Chapter 14
Obviously, the brown sugar water is not very sweet and the white porridge is even more bland, but Jiang Yao tasted the sweetness of honey.
After drinking it, she lay back on the bed to rest. She didn’t know whether the brown sugar water was really effective or just a psychological effect, but when she woke up again, the dull pain in her lower abdomen had eased a lot.
After sleeping for a few hours, she felt tired, so she got up and walked around.
She opened the door and stepped out, and saw Lu Che sitting under the eaves of the farm tool shed next to the chicken coop, cutting bamboo.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Yao asked.
Lu Che raised his head and glanced at her. He did not answer her question, but raised his chin towards the kitchen and said, "There are two boiled eggs in the pot. If you feel better now, go and eat them."
"Oh." Jiang Yao couldn't help blushing. After agreeing, she went to the kitchen to get eggs.
She opened the lid of the pot and saw two large white eggs inside. She was not very hungry at the moment, so she took the two eggs out and planned to have one each with Lu Che.
"Here." Jiang Yao walked over to Lu Che and sat down, handing him one of the eggs.
"I don't want to eat it." Lu Che continued his work, "You've eaten it all. Eggs are good for your health."
"..." The question on Jiang Yao's face that had just subsided suddenly rose again. She couldn't help but whisper, "How do you know so much? Have you ever been in a relationship before?"
"No." Lu Che denied without thinking. He turned his head to look at her, but the moment their eyes met, they quickly looked away in opposite directions.
"I heard this from my grandma. She didn't care that I was present when she told my sister this." After a long silence, Lu Che began to explain.
"Oh." Jiang Yao responded and stopped talking. She lowered her head and ate the egg in her hand. She didn't feel anything just now, but now that she thought about it, she realized that she didn't seem to have the qualifications to question, and it was a bit embarrassing for her.
"Uncle, uncle, we are back..."
The voices of Zhou Yang and Zhou Xin were heard from the front yard. It seemed that Lu Qing and the others had returned from the wedding banquet.
Lu Che responded, moved the bamboo back to the farm tool room, told Jiang Yao to "eat all the eggs", and walked towards the front yard.
Jiang Yao felt a little full after eating two eggs at once. She finished one, held the other one in her hand to eat tonight, and then returned to her room.
"Yaoyao."
As soon as she walked to the door of the room, she saw Lu Qing coming. She smiled at her, "Sister Qing, are you back?"
"Yes." Lu Qing took her hand and said, "I packed some dishes for the banquet. Don't cook tonight. Come and eat with us." After that, she added, "Don't worry, these are dishes that have never been served. The host said that Lu Che didn't come, so they specially asked us to bring them back for him to eat."
"Okay." Jiang Yao agreed with a smile, "Then I'm having a great dinner tonight thanks to Lu Che!"
"That's right." Lu Qing said unhappily, "I'm sorry, but Lu Che went out before dawn today, and we couldn't catch him even if we wanted to."
"Why doesn't he want to go?" Jiang Yao asked casually.
"Why? Of course he's worried that his relatives over there will take the opportunity to introduce him to someone," Lu Qing said.
"..." For some reason, Jiang Yao's heart suddenly felt a little blocked, but she still smiled and said, "He is not young anymore, it is a good thing to introduce him to someone, why doesn't he go?"
In later times, a child of 23 wouldn’t even have finished school, but these days, many people’s children are old enough to help with cooking.
"How do I know him?" Lu Qing couldn't help but sigh when he mentioned this. "He may still feel that he has a bad background and doesn't want to harm the girl."
Jiang Yao: “…”
In the evening, Jiang Yao went to the main hall to eat, but she didn't want to eat for free, so she packed some dry goods sent by Jiang Zhen and gave them to Lu Qing.
When she got to the table, she found that Lu Che was not there, so she asked, "Lu Che doesn't want to eat?"
The old lady replied, "Let's eat first. He has gone to bring food to his master."
"Master?" Jiang Yao asked puzzled.
Mrs. Lu: "It's Mr. Yue."
Jiang Yao understood immediately after hearing this. No wonder Lu Che could repair tractors, it turned out that the mechanical engineering university professor was his master.
It took Lu Che a while to deliver the dish, and he came back only when they had almost finished eating.
Jiang Yao finished the porridge in the bowl, stayed for a while and then went back. Although her lower abdomen was relieved, she was still a little tired, so she wanted to take a bath and go to bed early.
After all, it was a special day of the month, and Jiang Yao planned to boil some warm water for a bath. However, when she opened the door, she saw her bath bucket filled with warm water placed in the middle of the room.
Now she knew who "Mr. Snail" was without asking.
She put her hand into the bucket. The water was warm, and her heart was warm too.
In the next two days, Jiang Yao got up early and went with Lu Qing to get the raw materials for handicrafts. If she worked hard for a day, she could earn seven centimeters. But on the third day, there was no raw material from the paper mill, so she had to stay at home again.
Now that she had some free time, she didn't sit idle. She wrote a letter back to Jiang Zhen and went to the county town to mail it.
In addition to sending letters, she also went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a lot of things for herself. After all, she had just received a hundred yuan and some coupons, so she had to go shopping to satisfy her craving.
At about nine o'clock, she finished shopping and returned.
Along the way, she loved to walk behind tall buildings, hiding from the scorching sun as much as possible.
However, there are not many large buildings these days. Jiang Yao walked for a long time before reaching the County People's Hospital. She went around the back of the building and finally felt a little cooler.
She was sweating and thirsty, so she put her things aside and took out the kettle from her messenger bag. Just as she unscrewed the lid and was about to raise her head to drink, she saw a man carrying two large bundles of firewood on a shoulder pole not far ahead.
"Lu Che." Jiang Yao shouted and waved at Lu Che.
Lu Che glanced at her from a distance, then walked towards the back door of the hospital without responding.
"Do you have to be so cold?" Jiang Yao muttered softly, tilting her head back and drinking water in big gulps.
After drinking water and resting for a while, Jiang Yao picked up her things and continued on her way.
When she passed the back door of the hospital, Lu Che happened to come out.
When Lu Che saw her, he asked, "Did you go to the county town?"
"Yes, to mail letters and buy things." Jiang Yao raised her hand and showed the things in her hand.
She was simply using physical objects to explain the purpose of her trip, but she didn't expect Lu Che to take the things in her hands, hang them directly on the shoulder pole, and carry them.
"Thank you." Jiang Yao realized that he was helping her carry things, and she felt warm in her heart.
"Let's go." Lu Che said and walked ahead. Jiang Yao quickly followed him and asked, "Why did you carry firewood into the hospital just now?"
"Deliver firewood to the hospital cafeteria." Lu Che said.
It turned out that this was his side job. He would collect firewood for the hospital cafeteria every once in a while, earning 30 cents for every 100 kilograms. He would take 15 cents for himself and hand over 15 cents to the production team, which would be recorded as public work for him. This way it was not considered private work.
"It's only 30 cents for a hundred kilograms. This is all hard-earned money. Why are you so honest and still pay half of it? If you don't say it, no one else will know." Jiang Yao said.
Honest? This seemed to be the second time this woman said she was honest. She was really a rich and beautiful woman who had no idea of the dangers of the world.
He didn't respond, but Jiang Yao guessed the reason. He was afraid that if he made a mistake, the Lu family would be pushed into the abyss.
The two of them continued walking forward in silence, and at a distance of three or four meters between them, they didn't look like they were traveling together at all.
Jiang Yao discovered that as long as she walked out of the Lu family's gate, this man would want to keep a distance of 500 meters from her.
When they reached the rice noodle factory, someone suddenly called out "Lu Che" from behind. They all stopped and turned around to see a man in his forties walking towards them.
"Hello, Director Li!" Lu Che greeted the man politely.
Director Li smiled at him and said, "The firewood here is almost burned out. Remember to pick some firewood for me the day after tomorrow."
Lu Che thought for a moment and responded, "No problem, I'll try to be there as early as possible."
"Okay, I'll be at ease if you do the job." Director Li said, "If you were the one delivering food to me, I wouldn't have to worry about it every day. Okay, I'm going to get busy, you go first."
After Director Li left, Jiang Yao quickly walked to Lu Che and asked, "What did Director Li mean by delivering food?" She seemed to have smelled a business opportunity.
Lu Che glanced at her and said, "Director Li is in charge of the rice noodle factory cafeteria. Their factory is doing well, so they are willing to spend money on workers' meals. But now they are short of everything, and he has money but can't buy anything."
"Don't you have a lot of vegetables in your garden? Why don't you send them over?"
"I just have some greens. If I could give them to others, I would have done so long ago. What Director Li wants is meat, eggs or some rare vegetables."
"Is that so?" Jiang Yao thought about it. There are indeed a lot of vegetables here, but most of them are green leafy vegetables. There are very few vegetables like roots and tubers and nightshades... She suddenly had an idea and said, "My brother is a soldier in the border area. He told me about the food he had in the army. There were tomatoes, cucumbers and the like. I can ask him to send the seeds over there. We can grow some vegetables that are different from others and send them to the canteen of the county factory. They will definitely be eager to buy them."
After listening to her, Lu Che asked after a while: "Can you really ask your brother to send the seeds over?"
"Of course, let's go." Jiang Yao said.
Lu Che: "Where are you going?"
"Of course I telegraphed my brother and asked him to send the seeds as soon as possible."
"Telegrams are expensive. Write a letter."
"It took two months to write letters back and forth. In two months, we had the baby."
"……child?"
"No." Jiang Yao made a slip of the tongue and her face suddenly became hot. She stammered, "What I meant is... tomatoes, cucumbers and the like have already been planted."
"Oh." Lu Che responded calmly, but Jiang Yao always felt that he was laughing at her in secret. She said angrily, "Are you leaving or not?"
"Let's go." Lu Che strode forward, leaving Jiang Yao alone to worry about it.
The author has something to say:
Lu Che: Yaoyao wants to have a baby with me, can Xiaomi speed up the process?
Xiaomi: You misunderstood, it was said to be growing vegetables.
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