Chapter 27 Fierce General Huang Yanqiu

The siblings walked to the town entrance and met up with their mother and grandmother.

The two had already bought their things, including some vegetable seeds and half a bag of fertilizer.

Grandma Tian bought two more pounds of biscuits and two more pounds of white sugar.

The candy seller gave me two thin plastic bags with the character "囍" (double happiness) on them. I took them home and sealed them myself, one bag for every pound of candy.

In a few days, a relative's daughter will be getting married. As an elder woman on her maternal side, it is customary to send two bags of white sugar.

As for the cookies, they were obviously bought for the children in the family.

Huang Ying and her husband have always been willing to spend a lot of money on their children.

But those kinds of snacks that are gone once you've eaten them are another story.

On the contrary, as far back as Gao Qinghe can remember, every time her grandmother came back from the market in town, there would always be delicious food in her basket.

Unlike other elderly women in the village who only focused on feeding their children, Grandma Tian also needed to eat.

Huang Ying said that her mother was a gluttonous old lady.

When I was young, I would fight with my children for eggs and sweet potatoes; in middle age, I would fight with my second husband for meat and fish.

In any case, she never let her mouth suffer a loss.

After buying the biscuits, Grandma Tian hugged the oil paper bag to her arms.

Seeing his two grandsons return, he grabbed a handful each and ate them as he walked.

They arrived early, finished their business early, and left early as well.

The town market doesn't close until mid-afternoon, and it's not even noon yet.

There are few vehicles traveling between towns and villages; most are only available by car on the way.

The mother and her children walked back, hoping to catch a ride along the way.

The weather was nice, and we chatted as we walked, so I didn't feel too tired.

Before I knew it, I had arrived at the entrance of the village.

Huang Ying praised, "Bao'er is getting more and more amazing. Today she walked all the way back from town without even asking to rest."

Gao Qinghe stood tall and proudly accepted the praise.

"People always grow up."

"You only matured at twenty? How dare you say that?" Gao Qingmiao wanted to laugh but dared not, her face turning red.

Old Mrs. Tian scoffed at him, finding it strange.

"Grandma, who's getting married soon?"

Gao Qinghe only remembered to ask when she saw the white sugar in her grandmother's basket.

Old Mrs. Tian said, "Have you forgotten Yanqiu from your Uncle Huang's family?"

Yanqiu?

Which Yanqiu?

Gao Qinghe thought for a while before remembering, and was a little surprised.

"She just got engaged before the new year, and now she's having a wedding so soon!"

Huang Ying sighed with a complicated expression.

"Yes, he's not even eighteen yet. They said they'll hold the wedding banquet first, and then get the marriage certificate when he's old enough."

For rural girls, once they stop going to school, this is the fate they mostly face.

Those who get married at fifteen or sixteen are just immature kids who don't understand life at all.

The woman abandoned her child and ran back home after less than two years, and then remarried.

Huang Yanqiu is considered to be getting married late at her age.

As for someone like Gao Qinghe, if it weren't for her family spoiling her, she would have been disliked by other families long ago.

Fearing her daughter might overthink, Huang Ying patted her daughter's arm and said:

"Don't worry, my darling. You are my precious darling. As long as you don't want to get married, I will never kick you out. You can stay at home as long as you want."

Old Mrs. Tian gave Huang Ying a sidelong glance. “You can’t stay single forever. What woman doesn’t get married? You have to settle down eventually. Take your time and you’ll find the right one.”

“What? Women have to get married, they can’t live without getting married!” Huang Ying retorted.

Old Mrs. Tian was furious.

"I've picked out a satisfactory son-in-law for you, so you can live a happy life while my eldest granddaughter can't?"

Gao Qinghe and her younger brother exchanged a silent glance.

Were all the older generation so feudal yet open-minded?

Gao Qingmiao shrugged, "I don't know."

Gao Qinghe lowered her eyes, her feelings somewhat complicated.

Huang Yanqiu was active during her teenage years.

But after she got married, the two lost contact. Only occasionally would the name "Huang Yanqiu" pop into his mind for a fleeting moment.

Huang Yanqiu is Gao Qinghe's cousin, two years younger than her.

My maternal grandfather died early, my grandmother remarried, and we rarely interacted with relatives on my family's side or the Huang family's side.

Surprisingly, she and Huang Yanqiu remained together for a long time.

Huang Yanqiu is a prickly person with an eccentric personality, making her extremely difficult to get along with.

Gao Qinghe was the darling of her family since childhood and was known throughout the village as a crystal-clear beauty.

She's cute and sweet-talking, but her temper can flare up at any moment, so you have to coax her.

At first, the villagers were surprised to see the two of them walking together.

Huang Yanqiu was of average height in her family, with two older brothers, a younger brother, and a younger sister.

The family has a serious preference for sons over daughters. Although it hasn't come to the point of selling daughters, they don't get any benefits.

Unlike her obedient and timid sister, Huang Yanqiu was competitive and aggressive, and was beaten by her parents from childhood to adulthood.

Gao Qinghe still remembers when she was in elementary school, the boys in the village were particularly naughty and always liked to bully the girls.

At that time, she was the class monitor, and the girls in the class who were being bullied would come to her to complain.

But she was scared when she was alone.

But Grandma said that as long as girls stick together, they have nothing to be afraid of!
Gao Qinghe has had a keen eye since she was a child.

He immediately took a liking to Huang Yanqiu, who was single-handedly taking on five people on the playground, exuding a wild and untamed spirit.

In order to win over this formidable opponent, Gao Qinghe had her grandmother cook the eggs that she originally intended to save for her brother Zhenghua every day for a week and put them in her drawer.

Later, he gave Huang Yanqiu his favorite hard-covered notebook, successfully recruiting this formidable general into his ranks.

From then on, the girls in the class were no longer afraid of being blocked on their way home by the mischievous boys from the village.

However, the boys who were later beaten, along with their parents, went to Huang Yanqiu's house, almost causing her to be unable to attend school.

Gao Qinghe still remembers that when she heard the news, she was extremely anxious and immediately dragged her father and the village chief to the door.

Finally, under pressure from both the school and the village, Huang Yanqiu was able to return to school.

At the time, Gao Qinghe, who thought he was a hero who saved the damsel in distress, thought Huang Yanqiu would thank him.

Unexpectedly, after that, Huang Yanqiu stopped associating with the girls at school.

She treated Gao Qinghe "differently".

He simply ignored the other girls.

He felt nothing but hostility and hatred towards Gao Qinghe.

Huang Yanqiu deliberately damaged her desk and put all sorts of disgusting insects, toads, and lizards in it.

As a result, Gao Qinghe became immune to these things from a young age.

He hated Gao Qinghe for an entire semester until Zhou Zhenghua returned from the town's middle school during the winter break.

Gao Qinghe became Zhou Zhenghua's little shadow, and Huang Yanqiu became their shadow.

The memory is somewhat distant, and Gao Qinghe doesn't know why Huang Yanqiu later became one of her generals.

Huang Yanqiu stopped attending school after finishing junior high and went home to help with farm work.

Gao Qinghe was a year ahead of her, and her family supported her education until she graduated from high school.

I didn't fill out the application form properly when choosing my major, and I've been unemployed at home ever since.

Because Zhou Zhenghua wrote to her, asking her to wait for him to come home.

If she retakes the college entrance exam and gets into university, and he happens to graduate and return home, the two will have to be separated again.

"Sigh~"

Suddenly attacked by these dead memories, Gao Qinghe even wanted to beat up her 18-year-old self.

If someone tells you to wait, just wait patiently.

They completely missed out on being a college student and another wonderful life.

But now that I'm 20, there's no need to dwell on what I've missed.

Look forward and reject internal strife.

System: [Oh my god, you top-tier love-obsessed host, why did you fall for someone else? It would have been so much better to continue being love-obsessed with the male lead.]

Gao Qinghe was about to speak.

Knowing that it definitely couldn't handle it, the system gave a preemptive warning:

[Beep beep! A rival has appeared. Host, please be careful!]

Gao Qinghe looked up at the front with suspicion.

A petite woman in a pink shirt was looking left and right at the fork in the road ahead, unsure which way to go.

(End of this chapter)

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