FID – Chapter 392

 Chapter 392: I Say You’re Not Sick, Are You?

  ”Grandma, individuals have their own destiny. Second Brother still has less contacts now. If his horizon is widened in the future, he may meet someone he likes,” Liu Yusheng comforted.

  ”He’s 22 nearly 23 years old, and I’m worried about him. Otherwise, I won’t worry about these things.”

  ”Do not worry. Second Brother’s destiny has not yet arrived, so just wait. Without you guys urging him, he himself will be anxious. Look at my elder brother. Wasn’t he also tight and disinterested previously? But after a trip to the capital and back, you no longer have to worry about him, right?” 

  ”That’s true.” Thinking of the eldest child and Yuzheng, Grandma Liu’s wrinkled brow stretched.

  ”Nannan has a point. Mother, I think we should not get involved. Let the boy be,” Du Juan agreed with Liu Yuzheng’s statement.

  Since the mother understood her child’s thoughts the most, Chen Xiulan also said, “The two boys at home seem indifferent about these matters, but in fact, they have very good ideas in their hearts. It’s useless for us to worry. We’d better let them follow their fate. As Nannan said, when fate knocks on the door, they will fall in love on their own. We don’t need to urge them at all.”

  ”Then I won’t care any longer!” The old lady made up her mind. Screw it, it was only them on the sidelines who were getting dry from anxiety.

  Meanwhile, after Li Junyue left the Liu family compound, she did not directly get on the carriage to leave, but trailed after Liu Zhiqiu, sprinting to catch up with him.

  The man’s strides were long, and she had to catch up with two steps against one of his. It was fine when she walked a little distance at first, but after running and chasing for a long time, she barely kept up and was already out of breath.

  ”Liu-gege.”

  Liu Zhiqiu, who was carrying a hoe, almost tripped on his feet. His face turned fierce, and he questioned, “What did you call me?”

  The situation at the restaurant at that time was special. The family was all there, and he did not want to make them unhappy, so he said nothing to her. He let her call him as she pleased, time and again. Now, was she addicted to calling him Liu-gege? 

  Didn’t he have a name?

  ”You are older than me, so I naturally call you Liu-gege, ah.”

  ”Can you call anyone older than you, ge, huh? I only have one sister, so stop calling me that. Also, don’t follow me. I’m going to the mountains to farm. Why are you following me?”

  ”Go ahead and farm, I won’t bother you. It’s my first time in Xinghua Village, so I’ll just follow you and have a look around.”

  ”I don’t have time for you. I say, you’re not sick, right? You’re a grown lady; don’t you feel ashamed to run after a man?”

  This statement was already harsh enough, so if she had the slightest same, she’d stop.

  Li Junyue did not, even though his words made her face red with embarrassment.

  Moreover, in response to his jab, not only did she stubbornly follow him, she also fast when he was, and slow when he was slow.

  She kept pace with him all the way up the Xinghua Ridge, loquat orchard.

  Since Liu Zhiqiu couldn’t drive her away, he simply ignored her and focused on his work.

  Yunzhou was geographically located to the south. Winter receded early, and there was no visible large area of snow in the ridge, but there were still fine pieces of thin ice everywhere.

  The herbs had been harvested from that medicinal plots in the loquat orchard, so the ridges were bare. After the winter, the soil hardened, and it was not conducive for planting, so they had to plow the ground once more. 

  Wielding a hoe, Liu Zhiqiu slowly ploughed the herbal field. He turned over the mud and broke them with the back of his hoe. The young man had the strength, so it didn’t take much work for him to turn over plot after plot.

  ”Don’t you need to pull out those grass roots in the ground? When they grow in the spring, won’t they grab the fertilizer?” The young girl, who was quietly standing at the edge of the ground and watching him work, suddenly said.

  Liu Zhiqiu raised his eyebrows in surprise: “You still know this?”

  Missy also knew that weeds will grab fertilizer? Has she ever touched a hoe?

  Li Junyue blushed a little: “I don’t know, I heard a little bit from the family when chatting with them.”

  ”Turn over these grass roots and bury them in the soil to make fertilizer. If they grow out, pull them out when weeding.” Hearing her talk about a matter related to farming, Liu Zhiqiu felt less resistance: “These are still all grass roots now. The roots are buried deep in the ground. It’s difficult to pull them out, so I won’t care about them for the time being.”

  Li Junyue nodded with understanding, watching him keep digging, knocking, digging, breaking. The work made him hot and sweaty, so he took off his cotton padded jacket, hung it to the trunk of the tree next to him, and continued to work.

  The man was very serious when working. Fine beads of sweat seeped out of the corners of his forehead, but instead of looking unkempt, it added an indescribable charm to him.

  The sleeves of his shirt were rolled up to his elbows, revealing his sturdy arms, and when he waved his hoe, he looked extremely powerful.

  Li Junyue blushed, feeling inexplicably hot and averting her eyes: “Why do you keep knocking the mud blocks?”

  ”Plowing is like this. Knocking the mud blocks will loosen the soil and create a good living environment for the seeds.”

  ”Let me help you knock down the mud!” She suddenly offered.

  ”You will?”

  ”Seeing you knock so many times, you won’t be able to do everything. I can try.”

  Hearing her answer, Liu Zhiqiu stopped, rested his hands on the hoe handle, and looked at Li Junyue for a while. It was only when he saw how uncomfortable she was under his scrutiny did he go to the other side of the ground and fetch a small hammer out of nowhere, and then hand it to her. “Knock with this.”

  Li Junyue curiously accepted the hammer. It was very small, and although she had puny strength, it didn’t feel heavy in her hand, but was very light. 

  ”The women in our family don’t do heavy work, but my mother is unstoppable and often comes up to help prepare a field with us. My father feels sorry seeing her use a hoe, so he specially prepared this small hammer for her to help knock the mud.”

  Liu Zhiqiu explained briefly, but it made Li Junyue picture it in front of her eyes, as if she witnessed it with her own eyes.

  The man was sweating from the ground work, and the woman followed him to help as much as possible. The two occasionally looked at each other, each loving the other dearly.

  That emotion didn’t need a verbal declaration. A glance would tell all; it was full of happiness.

  It made her envious.

  ”Your parents are so affectionate.”

  ”For sure. Not only my parents, but my grandparents and eldest uncle and eldest aunt too.” When mentioning his family, a light and extremely warm smile surfaced on Liu Zhiqiu’s face.

  So he must work even harder to protect his family.

  Liu Zhiqiu once again wielded his, but whenever he turned the ground over this time, he would occasionally miss a piece of mud regardless.

  The young girl crouched behind him, holding a small hammer and knocking the mud in three or two strokes until they were fine.

  Seeing that she had gotten the hang of it, he just hoed the ground, much faster than before.

  After a ridge, he stopped and took the little hammer in the girl’s hand.

  Li Junyue felt stifled and raised her head: “What’s wrong?”

  ”Stop here. Go take a break.”

  ”I am not tired.”

  Liu Zhiqiu lowered his head, and his eyes fell on her face. Backed by the light, those dark eyes looked deeper.

  He was standing, while she squatted, so her already petite frame was all but enveloped in his shadow, covered by his scent.

  ”Your dress is dirty.” She thought he was going to say something, but unexpectedly, the man pointed down her skirt, and uttered this.

  Li Junyue looked down. She was wearing a light-colored long skirt, and her entire skirt covered the ground when she squatted. It was dragged in the mud as she moved, so it was now stained with mud, dirty.