After my stepmother was shot, I took my brothers to the countryside

Chapter 249 Shen Nian's Gossip

"Xiao Le, return this chicken to Yan Zhiqing." As soon as he got home, Shen Nian instructed Shen Nianle who was playing in the yard.

Shen Nianle asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Sister, why do you want to send a chicken to Yan Zhiqing?"

"I'm not giving it away, I'm returning it. This is something Yan Zhiqing forgot to take when he dropped it on the mountain. You're delivering it to him." Shen Nian explained.

"Oh, okay." Shen Nianle didn't ask any more questions, picked up the chicken and ran out.

At this time, Li Jichu, with a look of joy on his face, brought over a bucket filled with some dying fish.

"Sister Nian Nian, look, we caught a lot of small fish in the river today."

Hearing this, Shen Nian looked into the bucket and said with a smile, "There are quite a few. I'll coat them in flour and fry them until they're fragrant for you to eat."

Li Jichu and Xiao Nanqing's eyes lit up instantly, "Okay, sister, let's go wash them first."

Shen Nian smiled and nodded in agreement, and the two of them happily carried the wooden bucket and walked towards the well.

Shen Nian entered the kitchen and said softly, "Xiao An, you are cooking."

"Sister, you're back." Shen Nian'an stood up and made room for Shen Nian.

Shen Nian took out a piece of meat from the basket he was carrying and gently placed it in the basin: "I hunted a roe deer in the mountains today. I'll make roe deer meat for you tonight."

"Really, sister? Did you hunt roe deer again?"

Shen Nianle's voice rang out at the door. Shen Nian looked back and saw that he had nothing in his hands. He asked, "Have you finished what I asked you to do?"

Shen Nianle nodded vigorously: "When I went there, Yan Zhiqing happened to be in the yard. I handed it to him before running back."

Shen Nian nodded and said nothing more.

"Sister, you just said that we are going to eat roe deer meat tonight?" Shen Nianle couldn't wait to get close to Shen Nian and asked.

Shen Nian nodded again and said jokingly with a smile: "You little foodie, go to the yard and pick two white radishes first, and then stew them with the meat."

"Okay, sister! I'll go right away!" Shen Nianle responded happily and ran out.

Gu Yanqing sat in the yard, looking at the pheasant that Shen Nianle had brought back. The other educated youth in the yard were also looking at the pheasant in his hand.

Zhu Jiajun rolled his eyes in the crowd and came forward with another flattering smile: "Yan Zhiqing, why would Shen Zhiqing's brother send you a chicken?"

Gu Yanqing glanced at him calmly without saying anything.

Zhu Jiajun didn't seem to care about Gu Yanqing's silence and continued to speak:

"Yan Zhiqing, you're so lucky! You've already established a relationship with Shen Zhiqing's family just a few days after arriving. We all want to have a good relationship with Shen Zhiqing. Shen Zhiqing's family has no shortage of meat to eat, and of course, you don't either."

Gu Yanqing frowned slightly. He didn't like Zhu Jiajun's tone of voice.

He glanced at the educated youth around him calmly and said, "Are you all on bad terms with Shen Zhiqing?"

"It's not that I'm bad, it's just that Shen Zhiqing is too picky. She doesn't look down on us poor educated youth."

Zhu Jiajun seemed to have found an outlet for his frustration and continued, "Ever since this educated youth Shen successfully started raising chickens in the brigade, she's looked down on everyone. Not only did she look down on us poor people, she also looked down on two other educated youth with backgrounds."

"An educated youth with a background?" Gu Yanqing repeated in a low voice, his eyes sweeping over the educated youth around him who were listening attentively, and then he stood up.

"Come in and boil some water." After saying that, he walked into the kitchen.

Zhu Jiajun was stunned for a moment, looked around at the educated youth, and then followed Gu Yanqing into the kitchen with a heroic and confident look.

After entering the kitchen, Zhu Jiajun skillfully lit the stove.

Gu Yanqing stood aside, watching him quietly.

Zhu Jiajun originally thought that Gu Yanqing would continue to talk to him about Shen Zhiqing.

However, he didn't expect that the other party just called him in to light a fire and boil water, and stood by and watched him work.

"Yan Zhiqing, your chicken is so fat." Zhu Jiajun tried to find some topics to ease the awkward atmosphere between the two.

Gu Yanqing glanced at him. If he knew, he would think that the chicken in his hand was fat. If he didn't, he would think that his "chicken" was really fat.

He responded calmly: "Yes, it is indeed quite fat."

Then, Gu Yanqing changed the subject and asked, "Before we went to the countryside, did any educated youth from the brigade return to the city?"

Originally, Zhu Jiajun felt an inexplicable pressure when he was stared at by Gu Yanqing.

When Zhu Jiajun heard Gu Yanqing's question, he felt relieved, as they finally talked about the topic that interested him.

He quickly replied, "Yes, before you went to the countryside, two educated youth from our brigade returned to the city."

"Why did you return to the city? Was it because of illness?" Gu Yanqing asked. From what Zhu Jiajun said just now, it seemed that this matter was related to Shen Nian.

Zhu Jiajun glanced out the kitchen door before continuing mysteriously, "It's a long story."

"It's okay, just take your time. This chicken won't be healed in a short while." Gu Yanqing said calmly.

Zhu Jiajun: ...

Zhu Jiajun coughed twice, cleared his throat, and then slowly spoke: "Those two educated youth, one named Lin Yu and the other named Hu Tingting, were indeed sent back to the city due to illness, but it was because of Shen Zhiqing."

Gu Yanqing raised his eyebrows slightly and motioned Zhu Jiajun to continue.

Zhu Jiajun cleared his throat again: "We have to talk about the love-hate relationship between the three of them first. Lin Yu and Hu Tingting are from the same group of educated youth who came to our brigade. As soon as Lin Yu arrived, he fell in love with educated youth Shen..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yanqing frowned and interrupted him: "Isn't Lin Yu a woman? What's her relationship with Shen Zhiqing?"

"No, no, this one called Lin Yu is a man, and Hu Tingting is a woman. They are from the same place and were engaged to each other when they were children." Zhu Jiajun explained quickly.