had indeed walked a little far from the shore.
If Lu Mingchuan hadn't called her, she might have unconsciously gone to the center of the river.
"Heh." Seeing her trying to quibble, Lu Mingchuan sneered.
"Pick it up. Next time, pick it up in the middle of the river."
"I'll be more careful next time."
Su Heng could feel that he actually cared about her.
After being reborn into this safe world, her tense nerves suddenly relaxed. She was a little too careless.
She is a landlubber just like the original owner.
Lu Mingchuan still had a sullen expression.
Realizing that he was actually angry about this, his face turned even uglier and he turned and left.
"Don't leave in a hurry. It's a good opportunity for you to come. Please help me take the clothes back."
Su Heng washed the wild duck eggs and water chestnuts in water and put them in the basin containing clothes.
She carried the water in a bucket herself. Today she knew that one bucket was too small. Although it was difficult, fortunately she was still able to carry it.
Lu Mingchuan held a wooden basin in one hand and leaned on a crutch with the other. He looked like a very capable cripple.
But when he saw Su Heng's thin shoulders bent by the carrying pole, he silently grasped the crutch, and a gloomy look flashed in his eyes.
Neither of them spoke again on the way back.
Lu Mingchuan didn't want to say it, and Su Heng was too tired to say it.
Unexpectedly, when he was almost at the door of his house, he ran into Chen Xiangnan who was walking towards him carrying a bucket of water.
Su Heng's eyelids twitched. She remembered that this man's home didn't seem to be in this direction.
Is it necessary to run so far to fetch water?
"Su Heng, you are fetching water too." He didn't call Xiao Su today.
Then, as if he had just seen Lu Mingchuan, he said in surprise, "Brother Chuan is here too."
Lu Mingchuan glanced at Chen Xiangnan, and Su Heng quickly said, "Yes, Brother Mingchuan is with me today."
She specifically called him Brother Mingchuan in a gentle manner.
Sure enough, Chen Xiangnan looked hurt when he heard this.
"Do you want me to help you..."
"No need, Brother Mingchuan will help me." Su Heng showed a hint of shyness at the right time.
Chen Xiangnan fell silent. He now knew that Su Heng's refusal was serious.
But she had clearly said before that she didn't like Lu Mingchuan and that they would divorce sooner or later.
Now you are calling me so affectionately, are you regretting it?
Brother Chuan is only a little more handsome than him, but at least he has all his limbs intact...
"Okay, go ahead and do your work, we're leaving."
Su Heng didn't have the energy to chat with him. The two buckets of water were almost crushing her.
"Su Heng, you..." He wanted to say something else, but Su Heng had already left without even looking at him.
Lu Mingchuan glanced at him when he left, and it was as if he was being stared at by a wild beast, which made his heart tighten instantly. At the same time, he also saw the warning in Lu Mingchuan's eyes.
Chen Xiangnan felt guilty for a moment, and only after Lu Mingchuan left did he realize that cold sweat had appeared on his forehead.
How could he forget that Brother Chuan is not someone to be trifled with.
Perhaps because he had a disabled leg, she looked down on him, but now she was frightened by just a look.
Su Heng didn't pay attention to their lawsuit. After returning home and pouring water, she ran out again to fetch more.
Brother Mingchuan really pinched his throat and made himself feel sick after saying those two sentences just now.
I was a little speechless facing Lu Mingchuan, luckily he didn't mock me.
Dinner was stir-fried wild rice stems with garlic sprouts and wild duck eggs.
The wild rice stem is very sweet, crispy and tender.
When eating, the two of them were usually very focused on eating, and Su Heng didn't notice anything.
After taking a shower and changing clothes in the evening, Su Heng remembered that she had not applied the medicine yet.
So he took the ointment and went to knock on the door again, and today he actually opened his mouth.
"Come in."
Su Heng went in and found him sitting at the table counting money with an iron box.
The original owner came in and didn’t find it, so she thought Lu Mingchuan had spent all his money.
There were so many great unity, Su Heng's attention was unconsciously attracted.
Those were a pair of hands with strong muscles and distinct joints. The slender fingers pointed at ten big unity cards and then handed them to Su Heng.
Su Heng was puzzled and asked after a moment of hesitation: "Give it to me?"
Why are you suddenly so nice? Didn’t you swear yesterday that you wouldn’t give her money?
Lu Mingchuan glanced at her again with a chilling look: "What are you thinking?"
Su Heng was embarrassed and cleared her throat strategically, "What's that for?"
"Tomorrow, go find the brigade secretary and ask him to help find a drilling team to dig a well."
"oh."
The price of drilling is different in each place, depending on the depth of the water layer.
But this is not a dry place, so the price is not too expensive. The brigade has a collective well, which only cost 80 yuan at the time.
One hundred yuan is more than enough.
Su Heng happily accepted the money, and then pretended to refuse it.
"Are you feeling sorry for me because I'm tired from carrying water? Actually, it's not that bad. Digging a well is quite expensive. Why don't you just forget it?"
Lu Mingchuan twitched the corners of his mouth, half-smiled: "No, I just think the toads outside are too noisy."
"After all, I'm not dead yet, don't you think, Xiao Su."
What else could Xiao Su say? Xiao Su had to shut up immediately.
He paused, then couldn't help but feel secretly delighted.
The one outside is a toad, so she is a swan?
Haha, Lu Mingchuan has good vision.
Su Heng put the money into his pocket and said, "I'll give you a small amount and I won't refund you any more."
After all, she didn't have much money left in her balance, so she had to buy ducklings.
There is not much food left at home.
Lu Mingchuan also knew this, and he said coldly: "If there is more, just buy some food and meat. After all, there is a pig at home crying for meat."
?
"Lu Mingchuan!"
How could he have such a poisonous mouth? He could poison himself to death by licking his lips!
After applying the medicine, Lu Mingchuan watched Su Heng's back as she ran away.
The candlelight illuminated his dark eyes, and I wonder what he was thinking.
The next day, Su Heng finished work at noon, took out a small piece of brown sugar that he had prepared in advance, and went to the brigade secretary's house.
It's not good to ask for help empty-handed. This was bought by the original owner and there are not many left.
The branch secretary's surname is Chen. Their Hongxingji Brigade was called Chenjia Village a long time ago, so Chen is a common surname.
Secretary Chen also knew about the Lu family's situation. After listening to Su Heng's explanation of the purpose of their visit, he was a little surprised but didn't say anything.
He didn't ask Su Heng for a deposit, and asked her to go back and wait for news. When the person arrived, he would take him home to her directly.
After thanking the branch secretary, Su Heng found that the people in this team were actually quite nice and simple.
Many times, villagers are always willing to help their fellow villagers whenever possible.
When she returned home, she saw Lu Mingchuan cutting bamboo in the yard again.
There was a pile of chopped bamboo tubes scattered on the ground, and I didn't know what they were used for.
But it would be boring to think that Lu Mingchuan would stay at home alone every day.
If a person has nothing to do for too long and no one to talk to, it is actually very easy to get depressed, especially when he is disabled.
So Su Heng would talk nonsense to him when she had nothing to do.
"What are you doing?" Su Heng walked over and picked up a cracked bamboo tube.
She looked at it and guessed uncertainly: "Do you want to use bamboo to make water pipes? Isn't that a bit too much effort?"
Although some people did this in later generations, and it did look quite ancient and artistic, they did not have the tools at the time, and it was still quite difficult to drill with bare hands.
Who knew that Lu Mingchuan's face would instantly turn dark when he heard this.
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