GBP Chapter 17: Deliberately Saying That
Chapter 17: Deliberately Saying That
Wen Xi put down the basket of wild vegetables, lowered his voice mysteriously and said, "I was just digging wild vegetables in the mountains, and heard the villagers talking about the educated youth camp. Then I quietly listened for a few minutes. It turned out that there was a male educated youth named Lu Xiaoyun in the educated youth camp. He was dating Nie Xiulan, who was also an educated youth. It turned out that he had another girlfriend in his hometown. That girlfriend always wrote him letters, so he quietly hid in the mountains to read the letters, and accidentally dropped a letter. Everyone only then knew that he had a girlfriend in his hometown and another one outside!"
Lu Xiaoyun is the good brother of the male protagonist Xia Minglei. He is 19 years old and likes Nie Xiulan who went to the countryside with him.
The two of them are considered to be well matched and have similar family backgrounds.
But Nie Xiulan had been keeping Lu Xiaoyun in suspense and refused to accept him, so Lu Xiaoyun tried to hook up with Shen Jiaojiao during the time when Nie Xiulan did not agree. Shen Jiaojiao had never experienced such a thing before, so she quickly fell for him and gave herself away. As a result, Nie Xiulan found out and hurriedly accepted Lu Xiaoyun. So Lu Xiaoyun went home with Nie Xiulan to get married, and then returned to the city, leaving Shen Jiaojiao alone.
Wen Xi looked at Shen Jiaojiao as she spoke. She just wanted to instill in her the idea that Lu Xiaoyun was a scumbag, so that when she faced Lu Xiaoyun's teasing and flirting in the future, she would be able to control her heart and not be easily moved.
Lu Xiaoyun didn't like her at all, he just wanted to stimulate Nie Xiulan to accept him. And Nie Xiulan was disgusting. She liked him but deliberately refused to accept him. She only accepted him after he hurt others. She even picked up a rotten cucumber to eat. It was really disgusting.
In short, in this life, she will never let Lu Xiaoyun, this scumbag, hurt Shen Jiaojiao again.
"How can there be such a person? This is too disgusting." Shen Jiaojiao frowned, feeling as disgusted as if she had eaten a fly.
"And there's Nie Xiulan. They say that Nie Xiulan is particularly jealous. If she sees anyone talking to Lu Xiaoyun, she will do something bad secretly. So when we go to the educated youth camp to eat at night, we shouldn't look at Lu Xiaoyun or talk to Lu Xiaoyun, lest Nie Xiulan become jealous and attack us. In terms of family background, we can't compare to Nie Xiulan." Wen Xi gave Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue a shot of prevention.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue nodded after hearing this. "Such a disgusting person. I feel sick just by looking at him. How could I possibly talk to him?"
Wen Xi felt relieved after Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue knew what kind of person Lu Xiaoyun was. This way, no matter how Lu Xiaoyun acted in front of them, they would not be so stupid as to have anything to do with him.
After everything was said and done, Wen Xi took out the wild vegetables and chestnuts, fetched water to rinse the basket and shovel clean, and then returned them to Chang Qingqing.
After returning, the three of them started to process the wild vegetables together. Shen Jiaojiao asked curiously, "Xiaoxi, didn't you exchange a basket of vegetables with the sister next door? We can't even finish the vegetables, why did you dig so many wild vegetables?"
"Aren't we going to the Youth League's camp tonight for a welcoming banquet? It's not nice to go empty-handed, but I don't want to let those people get away with such good things, so I specially prepared some wild vegetables for them. You guys separate the wild vegetables and wash them, and I'll fry them and serve them tonight."
After hearing this, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. A scumbag like Lu Xiaoyun was not worthy of eating the good things in their hands.
At noon, Wenxi fried some shredded potatoes with vinegar, heated up the sweet potato porridge left over from the morning, and ate it directly for lunch.
Jiang Yue took a piece of potato shreds with chopsticks, and her eyes lit up after eating. "Xiaoxi, these potato shreds are so delicious. You are such a good cook, why don't you be in charge of cooking in the future? We don't have to draw lots. Jiaojiao and I will take turns to do the rest. How do you think?"
Wen Xi said as she ate, "Of course you can let me cook, but you two have to agree to it."
"Although I am the one who cooks at home, my grandma always keeps an eye on me and doesn't allow me to put even a little bit more oil and salt. The food I cook is edible at best, but it is definitely not delicious. I agree to let Xiaoxi cook, but it's too tiring and too hot in summer. It's unfair to let Xiaoxi cook alone. How about this, we are responsible for washing Xiaoxi's clothes?" Wenxi has provided her a lot of help since she was a child, and she is not such a conscienceless person.
Jiang Yue nodded repeatedly, "Okay, Xiaoxi, next time you take a shower, just wash the clothes inside, and we will wash the rest of the clothes."
"Okay, then I will be responsible for cooking from now on. I will make all kinds of delicious food every day and keep you fat and plump." Wen Xi picked up a piece of shredded potato for each of them. "After dinner, you can count what furniture you still need. We will go to the carpenter's house later and ask him to hurry up and make it for us. Otherwise, if someone cuts in line, we don't know how long we will have to wait."
After dinner, Shen Jiaojiao cleaned up the kitchen, and the three of them went back to their rooms to count the furniture they needed. Then they locked the door and walked towards the carpenter's house.
Arriving at the carpenter's house, Wen Xi reached out and knocked on the door.
"Coming, coming." A response came from the yard, and then a middle-aged man covered in sawdust walked out.
"Uncle Zheng, we are new educated youth. Didn't Captain Qian ask someone to come and buy some furniture for us yesterday? But we still need some furniture." Wen Xi said politely.
Uncle Zheng said with a smile, "Come in and tell us!"
Wen Xi walked into the yard and said, "Uncle Zheng, I need three desks with drawers, and then a five-layer bookshelf on top of the desk, so that I don't have to delay making another bookshelf. Three five-layer shoe racks, three large cabinets, three large wooden boxes, and a hook, the kind that you can hang things on the beams of the house."
Uncle Zheng nodded as he listened, "I can make everything else, but I haven't made the one with a bookshelf on the desk. What does that look like?"
Wen Xi quickly handed over the drawing in his hand, "Uncle Zheng, this is it."
Uncle Zheng took the blueprint and looked at it carefully, then said, "Let me take a look first. As long as the other furniture is ready, I'll have my family send it to you. How about that?"
"Sure, I'll trouble you, Uncle Zheng." Wen Xi said with a smile, "Uncle Zheng, do you have any baskets or backpacks? We can't do without these things when we go up the mountain to collect firewood."
Uncle Zheng took the three of them to his warehouse where he kept furniture and let them choose by themselves. There was nothing left in the warehouse because someone had taken it to Wenxi and the others yesterday and emptied Uncle Zheng's warehouse.