Chapter 18

Xu Li rolled her eyes, “Isn’t he the one who’s eager to help? Let’s not talk about whether his identity is real or not, even if it is, I don’t think he’s a good person.”

“Why do you say that?”

“Who’s a good person who comes and gets entangled with female comrades right away? He’s not entangled with my sister, he’s entangled with that woman Zhou Xingxue, he’s clearly not a good person.”

Hearing Xu Li’s complaints, Song Shishi almost burst out laughing.

A little girl could see through this, but she couldn’t in her previous life, she was really stupid.

“Keep your voice down, if he hears you, it’ll be so awkward.” Yang Huifang stepped forward to cover Xu Li’s mouth, but her eyes were on An Jinsheng, who was carrying the cabinet into the house.

Xu Li impatiently brushed her hand away, “What’s there to be afraid of? No matter what his identity is, he’s here, isn’t he just working in the fields and earning work points to support himself?”

Song Shishi smiled and put her arm around Xu Li’s shoulder, whispering, “My Li Li is right!”

“You guys… sigh… I wish I hadn’t brought this up.” Yang Huifang shook her head helplessly, seeing the two of them laughing together.

After the rain stopped, the village was busy planting vegetables again.

Song Shishi started to get busy building plastic sheet sheds and sowing vegetable seeds on her private plot.

The land of the private plot wasn’t fertile, and she needed to ensure the quality of the soil.

So before sowing, she still had to spend time taking care of soil loosening, fertilization, and drainage issues.

Because of the heavy rain for several days, the soil was too wet, which would cause the seeds to rot.

She had to wait for the soil to dry out a bit before planting.

Taking advantage of this time, Song Shishi planned to go to Qinghe Town again.

First, she wanted to buy fertilizer, and second, she wanted to go to the town library to see if there were any suitable books.

If she found any suitable books, she wanted to borrow them to study.

What she had learned in class from the teachers was just theory, when it came to actually doing it, she found that there were some details that needed attention.

The books Meng Xunzhou sent were indeed very good, but there wasn’t much about greenhouse farming records.

The brigade leader knew she was going to do this and was very supportive.

When she went to ask for leave, he approved it without hesitation.

Because she also needed to buy fertilizer and haul it back, Song Shishi went directly to Uncle Zhang and hired his oxcart to go to town.

Uncle Zhang naturally agreed, as he could make some money.

There was a lot of fertilizer, Song Shishi bought it first and put it on Uncle Zhang’s oxcart, then turned around and went to the library.

The library in Qinghe Town wasn’t big, but it had a wide range of books.

Song Shishi quickly found the books she wanted.

“You’re so irresponsible, you translated it like this, do you know the consequences? You still dare to say it’s a small matter?”

Song Shishi was about to go to the counter to borrow books when she saw a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit standing not far away, pointing at a young man and scolding him loudly.

“I’ve worked here for so long, I may not have merit, but I’ve worked hard. It’s just a few wrong words in the translation, why do you have to be so…”

The young man was still a bit unconvinced.

“Okay, okay, since that’s the case, I can’t afford your presence here anymore.” The middle-aged man said, taking out an envelope from his pocket and slapping it on the table, “This is your salary for this month, you can leave.”

The young man’s eyes widened, “You’re firing me?”

Seeing that the middle-aged man didn’t budge, the young man also got angry, he picked up the envelope on the table, “Do you think I care about this job? I think without me, you won’t be able to find anyone to translate your documents.”

The middle-aged man was so angry that he held his forehead and growled, “Don’t you worry about that, just get out of here!”

Seeing the middle-aged man’s worried expression, Song Shishi thought for a moment and stepped forward, “Hello, I’m an educated youth from Beijing who came down to the countryside, maybe I can help you.”

The middle-aged man turned to look at Song Shishi, sizing her up and down, his eyes full of doubt.

Song Shishi didn’t rush, she just smiled at him, confident in her expression.

But the young man who was there before showed a look of disdain and sneered, “Do you think this is any kind of job? Any educated youth can translate?”

Song Shishi didn’t bother with him, she just looked at the middle-aged man firmly, “If you don’t believe in my ability, you can just give me any document to translate, and you’ll know.”

The middle-aged man glanced at the young man, then nodded to Song Shishi, “Okay, let’s give it a try.”

After saying that, the middle-aged man turned around and took an English book from the bookshelf behind him.

He flipped to a random page, then pointed to a paragraph and said, “Just translate this paragraph.”

“Okay.” Song Shishi didn’t say anything, she took a pen and paper, sat down and started translating.

It only took a few minutes for her to translate a paragraph.

After drying the ink on the paper, Song Shishi got up and handed the paper to the middle-aged man.

“You translated so fast? You must have just written nonsense, right? This book is by a famous writer, there are many obscure words in it, I need to look them up in the dictionary to understand their meaning, how can you translate it so quickly?”

The young man was now in a mood to watch the show, arms crossed, making sarcastic remarks.

Song Shishi didn’t want to pay any attention to him, but he always liked to seek attention, so she looked at him sideways and said, “You can’t do it, doesn’t mean others can’t. I say, some clowns make mistakes and want others to bear the consequences, that’s really shameless.”

“Who are you scolding? What do you know? My translation accuracy is as high as 60%, which is already very difficult.”

The young man’s face flushed red, he stretched his neck and argued with Song Shishi.

Song Shishi rolled her eyes at him, “Only 60%, and you’re so proud of yourself?”

“You…”

“Great, great, comrade, your translation accuracy is very high.”

The young man wanted to retort, but the middle-aged man suddenly slapped the table, stood up excitedly, and looked at Song Shishi with shining eyes.

“Let’s go to my office to discuss the translation of the documents.”

“Director, you don’t even know her, you believe she can translate documents? Don’t be fooled by her.”

The young man didn’t believe that Song Shishi’s ability was stronger than his, and he was still trying to persuade him.

But the middle-aged man didn’t want to pay any attention to him, but he also didn’t want him to stay there and affect others.

So he looked at the young man with a serious expression, “Zhang Yong, for the sake of our working together for a year, I won’t have you kicked out. If you’re smart, just leave. As for whether I’m being fooled, it has nothing to do with you.”

The young man pursed his lips, “Okay, I’ll wait for the day you come begging me, don’t regret it!”

After saying that, the young man pushed open the door and left, disappearing into the crowd.