Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Dinner consisted of the dishes that Chen Jinghan was forced to bring back. Although the comrades had mixed feelings, food was precious and could not be wasted.

Wu Aiqing made corn porridge as the staple food, heated up the stew and then started eating.

The old educated youth in the front yard smelled the fragrance and started chattering again.

"I don't know if they are digging into socialism, but every day they eat either meat or fish, it's really capitalist behavior."

"I wonder where they got the stuff from. We should report them in a letter and ask them to hand over all the stuff."

"That was brought from the banquet." Guan Wenbin said indifferently. It seemed like an explanation, but in fact it was adding fuel to the fire.

Because no one present was invited to attend Zhuang Caier's wedding, everyone was embarrassed, so no one mentioned the happy event in the village today.

"Oh my, you haven't finished eating it yet, and you can take it back? That's too greedy!"

"Who told the captain to treat Jiang Yu differently? We don't have her ability, so we can only watch her become a big celebrity in the village!"

Luo Chengli, who joined the group after the other four, speeded up his eating.

Ma Yanna glanced at Guan Wenbin in a frivolous manner, and seeing that he looked unhappy, she gently touched him with her feet under the table. When she saw him looking, her eyes drifted towards an uninhabited part of the village.

Guan Wenbin squeezed his chopsticks and nodded imperceptibly.

The meal ended with everyone having their own ulterior motives.

Luo Xinci went to the backyard with her brother, and seeing Chen Jinghan and the others still chatting and laughing while eating, she pulled them to her and Yuan Jiaojiao's room. Seeing this, Yuan Jiaojiao slowed down her pace and tactfully avoided them.

"Brother, why don't we eat separately from the old educated youth." Luo Xinci was really impatient with those short-sighted guys with dirty mouths. When they were eating together, they kept talking about the people behind them, saying that they were forming small groups, having chaotic relationships between men and women, and trying to attract attention, etc. They just couldn't stand seeing others doing well and liked to gossip.

It was fine during the busy farming season, when I was too tired to even talk. But now that I have time, I can't hide my jealous face.

Luo Chengli scratched his head, "But you just moved back from the front yard, and Sister Fang and the others already had some opinions. Now you are asking for a share, they will definitely not be happy." The village is going to distribute grain soon, and they don't have many work points when they first arrived, and they don't know what the process of exchanging grain is in the village. If they can't buy much grain, it is actually safer to live with the old educated youth.

Luo Xinci didn't know his concerns. She just thought the old educated youth were annoying and didn't want to get along with them for even a second. "Brother, you know that I have some unpleasantness with Sister Fang. They are not satisfied with taking advantage of us. If we continue to partner with them, will we have to continue to put things in later? Isn't it annoying!"

"But we can't be so hasty. Let's talk about it after the grain is distributed." Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Luo Chengli spread his hands and put the matter off.

Luo Xinci let out a breath in anger, glared at her brother, crossed her arms and ignored him.

Luo Chengli coughed twice, then stood up and left silently.

Yuan Jiaojiao pretended to collect clothes. After seeing someone come out, she took down the clothes that she had been fluttering for a long time and went into the house holding them in her arms.

"What? Is your brother willing to share?" She closed the door and spoke in a low voice.

Luo Xinci shook her head, "He said we'll talk about it after we divide the food." She sighed, then thought of another possibility. She looked at her friend uncertainly, "Do you think he might be worried about Li Fenfang? That poor fellow, if we separate, she'll be the only one left to share a meal with the old educated youth. She'll definitely not be happy about it, and maybe she's given my brother a heads-up in advance! Because the two of us definitely don't want to take her along, and she doesn't want to be separated from my brother, so she told him that she can't eat separately from the old educated youth, because it'll make him think something!"

Yuan Jiaojiao also thought it was possible. Li Fenfang was very close to Luo Chengli. If Luo Xinci hadn't gone there to make trouble from time to time, maybe she would have accomplished something good now. "No, Xinci, you can't hide it from your family. Not to mention the embarrassment of this matter, your aunt and the others will definitely not want your brother to marry such a woman. If you can't persuade them, then you can only ask your family to step in."

Yuan Jiaojiao was not interested in Luo Chengli. She liked Luo Chengxin, who worked in H City. She originally wanted to go to the countryside there. But when she went to register, she suddenly found out that Luo Xinci also had to go to the countryside. In order to help Luo Chengxin take care of her little sister, she followed him to the construction team. Because of this, Luo Chengxin wrote her a letter and sent her money, and Yuan Jiaojiao felt that she had done nothing wrong.

She felt that she should tell her family about Luo Chengli's situation this time. But Luo Xinci felt that it was too embarrassing to ask her family for help when they first arrived, which made her look useless, so she kept it a secret. But if Luo Chengli has begun to be influenced by Li Fenfang, she can no longer keep it a secret. If she keeps it a secret and something goes wrong, Luo Chengli might help his relatives and blame her.

Luo Xinci pouted, but when she thought about her brother's prevarication and resistance to her request just now, she became angrier and angrier. She immediately started rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find paper and pen. "I'll write a letter back and let my mother scold him to wake him up!"

While eating, Jiang Yu was forced to listen to a piece of gossip. His mind unconsciously began to replay the performance of the four educated youth since they went to the countryside. He felt that it was not unreasonable for Luo Xinci to be so wary of Li Fenfang.

Li Fenfang showed from the beginning to the end that she was deeply in love with Luo Chengli, but when Luo Chengli couldn't see her, her eyes were very clear and calm. Jiang Yu felt that she probably didn't like Luo Chengli.

Jiang Yu didn't know what love was like, but she had seen the look in Chen Jinghan's eyes when she looked at Xue Li many times. That soft and affectionate look would make any bystander's heart beat faster.

It is not difficult to see from the interactions between Luo Chengli and Li Fenfang that he really enjoys the way Li Fenfang relies on him for everything. Maybe he is not moved now, but if a man knows that he should help a woman fetch water, light the fire, and serve dishes before she opens her mouth, and they develop this kind of tacit understanding, then wouldn't the subsequent development be a natural thing?

People say that women understand women better. Luo Xinci may not have discovered the flaw yet, but her intuition is still relevant.

After dinner, Xue Li stuck to Jiang Yu again and insisted on going to her room to chat for a while.

Jiang Yu thought, it was still early anyway, and he had been planning to rub something for fun, so it wouldn't be a problem to add Xue Li along.

Chen Jinghan, who had been planning to go out for a walk with Xue Li after dinner to digest the food, could only sigh and lament that men were not as good as their best friends. She went into her room depressed and continued to be a sad frog alone.