Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 140 - 139: Don’t Make Me Kick You

Chapter 140: Chapter 139: Don’t Make Me Kick You

In front of her, emptiness.

Such a big, tall wall, gone.

"Why the fuss? Who could steal your wall?"

Li Dahe walked out from behind a pile of bricks, his head against the morning sun.

He glared at Lin Nianhe, pointing behind him: "Isn’t that for building Educated Youth Wang’s house? Of course, the wall had to be taken down."

Lin Nianhe: "Oh... I forgot."

She really had forgotten, completely forgotten.

Li Dahe glared at her, puffing on his tobacco pipe, his disdain written all over his face.

Lin Nianhe walked over with a dry laugh, chuckling, "Uncle Team Leader, don’t be mad at me, it’s not worth ruining your health over."

Li Dahe stroked his hair, "Hmm" he grunted.

Suddenly, he turned to Lin Nianhe: "Wait, isn’t it your exam day today? Why are you back already?"

Lin Nianhe: "Oh, it’s finished."

"Finished?" Li Dahe was skeptical, "You don’t know anything, do you?"

"Tsk..."

Lin Nianhe frowned and earnestly explained: "The questions were too easy, so I handed in my paper early."

Li Dahe looked her up and down, then, after a moment, nodded: "Well, that’s not entirely useless."

Lin Nianhe: "..."

Li Dahe exhaled a puff of smoke, giving her a sideways glance: "What are you staring at me for?"

Lin Nianhe: "Nothing, your compliment was too generous, don’t do it again."

"Who the heck likes complimenting you?" Li Dahe turned away haughtily, pointing to a foundation that had been dug sometime earlier, "Next month, new Educated Youth are coming, just three small houses, get them done quickly."

Since building houses back then didn’t have many formalities and the process was quite simple. With enough people and money, three small houses could be finished within a month.

Lin Nianhe nodded, "Yeah, thanks for the hard work, Uncles. We don’t understand any of this, please bear the burden, Uncle Team Leader. Just let us know if you need anything."

"Nonsense, am I supposed to give you money?" Li Dahe waved his hand as if to shoo away mosquitoes, "Go do whatever you need to do, don’t loiter around here."

Lin Nianhe thought about it and decided to go back and prepare some mung bean soup for everyone, but after taking a couple of steps, she remembered something Su Yuncheng mentioned yesterday, turned around, and came back.

"Uncle Team Leader, may I take a few days off to go to the provincial city?" She stood obediently in front of Li Dahe, her bright eyes pure and clear.

With such a gaze upon him, it really was hard to deny her request.

Li Dahe asked, "The provincial city? What for?"

Lin Nianhe: "To play."

Li Dahe: "Scram."

Lin Nianhe quickly changed her plea: "I want to visit a bookstore in the provincial city, to buy some supplementary teaching materials."

Li Dahe: "Hurry up and scram."

Lin Nianhe switched reasons again: "I also heard there’s an agricultural research institute there, I could go and learn some skills."

Li Dahe: "Don’t make me kick you."

Lin Nianhe: "..."

Lin Nianhe wasn’t sure if Uncle Team Leader, pushed to his limits, would actually kick her, and she didn’t want to risk it.

She watched Li Dahe for a while, seeing that he was completely unmoved, sighed heavily, and returned to her own small house.

She took out some mung beans from storage, cleaned them and put them in the pot.

She cooked a large pot of mung bean soup, adding a bit of rock sugar, and added it to Wang Shumei’s tab.

The noise from outside from the construction was annoying, and even with noise-cancelling earplugs, Lin Nianhe couldn’t block out the sound.

She tapped her head in irritation.

No way, if she had to stay in the noise for a month, she’d rather go repair the dam.

She needed to think of a solution...

Half an hour later, Nianhe brought a bowl of mung bean soup to Li Dahe, wearing an obedient smile: "Uncle Team Leader, I made mung bean soup. Please have a taste."

Li Dahe didn’t take it, eyeing her warily.

Unperturbed, Nianhe continued: "I’ve made a big pot, but there are not enough bowls. Please invite everyone to have some. It’s hot; we shouldn’t get heatstroke."

Hearing that there was enough for everyone, Li Dahe sighed inwardly at how well the girl managed things and took the bowl.

Li Dahe had just taken a sip when Nianhe said: "Actually, you know my situation. Even if you detain me to work, I won’t be able to do much, right? I just want to go out for a few days..."

Li Dahe nearly spit the soup back out.

He coughed twice, glaring at Nianhe: "Yes, right now there’s less work in the fields, having you there or not makes no difference, but don’t you know your own situation? Your work points are a sorry sight. Accountant Zhao mentioned a couple of days ago, he’s worried you’ll starve next year!"

Nianhe chuckled naively: "I won’t starve, I don’t eat much."

Li Dahe ignored her as if he hadn’t heard her speak, continuing on his own: "Besides, this isn’t like the leave I granted you before for revision; that was leave given for all you to review, a lot of people were resting, nothing to fear in saying that out loud."

"If you want to go have fun, that’s not impossible either. Wait until the harvest is over, and school is on break, then go if you want. Before that, I’ll write you a letter of introduction, even if it’s written in your profile it won’t be a big deal."

Nianhe felt helpless, knowing she had no chance of going out to have fun anytime soon.

She sighed deeply.

These days, arranging a meeting wasn’t just about parental consent, but also whether the brigade leader would grant leave.

Feeling depressed, she distributed the remaining mung bean soup to the villagers and then casually left the Educated Youth Corps.

She was incredibly tired, but the noise at the Educated Youth Corps made it impossible to sleep.

Had she known, she wouldn’t have handed in her paper; napping in the classroom wouldn’t have been a bad idea.

Thinking this, Nianhe leisurely went to the riverside.

Occasionally, a fish swam by in the river, its tail creating ripples.

Nianhe sat on the soft grass, using her straw hat to cover her face, squinting her eyes for a nap.

The summer in the north wasn’t overly hot; the warm sunshine felt extremely comfortable on her body.

She gradually fell into a sleep.

In her dream, there were insects chirping and birds singing, later a clamorous strange voice asking if she was feeling unwell.

Nianhe suddenly opened her eyes; the glaring sunlight came stabbing through, dazzling her with bright whiteness.

She instinctively covered her eyes, muttering irritably: "Who’s sick, for what reason did they take my straw hat?"

In her momentary haze, she vaguely saw someone in front of her, but she didn’t see the face clearly.

Zhou Chujiang, hearing her soft muttering and looking at the straw hat in his hand, felt awkward.

Nianhe finally adjusted to the light, opened her eyes, and seeing like there was someone in front of her, her brows furrowed, her face full of caution: "Who are you?"

Zhou Chujiang paused: "You don’t recognize me?"

Nianhe: "Why should I recognize you?"

It’s not that she was being pretentious; she really hadn’t paid much attention to people in the classroom.

Zhou Chujiang, maintaining a smile at the corners of his mouth, stood a bit straighter and nodded slightly to Nianhe: "Hello, Comrade Lin Nianhe, my name is Zhou Chujiang, I’m a Chinese teacher at Lan County High School, here today to help Principal Wu supervise the exams."

Nianhe nodded: "Hello. What is it?"

"Well, I just read your essay and really admired your writing," Zhou Chujiang looked at Nianhe earnestly and said, "I often write for the newspaper, may I recommend your article to the newspaper?"

As he asked, his heart was already affirming her response for her.

Who would refuse the honor of having their article published in the newspaper?

"No need, thank you."

Nianhe would.