A delicate and gentle educated youth came to the village, and the aloof and cold soldier king droppe

When Gu's mother got up in the morning, she made breakfast: basic corn porridge, leftover yellow flour buns from yesterday, and braised pork offal.

That's right, during breakfast this morning, both Gu's mother and Gu Ningning noticed that Gu Nan had a smile on his face the whole time.

His perpetually expressionless face was now adorned with a smile.

Although the smile was faint, it still felt very unusual.

There's a strange feeling that Gu Nan might have been possessed by something weird while hunting in the mountains last night.

Otherwise, how could such indifferent people feel so happy?

Gu Ningning couldn't help but ask directly.

"Second brother, what's with that silly grin on your face today? Is something good happening?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Nan realized that he couldn't suppress the urge to smile.

He coughed lightly twice. "It's nothing! Eat your food!"

After quickly finishing his breakfast, Gu Nan went to work.

"Mother! Isn't Second Brother acting a little strange? I've never seen him smile like that before."

Gu's mother remembered that Li Ergou had come over yesterday, and wondered if he had beaten up the big guys last night and made a lot of money.

But my second son used to hunt often, and he could catch big animals and make money, but I never saw him smile like this.

"Could they be dating?" Gu's mother murmured casually.

This startled Gu Ningning.

"No way, how could Second Brother, with his aloof and unapproachable demeanor, possibly find someone? Didn't he scare away all the women who were interested in him before?"

Hearing Gu Ningning's words, Gu's mother was also helpless, as it was indeed the case.

Especially since his family's class background is now bad, some of the female educated youth who were sent to the countryside before they knew about his family's class background had been quite attentive to Gu Nan. But once they found out that his family had been sent down to the countryside, they all kept their distance.

Su Niannian is an exception!

But such a lovely girl probably wouldn't be interested in her dull-witted son.

But Gu Ningning seemed to suddenly remember something, her eyes crinkling as she smiled.

"Why are you laughing too? Is laughter contagious?" Gu's mother looked at her youngest daughter and stared at Gu Ningning.

"If my second brother is dating someone, could it be Sister Niannian? She doesn't seem to look down on our family at all."

“When she helped me the day before yesterday, she knew that my family’s class background was not good. She kept telling me that it was not my fault that my family background was not good, and that I should not care too much about what others thought.”

"Mom, I really like Sister Niannian. I wish she could be my second sister-in-law."

Gu Ningning felt inexplicably happy at the thought that her second sister-in-law was Su Niannian.

When Gu Ningning heard what Gu's mother said, she naturally hoped for the same thing, but in the end, it was because her family was not good enough.

"Eat quickly, it's getting cold!" Gu's mother interrupted the conversation.

"Okay! After we finish eating, I'll heat up some Chinese medicine for Mom." Gu Ningning also noticed something else: after Mom drank the Chinese medicine prepared by Su Niannian last night, she hardly coughed at all.

He coughed a lot during the night before, and Gu Ningning was woken up several times.

At first, she would ask how her mother was doing.

But later, she realized that every time she asked, her mother would be afraid of making her worry, so she would always give perfunctory answers or even suppress her cough, which was actually worse.

So after a while, even if Gu Ningning was woken up by her mother's coughing at night, she would no longer ask anything.

Instead, I would secretly observe for a while, and only continue sleeping after confirming that nothing had happened.

On the other side, Gu Nan encountered Li Ergou after leaving his house.

Seeing that his brother Nan seemed to be in a good mood, Li Ergou quickly greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Nan, why didn't you come to see me last night? I had my donkey cart all ready."

"I didn't manage to get one yesterday, so I'll try tonight." Gu Nan suppressed a smile.

This kind of laughter is really too abnormal; if someone sees it, they'll definitely start to overthink things.

However, whenever that little girl appeared in his mind, he couldn't help but smile.

What should I do? I feel so happy and joyful.

This was a feeling he had never experienced before, and he could only force himself not to think about the little girl.

But what if you can't control your mind?

"Oh... I saw you were so happy today, I thought you had caught it and put it in the cave in the back mountain..." Li Ergou was a little disappointed.

Because every time Gu Nan hunted a wild boar or a wild boar, he would have Gu Nan take it to the county town to sell in a donkey cart.

Gu Nan was very generous and would always give Li Ergou a portion of the money.

Li Ergou has always been very grateful to Gu Nan because of this.

Meanwhile, at the educated youth settlement, Su Niannian got up to wash up, and kept feeling that Huang Yingying was stealing glances at her.

I have a feeling this guy isn't up to anything good.

Then, Huang Yingying and Zhao Sulan were seen whispering to each other.

Zhao Sulan's eyes widened upon hearing this.

It was as if they had heard some earth-shattering news.

"Tsk tsk tsk, she has no self-respect at all, sneaking out in the middle of the night to meet some random man."

"It's a pity you didn't see who the wild man was! You don't know which country bumpkin he was, or maybe he was one of the educated youth sent to the countryside?"

Zhao Sulan asked Huang Yingying in a low voice.

But Huang Yingying had no idea. However, she knew that Su Niannian definitely had a lover outside, and it didn't matter who it was!

The important thing is that once her reputation is ruined, Gu Nan will no longer have designs on her.

Moreover, now that she knows Su Niannian is so shameless, she must be extra careful and completely ruin Su Niannian's reputation.

This forever eliminated any possibility of her being with Gu Nan.

In the mornings, the communal meals at the educated youth settlement consisted of corn porridge, cornbread, and pickled vegetables.

Zhao Sulan and Huang Yingying made dumpling soup, but it was nowhere near as delicious as the one Su Niannian had made before.

It doesn't smell very fragrant.

Su Niannian used the leftover braised pork broth from yesterday to cook some noodles.

Song Zhaodi sat on a stool, slurping her noodles with a smile that made her eyes crinkle.

"Niannian, you're amazing! Everything you make smells so good!"

"I feel so lucky to have met you!" Song Zhaodi said solemnly, looking at Su Niannian with eyes full of happiness.

"Eat quickly! Then go to work!"

Su Niannian also started slurping her noodles.

Su Niannian was in a great mood from the moment she woke up today because her relationship with Gu Nan had taken a qualitative leap.

Many of the educated youth standing nearby envied Song Zhaodi, for the food she ate was worlds apart from the communal meals.

After Song Zhaodi and Su Niannian finished eating and washed the dishes, they prepared to go to the threshing ground to collect their work points for the day.

As soon as he stepped out of the educated youth settlement, Lu Xingguang put down his chopsticks and quickly chased after him.

"Song Zhiqing, Su Zhiqing, wait a moment." Lu Xingguang's voice came from behind them, and the two stopped and turned around.

When Su Niannian saw Lu Xingguang jogging towards her, a cold glint flashed in her eyes.