CH 9

The person who stopped Qin LingLing was a slightly older woman who pointed to the banana plantation where the educated youth worked and said that someone was looking for her.

“Who’s looking for me?”

The woman shook her head, “A woman, she said she’s the director.”

“The director?” Qin LingLing couldn’t help but ask a few more questions, “What does the director look like and did she say what it was about?”

“How do I know?” The woman was impatient, “I’m just a messenger. Anyway, you’ll find out when you get there, so why are you asking so many questions? Don’t blame me for not informing you.”

After all, she’s not familiar with this farm. Seeing that the woman was being serious, and the banana plantation was not far away, she was anxious about which director would be looking for her. Thinking that there are people working there, she will just find out who is looking for her when she gets there.

When she arrived at the plantation, however, she was surprised to find Li JianYe alone. Qin LingLing noticed Li JianYe seated on a banana leaf with a small sickle beside him and a cigarette in his hand.

Hearing the movement, Li JianYe turned his head to look over, under the smoke, he slightly narrowed his eyes at the approaching Qin LingLing.

“Comrade Qin, here you are!” The voice trailed off, full of ridicule.

“How could it be you?” said Qin LingLing, standing three meters away. As she stated, she looked around and noticed that the plantation, which is often bustling with activity, was deserted today, with only a few people remaining in the fields at the foot of the mountain.

Qin LingLing seemed to realize her situation and asked, “Are you the one who is looking for me? Not the director?”

Li JianYe withdrew the cigarette from his mouth, blew out white smoke, and patted the place beside him with the hand holding the cigarette, “Yes, you never showed up whenever I invited you out, so I had no choice to ask someone else’s help. But hey, I didn’t expect you to come.”

Knowing that Li JianYe did not have good intentions, Qin LingLing took two steps back, “Team Leader, I still have work to do. Now that I have found you, I will go to the Team Leader headquarter to wait for you to get my husband’s belongings.” After saying that, she turned around and left.

But as soon as she turned around, Li JianYe quickly stood up and shouted: “Stop!” Seeing that Qin LingLing’s footsteps did not stop, Li JianYe’s lungs exploded with anger.

“I told you to stop, did you hear me?” He takes a quick step forward in this familiar banana plantation, yanking the fleeing Qin LingLing’s arm, “Stop, where are you going, who told you to go?”

When the other party was talking, Qin LingLing could smell the tobacco and alcohol from his breath that sprayed on her face, and she was disgusted. She quickly struggled, “Team Leader Li, what are you doing, let me go!”

“If I say no?”

“Let me go, do you know what will happen if you do this? There are so many people working down there, aren’t you afraid of others coming over?”

Li JianYe followed her gaze and looked over. Those people who are working are still far away from the plantation and she want to use these people to threaten him?

He coldly snorted, “Don’t threaten me with them, I’m not afraid!”

“Then, you are still not afraid if I will report you to the higher ups?”

“Higher ups, haha…” The other party directly threw away the unfinished cigarette to the ground and crushed it with his shoes, with disdain and ruthlessness on his face, he retorted “I’m not afraid at all. You know better than I do about your family’s situation: you don’t have a husband, and your husband’s family didn’t want you to return. Do you think you’ll be able to survive in this farm if you don’t fawn over me? If you obediently follow me, I will transfer you to the rubber factory. The treatment there is pretty good. How many educated youths that want to transfer there but have no chance?”

In addition to the farming team, the farm also has a worker team. Most of the factories have relatively easy tasks. As a result, many educated youths dreams to transfer there but it’s just that the allocation is difficult to come by.

But Qin LingLing directly refused, “Team Leader Li’s kindness, I have accepted such a good opportunity, but you can give it to other comrades.”

“I won’t let you go, so what about it? If you go to the higher up to report me, the most I get is a six-month suspension from being the Team Leader. But, what about you, your man is dead and you’re fooling around with me. Your in-laws don’t want you and you couldn’t return back to the city either. Whether you believe it or not, I have the power to keep you and your bones here indefinitely. “ Li JianYe’s face suddenly turned ruthless.

At this moment, there was a sound coming from the banana plantation, and Qin LingLing shouted: “Someone is coming, please let me go.”

Only to see Lin QiQi walked out of the dense banana plantation. “Team Leader…” Lin QiQi shouted, only to find that Qin LingLing was also there. Confusion flashed across her face.

Seeing her, Qin LingLing hurriedly tried to break free, still shouting, “Lin QiQi, help me…”

But before the words were finished, Li JianYe shouted at the people who came: “Get out, don’t get in my way, or you won’t have a better life!”

Lin QiQi was startled, took two steps back, and under Li JianYe’s red eyes, she turned and ran away in a blink of an eye.

Qin LingLing: “…” [T/S: Someone, please help my girl. ]

Watching Lin QiQi run away, Li JianYe became even more smug, “See, it’s useless even if someone comes, you better listen to me obediently, I promise I won’t make you feel uncomfortable.”

“Crack.”

There was another noise in the plantation, and Qin LingLing was overjoyed, thinking it was Lin QiQi who had brought people over. “It’s Lin QiQi. She brought the people over. If you don’t let me go…”

“Cut the f*cking crap, she wouldn’t dare to come over!” Li JianYe screams loudly, and the stench of smoke and booze fills her lungs. His face had turned red as a result of his excessive drinking.

His hands impatiently trying to pull Qin LingLing’s clothes, but Qin LingLing isn’t stupid enough to let him mess with her. So, she relaxed her body, raised her leg directly and kicked towards the other party.

“Ow…” Li JianYe screamed in anguish and knelt down. Qin LingLing took advantage of the situation and dashed away.

Li JianYe’s face flushed with rage as he saw her sprinting, and he swiftly followed. After all, Qin LingLing made a hasty counterattack, so she didn’t use much strength. Li JianYe, who has a great strength, recover fast and soon caught up with her, grabbing her by the hair and pressing her to the ground like a madman.

Qin LingLing is so frightened that she could only beat Li JianYe with an instinctive blow, hitting him with several cries of pain.

But under the influence of alcohol, Li JianYe was like a mad dog. He didn’t know any pain, and his pride shone through in his face. “It’s pointless; don’t fight; I’ll let you beg for your life, eh…”

Just as Li JianYe was pleased, a hand grabbed him by the neckline directly from behind, causing his breathing to become shallow. “Uh…”

Before Li JianYe could see the person behind him, the person suddenly stretched out a foot and kicked towards Li JianYe’s back. His kick was not weak. It caused Li JianYe to scream and roll to the side twice before being halted by the banana tree and writhing in pain.

From the time Qin LingLing beat Li JianYe to now, in fact, not even a minute has passed, but everything that had happened had made Qin LingLing feel like she was on a roller coaster.

The person in front of her turned against the light, and the mottled shadows of the banana trees confused Qin LingLing that she couldn’t see who it was. But she could only see a tall figure reaching out and leaning towards her, “Are you okay?”

Only when the person got closer did Qin LingLing see clearly that the appearance of the man in front of her, overlapped with the original owner’s memory of her husband.

This is Gu Zheng!! This was the first name that Qin LingLing thought of.

She instinctively stretched out her hand, but her mind went through a lot of thoughts. Wasn’t Gu Zheng already dead? Why would he appear here? Could it be that the person who came to report the news was wrong? But the original novel clearly said that Gu Zheng had died.

All kinds of possibilities flashed in her mind. Even though she had already encountered things like wearing books that were not in line with reality, she still couldn’t believe that she had really met the legendary husband Gu Zheng.

Looking at the pale girl, Gu Zheng realized that whatever had just happened had probably frightened her, so he quickly reassured her, saying, “It’s all right, don’t be afraid!”

Qin LingLing was not afraid, she was more surprised. Stuttering, she asked: “You…how did you…how did you come back?”

Gu Zheng responded, “I walked back.”

Qin LingLing: “…”

She wanted to ask, how did he come back alive? She noticed that Gu Zheng had shadows and feet, and he could exist under the sun. It was definitely not a ghost. But if he is a human, how did he come back? The original novel says that he died and never returned home.

If he is truly alive, why wasn’t this important information described in the original novel, or was the author simply too lazy to write about it? Or did the book change because of her?

There are too many questions in her head, but she doesn’t know what to say when she sees this dark and thin man with attractive facial features.

Li JianYe, who was forgotten by the two, lay on the ground in pain for a while before looking at the culprit who kicked him, a man in shabby clothes, whom he did not recognize. Immediately, he exclaimed, “Who are you? You dare to kick me. Believe it or not, I will make your life worse than death.”

Hearing the voice, the man turned his head and glanced at him. Just when Li JianYe thought the other party was afraid, the man took a steady stride forward, lifted his foot and kicked him a few more, and added, “I will kick you some more, see what you can do with me? So, you think it’s okay to bully a woman?” Li JianYe who got kicked repeatedly, wailed, and begged for mercy.

Qin LingLing: “…”