Cannon Fodder Husband Ch.209-210

Chapter 209 – Changing Village Chief

Paralyzed!

When Lu Xia heard this news, she was taken aback. How did it become so severe?…

Immediately, her thoughts turned to Su Man. Could this be related to her?

If so, then the village chief had paid the price, and he wouldn’t be able to continue as the village chief. Su Man had sought her revenge.

However, upon careful consideration, Lu Xia didn’t think Su Man would do something so drastic.

She wouldn’t go so far as to leave someone bedridden for the rest of their life.

Lu Xia thought Su Man wouldn’t do it, which meant this was most likely an accident.

But it was quite coincidental for such an accident to happen right after offending the female protagonist. Could it be the protagonist halo at work?

Lu Xia wasn’t sure, but her heart tightened at the thought. She remembered how Cheng Yujiao had broken her leg after offending Su Man. She decided to be more careful in the future and avoid provoking Su Man.

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With the village chief’s misfortune, he was no longer fit to hold his position. Soon, another village chief was chosen to replace him.

This new village chief was surnamed Liu. His son was a martyr, and their family held considerable influence in the village.

Honestly, if it wasn’t for the prevalence of the Li surname in the village, Liu might have been chosen as the village chief during the previous selection.

It seemed that Village Chief Li was aware of this. While he hadn’t openly suppressed the Liu family after assuming office, he had prevented their children from taking leadership positions in the village. There were no Liu family members among the village’s officials or team leaders.

The Liu family, in turn, kept a low profile and hadn’t caused any trouble in recent years.

Now that the chief position was vacated, these matters came to light.

Upon learning about the change, Lu Xia breathed a sigh of relief. As long as this new village chief wasn’t in cahoots with the old one, she hoped that the treatment of the educated youths would improve.

The grain had been dried and bagged recently. Usually, they had to transport the grain to the town’s grain station for public distribution, little by little.

Although the village wasn’t far from the town, they had only one ox cart and couldn’t overburden the ox. As a result, each grain transport operation was strenuous work.

But this year, things were different.

Su Man had somehow connected with the head of the town’s agricultural machinery station.

She borrowed a tractor from the station to transport the grain.

The tractor made multiple trips in the morning and quickly completed what would have taken several days of hard labor otherwise.

Thanks to Su Man, the villagers were saved from a lot of trouble this year.

As a result, people’s impression of Su Man improved significantly.

This extended to the educated youths as well. The villagers no longer ignored them but greeted them as before, seemingly reverting to their previous attitude.

What pleased Lu Xia was that the new village chief seemed to have no issues with the educated youths. He treated them all equally when matters arose, a far cry from the previous Village Chief Li.

Moreover, Su Man’s contributions didn’t end there. She even managed to secure a tractor-operator position for the village through the agricultural machinery station!

The villagers were overjoyed upon hearing this news.

While being a tractor operator might seem ordinary, it was a highly sought-after job. Apart from a salary, it offered leisure time and, most importantly, the village would now have a tractor operator, making it more convenient to borrow the tractor in the future.

Given all these positive changes, how could the villagers not be grateful to Su Man?

What’s more, Su Man had said that the choice of the tractor operator would be determined by the villagers themselves. The educated youths would listen according to everyone’s arrangements.

This gesture improved the villagers’ impression of the educated youths even further. They were now seen as fellow villagers.

Everyone’s perception of Su Man underwent a direct transformation. Even her previous incident of reporting to the authorities was portrayed as being intimidated by Chen Laoshi.

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Chapter 210 – Chen Xue’s Marriage

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Watching Su Man’s reputation undergo a dramatic transformation in a short period of time, Zhao Hua’s face turned incredibly gloomy.

After getting married, he had moved into the Shi family’s residence. However, due to his uncomfortable living conditions there, he still returned to the educated youth spot intermittently.

Because of the past incidents, the educated youths’ impression of him wasn’t very favorable, leading to a difficult time for him at the educated youth spot.

As a result, he became even more brooding.

But hardly anyone cared about these matters; after all, it was a result of his own actions.

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As the weather grew colder, the need to work on the farms had ceased. The county had organized road repair teams that were hiring labor again.

Several educated youths from the educated youth spot were among those who joined, including Liu Jun.

After getting married, Sun Shengnan and Liu Jun continued living separately, but they spent the entire autumn trying to save money.

During their previous mushroom-picking venture, they had worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk, losing weight in the process. They had managed to accumulate quite a bit and had also sold some dried mushrooms for money.

Liu Jun had decided to join the road repair team this time, and even Sun Shengnan intended to go along. While the road repair team didn’t specifically exclude women, their roles were limited to tasks like moving stones and cooking, which were equally exhausting.

However, for the sake of their small family, they were determined to go.

Lu Xia watched them with concern, but she didn’t have much room to advise them. She could only give Sun Shengnan some brown sugar before her departure, hoping she could persevere.

Recently, as the weather turned colder, Lu Xia’s pregnancy was progressing, and she was becoming increasingly dependent on Jiang Junmo for support. Apart from her regular walks in the courtyard, she didn’t venture out much.

She spent her time at home, studying together with Jiang Junmo.

However, she couldn’t help but notice that her mind seemed to be getting duller, perhaps due to her pregnancy. She also found herself dozing off from time to time, which significantly reduced her study efficiency.

Jiang Junmo was concerned about her getting tired, so he would have her take breaks after studying for a while, or he would study ahead and then explain to her.

Lu Xia knew there were still a few years before the college entrance exam, so she wasn’t in a hurry.

Because she rarely left the house, she gradually fell behind on the village’s news.

She only learned about the recent happenings in the village when Shen Qingqing came over to borrow some needles and thread.

She didn’t pay much attention to other matters, but there was one recent event that caught her interest: Chen Xue’s situation.

After filling in as a substitute teacher at the village’s primary school, Chen Xue had been working there for almost a year. The teacher she had been substituting for, Teacher Fang, had given birth and recovered, so she was planning to return to work.

Originally, everyone thought Chen Xue would have no issues giving up the job at this point.

Unexpectedly, after working with Chen Xue for a year, Teacher Fang found her to be quite capable and responsible. After she wanted to come back to work, she didn’t have any complaints. Since Chen Xue had good character, Teacher Fang introduced her to a potential match.

The man in question was a distant relative of Teacher Fang’s husband. He lived in the neighboring village and was also a soldier. He had even more prospects than Hu Jianjun, despite being slightly older at 27. He held the rank of Deputy Battalion Commander.

Furthermore, he was marrying for the first time. His delay in getting married was due to his military service.

Upon hearing about him, Chen Xue found his prospects quite appealing. When he came back on leave to visit, they met, and unexpectedly, they both liked each other. Due to his limited vacation time, they set the wedding date for just five days later.

Today, they had already gone to register their marriage, and this time, it was unlikely any unexpected incidents would occur.

After their marriage, Chen Xue would accompany her husband in the military, which would mark her departure from the educated youth spot for good.

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