"Dong dong dong!" There was a knock on the door of a relatively remote room. A man wearing linen clothes but looking very neat stood at the door, holding something in his hand, with a serious expression on his face. Nervous.

"Here we come!" A clear male voice came from inside the room, accompanied by the sound of footsteps approaching the door.

Immediately afterwards, the dilapidated small wooden door was opened.A man who seemed out of place in this backward and dilapidated village appeared at the door. He was obviously dressed in linen clothes similar to the man standing outside the house, but he had an elegant aura of a scholar on his body.

"Xue Bing, you are here, come in and sit down." After seeing who was standing at the door, Lu Hong put a smile on his face, and opened the door enthusiastically to let Chen Xuebing in.

"Well, good, good." Chen Xuebing replied cautiously, followed Lu Hong in with his things, and did not forget to help close the door.In fact, in the village, people do not close the doors during the day, but generally leave the doors wide open, and only lock the doors at night.

However, Chen Xuebing raised his head from behind and looked at the thin back of the man in front of him, then lowered his head shyly.However, Lu Hong is from the city, he is still a high school student, he is a man of culture and scholars, so he is naturally different from the gang of them who only work in the fields every day.

"Xuebing, sit down, I'll get you a glass of water." Lu Hong asked Chen Xuebing to sit at the table in the main room, then turned and went into the kitchen.

Chen Xuebing nodded hurriedly, put the things he was carrying on the table, and grabbed his pants with both hands.Although curious, he didn't dare to act rashly and look around.

That is Lu Hong, and he specially boils the well water and cools it before drinking, which is much more particular than them.When he came here for the first time, Lu Hong said he wanted to pour water for him. Afraid of troublesome him, he scooped up the well water from the big tank under the wall of the hall and drank it all in one gulp. Lu Hong didn't even have time to stop him.

Later, he learned that drinking unboiled water is not good for the body, and it is best to boil it to kill all the bacteria.He doesn't understand bacteria or anything, anyway, his grandparents have been drinking for so many years and nothing happened.At home, he is still too lazy to burn, and he just scoops up a ladle of water to drink when he is thirsty.Only at Lu Hong's place can he drink cold water for nothing. He really feels that this water is much sweeter than what he drinks at home.

"Xue Bing, what do you want me to do?" Putting the enamel cup in front of Chen Xuebing, watching him carefully hold the quilt in his hand, Lu Hong smiled with some meaning.It returned to normal in an instant, smiling as usual, and sitting opposite.

"No, it's nothing important." Chen Xuebing rubbed his head embarrassingly, and pushed the things he brought on the table over. "This is the dim sum I bought from the street. I served it with my dad yesterday." I bought it on the street. I heard you said, you used to eat dim sum at home. We are in the countryside, and there is only a department store in the town. I didn’t find the kind you like, but these are sweet anyway. Yes, let me give you a taste and see how it tastes."

"I didn't expect you to remember what I said. Thank you so much. I am very satisfied with all of this." Lu Hong showed a look of surprise, took the snack immediately, unpacked it, picked one up and ate it.He kept nodding while eating, as if he was very satisfied with these snacks.

When Chen Xuebing saw that Lu Hong liked eating the snacks he bought so much, he didn't show any distaste, and the expression on his face became even happier.But I didn't know what to think of, and my expression became a little ashamed, I lowered my head and whispered.

"Lu Hong, I'm sorry, I messed up the thing you asked me to do. The number of elementary school teachers is already full, so I can't help you."

"It's okay, Xuebing, you don't have to think too much." Lu Hong stretched out a hand to cover Chen Xuebing's hand holding the water glass on the table, and said softly, "I should be embarrassed, I always trouble you .”

"No, no!" Feeling the temperature in his hands, Chen Xuebing hastily retracted his hands in a jerk, his face turned suspiciously red.

"I can't do anything you asked me to do. I messed up the elementary school teacher in the village and the scorekeeper who still counts work points. But I'll ask my dad again. Well, I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first."

Not daring to look up at the person in front of him, Chen Xuebing put his hands behind his back, lowered his head and left in a hurry.Although he did not forget to close the door of Lu Hong's house before leaving, he almost tripped over the threshold.

Looking at Chen Xuebing's fleeing back, Lu Hong's expression changed, and the tenderness and amiability just now no longer existed.Walking to the bottom of the wall, spit out all the food he just ate with a few "peh pee", rinsed his mouth several times before giving up, and walked back to the main room.

"What kind of thing can be called dim sum, it's really unpalatable." Looking at the package of dim sum on the table, he pulled it with his hands in disgust.

"Cut, don't you like me, but after touching his hand, it becomes like this. It's really worthless. No wonder I asked him to do so many things but failed. How did Village Chief Chen give birth to such a useless child?" Son. Oh! I was also blind at the time, and I actually found such a breakthrough, and I hoped that life in the village would be easier!"

Frowning and shaking his head, Lu Hong didn't want to touch the bag of snacks on the table, and walked back to his room.Lie on the bed, pick up a book and read it leisurely, and fell asleep after a while.

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"Su Yue, here we are, put the things under the wall."

"Well, let's go back and drink a few sips of water. I'm dying of thirst. It's too hot today, and I've finished drinking all the water I brought in the morning."

There was the sound of two girls talking at the door, but because there was only one person in the room, and he was already asleep.Therefore, no one cared about their conversation.

"Huh! I feel like I've come back to life!" I didn't care about the unhygienic, directly scooped up a large ladle of water and poured a few gulps, and then spoke again.

"Yeah, this day is really a toss-up! Su Yue, look at me, I'm about to be tanned as a country girl, I guess if I go back now, my parents won't recognize me." Among them A girl looked at her arms and legs that were darkened to an unknown degree, and she wanted to cry without tears.

They came here when it was almost winter last year. At that time, the weather was not hot at all. Although the dilapidated house couldn't bear the cold wind, it was very cold in winter, but she had already prepared for it, and the cotton-padded quilt she brought down with great effort It came in handy.However, she never expected that it would be so hot, and they had to go to work in the fields.

There is no way, if you don’t work, you will have no work points, and if you don’t work points, you will have no food, and you will be hungry.When they came down last winter, the grain had already been harvested and distributed to each household.These people have no food at all, so they borrowed it with an IOU first, and they have to pay it back this year.

When she first went to work in the field, after returning, all her exposed skin was reddened by the sun.It was hot and painful for several days, and then it turned black.But after that, she seemed to get used to it. Even if the sun was too bright to work in the field, she never felt any pain.

"Forget it, Xiao Yu, don't think about it anymore, I'm still the same as you. It's okay, when we go back to the city, we can raise someone at home and he will recover in two months." Lin Suyue patted the side comfortingly Zhu Yu, who shared this tragic fate with her.

"Yeah, don't think about it, let's hurry up and cook, and we will continue to work in the fields in the afternoon!" Zhu Yu walked into the kitchen, intending to cook something casually to satisfy his stomach.The weather is so hot that people don't have the appetite to eat at all, but they can't do without food, and they have to continue working in the afternoon.

"Hey! Suyue" The two of them were cooking together, when Zhu Yu suddenly thought of something and called Lin Suyue.

"What's the matter?" Lin Suyue was busy chopping vegetables, without even raising her head, she asked back.

"Should we cook Lu Hong's meal today? Didn't Xue Cheng go to that Chen Ye's house for dinner today? Then no one will cook for Lu Hong today." The four of them came down together. There are exactly two rooms for men and women.The cooking is also done separately, because Xue Cheng said that the girls have small appetites, and if the food is cooked together, they will suffer too much.

Every time they cook, two girls do it together, and it's ready soon, and then they take turns to wash the dishes.But Xue Cheng is much worse.Every time he cooks, he does it alone. After working for a long time, he has to cook when he returns home from exhaustion, and then he asks Lu Hong, who has been lying in bed all day, to get up and eat.In the end, he had to clean the pots and pans himself.

They were quite sympathetic, and thought that by the way, they could cook more meals for him alone, and it would not take much effort.But, they don't want to cook that young master's food, and by the way, let Xue Cheng leave him alone and let him fend for himself.However, he disagreed, and he still came back every day to serve the young master without complaint.

However, today was a rare day, Xue Cheng actually ignored the young master and went to eat at someone else's house by himself.Then, obviously, Lu Hong has no one to cook for him.

"I'm too lazy to serve that young master. If he doesn't burn himself, let him starve himself. Anyway, he stays at home all day long, doing nothing, what's there to eat." Lin Suyue said angrily , but she can't be blamed, it's because this young master is too hated.

"Hee hee, I thought so too, I was afraid you would pity him!" Zhu Yu said with a smile after hearing Lin Suyue's words.

"I pity him? What's so pitiful about him? We are the two of us, no one will pity us." While talking, he skillfully cooked vegetables on the stove.The eldest lady who used to be pampered at home has already transformed.

"The rice is ready, I'll bring it over first, and you can bring the food over when it's cooked." Zhu Yu walked to the main room with the delicious rice. In fact, their life is much better than that of the villagers here. up.One person is full, and the whole family is not hungry. They only need to earn enough food for themselves.And the family would send some money and food stamps from time to time so that they could improve their food.

So they can still eat enough, and they can eat fine grains every few days, and they eat it every day to reward themselves when the farming is busy.Unlike most of the villagers here, they eat coarse grains every day, and they can't get enough to eat.

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