Chapter 142 Miss Ruan Misled Us
Chapter 142 Miss Ruan Misled Us
While the spring swallows were building nests on the eaves, Ruan Qingqing led everyone to plow the fields in preparation for planting early rice.
Although there are tools for plowing the fields, it is not an easy job. Ruan Qingqing assigned the plow to Yuan Pingzhang and others, and explained and demonstrated to them how to operate it.
"Oh, it's so dirty! So dirty! I, Yuan Pingzhang, would rather be beaten to death than step in this filthy mud!"
When Yuan Pingzhang heard that he needed to take off his shoes and step in the mud, his face suddenly twisted.
Normally, he would tolerate stepping on the dirt. At most, he would just go back and change his shoes. But stepping directly in the mud, how could he maintain his image as a romantic and suave young man? When he returns to the capital, this incident today will be enough for everyone to laugh at for several years.
Ruan Qingqing's eyes twitched. "County Magistrate Yuan, how can you plow the fields if you don't step on them? You are here to work, not to be masters!"
"Can't I work with my shoes on?" Yuan Pingzhang really couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.
"Not only will wearing shoes while working make them dirty, but in the mud, your feet will slip easily when wearing shoes. The shoes on your feet are not only easy to fall off, but also easy to break. In order to protect the shoes and make it easier to work, we usually take off our shoes when working."
Ruan Qingqing explained helplessly.
"Even so, I won't take off my shoes to work!" Yuan Pingzhang insisted.
"Okay! Just work with your shoes on."
Ruan Qingqing was too lazy to care about these things.
Only then did Yuan Pingzhang close his eyes, step into the field, and learn how to plow.
Although Wang Sibo did not shout, he closed his eyes and stuck his feet into the mud.
Shen Zhizui frowned and looked at the muddy field for a while, then stepped in with his shoes on.
Zhang Qiuming and Zhao Zhen also walked into the field with their shoes on, looking disgusted.
Seeing this, Ruan Qingqing didn't say much and let them go. Some things can only be understood after you have suffered a lesson. If you haven't suffered a loss, no matter how others persuade you, it will be in vain.
"Ah! Help... Help!"
Ruan Qingqing had not gone far while driving the cattle when she heard Yuan Pingzhang's scream.
It turned out that Yuan Pingzhang's feet slipped.
Seeing that he was about to fall forward, at the critical moment, Ruan Qingqing swung the cow whip, grabbed his arm, and pulled it upwards, thus helping him to stabilize his body.
Everyone around was stunned.
"What a quick response!"
"What a handsome kung fu!"
"What a strength!"
"What a precise whip!"
"Do you know what you would have faced if I hadn't rescued you in time?" Ruan Qingqing asked Yuan Pingzhang with a serious face.
Yuan Pingzhang patted his chest with a look of fear and gasped for breath.
"Thank you Miss Ruan for saving me just now."
"You'd better work barefoot, otherwise the situation just now will happen again. I'm not sure I can rescue them in time every time."
Rather than letting muddy water get into his mouth, nose and ears, Yuan Pingzhang decisively chose to dirty his feet. He took off his shoes and socks very quickly and stepped into the mud.
Although it was still disgusting and uncomfortable to come into direct contact with the mud with bare feet, at least I had the feeling of being firmly on solid ground and no longer had to worry about my feet slipping and falling into the mud.
Thinking of eating a mouthful of rotten mud, Wang Sibo and the others all felt a chill. Now they didn't need anyone to urge them, they took off their shoes and socks, rolled up their trouser legs and started working.
Ruan Qingqing shrugged.
Look! Haven’t they learned their lesson?
It’s better to let others experience it themselves than to say it a thousand times.
After overcoming their fear the first time, Yuan Pingzhang and his friends no longer had any resistance to going to the fields again. After doing a good job, they could wash their feet and splash water in the ditch next to the paddy field.
"Alas, Old Fu went back too early. Otherwise, with the current situation, I would definitely have poured water all over him!" Yuan Pingzhang scratched his nose, looking unhappy.
"With his fussy personality, can he endure the harm of the mud?" Zhang Qiuming laughed.
Wang Sibo's face fell, "In fact, we couldn't stand it at the beginning."
"But what we can't stand is our mouths, noses and ears being poisoned by muddy water!" Yuan Pingzhang clenched his fists.
"Stop talking. It's our fault that we only have these two choices." Zhao Zhen's mood also became depressed.
Everyone immediately muted the sound.
"This is probably the dirtiest time in my life. In the past, if there was a stain on my clothes, I had to change into new clothes immediately, otherwise I felt that I couldn't live anymore. Now, even if there are spots of mud on my body, I can still eat as usual!"
Wang Sibo brushed off the mud on his sleeves and hung his head, "It's us who have changed!"
"A labor punishment overturned all our knowledge of the past twenty years."
"It also changed our living habits of more than 20 years."
"I found that nothing is truly unbearable. If it is, it's because the current environment is not harsh enough!"
"You've already lost your life, why bother with those little things?"
They sat down on the embankment next to the ditch and started chatting.
"It's over, it's over. We are becoming more and more like those poor farmers!" Shen Zhizui suddenly slapped his thigh and said with a sad face.
"Isn't it? We have Ruan Qingqing's powerful skills in front of us, and the mysterious supervisor behind us. With these two measures, nothing can be changed. But at least none of us have any broken bones or lost any parts. These are already great blessings."
Zhang Qiuming sighed.
Shen Zhizui's eyes flickered. "Is it possible that this is Miss Ruan's revenge in secret? After all, it doesn't matter what kind of work you do, but she picked the dirtiest and heaviest work for us to do?"
When he said this, everyone was touched.
"Now that you put it like that, it really seems to be the case! After all, at the beginning of winter, we caused her to scare the horse and fall into the valley. How can we forget our grudges with a smile?"
Zhang Qiuming slapped his thigh and said, "Do you think that beating us with sticks is too easy? You need to find us a long-term torturous job and torture us all thoroughly?"
"Look at my hands. They used to be so white and tender. Now they are covered with calluses."
"What's that? I'm so tanned that my parents won't even recognize me when I return to the capital!"
"What's this? I go home tired and fall asleep on the bed. I don't even have the energy to care whether the maids and servants around me have incense, whether they are the ones I like, or whether they bought fake or inferior incense?"
"What's this? In the past, we ate slowly and tasted only a little. Now, in order to save more time to rest, we subconsciously eat voraciously."
Yuan Pingzhang and the other five people looked at each other.
"We were completely destroyed by Ruan Qingqing and the others!"
"Where has our glorious image of a dandy gone?"
"Miss Ruan has delayed our waiting!"
Shen Zhizui and others shouted in unison.
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