Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Chapter 257 - 257 256 Alive

?Chapter 257: Chapter 256: Alive Chapter 257: Chapter 256: Alive Mr. Lin and his son happily reported that the watermelons from the eighty acres were thriving. Many watermelons had grown, with the largest weighing two or three jin (approximately 1-1.5 kg). They predicted that they would be able to harvest the first batch in about half a month.

While they were speaking, Chu Xiaoniu led a long-term worker over. This worker was called Wang Laowu. In his twenties, Wang had already lost most of his hair, a severe case of “local areas overcoming the central area”, with strands of thin hair sticking up on top of his head like small horns.

He was an immigrant and a distant relative of Junior Officer Gao. He claimed that his hometown had been devastated by floods, claiming the lives of all his family members. As a result, he came here to seek refuge with his relatives. Junior Officer Gao helped him with his housing registration and leased a small courtyard in the north of the village, next door to Chen Ming’s old home. From then on, he resided here, working as a long-term worker for others, doing short-term jobs as well. So long as it paid, he was willing to do any dirty or tiring work.

This man didn’t talk much, but he was diligent. However, his standards, when it came to finding a wife, were unreasonably high; she had to be beautiful. He had proposed to just about every home that had a beautiful girl in the village. He was even enamored with the delicate beauty of Chen Afu and often went to the vegetable garden hoping to run into her. The village joked about him, saying that he was like a toad wishing for swan meat. Hence, at twenty-five, he was still unmarried.

Last year, when Fu Garden and Lu Garden were recruiting long-term workers to tend their fields and watermelon patches, he registered for the job. Chen Ming and Chen Afu thought highly of him; he was responsible and hardworking. Other than his unrealistic standards for a wife and his disregard for personal hygiene, he was alright. Therefore, they hired him on the condition that he improved his personal hygiene.

Wang Laowu was very diligent, even more so than the other three long-term workers. He was also willing to use his brain and paid some attention to hygiene. After a while, Chen Afu even promoted him to foreman and put him in charge of the watermelon field.

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