Fast-paced era: a warm and leisurely life

Chapter 232 The Weak Girl of the Age 39

After being rejected, Yu Xingxiu never mentioned arranging an easy job for Shen Bowen again.

Shen Bowen stayed at home and didn't go out, let alone go to deliver lunch to Niu Ru.

Niu Ru is tired after a day of work and has to cook for Shen Bowen

She now desperately wants someone to help her share some of the burden.

"Son, didn't I tell you to go talk to Gu Nuanyi? Why didn't you go?"

Shen Bowen frowned: "How can a sickly woman like her be worthy of me!"

Now he can only show off his ability with words to maintain his pride.

Niu Ru was choked and looked at Shen Bowen speechlessly: "Then go to the fields to work. What's the point of lying at home all the time?"

Shen Bowen pointed at his legs and arms: "My injuries haven't healed yet..."

Niu Ru was choked again: "Then you can find a wife to wash clothes and cook for me. I have to work in the fields and serve you. Do you want to tire your mother to death?"

Shen Bowen said irritably: "Marry a wife, mother, how can our family afford to marry a wife now? Can we afford the gift they ask for? Not to mention bicycles and thirty-six legs..."

Niu Ru answered confidently: "Can't you just find someone who doesn't want anything?!"

This time it was Shen Bowen's turn to be choked

After a long while, he finally said, "How can such a good thing happen in this world... If I hadn't broken off the engagement with the Gu family at the beginning, maybe this would have been possible..."

"Then go and get her back! I, your mother, really can't do it anymore." Niu Ru touched her belly. She had lost weight due to exhaustion during this period of time.

Shen Bowen touched the scars on his body. He didn't dare to look for Gu Nuanyi again. His intuition told him that this severe itching must have something to do with Gu Nuanyi. He didn't want to try it again...

Seeing Shen Bowen didn't say anything, Niu Ru said directly: "Either you do the housework yourself, or you find a wife to do it, otherwise I will only cook for myself in the future, and you will go hungry!"

Niu Ru did not cook for Shen Bowen that night.

Seeing this, Shen Bowen had no choice but to limp to the kitchen and cook himself a bowl of corn porridge.

Shen Bowen didn't expect Niu Rushi to really not cook for him if she said she wouldn't.

After eating corn porridge for several days in a row, his mouth was full of bad taste.

He also tried to cook, but the food was either burnt or too salty, and was inedible...

He didn't want to eat corn paste anymore, so he decided to marry a woman who could wash his clothes and cook for him.

He really didn't dare to provoke Gu Nuanyi again. All his misfortunes were related to her. He felt that Gu Nuanyi was his calamity star. Nothing good would happen if he got close to her.

But he also despises those who can't help him

After some thought, Shen Bowen fell in love with the daughter of Yu Xingxiu, the brigade secretary.

Thinking about the last time Yu Xingxiu came to care about him, he must have thought that Yu Xingxiu didn't despise him.

Yu Xin was disgusted when she saw Shen Bowen, with scars all over his face, standing in front of her and confessing his love to her.

He just picked up the broom and beat the man out.

When her family got home from work, she immediately told them about it.

Yu Xingxiu's face turned as black as charcoal: "How did Shen Bowen have the nerve to come to you!!!"

Yu Junmin (Yu Xingxiu's son) also said angrily: "He is just a toad wanting to eat swan meat! Sister, you didn't let her take advantage of you, did she?"

"No, I just chased him out with a broom."

Yu Junmin gave a thumbs up: "Well done"

Yu Junmin and Yu Xingxiu looked at each other, and squatted outside the Shen family with sacks and ladders at night.

When Shen Bowen came out of the room to go to the toilet, he used a ladder to climb over the wall, put a sack on Shen Bowen and beat him up.

Niu Ru was sleeping so soundly that he didn't hear Shen Bowen's cry for help at all.

Shen Bowen, who hadn't eaten well during this period, fainted after just a few hits.

Yu Junmin and Yu Xingxiu clapped their hands, and one of them kicked again: "Bah, let you miss my sister/daughter"

When Shen Bowen woke up the next day, he felt sore all over. He knew that he had been beaten by someone in a sack, but he didn't see who did it.

I went to ask Captain Tang Bei for an explanation, but Tang Bei ignored me: "You don't even know who beat you up, how should I know?"

Shen Bowen thought that he had just gone to see Yu Xin during the day, but was beaten at night. It must have been done by Yu's family.

Tang Bei: "You said it was the Yu family who did it? Where's the evidence?"

Shen Bowen pursed his lips. He really had no evidence.

Tang Bei: "Shen family boy, can't you just go to the fields and work honestly? It's not shameful to make a living from the land. Also, don't forget that you are still under inspection. If you cause trouble again, I will report you to the police and have you sent to the farm."

After being warned, Shen Bowen settled for the next best thing and set his sights on a girl who was not so pretty and not so favored at home.

But those families raise their daughters to earn some money for the bride price, and Shen Bowen can't afford the bride price at all.

I've been busy for days but I'm still alone

Finally, I had to learn to wash my own clothes and cook my own meals.

Because he had no money to treat his leg properly, after the wound healed, the bone grew crooked, causing Shen Bowen to become lame.

the other side

Gu Nuanyi brings meals to Gu Jin and Guo Zhenru in different ways every day

I don't eat any big fish or meat every meal.

Eating it every day will attract other people's attention

Gu Jin held a large lunch bag in both hands and ate while saying, "The weather is good this year, and the harvest is good. We can also exchange for more fine grains. By the way, this cabbage leaf wrapped with rice is quite delicious."

Guo Zhenru: "That's because our sweet baby is so skillful, everything he makes tastes delicious!"

Gu Jin finished a large lunch bag in a short while, drank two mouthfuls of mung bean soup and said: "After eating and drinking enough, I feel I can still work another two acres of land."

While everyone was busy harvesting the crops, a group of educated youth had already arrived at Nanqiao Commune.

Yu Xingxiu and Bai Erye drove a bullock cart to pick up the educated youth assigned to the Xingsan Brigade.

Yu Xingxiu looked at the 4 men and 7 women assigned to him, and went straight to the commune leader with a gloomy face and said, "Leader, why did you assign so many women to our team?"

The commune leader pointed at the book and said: "You got these by drawing lots yourself. You can't blame others for your bad luck."

"Now the fields are busy with summer harvest, what can these educated youth do?"

"You can teach them and they will learn it, okay? Take them away now!"

Yu Xingxiu sighed and returned to the 11 people and said, "I am the secretary of Xingda Brigade. My name is Yu Xingxiu. Please load all the luggage onto the ox cart!"

11 people's luggage of all sizes was piled up

Even so, there was still a female educated youth who wanted to climb onto the oxcart

He was immediately driven off by Master Bai: "There are so many things piled on the ox cart, there is no place for people to sit, get off and walk."

The educated youth looked at Yu Xingxiu

Yu Xingxiu: "We have to take the ox cart back to participate in the summer harvest to pull wheat and soybeans. We really can't be tired. Xingsan Brigade is not far from the commune. We can get there by walking."