Chapter 221 The Fire at the Old Cowshed

Ji Haifeng watched the young man rushing to fetch water and sighed softly, "Xiao Mu, let me think of a way to get you sent away. This place is not meant for you. You have such a bright future ahead of you..."

"Teacher, with this situation, what bright future is there? Besides, I'm not going anywhere. I'll just follow you. Wherever you are, I'll be there. Please don't try to persuade me." Mu Zhang stubbornly turned his head away from his teacher.

Ji Haifeng was sent here a year ago. The people originally wanted to send him to a farm in the Northwest. He knew that it was the Yu family and the Bai family who worked together to get him safely sent here. In addition, there was also the old man Yu Guosheng who secretly helped him. Furthermore, the people of Qishui Brigade were simple and honest, and the brigade leader was a reasonable and good person, which made his life much better.

His wife and grandson were sent to Hong Kong by Madam Wei in advance, where they were taken care of by the Wei family. He had no worries at all, which was why he could stay here without any pressure.

He wasn't afraid of being tired or suffering, as long as his family was well.

Now, the only person he worries about and feels sorry for is this kid. He had clearly made arrangements for him, using the Yu family's connections to send him to a small county in the south to be the secretary of the county party secretary. But the kid was stubborn and refused to report him, and wouldn't agree to sever ties with him. He insisted on going down to the countryside with him.

Look at what's happened this year. A once fair-skinned young man has now turned into a rough country bumpkin.

"Uncle Ji, Comrade Mu, breakfast is ready. Come in and eat." A young woman in her early twenties came out. She looked a little haggard and had sallow skin, but her eyes were gentle and clear, and she seemed to be a very kind girl.

After the girl appeared, Mu Zhang's face, which had been acting like a rascal, instantly turned cold, and he kept his head down, refusing to even glance at her.

Ji Haifeng glanced at Mu Zhang and suddenly felt like hitting the child!

"Oh, thank you for your hard work, Sixian." Ji Haifeng smiled gently.

Zhang Sixian gently shook his head: "Don't say that. This is all I should do. If it weren't for you here, my grandparents and I wouldn't be where we are now. We wouldn't even be able to eat a full meal. We would probably be bullied to death."

"Don't say that, it's all my duty." Ji Haifeng shook his head, turned and glared at the stubborn student, then lovingly and gently led Zhang Sixian inside to have breakfast.

"Host, that Mu Zhang is so rude!" The little system doesn't understand the feelings between human men and women. It just feels like the girl worked hard to make breakfast and came out to call them back to eat, but that Mu Zhang didn't even say thank you and had a cold face.

That's really unacceptable; a person like that will never find a wife.

If his host suddenly got up early one day to make breakfast for that guy surnamed Fang, and gently called him home for dinner, that guy surnamed Fang would probably kneel down on the spot, and then reflect on what he did wrong, that he could make his little brat so angry that she fed him poison early in the morning.

Bai Nuo, who also didn't understand, shook her head. As a little girl who hadn't even reached adulthood in either of her two lives, she also thought that the guy surnamed Mu would never find a wife.

The morning was peaceful and uneventful at the old cowshed, while in the educated youth compound, which was about halfway across the brigade, the educated youth were also getting busy.

Sun Yuxi came out of the house and habitually wanted to knock on the door of the first room to wake up the little maid inside. Halfway there, she stopped and scratched her head.

Oh, I forgot, that girl injured her foot and Fang Zhiqing took her to the county hospital.

"Sun Zhiqing?" Xie Weidong opened the door upon hearing the noise and saw the young girl standing in the hallway with a frustrated look on her face. He smiled gently and asked, "What's wrong?"

“Xie Zhiqing, do you think we can finish work early this afternoon and go to the county to see Nuonuo? I’m a little worried about her injury. How serious must it be to require hospitalization at the county hospital?”

Xie Weidong hesitated for two seconds, worried that he would find out something was amiss, and quickly reassured her, "Don't worry, Bai Zhiqing isn't going to the hospital. She and Fang Zhiqing both have relatives in the county. Fang Zhiqing told me before she left that he would take her to the county hospital for treatment, and then she would stay at her relatives' house first. She will come back after Bai Zhiqing has recovered. She may need to go to change the dressing from time to time, so it's inconvenient for her to stay in the educated youth compound."

Before leaving, Fang Meng specifically asked Xie Weidong to keep an eye on their group, forbidding them from going up the mountain or leaving the brigade, and to wait obediently until they returned.

Although Xie Weidong didn't know why, he believed that Fang Meng wouldn't harm his friends, so he would naturally listen to Fang Meng, even though he was a younger brother who was several years younger than him.

"Alright then!" Sun Yuxi nodded somewhat disappointedly. Although she was worried, she also had one advantage: she listened to her friends.

It can be said that this advantage is shared by all of them, and it's unclear whether it was developed later after they met or if they already had it before.

Anyway, ever since they started hanging out together, they discuss everything together, and they are all very receptive to advice. Of course, they only listen to each other's advice; no matter how much outsiders plead, it won't make a difference.

Sun Yuxi turned around and went back to her own home to prepare breakfast. After the five of them teamed up, they took turns making breakfast every day. Breakfast was easy, but they would team up to make dinner together.

While cooking porridge, Sun Yuxi was lost in thought. She felt like she had forgotten something when she suddenly heard a gasp from the front yard.

"Aaaaah, where did this toad come from? Go away, go away, go away!"

"Quickly, quickly, get them away, get them away!"

Sun Yuxi paused, his brows furrowed, and suddenly his expression froze, his eyes widening sharply: "Toad, toad, skinny toad!"

Sun Yuxi quickly turned around to flip through the calendar she had brought from home. After seeing today's date, she couldn't help but shiver.

She remembered that around this time in her past life, something happened that caused a great stir in the brigade. Even she herself, who seemed to be possessed by something and whose mind was filled with all sorts of messy love affairs, heard about it.

Pi Laizi, the eldest son of the Pi family who lived at the west end of the village, encountered a woman who had just come down from the mountains on his way home at night. The woman was someone who lived in the old cowshed. He dragged her into the mountains and bullied her, and she was almost beaten to death by another man who lived in the cowshed.

When the captain arrived, Pi Laizi said that the woman had deliberately seduced him, and that the woman almost hit her head against a wall and died. It was the man who rushed over and hugged the woman, and then said that they were engaged and that the woman could not have seduced Pi Laizi.

However, on the same night, a fire suddenly broke out at the old cowshed, and apart from the young couple who were locked up in the brigade headquarters, no one else managed to escape from the old cowshed.