Why aren't you guys complaining now that I'm here?

"stupid guy."

After throwing down two words and rolling his eyes, Lin Hao turned and left.

Zhou Mingxiu's expression suddenly changed. "What did you say? Li Huihui, say it again!"

Lin Hao didn't even turn his head.

"Alright, alright, don't be angry, Brother Mingxiu. Let her be arrogant for a few more days. When Uncle Zhou transfers us back to the city, there will be plenty of opportunities to teach her a lesson!"

Xia Ran patted his back and persuaded him softly.

Zhou Mingxiu hummed, his expression softening slightly.

If anyone dares to embarrass him like this, he will never let Li Huihui and the Li family go!

He took Xia Ran's hand and said, "Come on, it's the beginning of the month today, let's go get the package. Don't you want to eat at the state-owned restaurant? I'll let you eat as much as you want today!"

"Brother Mingxiu, you are so nice~"

The two went to the post office, gave their names, and received the package, but they felt something was wrong before they even opened it.

"Why is the package so much smaller this time..."

When he opened it, he found that not only was there no malted milk inside, but the number of biscuits and receipts was only half of what it used to be, and there was only ten yuan in the banknote.

"Could it be that the people at the post office are deliberately cutting corners?"

"Impossible. It's not worth losing my job for such a small thing." Zhou Mingxiu denied with a frown.

"Brother Mingxiu, there seems to be something in the biscuit!"

Xia Ran opened the biscuit bag, took out a piece of letter paper and handed it to Zhou Mingxiu.

"letter?"

Zhou Mingxiu had a bad feeling in his heart.

Why are letters from home hidden so carefully?

He took the letter, opened it, and read it quickly, his expression becoming increasingly worse.

"Impossible, how could this happen!?"

"Brother Mingxiu? What's wrong with you?"

Xia Ran leaned over to take a look and his expression changed.

"What happened? How could your house be robbed? Isn't there a guard?"

Zhou Mingxiu glanced at him and quietly folded the lower half of the letter.

Fortunately, Xia Ran didn't see the following words...

The theft is a small matter. The most important thing is that some of the shameful things my father did in the past were exposed by someone.

My father was taken away for investigation yesterday. My mother told him to stay in the countryside for the time being, never go back to the city, and not do anything out of the ordinary to avoid attracting attention.

Zhou Mingxiu felt a little heavy.

As a result, he and Xia Ran could not return to the city for the time being.

There is no need to send the letter.

"Brother Mingxiu, are you still going to the state-owned restaurant?"

Zhou Mingxiu came back to his senses and shook his head irritably, "Why go? It's just ten dollars. If I don't save it, I'll go hungry this month."

Xia Ran said "oh" and was not very happy.

The two returned to Lihua Village with a lot of worries in their hearts.

They had to go to work in the afternoon, and the educated youth were having lunch, whispering to each other while eating.

When they pushed the door open, everyone stopped talking.

Relying on his prominent family background, Zhou Mingxiu looked down on other educated youth from the first day he went to the countryside.

This time he and Xia Ran did something so shameful that the other educated youth were also looked down upon by the villagers.

The educated youth suffered for no reason and naturally felt uncomfortable.

But they all vaguely knew that Zhou Mingxiu's family was very powerful. No matter what they talked about in private, at least no one dared to say anything to his face.

Zhou Mingxiu walked into the room with a dark face.

The house at the educated youth site was naturally no match for the tiled house that Li Jianguo had just built. Not only was it dark and dilapidated, but even the beds were large bunk beds, with five people sleeping on one.

Not to mention the crowding, the room was full of men who had worked on the farm all day and their feet were so smelly that it gave people a headache.

When Zhou Mingxiu sat down on the kang, he found that three quilts were missing.

The three educated youth who lived in the same room with them moved away.

Zhou Mingxiu looked very unhappy.

He didn't even dislike them for being smelly and troublesome, but they disliked him.

This is really unreasonable!

"Brother Mingxiu."

Xia Ran came over and held his hand, pouting in grievance.

"Look at the looks in their eyes. I don't want to stay here anymore. Send a letter to Uncle Zhou and ask him to transfer us back to the city."

"Such a big thing happened at home. How can I add to the trouble? Let's talk about it later."

Zhou Mingxiu was very confused, but he didn't dare let him know that his father had been arrested, so he just said a few perfunctory words.

Xia Ran was not very happy, but she didn't dare to force him to do anything, so she could only sit down and sulk.

The educated youth had to go to the fields early in the afternoon to work.

When the two men arrived at the field, Li Guoqiang was waiting under the shade of a tree with a gloomy face.

"What time is it? Two grown men, aren't you ashamed? If you want to date, go back to your city and do it. If you delay work any longer, don't blame me for deducting your work points!"

He pointed to two remote plots of land with lots of weeds and said, "You two should pull out all the weeds today. You need to plow the soil and apply fertilizer tomorrow."

Xia Ran took a look and said, "So many! How can the two of us finish it?"

"If you can't finish the work, work harder! The organization sent you to the countryside to work, not to date or work hard on the kang!"

The person working nearby stared at this side with wide eyes.

Xia Ran's face flushed with embarrassment, and she pushed back in annoyance.

"Captain Li, our relationship seems to have nothing to do with you. What gives you the right to take revenge? Why don't you let others work on such a large piece of land instead of us?"

Li Guoqiang sneered, "Just because others came early and you came late!"

"How dare you do this to us? Do you know that Mingxiu's father is..."

Xia Ran was so angry that he jumped up and down, and was about to say something else when Zhou Mingxiu suddenly grabbed him.

"Okay, Xia Ran, we're late. Let's go and get to work."

"Brother Mingxiu!" Xia Ran stomped his feet reluctantly.

Zhou Mingxiu dragged him away.

The two of them continued to do it until the moon was at its highest point in the sky.

The educated youth had all left long ago.

The two were so tired and hungry that they couldn't speak, and they supported each other and returned to the educated youth site.

As a result, the educated youth had already finished their dinner and gone to bed, and the pot was so clean that it could reflect light.

The two were dumbfounded.

Before, Li Guoqiang assigned them easy tasks out of consideration for Li Huihui.

Sometimes when they couldn't finish their work, the brothers Li Aiguo and Li Baoguo would take the initiative to help them.

When I got home in the evening, Li Huihui had already prepared a delicious dinner, and there was hot water for a shower after dinner.

The other educated youth who came to the countryside were all tired, dark and thin, but these two not only did not lose weight, but even gained weight.

"I'm going back to the house to rest for a while. You can make do with cooking two meat dishes and then boil some hot water for a bath."

Zhou Mingxiu was extremely tired, so he went back to the house after giving the instructions.

Xia Ran was dumbfounded.

Zhou Mingxiu is tired, but he is even more tired!

Not only was he tired, but the wounds he received from the Li brothers were still aching.

He also wanted to lie down in bed and rest.

But Zhou Mingxiu has a bad temper, and he will definitely scold him if he doesn't see the food.

Xia Ran sighed with a bitter face, opened the cupboard, picked up six eggs and boiled two bowls of egg and brown sugar water.

The village was short of supplies, and the educated youth were not rich either, so there was no fresh meat.

Xia Ran searched around and finally took the bacon hanging from the beam and fried it with potatoes.

I went to the vegetable garden and picked a handful of leeks grown by the female educated youth, and fried some leeks and eggs.

The two of them hadn't eaten lunch and were already starving.

I wolfed down my meal, took a forced shower, and went to bed to sleep.

"Oh, we've been robbed!"

At dawn the next day, the female educated youth started screaming in the yard.