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Qiao Nian is as 'domineering' as ever.

Looking at her feigned angry face, Lu Xiao ignored her objections and chuckled as he gently pinched her cheek.

"pain!"

Qiao Nian, being quite delicate, slapped away Lu Xiao's rough hand, saying, "Don't you know how rough your hands are?"

As she spoke, she carefully touched her cheek again and muttered, "My skin is about to be rubbed off."

Lu Xiao's smile widened.

He just loved his wife's delicate and charming appearance.

If they weren't eating out right now, he would have given his wife a big hug and a kiss.

However, he couldn't kiss her while eating, but when sleeping, he would still grab her, pull her into his arms, and kiss her for a long time before finally letting go.

Qiao Nian touched her numb lips, wondering if they would eventually develop calluses from his kisses.

And another thing, he clearly feels so uncomfortable when he's close to me, so why doesn't he control himself and keeps sticking to me?
Isn’t this asking for trouble?

"Wife, you can't not let your husband eat meat or drink soup. That's not fair."

Lu Xiao's hot body encircled her, and he whispered something in her ear.

"Or is it that my wife is scared and can't help but pounce on her husband first?"

Qiao Nian...

She wanted to pounce on him, that's true, but after that, she definitely wouldn't do the kind of thing he was thinking about.

She wanted to bite him to death.

dog man.

That arrogant, stinking thing keeps her up at night every day.

She might as well bite him to death.

.........

This heavy snow fell for three days and three nights before it finally stopped.

For Lu Xiao and Qiao Guowen, their daily routine consisted of shoveling snow, shoveling snow, and shoveling snow.

After shoveling in his own yard, he went to shovel in the neighbor's yard.

Otherwise, if they pile up for too long, the door will be blocked, and they won't be able to get out.

The snow on the roof was also promptly removed with sticks to prevent the house from collapsing again.

Qiao Nian gets up after a good night's sleep, eats, and learns medicine from her master every day.

Twelve days have passed in the blink of an eye since Deng Xiaoping was crushed to death.

Today is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

There are fourteen days left until the Chinese New Year.

Lu Xiao said that Professor Zhang was returning from the county hospital today.

Qiao Nian asked curiously, "Is he also going to live at the brigade headquarters?"

"No."

Lu Xiao spoke up.

He moved into the home of a villager in the village.

"what?"

In a villager's home?

According to Qiao Nian's understanding, although the villagers in the brigade did not hate them as "outsiders," very few of them were willing to have close contact with them.

Not to mention they were even willing to let people live in their homes.

"who is that?"

Qiao Nian asked.

Lu Xiao: "It's that guy named Tian Hu, the militia captain."

"Uh……"

Qiao Nian remembered this militia captain.

Tall and big, with a robust build, he looks strong and capable of doing a lot of work.

But why did Professor Zhang end up staying at his house?
"Why?"

Her curiosity was piqued.

Under her persistent questioning, Lu Xiao finally told her what he knew.

“Yesterday I went to the county and met Professor Zhang’s daughter at the hospital.”

"Uh……"

Professor Zhang has a daughter?
Wasn't he also reported by his son?
Qiao Nian's thoughts were written all over her face. Lu Xiao smiled and squeezed her hand, "Being reported by your son doesn't stop him from having a daughter."

Although Professor Zhang immediately published a statement in the newspaper severing ties with his daughter after the incident.

However, Zhang Qing was a filial daughter, and even though her father took the initiative to sever ties with her, she did not disown him.

After graduating from high school, she came to a nearby village to work as an educated youth. During her holidays, she would come over to check on her father from afar...

"Wait a minute." Qiao Nian interrupted Lu Xiao, and began to let her thoughts wander, guessing at the story.

"Did this comrade Zhang Qing and Comrade Tian Hu hit it off when Zhang Qing came here to visit her father?"

You can't blame Qiao Nian for making wild guesses!

If things were going well, no one would take a complete stranger, especially an injured person, into their home.

Unless, of course, this person is his father-in-law.

Then anything is possible.

Lu Xiao smiled and gently pinched Qiao Nian's nose.

"How come my Nian Nian is so smart?"

"Ah, I guessed right!"

Qiao Nian spoke excitedly, grabbing Lu Xiao's arm and urging him to tell her the story of Comrade Zhang Qing and Comrade Tian Hu.

She really wanted to hear it.

"Near."

Lu Xiao found it both amusing and helpless, "That's someone else's business."

"Oh, the love story between a young woman sent to the countryside and a rough village man, how captivating!"

Qiao Nian began to imagine, "Love stories of people who met when they were humble and went through thick and thin together are the most touching."

Lu Xiao chuckled and squeezed her hand. "Could it be that you were forced into this situation and had no choice but to offer yourself in exchange for your father's safety?"

"what?"

Qiao Nian's happy expression froze instantly.

"Is that so?"

In order to provide her father with the means to recuperate, Zhang Qing decided to marry a man she didn't love, dedicating her entire life to this remote rural village.
The beautiful love that Qiao Nian had just imagined instantly turned ugly.

Her little face scrunched up; she was extremely unhappy.

Lu Xiao felt incredibly distressed upon seeing this.

"I was just talking nonsense, don't be sad, Niannian."

"I don't know what Comrade Zhang Qing is like, but Tian Hu definitely likes Zhang Qing."

"really?"

Qiao Nian's eyes lit up again, "So that's how the devoted, rough man's silent sacrifices finally moved the educated youth in the city?"

"Hmm, although it's not a love story where both parties fall in love right away, marriage before love is pretty good too!"

Lu Xiao, “…”

I don't know where his daughter Niannian gets so many ideas from.

It doesn't matter, as long as she's happy.

Whether other people are mutually in love or married first and then fell in love, that has nothing to do with them.

"Niannian, I might have to go to the mountains in the next few days..."

Lu Xiao then turned to Qiao Nian and started talking about serious business.

As soon as he mentioned it, Qiao Nian knew that it was time to settle accounts with Tian Weiqiang.

"Then you have to be careful!"

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"Need not."

Lu Xiao took her hand and kissed it.

"The baby is four months old, you can't overwork yourself. Stay home and rest well, and learn some medicine from your uncle."

"I will handle this matter."

"Then I'll have to trouble you." Qiao Nian patted Lu Xiao's shoulder, speaking in a businesslike tone, "I'll have Comrade Qiao cook something delicious to reward you."

Lu Xiao was amused and burst out laughing.

The two were chatting at Tian Hu's house in the village.

Tian Hu's house is at the end of the village. Although it's not as high up as the Qiao family's house, which is halfway up the mountain, it's still a bit far from the other villagers.

The small courtyard was pushed open, and the room next to the kitchen was kept very clean.

Tian Hu carried Zhang Wenxin inside and placed him on the warm kang (heated brick bed).

"Slow down, Comrade Tian Hu."

A young woman of average height reached out to support Zhang Wenxin, careful not to bump his leg.

This is Zhang Qing.

She was a teacher at the primary school in the next brigade.

Three days ago, when school was out for break, she finally managed to find time to go to the hospital and take care of her father, who had injured his leg, without taking off her clothes.

After taking care of her elderly father in the hospital for two days, when the doctor talked to her about discharge, she approached Tian Hu.

(End of this chapter)