Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

"How about I carry you on my back?" Bai Luwei asked Li Meifen reluctantly from behind. Li Meifen glanced at Bai Luwei with disgust and reluctantly walked towards her residence with his help.

Su Wanwan took the opportunity to look around on the way back from the village party secretary's office. The population of Baihua Village was roughly the same as their village. There were many small paths along the way, and both sides of the paths were the gates of the small courtyards of each household in the village.

She noticed that the house that Baihua Village arranged for the exchanged youth was located in the most remote part of the village. It was dark last night and no one noticed this. When she first came, she thought it was because the village party secretary's office building was located in a remote area.

Obviously, Baihua Village had a unified attitude towards these young people and was not overly concerned about their exchange.

As night fell, when Su Wanwan and her group stepped into the yard, Bai Luwei first put down Li Meifen, who was on his back, and walked towards his room while complaining, "I'm finally back. I have to work all day and have to distract myself to pick you up. I don't know what sin I committed in my previous life."

Although he had expected that Bai Luwei would be a chatterbox, he insisted on holding Li Meifen's hand all the way and did not let go, allowing her to walk on her own.

Su Wanwan had expected Li Meifen to immediately counterattack Bai Luwei's provocation, after all, she was no less sharp-tongued. However, after waiting for a while, she did not hear any response.

Just when Xu Yan carefully put her in front of the door of the room, Su Wanwan took the opportunity to steal a glance at Li Meifen. She unexpectedly found that she was looking at herself and Xu Yan intently, as if she was lost in thought.

Feeling Li Meifen's scrutinizing gaze, she slowly straightened her back and walked into the house, remaining silent throughout the whole process without any expression.

For some reason, Su Wanwan suddenly sensed something in Li Meifen's eyes, but she was too tired to even thank her. She leaned against the wall and entered the room, without even taking off her shoes, and lay down heavily on the kang on her side.

The only sound in the room was their heavy breathing. "What should we do tomorrow?" After a long time, Li Meifen suddenly broke the silence and asked.

"What else can we do? Hasn't the village party secretary already revealed his cards?" Su Wanwan responded tiredly. They both lay on the kang, looking up at the ceiling covered with newspapers.

"Aren't you afraid that something might happen to us in the field?"

After hearing Su Wanwan's answer, Li Meifen was silent for a moment, then spoke again, with a faint rumbling sound from her stomach.

"If something really goes wrong, perhaps only the people in the commune will investigate. However, it is the autumn harvest season and it is inevitable that young people are a little tired. The attitude of the villagers is definitely on our side." Although they understood the current situation and that they were being ostracized by everyone, Su Wanwan remained sober and had anticipated this problem before coming here.

In this isolated and helpless situation, even if the matter was leaked to their father or Secretary Wang, they would be unable to help due to the distance. The most likely response would be to ask them to be patient for the time being, after all, the half month would pass in a flash.

"I know." After a while, Li Meifen responded, "Is there anything to eat?"

"No food prepared." Li Meifen also touched her empty stomach and answered calmly. Originally, the luggage her mother packed for her was almost complete, except for food supplies.

Because food is difficult to preserve for a long time, my mother thought that even if she brought too much, it might become a burden and be wasted.

Since they had just gone to the village party secretary's office, the leftovers in the educated youth canteen had probably been collected. Even if there were some, they should have been taken back to the canteen at this moment. The two people who had just arrived in Baihua Village were not familiar with the place, so if they wanted to eat, they had to ask the villagers where the canteen was, and then take the initiative to go find food.

If the cafeteria informed them that there was no leftover food, then their work would be in vain. Su Wanwan couldn't help but feel daunted when she thought of the long road she might have to travel.

The room was quiet except for the intermittent chirping of unidentified insects outside. Su Wanwan, who was drowsy from hunger, was on the verge of falling asleep when she heard muffled footsteps at the door.

Then there was a gentle knock on the door. Li Meifen reacted quickly, as if she had foreseen something. She stood up, dragged her feet and quickly left the kang, running towards the door.

"I brought you some food, try it while it's hot." Xu Yan's voice came from outside the door.

Although Su Wanwan could hear it very clearly through the door and wall, she was too tired to get up immediately and could only listen quietly to the noise outside.

"Where did you get the food?" Li Meifen took the two stacked lunch boxes outside the door and felt the residual warmth. She turned her head slightly and looked at the empty space behind her. After confirming that she did not see Su Wanwan coming out, she looked up at Xu Yan in surprise.

Xu Yan was still wearing his work clothes, but there was no sign of dirt on his body, which was in stark contrast to the dirtiness of Bai Luwei.

It seemed to be because of the light. Li Meifen could even smell a pleasant aroma from Xu Yan's gray shirt, like the aroma of new wheat in the sun.

"There are some food left in the cafeteria. I just went over to inform them and brought some back." Xu Yan's gaze swept across Li Meifen in front of him, as if he was looking at some unknown place somewhere else.

"Oh, have you eaten yet?" Li Meifen noticed the change in Xu Yan's eyes and slightly turned her body to block the door leading inside, as if she didn't want others to see anything.

"We've eaten. You can leave your lunch boxes at the door after you finish eating. I'll come to collect them tomorrow morning." Xu Yan retracted his gaze, quickly left Su Wanwan and the others' door, and went back to the next room.

Li Meifen watched Xu Yan's departing figure disappear from her sight with subtle emotions on her face, then she slowly closed the door of her and Su Wanwan's room and went back inside carrying the lunch box.

"I knew Brother Xu Yan would make some arrangements."

She placed her lunch box on the small table they shared and sat down. She waited until she heard a noise from next door before she raised her voice and spoke.

After saying that, Li Meifen opened the lid of the lunch box, which was divided into two parts by plastic wrap. One side was filled with vegetables, and the other side contained a bowl of brown rice. There was even a spoon carefully placed next to it.

Su Wanwan sat up with great effort and walked to the table, pulling another box of rice closer. She noticed that Li Meifen was frozen in time, as if she had suddenly seen a wonder, with her upper body frozen in place. She couldn't help but raise her head slightly:

"Why aren't you eating? Didn't you say you were hungry just now?" As she spoke, Su Wanwan noticed the contents of Li Meifen's lunch box in front of her - it was not the braised pork that Xu Yan had sent before, but green beans and potatoes instead.

"Did you see that?" Before Su Wanwan could answer, Li Meifen in front of her suddenly asked unexpectedly.

Su Wanwan was stunned for a moment, not quite sure what she was pointing at. She narrowed her eyes slightly and did not respond.

"Did you see those shredded meat?" Li Meifen repeated again, her tone almost mechanical.

Su Wanwan looked as she spoke and indeed saw some minced meat between the tofu and potatoes.