Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

Chapter 171 The best choice

Liu Ruo spoke as she gently rocked a simple stroller to coax the baby inside. The baby stared at her fingers with round eyes and sucked on them.

"Yeah, I know, I'm not here to discuss this with you."

In order to prevent Li Meifen from actually reporting the cosmetics of unknown origin to the village party secretary or the village chief, Lan Ying decided to temporarily move her belongings to another place.

After thinking for a long time, she felt that Liu Ruo was the best choice because he was the safest.

"What? I want to bring your things here, but you have no place to put them... Look at my house, is there any empty space to put things besides the two of us?" When Lan Ying made this request, Liu Ruo's face clearly showed embarrassment.

But Lan Ying was determined and her tone became a little tougher: "Where did I say I would leave it with you? If your husband sees it, wouldn't the whole village know about it?" When Liu Ruo mentioned this issue, he was speechless for a moment.

"You just need to deliver the things to where we work. After the dormitory is ready in two days, I will pick them up myself." Lan Ying explained.

Anyway, Li Meifen’s time in their village is limited. Even if the village does not change the dormitories, Su Wanwan and the others will leave in three or four days.

Things will calm down one day.

"Okay." Liu Ruo glanced at the child beside him, thought about it, and nodded firmly.

Lan Ying then left Liu Ruo's house carefully, and Xu Yan, who was following closely behind her, saw everything. When Lan Ying returned to the infirmary, he secretly followed Liu Ruo again, confirmed her actions, and quietly returned to the clinic.

At this time, Li Meifen, who had just submitted her self-criticism, happened to run into Lan Ying. When the two met, the air was suddenly filled with tense silence.

"I was going to submit a letter of apology and expose you at the same time. What on earth did you go there for?" Li Meifen knew that meals in the canteen of her village were only provided at noon. She had already spent some time submitting the letter of apology. If she delayed any longer, lunch would probably be over by the time they walked from the clinic to the canteen.

Then you will just go hungry.

Therefore, even though she criticized Lan Ying harshly, Li Meifen still hurriedly packed her lunch box and rushed to the cafeteria.

No one knew what she ate during the three days she was confined in a small dark room. Compared to that environment, the group meals in the cafeteria were a rare delicacy for her.

"This has nothing to do with you, right?" The two women bickered as they took their lunch boxes and walked towards the cafeteria almost at the same time. Seeing this scene from afar, Su Wanwan, who had already packed her meal and was walking back, encountered a funny scene.

Li Meifen and Lan Ying walked side by side, but there was a whole road width between them, and they were at different ends of the road.

"Is the cafeteria still open?" Li Meifen asked when she saw Su Wanwan coming back.

"Yes, go ahead, the lunch break should be almost over." Su Wanwan nodded and skillfully moved around the space between them.

Since Lan Ying is back, Xu Yan should be almost done too, right? Su Wanwan thought to herself, quickening her pace, the warmth of the food still lingering in her hands.

When Xu Yan quietly returned to the entrance of the clinic, he happened to meet Su Wanwan who was returning with a lunch box. The moment their eyes met, Su Wanwan quickly handed the lunch box forward.

"Are you hungry? It doesn't look like it's cold yet, eat it while it's hot." Su Wanwan's breathing was a little disordered because she left in a hurry. After handing the lunch box to Xu Yan, she immediately took the kettle to quench her thirst.

"You ran back?" Xu Yan felt a warm feeling in his heart, and asked while holding Su Wanwan's heavy lunch box tightly. Before this, he had never really experienced the word warmth.

"Not really. It's just that the weather is getting cooler. Walking faster can help me sweat and drive away the cold." Realizing that she had lost her composure, Su Wanwan explained with a slight stutter.

"I'm not that hungry yet." Xu Yan gently opened the lunch box lid and looked at the neatly arranged food inside. His tone became gentler. "Don't be anxious next time. I'll wait a little longer."

Su Wanwan nodded in agreement, her cheeks slightly hot, and the two of them stepped into the clinic room together. Just at this moment, the families of the two injured people brought food, and the four of them gathered together to enjoy it. Xu Yan placed the lunch box on the table by the window.

"Don't blame me if I say you are weird." The two injured villagers witnessed the argument between Li Meifen and another girl in the morning. The two happened to be away at the moment, so they spoke to Su Wanwan and Xu Yan.

"What's weird about that?" Su Wanwan asked with a smile.

"I have worked in the village production team for many years, and I have never seen such a young man who is always causing trouble." A villager smiled as he chewed a sweet potato.

"That's right! At the beginning, everyone thought Lan Ying was already a headache and she could control us all. Who knew that an even more troublesome person would come." Another person agreed.

Xu Yan suddenly asked: "Are there any other strange things?"

"Didn't you find the quarrel you heard this morning strange? Li Meifen suspected the source of those cosmetics. In my opinion, they are quite expensive, and she did use a lot of them." Following the conversation, Su Wanwan joined in.

The two villagers lying on the hospital beds were speechless when they heard this.

"This one……"

Seeing them exchange glances and slow down their eating speed, Su Wanwan guessed that they might have something to say.

"They are not outsiders anyway, so it's okay to chat with them. They are in the cafeteria now and they probably won't be back in the short term."

Perhaps it was Su Wanwan's gentle and clear voice that made them feel comfortable. After a moment, one of them smiled and said, "Hey, you don't understand. The situation here may be different from that in your village."

"In what ways are they different?" Xu Yan asked at the right time.

"It's because... there are actually still some people who are hungry. Even if they don't say it on the surface, they will suffer if they are hungry for a long time, so some people with extensive connections will do some side jobs in private..."

“What business?”

Although Su Wanwan's innocent and harmless expression made it difficult for people to be on guard, the two injured people still hesitated for a long time.

"That is... maybe they go into the mountains to find some wild vegetables, secretly bring them to the city and sell them for a few cents to supplement their family income."

"No more?" Su Wanwan asked meaningfully.

Since we can pick wild vegetables, it is naturally not difficult to hunt wild animals.

"We don't know much about the rest, and everyone works in the fields all day long. It's so hard, how can they have the energy to do anything else?"

That’s true. Su Wanwan pursed her lips to show her understanding.

Unless someone like Xu Yan has extraordinary physical strength, maybe...plus teamwork?

Li Meirong and another partner came back from the cafeteria and found that the two injured people in the clinic were already fast asleep in bed after the meal. Su Wanwan and the other two were also waiting quietly at the door as if nothing had happened.

"The doctor asked me to go over there this afternoon to study medicine. You guys stay here and watch over me. Don't mess it up."

After returning to the clinic, Lan Ying just put down the food bowl and kettle, and turned to look at Su Wanwan with a cold gaze.