Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

Chapter 187 You Can Learn What You Don’t Know

Logically speaking, wherever Li Meifen is, the other young women should also be there.

But when she looked around, she found that there were only two young women in this small circle nearby, her and Li Meifen.

Zhong Qingqing had a bad feeling in her heart.

"Your ankle is injured and you can't move. What if you get hurt accidentally while doing such heavy work?"

Accustomed to the harsh words Li Meifen said to her, Zhong Qingqing spoke in the same tone as usual, even pretending to be gentle and intellectual: "I have been recuperating for more than half a month, and I have recovered completely and can move around normally."

As Zhong Qingqing spoke, she picked up the tools on the ground and began to work hard.

Threshing is different from directly cutting rice in the field. It is not as hard work as cutting rice. You just need to repeatedly roll the cut and sorted rice slowly and repeatedly.

Seeing that Zhong Qingqing, who had never worked with the production team, was extremely clumsy, Li Meifen snorted coldly: "You are worthy of being a young lady from the city who came to the countryside. You have never worked before. At the speed you work, I guess you may not be able to finish these things until next autumn."

Obviously forgetting that she and Su Wanwan couldn't even use a sickle when they first went to work in the fields, Li Meifen watched Zhong Qingqing work coldly.

"You can learn things you don't know. No one is born knowing how to do a job. I used to work in a health center, so it's normal that I can't do this job."

Even though she had always been bullied by Li Meifen and other young women in the dormitory, this was not a dormitory after all, and she was right next to Xu Yan. Zhong Qingqing would never allow Li Meifen to bully her like that.

"Hey, when did you become so hardworking? Didn't you not even wash your socks in the dormitory before?"

"Can you please stop talking nonsense? When did I stop washing socks?" After hearing what Li Meifen said, Zhong Qingqing's face suddenly turned dark. She really couldn't remember if she had done this before, but Li Meifen deliberately said this to her in front of Xu Yan, which really forced her to think deeply about it.

The amount of rice waiting to be threshed in front of the people was decreasing rapidly. As time approached noon, all the work in front of them had been completed.

Xu Yan slowly put away the tools in front of him, turned around expressionlessly and walked towards the direction of the finishing point gathering.

He had said almost nothing the whole morning.

"Brother Xu Yan, wait for me." Seeing that Xu Yan was about to leave, and that she had been busy arguing with Li Meifen the whole morning and had no time to distract herself and get close to Xu Yan, Zhong Qingqing hurriedly caught up with Xu Yan and, by the way, unscrewed the small kettle she had brought with her.

"Brother Xu Yan, you've been working for a whole morning, are you tired? I noticed that you didn't bring a kettle, why don't you drink mine first!" Zhong Qingqing, who had secretly observed this detail a long time ago, handed over her own kettle as she spoke.

However, at the same time, another kettle was handed to Xu Yan——

Looking over at the hand holding the other kettle, Zhong Qingqing saw Li Meifen unscrewing the kettle and handing it to Xu Yan.

"What are you doing?" With a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth, Zhong Qingqing immediately understood Li Meifen's intention.

It seems that the experience of going to Baihua Village for exchange with Xu Yan and others made Li Meifen realize how good Xu Yan is.

"Why do you care what I do? You were the only one who brought a kettle, but no one else did?" Li Meifen looked at Zhong Qingqing with sidelong eyes.

Although the two of them kept unscrewing the lid of the kettle and handing it to Xu Yan, the three of them continued to walk towards the place where the young people gathered.

It was almost lunchtime, and the young people were eating in a corner of the threshing ground. From a distance, several young people had already set up two temporary large tables, on which were placed big pots of collective meals.

"Why don't you stay away from Brother Xu Yan? Didn't you hear what the villagers are saying about you?"

Zhong Qingqing still held her kettle, but changed the way she responded to Li Meifen.

At first she thought that the villagers deliberately wanted to discredit Xu Yan, so they forced Li Meifen, an irrelevant person, into the rumor. But now that she thinks about it carefully, things should not be as she speculated. Li Meifen must have tried every means to contact Xu Yan in Baihua Village, so such rumors spread.

Unexpectedly, in addition to Su Wanwan, she now has to deal with the sudden appearance of Li Meifen, who competes with her for Xu Yan.

"Are you two done yet? If you really have nothing to do, you can go back to work. Aren't there still so much rice waiting to be threshed?"

Xu Yan was annoyed by these two jealous people. He tried to turn around and change direction to avoid them several times, but was cleverly blocked by Zhong Qingqing and the others every time.

In desperation, I could only remind him without any emotion.

"Brother Xu Yan, I see that you are tired after the whole morning and haven't had any water..." Compared to Li Meifen's somewhat rough voice, Zhong Qingqing's voice can be described as gentle and tender.

Just listening to it makes one feel numb in the bones.

If it were any other young man, he would have compromised and taken the water bottle she handed over, but Xu Yan was indifferent: "When did I say I was thirsty?"

Things had come to this point, and even if Zhong Qingqing was a sticky piece of candy, she felt ashamed. Her face instantly turned aggrieved, and she took back her kettle.

Li Meifen, who was sitting opposite her, didn't look much better, but fortunately, because she was dark-skinned, the subtle expression on her face was not easily noticed.

Besides, no one paid attention to her.

Young people had already gathered in the dining area in large numbers, and those carrying lunch boxes were queuing up to get their meals.

Bai Luwei was naturally among the young people, but what puzzled him was that he had only been in Baihua Village for an exchange for half a month. After returning to the village, the atmosphere in the village seemed to become extremely unfamiliar all of a sudden.

Especially some rumors, which are simply groundless and spread as if they were true.

Bai Luwei, who had prepared his meal, lost his appetite after hearing the discussions. He picked at the eggplant in the lunch box and couldn't swallow it at all.

"Oh, what you said has nothing to do with the facts." Bai Luwei couldn't stand it anymore when he heard the young people around him still enthusiastically talking about some things that happened in Baihua Village.

"Xu Yan is not what you think he is. We lived in the same dormitory in Baihua Village. How could I not know him?"

The other young men who were talking turned their heads to Bai Luwei and asked, "So what are those things about?"

"The kang in the room where Su Wanwan and Li Meifen lived collapsed, so Li Meifen asked to stay in our room for the night. And that day, Xu Yan didn't go back to our room to sleep, he slept outside!"

As an honest person, Bai Luwei told all the facts when asked by the young men around him.

While clarifying the situation for Xu Yan, he also successfully dug himself into a hole.

"So it's you, not Xu Yan, who slept with Li Meifen that day?"