Chapter 279 Wei Fangcao
Shen Jiaguo was afraid that his girlfriend would feel uncomfortable, so he washed his hands and went into the kitchen to help.
There weren’t many dishes, and Li Caixia could finish them all quickly by herself, but she was also happy to have her two children help her.
Liu Pandi and Zhang Cuicui were eating melon seeds in the main room. Liu Pandi whispered, "Sister-in-law, what do you think of this educated young man Wei?"
"She looks nice and hardworking. Her family and country also value her."
They may not know all the educated youth in the Youth League Institute 100%, but after working in the same brigade for so many years, they probably know a lot about what the old educated youth are like.
In the past, Liu Pan would not care about what Wei Zhiqing was like, after all, she was not living with her family.
Now she is pregnant with a son, and her son is still young. If anything happens, he still has to rely on his brothers to take care of him. If this daughter-in-law is the kind of person who is domineering and disruptive, she will definitely not let her husband help his cousins.
So she hopes that her nephew can marry a good wife.
Wei Fangcao was feeling a little hot in the kitchen, so Shen Jiaguo pulled her out. "My older sister and Xiaoqiu are in the room. Go in and play with them."
Shen Jiaguo felt that since they were all girls, they should be able to get along well.
Shen Shuyu and Shen Qiu heard their voices in the room and shouted, "Sister Fangcao, come in and sit down."
Wei Fangcao went in, Shen Qiu pulled her onto the kang, and Shen Shuyu brought out a bottle of canned yellow peaches and some biscuits, "Sister Fangcao, we haven't had dinner yet, eat something first."
"Thank you, Shuyu." Wei Fangcao usually just nodded and smiled slightly when she saw Shen Shuyu and the other person as a greeting.
She had never spoken to Shen Shuyu and thought that Shen Shuyu would be difficult to get along with. Now that she had met her, she found that she was wrong.
Shen Qiu is a talkative person. She can get along with anyone. She is most curious about how her brother and Wei Fangcao fell in love with each other.
She thought so and asked, "Sister Fangcao, how did you and my brother fall in love with each other? Did he like you first or did you like him first?"
Shen Shuyu liked to listen to the sweet love stories of young couples the most. She looked at Wei Fangcao with sparkling eyes, waiting for her to speak.
Wei Fangcao was a little embarrassed and whispered, "I was the one who liked your brother first..."
Wei Fangcao likes Shen Jiaguo. She fell in love with him at first sight when she saw him when she first went to the countryside.
But she had just arrived in the countryside and she was a girl, so it was not easy for her to tell him that she liked him right away.
Otherwise, the villagers would think that she was trying to avoid labor and was cheating in this way, which would affect her reputation.
Moreover, she had inquired and found out that the villagers all liked her as a diligent and sensible daughter-in-law. She couldn't even tell the difference between weeds and seedlings. She was afraid that the Shen family didn't like her, and she was also afraid that Shen Jiaguo would think she was a spoiled girl.
She hid her love for him in her heart. She didn’t know how to use the earthen stove, so she learned it. She didn’t know how to do farm work, so she learned it…
As time passed, she adapted to life in the country and could do farm work with ease, although not necessarily proficiently.
Of course, she learned these things not for the Shen family, but for the Shen family country. She went to the countryside and was no longer the daughter held in the palm of her parents' hands.
She was an educated youth who went to the countryside, and farm work was the survival skill she had to learn. After all, if she knew nothing and learned nothing, she would not be able to stay in the countryside. No one here was obligated to pamper her, and no one was obligated to help her.
Usually when she went to work, Wei Fangcao would subconsciously look for Shen Jiaguo. As long as she saw him, she would always feel at ease. Occasionally, the team leader would arrange for them to work together.
Wei Fangcao would be happy for several days if she could say a word to Shen Jiaguo.
When Shen Jiaguo went to work, his mind was only on farm work. Once he picked up the hoe and sickle, he just wanted to finish the work and go home to work. He had no idea that there was a girl getting used to him.
He was very strong and worked quickly. Sometimes Wei Fangcao and he were assigned to work together. If Wei Fangcao hadn't finished her work, it would be inconvenient for him, as a grown man, to leave alone, so he would ask her to stay aside. He would finish the rest of the work in no time and then leave.
Logically speaking, Wei Fangcao's thoughts are very obvious. When a girl looks at her lover, her eyes are filled with affection.
But Shen Jiaguo couldn't see it at all. He just felt that this girl didn't seem very smart.
Maybe it was time for his brain to open up. When Shen Jiaguo accidentally cut his hand with a sickle, Wei Fangcao thoughtfully went to find herbs for him, crushed them, and applied them to his wound.
When the two looked into each other's eyes, they fell in love.
At first, Shen Jiaguo didn't know what was going on with him. When he went to bed at night, Wei Zhiqing was on his mind. He thought there was something wrong with his brain.
He also went to the village doctor to get some medicine. The village doctor was a qualified one. After hearing his symptoms, he seriously suggested that he spend more time and talk more with Wei Zhiqing.
Shen Jiaguo was a man who listened to doctors' advice, and he often asked Shen Erzhu to assign them together when he went to work.
After a while, he started to care about Wei Fangcao and knew why she was always on his mind. He had fallen in love with her.
Shen Jiaguo had no experience and didn't know how to treat the girl nicely. He just finished his own work and then helped her with her work.
Hearing that girls all like cold cream, he happily borrowed money from his sister and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cold cream for her.
He was dumbfounded and never expressed his feelings to her. It was Wei Fangcao who spoke first...
Shen Shuyu and Shen Qiu were listening with great interest. Shen Jiaguo's voice calling for dinner interrupted Wei Fangcao's topic.
Shen Qiu held her in his arms, "Sister Fangcao, let's eat first, and then we can continue after dinner."
Dinner was ready. There was spicy rabbit meat and the piece of bacon that Wei Fangcao brought. Li Caixia cut half a piece and used it to stir-fry the cabbage. The soup was egg soup, and the staple food was sweet potato porridge.
The dishes we will serve to our future daughter-in-law tonight are quite sumptuous. Eggs are considered a meat dish, so there are three meat dishes in total.
Old Lady Shen and Li Caixia both served her some food. "Fangcao, eat more. Eat more. We are all family from now on. Don't be polite."
Wei Fangcao nodded shyly, "Auntie, you guys eat."
Shen Jiaguo knew that she didn't eat well in the educated youth camp. Today, there was rabbit meat at home, so he kept giving her some meat to eat. Wei Fangcao ate until she burped. By the time she was full, it was already dark.
After all, they were not married yet, so it was not good to stay here too late. Li Caixia went back to the kitchen and packed her some soybean paste and some pickles she had made herself.
Shen Jiaguo sent her to the educated youth point and scratched his head, "Fangcao, I'm leaving."
When he got home, he asked Old Lady Shen and the others with a silly smile, "Grandma, Mom, is my girlfriend okay?"
As long as it was a girl that her grandson liked, Old Lady Shen would have nothing bad to say.
"Okay, okay, you're a good kid. If you're dating someone, you have to be nice to them and don't make them angry."
Li Caixia also laughed, "Your grandma is right, be nice and treat her well."