Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Chapter 463: The Educated Youth Cousin in the Historical Literature (33)

Late April.

The scorching sun had been scorching for seven or eight days, and the water in the rice fields had gradually dried up, and was about to be exposed.

At this critical moment, God suddenly shook open the water bag, and a heavy and rapid rain came hurriedly at the tail end of Grain Rain, as if someone had overturned the Jade Emperor's inkstone washing pool.

The raindrops hit the paddy fields, splashing water as big as copper coins. A group of colorful ducks flapped their wings in the gradually rising pond, quacking excitedly.

The poplar trees and farmhouses on the distant ridges were all wrapped in a curtain of rain, and the white mist seemed to be covered by a layer of steamer cloth, making it difficult to see clearly.

After working hard for more than ten days, the educated youth finally had a rare chance to relax.

The sky was darkened by the dark clouds and the room was a little stuffy, so Chen Lan moved the small stool under the eaves and took out needle and thread to mend her clothes that had been caught by grass leaves while she was weeding in the fields a few days ago.

"Finally it's raining! If I had stayed out in the sun, I'd have turned to charcoal." Zhao Xiaoyun grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds he'd saved from the New Year and ate them while squatting on the doorstep watching Chen Lan mend her clothes. "Want some sunflower seeds?"

"You eat, I'm busy." Chen Lan was threading with her eyes narrowed, and replied without raising her head.

"Eat it, and you'll have more after you finish it." Zhao Xiaoyun smiled and handed the melon seeds in his hand forward.

"If you want to mend clothes, just bring it here. Why are you trying to play tricks on me?" Chen Lan skillfully tied a knot at the end of the thread and glanced at Zhao Xiaoyun with some amusement.

Zhao Xiaoyun chuckled when he heard this, and withdrew his hand a little embarrassedly, "Isn't it that I always ask you to mend clothes, and I feel a little sorry for it."

"What's there to feel bad about? I'm fine anyway, just killing time." Chen Lan shook her head nonchalantly, then added, "But I have to mend mine before I can sew yours."

"Of course." Zhao Xiaoyun nodded hurriedly, then jumped back into the house from the threshold, dug out his torn pants, and put them in Chen Lan's sewing basket. "These pants, they got torn when they rubbed against a rock a few days ago."

"Okay." Chen Lan nodded and began to sew and mend the clothes skillfully.

Zhao Xiaoyun continued to squat on the threshold, looked at Chen Lan for a while, and then shouted into the room: "Aihong, stop reading. It's so dark in the room. Come out and chat."

"I won't chat with you. You're almost like those aunts in the village. You talk about trivial matters all day long." Hu Aihong's somewhat disgusted reply came from the room, accompanied by the sound of turning pages.

"Since I live in the village, I must feel like one of the villagers. The great leader said we must build good relations with the people. I am just responding to the leader's call."

Zhao Xiaoyun was not angry when he heard this. He just smiled and threw a handful of melon seeds into his mouth, saying something unclearly.

"I've been rolling around in the mud all day, and I've already integrated into the crowd. Now that I have some free time, please let me rest in your golden house for a while."

"Oh, I don't know when I can go back to the city. What's the point of reading so many books? Be careful not to become a little four-eyed boy." Zhao Xiaoyun nodded towards the house.

As if infected by the negative meaning in her words, Hu Aihong in the room sighed deeply, and replied softly, "There will always be a day like that...", and then stopped talking. Even Chen Lan, who had been threading the needle with her fingers flying just now, became much slower in her movements.

Zhao Xiaoyun also realized that the topic he was talking about was a bit heavy, so he quickly swallowed the melon seeds in his mouth and changed the subject, "By the way, why hasn't Lin Xi come back yet?"

Chen Lan used a needle to smooth her drooping hair and looked into the distance, but the rain was so heavy that she could not see anything except a vast expanse of white.

"She told me last night that she had to go out to do something. She should be here soon."

"It's raining so hard, don't get wet." Zhao Xiaoyun said worriedly. Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly heard a burst of hurried footsteps, and then a somewhat bloated figure rushed out from the rain.

"That is..." Zhao Xiaoyun stared at the dark figure that was getting closer and closer, and blinked in confusion.

"Sister Xiaoyun, please help me answer the phone." Before Zhao Xiaoyun and the others could see clearly, the clear voice of the person came through the rain curtain.

"Hey, speak of the devil and he will appear." When Zhao Xiaoyun heard the voice, he quickly jumped down from the threshold, grabbed the hat hanging on the wall, and rushed into the rain.

Chen Lan also put the clothes in her hand aside, but the hat was taken away by Zhao Xiaoyun, so she could only move two steps outside the eaves and wait to take over.

Zhao Xiaoyun came closer with a conical hat on his head, and only then could he see Lin Xi's appearance clearly. He couldn't help but chuckle. It turned out that Lin Xi was wearing a loose straw raincoat and a conical hat on her head.

She was thin and small, but the straw raincoat and hat were so wide that her face and feet were almost invisible. She looked like a child who had stolen adult clothes.

"I thought Grandma Bear came out of the mountains. Why are you dressed like this?" The sound of rain was loud, but it couldn't cover up Zhao Xiaoyun's voice, which was a bit amusing and crying.

"Captain, lend it to me." Lin Xi replied in a hoarse voice, and then handed a small basket in her hand to Zhao Xiaoyun, "Help me, take it."

"Come inside quickly, don't catch a cold." Zhao Xiaoyun took the basket with a smile and led the way. "Watch your step, don't trip."

The two of them rushed to the eaves in the rain. Chen Lan couldn't help laughing when she saw Lin Xi's outfit. "Didn't you go out without an umbrella? Why are you back wearing a straw raincoat?"

Lin Xi reached out her hand from her bloated straw raincoat and lifted the bamboo hat on her head, revealing her pretty little face. "I brought it, but it was raining so hard that the captain asked me to wear this back to avoid catching a cold."

"Didn't you say you were going to run some errands? Did you go see the village chief?" Chen Lan looked at Lin Xi's shoes, which were completely soaked with mud and water, and the hem of her straw raincoat was still dripping with rain. She was about to reach out and take it off for her, "Take this off first; it's quite heavy."

Lin Xi reached out and pressed the rope at her collar, shaking her head. "Don't worry, I need to go and deliver something to the male educated youth."

"Are you going to see your cousin again? He's such a grown-up, he won't run away if you don't pay him a visit." Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiaoyun came closer to Lin Xi, looking as if he was disappointed in his cousin.

"Yeah, he's almost recovered these days. If you go there every day, those male educated youth say they dare not go shirtless anymore." Chen Lan also stretched out her hand and pressed lightly on Lin Xi's hat with a smile, and said teasingly.

Lin Xi frantically held onto the bamboo hat on her head and began to defend herself, "No! I really was delivering something."

Then he pointed to the basket at Zhao Xiaoyun's feet and said, "Aunt Guifen gave me some cherries, saying they were for the educated youth to try. These don't last long, so I have to send them over quickly."

"Are the cherries in the captain's house ripe?" Zhao Xiaoyun's eyes lit up when he heard that, and he quickly uncovered the oil paper and leaves covering the basket.