Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 65 - 64 Fragile Friendship
65: Chapter 64 Fragile Friendship
65 -64 Fragile Friendship
“Lin Nianhe, Wang Shumei!
Why are you two together again?
Maybe tomorrow I should assign a plot of land just for you two.”
Qian Guozhu had just entered the cornfield when he heard his younger sister being criticized by name.
He was startled and hurried over, all smiles on his face, and pulled out a pack of cigarettes to give to the team leader, “Comrade, good day, I am Wang Shumei’s cousin.
My younger sister is ignorant and has caused trouble for the leaders, I’m sorry for the trouble!
You are working hard, really hard.”
Qian Guozhu wasn’t used to doing these kinds of things, but life forced him to learn.
Seeing the whole pack of Fengshou brand cigarettes, the team leader instinctively swallowed his saliva, rubbed the cigarette box with his rough fingertips, then resisted the temptation and handed it back to Qian Guozhu.
“What are you doing?
Take it back.”
He didn’t accept the bribe, which made Qian Guozhu even more nervous.
Seeing him like this, the team leader laughed, “What’s the matter, afraid I’ll make things tough for your little sister?
Don’t worry, I wouldn’t bully a little bastard like her.”
The team leader cheerfully waved his hand and shouted toward the field, “Wang Shumei, your brother is here to see you.”
Then he walked away with his hands behind his back, his spine extra straight.
Hmm, from now on he could also boast about getting Fengshou cigarettes!
Wang Shumei came out from the field, grinning at Qian Guozhu: “Brother, why are you here?”
“Just passing by, brought you something.” Qian Guozhu glanced at the girl sizing him up in the field, and lowered his voice a bit, “Is it her?”
Wang Shumei turned to look and saw Lin Nianhe observing Qian Guozhu.
She didn’t reply, just said, “Then accompany me back to the Educated Youth Corps first, have some water before you go.”
Qian Guozhu couldn’t delay his work too long.
There were time limits for his trip back and forth, and if he dawdled too much here, he would have to hurry on the way back.
Qian Guozhu looked at the endless cornfield, hesitated a bit, “I’ll finish the work here before I leave, no rush.”
Just drive faster on the way back, and make sure they don’t find out.
“Forget it, you’ve never done this, I’d have to teach you how.”
Wang Shumei rarely had the chance to look down on someone working in the field, and she immediately retorted.
Qian Guozhu’s face grew hot, internally cursing his own uselessness, unable to arrange a job for Wang Shumei or help her with the work.
Seeing his expression, Wang Shumei knew what he was thinking and urged, “Let’s go, or Cangzi might think you got lost!”
With that, she led Qian Guozhu away,
leaving a new topic swirling through the endless cornfield—
“Educated Youth Wang’s brother is quite handsome, looks like a man who can handle responsibilities.”
“Absolutely, men who care for their sisters are never far off.”
“Educated Youth Lin, do you know what Educated Youth Wang’s brother does for work?”
Lin Nianhe was somewhat puzzled.
It’s the same with brothers, so why didn’t Aunt praise Su Yuncheng when he came?
He’s even more good-looking.
Perhaps—
“Sister Lan, the day my brother came, after I went with him, did the aunts say anything?”
Wen Lan thought seriously for a while, then shook her head: “Nothing.”
“Really?” Lin Nianhe doubted, “Think again.”
“It’s true, nothing was said and—”
“Can you keep your distance from me?
You got me docked points, I’ll break your head!”
Lin Nianhe: “…”
This fragile friendship, worthless in the face of work points.
Wen Lan, seeing Lin Nianhe still standing in her row of the field, clicked her tongue and cajoled like comforting a child: “Listen, you go back first, I’ll sort things out for you after I finish.”
When Wen Lan spoke these words, she didn’t even lift her head, her perfunctory attitude was very clear.
Lin Nianhe bared his teeth at her, but in the end, considering their friendship, he gave up the idea of getting into a fight with Wen Lan.
Hmm, friendship.
When Wang Shumei and Qian Guozhu returned to the Educated Youth Corps, Fu Aiguo had already left.
Qian Guozhu surveyed the yard of the Educated Youth Corps and seeing that everything was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
“Big sister, I bought you a Snowflake Cream in the provincial city.
They say this is what all the young girls in the city use.”
“Keep these ration tickets.
If you need anything, just write to your sister-in-law, and I’ll sort it out.
I’m familiar with the black market back home; tickets are easy to exchange there…
but don’t go there anymore.”
“Apples total 2032 kilograms.
You pay the people the missing amount.
Those apples are good, sold for 0.58…
I calculated on the way, Damin and his group won’t spend all that money.
I took twenty back, and you keep the rest.”
“It’s okay, don’t worry about home, if they need anything, there’s me and your sister-in-law…
I heard that the factory here intends to send someone every month.
I will talk to the team leader when I get back; I’ll come over every time.”
“Oh right, your sister-in-law said your coat was thin, she told you not to worry about it; she’s getting you a new one, and I will bring it when it’s ready.”
“I bought three hair bands, you distribute them to your two friends… and don’t be stingy outside, if you need money, just tell me.”
As Qian Guozhu dug things out and rattled on, his chatter was disjointed, saying whatever came to mind.
Wang Shumei’s eyes welled up with warmth, she nodded slightly and responded in a low voice.
After Qian Guozhu finished instructing and handed over the money,
He looked around the small room, then at Wang Shumei, and lowered his voice: “Give some gifts to the leaders on the team, do the work if we can handle it, if not, don’t push too hard.
It’s nothing serious; it doesn’t matter if you partake or not… Don’t exhaust yourself.”
Wang Shumei nodded lightly, smiling, “I’m not that tired.
I just twisted my ankle by mistake while walking, and I rested more than half a month.
I only do about three or four points of work usually, just like a kid.”
In fact, Wang Shumei could earn five points a day, but she thought that by understating it, her brother and sister-in-law would worry less.
“Brother, I’m fine, I know what’s light and what’s heavy.
You take good care of sister-in-law and my little nephew…”
Wang Shumei wiped the corner of her eye, and continued in a subdued voice, “If things can stabilize here, you also don’t need to come often in the future.”
Qian Guozhu vaguely responded, “Hmm.”
He was about to leave when suddenly, as if remembering something, he said to Wang Shumei: “I met a young guy on the way here, wearing a black vest and blue trousers, do you know him?”
“Ah?”
Wang Shumei frowned.
Almost all the men working in the fields wore such clothes.
“What’s wrong?” Wang Shumei asked.
Qian Guozhu said, “He looked suspicious to me; better keep your distance from him.”
Wang Shumei felt a bit helpless, replying, “It’s okay, brother, you’d know if you come here a couple of more times.
No one bullies female Educated Youths in Ten Miles Team.”
“How could that be?” Qian Guozhu was skeptical, “I’ve heard that, in earlier years, some female Educated Youths were…”
His cheeks flushed, and he was too embarrassed to continue.
Wang Shumei thought for a moment, then told the truth, “The last one who tried to climb over the wall of the Educated Youth Corps was whipped by his mother with a willow branch in front of the whole village until he couldn’t get up from his bed for three days, and is still cleaning cow sheds now.”
“Moreover, our team also has a women’s director who swings her shovel when fighting.”
Qian Guozhu was astonished, “…!”
The female comrades in this brigade are too fierce, aren’t they?
He looked at Wang Shumei with eyes full of concern, feeling that his little sister might have been beaten too.
Could it be that her ankle injury was caused by someone hitting her?
Wang Shumei touched her nose, pointing to another bed in the room: “Brother, don’t worry, the Xiao Lan I told you about, she can hold a man up with one hand, oh, and Nianhe, the one you saw in the field earlier—”
“Don’t be fooled by her demure appearance, this girl once kicked a man into the river.”
Qian Guozhu was silent again.
The female comrades outside are really scary, he thought, missing his wife.
