Chapter 45

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Mi was watering the vegetable garden, sweat pouring down her face from exhaustion.

Just then, the sky suddenly clouded over, a southeast wind arrived abruptly, and drizzling raindrops followed down.

Chai Mi frowned.

Rain halfway through watering the vegetables? Was heaven giving her face, or was her timing for watering just wrong?!

Besides, home used to be lively and bustling, but now it was deserted beyond compare; Chai Mi told Chai Xiu to go into the house to hide from the rain, while she herself continued watering the field in the light rain.

In her previous life, Chai Mi had always been busy, working at the factory or helping in the back kitchen of a restaurant; she had tried basically all three hundred and sixty trades. If asked what she did best, Chai Mi felt she probably made the best dumplings...

The few small Chinese cabbages planted in summer in the vegetable garden had just been watered, and their leaves were growing greener and greener.

Chai Mi planned to pick a few small Chinese cabbages in a while and make some dumplings for Chai Xiu.

Just as she was thinking, Second Uncle Chai You Fu arrived, with Chai Min following behind.

Chai You Fu looked very much like Chai Mi's father Chai Youqing, except Chai You Fu's face was obviously fatter, with some prematurely white hair; no one knew why, perhaps because he had too many schemes and worried too much.

Chai You Fu wore a pair of black trousers today, a pair of perforated black leather shoes, his belt tied outside, a pure white cotton short-sleeved shirt tucked under the belt, and held a gift in his hand—a box of Eight-Treasure Congee and two bags of White Crane Milk Powder.

Chai Min behind seemed to have a fairer complexion than Chai Mi, even glowing white, but unevenly white—one could tell she had applied a lot of snowflake cream at a glance. Chai Min was not as tall as Chai Mi, about 1.63 meters, and as for her looks...

Chai Mi didn't know how to evaluate Chai Min's appearance; there seemed to be a sinister dark aura between her eyebrows, visible only upon close inspection as the color of blood vessels. Chai Mi knew Chai Min was especially afraid of heat; once it got a little hot, her whole body turned red, seemingly a kind of abnormally sensitive white skin.

Still, Chai Min could be considered an extremely beautiful girl.

Since Chai Mi herself didn't go out much, and Chai You Fu was a teacher, and Chai Min had been admitted to high school, plus Chai Min was beautiful, well-proportioned, with a particularly low and sugary voice, she had already become the school belle of County No. 1 Middle School.

Of course, she was also the village belle of Sanjiacun...

People often compared Chai Mi and Chai Min, but Chai Mi didn't care at all; after all, did being the village belle come with a subsidy? Bonus money? Cash?

Apparently none of those, so Chai Mi said Chai Min was the village belle.

A cultured village belle.

Chai Min wore a pink short-sleeved shirt today, a pink knee-length skirt, pink shoes, pink socks, a pink hair clip, pink plastic earrings...

She also carried a box of pink Zhenzhen soda in her hand.

"Second Uncle, Chai Min. Why did you two come? Why bring things? You just went to the hospital to see my mom the other day—that was trouble enough—why bring things again?"

Chai You Fu walked around the courtyard, then looked at Chai Mi and said somewhat unexpectedly, "Chai Mi, your mom hasn't been discharged from the hospital? Where's your dad? Why hasn't he come back? It's dark and raining."

"My mom... hehehe..." Chai Mi directly sidestepped the topic and said, "My dad's temper, Second Uncle, you don't know—he's just like that, he'll never change. He's not greedy for work from dawn to dark; he just won't come home. I don't know how our family has so much work; my mom is almost worked to death, and he still works like this. He really isn't afraid that one day he'll collapse from exhaustion too... then I'll send him to the hospital too."