Chapter 177: Coming To The Door
He unconsciously stepped back a little, forcing a smile as he raised his hand and breathed on it: He had just brushed his teeth with tooth powder before going out, how could there be any smell?
Could it be that those two boiled eggs had too strong a flavor?
“Comrade Su, your friend seems to have some misunderstanding about me. I don’t mean anything by it, I just want to get to know you. If possible, we could become revolutionary comrades together…”
“I think you’re dreaming!”
Luo Shuangshuang shielded her friend behind her with both hands, retreating several steps in a row.
That look of utter disgust, practically screaming “stay half a meter away from me,” made Zhang Yi, who always had a high opinion of himself, want to spit up a few mouthfuls of old blood.
“Comrade, if you keep spraying at me without knowing what’s what, don’t blame me for not being polite.”
“How exactly do you plan to be impolite?”
She stepped out from behind her, immediately switching positions with her. Su Ning looked at Zhang Yi, who had clenched his fist and was instinctively approaching, with an icy expression. “I’m not interested in getting to know you. Please stay away from us.”
“Comrade Su, believe me, I really have no ill intentions. I just… a graceful lady is a gentleman’s dream. Can you give me a chance? I guarantee…”
“Yue~”
This remark made not only Luo Shuangshuang unable to hold back, but even Su Ning felt a bit nauseous.
She turned around, took her hand, quickly stomped hard on Zhang Yi’s foot blocking their way in front of them, and mischievously ground it half a circle. While he bent over in pain, she immediately sidestepped, pulling Luo Shuangshuang away from this narrow corner that could easily be blocked.
“Heh tui~”
What kind of damn thing was that? Nothing at all!
He actually dared to covet their family’s Ning Bao Gai!
Luo Shuangshuang turned back toward Zhang Yi, who was holding his foot and still staring at them intently with his eyes, and let out a highly insulting “pah” and spit sound despite low damage.
Sure enough, this action made Zhang Yi’s already pale face look even worse: These two were indeed from the city, just as he had heard?
This behavior wasn’t even half as considerate and cute as a countryside woman!
Although Dong Ruolan was fat like a pig, she was gentle enough, obedient enough, and full of eyes for him. How unlike these two?
He watched those two increasingly distant graceful backs with an extremely sinister gaze: Su Ning, huh?
He wanted to see if she could still have this pure and saintly appearance after being conquered!
As if thinking of something, Zhang Yi showed a determined expression, coldly snorted, limped on his foot, and turned to leave.
……
“What does he want to do?”
After walking far enough, Luo Shuangshuang still felt her anger hard to quell. Thinking of that disgusting look from him made her want to turn back and gouge out that purely decorative watch.
She had had suitors at school and in the courtyard, but a guy this disgusting could definitely rank in the top three.
Su Ning soothingly patted the back of her hand, her jet-black thick eyelashes trembling slightly, with a bit of speculation in her eyes.
She had heard the village gossips’ behind-the-back chatter.
Things like being an orphan girl but having capable relatives, marrying her would not only get a big green brick house for free, but also the money left by her parents, and maybe even a enviable job…
These rumors spread with nose and eyes, and at least half the village believed them, if not the whole.
The gifts she brought to Su Qingshan’s family when she first arrived, the occasional sugar to the village children, the new clothes she couldn’t finish wearing, her fair and tender skin showing no sign of malnutrition—clearly she ate well in private too…
Just these visible things were enough to explain a lot.
But having ideas was one thing—who wouldn’t want to take home a hen that lays golden eggs? But very few actually dared to act on it.
Either the young men in the family felt inferior and lacked the courage to even speak to her, or they were afraid of being sacked.
Yes, like that Wang Xiaoer at the village entrance, and a few famous second-rate hoodlums in the village…
Almost all of them had been flirty just moments before, merely teasing with a few words, then in the middle of the night dragged straight from bed and sacked for a brutal beating—no one could get out of bed without half a month!
So vicious—who the hell would risk their life for a beauty? The biggest problem was that the perpetrator still hadn’t been found, and with such a ruthless unknown human or ghost watching darkly, who the hell thought their life was too long?
“He probably thinks I can get him back to the city.”
“Hm?”
Such a good job thrown away just like that to come back as a barefoot doctor—either a fool or didn’t care at all.
The biggest possibility in her eyes was that a job others begged for desperately was worthless to her, and she could easily get another if she wanted, so she treated it so casually.
The facts were indeed so.
But for someone like Zhang Yi, even if she had work quotas on hand and knelt until her knees bled, she absolutely wouldn’t give him one.
Not to mention he wasn’t anyone to her.
“So he’s using pursuit as a cover, but actually trying to find a way out for himself?”
Luo Shuangshuang couldn’t help pointing at her own head, her expression indescribable. “Does he have something seriously wrong here?”
Who gave him the confidence and courage to think he could get her just like that?
“Maybe it’s…”
“Dong Ruolan.”
Perhaps not just this one little girl who obeyed him completely—enough to make anyone self-inflated.
The two silently exchanged a glance, both getting mischievous smiles in their eyes.
“How can we watch a female comrade sink deep into the quagmire?”
“Then we must fill it in!”
“Let’s go!” “Let’s go.”
She hadn’t originally planned to do it so openly, but since he had shamelessly come up, don’t blame her for slapping back conveniently.
Bringing Luo Shuangshuang back to the village, Su Ning pulled out a few orange-flavored soft candies from her pocket.
“Sister Su!” “Elder Sister!”
The little ones playing with mud and firecrackers spotted them from afar, immediately dropped what they were holding, and swarmed over, their dirty little faces full of innocent, brilliant smiles.
“Su Sis…”
“Pang Hu, you’re really something! Didn’t you know what your hand just touched?”
“Heh heh heh, I, I forgot for a moment…”
The little guy called Pang Hu was the chubbiest and sturdiest among this group of generally skinny children, not wasting his name at all.
It was clear his family was one of the few in the village doing relatively well.
Remarkably, Pang Hu wasn’t spoiled, with a pure and kind heart— she had more than once seen the little guy secretly sharing his snacks with his little friends.
So naturally Su Ning liked this cute little guy a bit more. “Pang Hu, do you know where Accountant Dong’s house is?”
“I do, Sister Su! Turn that corner, right across from the ditch!”
“Thanks! Sister’s treating you all to orange candies.”
“Thanks Sister Su!” “Thanks Elder Sister!”
She patted each of their little heads, stuffed one candy per child, then smilingly said go play, and continued leading Luo Shuangshuang in the direction Pang Hu pointed.
“Ning Bao Gai, I noticed all the kids seem to really like you!”
She had also given candies to the village children before, but with comparison, she realized their liking for Su Ning came from the heart, not just greed for the snacks.
“They say kids are young and naive, but the world they see with their eyes is the purest.”
After saying that half-understood remark, the two had briskly arrived at the courtyard gate of the Dong family.
Accountant Dong, who had just come back from the fields after work, was barefoot rinsing the mud off his feet.
Spotting the two pretty girls standing at the door, he immediately slipped on a pair of gray cloth shoes over his still dripping wet feet and hurried forward.
“Doctor Su, what’s this?”
“Uncle Dong, I’m here to talk to you about something.”
Without beating around the bush, Su Ning got straight to the point. “Is it convenient now?”
“What’s convenient or not? Come on in, come in and talk. His mom, guests are here—hurry and make two cups of sugar water!”
“Coming right up!”
Only after entering the yard did they see a row of Dong family’s sons and grandsons standing under the eaves.
Looking over, it really was like entering a temple full of monks—all boys.
After greeting them and catching his dad’s eye, Dong Da picked up his youngest son beside him and hurried back to his own room first.
In the blink of an eye, the yard was cleared of people.
Before that, one of the young fellows who looked about twenty had quickly brought out several bamboo chairs before leaving.
“Sit, Doctor Su and this young comrade.”
“Hello Uncle Dong, I’m Luo Shuangshuang.”
“Good, good, Comrade Xiao Luo, sit quick.”
Dong Ruolan, who had already returned home, came out with her mom each carrying a bowl of sugar water.
No extra cups at home—the only one was the white porcelain rewarded by the commune years ago, now all chipped; not good for entertaining guests.
Called sugar water, it was just boiling water with a little brown sugar sprinkled in; the rare red sugar was naturally unavailable.
