The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man

He Qingqing hurried to the supply co-op to get change, but by the time she came back, Lu Yuanbin and Leng Yuan were already gone. She clutched the money in her hand, her eyes turning red.

「Qingshan Team.」

「Leng Yuan’s house.」

In the afternoon, Gu Jiaojiao turned in a basket of pig feed and came back early.

She didn’t stay idle, though; she planned to go back and weed her private plot.

Sun Yeshu was on her way to bring mung bean soup to the Leng Family. The weather was scorching hot now. Some of the fields were far away, so families would bring meals out to the workers. By the afternoon, they would have drunk most of their water. Around this time, you could see children and teenagers carrying baskets, bringing water to the fields.

The Leng Family had no such children, and Sun Yeshu was the only one idle at home, so she was the one to deliver the water.

The June weather was brutally hot.

Even though Sun Yeshu hadn’t been working in the fields, her face was still flushed red from the sun.

She shielded her eyes from the sun with one hand and used a handkerchief in the other to wipe the sweat from her cheeks.

She looked up and saw Gu Jiaojiao. Her face was fair and delicate, with beads of sweat on her forehead and even a fine sheen on the tip of her nose. Yet, she didn’t look disheveled in the slightest; instead, it gave her a different kind of beauty.

It was strange, really.

Sun Yeshu was pregnant and hadn’t gone to work since summer began. Despite this, while her skin had lightened considerably, it was still just a healthy, wheat-like tan.

Gu Jiaojiao, on the other hand, had been working in the fields every day since the summer break started. She didn’t even wear a straw hat. After days under the sun, her face had only grown fairer and more supple. When the vicious sun hit her face, you could faintly see an iridescent glow emanating from her skin.

Seeing Gu Jiaojiao’s face, Sun Yeshu couldn’t help but tighten her grip on her handkerchief.

She watched as Gu Jiaojiao, carrying a basket on her back, walked right past her.

Sun Yeshu’s brow furrowed.

’How did Gu Jiaojiao get off work so early? She’s so lazy. The work points she earns probably won’t even be enough to exchange for a few pounds of grain!’

When Leng Qingtian saw his wife bringing water, he put down his hoe and walked over.

He happened to hear Sun Yeshu muttering under her breath.

He followed her gaze and glanced at Gu Jiaojiao in the distance.

Gu Jiaojiao was beautiful, and with her fair skin, big eyes, and good figure, she was a stunning sight wherever she went.

He couldn’t help but take a second look.

Snapping back to her senses, Sun Yeshu saw her husband staring at Gu Jiaojiao. She immediately stomped on Leng Qingtian’s foot, hard.

Leng Qingtian yelped in pain and snapped out of his daze.

”What are you doing?”

”What am *I* doing? Your eyes were practically glued to her! Don’t tell me you still have a thing for Gu Jiaojiao!”

Sun Yeshu had only learned that Leng Qingtian used to have a crush on Gu Jiaojiao after they were married, from something Feng Ergou had said.

Leng Qingtian jumped in fright. The thought of Leng Yuan’s unforgiving fists terrified him. ”What nonsense are you talking about? Gu Jiaojiao married Leng Yuan just over a month after she came to the countryside. She has nothing to do with me.”

Even if he had felt that way back then, Gu Jiaojiao had never given him a chance.

Now that they were both married, bringing something like this up would get him nothing but a beating from Leng Yuan.

Leng Qingtian wasn’t an idiot; of course he wouldn’t admit to it.

On second thought, she realized he was right.

When Gu Jiaojiao first arrived in the countryside, all the young men in the village had taken an interest in her. But she got married so quickly that before anyone even had a chance to figure things out, she and Leng Yuan had already registered their marriage.

At the time, it had made everyone’s jaws drop.

Seeing that Leng Qingtian’s explanation was plausible, Sun Yeshu’s expression softened a little.

Leng Qingtian didn’t waste any more words. He gulped down a bowl of mung bean soup and hurried back to work.

Sun Yeshu waited for the rest of the Leng Family to drink the mung bean soup before packing up her basket to head back. On the way, however, she ran into a few girls from the Educated Youth spot. The one they were gathered around was none other than Chen Ruoyu.

Now that Chen Ruoyu was a teacher, she didn’t usually work in the fields, so her skin had lightened quite a bit.

The school was on summer break for the past couple of days, so Chen Ruoyu had also joined in the labor.

Since she had her teaching job, she chose the task of gathering pig feed.

Sun Yeshu remembered that this job had originally been Gu Jiaojiao’s, and she couldn’t help but press her lips together.