Even after being disliked for so many years, she still didn’t want Gu Jiaojiao to dislike them.
Because to Sweet Girl, Gu Jiaojiao was special.
Gu Jiaojiao hesitated.
Honestly, she wasn’t keen on such a young child going up the mountain. But for the village kids, children his age seed to be able to run up the mountain on their own.
The adults would always warn them, though, not to go too deep into the mountains.
Gu Jiaojiao paused for a mont before speaking.
"Alright, but can he take care of himself?"
Sweet Girl nodded at once.
"Yes, he can."
Gu Jiaojiao agreed.
The group was the sa as yesterday, but with the addition of Xiao Yang. The little guy didn’t say a word, but his eyes were always watching Gu Jiaojiao warily.
Gu Jiaojiao: ...
’It was actually a little funny!’
Strangely enough, while Xiao Yang was wary of her and everyone else, a flash of admiration would occasionally cross his dark eyes when he looked at Leng Yuan.
Gu Jiaojiao almost thought she was seeing things.
’Admiration?’
She glanced at the man beside her.
He was single-handedly pulling the flatbed cart, yet walking faster than all of them who were empty-handed.
’That really was sothing to admire.’
’Boys, in particular, worship strength. Forget Xiao Yang—isn’t a grown man like Chen JianShe acting like a little fanboy, too?’
Gu Jiaojiao understood.
The group headed up the mountain together.
On the way, they occasionally ran into so of the village aunties. Gu Jiaojiao greeted the ones she knew.
When others she didn’t know took the initiative to greet Leng Yuan, Gu Jiaojiao would also offer a smile.
As for those who stood in the distance making snide remarks, Gu Jiaojiao didn’t waste any pleasantries on them.
That’s just the kind of person she was—she responded to kindness, not coercion.
If people were nice to her, she was nice back. But if they had ill intentions, Gu Jiaojiao refused to indulge them.
’So what if they’re my elder and I’m their junior? Bullshit.’
’I was just born a few years after you. That doesn’t an I have to kiss up to you.’
Gu Jiaojiao never paid any mind to these so-called conventions and moral blackmail.
Even though Gu Jiaojiao gave so of them the cold shoulder, they still crowded around.
More and more people gathered around them.
It wasn’t Gu Jiaojiao drawing them in, but the flatbed cart.
The news that Leng Yuan’s house now had a flatbed cart was a huge deal in the Qingshan Team.
After all, in the entire Qingshan Team, with nearly two hundred households, only five families owned a flatbed cart.
Leng Yuan had the honor of becoming the sixth.
A few aunties stared at the flatbed cart Leng Yuan was pulling, marveling at the novelty. One of them even stepped forward to touch it.
"Well, I’ll be. It’s a real flatbed cart."
"To think you can make a flatbed cart out of wood. That’s incredible."
she said, her face full of envy.
Having a flatbed cart would save so much trouble.
When others with carts gathered firewood, they could get a huge pile in just three or four trips.
But doing it by hand, they could only gather a little at a ti. It took them a dozen trips back and forth just to match a single cartload.
All that ti was wasted just on the travel back and forth.
But there was nothing to be done. Everyone was poor, and they couldn’t bear to spend the money to buy a cart.
Now, seeing the wooden cart Leng Yuan had, they started to get ideas.
"Leng Yuan, the wood is free anyway, why don’t you make one for too?"
’This person was unbelievably shaless.’
Gu Jiaojiao heard this and couldn’t help but marvel at how the woman had the gall to say such a thing.
The speaker was an older woman, so her man couldn’t argue with her.
But Gu Jiaojiao wasn’t afraid.
Before transmigrating, she had been a rich, pampered beauty who never cursed at anyone. But now she was a mber of the Qingshan Team. When in Ro, do as the Romans do.
’And learning how to curse was a major part of fitting in.’
She shot right back at her.
"Auntie, since the wood is free, you can just make one yourself!"
"It’s actually very simple, just a few pieces of wood put together. A kind-looking and obviously smart woman like you, Auntie, could surely learn how to do it."
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