Aunt Bai's eyes suddenly bulged out and she screamed: "Ahhh——"
Seeing her rolling her eyes and fainting, Ning Yuan calmly said: "I did it."
When the aunt hit her, she was aiming to cripple her, so there was no need for her to be polite.
She turned to look at Li Yan and asked: "Auntie blames me for not listening to her arrangements for a date. Comrade Li Yan, this is a small conflict between our relatives. Should the brigade also take care of it?"
Listening to Ning Yuan taking all the responsibility on herself, a strangely deep light flashed in Rong Zhaonan's lowered eyes.
When Li Yan heard her words, her face turned blue, but she finally sighed and said, "You go ahead, I'll find a car to take Aunt Bai back to her hometown to see a doctor."
Regardless of whether Rong Zhaonan did it or not, Ning Yuan took the responsibility. Now he can only make this matter a trivial matter - a fight between relatives.
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Leave the village production team office.
Rong Zhaonan discovered that Ning Yuan did not go directly towards home.
He frowned: "Where are you going?"
Ning Yuan looked at the sky: "Go get some food, do you want to go?"
I injured my aunt today, and her two yuan and fifty cents for this month's living expenses are gone.
If the aunt told her current mother, she would probably not have living expenses next month or the month after that.
I have to find a way to fill my stomach.
Rong Zhaonan looked at her and nodded slightly: "Okay."
Then, he saw Ning Yuan come to a straw pile with no one nearby, and reached out to dig out it for a while.
He took out an old earthenware basin, a broken bowl and a small shovel, and took out a rusty iron box.
Then there was a straw hat for farm work.
Ning Yuan took the opportunity to give him an old earthenware basin and a broken bowl, and motioned for him to follow her to the creek behind the cowshed.
She walked to the creek, took a shovel and started digging for earthworms in the moist soil. After a while, she dug out a lot of earthworms.
Rong Zhaonan just looked at Ning Yuan and didn't find the squirming earthworms disgusting. He threw them into the broken bowl one by one, then took the slender branches picked up from the forest and broke off the branches.
Then, she opened the small box she was carrying, took out a fishhook made of a bent sewing needle and a thin hemp rope, floated it, and made a boom with the fishhook and bamboo pole.
She looked at the simple fishing rod in her hand with satisfaction and began to thread the chubby earthworms on the curved sewing needle.
There are a lot of fish in the creek. She used to catch the Tooth Festival when she first went to the countryside to join the queue.
Later, quotas for returning to the city began to be available. She was afraid that people would say that she was trying to harvest the collective's wool by catching fish in the collective stream. She would lose the chance to get a quota for returning to the city, so she no longer dared to fish.
Tools are also hidden.
Now...it doesn't matter, just eat something good!
Ning Yuan sat by the stream fishing.
Rong Zhaonan: "...can you catch it?"
Ning Yuan's eyes widened: "Just watch."
Rong Zhaonan leaned against the tree and looked at Ning Yuan's back with cold eyes.
In the autumn dusk, a girl wearing a straw hat and two big braids sits by the green stream, lazily holding her chin and waiting for the fish to take the bait, like a painting.
Rong Zhaonan looked at this painting in silence.
When the sunset completely set over the mountains, Ning Yuan's broken washbasin had been filled with four fishes in this hour.
Two grass carp, two bass, and she even caught some small river shrimp.
Plump fish and small river shrimps are crowded together in the earthen basin.
Rong Zhaonan said coldly: "You still have some fishing skills, but you are not afraid of being discovered. You want to cut off the tail of capitalism and participate in a study class to reflect?"
The fish in the streams and rivers are also collective property. There are many villagers who secretly catch fish. Generally, the village team turns a blind eye to their own people.
But he is a decentralized reformer, and she is his "wife" who is about to receive the certificate.
If you go fishing in the stream, you will most likely be accused of collecting collective wool, and you will be punished and criticized.
Ning Yuan narrowed her big eyes and yawned lazily: "Don't you know that God knows and the earth knows that you know and that I know? What, is Dr. Rong going to report me?"
It is now late autumn of 1978, and the national policy of reform and opening up will be finalized in early December. Now the environment has become much more relaxed.
However, Rong Zhaonan has not returned to work and has been trapped here. His worries are correct.
Rong Zhaonan looked at her and suddenly asked calmly: "If you are so smart, why did you take the responsibility for me at that time? Your family will not forgive you."
She also refused her aunt's request to frame him.
Ning Yuan looked at the fish in the basin: "If you don't forgive me, don't forgive me. As for why I want to help you, it's because I like to have a beginning and an end when doing things. If I want to regret it, I won't ask you to get the certificate in the first place."
Rong Zhaonan looked at her with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to see through her mind: "Judging from the money you can blackmail Tang's educated youth, you don't look like a moral person, either."
Ning Yuan's hand movements paused, and she never thought that her little trick could hide it from someone like Rong Zhaonan.
She looked at him neither humble nor arrogantly: "Because some people don't think it's a despicable thing to harm me for the rest of my life just for the sake of a place back in the city and out of jealousy. I'm just paying her back."
If Tang Zhenzhen didn't plan to cause trouble for her, she wouldn't lose five yuan.
Ning Yuan turned around and walked towards the cowshed and said coldly: "This is just her compensation for my mental losses!"
The money and goods she has paid "tribute" to Tang Zhenzhen in the past few years are far more than five yuan, and now Tang Zhenzhen is not merciless when he wants to destroy her!
Not to mention that Tang Zhenzhen wants to steal her jade pepper!
Rong Zhaonan frowned when he heard this: "Mental damages? Can we still charge for mental damages?"
It was the first time he heard this statement.
Ning Yuan looked at the confused expression on his face, and then thought of his cold and powerful face that appeared on TV decades later.
She suddenly couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips. Well, powerful people sometimes show such silly and confused expressions.
Rong Zhaonan watched as her cold expression changed, and she turned towards him, her big eyes as bright as black grapes, her eyebrows curved, like...
The song "Rain Alley" by Dai Wangshu - she is a girl as fragrant as lilac.
His heart skipped a beat inexplicably, and his face turned cold: "Why are you laughing!"
Don't even think about using honey traps or sugar-coated bullets against him.
This borrowed word of 'mental loss' is not something that most people would use.
Maybe she was not a spy sent to deal with him and his family, but a spy lurking across the sea?
Rong Zhaonan's lenses reflected the cold light, staring at Ning Yuan unpredictably.
Ning Yuan looked at him with a cold face, which made people shudder.
She also suppressed her smile subconsciously: "I'm not laughing at you, I just read it in the book and thought it was fun. Okay, let's go cook."
Mr. Rong has such a strong self-esteem.
She'd better go cook.
Rong Zhaonan looked at her retreating back, pressed the frame on the bridge of her nose, and thought coldly.
There would come a day when he would find out the true identity of her little spy.
Ning Yuan didn't know that although she had tried hard to cover up her unknowing behavior and certain words that were different from the times.
However, it could not be avoided that Rong Zhaonan had developed a keen sense on the battlefield for a long time, and he had completely regarded her as——
The "little spy" who needs to be found out
It's completely dark. In the village, chickens and ducks are put into cages, and cattle and sheep are returned to their pens.
After a busy day of farming, the villagers all went home to have dinner.
The cowshed is located at the foot of the mountain and is the least busy place. The surroundings are quiet at the moment... except that the air is filled with the smell of grilled fish.
Ning Yuan built a simple stove with old bricks and stones behind the cowshed.
She held up four fish threaded with branches and grilled them on the small stove. The firewood burned the fish skin until it became fragrant.
The fish oil dripped onto the firewood by itself, and the fish body was brushed with soy sauce and salt.
The belly of the fish is stuffed with ginger, green onion and wild perilla, and the smell of spices permeates the fish and permeates the air.
Rong Zhaonan came out of the room with a small pot of sweet potato porridge. When he faced the "exciting" smell, his stomach tightened.
Ning Yuan watched him stare at the fish in her hand, then raised the largest one and handed it to him: "Come, try my skills?"
Have a good relationship with the big boss.
Rong Zhaonan took it without any courtesy, sat down and started eating.
Ning Yuan saw that he picked at the fish very quickly and neatly, but she still saw that he was well-educated and he ate without making any sound.
"What are you looking at? Don't you want to eat?" Every time, half of the grilled fish in Rong Zhaonan's hand was gone, and he stared at the fish that was still grilled in Ning Yuan's hand.
Ning Yuan smiled and put the river shrimp threaded with wire on the small stove to grill: "I will be full after eating one. You can eat the remaining three."
Rong Zhaonan saw that she was busy sprinkling salt and grilling the fish alone. He reached out and took two grilled fish: "Okay, I can bake them myself."
Ning Yuan smiled, carefully turned a few skewers of small river shrimps that were almost cooked on the stove, and took a lunch box to make sweet potato porridge.
She gave two skewers of river shrimp to Rong Zhaonan's lunch box, and ate grilled fish and grilled river shrimp with porridge.
Rong Zhaonan looked at her delicate appearance while eating, thoughtfully——
The little spy is very good at craftsmanship, so letting her live here has some extra benefits.
Afterwards, there was silence between the two of them, just eating their meals.
Ning Yuan couldn't stand the awkward silence, so she coughed lightly and looked for a topic: "Why... why did you get that kind of spring... what kind of medicine is that spring?"
Rong Zhaonan is not someone who would be easily plotted against Chinese medicine.
She always felt that this matter was very unreasonable.
