Feng Ergou was utterly captivated. Clutching his chest, he finally understood the feeling of love at first sight.
He stared longingly after Xu Wenwan’s departing figure, watching srized for a good while.
He didn’t snap out of his daze until she had completely vanished from sight.
’I’ve made my decision,’ he thought. ’I’m going to marry this girl.’
’If Leng Yuan can marry an educated youth, why can’t I!’
’But wait, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this girl in the team before. Is she a new educated youth?’
’No, I have to go ask around.’
Xu Wenwan, unaware of Feng Ergou’s thoughts, had finally found the grain-sunning ground.
By then, all the educated youths had already arrived.
Their turn to receive grain was scheduled later, so they hadn’t arrived as early. They waited until most of the villagers had gotten their share.
When Li Hongi saw Gu Jiaojiao and, next to her, the man she dread of day and night, she couldn’t resist walking over.
Her gaze flickered stealthily over Leng Yuan’s face before landing on Gu Jiaojiao.
"Jiaojiao, why didn’t you co find when you ca to get your grain?"
As Li Hongi spoke, she snuck glances at Leng Yuan.
Gu Jiaojiao looked perplexed. "Why would I look for you? Are you going to help carry my grain?"
A flicker of embarrassnt crossed Li Hongi’s face, but she was thick-skinned and recovered quickly. "Jiaojiao, you’re so funny."
’I have my own grain to carry!’
’As if I’d carry grain for Gu Jiaojiao.’
Gu Jiaojiao was getting annoyed with Li Hongi hovering around. Giving her a quick look up and down, she spotted the bracelet on her wrist and snatched it right off.
Li Hongi was instantly alard. "Jiaojiao, what are you doing?"
Clutching the bracelet, Gu Jiaojiao smiled. "This looks like it’s mine. I was wondering where it went. So you had it all along."
The original Gu Jiaojiao had bought the bracelet at a departnt store in the city before coming to the countryside. It had an exquisite design and had cost fifty cents!
However, it was sothing the original owner of her body had liked. The current Gu Jiaojiao wasn’t a fan, so she’d never paid it any mind.
If Li Hongi hadn’t been hovering in front of her, constantly giving her man those furtive, covetous looks, she wouldn’t have even bothered with her.
Li Hongi’s face twisted in an ugly expression.
’This bracelet cost fifty cents! You can’t even find this style in the county. Everyone else is so envious when they see it.’
’After all this ti, I’d forgotten it was Gu Jiaojiao’s.’
"Hong i, that hair tie looks like it’s mine, too."
Li Hongi imdiately clutched her hair tie and stamred, "Jiaojiao, I just rembered I have sothing to do. I have to go."
With that, she scurried away without even sparing a glance for Leng Yuan.
Only after Li Hongi had left did Gu Jiaojiao let the matter drop.
Looking at the bracelet in her hand, her gaze fell upon a little girl. She smiled and said, "Here, little one. A bracelet for you."
And with that, she pressed the bracelet into the girl’s hand.
The little girl was stunned. By the ti she ca to her senses and tried to refuse, Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan had already walked on to collect their grain.
"Leng Yuan! One thousand four hundred work points, three hundred catties of coarse grain, one hundred catties of fine grain, and a cash distribution of eighty-two!"
Upon hearing the accountant’s words, the villagers who were about to leave, those still getting their grain, and those just watching the spectacle—all of them—froze in astonishnt.
’What was that?’
"One hundred catties of fine grain and over a thousand work points? How could they have so much?"
So of them toiled all year and only earned a little over two thousand work points. How on earth did Gu Jiaojiao and Leng Yuan, just the two of them, rack up over a thousand?
And a hundred catties of fine grain, no less!
Fine grain was precious these days—one hundred catties of it was worth three hundred catties of coarse grain. On what grounds did they deserve so much?
The entire team was in an uproar.
Forget the villagers; even Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao themselves hadn’t expected to receive so much.
Xu Wenwan had just stepped onto the grain-sunning ground and was looking around for soone.
When she heard the na "Leng Yuan," she froze for a second before it clicked. ’Isn’t Leng Yuan Gu Jiaojiao’s husband?’
In the one day she had been at the Qingshan Team, her first order of business had been to ask about Gu Jiaojiao. That’s how she learned that Gu Jiaojiao hadn’t returned to the educated youth dormitory but had married Leng Yuan instead.
’This is a huge departure from the novel I wrote.’
The thought that the plot had changed made Xu Wenwan forget all about finding Yun Hao. Instead, her gaze fixed on Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao.
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