Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 43 - 42 She Isolated the Entire Village
43: Chapter 42 She Isolated the Entire Village
43 -42 She Isolated the Entire Village
Due to being caught slacking off on the spot, Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei each had a point deducted.
Li Dahe’s words of accusation circled his mouth over a hundred times but eventually were swallowed back down.
Well, girls are thin-skinned after all, they were already being pointed at and commented on by the villagers.
If he criticizes them a bit more and they start crying, making a scene, or even threaten to hang themselves, then what?
Li Dahe didn’t criticize Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei, and neither did the village aunties.
They just quietly looked at Lin Nianhe with sympathetic eyes, even Wang Shumei was automatically ignored by them.
As if she had lost some divine predestined love.
Lin Nianhe: “…” My heart is so tired.
Wang Shumei didn’t care about losing that one point; as she saw Lin Nianhe’s helpless look, she covered her mouth and snickered.
Wen Lan looked at Lin Nianhe, disdainfully curled her lip: “What a chicken, just say whatever you want to say.”
Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei looked at her, puzzled.
The next second, Wen Lan leaped forward, grabbed the scorekeeper from the stool, and stepped up onto it herself.
Standing on the stool with her hands on her hips, Wen Lan showed a bit of the grandeur of commanding the world.
“Don’t you lot speak nonsense, Hezi and Li Xiaoshan have nothing to do with each other, each and every one of you making up stories, what do you really know…”
Wen Lan, with emotion running high, rattled off a long string of her hometown dialect surprisingly clearly and rapidly.
As the only person from Shaanxi Province in the whole Ten Miles Team, Wen Lan successfully isolated everyone else with her regional accent.
Those waiting in line to have their points recorded were all dumbfounded on the spot.
Pairs of eyes filled with curiosity and confusion, looked blankly at Wen Lan.
Wang Shumei tugged at Lin Nianhe: “Should we pull her down?
The team leader’s face is turning blue.”
Lin Nianhe gave her a sidelong glance and asked a very practical question: “Do you even have the strength?
I certainly don’t.”
Wang Shumei was silent for a moment: “The team leader has weathered more storms than we have ever known, this must be just a small scene for him!”
“Yeah, Uncle Team Leader’s face looks so bad, he must be thinking of other unhappy things.”
“The life of a team leader is really tough.”
“Troublesome, tiresome, and even makes you lose hair.”
Li Dahe: “…”
If he kicked these three little bastards out right now, surely nobody would blame him, right?
Li Dahe gasped for breath and pointed at Wen Lan: “You!
Get down!
What do you think you’re doing!”
Feeling her piece was said, Wen Lan jumped down from the stool, making sure to clean off her footprint that she left behind.
Wen Lan flicked her long braid and returned to Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei’s side, grabbing one with each hand, and said to the crowd with dull eyes: “I’ve said all that needs to be said, if you keep spreading nonsense, I won’t be polite anymore!”
After saying this, she walked away with Wang Shumei and Lin Nianhe in tow.
Leaving a group of villagers to form a Shaanxi dialect self-study group, trying to figure out what Wen Lan had said.
“I only heard something about making stuff up…”
“Although I didn’t understand, Educated Youth Wen’s tone was quite aggressive, was she looking to fight?”
“It’s not right for so many of us to beat up a young girl, is it?”
“What’s with this kid, usually she’s pretty agile, so how come she yells so much without lifting a hand, who knows who she was pointing at…”
For a while, “What did Wen Lan say” successfully took over as the Ten Miles Team’s latest long-standing hot topic of discussion. novelbuddy.cσ๓
Li Dahe wiped his face, very troubled.
Seeing that everyone was present, he pondered for a moment and then pulled the scorekeeper back up from the stool.
The scorekeeper, whose bottom had barely warmed his seat, was about to curse his mother when he turned his head and saw Li Dahe.
Feeling meek he asked, “Uncle Li, need a hand?
Or maybe step on the table, it’s steadier.”
Li Dahe glared at him fiercely, standing on the stool, made a fist with one hand to support his lower lip, and coughed vigorously twice: “Alright, since everyone’s here, let’s discuss a matter.”
The crowd, buzzing with discussion, fell silent and turned their attention to Li Dahe.
Li Dahe was quite satisfied with their response, nodded and said, “These past two days, there’s been a bit of trouble in Ten Miles Team, and you all have an idea of what’s going on.”
“I’ll say it once here: my youngest took things to Educated Youth Lin to ask for her help to pass them to Daxi, Educated Youth Lin’s scarf was a delivery from Comrade Su by the postman, if you don’t believe it, ask the postman yourself when he comes to the village tomorrow.”
“It was really my youngest’s fault for all this.
I’ve decided, let him take half of his points for five days, and he’s got to work when we repair the dam too.”
“From now on, anyone who blathers about this again or makes trouble in front of Educated Youth Lin, watch out, I’ll deduct your points too!”
Actually, what Li Dahe said was pretty much the same as what Wen Lan said.
The only difference was that people understood what Li Dahe said.
Li Dahe, as the leader of Ten Miles Team, still commands respect in the village, and after hearing his words and knowing there were other witnesses, people were inclined to believe most of it.
It was unclear who remarked, “Right, I remember it now, a few days ago Educated Youth Lin was wearing a red scarf, on the day Educated Youth Miao howled so loud the whole cornfield could hear!”
Perhaps it was the deep impression that event had left on everyone, after a moment of recollection, they all nodded in agreement.
With this, Nianhe was finally able to clear his name.
Nobody cared who started the rumors or who was outside the Educated Youth Corps that day except Nianhe and Wang Shumei.
But the gossip around Xiao Shan and Wang Xixi was gathering steam, looking like it wouldn’t stop without a marriage.
Regarding this, both the Li family and the Wang Family were very proactive; within a mere five days, they had set up an engagement for the two children, with the wedding planned for before the autumn harvest.
This move effectively silenced the gossipers, and when the topic of Wang Xixi being kidnapped by the Zhang Family came up, it transformed into —
“Daxi is truly like Hongzi, deeply loyal!
She’d rather die than run off with another man…
Xiao Shan, you better treat your wife well in the future, she’s laid down her life for you!”
Every time Xiao Shan heard these remarks, he would nod his head in earnest and promise, then blush and run off quickly.
“Nianhe, do you think the wound on my head will heal before the harvest?
Will it leave a scar?”
One day, Wang Xixi, tugging on Lin Nianhe’s sleeve, asked.
“Don’t worry, trust my medicine,” Lin Nianhe replied with a smile, “Are you making new clothes?”
Wang Xixi clenched the red fabric in her hand tightly, her cheeks blushing: “No, I mean…
um, he gave me two pieces of fabric to cut into clothes, I was just looking…
looking…”
Lin Nianhe chuckled: “Look all you want, you’re already engaged and you’re still so shy.”
It must be said, Wang Xixi and Xiao Shan really did resemble each other, both sharing the same bashful traits.
Lin Nianhe placed a small porcelain jar beside Wang Xixi’s pillow: “After the scab falls off, apply it morning and evening, it’ll soon remove the scar.”
“Thank you,” Wang Xixi opened her arms toward Lin Nianhe, “Nianhe, how can I ever thank you?”
“It’s nothing really,” Lin Nianhe laughed and gave her a hug, then said, “I won’t keep you any longer, we’ve got less work in the fields today, we’re going up the mountain to gather firewood.”
“Eh?
I’ll come with you, I can help you,” Wang Xixi said, getting ready to climb off the bed.
Lin Nianhe held her by the shoulders: “You stop running around outside, you’re getting married in less than two months, stay at home and keep your skin fair.”
Wang Xixi’s face flushed bright red at once, she shyly gave Lin Nianhe a push, nearly sending her flying out the door.
“Hahaha…”
Lin Nianhe wasn’t offended, just laughed and bid her farewell before leaving the Wang family’s door.
By the doorway, Wen Lan and Wang Shumei were waiting for her, with three empty baskets placed by their feet.
Lin Nianhe casually tossed her small bag into the basket, shouldered it, and together with the other two, headed towards the back mountain.
