Chapter 1888 He sprained his ankle and can't carry the coffin; you'll have to find someone
Chapter 1888 He sprained his ankle and can't carry the coffin; you'll have to find someone
Girls are perceptive, and Fu Qin quickly noticed that Cui Liu was absent-minded, frequently glancing at Zhang Ran and blushing from time to time. The more she looked, the more suspicious she became, and a chill ran down her spine. She leaned closer and whispered, "Why are you staring at Zhang Ran like that?"
Cui Liu, her thoughts exposed, hurriedly looked away in a panic and denied in a low voice, "No, I didn't look at him."
“My best friend is outstanding. You might like her, but please don’t fall in love with her,” Fu Qin teased tentatively. “She’s not a man, so she can’t give you sexual satisfaction.”
What? Cui Liu's face immediately turned extremely ugly. She was stunned for a long time before asking, unable to speak, "Teacher Zhang is a woman?" She couldn't believe that her elders would introduce her to a woman as a potential partner.
Seeing that she had fallen in love with Zhang Ran at first sight, Fu Qin reached out and patted her shoulder gently, sighing deeply: "Don't let her buzz cut and handsome looks fool you. She's a girl. If she were a man, I would be the first to marry her. You wouldn't stand a chance."
Cui Liu's smile was more like a grimace; her heart was shattered.
The first person I ever liked was a girl. I was heartbroken right after falling for her. Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at Zhang Ran again, and she was so beautiful. I whispered, "Why did she cut her hair like that? Everyone thinks she's a man."
"Oh, she shaved it on purpose. She said she hadn't been able to get a haircut since she came here, so she might as well shave it to make it easier to manage," Fu Qin replied casually. But after spending her time in the village, she had come to understand that shaving one's head meant being treated like a man and receiving preferential treatment wherever one went. She could sit and eat, unlike her, who had to work wherever she went.
Cuiliu: "..."
Just to make it easier to manage, a young woman's family shaved her head into a buzz cut... Cui Liu subconsciously touched the long braid she had specially braided that morning; she couldn't bear to cut it off.
Although it was a misunderstanding, Cui Liu stayed to cook, since she would get paid, so she didn't explain to the principal.
After finishing a day of classes, Zhang Ran stopped Teacher Jiang, who was about to go home, and limped toward him: "Could you please go to the village chief's house on your way back and tell him that I accidentally sprained my ankle and will not be able to carry the coffin tomorrow morning?"
She took out the red envelope that Gou Dan's parents had given her from her pocket and handed it over, saying, "Please return this to that family as well." The reason she agreed to the village chief's request a couple of days ago was simply to see what the person who was killed looked like. If she went to help carry the coffin after seeing it, she would be out of her mind.
Teacher Jiang subconsciously looked down at Zhang Ran's legs and feet, noticing that she had shifted her weight to her left leg when she stood up. She looked up at Zhang Ran and smiled, "It's nothing, I'll go and tell the village chief for you." She took the red envelope, put it in her pocket, and turned to leave.
Halfway there, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he quickly pulled out his red envelope and glanced at it; there was only a fifty-yuan note. This Gou Dan family is so stingy! Carrying a coffin should cost at least a hundred yuan, and they only gave fifty.
When he arrived at the village chief's house, he went inside and explained to the village chief why Zhang Ran wasn't going: "...He sprained his ankle and can't carry the coffin, so I'll ask you to find someone else."
The village chief panicked upon hearing this, "Where am I supposed to find people? We're already short-staffed!"
Four people can carry an empty coffin without much trouble, but once a body is inside, and it has to be carried up the mountain for burial, the mountain road is difficult to walk, so it takes eight people to carry it. Even with Zhang Ran, we still need to find four more people.
But now Zhang Ran can't be carried anymore, so we need to find five more.
The village chief looked around and his eyes lit up when he saw Teacher Jiang. "Little Jiang, how about you join us?"
Teacher Jiang hesitated. He wanted to earn the money, but fifty yuan was too little and not worth it.
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