Chapter 17 Chapter 17 I just felt so sad and disappointed...

Qu Siyu asked, "I want five kilograms of food. Anything is fine, rice, cornmeal, potatoes. Do you have any?"

Su Yan nodded: "There is no cornmeal, only rice, and a little bit of potatoes, but not much. Five pounds!"

Qu Siyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, if you want a few paintings, I'll come to you tomorrow."

How many paintings? Su Yan earned every time she changed a painting. She shook her head and said, "No, don't go home. It's too dangerous. Let's go to the train station at six in the morning. It's safer then."

For Su Yan, it didn't matter where she was. She could just find a deserted place and put her things in the space. It was incredibly safe. She was mainly worried that Qu Siyu might be seen on the street and implicate her. Furthermore, the train station was full of people buying and selling things, so even if she was caught, she could still say she bought them there.

After the two of them made their decision, they parted ways at the intersection.

Su Yan was in a good mood. Although there were no street lights, the moonlight was bright, just like daylight. After passing the intersection by a hundred or two hundred meters, she saw Dayan riding a bicycle towards her: "Yingzi, Yingzi!"

Su Yan asked, "Why did you come out? I saw you dancing happily just now, so I didn't call you."

Dayan chuckled, "What are you so happy about? I was thinking we could dance together, but you were gone before I knew it." He patted the back seat and said, "Get in! I'll give you a ride home!"

Su Yan jumped on and sat sideways, holding the bicycle seat with both hands. She laughed and said, "Just for that dinner in the cafeteria, I was already hungry at eight o'clock. My stomach was growling, so how could I have the energy to dance?"

Dayan paused, took out an oil-paper bag and handed it to Su Yan: "Here, use it as a cushion!"

Su Yan took it and asked, "What is it?" She opened it and found it was a roasted sweet potato, roasted to a golden brown. Su Yan broke it open, and the aroma rushed directly into her stomach. She smiled and said, "Sure, Dayan, the logistics of the whole Jiangzhou are connected to your family. You can always go to the kitchen to pick up something wherever you go!"

Da Yan laughed: "I dare not say anything else, as for the food at home, I can't say whether it's good or not, but it's enough to fill your stomach and won't make you hungry." He turned his head and said: "How is it?"

Su Yan asked: "What's going on?"

Dayan asked, "What do you think of me?"

Su Yan nodded: "That's great. She even brought me a roasted sweet potato. It's worth the work I usually do."

Dayan turned away disappointedly: "Hey, who said that?" He asked Su Yan if the food tasted good. He told her to bring her some roasted potatoes next time, roasted until golden brown, broken open, with a little lard and sprinkled with salt. They would be so delicious.

When he arrived in front of Lu Yingzi's building, he wanted to park his bike and go inside to sit for a while. Su Yan quickly stopped him and said, "It's so late, the two children at home are asleep, don't wake them up. Besides, you're a man and a woman, and if you go in and sit for a while today, the whole factory will gossip about you tomorrow."

Dayan wanted to go inside: "Hey, what are you afraid of? We are upright and have nothing to fear from others, so why should we be afraid of people's gossip? I'm going in to drink some water, I'm dying of thirst."

Su Yan looked at his carefree attitude, thought for a moment and said, "Dayan, you're a very good person. With such a big thing happening in our family, I definitely wouldn't get married in the next three or four years. You're different, right?"

Dayan was surprised: "What? You won't get married in three or four years, are you kidding me?" He nodded and said: "Don't be like this, I won't go in and sit. Why are you cursing yourself?" Then he turned around and rode away on his bicycle.

Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she opened the door with her key, she saw Dayan coming back on his bicycle. She ran to Su Yan and said, "Yingzi, if I told you that we went to the same junior high school, you would definitely not remember. I just want to tell you today that I like you very much when you come back this time, just like when we were in junior high school. I know you don't remember me and don't like me. But whether you like me or not, I like you."

He spoke a lot in a rapid and urgent manner, and then paused: "That's it, see you tomorrow!"

Su Yan waited until he left before she reacted: "Okay, see you tomorrow!" She closed the door and curled her lips: "What's going on? It's so weird. He said he has liked Lu Yingzi since junior high school?" Even though she had been here for almost three months, Su Yan still didn't completely regard herself as Lu Yingzi.

The two children had indeed fallen asleep. Su Yan gathered their clothes and soaked them in the basin. Jiangzhou's summer was too hot, so Su Yan required the two to change clothes every day. They could wash their underwear themselves, and Su Yan would wash their outer coats and pants.

By the time she finished washing the clothes, she was already sweating profusely. She boiled a pot of water and took a shower. Just as she took a towel to wipe her hair, she heard someone knocking on the door.

Su Yan opened the door and saw her sister-in-law across from her. She was standing in the crack of the door, smiling, "Yingzi, was it Dayan who sent you back just now? Did you two go out to see a movie?"

Su Yan said unhappily, "What? Sister-in-law wants to watch a movie?"

The eldest sister-in-law was fat, twice as big as Su Yan. "Did you know that Jiang Dayan's brother is the director of the grain station? You will be fine in the future, Yingzi. You won't starve anymore. When the time comes, you must think of your sister-in-law. When your parents were in trouble, our family helped a lot. Don't forget our friendship."

Su Yan was speechless. "We don't have money to watch a movie. We were invited to a dance organized by the labor union. Also, don't you have a sister? If you're interested in Dayan, why don't you match them up yourself?"

Su Yan's tone was rude, but the sister-in-law was not angry at all. She smiled and said, "Oh, don't hide it from me. I was just at the door when Dayan was talking just now. Dayan said that he has liked you since junior high school. So it must be more than ten years, right?"

As she spoke, she sighed to herself, "Oh, everyone says Dayan is a playboy, but that's all nonsense. How can someone like someone for more than ten years really be so unfaithful?"

As he spoke, he leaned against the door frame excitedly, almost taking a handful of sunflower seeds to eat: "Yingzi, you are so lucky, but don't agree to Da Yan right away. You have to keep him waiting for a while, until he can deal with his parents. It's not worth it if you agree too easily."

Su Yan's face darkened: "There's nothing wrong between Dayan and me, we're not okay!"

The eldest sister-in-law sighed, "But, Da Yan just said that, you... you look down on Da Yan?"

Su Yan supported her and opened the door for her: "Sister-in-law, it's late, go to bed! As for me, I really didn't get along well with Dayan!"

Su Yan's face darkened as she slammed the door shut. "What a gossip!"

She entered the room, closed the curtains, locked the door, and took out the tablet from the space. However, there was no internet connection, so she could only play single-player games. She downloaded a lot of e-books, but she seemed to feel sleepy after reading just a dozen pages.

Su Yan had a dream. She dreamed that she was driving the car back in the opposite direction and could actually go back. She quickly bought a plane ticket to fly back to see her mother, but the security guard of the community refused to let her in. She squatted at the door, getting anxious, when she saw Su Yan's mother leading someone who looked 80% like Su Yan. The girl seemed to have been seriously injured and had just been discharged from the hospital. Su Yan's mother supported her and said, "Don't worry, dear. We can walk now and you will be fully recovered in less than a month. When you are fully recovered, we will go to pick up the new car, the one you always wanted to buy last year."

The girl had a dull expression: "Car? Is it a car? Do I know how to drive?"

Su Yan's mother patted her head and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot! It's okay, if you forget, you can learn it again! The doctor said that your cerebral cortex is damaged, but you still have a chance of remembering it."

The girl didn't answer. She looked up at the residential building and exclaimed, "What a tall building!"

Su Yan's mother laughed and said, "It's only about twenty floors high. It's not that high! When you get better, I'll take you to Dubai."

The girl looked confused and asked, "Am I really your daughter? Why do I remember that I'm not from here?"

Su Yan's mother laughed: "Of course it is. We've done a paternity test. You are definitely it. How come you are not my daughter?"

The girl said blankly, "But I remember that my name is not Su Yan. I think my name is Yingzi. I often hear people call me Yingzi, both men and women..."

Su Yan's mother burst into tears when she heard this: "It's okay, it's okay, baby, baby, mommy is here!"

Su Yan wanted to rush over, but for some reason, she couldn't move. She shouted loudly, but there was no sound. A cat jumped over and woke her up.

The sky was still dark, and everything was silent except for the chirping of unknown birds and insects. Su Yan opened her tablet and saw that it was 3:14 in the middle of the night. She sat quietly for a long while, feeling sad and lost.

Qin Zhanwu had just been pulled aside by a few comrades to talk for a few words, and when he turned around, he could no longer see Su Yan. When he asked the leader of their unit, he found out that she had already gone back.

Sister Wang said, "That girl Yingzi is lazy. She doesn't like to go to these dances at all. She always slips away halfway through. Every time I criticize her, she just listens in one ear and out the other."

Qin Zhanwu laughed: "That's just like me!"

Then he asked, "Do you know where she lives?"

Sister Wang was stunned. Nowadays, it's unheard of for a man to go straight to a girl's house for his first date! Even though Yingzi had no elders at home and she was alone, it didn't make sense for him to go straight to her house. If it didn't work out, the neighbors would gossip about it and laugh at her.

Sister Wang smiled and said, "Hey, you're too impatient! How can you go to a girl's house for the first time? Nothing has been decided yet!"

After thinking about it, he came up with an idea: "If you are willing, I will talk to Yingzi and ask you two to meet outside to see if it is suitable."

Sister Wang is a sincere person. Although Su Yan lied at the beginning and said that she liked Qin Zhanwu, she also felt that Su Yan was young and she should be cautious about choosing a partner and getting married. She should get to know her better and not decide based on just one meeting.