Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 221 - 220: I Offer a Niuwa

Chapter 221: Chapter 220: I Offer a Niuwa

On that day, the Ten Miles Village School received Comrade Lin Nianhe’s latest donation—

Checkers.

Principal Wu was puzzled by this, unable to comprehend what was so special about checkers that warranted Lin Nianhe, despite his injured legs, to hobble along the wall and make a special trip to hand it to her.

It wasn’t until that evening when Niuwa, having washed his hands and feet, enthusiastically invited her to play checkers...

Half an hour later—

Principal Wu: "Niuwa, it’s getting late, tomorrow you can ask Nian... you can ask other teachers to play with you."

Niuwa: "Okay."

The next day, no one was troubled by Niuwa.

Because today, everyone was going to Li Xiaoshan and Wang Xixi’s wedding. Even those who had work were all discussing this event, so Niuwa couldn’t find anyone to play with him.

Lin Nianhe got up early in the morning, first carried by Wen Lan to the Wang family’s house, joined the bustling bridal procession, and then went to the Li family, where Aunt Li stuffed him with wedding candy, and then arranged for him to sit at the door to write the gift list.

Aunt Li also specially brought a stool with a cushion for him to rest his legs, so as not to strain his wounds again.

The wedding this time was simple and modest. For someone like Li Xiaoshan, who could ride a bicycle decorated with big red flowers to fetch the bride, it was already considered a high-standard wedding.

The dowry prepared by Wang Hong for Daxi was also very decent; a brand new quilt and a new set of clothes for each of the newlyweds—this was a topic worthy of long discussions in the countryside.

Aunt Li was extremely busy during this period, managing to prepare four dishes for the celebration—stewed pork with glass noodles, braised rabbit meat, stir-fried garlic shoots with eggs, and stewed cabbage with tofu. The liquor was sorghum wine brewed by Uncle Guan himself, not much, each person could have half a bowl.

Such a menu, seen by later generations, would appear extremely modest, but here, it was already considered the best.

Lin Nianhe sat at the door writing the gift list, with Niuwa and Li Hehua standing by his side; one was responsible for receiving gifts, the other for pouring water for Lin Nianhe.

The wedding gifts varied—vegetables, meat, eggs, buns, hairbands, soap dishes... Direct cash gifts were rare; Lin Nianhe noted that only the educated youth and Zhou Chujiang, Zhang Qiong joined hands, each contributing fifteen cents, making a total gift of two yuan and forty cents.

As the master of ceremonies, Principal Wu gave the couple a brand-new booklet of quotations, earnestly advising them to help each other and make progress together.

Lin Nianhe found everything novel and couldn’t stop smiling. It was a pity that just as he served Niuwa two pieces of meat at the banquet, he turned around only to find that all that was left of the pork stewed with glass noodles were the noodles.

At Lin Nianhe’s table, all were educated youth, none of them felt compelled to give him any consideration.

Just as Lin Nianhe adjusted his mood and reached out to grab some rabbit meat, in a flash, only potatoes were left in the plate.

He glanced at another plate; indeed, the eggs had vanished too.

Lin Nianhe: "You guys are too much."

No one paid attention to him, everyone continued eating with suppressed laughter.

Niuwa handed over the meat from his bowl to Lin Nianhe: "Sister Lin, this is for you."

"Ah... Niuwa is the best... alright."

Lin Nianhe was touched for a second, then saw Niuwa switch to another bowl, which was filled with meat served by others.

Lin Nianhe felt quite aggrieved, sweeping his gaze over the group that showed no courtesy towards the injured, darkly threatening: "You really have no idea about my ability to hold grudges."

No one paid attention to him, still no one paid attention.

Remembering yesterday’s lesson from Sister Lin, Niuwa silently divided his meat into her bowl.

"Hey, Niuwa, what are you doing, eat it yourself, why bother about her?" Wen Lan, holding back a smile, transferred the meat from her bowl to Niuwa’s.

Niuwa, obediently smiling and batting his big eyes, said "Thank you, Sister Wen", and then turned his head to give the meat to Lin Nianhe.

Lin Nianhe chuckled, throwing a smug glance at Wen Lan to let her experience it for herself.

"Hey, Lin Nianhe, have some shame, why are you stealing meat from the kids?"

Seeing their attempts failed, they immediately switched to verbally attacking her.

Lin Nianhe: "I didn’t steal it, Niuwa gave it to me! Are you guys jealous?"

Everyone: "..."

Indeed, they were jealous!

Niuwa has been well-fed lately, growing up handsome and clever, always diligent with tasks at school—who wouldn’t like him?

But in Niuwa’s heart, the only person comparable to Principal Wu was Lin Nianhe.

The look of the losers couldn’t hurt Lin Nianhe; she smiled at Niuwa, "Later, you should play Chinese checkers with them and win all their candies!"

Niuwa nodded earnestly: "Okay!"

Everyone: "..."

It’s time to suggest to Principal Wu, Niuwa shouldn’t keep mixing with Lin Nianhe anymore; a good kid could sooner or later be led astray.

The joyous banquet ended with laughter; Lin Nianhe stayed to help Aunt Li sort out the gift list, Wen Lan and Wang Shumei waited for her—they had to carry her back later; they couldn’t rely on Niuwa for this.

"It’s been hard work," Aunt Li, looking at the neatly written gift list, stuffed all the leftover fruit candies to Lin Nianhe, "Take these back for you all to eat, sorry for the poor hospitality, don’t pick on your aunt."

"Not at all, Aunt Li, the food was delicious," Lin Nianhe replied with a smile, "We won’t stay longer then, you are busy."

"Alright, be careful on the way back, don’t get hurt."

Aunt Li watched them walk away from the doorway before she turned back.

The streets weren’t crowded, so Lin Nianhe spoke to Wang Shumei about asking Qian Guozhu to inquire about hearing aids.

Yesterday, after her fall, her small room had become a popular check-in spot, and it was hard to find a time when there were no people around to talk to Wang Shumei about it.

After hearing it, Wang Shumei frowned: "What kind of thing is that? I’ve never seen it before either."

People who usually deal in the black market haven’t seen it, Lin Nianhe had little hope that Qian Guozhu could help purchase it.

Lin Nianhe sighed softly, still saying, "Let’s ask Brother Qian first, if he can find it, great, otherwise I’ll figure out something else."

"Okay, I’ll tell him."

They had no idea that before Wang Shumei could relay the message to Qian Guozhu, there was already a breakthrough in this matter.

After dinner, Wen Qingqing knocked on Lin Nianhe’s room door.

"What is it?" Lin Nianhe asked her.

Wen Qingqing sat by the kang, replying, "I heard you want to buy a hearing aid for a student’s mother, is that right?"

"Yes," Lin Nianhe was a bit puzzled, "but how did you know?"

"I was picking vegetables in the backyard just now and overheard Educated Youth Wen and Educated Youth Wang discussing it," Wen Qingqing asked her, "Do you have a place to buy it?"

Lin Nianhe honestly answered, "No, I’m still looking."

Wen Qingqing sat up straight, giving Lin Nianhe a smug look as if urging her to ask.

Lin Nianhe looked at her, a bit incredulous, "You don’t mean to tell me that you know where to buy hearing aids?"

Wen Qingqing’s lips curled into a smile: "Of course, I know; my aunt’s husband is the deputy director of the hearing aid factory."

Lin Nianhe put down her book, reaching out towards her: "Sister Qingqing, have you noticed? Actually, Sister Ruanruan and I look quite similar, is there a chance that I’m actually your half-sister from different parents?"

Wen Qingqing: "..."