"But no matter what," Xu Ke said coldly, staring at Qi Hong, "We must discuss a result today. You can help her for a while, then can you help her for a month, a year, Qi, Hong, comrade."

Qi Hong looked at her in disbelief, "Ha, ha," she lowered her eyelids and smiled bitterly, "Okay, you all think so, right?" She closed her eyes and said coldly, "Well, I will be with her these few days, teach her until she learns it, and it won't cause any trouble to you, is that all right?"

Everyone was silent.

"If you don't say anything, it means you agree. Lin Ling, take your dirty clothes and basin and follow me. I will teach you how to wash clothes."

Now that the matter is over, everyone should do what they should do. However, Xu Ke seems to be in a bad mood and is absent-minded when washing clothes. He is about to tear the clothes into pieces.

"Comrade Xu Ke," she came back to her senses. Jiang Yunyao squatted beside her with a basin in his arms, looked at her sideways, and signaled with his eyes to the clothes in her hand, "If you continue to rub, the clothes will be torn into pieces."

Xu Ke quickly rinsed the clothes in the water with an unnatural look, put them in the basin, and then picked up another piece of clothes and rubbed them with soap, and asked softly, "Why are you here."

"Why, is this place occupied by Comrade Xu Ke?" Jiang Yunyao asked jokingly while rubbing the thin clothes with soap.

"Comrade Jiang, I'm in a bad mood now, please stop making fun of me."

Jiang Yunyao paused while washing clothes, and then continued to rub them as if nothing had happened, "Are you still feeling sorry for Comrade Qi Hong?"

She looked at the short-haired woman on the other side who was carefully teaching the delicate girl to wash clothes. After teaching for a long time, the woman finally took the girl's clothes and washed them for her.

"It's ridiculous, isn't it?" Xu Ke also looked over there. "She will never be able to teach Lin Ling if she teaches like that. I really don't understand. You know, I don't understand why Qi Hong wants to help Lin Ling so much, even going against all of us, making all the female educated youth hate her. Is it really worth it to do this for a stranger?"

Seeing her so sad, Jiang Yunyao raised her hand and put it down again. After hesitating for a long time, he put his hand on her shoulder as if he had made up his mind to die. He patted her stiffly and said, "Comrade Xu Ke, you should know that everyone has their own way of living and what they believe in. Sometimes When you are disappointed and don't understand someone, it's actually because her choice is different from yours, but this doesn't prove that the other person's path is wrong. It's unreasonable. Comrade Qi Hong is very warm-hearted and kind. She is willing to help those weak people learn to grow. There is nothing wrong with this. It's better to live your own life than to get too entangled with others. "

"I'm done. Think about it." Jiang Yunyao took a deep breath, took her hands away as if she was relieved, picked up the basin and ran away. After walking a long distance, she looked back and saw Xu Ke staring blankly ahead.

What she didn't say was that if Lin Ling was a truly simple person, Qi Hong's kindness would not go unrewarded. However, Lin Ling was quite scheming, and she would inevitably cause a lot of trouble in the future. She was afraid that Qi Hong would become a farmer, and her good intentions would lead to bad results.

But what did all this have to do with her? She laughed at herself. She was not a good person. These irrelevant things or people were not what she should care about, right?

What happened to her recently? It was not her style to be so nosy. Did she become soft-hearted after living a new life? But she was not supposed to be soft-hearted.

She took a deep look at the girl, sneered, turned around and left without staying.

She came to comfort Xu Ke, haha, just think of her brain as a spasm.

"Comrade Jiang, you wash clothes so fast." Jiang Yunyao saw Chu Zhou smiling meaningfully as soon as she entered the room. Although Chu Zhou was usually careless, she was also thoughtful sometimes.

"Yeah," Jiang Yunyao replied, fiddling with the two clothes in the basin.

"Don't lie to me, these two thin clothes are not worth running so far to the river to wash. You actually went to comfort Xu Ke, right? That's great. I also want to have a good friend like you." Chu Zhou looked envious.

Jiang Yunyao's face darkened slightly, and she defended loudly, "Don't talk nonsense, Xu Ke and I are not friends, at most," she looked aside with an unnatural expression, and her voice dropped by more than one decibel, "at most, it's just mutual help between comrades."

"Then why did you see her running out with clothes in her arms, and also took a few clothes and ran out after her? You are so worried, and you still say that we are not friends." Women's curiosity is not divided by age or personality.

"That's because, because" Jiang Yunyao hesitated.

"Because I don't want to see her dead look all the time, I see her every now and then, which makes me feel bad, yes, that's it," she didn't know whether she was convincing herself or explaining to others.

"Comrade Chu Zhou, help me put the basin in, I'm going to cook." She hurriedly stuffed the basin to Chu Zhou and ran out.

She was worried and picked up a piece of clothing to chase after him. It was just because she thought Xu Ke was okay. If she kept looking gloomy, she would be the one to see her ugly face. In order to protect her eyes from being poisoned in the past few days, she reluctantly came to comfort her.

Yes, that's it. She doesn't need friends.

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Don't look at Jiang Yunyao's thin and small figure. She stood beside the big pot with a spatula and stir-fried a big pot of vegetables. Today, their meal was not as good as yesterday. There was only mushroom soup with corn cakes.

Jiang Yunyao stuck the freshly made corn cakes on the big pot, so that she could make a fragrant pot sticker, and paired with a bowl of mushroom soup, it was so beautiful.

People who went out to wash clothes and dry quilts came back one after another. As soon as they entered the house, they smelled a strong fragrance. "Wow, it smells so good, Comrade Jiang, you are so great. Now some people will not be so weird anymore."

"It smells like you haven't eaten for 800 years. Are you people in Northeast China so poor, you poor sour ghost."

"Hey, Zhao Ning, you are sick Why do you look down on people from Northeast China?"

Jiang Yunyao looked at Xu Ke behind the crowd and said, "Okay, stop arguing. If you keep arguing, the food will get cold. Go wash your hands and you can eat right away."

"Okay," Chu Zhou responded loudly, quickly taking a basin to wash his hands and face. The others were busy all morning and were hungry, so they also washed their hands one after another.

The crowd dispersed, and Xu Ke smiled at Jiang Yunyao. Jiang Yunyao looked at this smile and hurriedly looked away uncomfortably, sitting by the stove to cover up, and constantly stuffing wheat straw into it.

A shadow was cast beside her, and Jiang Yunyao was startled while filling the stalks. She looked back and saw Xu Ke showing a familiar smile and taking the stalks from her hand, "I'll help you."

"No, go wash your hands, I'll be done soon."

Xu Ke ignored her and continued to fill the stalks. Jiang Yunyao didn't stop and had to let her do it.

"Thank you just now."

"Ah," Jiang Yunyao was stunned.

"Thank you for your guidance. I feel much better now and I have come to terms with it. Thank you, my good friend."

"Well," Jiang Yunyao swallowed back the words that were about to come out of her mouth, "We are not friends," and finally managed to say, "You're welcome."

The two were silent for a while. After the fire was lit, Jiang Yunyao said, "Well, go sit down quickly. I'll take it over and order it."

"I'll help you."

Jiang Yunyao stared blankly at Xu Ke putting the pot stickers into the bowl one by one. She found a small bowl and served mushroom soup.

After eating and drinking, they lay down on the kang one after another to take a nap. Jiang Yunyao was not sleepy, so she took a book outside to read.

"I realized it when I was on the train. This is not the Little Red Book." The girl's teasing voice rang in her ears. She slowly closed the book and looked at the person who came.

"Why don't you go to bed?"

"Then why don't you go to bed?"

"I can't sleep, so I came out to read a book."

"Then I can't sleep either, so I came out to chat with you."

"Let's chat."

"Ah?"

"Don't you want to chat? Let's chat."

Xu Ke shook his head in amusement, "You have a really interesting personality."

"You are the only one who said that. Others say I'm boring and old-fashioned. "How could that be? It's rare to find someone as cold-faced but warm-hearted as Comrade Jiang. To be honest, I envy you." "What do you envy?" Xu Ke smiled faintly and looked back at her. "I envy you for always not caring about anything, as if there is nothing in the world worth your nostalgia and concern, and living so carefree." She laughed at herself, "Unlike me, on the surface, She always smiles and looks optimistic, but who can understand the pain in my heart? I finally had a friend to talk to, but we parted ways in the blink of an eye. She found a new friend, and I seemed to be just an ordinary friend she had taken care of for a short time. Now she has a new person who needs care, and I have become a passer-by in her life. "

"I think that Comrade Qi Hong must have regarded you as a friend, but she felt that Lin Ling was not good at speaking, had no friends, and needed her more. You are different. You have a cheerful personality and you can live well without her, so he chose the one who needs her more between the two of you."

"Maybe, but we have become ordinary comrades after all. Fortunately, after losing her, I have gained the best friend in the world." Xu Ke looked at Jiang Yunyao with tears in his eyes.

Jiang Yunyao felt uncomfortable being stared at by her, and dared not look into her eyes. Being stared at so affectionately, although it was friendship, she still felt uncomfortable and a little awkward.

"Comrade Jiang, we will be best friends, right?"

Jiang Yunyao pretended not to hear, looking up at the sky and the ground but not at her, refusing to answer the question.

She would not admit it, so give up, she doesn't need friends.