Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 92 - 91: The Same Land, Different People

Chapter 92: Chapter 91: The Same Land, Different People

Lin Nianhe left the health clinic before five o’clock.

Miao Hongqi could already walk slowly on her own recently, and didn’t need someone to accompany her at night anymore. She worried about Lin Nianhe walking back alone at night, so she claimed to be hungry at four o’clock, and after eating, she urged her to leave.

She urged, and so Lin Nianhe left.

If she headed back now, she could probably catch a ride on Uncle Niu’s ox cart.

Sure enough, at the town entrance, Uncle Niu was still waiting there, with four or five people already sitting in the cart, and among them were acquaintances of Lin Nianhe.

"Aunt Li," Lin Nianhe reached for her bag and trotted over, "You came to town to shop?"

"Yes, indeed," Aunt Li was spirited due to a happy occasion, her eyes squinting with a smile, "Come, Miss Lin, sit here with me, let me tell you, this is from Nine-miles Team..."

Aunt Li wanted to introduce Uncle Niu to Lin Nianhe.

However, before she could finish, Uncle Niu had already struck up a conversation with Lin Nianhe:

"Girl, visiting your friend in town again?"

"Yes, Uncle, why have you been so busy these days, hauling bricks again?"

"Exactly, the Educated Youth Corps needs some repairs, troubles every single day..."

"It’s tough, tough..."

Aunt Li: "..."

She really had no need to worry.

Uncle Niu seemed to be specifically waiting for Lin Nianhe, and soon after she got on the cart, he shouted and drove off.

After exchanging a few idle words with Uncle Niu, Lin Nianhe turned back and poked the bundle that Aunt Li was cherishing in her arms:

"Aunt Li truly is the best mother-in-law in our team, no wonder Daxi likes you so much."

Aunt Li was startled, her eyes brightening: "What did she tell you?"

"She didn’t say much," Lin Nianhe whispered, "Just about the incident with Hongqi last time, I asked her to call someone for help, and she directly asked if it was okay to call you... When someone needs help, they surely call the person closest to them, Aunt Li. Daxi’s reaction really treats you like her own mother."

Aunt Li’s lips curled uncontrollably, completely forgetting her other two roles—as the team leader’s wife and the top auntie of the Ten Miles Team.

When Li Dahe and Wang Hong were not around and Accountant Zhao was incapacitated, everyone who encountered troubles would look for her!

Aunt Li didn’t dwell too much on it and was not keen to ponder.

She patted Lin Nianhe’s hand, chattering: "People, you should respond with empathy—I treat her like my own daughter, and she treats me like her mother. It’s all mutual."

Aunt Li didn’t go to school, and the wisdom she shared was the simplest one taught by her life experiences.

Lin Nianhe leaned her chin on her hand, nodding in agreement repeatedly: "Yes, I also think you’re great, Uncle Team Leader is great, Aunt Wang is great..."

Finally, an auntie from Nine-miles Team across couldn’t listen anymore, and probing, asked: "Li’s sister-in-law, this girl is... your relative?"

As she spoke, she sized Lin Nianhe up from top to bottom.

This girl doesn’t look like a country bumpkin at all!

The nearby aunties also looked over, their eyes flickering with various thoughts.

Such a beautiful little girl, if someone married her...

Aunt Li shielded Lin Nianhe behind her, her eyes rolling over their faces as she scoffed: "Don’t get any silly ideas, she’s an educated youth from our team, this girl comes from Beijing, her parents are both officials, and her brother is a soldier..."

Lin Nianhe found Aunt Li’s words very familiar.

Hmm, she mentioned it once before.

Actually, Aunt Li didn’t need to say much, as soon as she revealed that Lin Nianhe was Educated youth, the other aunties dropped the idea.

Educated youth, they are bound to return to the city sooner or later, who would dare to marry them?

There have been cases before of Educated youth abandoning their husbands and children, or leaving their wives and daughters behind, and moreover, Educated youth... not a single good one among them!

Lin Nianhe originally couldn’t be bothered to mediate the relationship between the Educated youth and the villagers, but...

"Hey, someone from the Old Li Family, why did I hear that your Team is hiring teachers from among the Educated youth for the new primary school?"

Lin Nianhe raised her eyebrows and looked in the direction of the voice.

The speaker was a woman in her fifties, with sparse gray hair and dry cheeks, her sagging skin making her eyes appear even smaller, always seeming to squint at people.

Aunt Li glanced at her and said indifferently, "If we don’t pick among the Educated youth, what should we do? Educated youth are literate, if not them, who will teach? Should I teach the kids how to start fires and cook?"

"That’s not how you should put it," the old lady pursed her lips, giving Lin Nianhe a glaring look, "What’s so special about this crew? Isn’t Wang Xixi from your village also a high school graduate? To teach grade one, two, three, four, what kind of culture is needed!"

Other aunties chimed in, "Exactly, besides stealing chickens and sneaking around, what good are these Educated youth? The upper beam isn’t straight and the lower beam is crooked, don’t teach a den of thieves!"

"In my opinion, the Birch Team’s school has it right. Look, Teacher Dawang’s ancestors for eight generations were poor peasants, he even worked as a laborer, his thinking must be correct!"

Lin Nianhe: "..."

She didn’t look down on poor peasants, nor did she scorn workers, but to become a teacher just because of such reasons... Is that really okay?

Seeing Aunt Li beginning to clench her fists, Lin Nianhe consciously held her hand tightly, speaking just before things turned sour:

"Old lady, your words are too one-sided. Children don’t just go to school to learn counting or recognize a few characters, they also need to learn culture and thinking. Otherwise, look, aren’t all the leaders in the commune and factories from Worker-Peasant-Soldier University?"

"But this auntie makes a point about the crooked upper and lower beams, what you learn depends on who you learn from. Anyway, our Team’s Educated youth have never stolen chickens or anything... right, Aunt Li?"

Aunt Li seemed to want to laugh, but held it back; she nodded: "Indeed, our Team’s Educated youth are all good kids."

Lin Nianhe felt her loosen her fists, and couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

She used to prefer crushing problems with force, but here, what she did most was prevent violence from happening.

Who could she even argue this with?

Lin Nianhe laughed helplessly and continued, "It was Uncle Team Leader and Director Wang who taught well, and all the aunties also look out for us."

The two taking turns speaking caused several aunties from the Nine-miles Team to roll their eyes.

What nonsense are these two talking? Are there any good Educated youth?

So impractical, they can’t farm or work, crying over trivial things, or else stealing their chickens and eggs... absolutely not a good bunch!

Hearing the resentment in their words, Lin Nianhe couldn’t pretend to not understand if she wanted to. Not waiting for them to speak, she continued:

"Take me for example, when I first arrived, the windows in my house and the pottery needed, it was Uncle Team Leader who had his son help buy them;"

"When it comes to working, our Team’s aunties were worried we wouldn’t know how, they taught us hand by hand, even to this day, our Educated youth section is looked after by the villagers every day;"

"If we ever got a headache or fever, not only did the leaders send us to the medical clinic, but they also took care of us for nights on end!"

"Aunties, comparing hearts to hearts, the Ten Miles Team treats us like their own children, and of course we feel close to them, who would be cunning or steal from their own home!"

Lin Nianhe’s articulate speech moved Aunt Li to tears.

See, she knew it, these kids weren’t ungrateful!

Meanwhile, the aunties from the Nine-miles Team shook their heads and rolled their eyes—

No, this is not what they witnessed, so it must be a scam!