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Although the issue of stealing public grain had not been resolved, when it was time to go to work in the afternoon, Song Guangming still went door to door with a gloomy face to call people.

Several families didn't sleep at noon, and they stayed awake just talking about the Sun family's affairs.

When he saw Song Guangming, he came over and asked, "Captain, how do we solve the problem of the secretary's family stealing public grain?"

Song Guangming was annoyed by this matter, and raised his eyebrows, "Don't meddle in things that shouldn't be your business. Hurry up and take your things and go! You are not allowed to go home until the work is done."

The man was disappointed, curled his lips, turned around and followed him out with a weeding shovel and a sack.

The fields are even more lively.

A group of people were chatting and shouting across the ground, you shouted and I yelled, people with weak eardrums could easily be deafened by their voices.

Although stealing public grain had occurred in other production brigades, this was the first time it happened in Qingshan Brigade.

The level of discussion is also unprecedentedly high.

As a result, no one paid attention to the affairs of Xu Yan and Xie Zhuo.

Except...Xie Zhuo.

Xie Zhuo had quickly and skillfully weeded all the land that the team leader had assigned to him. The team leader had said before that whoever finished the assigned work could leave first.

He bent down and put all the grass into the sack.

He walked over and pulled a handful of thin reeds from the stems of the field, twisted them into a thin straw rope, tied the mouth of the sack, and then carried the sack out of the field.

"Third Brother!"

Liu Mancang was almost done too, with about ten meters left. He looked up and saw Xie Zhuo, and greeted him.

But Xie Zhuo was daydreaming and didn't hear anything.

"Third Brother!"

Liu Mancang's voice became louder.

Xie Zhuo then pushed back the tattered straw hat that was blocking his view, raised his eyelids and glanced at him lazily.

"Come here," Liu Mancang waved to Xie Zhuo.

Xie Zhuo really didn’t want to pay attention to him. Liu Mancang talked too much nonsense!

but……

Thinking of what happened at the educated youth center before, he walked towards Liu Mancang.

"My third brother is so skillful!"

Liu Mancang immediately praised, "With your quickness, I think even if you get a few more acres of land, you can probably finish the work faster than those wimps at the educated youth camp!"

After saying this, he looked at Xie Zhuo earnestly.

Xie Zhuo said nothing.

Just when Liu Mancang thought that he had expressed his meaning too tactfully and his third brother didn't get it, he planned to make it more obvious.

Xie Zhuo glanced at him and then threw the shovel in his hand five meters away.

Liu Mancang: “…”

Okay, then don't help me.

He didn't have much left to begin with, and with just this little, he could finish it in ten minutes at most.

He just wanted Xie Zhuo to help him move a few shovels, and then the two of them could go together.

"Hey, Third Brother," Liu Mancang didn't mind, and quickly shoveled the grass with his hands, and changed the subject, "Tell me, when did this little educated youth Xu fall in love with you?"

“You can’t usually tell.”

"She ran after Han Xiaoyu."

Xie Zhuo didn't say anything, he squatted aside, pinching a small white trumpet-shaped wild flower in his hand.

"Ah!" Liu Mancang suddenly shouted in a hoarse voice, scaring Xie Zhuo, who was in a trance beside him, so much that he almost jumped up.

"What's wrong with you?" Xie Zhuo frowned and slapped him on the back of his neck.

"Third brother, do you think this is possible?" Liu Mancang said excitedly, "This little Xu Zhiqing has liked you for a long time. He follows Han Xiaoyu around every day just to see more of you."

"Aren't it just you and Han Xiaoyu who see each other from time to time at the educated youth point...?" Liu Mancang's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Don't be impulsive, put your hands down," Liu Mancang said.

Xie Zhuo stared at Liu Mancang for a few more seconds before retracting his raised hand.

"Then when do you say that?" Liu Mancang said.

"She doesn't like me," Xie Zhuo plucked the pistil of the pure white flower, his voice a little low.

"how can that be possible?"

When Liu Mancang heard his words, he subconsciously retorted, "If she didn't like you, how could she say in front of so many people that she would not marry anyone but you?"

Xie Zhuo didn’t know either.

"Besides, you know how important a girl's reputation is," Liu Mancang continued to analyze.

"If she doesn't like you, and she still says that, then how can she survive in Qingshan Brigade in the future? Can she still get married?"

This is also what Xie Zhuo is confused about.

Although Xu Yan said twice that he liked him, Xie Zhuo still didn't believe it.

After all, there is really nothing about him that girls like.

If he was really used just to provoke Han Xiaoyu, then the price would be too high.

Besides, there are so many people in Qingshan Brigade, why didn't she mention others but chose him?

"I think she likes you," Liu Mancang looked over Xie Zhuo.

"You said you are tall and strong, it's normal for me to like you!"

"Looking good these days is useless, if you don't have food or drink, if our team leader wasn't a good person, how could Han Xiaoyu get full work points with his skills?"

"I don't know how he had the nerve to compete with you some time ago—"

"If I ask you to be the stepfather of these two children," Liu Mancang was interrupted by Xie Zhuo before he could finish his words, "Would you be willing?"

Liu Mancang: “…”

what?

The third brother asked him to marry, bah, marry a widow?

Regardless of whether he is willing or not, if his mother knew about it, she would beat him to death.

Widow Chen from the brigade was one year younger than his mother.

And... he is still young, only nineteen years old, less than half a year older than Xu Yan.

His mother was planning to arrange a girl for him some time ago, but he felt that he was still young and there was no need to rush.

If he really can't get married and has to be someone else's stepfather, he might as well be a bachelor for the rest of his life.

In that case, then little Xu Zhiqing...

She has no problem finding a husband, is pretty, and has money. It is said that she also comes from a very good family...

Liu Mancang sighed heavily.

"Third brother, didn't you ask her why she wanted to marry you?" Liu Mancang asked this question after a long while.

Xie Zhuo pursed his lips.

He was afraid that what Xu Yan said to him would suddenly come out of his mouth without his knowledge.

Of course it’s because I like you!

The female educated youth had a clear voice and a soft tone, like she was acting coquettishly, but also like...

Xie Zhuo couldn't describe it, it was the kind of feeling that gave people goosebumps when they heard it.

Thinking of this, Xie Zhuo suddenly stood up.

The dust that was raised flew all over Liu Mancang's face.

However, he didn't dare to attack Xie Zhuo, so he could only turn his head and spat a few times on the ground.

When he felt the taste of earth in his mouth had faded, he looked up and saw his third brother walk forward a few steps, bend down to pick up the discarded shovel, reach the stalk of the ground, pick up the sack, throw it on his back and walk away.