Chapter 11 I’m Chasing Xie Hezhang

The next day.

Shu Qingyao had a good night’s sleep for a change.

Because she got up a little late, when she went out to eat, everyone else had already finished.

She had just had a fever yesterday, Shu Qingyao didn’t have much appetite, she took a few sips of mixed grain porridge and put down her bowl.

Ruan Wenhui, who was sitting opposite her, had already finished eating, she was chatting with the old intellectual Jiang Qin, she was now unhappy with Shu Qingyao, and everything she did was annoying.

Seeing that Shu Qingyao wasn’t drinking porridge, she deliberately picked a fight: “Shu Qingyao, you’re so late, and you’re not eating breakfast, are you going to take sick leave again today? We all work hard in the hot sun every day, but you’re fine, you lie in the dormitory all day, you’ve come to the countryside to be a young lady?”

Shu Qingyao was chatting with Tang Yuan, she was interrupted by Ruan Wenhui, she looked up at her, and said with a smile: “I ate something else in the dormitory, I’m full, I can’t eat anymore, what’s wrong?”

Ruan Wenhui was stunned by her retort, the smile on her face froze, and she looked away with some resentment.

She knew that Shu Qingyao went to town yesterday, she didn’t know what good things she had secretly bought and hidden in her room, this stingy girl, she didn’t even know how to share!

After she came to the countryside, her family only sent her grain tickets and money once, she could only go to a small restaurant in town to have a meal once a week, how could she be like Shu Qingyao, who could easily take out two pounds of pork and five pounds of flour to treat everyone to dinner?

Thinking of Shu Qingyao eating delicious food behind her back, Ruan Wenhui felt uncomfortable – weren’t Shu Qingyao’s things hers? It had always been like this! Now she couldn’t eat them anymore!

The intellectuals finished breakfast and were about to go to work.

Captain Jin Zhuang came over and gave everyone a sickle and gloves, they were all used, he told the intellectuals that they were going to cut wheat in the field today.

This work was not easy, it could peel a layer of skin off you in the hot sun, but the new intellectuals had finished weeding, they should also join the main force to work, they couldn’t just do the easiest work all the time.

Ruan Wenhui grabbed a sharper sickle and a clean pair of gloves, she was feeling proud, when she saw Shu Qingyao sitting there without moving, Jin Zhuang didn’t assign her any tasks, he was about to lead the team to leave, she hurriedly grabbed Jin Zhuang’s arm, “Captain, what about Shu Qingyao? Doesn’t she need to come?”

Her voice was loud, she attracted the attention of the intellectuals who were about to go to work, everyone looked at Shu Qingyao who was still sitting there eating breakfast, and they were also a little dissatisfied.

“Captain, Shu Qingyao doesn’t need to work today?”

“Captain, why doesn’t she need to work?”

Ruan Wenhui said angrily: “Captain, you’re too partial, did she give you something, that’s why you’re helping her like this?”

As soon as she said this, everyone’s expressions towards Jin Zhuang became unpleasant.

Although accepting gifts was common in other teams, Jin Zhuang was known for being selfless, some intellectuals had sent him clothes and watches, hoping that he would find them an easy job, but he didn’t agree, why would he accept Shu Qingyao’s?

Because she’s beautiful?

Are they having an affair?

Jin Zhuang’s honest and dark face flashed with anger, he glared at Ruan Wenhui fiercely, and said angrily in a loud voice: “Ruan Wenhui, don’t talk nonsense here!”

“Then why doesn’t Shu Qingyao need to go to work with us? Captain, you’re doing a bad job!” Ruan Wenhui wouldn’t let up.

She looked at Shu Qingyao, who was clean and tidy, not far away, thinking that she not only hooked up with the villagers to help her work, but now even the captain was showing favoritism towards her, she thought that they were all on the same starting line when they came out of the factory, but it was the same as in the factory!

This vixen, she only knows how to seduce men!

Ruan Wenhui said to Shu Qingyao in a sharp voice: “Shu Qingyao, you’re doing this kind of thing in the countryside, you’re bringing shame to your parents!”

“What have I done, what shame have I brought to my parents?”

Shu Qingyao walked out from the dining table, walked to Ruan Wenhui, her delicate and white face was covered with frost, she looked at Ruan Wenhui coldly.

Ruan Wenhui had never encountered such a cold look from Shu Qingyao before, it was as if she was going to stab her neck with a knife the next second, she took a step back, she was a little scared, but seeing that everyone was there, she knew that she wouldn’t dare to do anything to her.

So she stiffened her neck and said arrogantly: “You’re messing around with men in the countryside, are you shameless? Do you dare to say that the man who helped you work yesterday has nothing to do with you?”

Shu Qingyao said calmly: “Well, I’m chasing Xie Hezhang, but what does it have to do with you?”

“You…” Ruan Wenhui widened her eyes.

“Men are unmarried and women are unmarried, can’t I chase him? As for you spreading rumors about me and the captain,” Shu Qingyao raised her hand, grabbed Ruan Wenhui’s hair, and pressed her against the wall with a grappling technique.

“Bang!” Ruan Wenhui’s head hit the wall, and she let out a pig-like scream.

“If you dare to spread rumors about me again, be careful of your tongue!”

Ruan Wenhui struggled in disbelief, she couldn’t believe that Shu Qingyao, who looked thin and small, could be so strong!

In her previous life, after her family became rich, her father hired a coach to teach her grappling and self-defense. Grappling uses clever force, it might not work against men, but it’s easy to deal with women of similar size.

“Okay, okay, stop arguing! Shu Qingyao, let her go!”

Jin Zhuang was in a difficult position, he had to come out and mediate.

Shu Qingyao let go of her, Ruan Wenhui retreated a few steps in a fluster, she looked at Shu Qingyao with a look of horror, she saw the ruthlessness in Shu Qingyao’s eyes.

Jin Zhuang said: “Shu Qingyao will be teaching at the elementary school from now on, she won’t need to work anymore. Her work points will be 10 points a day, calculated into our team, it’s also earning work points for our production team, she’s not eating for free, Shu Qingyao also earned work points through her own labor, everyone stop arguing!”

In Helian Village, an adult man earns 10 work points a day, while women and minors earn less, for example, an ordinary woman earns 8 work points a day, and a minor earns 5 work points.

Shu Qingyao earns 10 work points a day, which is the same amount as an adult man working for a day, as soon as Jin Zhuang said this, although it quelled the conflict about her eating for free, some intellectuals were still dissatisfied.

“Captain, haven’t all the teachers for each subject been recruited at our elementary school? How can Shu Qingyao go teach?”

Everyone was eager for the work points of the village elementary school teachers, and some intellectuals had gone to inquire, but they were all turned away.

How come Shu Qingyao, who had only been here for a few days, got in?

It seemed like she had pulled some strings.

Jin Zhuang said: “The village has always had a vacant music teacher position, Shu Qingyao knows the five-line staff and can play the piano, Secretary Wang asked her to teach music to the children.”

She can play the piano…

In these days, not every family in the city has the spare money to hire a teacher to teach their children piano.

Let alone piano, even the five-line staff, none of the intellectuals knew it.

Elementary school Chinese and math are fine, but this music teacher is not something ordinary people can be.

Jin Zhuang’s explanation made everyone feel a little better.

There was no way, who could blame her for having real skills! If you keep arguing, it means that your parents don’t have the skills of her parents, they don’t have the money to hire a piano teacher for you.

Everyone’s anger subsided, Ruan Wenhui’s face was burning, she didn’t dare to look up for a long time.

She had been convinced that Jin Zhuang had pulled some strings for Shu Qingyao, that they were having an affair, although no one was paying attention to her now, she felt that everyone was laughing at her.

Shu Qingyao can play the piano, she had a teacher teach her since she was a child, at that time, her parents thought that the rich had nowhere to spend their money, she also thought at that time, with that money, with that time, it would be better to spend it eating, drinking, and having fun.

She didn’t expect that after coming to the countryside, she could actually become a teacher at the school!

Tang Yuan smiled at Shu Qingyao: “If the school is short of any other subjects, remember to call me.”

She didn’t feel particularly jealous, everyone earns a living based on their skills, why can’t she play the piano?

Several other intellectuals also came over to greet Shu Qingyao, the closer you are to the water, the sooner you get the moon, Shu Qingyao became a teacher at the elementary school, if there are any vacancies in the school, they can also get in immediately.

Ruan Wenhui lost face, she looked at Shu Qingyao, who was surrounded by people and smiling, she pursed her lips and muttered: “A bunch of flatterers!”

She turned and walked out.

As she went out, she almost bumped into someone, the other person reached out and grabbed her.

“Be careful.”

A pleasant male voice, like a spring breeze.

Ruan Wenhui’s heart fluttered, she subconsciously looked up, and saw a man wearing glasses, about twenty years old, wearing a white shirt, he looked gentle and refined, standing in front of her, he smiled and asked her: “Hello, comrade, does Shu Qingyao, Shu Qingyao, live here?”