Transmigrated as Cannon Fodder — I Rise to Female Lead Through Hard Work-Chapter 45: Gains from a Walk After Dinner

When the two returned home and saw the figure chopping wood in the yard, Anmin was extremely delighted, "Big brother, you’re back."

Yi Roujing looked at Ding Ancheng, who turned around, still as handsome as ever, and raised an eyebrow. He had been coming back quite frequently lately, even though he hadn’t returned for three months before.

"I just went out of town, it’s only been a few months," Ding Ancheng replied in a low voice.

Out of town? Yi Roujing was a bit surprised. Could this person have x-ray vision?

"X-ray vision?" Anmin gave Yi Roujing a disdainful glance, "If you care, just ask directly. How long have you been holding it in? Only asking now."

Yi Roujing was shocked and covered her mouth. She had just directly spoken what she was thinking.

Yi Roujing was only embarrassed for a moment, since as long as she wasn’t embarrassed, the embarrassment was someone else’s problem. Besides, the other person wasn’t embarrassed at all, and even had a smile on his lips, with a look that seemed very mischievous.

"Big brother, you went out of town?" Anmin jumped over to Ding Ancheng and asked curiously, "Where did you go?"

"Kids shouldn’t ask so many questions." Anguo came over, grabbed Anmin by the collar, and took her away. He knew his big brother’s personality well enough to know that if he wanted to say anything, he would have already said it.

Yi Roujing went to wash her hands, then went back to her room. A quarter of an hour later, she came out wearing clean and comfortable clothes. Not washing up properly would affect her appetite.

"Why don’t you ask?" Ding Ancheng wiped his sweat with a towel and raised his eyebrows at Yi Roujing.

"I’m not curious," Yi Roujing said evasively, "Besides, I’m also just a kid."

She was the same age as Anmin, so the term suited her perfectly.

Watching Yi Roujing’s uninterrupted silhouette as she walked away, Ding Ancheng’s eyes deepened.

Today’s eel, under Anmin’s strong request, was made into eel porridge, so tonight’s main meal was eel porridge with pancakes, along with several cold side dishes and some scrambled eggs, making it much more sumptuous than usual.

Yi Roujing ate two large bowls, along with fragrant pancakes, and kept burping afterward.

"Let’s go outside for a walk to digest," Ding Ancheng stood up and said.

"Go on, go on." Ding Weihuo’s face was brimming with joy.

Li Hongying also nodded but reminded, "Come back early."

"Let’s go." Ding Ancheng’s low murmur seemed to linger in her ears, and Yi Roujing looked up, surprised. So the "we" in "we" was actually referring to herself.

Was he going to make things clear? Yi Roujing stood up without hesitation, "Oh."

"Big brother, I..."

"Go wash the dishes." Anguo intercepted his sister, leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Don’t be clueless."

Anmin immediately understood, gave Anguo a glare, "You should have said so earlier. I thought big brother brought something tasty to secretly share with sister-in-law."

"Can you think about anything other than food in your head?"

...

The sky was dim, and Ding Ancheng and Yi Roujing walked one after the other on the small path in the brigade. Along the way, they encountered some people and couldn’t avoid getting teased a bit.

After five minutes of walking, Ding Ancheng still hadn’t spoken, and Yi Roujing suspiciously stared at him for a while.

"What’s up?" Ding Ancheng turned his head to look at Yi Roujing. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Yi Roujing looked bewildered, "Aren’t you the one with something to say?"

"I have nothing to say."

"Then why did you bring me out here?"

"To digest." Ding Ancheng replied.

Yi Roujing laughed in frustration, "Digest your..."

Yi Roujing suddenly turned around, angrily kicking a stone by her foot.

"Whoosh——whoosh——"

The stone flew out and startled something in the grass by the road. Several birds flapped their wings in fright, rose up, and landed right in front of Yi Roujing.

Yi Roujing looked at the birds, which were three or four times larger than ordinary sparrows, and hesitated whether they could provide a few bites of meat if caught.

"Whoosh——" A few gusts of wind passed by, and the birds standing on the path fell one by one. Ding Ancheng stepped forward and picked up one of them, "It’s a quail, this should be a female."

"A quail?" Yi Roujing repeated, although she had never seen a quail, she had eaten quail eggs.

"Are there eggs below?" Yi Roujing’s eyes lit up.

"See for yourself," Ding Ancheng casually gathered some dry, yellow grass, tied the three fallen quails together, and then jumped down into the grass, squatting down to start searching through the grass.

In no time, he found a nest of quail eggs. Although there were only four inside, Yi Roujing quickly picked them up as soon as she saw them.

The two of them roughly searched through a grass patch that was about an acre and picked up twenty-three quail eggs, scaring away quite a few quails in the process. Ding Ancheng also used small stones to catch five of them.

"Wow, tomorrow morning let’s cook these eggs," she said, considering the quail eggs, although small, were too many to hold, and she was currently using her shirt to carry them.

"These quails aren’t dead, right? If we keep them, we might be able to gather a lot of quail eggs every day," Yi Roujing smiled at Ding Ancheng.

"If someone finds out, your perfect status could be tainted," Ding Ancheng replied without looking back, "In more severe cases, you could even be taken for reformation."

Yi Roujing drew back her lips, "Let’s kill them all tomorrow then."

"Earlier, I went south," Ding Ancheng suddenly mentioned, "I was delayed by something, that’s why I returned so late."

"South?" Yi Roujing was taken aback, "Weren’t you leading County First Middle School to the provincial capital for the math competition?"

This conclusion was drawn from the words of the old gatekeeper at the food factory when they went to Huaixi County last time.

As soon as she said it, the surrounding temperature seemed to drop a bit.

"The competition ended before we got married." Ding Ancheng gave Yi Roujing a meaningful look.

"Oh, hehe, you should have made things clearer earlier," Yi Roujing said awkwardly, "So why did you go south? Did the school arrange it?"

"You want to know?" Ding Ancheng asked with a smile.

Before Yi Roujing could reply, Ding Ancheng strode away.

Tch, truly lacking gentlemanly behavior. How could he leave a girl behind at night, especially one with a marriage certificate? Yi Roujing complained inwardly and watched as the person in the front turned around, "Keep up."

South? Yi Roujing sneaked a glance at Ding Ancheng, who was unknowingly walking beside her. He had already gone south at this time?

If Ding Ancheng were just an ordinary teacher, he wouldn’t be the male lead in the book. He was the one who, at the start of the reform era, was the first to propose leaving his job to start a business, most importantly, he was given permission, eventually earning a great deal, prospering in both the political and business circles, handling both legitimate and underworld dealings with ease. Of course, his tolerant treatment was partly due to the Xu Family’s status and partly due to Ding Ancheng’s generosity.