Xie Yicheng spent more than an hour working at the educated youth settlement before returning home, carrying the 'thank you gift' given to her by Yun Shu.

Now everyone in the Fengsheng Brigade knows that Xie Yicheng, this promising young man, has taken a liking to Xie Zhiqing from Beijing and is currently pursuing her. However, because of Xie Yicheng's thoughtfulness, no one is gossiping about Yun Shu.

Even if some people who have their eyes on these two high-performing stocks can't stand the possibility that these two golden opportunities might be absorbed internally, there's nothing you can do about it. You can't just rush up to them and tell them what's going on.

"No way! You two are not a good match. How can someone as well-off as you date someone with similar circumstances? You want things to get better and better? That's impossible! You have to help them out! They should all be my kids who have nothing, aren't good-looking, and are lazy!"

Even if you have the will, you don't have the face to do it.

Not everyone is like Zhang Cuihua and her sister who went to the labor camp to smash stones, so shamelessly and openly scheming against others. That wouldn't be a marriage alliance, that would be an enmity.

Aren't you afraid that if you force yourself on that young girl, she might turn around and kill your whole family with a bag of rat poison? After all, Xie Zhiqing isn't some ignorant country bumpkin. The brigade leader said she's a proper high school graduate!

Moreover, as soon as he arrived at Fengsheng Brigade, he dared to fight to the death with robbers in the county town. He has a fierce temper and is the kind of person who would rather die than be a broken piece of jade!

Therefore, a group of people who had designs on Yun Shu and Xie Yicheng could only mutter about it in private, unwilling to accept it, and dared not even spread rumors in private.

Ultimately, one of them was a demobilized soldier with military merits who also became a factory leader in the city; the other was a progressive young man who was commended by the commune, the educated youth office, the committee, and the police station, and it was said that his family background was quite powerful.

If you spread lies and damage someone's reputation, who knows if they might quietly kill you?

Thus, the situation was under control, and Xie Yicheng, who was not seriously injured, was able to continue quietly and diligently—building up goodwill with Yun Shu.

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Over the next few days, Xie Yicheng continued to help Yun Shu with the mountain clearing. The woodpile behind Yun Shu's house visibly grew larger and larger, and the amount of mountain produce also increased.

Chen Ming also wanted to compete with Xie Yicheng as if in a competition, but Yun Shu still presented even more generous gifts as a token of gratitude, and then accepted what she needed. However, the friendship and tacit understanding between them seemed to be fading more and more... They could barely exchange a few words anymore.

This time, Yun Shu was the one who reaped the most benefits from the mountain sweeping, but the price was that all the supplies she had on hand were completely cleared out. As soon as the sweeping was over, Yun Shu and Lin Jing Shu rode bicycles to the county town to buy supplies, otherwise she probably wouldn't have been able to save even rice and flour.

Fortunately, after receiving the things Yunshu had mailed back home last time, the elders who had received the child's filial piety immediately felt sorry for her. After contacting Yunshu's godparents, they sent Yunshu a lot of food and supplies again this time, and also included fifty yuan in the envelope.

So much so that when two people went into town in one cart, it became three people in two carts when they came back, and even Grandpa Zhang's oxcart was taken up a lot of space by Yun Shu's things.

Yun Shu's godfather rode his bicycle, carrying the things he and his wife had prepared for the child, and escorted Yun Shu and her best friend back.

This was also the first time that Yun Shucheng's relatives had come to Fengsheng Brigade. Some curious people whose children worked in the city came to join in the fun. They immediately recognized the man as the logistics director of the county's non-staple food factory. When they heard him mention Xie Zhiqing's godmother, who was also the women's director, the people of Fengsheng Brigade were secretly amazed by Xie Zhiqing's background.

Are godparents really that powerful? Then how powerful must the biological parents be...?

Xie Yicheng, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to make himself known in front of Yun Shu's elders. After all, he was also from the food processing plant and was a proper colleague of Yun Shu's godfather.

He stepped forward and greeted Yun Shu's godfather with humility and politeness. The captain, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, couldn't help but praise his own child to Yun Shu's elders. Anyone who didn't know the situation would have thought that this was an unmarried couple meeting their parents.

Seeing that Yun Shu didn't object to Xie Yicheng's actions, the godfather vaguely sensed something and began to stare at his future colleague with a subtle look in his eyes. Xie Yicheng, on the other hand, seemed quite pleased with himself.

When Chen Ming heard Yun Shu's godfather mention that Yun Shu was extravagant, careless, and inexperienced in life, and Xie Yicheng patted his chest and promised to take good care of Yun Shu because of the "thank you gift from the educated youth," Chen Ming, who was consumed by jealousy, was finally brought to his senses by the increasingly distant relationship between him and Yun Shu.

He went back into the room and looked at Yun Shu's 'thank you gift' which was half-placed on the kang (a heated brick bed). He felt extremely resentful and annoyed, and realized that his rivalry with Xie Yicheng had ultimately put Yun Shu in a difficult position.

Jiang Xiucheng and Pei Wenyuan, who followed in, didn't know what to say. After all, Yun Shu had given Xie Yicheng a thank-you gift for his work, even though Xie Yicheng had found various opportunities and reasons to feed it to Yun Shu, which in turn further shortened the distance between the two.

But from this point of view alone, Yun Shu has treated everyone equally.

And it is precisely because of this that the indescribable difference in feeling becomes more obvious and more powerless.

Relationships require fate. Yun Shu treats Chen Ming more like a friend, after all, they have faced danger and gone through conspiracies together.

But this is not love.

Yun Shu cherished this friendship, and she could never forget the days when the five of them, like-minded and supportive of each other, first went to the countryside. But if Chen Ming couldn't see through it, their friendship would come to an end.

……

The mountain-sweeping event was over, which meant the competition was over too. With no chance to confront Xie Yicheng directly, and Yun Shu's attitude so obvious, Chen Ming became dejected.

He spent all day like a lost soul in his room at the educated youth settlement, just lying in bed sleeping. Jiang Xiucheng and Pei Wenyuan brought him his meals.

Yun Shu was also affected by this state, but she didn't know how to change it. She was also feeling tired and even bored.

Sometimes I wonder if she's also an emotionally detached and cold-blooded person? She's unpredictable and can turn cold in an instant; she's even considered breaking up the partnership and cooking for herself.

Because people are naturally biased, she could see that Jiang Xiucheng and Pei Wenyuan seemed somewhat uncomfortable during the meal. Given the contrast between Xie Yicheng and Chen Ming, they would definitely side with Chen Ming.

But does having more help necessarily make things easier? Jiang Xiucheng and Pei Wenyuan naturally knew this, but the ease and casualness they used to share were no longer what they used to be, which was unavoidable.

Fortunately... Yun Shu also has people who are on her side, her best friend Lin Jing Shu.

Even though she and Jiang Xiucheng had developed a vague affection for each other, it didn't stop Lin Jingshu from standing by her best friend's side and supporting her.

Therefore, before Yun Shu could even speak up because of the strange atmosphere, Lin Jing Shu took the initiative to suggest breaking up the partnership.

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