HLnovel Chapter 29 Cheng Xia
Chapter 29 Cheng Xia
Lu Yuanqing watched silently from the side, his heart filled with rage. He was the real hero, the hidden hero.
Ugh!
His achievements and good reputation can only be enjoyed by Gu Baoxia.
Although I knew in my heart that Lu Yuanhuan and the others were simply thanking Gu Baoxia, come on, aren't you guys being a little too enthusiastic? They've never been this enthusiastic towards him before!
"Uncle, give me a work record too!"
Just as they were getting ready to get to work, a very gentle voice suddenly came from behind them.
Having long been accustomed to Lu Yuanqing's booming voice in the village, Lu Yuanqing was very curious that there was someone in the village whose voice was even softer and gentler than Lu Yuanhuan's.
"Xiaxia, did your dad agree to let you work today?" the scorekeeper Cheng Ming asked instinctively.
Lu Yuanqing and the others turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yuanqing was stunned for a moment.
For no other reason than that he never expected that in this era, in the countryside, there would still be people with such fair skin.
Moreover, looking at this Xiaxia girl, Lu Yuanqing recalled the online comments about some child actors from his later years—it turns out that the ancients were right when they said that teenagers could be stunningly beautiful!
The girl's individual features are beautiful, but when combined, they create an absolutely stunning appearance.
Is she really not a pampered rich girl from the city who was raised with power and money?
Stunning, truly stunning.
Lu Yuanqing flipped through the original owner's memories, trying to find out who this Xiaxia girl was, but Lu Mingxi ran up to her, "Xiaxia, you're finally out!"
Lu Yuanqing: "..."
That's a novel idea!
You're out? Were you imprisoned before?
Cheng Xia was clearly more familiar with Lu Mingxi, and her smile deepened slightly when she met her gaze, "Xiao west!"
After greeting everyone, Cheng Xia said to Cheng Ming, "Uncle, my dad agreed. Can you put me and Xiao west together?"
Upon hearing her father's agreement, Cheng Ming didn't readily write down her name. "Xiaxia, why don't you go home and rest? The family doesn't need you to work for points, why bother tiring yourself out! It'll only harm your health!"
Cheng Xia clearly had a knack for dealing with her family, she seemed quite skilled at it. "Uncle, last time Dad took me to the provincial hospital, the doctor there said that I could move around a bit, it would be good for my health!"
"You can come at any other time! The rice planting season is very tiring..."
"Uncle, please let me go! I've been staying at home for months, I want to go pull up rice seedlings. I brought a stool, it won't be tiring..."
"Alright! Alright!" Cheng Ming was completely helpless against the most pampered little girl in the Cheng family. "But if you're tired, you should rest. You can't keep going, understand?"
"Okay!" Cheng Xia smiled sweetly, her wish fulfilled.
"Uncle Cheng, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on Xiaxia for you. If she gets tired, I'll let her rest!" Lu Mingxi assured him.
"Okay, okay, then Xiao Xi, please keep an eye on Xia Xia for me. Her health can't take it!"
"Ok!"
I'm envious, I'm just envious!
Lu Yuanqing, who watched the whole thing, was genuinely envious; he also wished he had an uncle who wouldn't make him do any work.
Moreover, Lu Yuanqing finally learned who Cheng Xia was.
Cheng Xia is the same age as Lu Mingxi.
But compared to poor Lu Mingxi, their lives were worlds apart.
One thing they had in common was that neither of them had lost their mother.
One starved to death during a famine, and the other lost his mother at a young age.
Cheng Xia's mother, Yun Xiao, died during childbirth.
The specific reasons are not clear to outsiders, but in everyone's eyes, the woman who was pregnant and should not have had a difficult childbirth did, and even died from massive bleeding after giving birth to the small and thin Cheng Xia.
Cheng Xia's father, Cheng He, was notoriously henpecked. He doted on his wife, Yun Xiao, and after Yun Xiao's death, he completely abandoned the idea of remarrying, focusing solely on raising Cheng Xia.
What puzzled the villagers the most was that Cheng He's parents actually agreed to his decision to remain a bachelor for life. When others tried to introduce Cheng He to potential partners through his grandparents, the elderly couple refused, saying they were worried that his stepmother would treat Cheng Xia badly.
The Cheng family—the elderly couple, Cheng He, his elder brother and sister-in-law, his younger brother and sister-in-law—all doted on Cheng Xia.
The Cheng family had long since separated, and Cheng Xia lived alone with Cheng He, but this did not affect the elders of the Cheng family's love and care for her at all. Her cousins also protected her.
When Cheng Xia was a child, she was bullied by a naughty boy in the village. Her older siblings would beat the boy every time they saw him, until the elders of both sides found out and the boy's parents brought gifts to apologize to Cheng Xia, and only then did the matter end.
Cheng Xia was born prematurely and had a difficult delivery, so her health has always been poor. The children in the village are all jumping and playing around from a young age, but she is an exception. It's not that she doesn't want to be like everyone else, it's just that her body is not good. Before she can even jump around much, she is panting heavily and looks like she can't take it and is about to faint.
As Chenghe's only daughter, everyone in the village with eyes knows how good he is to her.
Therefore, Cheng Xia was spoiled by the Cheng family as she grew up.
But this little girl didn't turn into a hooligan like Niu Datou just because her family doted on her. On the contrary, she was very considerate, which is quite touching.
This is what made Lu Yuanqing curious.
After all, in the countryside, where people toil in the fields every day, their faces dark and red from the sun, a little girl with a fair complexion and clean, unpatched clothes suddenly appears.
The little girl also has an exceptionally beautiful face, she's practically a fairy.
The contrast between them is too stark! They're like two extremes.
Looking at Cheng Xia and Lu Mingxi, who were holding hands and chatting happily, Lu Yuanqing asked, "Isn't Cheng Xia in school?"
Last year, among the children in the village who took the entrance exam for junior high school, only Cheng Xia and Lu Mingxi were admitted to the junior high school in the town, which made the other boys who took the exam blush with shame.
The main problem is that whenever the village aunties talk about this, they'll grab any unlucky guy passing by and jokingly say that they're not even as good as the two girls. Cheng Xia and Lu Mingxi both got into junior high school, but they didn't. It's really embarrassing.
Although both of them passed the exam, only Cheng Xia went to school, while Lu Mingxi could only go home to earn work points.
“Even if we go to school, we’ll have holidays during the busy farming season!” Lu Yuanbo said nonchalantly. “Besides, I heard that Cheng Xia fainted after the New Year, and her father took her to the provincial capital for medical treatment!”
Compared to being curious about Cheng Xia's schooling, Lu Yuanbo was more curious about the provincial capital, which he had never been to and had no idea how prosperous it was.
Oh! Yes, there's a busy farming season now, so students can come back to help.
Lu Yuanqing nodded, then suddenly asked, "By the way, is Xiaoxi still able to go back to school?"