Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 55: The Cannon Fodder Sister of the Female Lead (Part 7)
"What’s wrong with the girl? I didn’t say anything, but she started crying."
Jiang Qiuhe scratched his head in confusion, feeling a strange sense of guilt inside.
Thinking about it, he realized he had indeed gone too far and hadn’t fulfilled his responsibilities as a brother at all.
"Why bother talking about her? She’s pushing her bike home alone, and... probably hasn’t had dinner yet. I’ll make her some noodles."
At this moment, Jiang Qiuhe sighed helplessly and casually said to Jiang Qu nearby.
"Next time, don’t forget that Jiang Lai can’t ride a bike."
Jiang Qu lowered his head and quietly acknowledged with a "mm".
After a while, Liu Shuping was seen carrying a big bowl of egg noodles into Jiang Lai’s room.
Jiang Sheng, although being the team leader, Hetao Village was still the poorest mountain village in the county. Almost half of the families in the village couldn’t afford meat, so eggs were still considered precious.
Typically, most of the eggs saved at home were sold, and the remaining ones were mostly boiled and given to Jiang Qu to eat at school.
Now that Jiang Lai was also attending school, Jiang Qu, who could usually bring five eggs a week, now had only three. The remaining two had to be divided with Jiang Lai.
But now, Liu Shuping had just placed two eggs in the bowl, and an oily layer floated on the noodle soup, obviously made with lard.
Jiang Qu quietly furrowed his brows, then turned around and went back to his room without saying a word.
On the other hand, Jiang Lai wolfed down the noodles, savoring the oily broth, and almost choked on the eggs as she gobbled them down in two bites.
"You eat like a dog that’s been starving for three days."
"Your mouth stinks like a cesspit that hasn’t been cleaned for a week."
"The sound of you slurping noodles is like a pig feeding."
"The way you talk sounds like a dog eating excrement."
Little Buding wouldn’t give up, and Jiang Lai was just as determined to retaliate, thus leading to a night-long back-and-forth verbal fight between them.
The next morning, Jiang Lai was awakened by the sound of a tractor outside.
"Hurry up, hurry up. Oh, just give me the stuff, no need to box it up."
Going outside to have a look, Jiang Qiuhe was sitting on a tractor, one hand on the handlebars while incessantly waving to the crowd inside the yard.
"Hurry up and get on! Once the time passes, I’m not taking anyone anymore!"
The yard was filled with young guys, and a few whom Jiang Lai found familiar but couldn’t name.
Jiang Lai asked Liu Shuping beside her.
"Mom, what are they doing?"
"Submitting the public grain, what a silly question to ask, child? Hurry, go sit next to your brother."
"Why is that?"
"Why is that? To help your brother with the accounting! With that brain of his, he can’t even figure out three plus three, and he’ll not even know how much he’s submitted by the time this is over."
Everyone was in high spirits, with excitement written on their faces, quickly rushing to get onto the tractor.
Jiang Lai, confused, was pushed forward. Just upon reaching the tractor, she saw He Xing already seated.
He sat in the corner and was visibly conspicuous due to his height.
Jiang Qiuhe, seeing his sister coming over, remembered what happened last night and immediately stepped forward to assist Jiang Lai up the vehicle.
"Come, be careful."
Jiang Lai snorted, turned her head, and went to the back. She climbed up the vehicle herself by holding onto the wagon and found a relatively clean spot to sit.
On the vehicle were also two aunties from the same village, who waved to Jiang Lai to sit with them upon seeing her.
"Sanya has been covering herself lately, right? How come her little face looks like it’s been powdered, so fair and tender."
Jiang Lai smiled politely, and said without any shyness.
"I’ve been going to school and not going out much, so I got fairer."
Indeed, Jiang Lai had become quite fair, in strict terms she was getting fairer day by day. Her skin, originally sallow, had turned bright white, with her naturally round eyes now even more glowing and spirited. Her cheeks had some fullness, revealing dimples when she smiled, bright and charming.
Today she wore a rarely worn green cloth jacket, adding to her freshness and simplicity, which naturally made people have a good impression.
"Oh dear, I advise you, Sanya, that school is pointless; it’s a waste of money that could instead be spent on dowry, getting married nicely is more useful than anything!"
Jiang Lai replied with a smiling face.
"Getting married nicely? How does one qualify as getting married nicely?"
"Having no worries about food or drink, being treated nicely by the in-laws, and having a man who knows how to care for you, isn’t that considered a good marriage!"
Jiang Lai nodded, noticed that a lot of eyes on the vehicle were focused on her, and responded loudly as if unaware.
"That’s not a good marriage in my eyes. I want to live in a big house in the city, ride a car, and hire a nanny to take care of me, while my man gives all his money for me to manage, that’s what I call a good marriage!"
"Oh dear, dear, what wild dreams are those! Are you planning to marry the Emperor then?"
"Anyway, that’s what my sister says, why can’t I have the same kind of marriage if my sister could?"
Upon hearing this from Jiang Lai, some people’s minds started pondering.
The two aunties couldn’t help themselves but whispered.
"Your sister is going to college and will live off commercial grain later; her standards must be really high."
"Anyway, in our village, oh no, in our county, no one is good enough for your sisters."
Jiang Lai raised an eyebrow.
"Exactly."
Her proud and spirited demeanor made the young lads around secretly fond of her.
At that moment, Jiang Qu also came over, with a green small satchel hanging across his body. He glanced at He Xing, who was seated inside, and seeing that he didn’t move, supported Jiang Qiuhe’s arm to get onto the tractor.
"Sis, it’s sunny outside today, so stay home and rest. I’ll help Brother with the accounting."
"It’s okay, I happen to want to see what submitting the public grain looks like."
With Jiang Lai not leaving, Jiang Qu, standing awkwardly on the packed tractor, seemed uneasy.
At this moment, a young lad voluntarily stood up and sat on the driver’s seat beside Jiang Qiuhe.
Jiang Qu thanked him and went over to sit down.
Along the way, the tractor bounced and shook on the bumpy dirt road. Jiang Lai was holding onto the edge of the seat below her, and while the people and grains shuffled back and forth inside, she saw that Jiang Qu, who had been sitting beside her, had now moved closer to He Xing.
The two were very close, and as Jiang Lai looked closely, He Xing’s arm gripped the other side of the vehicle, with Jiang Qu leaning against him.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Little Buding sighed.
"You don’t stand a chance; they already seem to like each other."
"If they like each other, so be it."
"Then you better change your target, going after Jiang Qu is pointless."
"I’m not targeting her because of He Xing."
At this thought, Jiang Lai lowered her gaze, concealing the coldness that flickered in her eyes.
"What do you mean, jealous that Jiang Qu is more talented than you?"
"Is your intelligence the size of a pumpkin seed? If you ever read carefully, you wouldn’t say nonsensical things like that."
"I have read carefully. Stop talking nonsense."
Little Buding firmly denied the fact that he slacked off.
