flstandardbreds Chapter 160 We have met
Chapter 160 We have met
Cheng Xuan shook his sleeves and stepped forward to welcome Qi Rong in.
Yuan Lai stood outside, smiling and shaking his head, "I won't go in yet. I want to go home first."
She didn't come home last night. If her parents found out she was gone, they would be worried.
My cousin was picking peanuts with Xiaohan in the yard. When she saw Yuan Lai come in, she asked curiously, "Why are you up so early?"
"Yes, I went for a walk around the village." Yuan Lai sat next to Xiao Han, took a bunch of peanuts and shook off the dirt on the ground, then picked the peanuts one by one and put them in a large winnowing basket beside him.
"My parents haven't woken up yet?"
"They were exhausted from loading the truck yesterday. Let them get some more sleep."
After a short while of silence next door, a commotion broke out. A tricycle sped past my cousin's house, followed by two bicycles, which were swaying slowly behind.
The others walked at the back, talking and laughing.
Yuan Lai put down the peanuts, ran to the door, and asked her aunt, "Aunt, is Xiaozhi working in the fields?"
"Yes, we're harvesting the last two acres of land today."
Yuan Lai bent down, picked up the bamboo basket and gloves at the door, and caught up with the large group in front.
The three plots of land were not far apart. Younger brothers Shaoxi and Haohao followed their uncle and aunt to pick corn in the fields, while Yibo Dundun and Xiaohe followed their uncle and aunt to dig sweet potatoes.
Yuan Lai walked to the field and looked at the vast cornfield, not knowing where to start.
Due to the terrain, large harvesters couldn't operate properly on these two acres of land, so harvesting had to be done manually. Xiao Zhi, with a plastic bag tied around his waist, tore the corn into the bag as he went.
"How are we going to harvest this? How long will it take to harvest such a large piece of land? Where's Xiaohan's mother?"
Xiao Zhi wiped the sweat off his face and said, "It's okay. We have to finish the harvest in the next two days. The forecast says it will rain the day after tomorrow. Xiao Han's mother is on a business trip and really can't make time to come back."
After listening, Yuan Lai took a deep breath, put on the sun protection jacket hood on his head, and zipped it up to the top to prevent his face from being scratched by the corn leaves.
Then she dove into the cornfield. After picking just one basket, Yuan Lai was already exhausted. She dragged the large bamboo basket out of the field.
Xiao Zhi poured the corn from the bag into the tricycle. Seeing Yuan Lai grunting, he quickly took the bamboo basket and said, "This is too much."
"It's okay, we're just getting started, I can still do it." After helping Xiao Zhi empty the corn in the basket, Yuan Lai sat on the edge of the field to rest.
Shaoxi chased his brother over here, his face flushed red, "You Wang Yiheng, you don't want to live anymore, do you? How dare you steal my corn!"
The younger brother ran a little slower, so Shaoxi pressed him to the ground and took out five corns from his arms.
The younger brother was so angry that he broke down and yelled, "We're all hardworking, what are you talking about stealing? I took it! I took it openly!"
Shaoxi held the five corns like treasures and shook his head at his brother on the ground, "No, that won't work. If I lose these five, I'll lose. Has my young master ever lost before?"
Haohao followed slowly from behind, "You two lose, I broke fifty first, I'm first."
"What the hell, you're number one? If Wang Yiheng hadn't stolen those five from me, would you have won?" Haohao didn't care. He smiled as he dragged a large bag of corn to the truck. "You two can rest assured. After all, the elder brother is the elder brother, and the younger brother is the younger brother."
Shaoxi and his younger brother jumped up from the ground and ran back, each of them coming back with a big bag of corn, and then did a lot of push-ups on the ground.
It seems they made another bet.
"No, Brother Hao, I don't accept it. He and I are fighting each other, and you are the one who benefits." Shaoxi's eyes rolled around, aiming at Xiaozhi's land.
"Uncle Wang's corn is almost finished. Let's choose this plot of land. The rules are the same. Each person has fifty corns. Whoever finishes first becomes the leader of the three-person team. The loser not only has to do twenty push-ups, but also has to obey the boss's orders."
Haohao clearly wanted to back out, "No, I've already won!"
"That doesn't count. He cheated." Shaoxi insisted on competing, looking at his brother who was grinning beside him, "Let's compete again."
Haohao couldn't resist and had to play with his two younger brothers. The three of them disappeared into the cornfield in a blink of an eye.
Yuan Lai took a sip of water, stood up, and broke corn from the outside. Looking at the cameras that surrounded him, he was wondering who would be the first to come out.
Yuan Lai's parents came to the field fully armed. They were shocked when they saw the crowd of people on the ground and Yuan Lai picking corn on the ridge.
"Lai Lai, are you shooting a short video?"
"No." Yuan Lai replied.
Mom and Dad walked into the cornfield and started working in relays. Mom picked the corn and Dad cut the corn stalks.
After a while, Shaoxi emerged from the field holding a large bag of corn. He ran to the tricycle and cheered, "Ahahaha, I'm number one! Stop struggling, both of you. Call me big brother!"
Haohao and his younger brother waited for a while before coming out of the field. Without arguing, they did twenty push-ups skillfully, but they couldn't bring themselves to call him "big brother" at all.
"It's ok to call me brother, but it's not ok to call me big brother. There is only one big brother in ten days."
"Okay, okay, it's ok to call me brother, hehe." Shaoxi won the game and was very happy. He kicked his legs and was about to leave.
Yuan Lai stopped Shaoxi's car and said, "This is our family's land. Why did you take my corn away?"
"Oh, well, I forgot. Come on, these three bags are from our neighbor." Shaoxi stretched out his hand and swiftly threw down the bag of corn. He motioned the other two to get in the car, and then drove away on the tricycle.
Yuan Lai was exhausted after a morning's work. He really didn't understand how the ten of them could find joy in such heavy work.
Yuan Lai returned to bed and just wanted to lie down, not even wanting to eat.
"Lai Lai, at least have a bite."
"Mom, I'm not hungry."
Yuan Lai turned over in bed, only to find Qi Rong sitting on the sofa, looking at her with a smile.
"When did you come in? Are you a cat? You don't even make a sound when you walk."
"Just now." Qi Rong stretched out his hand and gently grasped Yuan Lai's ankle.
Yuan Lai sat up from the bed and retracted his legs. "What are you doing?"
"If you sprain your ankle, you need to apply ice."
Yuan Lai looked over and saw that Qi Rong did have an ice pack in his hand. Although she didn't know how Qi Rong knew about her sprained ankle, she instinctively wanted to refuse, "No, it's just a minor sprain, it doesn't hurt."
Qi Rong frowned. "It doesn't hurt because you're insensitive, not because you're not injured. It doesn't hurt now, but what if it gets worse tomorrow? You have to go back to school after the holiday. You can't go with a cane or a wheelchair, right?"
The more she listened, the more things seemed off. Why was Qi Rong exaggerating so much? It was just a sprained ankle, but he was making it sound like she was going to be crippled.
"Okay, okay. I didn't notice you being so nagging when we were at the back gate." Yuan Lai stretched out his leg and let Qi Rong put the ice pack on his ankle again.
"You talked a lot when you were there, but why do you talk less now?" Qi Rong was afraid that the ice pack was too cold, so he put a towel in the middle.
Yuan Lai sighed, "I really don't know what to say. When I was a cat, everything I said was just meow, and I didn't have to worry about saying the wrong thing. But now that I'm a human, I'm no longer so free to do whatever I want. I have to think over everything I say, for fear that something might be inappropriate."
As she was talking, Yuan Lai suddenly realized something she had never thought about before. "When I'm a cat, can you read my mind? Can you understand what I'm thinking?"
Qi Rong was silent for a moment, then replied, "I can't read your mind. I can understand you because I was once a cat."
"Ah?" "Ah?!" "Ah?!!" Yuan Lai immediately contributed three consecutive shocked emoticons.
I didn't know if there was still someone sleeping under the niche. I mentioned it before, but she didn't take it seriously and thought it was a joke. I didn't expect it to be confirmed now.