Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 124 - 123 Lan County Annals

Chapter 124: Chapter 123 Lan County Annals

"New Chronicles of Lan County:

On the 14th day of the 7th lunar month of the 2nd year of Yimao, Xu and Wei Lu witnessing injustice, fought valiantly against more than ten men without dying, and were hospitalized for treatment.

On Yimao Year Guiwei Month Gengwu Day, Xu, due to his blunt words, was attacked by his sister Fen Yang and Miss Wang, nearly undergoing stitches for his lips, luckily a merciful doctor intervened. Wei choked on his food while laughing, Xu had no strength to fight again, allowing Wei to survive by luck."

The above was narrated by Comrade Miao Hongqi, who had returned from the hospital, and organized by Comrade Lin Nianhe.

"So, Tiechui, Brother Yuncheng didn’t stop them? Just watched them fight?"

After laughter, Comrade Xiao Lin asked casually.

The just subsided laughter rose again, Miao Hongqi covering her mouth, laughing so hard her shoulders were shaking: "No, after Comrade Su left, he never came back, I also don’t know where he went."

Ah, so he really didn’t bother at all.

Lin Nianhe also started to laugh.

Because of Miao Hongqi’s return, the Educated Youth Corps was filled with joy long-missed. The Mu Tou seven brothers went to the mountains to find bird eggs again, while several girls huddled in the house chatting.

Every now and then, village aunties would come by to visit, none came empty-handed, some brought a couple of eggs, some brought freshly picked vegetables from the fields, others brought little straw-made playthings...

Everyone was expressing their kindness and tolerance as much as possible, because they remembered that Miao Yulan had died, and Miao Hongqi was their child of Ten Miles Team.

Even Matchmaker Zhang from the squad came running over, bringing a list of the most eligible bachelors.

"Miaomiao, listen to auntie, just pick a man from our Ten Miles Team, from then on, all of us villagers will be your family, even giving him ten gallstones won’t dare to rush you!"

Miaomiao.

Miao Hongqi couldn’t recall how many nicknames she had gathered today, Little Red, Red, Flag, Red Flower, Dani, Little Missy... but this ’Miaomiao’ felt more acceptable than others, at least she was sure they were calling her.

But she couldn’t accept Matchmaker Zhang!

How did it suddenly go to discussing marriage?

Though Miao Hongqi had become much more open recently, she still couldn’t support such a scene.

Instinctively looking towards Lin Nianhe, but he just gave her a helpless look: "Hey hey, Tiechui don’t look at me, she’s still a young girl, getting married... is really embarrassing."

Miao Hongqi: "..."

From her expression, which seemed to enjoy the spectacle more than worry about its size, it didn’t look like she was embarrassed at all!

Miao Hongqi propped her forehead and then went to find Wang Xue.

Wang Xue was not there.

Their excitement had nothing to do with her.

She was heartbroken, very sad, and did not want to get involved.

"My heart wanted to follow the bright moon, alas, alas the bright moon lights up the ditch..."

By the small river, Wang Xue wiped a tear and threw a stone in her hand into the water, splashing countless droplets.

"Hey, you don’t think of jumping into the river, do you? This place is shallow, it can’t drown a person, and what if you get rescued by some guy passing by, and you don’t like him, you might just have to marry him."

Wang Xue heard the voice and turned back, just to see Lin Gouqu walking towards her with his hands behind his back.

She paused, snorted forcefully, and turned her head away.

As if afraid Lin Nianhe couldn’t see that she was angry.

Lin Nianhe, pretending not to see her frustration, went beside her and picked up a few flat stones from the ground.

With a stone in her right hand, she bent sideways, swinging back and forth for a long time, the stone flew out of her hand—

"Damn it! Which little runt dares to ambush me!"

The voice of Zhao Zhuangshi came from the woods across the river.

Lin Nianhe: "..."

Actually, she just wanted to skip stones. Really.

She threw the stone in her hand behind her and stood back with her hands behind her back, as if nothing happened.

Zhao Zhuangshi, with his face painted in splashes of colors, emerged from the woods cradling his head in anger.

He tilted his chin towards Lin Nianhe: "Did you see which little brat threw the stones?"

Lin Nianhe casually pointed in a direction: "Ran that way, didn’t see clearly who it was."

"Thanks, I’ll buy you bird eggs later!"

Zhao Zhuangshi, still holding his head, cursed as he ran off.

Wang Xue thoughtfully said: "Do you think if I tell him the truth, he would beat you up?"

"Not likely," Lin Nianhe shook her head seriously.

Wang Xue gave her a look: "Zhao Zhuangshi dares to climb over walls, you don’t think he’d hit a woman comrades?"

Lin Nianhe: "No, I would tell him it was actually you who threw it. Look, you still have stones in your hand, that’s the evidence."

Wang Xue slowly lowered her head and looked at the few stones in her palm.

"Lin Nianhe!"

Wang Xue, frustrated, threw all the stones in her hands into the river.

She threw them in front of Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe didn’t dodge, letting the splashes from the stones wet her trousers.

Wang Xue pursed her lips, chin up, as if to say: You deserve it!

Lin Nianhe looked down and tugged at her pants, affirming her action: "Good, I’ll say you threw the stones into the river to get rid of the evidence, tsk tsk... you splashed me all over."

Wang Xue: "...!"

Lin Nianhe looked up, smiling gently at her: "You know, no matter how you try to throw the blame on me, it always ends up back on you."

Wang Xue’s lips trembled slightly: "But it really was you who threw it at him."

"Was it? I don’t think so." Lin Nianhe remained calm, "I don’t think it was me."

Wang Xue didn’t want to argue anymore, her legs gave out, and she dejectedly sat back on the rock, exhaustedly asking: "What do you really want?"

"Just to have a heart-to-heart with you."

"Lin Nianhe, don’t you think there’s really nothing worth discussing between us?"

"Not at all." Lin Nianhe turned to look at her, smiling radiantly, "What direct conflict do we have? I live my little life in the back, and you still don’t need to do much in the front. If you mean Su Yuncheng..."

"Wang Xue, think about it, do you like him as a person? Do you understand his character? You just like his job, his family background. Marrying him means you can go back to the city, and maybe even return to Beijing with him one day... I’m not wrong, am I?"

Wang Xue’s face started to turn red.

She bit her lip, struggling to retort: "What makes you say that?"

"Nonsense," Lin Nianhe glanced at her, "With the way he talks to you, any normal person’s heart would’ve died a long time ago, how could you still have improper thoughts about him?"

Wang Xue bit her lip harder, unable to speak.

She couldn’t argue because Lin Nianhe was right.

She was nearly fed up with Su Yuncheng’s icy demeanor when speaking; he was very nice and gentle to Lin Nianhe, but to others... she almost wanted to slap him.

But she was really tired of the hardship in the countryside, enduring sun and wind, barely getting enough to eat. She didn’t want to, nor dared to, marry just any rural man.

She also knew, even if there were opportunities to return to the city, her stepmother would never leave it to her but would sell it instead.

Thinking about spending her life like this, she felt she could tolerate Su Yuncheng’s cold face.

"Taking shortcuts seems comfortable indeed, but what lies at the end of the shortcut, do you dare to see?"

Lin Nianhe tilted her head to look at her, her eyes clear but profound in a way Wang Xue couldn’t understand.

"Heh..."

Wang Xue lowered her eyes and laughed, her laugh worn and weak, unlike what should belong to a girl her age.

"Lin Nianhe, you really don’t understand anything."