During the hottest days of summer, the sun hangs overhead, making it hard to breathe.
Tian Lingling rolled up her trousers, wore a straw hat, and bent down to pull weeds in the rice paddy. Sweat dripped down her face like beads from a broken string, one by one, onto the rice seedlings.
It turns out that the saying "Every grain of rice on the plate is the result of hard work" is true.
The ancients were right.
Wiping the sweat from her brow, she had just pulled a blade of grass when she heard a scream.
"Tian Zhiqing, you're pulling up rice seedlings!"
Tian Lingling took a closer look and realized she had indeed pulled up the wrong seedling. She quickly replanted it, saying, "I'm sorry, seedlings and weeds look too similar. I made a mistake."
“They won’t survive if we plant them back, how much grain will we lose?” Liu Qingju called Zhou Yunxia over, “She pulled up the wrong seedlings, deduct her work points.”
Zhou Yunxia wrote it down. As for how many work points to deduct, that was up to the team leader; she didn't care.
Tian Lingling was both angry and annoyed, but she knew she had done something wrong and didn't dare to say anything.
Liu Qingju looked at her with disdain, "You city folks, you don't know the difference between grains, you're lazy, I really don't know what use you are?"
Tian Lingling, suppressing her anger, thought of her plan and said ingratiatingly, "Auntie, I'm new here and not familiar with the village. Could you tell me about our team?"
"My mouth tastes bitter, and I don't want to talk. If only I had a piece of candy to sweeten my mouth." Liu Qingju openly asked for something.
She always likes to take advantage of others; why would she do something that doesn't benefit her?
Tian Lingling reluctantly pulled a White Rabbit candy from her pocket. "Auntie, take this and sweeten your lips."
Liu Qingju grabbed it, quickly peeled it open. It was too hot, and the candy had melted a little, but she didn't care. She put it in her mouth, and the rich milky aroma immediately melted in her mouth. She squinted her eyes in enjoyment.
Tian Lingling swallowed hard. This was her last piece of candy. She couldn't bear to eat it and had been saving it. She never expected it to end up in someone else's mouth.
I feel so sorry for her, and so angry.
But thinking about how I could have anything good I wanted after achieving my goal made me feel at peace.
She asked with a smile, "Auntie, can you tell me now?"
As Liu Qingju bent down to continue working, she slowly said, "Our village..."
After listening to her, Tian Lingling got a general idea of the village's situation, took the weeds from her hand, and said, "Auntie, your son hasn't gotten married yet? You're so kind, whoever becomes your daughter-in-law will be very lucky."
Liu Qingju beamed, "Oh my, Tian Zhiqing, I never expected you to be so sweet-talking despite your poor work. Seriously, anyone who marries into my family must have accumulated good karma for three lifetimes. My son is incredibly handsome; no one in the surrounding area can compare..."
She kept chattering away, and Tian Lingling rolled her eyes so hard they almost reached the sky.
She had seen Liu Qingju's son; he was as thin as a bamboo pole. How could someone like that be so handsome and have no one in the surrounding area who could compare to him?
I really don't know where she gets such confidence.
Furthermore, given Liu Qingju's character, anyone who marries into her family will be tormented to death. It would take three lifetimes of good deeds to be able to marry into her family, or perhaps it's retribution for committing sins three lifetimes to be able to marry into her family and become her daughter-in-law.
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Liu Qingju was completely unaware that she and her son were being disliked, and she was still praising herself. As she talked, she somehow ended up talking about her nephew, Xu Dading.
“If it weren’t for that plague-stricken educated youth Li, would my niece have gone mad? She caused my husband and his brother to fall out, and now our two families are estranged. It’s all that bitch Li Muqing’s fault; she deserved to die!”
Every time Liu Qingju thinks about this, she has to bring up Li Muqing and scold her. If Li Muqing were still alive, she would want to dig up the body and whip it.
"I heard your nephew was... I heard about this and found it quite terrifying."
"So what? That brat Da Ding cheated on my Qingcao with someone else, he deserved it."
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