Chapter 28: Significantly Whiter?

Picking up the vest, Xu Jiaojiao walked to the corner where the folding bed was.

At this moment, she was the only one in the room.

She had put the vest back on his bed before taking a bath.

Now it was back on her bed.

Without thinking, it must have been Qin Shuo who put it back.

After a pause, Xu Jiaojiao put the vest back on his bed.

Turning around to leave, she heard Qin Shuo’s voice behind her.

“Not suitable?”

Xu Jiaojiao: …

How could this be suitable? It was clearly a man’s vest!

Although the size was much smaller, it couldn’t hide the fact that it wasn’t a woman’s vest.

“I can buy this myself.” Xu Jiaojiao replied awkwardly.

Qin Shuo’s expression was also a little uncomfortable, but he still took out a few large bills from his pocket.

“Here you go, if it’s not enough, just say so.”

Seeing the money in his hand, Xu Jiaojiao’s eyes lit up.

“Wait!”

Saying that, Xu Jiaojiao ran to her own cabinet.

Opening the cabinet door, she took out a box from inside.

“This is the ginseng you want.”

But after she said that, she saw the man’s face was not good, and he didn’t take the ginseng from her hand.

Xu Jiaojiao was silent. This man’s mind was so difficult to guess!

Wasn’t he fine just now? What had she done to upset him?

If Feifei wasn’t here, she would have asked her to check if the man’s favorability had dropped.

“We agreed on thirty yuan, take it.”

Xu Jiaojiao said, and pushed the ginseng towards him again.

Qin Shuo’s lips twitched slightly, after a pause, he still reached out to take the box from her hand.

Seeing him take the ginseng, Xu Jiaojiao was also happy, and took the three large bills from his hand.

“Thirty is enough.”

She was unwilling to take even a penny more.

Qin Shuo frowned, turned around and went back to his folding bed.

With the money in hand, Xu Jiaojiao was in a good mood and went back to her own bed.

That night, Xu Jiaojiao looked through the medical book as usual.

She had been reading it for several days, but she still felt dizzy.

Some of the words in it took her a long time to understand their meaning.

If someone without a basic knowledge, they would probably be completely unable to understand it.

Xu Jiaojiao was a little depressed.

Couldn’t they give her a simplified version?

The medical book was obscure and difficult to understand, and Xu Jiaojiao unknowingly fell asleep again.

The next day, she woke up and didn’t see Qin Shuo in the room as usual.

Xu Jiaojiao, who was already used to it, didn’t think much of it.

But for several days in a row, not only did she not see him during the day, but she didn’t even see him come back at night.

Xu Jiaojiao finally felt something was wrong.

She quietly asked her mother-in-law, Wang Fengmei.

She saw her say with a helpless expression: “How would I know what he’s busy with? He went out before dawn.”

So he had come back at night.

Hearing her say this, Xu Jiaojiao felt relieved and didn’t bother him anymore.

He was a grown man, he wouldn’t get lost.

With the man not at home, Xu Jiaojiao’s life was very fulfilling.

She spent her free time after work either reading or visiting Ding Xiujing.

Xu Jiaojiao was now fascinated by needlework, and after learning from Ding Xiujing for a few days, she could patch up her own torn clothes.

Looking at the other vest she had sewn, Xu Jiaojiao couldn’t help but smile.

The afternoon sun shone through the window. Ding Xiujing looked up and couldn’t help but be startled.

“Jiaojiao, why have you gotten so much whiter recently?”

Hearing her words, Xu Jiaojiao froze.

She lowered her head and looked at her hand, and sure enough, she found that it was a shade whiter than a week ago.

Xu Jiaojiao: …

Oh dear, in order to prevent herself from getting so white, she worked in the sun every day.

And it was useless?

“They say girls change a lot when they grow up, I’m just going through a second development.”

Xu Jiaojiao said half-jokingly, and saw Ding Xiujing roll her eyes.

“You’re twenty-one, what does a change have to do with you?”

Suddenly thinking of something, Ding Xiujing said with a knowing look: “Maybe it’s because you’ve been eating well recently. I saw the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lin family, she did a month’s confinement and she became white and plump.”

Xu Jiaojiao: ?!

Could it be that simple? She hadn’t even thought of that.

“Take a look, have I gotten whiter?” Ding Xiujing said, excitedly approaching her.

No wonder she thought so.

During this time, Qin Shuo brought back some meat bones every few days.

A big pot of soup was cooked, enough for ten or so people to eat.

Although they weren’t eating meat, it was at least meat. They had been eating this way for so many days, it was normal to gain some weight.

Even the wild rabbit was eventually cooked and eaten.

The whole family ate like this, if you didn’t know better, you would think they were living a life of luxury.

Wang Fengmei kept grumbling, but she couldn’t resist her son, so she cooked it anyway.

After all, his leg wasn’t healed yet, and it was normal to drink some bone soup to replenish his health.

Xu Jiaojiao looked at the face that was close to hers, and felt that there was no difference from before.

But she still nodded seriously: “You have gotten a bit whiter.”

Hearing this, Ding Xiujing was overjoyed.

She picked up the mirror on her table, looked at herself left and right, and finally said with satisfaction: “I really have gotten whiter.”

Xu Jiaojiao: …

The power of suggestion is strong.

That night, Xu Jiaojiao still didn’t see the man come back.

Thinking that she didn’t have to work tomorrow, she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep.

She had been here for half a month, and she hadn’t even been out of the brigade.

She didn’t know what the county was like.

No matter what, she had to go to the county tomorrow to buy two vests.

In a certain alley in the family compound of the Wuyang County Textile Factory, a low shout was heard.

“Don’t move!”

Sun Dayong hadn’t reached the gate when he was knocked down.

The person who knocked him down was very professional.

It was clear that he was a soldier.

“What do you want?” Sun Dayong roared, his voice trembling.

“Be quiet!”

Zhang Yunshan twisted his struggling hands behind his back, and dragged him out.

Not far away, they met a tall figure.

“Qin Comrade, thanks for your help, we’ll take this man back.”

Qin Shuo nodded and made way for them.

“It’s you?” Sun Dayong widened his eyes, looking at the tall man.

He thought he had seen things, but it turned out he really had been targeted.

For a moment, he was so angry that his eyes turned red.

But how could Zhang Yunshan give him time to talk?

After saying goodbye to Qin Shuo, he dragged the man away.

Watching the three figures disappear at the end of the alley, Qin Shuo also turned and walked in the other direction.

The light and heavy footsteps were particularly clear in the dark alley.

Xu Jiaojiao was half-awake, and she seemed to hear a creak, like the sound of a door opening.

Her hazy consciousness instantly became clear.

She opened her eyes and looked towards the door.

In the moonlight, the tall figure was none other than Qin Shuo.