Feng Jiaojiao never expected that once she fell asleep, she would sleep all the way until the next morning.
“Jiaojiao, you’re awake! You looked so tired yesterday, so we didn’t wake you. You must be hungry. Come over and eat.”
Wang Yan and the others were just getting ready to have breakfast.
“Where’s Qin Siyu?” Feng Jiaojiao asked curiously. She hadn’t seen Qin Siyu anywhere.
“Hmph. Do you think everyone is like you? Her beloved man was snatched away by someone else, so how could she have any appetite? The food was ready, but she just grabbed a steamed corn bun and went straight to the fields to work.”
Zhao Meili curled her lips sarcastically.
Shameless. She stole the man her best friend liked. Judging from the way she acted yesterday, who knows what dirty things she might have done? Everyone should see her true colors. Maybe then Zhang Qiang would stop liking her.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Siyu… She fell behind on some work yesterday, so she deliberately went early today to make up for it.”
Work points were practically the lifeline of the educated youths. For those who didn’t have families supporting them, they could only rely on themselves. If they didn’t work, how would they survive? They would end up going hungry.
Feng Jiaojiao glanced at Zhao Meili, then looked at Wang Yan and Song Laidi.
She seemed to understand.
Her mind-reading ability had a condition.
She could only hear thoughts directed at her with malice.
Just now, she had heard what Zhao Meili was thinking, but she couldn’t hear what Wang Yan or Song Laidi were thinking.
The same thing had happened yesterday. She had only been able to hear Qin Siyu’s thoughts.
That meant she could hear the inner thoughts of people who harbored ill will toward her.
This mind-reading ability could help her identify when someone was being malicious toward her.
Not bad!
Still, being the female supporting character was really difficult.
It hadn’t even been two days, and already two people had developed such intense hostility toward her.
Why was simply trying to survive so difficult?
But she wasn’t someone people could bully easily.
“The person involved hasn’t even said anything, yet you’ve been barking your head off this whole time. An Jianjun is willing to marry me, so you’re just jealous, aren’t you?”
Since she had already offended Zhao Meili, there was no reason to keep making herself suffer.
“You… Do you have no shame?!”
Zhao Meili hadn’t expected Feng Jiaojiao to actually talk back despite being the one in the wrong.
“No, I don’t. Here, you can have mine. Then you’ll have an extra-thick skin, so you won’t have to just stare enviously at the person you like because you’re too embarrassed to confess your feelings!”
Feng Jiaojiao gave her an arrogant little look, making Zhao Meili grind her teeth in anger.
Everyone at the educated youth station knew that Zhao Meili liked Zhang Qiang, but Zhang Qiang liked Feng Jiaojiao.
Zhang Qiang happened to be away on leave at the moment, so he wasn’t at the educated youth station. Otherwise, yesterday’s incident would probably have caused an even bigger commotion.
“You!”
“You really are shameless! Aren’t you just relying on that seductive face of yours? You flirt with one man after another and have Zhang Qiang completely bewitched. What’s so great about you?!”
Zhao Meili was both furious and humiliated.
“My being pretty is exactly what’s so great about me. Hey, even if you wanted to look like me, you couldn’t. Do you even have the genes for it? Go ahead and die of jealousy!”
“All right, you two, stop arguing!”
Zhao Gang quickly stepped in to stop them.
If they kept arguing, everyone would find out all the embarrassing gossip going on at their educated youth station.
“Ahem… Educated Youth Feng! Come outside for a moment!”
It was An Jianjun.
He had come to ask Feng Jiaojiao to go to the county town with him to buy some things. Just as he arrived at the educated youth station, he heard the argument coming from the courtyard.
His brows furrowed slightly.
It seemed that his future married life wouldn’t be very “peaceful” after all.
And on top of that…
He had somehow gained a rival in love named Zhang Qiang.
The moment they heard the voice from outside, everyone in the courtyard froze.
“Uh… Well, Battalion Commander An, we were just fooling around. Don’t take it seriously.”
Li Hongyu quickly tried to explain.
“Oh, right! It’s time for us to go to work.”
Wang Yan hurriedly pulled Song Laidi and Zhao Meili together to gather their things. They picked up their tools and left the educated youth station.
The male educated youths also quickly packed up and disappeared.
Feng Jiaojiao didn’t know how much An Jianjun had heard, but she didn’t care.
She went back inside, put on her little backpack, and walked out calmly.
“Let’s go.”
An Jianjun raised an eyebrow.
“You don’t have anything you want to say to me?”
Feng Jiaojiao looked at him with her beautiful, sparkling eyes.
“Say what? I’ve already decided to marry you. What more do you want?”
“We only met yesterday, okay? Even if someone were going to put a cuckold’s hat on someone, it certainly wouldn’t be you putting one on me. Who’s the one getting the advantage here? Don’t you know that yourself?”
The thought of it made her annoyed.
She had barely transmigrated into the novel before she encountered the male lead after he had been drugged. He had tossed her around all night, and her entire body still hurt.
And now this damn man didn’t even know how to care about her. Instead, he was suspicious that something might have happened between her and someone else.
How could there possibly be anything between her and someone else?
Didn’t he know what had happened himself?
An Jianjun’s temples suddenly twitched twice.
For some reason, he suddenly felt an intense urge to smack her.
“You came all the way here on foot? It’s such a long distance. I can’t walk for that long!”
The moment Feng Jiaojiao thought about having to walk for more than forty minutes, she couldn’t help feeling anxious.
An Jianjun took a deep breath, then pulled a bicycle out from the corner.
“Get on.”
This was the An family’s bicycle—the only bicycle in the entire production brigade.
“That’s more like it!”
Feng Jiaojiao sat sideways on the back seat.
An Jianjun started pedaling.
Whoosh!
The bicycle shot forward.
“Ah! Slow down!”
Feng Jiaojiao angrily pounded his back several times.
Why is he riding so fast? Is he trying to shake me into pieces?
Her entire body was already sore and hadn’t fully recovered. Being bounced around like this only made her feel worse.
An Jianjun had only wanted to ride faster because the road was difficult and he wanted to reach the county town sooner. He hadn’t considered Feng Jiaojiao sitting behind him.
Then he remembered how she had barely been able to walk quickly the previous day.
With all this bumping and jolting, she probably couldn’t handle it.
So he had no choice but to get off and push the bicycle instead.
There was nothing he could do.
Who told him to get involved with this pampered young lady?
He would just have to take good care of her.
Feng Jiaojiao saw An Jianjun get off and push the bicycle while still letting her sit on the back.
She didn’t ask him to stop, either.
So the two of them continued like this—one pushing the bicycle while the other sat on the back—as they made their way past the village entrance along the bumpy dirt road mixed with gravel.
A hint of smugness appeared at the corner of Feng Jiaojiao’s lips.
Looks like this man has plenty of room for training.
When they reached the county town, An Jianjun first bought everything on the list his mother had given him.
Then he took Feng Jiaojiao to a clothing shop.
“Pick something you like. Something to wear for the wedding. I’ll wait over there.”
Since An Jianjun had decided to marry her, he had no intention of making her suffer.
He would do his best to give her everything he could to make her comfortable.
Feng Jiaojiao looked around.
There wasn’t a single piece she liked. None of them looked as good as the clothes she had brought with her.
“Are you actually buying something or not?”
The saleswoman became impatient after watching Feng Jiaojiao rummage through the clothes without showing any intention of purchasing anything.
“If I don’t look carefully, how am I supposed to know which one looks good and suits me?”
Feng Jiaojiao hated encountering salespeople like this when shopping.
She hadn’t expected people in this era to be the same.
“You’ve already gone through everything twice. I think you just want to look without buying anything.”
The saleswoman rolled her eyes, practically sticking her nose into the air.
She had seen people like this plenty of times.
They would find a ready-made outfit they liked, then buy fabric and make it themselves because it was much cheaper.
They might look well-dressed, but in reality, they were just poor people who couldn’t afford a single piece of clothing.
“There isn’t a single nice one here. How am I supposed to buy anything?”
Seeing the saleswoman’s contemptuous expression, Feng Jiaojiao immediately became irritated.
The money in my pocket is enough to buy every piece of clothing in this shop. Do you really think I can’t afford one dress?
An Jianjun had originally thought he could simply let Feng Jiaojiao choose whatever she wanted while he paid.
He hadn’t expected her to get into an argument with the saleswoman.
He quickly walked over to see what had happened.
“What’s going on?”