Sweet love in military marriage: an egg in exchange for a rough husband

The sun was scorching, there was not a cloud in the sky, the sunlight shone directly on the villagers who were working hard in the rolling waves of wheat. With the waving of sickles, rows of wheat fell one after another. The heavy ears of wheat gathered together, bringing the joy of harvest and taking away the boredom of the people.

From time to time, the villagers looked up at the wheat fields in front of them, wiped the sweat from their heads with cloth towels draped over their heads/hanging around their necks/wrapped around their wrists, drank some water, and then continued to work by bending over. Everyone was eager to finish the work as soon as possible, after all, they all wanted to share the food earlier!

Although the educated youth in the Youth Institute were weaker than the villagers, they also tried their best to work, because they knew too well the feeling of being hungry. If they did more, they could get more work points, and then more food. If they could save some in their daily lives, they could ensure that they had enough to eat in winter and get through the cold winter smoothly.

But there were two people who, facing the scorching sun and the wheat fields in front of them, were reluctantly and slowly cutting the wheat with sickles. The people around them had already finished cutting four ridges, but they were still lingering on the second ridge. These two people were Li Wenxuan and Wang Danju.

From time to time, educated youth passed by them and kindly reminded them to speed up, otherwise they would not be able to earn even 5 work points a day, and they would not be able to get much food when they ran out of food in winter. However, the two men agreed verbally, but their movements did not speed up. Soon, the educated youth saw that they were slacking off, and shook their heads and said nothing.

The other educated youth thought that they had Su Yunyun, the sucker, providing support from behind. What was the point of working so hard now? If they ran out of money and food, they could just go to Su Yunyun to complain and everything would be theirs. No wonder they were slacking off!

But these were not what Li and Wang were thinking about.

Li Wenxuan thought about what Su Yunyun said yesterday. She was going to the Youth Institute to ask him for money. What should he do? How could he coax Su Yunyun to change her mind and continue to selflessly dedicate herself to him!

Wang Danju was thinking about how to make Li Wenxuan explain things to Su Yunyun as soon as possible. She couldn't do anything at all. What was the point of harvesting this broken wheat? And why would she worry about not getting a centimeter less in food and then going hungry if she didn't work? She was so smart and capable, and she believed that as long as Li Wenxuan was there, she would never go hungry.

The two men, who had ulterior motives, soon frowned at the same time with painful expressions. In addition, they were sweating in the hot weather and humming constantly, which made people think that they had heatstroke. They were helped by the enthusiastic educated youth to the shade of the trees to avoid the heat, and were told to go back to the educated youth home to rest after they felt better, and come back to work after they recovered.

When the two returned to the educated youth institute and closed the gate, Wang Danju suddenly threw herself into Li Wenxuan's arms. Just as she was about to pretend to cry to make Li Wenxuan feel the grievances she had suffered recently, her face touched his clothes and she felt itchy from the wheat awns stuck on his clothes. Moreover, the stench of sweat that hit her in the face made her quickly push Li Wenxuan away and retched, "Ugh!"

She wanted to scratch her face with her hands to relieve the itching, but when she looked at her hands, she saw that they were no longer white and tender, but were red and peeling from the sun. Her fingers were covered in dust, and the gaps between her nails were black. She was so depressed that she actually cried. Tears kept flowing from her eyes, leaving gray and white marks on her face.

If she looked in the mirror at this moment, I believe she would cry even more sadly, even sadder than when she was pushed by her family to replace her brother to go to the countryside, because her face has always been her weapon, with a delicate and pitiful appearance, which is most likely to win the favor and protection of men.

Li Wenxuan saw Wang Danju's face turn pale after she retched. He knew that she disliked the smell of sweat on his body, but he couldn't stand himself being so sloppy!

In his opinion, keeping dry and clean is the most basic courtesy and decency for intellectuals.

But now his dignity was gone, as it was broken by Su Yunyun herself!

"Stop crying!" Li Wenxuan was annoyed by Wang Danju's continuous sobbing. Don't think that she was the only one who couldn't accept it. If he wasn't a macho man, he would have wanted to cry too.

Wang Danju heard the impatience in Li Wenxuan's tone and hurriedly stopped crying, but she was still sobbing. She raised her head with red eyes and complained to him weakly and aggrievedly: "Brother Wenxuan, I'm sorry, I don't want to cry, but I really can't stand it. Cutting wheat is almost killing me!"

"If they can take your life, they can also take my life! Don't these country people think about the fact that we are the ones holding sickles? We are city people, one grade higher than them. What's more, we are both high school graduates. We can teach in the junior high school in town. But now we have to work with a bunch of mud-legged people. It's simply an insult to us." Upon hearing this, Li Wenxuan felt like he had found a confidant, and directly poured out his resentment to Wang Danju.

"Brother Wenxuan, we can't do this anymore. After a long time, we will be assimilated by the villagers. How can we go back to the city then?" Wang Danju used the idea that both of them wanted to go back to the city to remind Li Wenxuan that they couldn't continue like this.

"I know. I've also been looking for Su Yunyun to ask her to change her work arrangement as soon as possible. But Su Yunyun wouldn't listen. No matter how I coaxed her yesterday, it didn't work." Li Wenxuan scratched his hair with both hands in distress. There were a lot of wheat awns stuck on his hair, and now it was messy like a chicken coop. Wang Danju was disgusted when she saw it, but didn't dare to reveal any thoughts.

Li Wenxuan concealed the fact that he saw Su Yunyun and Han Sen standing together as if they were strangers yesterday, and he did not tell her that Su Yunyun wanted him to pay back the debt, just to maintain his self-esteem and let Wang Danju think that he was still the man who made Su Yunyun infatuated.

"Brother Wenxuan has been wronged. Su Yunyun has made Brother Wenxuan take so much trouble to treat her but she still doesn't know how to appreciate it. She is indeed an unreasonable rural woman!" Wang Danju and Li Wenxuan sympathized with each other and felt that she was the one being wronged.

"Danju, you understand me the best. You should be my revolutionary partner!" Li Wenxuan's eyes turned red and he hugged Wang Danju excitedly. He did not notice that Wang Danju lowered her head to hide her disgust.

"Brother Wenxuan..." Wang Danju endured the itchiness on her face and the sour smell of sweat that filled her nose, and hugged Li Wenxuan's thin waist tightly, calling him affectionately.

The two of them hugged each other tenderly to keep each other warm. Suddenly, Wang Danju said with some embarrassment, "Brother Wenxuan, I have a way to reverse the current situation and make Su Yunyun help you wholeheartedly, but it will be a bit unfair to you."

"Danju, I am not afraid of being wronged for you, just say it." Li Wenxuan pulled Wang Danju out of his arms, held her shoulders with both hands, and looked at her anxiously.

"If Su Yunyun flirts with you and plots against you in front of the villagers, won't that prove that she likes you? This way, she will realize that she can only follow you and can never marry anyone else," Wang Danju said her plan timidly with her head down. In order to hide her cruelty, she quickly looked at Li Wenxuan: "Brother Wenxuan, do you think I'm too cruel? I just can't bear to see you suffer such injustice, and I can't help it..."

"Danju, you don't have to say anything, I understand," Li Wenxuan was moved and interrupted Wang Danju's statement, "But if I do this, Su Yunyun's reputation will never be restored, will the Su family force me to marry her? But I don't want to marry her, I like you!"

"No, we can find ways to delay it. For example, if we want to get married, we have to write to our families to get their consent. It takes time for letters to go back and forth. If we really can't delay it any longer, let Su Yunyun find a way to get us back to the city and take her with us. In this way, the Su family won't say anything." Wang Danju's face was sweet but her heart was bitter. Every word she said was calculating Su Yunyun. "Whether we get married after returning to the city depends on our willingness!"

"I'm worried that the Su family is barbaric and unreasonable. What if they force me to marry her in the countryside before letting me return to the city?" Li Wenxuan let go of Wang Danju and adjusted his glasses with his hand, pushing them up his nose. "Then I won't be able to get rid of her!"

Wang Danju was anxious. She complained in her heart why this man was so fussy, afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, and not decisive at all. She really wanted to slap him in the face to avoid upsetting her.

But the current difficulties still depended on him, Wang Danju could only continue to persuade, "Brother Wenxuan..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Wenxuan interrupted him, "Let me think about it."

The two people here had ulterior motives, and the two sisters-in-law of the Han family over there were also planning how to completely ruin Su Yunyun's reputation, but how to start this conversation gave them a headache.

At this moment, Su Yunyun was seen coming to the field to bring water to her parents not far away. People around her were also praising her for becoming a different person since she fell into the water. She was filial to her parents, friendly to her brother and sister-in-law, and kind to others.

The two sisters-in-law of the Han family looked at each other and smiled in tacit understanding.

"That's right. Su Yunyun is so kind-hearted. I heard that she was worried about my third son's arm, so she went to talk to him yesterday when no one was at home!" Liu Hua smiled mysteriously. The eyes of the people around her shifted to her, and the sickles in their hands slowed down.

"Sister-in-law, don't say that about her. A girl's reputation is very important. What if people knew that she was flirting with our third child?" Zhang Cao looked at Liu Hua with disapproval, as if Liu Hua had committed a serious mistake by saying such bad things.

Everyone's curiosity was aroused, and they pulled the two sisters-in-law of the Han family to ask them to explain clearly. The two of them covered up the details of how Su Yunyun pulled the third brother and how she pinched her throat to speak to the third brother in a tender and artificial manner. It was so vivid that it seemed as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

When the team leader Su Ping was inspecting the work progress, he saw the women here gathered together and chattering, and from time to time they covered their mouths and laughed meaningfully. He thought these people were making trouble, so he walked over and asked, "Don't you want to work anymore? Or do you want to deduct your work points?"

"Think about it, if you don't get 10 work points today, how are you going to explain to your families?" After Su Ping finished speaking, he saw everyone disperse. He muttered, "Old women always talk too much when they get together!" and turned and left.

But Su Ping didn't know that the people behind him gathered in twos and threes and chatted for a long time. When Liu Hua and Zhang Cao saw this, they laughed triumphantly.

Soon, there was a new and more erotic version of the rumors about Su Yunyun and Han Sen in the village: a girl chasing a boy, it was so erotic and exciting!

Su Yunyun originally planned to go to the Youth League Center to ask for money at noon, but when she saw her family members looking tired after returning, she felt that she could not go out and be lazy, so she took the initiative to go to the kitchen with her sisters-in-law to busy herself. Then she suddenly remembered the agreement with Han Sen, so she went out and called her eldest nephew Zhongguo to tell Han Sen to go after work tomorrow afternoon instead.

After Han Sen received the message, he touched Zhong Guo's hair and told him that he understood. Zhong Guo then walked home with a lot of doubts in his mind, wondering: Why did my aunt send a message to Han's third uncle saying that she would not go to the Youth Educator's Institute? When did they get in touch? And why did she go to the Youth Educator's Institute? Was she going to look for Li Zhiqing?

In the afternoon, Su Yunyun went to the fields to deliver mung bean soup. She ran into Li Wenxuan and Wang Danju at the end of the field. Seeing Wang Danju standing behind Li Wenxuan like a little white rabbit, and Li Wenxuan looking like he was going to stop her from talking, Su Yunyun was annoyed and decided to take the initiative. She stepped forward and asked, "Li Zhiqing, are you going to pay me back? That's great!"

Li Wenxuan paused and felt Wang Danju holding his clothes. He could only swallow what he was about to say and answered her hesitantly, "I told you before that it's a gift, not a loan. How can you be so ignorant and not understand what I'm saying? And I have something to talk to you about, so listen to me, you have to..."

"Stop it now. The relationship between you and me is just that of a creditor and a debtor. Apart from paying back the money, nothing else can be discussed!" Su Yunyun was tired of his paradoxical talk and made it clear directly and loudly.

"I... I'm fine, you... you go first!" Li Wenxuan saw the other educated youths looking up at them, as if asking about money. He panicked and gave in.

"Remember to pay back the money!" Su Yunyun said and turned away. Her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law were still thirsty. This man not only didn't pay back the money but also wasted her time. How hateful!

"Brother Wenxuan, what money? What money does Su Yunyun want you to pay back?" Wang Danju asked Li Wenxuan hurriedly after seeing Su Yunyun walking away. She stopped pretending to be a little innocent and her face turned red with nervousness. Could it be what she thought?

"Su Yunyun is inconsistent. It is clear that the money, tickets, and food she gave me before were all gifts, but now she says they are loans to me. She even converted some things into money and asked me to pay her back." Li Wenxuan wiped his face vigorously with his hands. He felt it was embarrassing to talk about being chased for money for these vulgar things in front of Wang Danju.

"How could she do this? This is so unreasonable! How can a person go back on her word? It was clearly a gift from her to you, Brother Wenxuan. Why did she say it was a loan?" Wang Danju thought of the money and food that Su Yunyun had given to Li Wenxuan before, which she herself had used for her own consumption. She was afraid that the money would be asked for from her, so she naturally shared the same hatred with Li Wenxuan and thought that Su Yunyun was a two-faced liar!

"I don't know either. If it was borrowed, I would definitely not accept the money and food she brought!" Li Wenxuan said with a sad face, "It costs 200 yuan! Where can I get so much money!"

"Brother Wenxuan, we can't just sit there and wait for death. We can't let her come to our door and step on our heads and do whatever she wants," Wang Danju calmed down, knowing that panicking wouldn't solve the problem. They were still standing on the land of Dongshan Village, and Su Yunyun had a strong family background. They couldn't force it, otherwise they wouldn't get any advantage. "Do you remember what I said this morning?"

"You mean to make her help us wholeheartedly?" Li Wenxuan's eyes sparkled like a drowning man grabbing a floating straw. "How to do it?"

Wang Danju's lips curled up, thinking: Su Yunyun, don't blame me for being cruel, wouldn't it be enough if you just sent money and food? But you insisted on resisting, you forced me to do this!

"Brother Wenxuan, you are doing this..." Wang Danju and Li Wenxuan communicated in a low voice.