The voluptuous and beautiful nanny, Technician Shen fell for her.

The jeep's back door closed.

It was a bit stuffy inside the carriage.

He Jianjun sat in the driver's seat, pressed the clutch to shift gears, and the car wobbled forward.

He was in a good mood today, humming a popular song as he turned the steering wheel, pressing the accelerator lightly and heavily.

After driving less than two blocks, He Jianjun glanced into the rearview mirror.

"Nianhe, did you just take Ping An with you before you left?"

Su Nianhe was already feeling guilty, so she placed her hands neatly on her knees. Upon hearing this, she straightened her back and stammered, "N-no, nothing."

He Jianjun was a chatterbox, and he continued, "You haven't been in the compound long, so you know Vice Mayor Li's son, right? He's the same age as me and Lao Shen. His wife recently gave birth to twins, and the older son is a picky eater. He won't drink breast milk, and he doesn't like formula either. He only drinks a tiny bit each day and is always fussy because he's hungry. Tell me about the Ping An He brand later, and I'll ask Lao Li to buy some and try it."

Shen Huai sat next to Su Nianhe, his long legs spread wide.

He turned his head to look at Su Nianhe's bright red ears, his hand resting naturally on the back of the chair behind her.

"Open the window wider," Shen Huai said calmly, interrupting He Jianjun's incessant chatter.

"Why open the window?" He Jianjun muttered to himself, but still rolled down the car window.

The wind from outside is blowing in.

As He Jianjun felt the wind blowing, his mind finally cleared up.

"Hey, wait a minute, Lao Shen." He Jianjun glanced at Shen Huai in the rearview mirror. "You told me yesterday that you were going to my place today to pick up two cassette tapes from the south, and I actually believed you. So you were using me as a cover to go on a date?"

Shen Huai readily admitted it, and his hand slid down to hold Su Nianhe's waist.

"Let's go play at that new orchard you've leased."

He Jianjun chuckled and patted the steering wheel: "I'm the one who leased that new orchard? There's nothing there except fruit trees. It's true that there are few people, and the scenery is so-so. I know you usually dislike that shabby place, but it's different today since I'm taking my girlfriend there. If the two of us grown men went to an orchard, people would laugh at us to death."

Su Nianhe was held by Shen Huai's waist, her body stiff and she dared not move.

He Jianjun was driving ahead, and they could be seen in the rearview mirror with just a glance.

Shen Huai not only didn't let go, but instead pulled her closer to him, letting Su Nianhe lean completely against him.

As the car approached the intersection, someone on a bicycle came towards us.

He Jianjun slammed on the brakes, stuck his head out, and honked the horn.

"Iron Army!"

Li Tiejun braced himself on one foot, looking at He Jianjun's beat-up jeep.

"Want to go out and have some fun?" He Jianjun deliberately raised his chin, gesturing for him to look at the back seat, "I'll show you something."

Li Tiejun was about to ask where they were going when his gaze passed over He Jianjun and landed directly on Shen Huai sitting in the back seat.

Shen Huai leaned back in his chair, next to Su Nianhe, whose face was as red as an apple.

Li Tiejun laughed.

"Where are you going?" Li Tiejun asked.

"Let's go have some fun," He Jianjun replied readily.

Li Tiejun pointed at Shen Huai, his tone full of mockery: "He used to be like a snow lotus on a high mountain, all those women in the factory wouldn't even glance at him. Now he's stopped doing research, stopped drawing blueprints? He just runs off to wander around on weekends."

He Jianjun laughed so hard in the driver's seat that he slapped his thigh.

"Shall we get in the car together?" Shen Huai asked.

"Get out of my way." Li Tiejun waved his hand. "I'm not going to join in your fun. You can be a third wheel."

After saying that, he rode his bicycle back to the compound.

The jeep spewed black smoke from its exhaust pipe and continued driving along the dirt road.

Li Tiejun's silhouette on his old bicycle quickly became a small black dot.

He Jianjun gripped the steering wheel with one hand and tapped his other hand against the car window, clicking his tongue as he said, "Old Shen, have you seen that bastard Li Tiejun around? I bet you, something's definitely wrong with him. The way he's pedaling, it's like he's taken some kind of super tonic, he's definitely horny."

Shen Huai leaned back in the back seat, his long legs spread wide, his arms still tightly wrapped around Su Nianhe's waist.

He didn't respond to He Jianjun's comment.

Su Nianhe's body stiffened; she wanted to dodge but dared not.

With He Jianjun still in front of her, she could only use her fingers to pry open Shen Huai's cuffs, signaling him to tone it down.

Shen Huai turned her hand over and wrapped it in his palm, playing with her soft, delicate fingers.

"His lovestruck look is exactly the same as your deadpan expression right now." He Jianjun glanced in the rearview mirror and continued to tease relentlessly, "He used to be an unyielding devil, but now he's so protective of his wife that he's afraid of losing her."

Su Nianhe's cheeks flushed red, and her head almost reached her chest.

Shen Huai lifted his eyelids and glanced ahead: "Drive your car."

He Jianjun chuckled twice, then changed the subject, beginning to pour out his grievances: "But to be honest, finding a partner is a real hassle. Just last month, I went south to buy goods and ran into a woman in Guangzhou. Oh my, she was stunningly beautiful!"

He Jianjun got more and more excited as he spoke, and the steering wheel even wobbled a couple of times: "She's a widow, two years older than us. Not only is she beautiful, but she's also incredibly shrewd in business, a real social butterfly. In Guangzhou, it's not easy to run a wholesale stall on your own. She's always been very kind to me, calling me 'brother' all the time."

Su Nianhe was so engrossed in listening that she even forgot about Shen Huai pinching her fingers.

In all her life, she had never seen a woman who could run a large business on her own, let alone a widow who could still make a lot of money in public.

"And then?" Su Nianhe couldn't help but ask.

Upon hearing his "sister-in-law" respond, He Jianjun immediately perked up: "And then? Then it's just that I, He Jianjun, have good self-control! That widow is really nice; she's hinted several times that I should stay, or take her with me. But I thought, if I really brought her back, things would get complicated. Sister-in-law, Lao Shen, what do you two think? If I really end up with her, and I bring her back to our Jiang City, what do you think?"

Su Nianhe thought about it seriously for a moment, and was just about to speak when Shen Huai next to her poured cold water on her.

"Bring him back to the compound?" Shen Huai's tone was completely flat. "Uncle He can break your legs and smash your beat-up jeep while he's at it."

He Jianjun's smile froze, and he coughed twice.

He knew better than anyone how strict the rules were in the compound.

Let alone a widow, even an ordinary country girl would be picked over by those old fogies for a long time.

"Old Shen, this isn't very helpful," He Jianjun sighed. "I'm just discussing this with you guys. My dad's temper is just a paper tiger."

"You can give it a try," Shen Huai replied indifferently.

As Su Nianhe listened to their bickering, the tension in her heart gradually dissipated.

She noticed that when Shen Huai was with He Jianjun, although he still didn't talk much, he didn't have the same intense sense of oppression as he did in the compound, and he seemed more like a real person.

The car bumped along the way and finally left the urban area of ​​Jiang City.

The surrounding buildings are becoming fewer and fewer, replaced by vast fields of farmland and rolling mountains in the distance.

In June, the city was sweltering like a giant steamer, but in the suburbs, the wind carried the fresh scent of grass and trees, and felt cool on the face.

The jeep turned onto a wide gravel road and finally stopped in front of a huge iron gate.

He Jianjun honked the horn twice, and an old man who was guarding the gate ran out and opened the iron gate with a smile.

The car drove in and stopped in front of a row of bungalows.

Su Nianhe pushed open the car door and got out, then stretched and yawned.

Before me stretched a vast orchard that covered the hillsides, seemingly endless.

The hillside is covered with various fruit trees, some already bearing green fruit, and others blooming with tiny flowers.

A clear stream flows gently through the middle of the orchard, its waters shimmering in the sunlight.

This place is large and bright, without the suffocating formalities of the municipal party committee compound, and without Liu Huizhen's ever-watchful eyes.

Su Nianhe took a deep breath of fresh air, and her tense shoulders finally relaxed completely.

Shen Huai got out of the car from the other side, walked to her side, and looked at her relaxed face.

"This orchard is huge!" Su Nianhe pointed to the distant hillside, then turned to look at Shen Huai, her eyes sparkling. "It's even bigger than the hill behind my village. Did Brother He lease it?"