Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

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Su Wanwan, who was already feeling a little dizzy from hunger, pricked up her ears instantly when she heard several young people who came to record the Quotations of the Times discussing the Xu family's affairs.

"After our Party Secretary Wang brought Old Man Xu to the county, I heard that the people in the county asked Xu Yan to go to the hospital to visit his father. But when he went to the hospital, he ran away. I heard that they are now searching the whole county for him."

The young man who recorded the Times Quotations was well-known, but no one was an eyewitness. Su Wanwan was more cautious and asked in confusion, "Who spread this news?"

"People from our village often go to the town, and people from the town often go to the county. The news spread like this."

Mother Zhao Ying had walked a long way to the door and took the heavy lunch box. Su Wanwan couldn't eat it directly for a while. After all, the lunch box was full of fat and lean pork. She could smell the faint aroma of meat just through the lid. If she opened the lunch box in front of so many people, it would definitely cause quite a stir.

Enduring the growling hunger, Su Wanwan temporarily put the lunch box somewhere else. After sending her mother away, she walked over to the young people queuing outside.

"It seems that our village Party Secretary Wang did not go to the county today, so I don't know if this news is true or not."

Since neither the village director nor the party branch secretary admitted it, this news must be a rumor. The man was imprisoned in the county. How could he run away just to see an old man? Wasn't there anyone following him? Even if he really ran away, there were police everywhere in the city. How could he be missing? Su Wanwan listened silently, one hand quietly placed on her aching temple.

The rumors about the Xu family have been getting more bizarre these days. First, it was rumored that Xu Yan and Old Man Xu might be dead, and then it was said that Xu Yan was missing. Su Wanwan really couldn't tell the truth of these news. But she always had a hunch that these rumors were false and Xu Yan would be back soon.

"Oh, why are you talking about something that has nothing to do with it? Don't you know that the cow in our production team's cowshed is going to give birth to a calf today?"

A young man at the end of the line was too lazy to continue listening, so he simply interrupted the speculations of the people in front of him.

"Isn't that cow just pregnant? How come she's giving birth so soon?"

The young people were also bored during the intervals between recording the Quotations of the Times, and the topic was slightly diverted, so everyone started talking about another topic.

Seeing that the line outside the door was getting shorter and shorter, Su Wanwan returned to her usual seat, planning to eat quickly after the young people finished recording.

"The veterinarian in charge of deliveries in our village has already gone there with his medical kit. Anyway, there's nothing to do after lunch, why don't you go over and take a look?"

"What's so good about a cow giving birth to a calf? It's not like we haven't seen it before."

Several young men shook their heads.

"Who said we went to watch a cow give birth to a calf? Don't you know that Zhong Qingqing from our village clinic also went? She said she went to observe and learn."

Sure enough, as soon as Zhong Qingqing was mentioned, the young men who had originally lacked interest opened their eyes wide, and many of them even immediately looked in the direction of the production team's cowshed.

The usual atmosphere suddenly became lively.

"Is this true? Didn't Zhong Qingqing study with the doctor at our village clinic? What's going on? She wants to be a veterinarian, so she went to the cowshed to observe and learn?"

Several young men laughed. "Who knows? Maybe she has her own ideas. Before those things happened, who could have connected Zhong Qingqing with them? But didn't she do what she was supposed to do?"

In the lively atmosphere, the young people who had finished recording their quotations walked towards the cowshed in groups of three or four.

It is particularly noteworthy that those female educated youth who went to the countryside obviously came there to laugh at Zhong Qingqing.

After the last young man left, Su Wanwan finally had some free time. She quickly walked back to the radio station, ignoring the manuscript of the Quotations of the Times which she had not had time to organize. She took out the lunch box in the corner, opened the lid, and took a delicious bite with a spoon.

I have never thought that my mother’s cooking skills are so good. It’s just that Su Wanwan was hungry for a whole morning. After taking a few bites, the full lunch box was actually empty in a small space.

It seemed that her mother remembered that she had not eaten breakfast, so she sent her food a little earlier. There was also more food in the lunch box than usual. Even under such circumstances, Su Wanwan only ate most of it.

Looking at the leftover food in the lunch box, Su Wanwan burped helplessly and turned to pack up the manuscript of Quotations of the Times.

The conversation between the young people just now unconsciously came into her mind again. In recent times, she has been paying attention to any movement in the village. Whenever there is a little activity, she will go to check out the situation. After all, everyone lives in the same village and they know each other every day. She never knows when to find out some news about the Xu family.

Somewhat unconsciously, Su Wanwan packed up all the manuscripts and organized the speech script for the next day. Then she anxiously put on her small bag, locked the door of the radio station, and headed towards the cowshed.

After finishing her meal, Su Wanwan walked briskly and reached the cowshed in less than ten minutes.

There was not only one cow in the production team's cowshed. From a distance, there were several large gray sheds connected together, and dry cow dung was piled up like a small hill outside the sheds. When Su Wanwan arrived, she walked around the cow dung and the newly harvested grass on the side and headed towards the cowshed with the most people.

Before she even walked into the cowshed, the sound of discussion reached her ears.

On the outermost side were the young people who had just rushed in from the radio station to record their quotations. They were gathered in twos and threes, seemingly pointing at something in front of them.

Su Wanwan walked into the crowd and moved closer, and sure enough, she saw the veterinarian busy preparing for the birth and the cow about to give birth.

"Qingqing, haven't you been working in the village clinic? What are you doing here? Are you going to study veterinary medicine?"

“Isn’t it okay to observe and learn?”

Zhong Qingqing, who was leaning on a crutch, had been here for quite a while.

If Dr. Zhang had not insisted that she come to learn about this delivery and told her that it would help her understand the basics of anatomy and make it more intuitive for her to read books in the future, she would not have come anyway.

"What's so good about learning this? If someone in the village needs to deliver a baby in the future, will you deliver the baby using this technique?"

These young people usually do manual labor in the village and rarely have a chance to relax, let alone find someone to discuss things with.

Zhong Qingqing's face turned a little red, but her expression remained unchanged. Su Wanwan watched her from a distance without saying anything.

She was not interested in any news that was not related to Xu Yan and the Xu family.

"Hahahaha, I don't dare go to the clinic to ask her to deliver the baby. If I really want to give birth, I would rather endure more pain and take a car to the hospital in town than stay in this clinic. After all, if she helps deliver the baby, who knows what unclean things will come into contact with the baby, and he will be the same as her when he grows up."