Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

However, Xu Yan interrupted her: "I understand."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Yan suddenly interrupted as if he remembered something, “I know you’re afraid that my relationship with you will be too close and that other people will misunderstand me and cause unnecessary misunderstandings.”

These words were completely beyond Su Wanwan's expectations. She stood there speechless, and her steps unconsciously stopped.

Why does he think so?

"Isn't this wrong?" Xu Yan asked with a smile, his emotions hidden deeply.

Su Wanwan really couldn't figure out his current mood, so she quickly explained, "Of course not! I don't think so!"

Xu Yan seemed to deliberately leave her room to explain. As he spoke, he quickly walked forward, leaving Su Wanwan more time to think.

When Su Wanwan came to her senses, she felt her face getting hotter and hotter. As they were on their way back to the courtyard, night had already fallen and insects could be heard occasionally. When they pushed the door open, Bai Luwei frowned, "What's that smell? It sounds like something is burnt?"

Su Wanwan smelled a faint odor: "It shouldn't be something burnt, it's more like the smell of grease in the stove."

"Where does the smell come from?" Bai Luwei followed the smell and finally stopped in front of Su Wanwan and Li Meifen's room. Then, Su Wanwan walked into the room alone to find the source of the smell.

"What happened?" Walking through the small corridor, everything seemed normal. But when Su Wanwan stepped through the door frame and entered the bedroom she shared with Li Meifen, she immediately realized where the smell came from - part of the large kang suddenly collapsed... revealing the rubble and red bricks that had accumulated smoke and dust underneath. Marks of burnt and black ash were visible on the bricks, and the smoky smell like a stew pot was wafting from the bottom of the kang.

"Can't you see? My kang has collapsed." Li Meifen stood quietly beside the collapsed kang and answered calmly.

"How is this possible?" Unable to believe it, Su Wanwan took a few steps forward, picked up the lit kerosene lamp on the table, walked closer to check, and examined the brick marks carefully.

"What's impossible? This kang has been used for decades?" Li Meifen crossed her arms over her chest, slowly walked to the table, chose a seat and sat down.

"So what are you going to do now? It certainly can't be fixed in a short time." Su Wanwan frowned slightly, concerned about the core of the problem.

What is more serious is that the collapse of the kang directly affected the nearby stove, otherwise the smoke and fire would probably have escaped directly and exposed their predicament.

"What else can we do? We can only barely get through this night." Li Meifen responded calmly in the darkness.

The white reed outside the door noticed the noise inside the house and peeked anxiously at the door, but was hesitant and did not step in.

"It's not too late yet. Why don't we go find the village party secretary and report this?" Su Wanwan suggested.

Holding the kerosene lamp, although her attention was focused on the broken bricks, Su Wanwan sensed the information contained in Li Meifen's attitude and tone. She had just finished her meal and returned alone. On the way back, she found that the kang, which they regarded as a solid residence, had collapsed. The collapse happened to be in the direction of Li Meifen's residence, but her residence was intact, and the bedding on the kang was not even stained with dust.

"Report to the village party secretary? Are you crazy? They will take this opportunity to unite against the young people we have exchanged for you. Don't you understand what this means? Once we notify them, not only can we not be sure whether they can repair the kang, but everyone will point fingers at us behind our backs when we work in the future." Hearing Su Wanwan's idea, Li Meifen did not hide her doubts and refuted it one after another, even seeming to be confident.

"Bai Luwei, come in and take a look." Without looking at Li Meifen any more, Su Wanwan turned around and called the two of them into the house.

After entering the room, Bai Luwei immediately picked up the lamp that had just been placed on the kang to check the collapsed area, while Xu Yan stood at the door with a curious look on his face, not wanting to take a step inside.

"Oh my, how could this kang collapse like this? This is the first time I've encountered such a landslide at the age of 20." Bai Luwei became more and more confused as he looked at it, frowning and paying attention to the broken places.

"In my opinion, this brick should be able to bear much more weight and should have no problem lasting two to three years." While observing the condition of the brick's cross section, Li Meifen put forward her own analysis.

After Bai Luwei carefully inspected the damaged part, Li Meifen suddenly interrupted with obvious urgency: "Just tell me whether you can fix it or not, don't waste time."

Bai Luwei shook his head slightly. "Under normal circumstances, only a small part of the kang would collapse, but your bed has almost collapsed. Even if we fill it with mud now, it will take several days for the adobe to cool down and become solid. We can't let anyone live there in the next two or three days. What's more, this is a dormitory. Where can we get cement? We have to ask the village to deal with this situation."

"Then you'll probably have to sleep on the floor." Su Wanwan thought to herself, realizing from the beginning that the kang could not be repaired. Although she lacked experience in this area, she knew very well the manpower and time required to build a kang.

"What kind of weather is this? It's so cold sleeping on the floor. I'm afraid I'll freeze to death on the cold cement." Li Meifen was not to be outdone, and she cast a glance at Xu Yan in the corner. However, when she saw that he was still standing at the door, her tone softened, "As outsiders, the four of us are strangers here. We may have had some estrangement in the village before, but now we are a family. If people knew that we couldn't even maintain the kang, they would definitely laugh at us."

Su Wanwan listened silently without saying anything, just quietly waiting for her to continue. Bai Luwei, who was standing by, narrowed his eyes slightly in confusion, not understanding why Li Meifen pointed the finger at the sudden collapse of the kang.

Aren't kangs prone to collapse? Which family's kang can last forever? Besides, their house was allocated by the team. If there is a problem with the kang in the house, they should blame the team, right?

"Besides, your two rooms are next to each other. As long as you don't disturb others, they shouldn't come over. The house is not small, so it can be accommodated..."

Bai Luwei understood that Li Meifen's intentions were obvious and her logic was not difficult to trace. Thinking of this, he understood that the "natural" collapse of the kang seemed reasonable.

"You move over there and stay for one night." Before Li Meifen could continue to express herself, Xu Yan outside the door spoke calmly and directly solved the problem.

A ray of light flashed in Li Meifen's eyes, and she immediately got busy, starting to clean the dusty bed, wiping it repeatedly several times.

Watching her actions, Bai Luwei couldn't help but ask doubtfully: "Xu Yan, is this... appropriate? We are still in an era that emphasizes the differences between men and women! If you really do this, the other people on the team will definitely misunderstand when they see it."

Even if there was nothing wrong with the thing originally, it has become the source of the error!

Xu Yan simply said: "At the moment, this is the only way. I'll go to the yard to find tools and solve the problem temporarily." After that, he walked out the door, and Su Wanwan followed him with a heavy heart.