Chapter 50

After taking a bath, Gu Qijiao has been half lying down and not sleeping. She is waiting for Zheng Yunsheng.

Thinking that Zheng Yunsheng had been caught in the rain during the day, he would definitely need to take a shower when he got home.

Hearing the noise coming from the yard, Gu Qijiao decided to get up and make room for Zheng Yunsheng.

However, after Zheng Yunsheng entered the yard, he did not return to the house. From the noise, it seemed that he went to the backyard.

Soon, the sound of running water was heard from the backyard, and Gu Qijiao knew that Zheng Yunsheng had gone to the backyard to get cold water for a shower.

He still has an injury on his back, and he is just torturing himself like this.

But he is not a child anymore, he should be aware of his own body. Gu Qijiao was too lazy to care about him, she pulled back the quilt and lay down.

After taking a shower, Zheng Yunsheng returned to the room. After seeing Gu Qijiao sleeping with her face against the wall, he tiptoed onto the bed.

This happened when Gu Qijiao had already fallen asleep, and he was afraid that the noise would be too loud and wake her up.

But how could Gu Qijiao feel sleepy at this moment? It was still early, and Zheng Yunsheng had been acting strangely these past few days, so Gu Qijiao couldn’t sleep at all.

All she could think about was Zheng Yunsheng’s strange behavior in the past few days.

After she hit Bai Xiaoou, he held her hand and asked her if it hurt. He reported Bai Xiaoou and sent her out of Yueya Village. He was even injured today while trying to save her. Although he was afraid of snakes, he rushed up to protect her the first time he saw a snake.

After rebirth, other things seemed to be no different from the previous life, except Zheng Yunsheng, who became a variable that Gu Qijiao could not understand.

In fact, Gu Qijiao also thought about whether Zheng Yunsheng was also reborn, but she denied her own idea.

Because Zheng Yunsheng in his previous life hated her so much.

If Zheng Yunsheng was also reborn, he would probably do the same as her and would find a way to get a divorce as soon as he was reborn.

After all, they had such an unhappy ending in their previous life.

Both of them wasted their time and youth in that marriage.

But apart from rebirth, Gu Qijiao didn’t know how to explain the great changes that had taken place in Zheng Yunsheng.

Zheng Yunsheng soon discovered that the person next to him was tossing and turning but not asleep. He could certainly guess why Gu Qijiao was so worried.

But he couldn’t ask, so he deliberately found other topics to talk to Gu Qijiao: “Why can’t you sleep? Are you still thinking about the big snake during the day?”

“Yes, I was already thinking about how to make it delicious, but who knew that you would kick the food on the plate away!” Gu Qijiao didn’t know how to explain the doubts in her heart to Zheng Yunsheng, so she could only follow his words.

Hearing this, Zheng Yunsheng chuckled. He embraced Gu Qijiao and whispered in her ear:

“I can’t find the one I had during the day, but my husband also has a big snake. Do you want to touch it? It’s not thinner than that one, right?”

Damn it, Gu Qijiao immediately understood what Zheng Yunsheng’s big snake was.

That bastard is becoming shameless again.

How come he becomes a little flirt as soon as he lies on the bed?

Like being possessed by a god.

Gu Qijiao no longer wanted to be teased by Zheng Yunsheng endlessly. She pretended not to understand what Zheng Yunsheng said and responded:

“Oh, really? Did you catch the snake? How come I didn’t know where it is? Remember to chop it into pieces tomorrow morning. I’ll steam one-third of it, braise one-third, and stir-fry one-third for lunch. How about that?”

The more Zheng Yunsheng listened, the colder he felt in his lower body.

Well, there’s no way to chat today.

Seeing that Zheng Yunsheng stopped talking, Gu Qijiao raised her eyebrows wantonly in the dark.

Being interrupted by Zheng Yunsheng, Gu Qijiao stopped thinking about the strange changes in Zheng Yunsheng and fell asleep soon.

Hearing the person next to him breathing steadily, Zheng Yunsheng felt relieved and fell asleep peacefully.

The next day, Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng had breakfast, cleaned the yard, fed the chickens, and then went to earn work points.

Although it rained yesterday, the weather was hot and when I got up in the morning, the outside was so dry that there was no trace of rain.

The sun rose early, and we had to continue harvesting wheat as long as there was direct sunlight. The most feared thing during the wheat harvest season is rain. Fortunately, it didn’t rain heavily yesterday.

Because she had met the nagging old lady when she was collecting grass for pigs before, Gu Qijiao did not do this job today. She went to the threshing ground and helped to winnow the wheat husks.

Harvesting wheat is a multi-step process.

After the wheat ears are cut, they must be bundled and pulled to the threshing floor by ox cart.

When they arrived at the threshing floor, they would place the wheat ears on a drying basket, harness the ox or donkey to the stone mill, and repeatedly crush the wheat until all the grains were crushed down.

Then use a three-cornered fork to stack the wheat straw without wheat grains little by little into a tall straw stack.

The wheat grains continued to be crushed with stone mills until the husks on the wheat were crushed, and then the wheat began to be winnowed.

Winnowing wheat means using a wooden shovel to throw the wheat grains with bran high forward. The wind will blow away the bran and leave the clean wheat grains on the ground.

This job is easiest to do when there is wind.

What Gu Qijiao had to do was the last step, winnowing the wheat husks.

This job is slightly more tiring than collecting grass for pigs. One has to hold a wooden shovel and work all day. Each person also has assigned tasks to complete, and the work points earned are only one point more than collecting grass for pigs.

One work point is only worth five cents and is of no use.

If it wasn’t for the sake of peace and quiet, Gu Qijiao wouldn’t have done this job.

In fact, Gu Qijiao now has so much money that she doesn’t have to go out to work, but she would be bored just sitting at home.

When the busy farming season is over, she will go to the county town for a physical check-up, and buy her high school textbooks to start self-study.

By then, she will stay at home and study hard to prepare for the college entrance examination, and may not go out to work again.

If she does more work now, she can also help to restore her bad reputation in Yueya Village.

This job requires a certain amount of physical strength, and old ladies can’t do it. It’s only young girls and wives who do it.

Young people are not as talkative as the old lady, so no one discussed her bed-climbing shit in front of Gu Qijiao.

In addition, Gu Qijiao was very skillful, and whenever a bullock cart came into the threshing floor, she would take the initiative to help unload the wheat ears.

She worked in the wheat field for half a day, and many people looked at her with a much kinder look.

Half a day passed in the blink of an eye. When we got home at noon, Zheng Yunsheng was still the one making the fire and Gu Qijiao was cooking.

The two of them cooked and ate lunch together, but no food was sent to Tong Dixin at noon because there were many people around during the day and it would be easy for them to be seen.

When they got off work in the evening and finished their meal, Zheng Yunsheng secretly brought food to Tong Dixin in the dark.

However, Zheng Yunsheng did not plan to go back after delivering the things tonight. He knew that there was a dilapidated temple nearby, and some mysterious transactions would take place there on even days in the evening.