Lin Miaoyin couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.
Rolling his eyes at him, "You're deliberately trying to make me laugh."
"Yeah." He replied lightly and started eating without changing his expression.
After taking a few bites, he said, "I made some herbal tea this morning. You can use the kettle to fill it up in the afternoon."
"Okay." She was in a relaxed mood, smiling, "I'm not asking you to work, but you can help me feed the chickens, make tea, wash clothes and cook, and then you don't have to come."
Meng Yuanzheng moved his lips and was about to speak, but Lin Miaoyin stopped him, "If I say no, then no, listen to me."
Then he added, "If you get bumped or bruised, I'll feel bad."
Meng Yuanzheng agreed reluctantly.
As she was eating, she remembered what happened in the morning and told him briefly about it.
"Do you think someone poured the water there accidentally? Who would drink water while going up or down a slope? Even if you drink water from a kettle, it will spill." She curled her lips.
Meng Yuanzheng groaned, "Was it Jin Chengren who saved you?"
"Yes, he just happened to be coming up the slope. You don't know, everyone around me backed away, fearing that I would drag them down the slope. Only when he rushed up and held my waist and back did I stay steady."
Meng Yuanzheng's eyes darkened. "He touched your waist and back? What about other places?"
"What are you thinking?" She glared at him speechlessly. "If not, you want me to get out of here right away so that I can feel comfortable, right?"
Meng Yuanzheng pursed his lips and changed the subject, "Pay attention to yourself. You and I have both been in the newspaper and received commendations. There are always people with bad intentions. You must be on guard against others."
Lin Miaoyin nodded, "Don't worry, I know. This time, maybe someone just wants to see me make a fool of myself, or if I break my arms and legs, it will satisfy his dark psychology."
"Well, Jin Chengren, you should stay away from him in the future."
"Why?"
Kim Sung-in is the original male protagonist. Even if everyone else is a bad guy, he can't be a bad guy.
"There are differences between men and women." He said in a deep voice.
Lin Miaoyin...
He added, "You are a married woman."
Lin Miaoyin...
"Okay, okay, I got it." Under his serious gaze, she had no choice but to give in and lower her head to eat.
After washing the dishes after lunch, Lin Miaoyin thought about it and decided that since Meng Yuanzheng didn't need to lock the door when he was at home, she took off the lock on her room and locked the kitchen.
Meng Yuanzheng: "..."
"Come on, take a nap. Now you can't cook even if you want to." She was in a good mood. She pulled his sleeve and walked two steps into the house. Then she remembered that he had difficulty walking, so she turned back and supported his arm.
"I'll help you. I'll help you."
With the help of this human-shaped crutch, the two went back to the house and lay down. Lin Miaoyin got up early, was tired from work, and fell asleep quickly. Meng Yuanzheng closed his eyes and gradually formed a plan in his mind.
After sleeping for forty minutes, she got up and pressed Meng Yuanzheng onto the bed.
"I bought you some melon seeds and red dates. Eat some if you're fine. I'll buy more when you're done."
Seeing Meng Yuanzheng lying there obediently, staring at her with his eyes, she washed her face with satisfaction, poured herbal tea into the kettle, and went downstairs with her things.
After hearing the creaking sound of the courtyard door closing, Meng Yuanzheng sat up, found the pen and notebook that Lin Miaoyin bought for him, as well as the notebook and pen he brought with him when he went to the countryside, sat at the desk in front of the window, and began to write and draw.
As the pen tip moved smoothly, neat math problems appeared on the notebook.
If Lin Miaoyin were present, she would probably be so surprised that her jaw would drop.
He would stop to recall while writing. If he got stuck, he would switch to another notebook and start writing chemical equations...
After writing for a while, he grabbed the melon seeds on the table, peeled them with his hands, and put the kernels in a clean plate, but did not eat them himself. While peeling them, he checked whether he had made any mistakes in what he had just written.
Lin Miaoyin was walking halfway when she met Jin Chengren coming from another direction.
Jin Chengren was wearing a white coat and a straw hat. He was tall and straight. He walked up to Lin Miaoyin in just a few steps.
"Sister-in-law." He smiled, looking sunny and handsome.
Lin Miaoyin remembered what Meng Yuanzheng said about the differences between men and women, so she forced a faint smile and hummed.
Jin Chengren didn't think there was anything wrong and asked, "How was Brother Meng yesterday? Did you feel uncomfortable after returning home?"
"Nothing, I'm fine."
"I'm going to the commune in a few weekends. I can help bring back anything you need."
Need it?
Meng Yuanzheng's leg was injured, so he needed to buy some big bones to replenish his body. It would be best if he had an old hen, but milk or goat's milk would also be good, but these can basically only be bought on the black market.
"I can go by myself, I won't bother you."
"Sister-in-law, don't talk about whether it's a trouble or not. My mother has said that from now on I will be Brother Meng's biological brother, and your family's affairs are my affairs." Jin Chengren hurriedly expressed his opinion.
Lin Miaoyin looked at him, as if he would be heartbroken if she rejected his kindness, so she said carefully, "Then buy me some chicken gizzards, large intestines, chicken feet, etc."
Not many people are rushing to buy these things, and it’s troublesome to buy them without the meat, but you can buy them without a ticket.
But she had some condiments for braised dishes that she brought back from the county town, and she would make some food as snacks for Meng Yuanzheng and the Lin family.
"Okay, don't worry, I'll go there early in the morning." He replied cheerfully.
As they were talking, they were almost at the end of the field. Team members gathered from all directions. Some of them looked at Lin Miaoyin and Jin Chengren who came together with ambiguous looks.
Especially those female educated youth, who stood together, looked at each other, and laughed as if they were exchanging some little secrets.
Lin Miaoyin ignored them. After Lin's father assigned them tasks, they each took their sickles and continued to harvest wheat.
The harvested wheat was piled up in the open space at the foot of the slope, and several men who could drive ox carts took turns driving the carts to drag the wheat to the threshing ground to spread it out for drying.
Jin Chengren was the driver in the afternoon. He pulled a cart back and saw that there was not enough garbage on the ground, so he went up the hill to help.
Just then he met Lin Miaoyin coming down carrying a basket and a bundle of goods like she did in the morning, and he hurried to meet her.
"Sister-in-law, give it to me. I'm just fine."
Before Lin Miaoyin could refuse, he had already taken the wheat out of the basket, held it under his left armpit, and held the wheat in her hand with his right hand.
She was left standing there with an empty backpack.
She squinted her eyes and watched him walk a few steps, and met her cousin Yan Hongyue, Jin Chengren's fiancée.
Due to the setting of this novel, there is a weird magnetic field between Yan Hongyue and Jin Chengren. Yan Hongyue cannot see any good points of Jin Chengren at all. She just thinks that he comes from a bad family, is extremely poor, and talks a lot of nonsense.
As expected, when Jin Chengren saw her, he immediately smiled, and said shyly, "Hongyue, wait for me, I'll be back to help you move."
Yan Hongyue felt guilty towards Jin Chengren because of what happened between her and Liang Song. She didn't want to face him, so she said coldly, "No, I can do it myself. Just do your own thing."
After saying that, he walked away quickly holding Xiaomai. Jin Chengren showed a somewhat bitter smile, but he was already used to it and quickly adjusted his mood.
Lin Miaoyin witnessed the whole process and felt that the child was quite pitiful. She had to find an opportunity to ask Yan Hongyue how her and Liang Song were doing.
After finishing her work in the afternoon, she saw that it was still early and the house was running out of firewood, so she went to find Yan Hongyue and asked her to accompany her to collect firewood.
Yan Hongyue was very afraid of her now, and obeyed her every word. The two of them walked towards the back mountain.
Along the way, they picked up some dead branches, pine saplings, dry leaves and the like that could be used as firewood. Lin Miaoyin asked her, "You and Liang Song haven't done that recently, have you?"
When Yan Hongyue heard this, her face turned red and she shook her head, "No."
"That's good. What did he say? When will he come to propose marriage?"
Yan Hongyue pursed her lips and said shyly, "He said he would come after the busy farming season. He has already told his mother, and his family doesn't object."
Lin Miaoyin felt a little relieved after hearing this. It seemed much better than the ending in the original novel.
"What are your plans for canceling the engagement? Can your grandfather handle it?"
Yan Hongyue leaned closer and whispered, "I told my mom that I was dating someone. Although my mom scolded me, she didn't like Jin Chengren either, and she promised to help me. Now my grandpa is old, and my dad is the boss at home. My grandpa can't go against our family, right, hehe."
Although Lin Miaoyin felt very sorry for the unfortunate child Jin Chengren, she pretended to agree on the surface and said, "Okay, if you can cancel it, do it as soon as possible. But after all, you are the one who wronged him, so you should make up for it."
"I know." Yan Hongyue muttered, "As long as I don't marry him, everything will be fine. Besides, it's not that I look down on his family background, I just don't like this person."
Lin Miaoyin: "I understand, I understand."
She thought to herself, because you are neither the heroine nor the supporting actress, you are just a cannon fodder.
The two men picked up a lot of things, tied them up with bamboo strips, and each of them carried a bundle down the mountain. The forest was quite large and the trees were densely packed. There were also many vines growing on the mountain path, entwined around the bushes and branches.
I could vaguely hear voices talking, and judging from their accents, they should be those new female educated youth.
"Hey, do you think that the credit for Wanqin was really embezzled by Lin Miaoyin and Meng Yuanzheng?"
Hearing their names, Lin Miaoyin and Yan Hongyue stopped in tacit understanding.
Lin Miaoyin raised her finger and hushed softly. Yan Hongyue nodded. The two of them squatted down and used their hands to push aside the vines. They saw several female educated youth gathered together not far away, picking wild fruits.
"Is this edible?" asked Xu Liwen, who was holding a fruit of unknown origin.
Lin Miaoyin and the others were far away and couldn't see clearly what kind of fruit it was. But under normal circumstances, this place was not remote and any wild fruits would have been picked up by the children long ago, leaving no delicious ones.
"I saw them picked them on the table at Jin's house the other day. They should be edible. Try them and see how they taste." Zhu Wanqin said softly.
Xu Liwen took a bite and it tasted bland, a little bitter, a little sour, not tasty at all. She swallowed the one in her mouth and threw away the rest. "It's not tasty. I guess the villagers eat it because they can't fill their stomachs."
"I thought about what you just said and it makes sense," said another person.
"Tell me quickly, what do you think?"
Lin Miaoyin and Yan Hongyue pricked up their ears and listened. Since the female educated youth did not notice them and spoke without restraint, they could hear clearly.
"Wanqin, you said that you all discovered the mountain was going to collapse at about the same time that day, and you all arrived there at about the same time?"
"Well, yes, but it was Brother Meng who went in. Miaoyin and I stopped the administrators outside. As for the embezzlement of credit that you mentioned, I don't think it's possible. They don't seem like that kind of people..." Zhu Wanqin's voice came.
"Alas, you can never judge a person by his appearance. These country folk are uneducated and love to take advantage of others." said the female educated youth just now.
Lin Miaoyin's expression became strange. What the hell were they talking about?
Did she and Meng Yuanzheng take all the credit for Zhu Wanqin's work?
The author has something to say: Zheng Zheng has a leg injury, so in order to let him have a good rest, his appearance opportunities will be reduced.
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