After everyone left, Tian Cai continued to sit in the yard reading, until she was awakened by Mimi jumping onto her legs, and then she came out of that state.
"What's wrong?" Tian Cai reached out and scratched the little guy's chin and asked.
"Ao-ao-wooo" The little guy opened his mouth and howled a few times at Tian Cai, and walked back and forth in front of her several times. Seeing that Tian Cai still didn't move, he howled even louder, and looked very angry.
Tian Cai was a little confused and didn't know how he had offended it.
But looking at the sky, it's already dark. Could it be that he's "hungry?"
“Ouch—”
It seemed that it was hungry. Tian Cai put away the book and went to the kitchen to cook. The little guy followed it closely, running and howling at the top of his lungs.
Tian Cai felt that Mimi must be scolding her, and her scolding was particularly harsh.
She pretended not to hear, picked up the basket from the kitchen and went to the vegetable garden. Some of the cucumbers on the cucumber rack had grown to the size of a bunch, and it was the time to be refreshing and delicious, so she picked them!
The eggplant is too long and hanging on the ground, pick it!
Picked the peppers too!
He went back with the basket and took out two potatoes from the cellar. He washed them, peeled them and cut them into pieces. He made a simple dish of three fresh vegetables and also smashed a cucumber.
Tian Cai made a few pancakes with cornmeal and wrapped them with vegetables, which tasted very good. She prepared the same meal for Mimi, but she cut the pancakes into small pieces and soaked them in the vegetable soup.
It likes to eat anything that is made with dew, but when it thinks that there will be no dew in the future, Tian Cai feels that the cake in his hand no longer smells good.
Mimi didn't care what Tian Cai was thinking. It just wanted to eat up quickly since it finally had food to eat. After it finished eating, Tian Cai poured the rest of his food into its little bowl. The little guy would have to get up in the middle of the night to eat again.
She had planned to raise two chickens before, but when she went to Li Dasheng's house to ask, she found out that all his chickens had been ordered out. Now that he had no chickens, he got a cat instead, which was also very good.
Tian Cai looked at the kitten eating happily and thought that he should exchange eggs with the villagers in the future.
Although it is not the busy farming season in the hot summer, there is still a lot of work to do in the fields.
"Why is the work never finished? If it doesn't rain, there's drought, and if it rains, weeds grow. When will this end?" Li Lili wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeve and complained with a frown.
She really had had enough of staying in the countryside. A while ago, she couldn't help but write a letter to her mother. As a result, she heard that there was a big turmoil back home. Let alone returning to the city, it was already very difficult for her to stay here quietly as an educated youth.
Mother Li said that Yanyan, the girl next door, was assigned to a remote village in Southern Province. She left home at the same time as she did.
Yanyan's father is a high school teacher. Once the commotion started, he was one of the first people to be sent away and was directly dragged out of the house. Yanyan's mother had no choice but to divorce her husband.
At the beginning of the month, Yanyan wrote to her family saying that she was married. The man was a second-rate guy in the village. She heard from the families of other educated youth that she was raped not long after she arrived. It seemed that the second-rate guy was a relative of the team leader, and he had connections above him. Anyway, he was the kind of guy who had the power to control everything in the local area and didn't care whether you were of marriageable age or not.
Li Lili felt a layer of cold sweat on her back after she knew about it. Li's mother didn't know that she should have been the one going to South Province at that time. Before leaving, she saw that there were her classmates in the team of L Province, so she begged Yanyan to switch with her. If she hadn't switched, she wouldn't even dare to think about it.
Thinking of the captains of the Beishan Brigade, Li Tiegang and Zhang Defa, it is said that they were both former soldiers. They are upright and do not tolerate any injustice. Although they also despise these educated youth for their poor work skills, they will only curse them at most. But they will never sit idly by and watch them take advantage of them or force them to marry by relying on their status.
Li Lili has been much more honest since she received the letter. She has not been slacking off for several days and has completed the assigned weeding tasks properly, for fear that her job will be replaced again.
It was not until several days passed without any movement that her tense nerves slowly relaxed.
He Yuzhen heard it and responded, "That's right!" But her restless eyes looked towards the male team members involuntarily. She searched around but didn't see Xu Bingshuai, and she couldn't help feeling annoyed.
Recently, I don’t know if this damn man has taken the wrong medicine, but he suddenly started to act like a spoiled child. He no longer comes unless I take the initiative to look for him. In the past, if she hinted that something was missing, Xu Bingshuai would prepare it and send it to her quickly, but now he pretends not to understand anything she says.
He Yuzhen angrily kicked the soybean seedlings in the field. Team leader Li Guangxia, who happened to be passing by, saw it and she immediately frowned.
"What are you doing, educated youth? Do you have any objections to the work assigned to you today? If you have any objections, you can raise them. Don't take it out on the crops. I will deduct two work points from you to teach you a lesson!" Li Guangxia said with a sullen face. She couldn't stand these worthless educated youth the most. They were incompetent at nothing and eating was their most important priority.
The people around looked at her with ambiguous eyes. He Yuzhen's face turned red and white, and she felt that she had never been so embarrassed.
It happened that at this time, Tian Cai passed by the field with a basket on her back. She had just finished her medical consultation in Qingshan Village today and had taken some time to see Hu Cuihua. Seeing that she had recovered quite well, she stopped taking the medicine and switched to diet therapy. Because she had not fully recovered, Li Tiegang assigned her the job of feeding pigs. She could tie the child to her chest while working so that it would not delay her at all.
When they were leaving, she forced two rice dumplings on them. The two of them refused for a long time, and finally Tian Cai threw down two cents and ran away.
From Qingshan Village to Kaoshan Village, you just pass by the bean field where everyone is working. It was almost noon and there were still many people weeding in the field. Some of them straightened up to rest and greeted Tian Cai when they saw him.
"Doctor Tian!"
"Dr. Tian is out seeing patients?"
Tian Cai smiled and nodded to the person who greeted her. She didn't know it herself, but in the sunlight, her cheeks were as white and tender as tofu. She had two pigtails. When she smiled slightly, the sunlight seemed to cover her with a layer of golden gauze, making her as nimble as a deer in the woods, clear and full of spirit.
Several young men in the village were stunned by it.
Tian Cai has no idea how beautiful she is now. In her mind, she is still the same person with wheat-colored skin and a scar on her face, so she rarely looks in the mirror.
"I'll go back and make some summer heat-relief soup for everyone. If anyone is free this afternoon, please come and mention it before work."
"I'll lift it. I'm strong!" Wang Songbai looked at Tian Cai with burning eyes and said loudly.
Tian Cai turned his gaze to the person who spoke, the smile on his face faded, he nodded and left.
She used to think that Wang Songbai was an honest and hardworking person, but what his family did when they broke off the engagement with Xiuyan was so disgusting. It also made her realize that one cannot judge a person by his appearance, and her impression of Wang Songbai decreased significantly.
He Yuzhen saw that Tian and Cai had walked away, while a group of young men, including several male educated youth, were still looking nostalgic. She suddenly felt as if she had been soaked in sour water and could not help but curse in a low voice, "What a coward!"
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