Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 331 - 330: Simply Caring About You

Chapter 331: Chapter 330: Simply Caring About You

Today at Ten Miles Team, everyone from the villagers to the educated youth was as happy as if it were the New Year.

The villagers were envisioning a bright future, and the happiness of the educated youth was even more palpable—

There was too much good food, more lavish than the New Year’s.

That evening, a great meal was arranged in the front courtyard for the trio who brought goods. Not only did they prepare the food themselves, but Li Dahe and the other two families also brought braised rabbit, scrambled eggs, and rice.

During the meal, everyone was all ears, listening to Wang Shumei and Wen Lan talk about the things that had happened along the way.

Lin Nianhe glanced at Sie Yufei beside her, feeling complicated.

Guan Manling should have arrived at the Great Northern Wilderness already, but who knows when her letter will arrive...

She took a bite of her meal, glanced at Sie Yufei, which made Sie Yufei’s hair stand on end.

"Xiao He, if you have something to say, just say it. Looking at me like this... I’m scared!"

The usually straightforward Youngest Master Sie was cowed by Lin Nianhe’s look.

Lin Nianhe tugged at the corner of her mouth, managing a stiff smile. She picked some pieces of meat for Sie Yufei: "It’s nothing, eat more."

She really didn’t know how to start the conversation about Guan Manling with Sie Yufei.

All she could do was to be nicer to him.

There’s nothing that a bowl of meat can’t solve. If there is... no, there isn’t, a bowl of meat is enough.

Lin Nianhe’s unusual behavior terrified Sie Yufei. He held his bowl and ceased eating, his eyes wide with panic as he looked at Lin Nianhe: "Xiao He, what’s really going on? I haven’t done anything recently to upset you, have I?"

In just a few seconds, Sie Yufei had revisited the entire seventeen years he’d spent with Lin Nianhe from start to finish.

He was certain he hadn’t left any grievances in her hands.

This made him even more panicked!

Could it be that he offended Lin Nianhe without even realizing it?

Lin Nianhe: "..."

She suddenly felt very sympathetic to Uncle Team Leader’s afternoon wish to kick herself.

Right now, she also really wanted to kick Sie Yufei.

To prove she really had no ill intentions, Lin Nianhe simply stood up and switched seats with Wang Shumei, then shrugged innocently: "I’m really fine, just showing a bit of concern for you."

Sie Yufei skeptically bit into a piece of meat, chewed for a long time, his stomach didn’t hurt, nor did he feel like dying.

So... she was really just showing concern? Just that simple? Why would she bother showing concern out of the blue?

Instinct told Sie Yufei that things couldn’t be that simple.

Lin Nianhe must be planning something against him.

Lin Nianhe thought Sie Yufei had gone mad.

She served the dishes, he stared at her;

She drank water, he stared at her;

She drew the curtains, and he even peeked from outside the window at her!

Lin Nianhe, holding the curtains tightly and wiping the cold sweat from her forehead, earnestly lamented: "Sister Guan’s decision is really right..."

Who would dare to want this guy? Are good days over?

Lin Nianhe never expected that when she opened her door the next morning, she would still see Sie Yufei’s big face.

Lin Nianhe: "...!"

She swore, she really wanted to treat Sie Yufei well, she wanted to use the warmth of friendship to heal the wounds he had from love.

But this guy doesn’t deserve it!

As Sie Yufei saw Lin Nianhe’s palm getting closer and finally landing on his head—

Sie Yufei’s heart, along with his body, spun in place, finally feeling settled.

That’s more like it!

...

In the grain drying yard, Wang Shumei glanced at the beaming Sie Yufei not far away, then quietly moved closer to Lin Nianhe to ask: "Nianhe, did your slap make Sie Yufei silly?"

"No, his silliness has nothing to do with getting slapped."

Lin Nianhe hung her head low, not giving Sie Yufei another glance.

She was tired and didn’t want to deal with him anymore. Let it be however it wants!

"But are you sure it’s okay to hit him like that? Weren’t we supposed to coax him, follow his lead, and comfort him?"

"Oh, I misunderstood. This person has a masochistic tendency, so we can’t show him a friendly face."

"Are you... sure?"

"Absolutely!"

Lin Nianhe sat on a small stool, holding a corn cob in one hand and corn kernels in the other, gritting her teeth as she struggled.

Because they also needed to quickly dekernel the corn and hand in their work, the three of them followed the big group and came to work on time today.

Lin Nianhe initially thought that husking corn would be an easy task, but after struggling hard for five minutes, the corn kernels remained kernels, and the cob remained a cob, with only her own hands turning red, without any change.

Others were husking corn while chatting and laughing, it seemed only she couldn’t conquer this little corn cob.

She just watched others husking corn; they lightly rubbed it, and the corn kernels obediently fell into the sack in a line.

Hers...

Lin Nianhe held the corn cob up to her face and frowned as she examined it. "Comrade, you’re a bit rebellious."

This corn cob has its own ideas!

These kernels are too united!

Aunt Li sat next to Lin Nianhe, seeing her gritting her teeth, she couldn’t help but laugh.

She put down her work, stood up, and came behind Lin Nianhe, taking her hand and saying, "Come on, follow me and use some force."

With Aunt Li guiding her hands, they parted and rubbed, and the corn kernels started to fall off.

Aunt Li smiled and asked her, "Got it?"

Lin Nianhe: "My eyes got it."

"And your hands?"

"My hands got it too."

"Then..."

"My brain says they are both talking nonsense."

"..."

Aunt Li was still very patient with Lin Nianhe; she taught her for a full ten minutes, and Lin Nianhe finally managed to husk the kernels on her own.

But her efficiency...

Was probably about one-fifth of Aunt Li’s.

Aunt Li was already satisfied.

She sat back down on her little stool, comforting Lin Nianhe, "This is a skilled job, take it slow, it gets better with more practice."

Lin Nianhe almost cried.

Compared to becoming skilled, she would rather invent a dekerneling machine, even a hand-powered one would do!

But that was just wishful thinking; she had checked, our country imported the first batch of dekerneling machines in the 1980s, and currently, there were none available, nowhere to buy them.

Looking at the mountain of corn in front of her, Lin Nianhe felt hopeless about the future.

Would she have to spend the entire winter husking corn?

Lin Nianhe thought that tonight when she got back, she couldn’t watch drama serials anymore; she needed to look for mechanical books, even if she had to copy, she would create a dekerneling machine.

Others time traveled and copied poems, songs, novels, movies; she time traveled and copied a dekerneling machine...

Sounds particularly devoted to the country and the people!

She definitely needed to add two dishes tonight.

That evening, Lin Nianhe chewed on a crab while she pulled out a bunch of mechanical books, hoping to find the blueprint for a corn dekerneling machine.

Searching and searching... she fell asleep.

In her dream, she was still husking corn, her arms sore from the effort. As she husked, the mountain of corn in front of her turned into Sie Yufei. He was crying as if his father had died and his mother remarried, sobbing as he shared his heartbreak pain with her.

Lin Nianhe suddenly opened her eyes, awakened in a cold sweat.

Looking at the pitch-black ceiling, Lin Nianhe wailed -

"What a misfortune!"