Ning Lang's hand loosened for a moment. Tao Yin took the opportunity to break free and ran behind Lu Xing.

Lu Xing glanced at his girlfriend's wrist, which had turned red because of the bastard's grip. He resisted the urge to touch it and quietly stood in front of Tao Yin.

Ning Lang looked at Lu Xing, then looked at Tao Yin, who was tightly protected by Lu Xing. He pointed a trembling finger at the two of them.

"You, you!"

Ning Lang had always presented himself as a refined person. At this moment, his face was red and he couldn't say a complete sentence.

Tao Yin thought for a moment and said, "Ning Lang, I was young and ignorant. Since you and Cui Xiang are already engaged, then I wish you a happy and harmonious future."

Ning Lang looked straight at Tao Yin and pointed at Lu Xing. "Because of him?"

Tao Yin shook his head and didn't say anything.

Ning Lang looked at him for a while and finally put down his hand. Before he left, he looked at Lu Xing meaningfully and then sighed sadly.

"Tao Yin, you will regret this."

After Ning Lang left, Tao Yin looked around. He pulled Lu Xing's hand and led him to the open space behind the ridge. Tao Yin tried to pull his hand away, but he didn't pull it away from Lu Xing's hand. He could only let him hold it.

"Can we go back to the city now?"

Lu Xing nodded and continued to play with Tao Yin's hand.

Tao Yin blushed and pulled his hand away. "My hand is covered in mud. Don't touch me."

Lu Xing stretched out his hand and looked. Indeed, there was a layer of mud on Tao Yin's hand.

Then, without saying anything, he put Tao Yin's soft hand into his own.

"Are you on the list to go back to the city?"

Lu Xing looked at her. "I don't want to go back to the city for the time being."

Tao Yin could tell at a glance why he didn't want to go back to the city. He didn't have anything to worry about here. It was because of her that he wanted to stay.

"I don't care if you go back to the city or not. But my mom wants me to go to university and work and live in the city. Maybe I will meet a boy in university and settle down with him."

Lu Xing's eyes darkened for a moment, then he shook his head firmly. "You won't."

Tao Yin looked up at him and smiled slyly.

"Lu Xing, where do you get your confidence from? Don't forget that if I can dump you once, then I can dump you a second time..."

Tao Yin admitted that she said this to provoke Lu Xing. He had suffered so much to follow her from world to world. How could she bear to part with him again?

But if a short separation could lead to a better encounter, she was willing to give it a try.

The original Lu Xing was depressed his whole life. She guessed that Lu Xing's mission was related to his career. Only by leaving this place could he develop.

"You're trying to provoke me," Lu Xing said with certainty.

"Yes, so do you agree or not?" Tao Yin was very calm.

The two looked at each other for a while. In the end, Lu Xing nodded and squeezed Tao Yin's fingertips.

"Cancan, I agree."

Tao Yin smiled, and Lu Xing smiled as well. The two of them walked back, one in front of the other.

Aunt Li had been secretly observing Ning Lang and Lu Xing. When she saw Tao Yin come back, she waved at her.

"Yinzi, why were the two of them looking for you just now?

I saw that Miss Ning was angry. "

Tao Yin smiled at her comfortingly. "It's okay, Aunt Li. Teacher Lu wanted to thank my mom because his leg recovered. My mom isn't home, so he came to ask me. As for Miss Ning, I don't know why she was looking for me."

Aunt Li nodded and reminded her. "I heard that the higher-ups allowed the educated youths to go back to the city. You have to be careful."

Tao Yin looked at her in confusion.

"You silly child. There are only a few people who want to go back to the city. Do you think it's easy to get it? Your second uncle is the leader of our production team. Think about it."

Tao Yin smiled sweetly at Aunt Li. "I know. Thank you for the reminder."

"What's there to thank me for? It's cold. Since the sweet potatoes are done, let's go back and have a hot lunch." After hearing Aunt Li's words, Tao Yin seemed to have an idea.

It seemed that Ning Lang ran over in a panic today because he wanted to get in through the back door?

Tao Yin didn't expect Ning Lang to be waiting outside her house. She didn't know how long he had been standing there. The lush green bamboo forest behind almost blocked his figure. When Tao Yin walked over, his body suddenly leaned forward. He reached out to grab Tao Yin's clothes, but Tao Yin nimbly avoided him.

Tao Yin wasn't even willing to give him any face. She carried the basket full of sweet potatoes and was about to push open the door to go home.

"Tao Yin, Lu Xing doesn't really like you."

Tao Yin stopped what she was doing and turned to look at him.

Seeing that Tao Yin was willing to give him a chance, Ning Lang straightened his face and said loudly, "I didn't lie to you. Lu Xing doesn't really like you.

Lu Xing only approached you because he wanted to get the list of people returning to the city from the captain. Think about it. He only started to get close to you recently. He's just trying to get back to the city. He's lying to you! "

Ning Lang was filled with righteous indignation. If Lu Xing wasn't her boyfriend, she would have been convinced by Ning Lang's eloquence. Why was he a primary school teacher when he was so good at talking? Why didn't he do crosstalk?

"Then do you want to go back to the city?" Tao Yin asked.

Ning Lang paused for a moment, trying not to show even the slightest bit of guilt.

"Tao Yin, I'm different from Lu Xing. I really like you." Ning Lang tried to use his sincerity to move the girl in front of him.

Tao Yin wished she could stuff the biggest sweet potato in the basket directly into his mouth and stuff his mouth with it.

She smiled and said, "I'm asking if you want to go back to the city."

Ning Lang didn't say anything. He was afraid that if he said one wrong word, his list of people returning to the city would be ruined.

Ning Lang avoided the question. Tao Yin didn't plan to let him go so easily.

"You said you like me. Then you have two choices in front of you. One, stay in the countryside and continue to like me. Two, go back to your city and don't have anything to do with me."

Ning Lang's lips trembled as he looked up at her. The tattered jacket he was wearing made him look even more pitiful. He couldn't understand why the girl in front of him suddenly became so vicious. Shouldn't she agree to all of his requests?

In his heart, Tao Yin was indeed better than He Cuixiang in every aspect. However, she was just a country bumpkin. How could she be worthy of him?

Proposing to get close to her now was only a temporary measure. As long as he could go back to the city quickly, nothing else mattered.

Tao Yin didn't pay any more attention to him. She slowly opened the door and walked in. She closed the door and locked it.

Going back to the city was the general trend. Tao Yin really didn't understand why Ning Lang was in such a hurry. Anyway, he had stayed in the countryside for so many years. Couldn't he wait for another year?

He didn't even hesitate to sell his body to achieve his goal.

Unfortunately, Tao Yin didn't care about this. The only thing she couldn't forget was her ex-boyfriend's face.

She thought that she had fallen in love with him at first sight in university. She thought that such an excellent boy would be hard to pursue. She wanted to date for the first time, but she didn't know how to pursue him. She thought that if she couldn't get him within half a year, then she would forget about it.

Unexpectedly, he was so easy to pursue. It hadn't even been three months, and they had already held hands.

Both of them were dating for the first time. They had a lot of trouble and made a lot of jokes.

"Why are you laughing so happily?" Li Lan looked at her daughter's silly face. Could it be that her brain was damaged from the internal injury she suffered last time?

The mother and daughter chatted and laughed. Not long after, Tao Qingchang came back from outside. There wasn't much work to do in the fields in the winter, so he helped this family repair their houses. He casually worked for the whole morning.

Tao Qingchang liked to help the neighbors. Usually, when he came back, he was in high spirits. Today, he seemed a little unhappy.

"What's wrong? Didn't you do it well?"

Tao Qingchang shook his head, walked to the table, and sat down. He asked, "Did Ning Lang from the team come to our house just now?"

Li Lan and Tao Yin both shook their heads.

"What's wrong? Tell us!" Li Lan sat next to them anxiously.

"It's nothing," Tao Qingchang explained. "When I came back, I saw Ning Lang wandering around in our yard. He ran away as soon as he saw me."

Li Lan looked at Tao Yin. Her eyes were asking her if it had anything to do with her.

Tao Yin didn't pay much attention to it. When Li Lan asked, she told her what happened at the back door.

"I heard that he and Cui Xiang were engaged, so I congratulated him. I didn't expect him to come over and say that he liked me. I ignored him and closed the door."

"Well done!"

Tao Qingchang cheered for his daughter loudly, which attracted the disdain of his wife and daughter. Tao Qingchang coughed a few times. "Isn't it winter? I heard from Yinyion that there was a lot of firewood in the forest behind Zhiqing. When I got there, I saw it." After all, it was a matter between the younger generation. Tao Qingchang was still a little embarrassed.

"Ning Lang and that little girl, Cui Xiang, are hugging each other." Tao Qingchang coughed awkwardly. "My dear daughter, don't get involved."

Tao Yin smiled. "I know, Dad."

Because of this, Li Lan's impression of Ning Lang and He Cuixiang became even worse.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. On the 20th day of the year, Tao Yin's second uncle, Li Fang, called Tao Yin to the production team to settle accounts.

Originally, the production team should have hired an accountant, but Li Fang felt that it was too extravagant and wasteful. Usually, he and a few other production team members would be enough. There were only a few busy days in the year, so it was better to just hire someone.

Tao Yin wasn't sure if his life would continue on the same path as before. The office was burglarized.

When he went over, He Cuixiang was standing in front of Li Fang's office and talking. She looked anxious. When she saw Tao Yin, a trace of guilt flashed across her face. She quickly pulled herself together and greeted Tao Yin.

"Yinyion, come in with me. I'll give you the account book. You can sit in my office and do the calculations." Li Fang didn't talk to He Cuixiang anymore. He led Tao Yin into the office.

After he finished talking, Li Fang went to the intellectual youth department to deal with some things. It was the New Year, so the intellectual youth department needed to buy some things. These things had to be taken into account in the budget.

Tao Yin spread out the thick account book and sat down to do the calculations.

He Cuixiang walked in without knocking. She stood in front of the desk and slowly pulled at the corner of her clothes.

"Tao Yin, can you read through such a thick account book? Do you want me to help you?"

Tao Yin was about to refuse when she heard He Cuixiang smile at her. "I was wrong last time. We're good sisters, so I shouldn't hide it from you. Can you let me help you this time? I went to middle school, so I definitely won't make a mistake!" He Cuixiang raised her finger and promised.

Tao Yin thought for a moment, then pulled out an old account book from the bottom of the desk and handed it to her.

"Thank you."

He Cuixiang happily took it. She moved a stool and sat next to Tao Yin. She held the hero brand pen in her hand and concentrated on the calculations on the abacus while writing.

This kind of concentration didn't last long. Tao Yin looked at He Cuixiang, who was sleeping soundly on the table with the pen in her hand. She looked away and continued to work on the account book in her hand.

After an hour, she finally finished. Tao Yin looked at the sky through the window and reached out to push He Cuixiang.

He Cuixiang woke up and looked at Tao Yin with sleepy eyes. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Ah, I accidentally fell asleep." She lowered her head and reached out to cover the account book that she didn't do much.