The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man novel Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Heaven is Unfair

Feng Ergou cursed inwardly, but it wasn’t enough. He couldn’t help but sigh at how unfair life was. He clearly wasn’t that much worse than Leng Yuan, so why was Leng Yuan better than him in every way?

As long as Leng Yuan was happy, Feng Ergou was miserable. He eagerly hoped Gu Jiaojiao would just dump Leng Yuan and go back to the city.

That way, Leng Yuan would be a poor, unwanted soul, and he would become the laughingstock of the Qingshan Team.

Watching their departing figures, Feng Ergou spat. "What’s there to be so smug about? I refuse to believe Gu Jiaojiao will actually settle down with you. We’ll just wait and see!"

Fueled by this conviction, Feng Ergou found he had much more energy for work that day.

「Meanwhile」 Gu Jiaojiao was oblivious to the commotion. After Leng Yuan left for work, she grabbed her bag, locked the door, and headed for the County Town.

The County Town was some distance from the village—a half-hour ride by bicycle, but over an hour on foot.

In the entire Qingshan Team, only the team leader’s family owned a bicycle.

In those days, a bicycle was a family’s prized possession, like a luxury car worth millions in later eras.

Leng Yuan had borrowed the team leader’s bike last time when he returned to register their marriage.

This time, Gu Jiaojiao didn’t go to borrow it.

The team had a written rule: the bike could be borrowed, but only for truly important matters. Otherwise, it wasn’t to be lent out.

It was currently the Qiushou, so everyone was busy with the harvest. The village oxcart wasn’t going to the County Town either, which meant Gu Jiaojiao had to walk.

But just as she reached the main road, Li Hongmei stopped her.

Gu Jiaojiao raised an eyebrow.

"Hong Mei, you’re not at work today?"

"Work can wait a moment. I have something very important to tell you." Li Hongmei had been in a hurry to get to her post, but now she seemed to have forgotten her rush. Compared to her work points, what she was about to say was more important.

Gu Jiaojiao said nothing, so Li Hongmei had to speak first.

"Jiaojiao, are you really planning to settle down with Leng Yuan? Then what about Yun Hao? Are you just giving up on him like that?"

In the end, Li Hongmei still had to rush off to work. She had no money to begin with and even owed Gu Jiaojiao two yuan. She had to rely on work points to support herself—those work points were her lifeblood.

If it weren’t for this conversation with Gu Jiaojiao, she never would have risked being late and getting her work points docked.

"Just think about it carefully!"

Li Hongmei felt that her words had planted a seed of unease in Gu Jiaojiao’s heart, so she left, reassured.

As for Gu Jiaojiao, she hadn’t taken Li Hongmei’s words to heart in the slightest.

’Eating coarse grains and wild greens? Impossible. The villagers only received ten jin of fine grain each year, but Leng Yuan got five jin every month. Their food was already much better than what others had.’

’Plus, with his hunting skills, they ate more meat than most.’

’As for the debt, that was nothing to worry about.’

’She wasn’t helpless. If they worked together as a couple, what was a few hundred yuan of debt? They could just grit their teeth and pay it off.’