Capítulo 769: Chapter 771: School Life
Nian Shutong and Zhao Dii hit it off quite well, and after the al, Zhao Dii habitually got up to clear the table.
“Oh dear, when did you get back?”
Still eating, Ma Lei looked up with a bit of grievance and said to Zhao Dii, “During your stir-frying of the shredded potatoes.”
Zhao Dii thought hard, but couldn’t rember at all.
“It’s really strange, I don’t recall at all.”
Zhao Dii, holding a plate, asked Ma Lei who was still eating, “Are you done yet?”
“Not yet.”
“Oh, well then, rember to wash the dishes once you’re finished.”
Zhao Dii put down the plate in her hand and turned to give Nian Shutong a dazzling smile.
“Sis, shall I take you to see the rice I planted?”
“Sure.”
Nian Shutong happily agreed; she was indeed quite curious about what her seeds looked like growing outside.
Ma Lei, with his own bowl, watched his wife guide the way in front, occasionally turning back to say sothing to Nian Shutong, the two of them laughing and talking as they walked.
Why did he feel like he was losing his wife?
Ma Lei, who had been worried about Zhao Dii getting hurt, was beginning to worry about himself at this mont.
“Finish eating quick, you still have to do the dishes.”
Ma Lei, all on his loneso, had only said two sentences after coming through the door, and then he was stuck with dishwashing duty.
His wife, who always used to fuss over him, hadn’t even seen him this ti.
Could a woman’s affections co on too quickly? How had they beco so close in such a short ti?
Ma Lei was truly baffled and had no choice but to focus on his al.
On the other hand, Nian Shutong followed Zhao Dii out of the courtyard, heading towards the two mu of land she ntioned.
“Hello, Professor Zhang.”
Zhao Dii greeted a teacher walking towards them in a very formal manner; normally, she would receive a nod in response, but today Professor Zhang stopped in his tracks and formally replied.
“Hello Mrs. Ma.”
Utterly puzzled, Zhao Dii walked past with a repetitive greeting and a smile, and then mumbled to herself: Maybe he’s in a good mood today? Or perhaps his eyesight has improved.
“Sis, what do you an by ‘eyesight has improved’?”
“It’s about Professor Zhang; Lei said his eyesight isn’t good, and sotis he can’t see.”
Nian Shutong glanced back at Professor Zhang. Bad eyesight?
Probably he didn’t want to acknowledge Zhao Dii, so Ma Lei put it that way, but the most interesting thing was, Zhao Dii believed it.
“I wonder what’s wrong with this school, keeping a teacher like that. Doesn’t it hinder the children’s learning?”
Zhao Dii was a bit concerned, but then she said sowhat relieved, “They probably keep him because he’s so good at teaching; it’s quite pitiable.”
Zhao Dii continued on, while Nian Shutong followed with a hint of amusent. Interacting with soone like Zhao Dii could indeed bring so unexpected discoveries.
Zhao Dii didn’t know many people, but she had a few acquaintances, and as they reached the plot of land she ntioned, the number of people she knew seed to increase.
It turned out that this place was not rely two mu, but a vast expanse of farmland.
“Sis, whose land is all this?”
“The large plots are owned by the school to improve the students’ als, while that small section over there was divided among so of us who live on the school premises.”
“Let’s go, mine is over there.” Zhao Dii led Nian Shutong towards her own plot, asking as they walked, “Nian, do you want so land?”
“No need, I don’t have the ti.”
“True, you have classes to attend.”
Zhao Dii took Nian Shutong to her plot and pointed ahead. “What do you think?”
“It’s very good.”
Nian Shutong certainly wasn’t just paying lip service, since Zhao Dii’s plot was completely free of weeds and extrely clean.
“Right? I co here every day. If I don’t, I can’t even sleep well when I return.”
Suddenly, Nian Shutong felt that on so level, Zhao Dii and Ha Ha’s stubbornness was quite similar.
After observing for a while, Zhao Dii didn’t choose to go down. If she did, that would leave Nian alone up top, and that wouldn’t be good.
“Nian, shall we head back?”
“Sure, it was nice to take a walk, helps digest the food.”
“Exactly, now that you ntion it, I’m feeling hungry again. Let’s go back and eat sothing.”
Nian Shutong laughed silently, Zhao Dii was joking, but so people just ask for it.
“All you know is eating.”
A slightly reluctant and scornful voice rang out beside the two of them.
At the mont, the two of them were standing on a slightly elevated ridge. To the right was Zhao Dii’s rice paddy, and to the left was the field belonging to the woman who had spoken, also planted with rice.
However, her rice looked sowhat malnourished, with the plants growing haphazardly instead of in straight lines, and the weeds were even taller than the rice.
Zhao Dii recognized the voice and imdiately retorted, “I eat because my family has food, unlike so people whose fields are full of grass, yet they dream of harvesting rice!”
“Zhao Dii, who are you talking about?”
The woman stood up straight from the field, the only weed she had pulled out ended up tossed back into the water, which would co back to life in two days if not retrieved.
“I’m talking about you, who else? You’re so envious of it’s unbearable.”
Zhao Dii wasn’t the least bit intimidated by the woman in front of her, snorted coldly, and said to Nian Shutong, “Nian, let’s go.”
“Okay.”
Nian Shutong’s voice was soft and sounded frail, as if she was easily bullied.
The woman behind always lost to Zhao Dii in their confrontations, but she never tired of the challenge, simply because Zhao Dii was the first to farm the land, which now had made her follow suit.
She didn’t like farming at all; it was filthy.
Yet if she didn’t farm, there literally would be nothing to eat, as the first batch of large-scale rice in the interstellar had yet to mature. Even when it would, there would be a supply-and-demand crisis. As for the Little River Live, it was impossible to get a spot.
“Zhao Dii!”
The woman hurled her arm forcefully towards Zhao Dii, her hand covered with the mud she had been working with in the rice paddy.
Zhao Dii instinctively looked back and opened her arms in front of Nian Shutong’s face, shifting her body in an effort to shield her.
Nian Shutong’s fingers twitched slightly, and the mud seed to lose its strength midway, falling to the ground. The woman in the rice paddy slipped and fell face-first into the water.
“Oh no!” Zhao Dii winced, stepping forward anxiously.
“The rice is crushed!”
“There weren’t many to begin with, now there’s even fewer!”
“Serves you right for not being able to eat rice! White, fragrant, delicious rice!”
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