Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"Is this... vanishing cream?"

The shadow from the base of the wall cut down obliquely. Lin Xi squinted her eyes and stared at the mottled iron box in Chen Caiqing's hand.

The blue paint on the lid of the box was peeling off badly, and a few thin pieces of iron sheets were curled up on the edge. She tilted her head to identify it for a while, and could barely make out a few faded words, but she was not sure.

"Thank you, but I have one too. You should keep this for yourself." She shook her head and did not reach out to take the thing in Chen Caiqing's hand.

"It's not vanishing cream." Seeing that she didn't take it, Chen Caiqing arched his eyebrows, raised his thumb, opened the lid of the box with a click, and handed it to her, "It's ointment."

"Ointment?" Lin Xi's eyes fell on the box. The ointment was a lustrous milky white color, with a smooth and delicate surface, and it had a slight luster in the sunlight.

It's just that the packaging was not very sophisticated, with the edges all smudged and a few obvious scratches, as if someone had hastily stuffed it in with a spoon. A faint medicinal smell emanated from it, not too pungent, but mixed with the rust of the iron box, it smelled a bit astringent.

Lin Xi wrinkled her nose and looked up at her: "What ointment?"

"It's for sunburn. I went to the captain's house today too. I heard Aunt Guifen say that Song Zhiqing had a sunburn, so I thought I had some medicine here, so I took it out."

As Chen Caiqing spoke, she pushed the tin box forward again, but her eyes were staring at Lin Xi's expression nervously. She took the medicine from the system and squeezed it into the box of vanishing cream for fear of being exposed.

However, the things produced by the system are obviously much more refined than the items of this era. She squeezed the ointment in a hurry, and most of the ointment was stuck to the wall of the box, looking very uneven. Therefore, although she sent the medicine because she wanted to make friends with Song Guanwen and Lin Xi, she was afraid that Lin Xi would notice something unusual.

Fortunately, her worries were unnecessary. When Lin Xi heard this, his eyes lit up, and he seemed to have not noticed anything unusual about the ointment. He stretched out his hand to take the tin box from her, but his hand stopped halfway.

"But the weather has been so hot lately. You should keep such a good thing for yourself." Although Lin Xi was worried about Song Guanwen's injury, she still endured and withdrew her hand.

"Oh, why are you being so polite to me?" Seeing Lin Xi refuse, the smile in Chen Caiqing's eyes became more genuine. She pulled Lin Xi's hand and stuffed the small box into her hand.

"My aunt works at the health center, so the last thing our family needs is medicine. Besides, we were all sent to the countryside together as educated youth, so we should have taken care of each other."

"Then... then I'll accept it on behalf of my cousin first. When he gets better, let him thank you in person." The iron box in Chen Caiqing's palm seemed to have been held for a long time and was a little warm. Lin Xi hesitated for a long time, and finally accepted it with a blushing face.

"Okay." Seeing that Lin Xi accepted it without any doubt, Chen Caiqing breathed a sigh of relief calmly, then nodded with a smile and waved to Lin Xi, "Okay, I still have to go to the fields in the afternoon. I'll go back to the house to clean up. You should go wash your face too, like a little cat."

Although some people were uneasy because of what happened to Song Guanwen at noon, they still had to go to the fields and do their work. Except for Song Guanwen who was lying in bed and unable to move, the other educated youth still went to the fields to work at the call of the team leader Zhao Youde.

However, to everyone's surprise, along with the bunches of corn stalks, two large buckets of bitter-smelling herbal water were also brought up.

"Everyone should drink a bowl. Time waits for no one. We will have to plant rice seedlings in a few days. Don't learn from those young masters and young ladies who fall down from the heat easily these two days." Zhao Youde stood on the ridge with his hands on his hips and said to the villagers and educated youth who surrounded him. After that, he directed everyone to line up and drink medicine.

After hearing what he said, the villagers had no objection. After all, everyone knew that the captain's wife could treat illnesses, so they just thought that Zhao Youde was preparing for a rainy day.

But the educated youth who knew the inside story all heard the hidden meaning in Zhao Youde's words. Although he did not mention anyone by name, Song Guanwen had just gotten into trouble at noon, and Zhao Youde had boiled the medicine in the afternoon and said these words specifically. Wasn't he using Song Guanwen to point fingers at them?

Sure enough, after Zhao Youde finished speaking, he turned around and said to the educated youth, "Especially you youngsters, drink more."

"What does this old guy mean? He talks as if any of us are slacking off." Zhou Guixiang glared at the villagers who looked at them with contempt after hearing what Zhao Youde said, and muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Talk less." Chen Lan beside her pulled her and warned her.

"It's true. The work he assigned to us is much heavier than that of the villagers, but the work points he gave us are too few. Now he is making indirect accusations here, as if we don't understand." Zhou Guixiang has always been a person who talks more than she works. Even after being warned by Chen Lan, she did not restrain herself much and complained in a low voice.

"It's all Song Guanwen's fault. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't be looked down upon by them. The capitalists' young masters are just not as good as us. The female comrades are still holding on, but he fell first..."

Zhou Guixiang was getting more and more excited as she spoke. Just when she was in the middle of it, she suddenly felt a pain in her foot and couldn't help but let out a scream, "Ouch! Hiss—what are you doing?"

"Oh! Sorry, I didn't hold it firmly. A buzzing insect just flew past and scared me." Lin Xi bent down to pick up the hoe that she "accidentally" dropped on Zhou Guixiang's instep, and said apologetically.

"You did it on purpose!" Zhou Guixiang jumped up and down with a grin on her face in pain, pointing her finger at Lin Xi and cursing.

"Sister Guixiang, I really didn't mean it. Although you scolded me a few days ago, I didn't take it to heart. You really misunderstood me." When she pointed her finger at him, Lin Xi seemed to be startled. She shrank timidly and hid to the side in fear.

"You!" Zhou Guixiang was so angry at Lin Xi's pretending to be innocent that her breath was choked. She wanted to reach out to pull her, but as soon as she lifted her leg, she hissed in pain again.

"Okay, those who scold this young lady and that young master every day, I don't think they have a worse temper than you. Song Zhiqing is sick, do you think he can be lazy like you?" Chen Lan frowned and pulled Lin Xi behind her, glancing at Zhou Guixiang impatiently.

"That's right. I'm also afraid that the weather is too hot and I'll get heatstroke. This medicine comes at the right time. If you don't want to drink it, just go away. I'll drink an extra bowl." Zhao Xiaoyun also spoke up.

Zhou Guixiang once again made herself the target of public criticism with her mouth, but she couldn't win the argument with anyone, so she could only limp away angrily.

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SJ review, stuck on me again, stuck on two chapters, I'm really fed up, I can't even post comments