Guide to Happiness for a Supporting Female Character in the 1970s

At the first thunderclap of Jingzhe (Awakening of Insects), Chu Xia unexpectedly learns that she is a lovestruck supporting female character in a male-centered period novel, doomed to spend her ent...

Chapter 138

Chapter 138

The pot cover asked again: "Where to the south?"

Han Ting held the rim of the cup with his hand and lowered his brows and said, "Let's see after it's over. Go around and broaden your horizons."

He doesn't have any clear direction now.

I don’t know what it’s like outside now, and I don’t know what it will be like after I get out.

He just knew.

He couldn't stay in Beijing anymore.

Every day he stays here is a day he will have to live under Lin Xiaohan's shadow.

Since Lin Xiaohan stayed in Beijing, let him go to the south instead.

Go to a place where you don't know anyone and start over.

All the frivolous and carefree dreams of youth.

Let’s bury them all.

Hearing Han Ting say this, Chaozi and Guogai looked at each other.

Then Guogai looked at Han Ting and said in an exaggerated and righteous manner: "Fight for the sword in the world! Wander around the world! Brother Ting, we will go with you!"

The meat came, and the three of them picked up their chopsticks and started eating the mutton.

Han Ting added, "Don't join in the fun. I've been married and divorced, and I've gone through everything I should have gone through. You haven't even got a wife yet, so don't waste time."

Guo Gai: "What's the delay? When can't you get married? When can't you have children? Others say that getting married and having children are important events in life, but we don't think so. There are many other important events in life. Anyway, if you want to go out, you must take us with you."

Chaozi also agreed: "Even if you don't bring it, we will have to go find you."

Han Ting looked at Chaozi and Guogai, then picked up the cup and said, "Okay, we'll be brothers for life."

***

Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan have lived together for a long time, and Lin Xiaohan has long regarded Chuxia's home as his own. Every time he goes to the alley, it feels like going home. So after the wedding, there was no big change in their lives and they are still the same as before.

The most obvious changes and differences.

That is, Lin Xiaohan no longer calls Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei uncle and aunt.

After the wedding, he started to call her the same as Chu Xia.

These two names are quite unfamiliar to him.

He has never called his mother "Mom" since her death, except for the time when he was sick and delirious with a fever and called her twice. Later, when he had a stepmother, he never called his father again.

Once the name was changed, he and Chuxia felt more realistically like a family.

Just as Chuxia told him, he will have his own home in the future.

In a room with slightly dim light.

After Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan finished dinner and washed up, they leaned against the head of the bed and watched TV together.

Originally the TV was placed in the living room.

But the weather was cold, and it was more comfortable to watch TV together in bed after dinner and washing up at night, so they moved the TV into the room.

Chuxia lay directly in Lin Xiaohan's arms.

Lin Xiaohan put his arm around her with his right hand, resting his palm on her waist.

Chu Xia looked at the TV and said, "I heard that this year they are going to have a formal Spring Festival Gala, and it will be broadcast live."

Lin Xiaohan hummed and said, "This year, I will have New Year's Eve dinner with you, watch the gala together, and go out to set off fireworks together at twelve o'clock."

Chu Xia leaned in his arms and looked back at him.

Looking at him like this, I asked, "Does it make you feel warm and happy just thinking about it?"

Lin Xiaohan lowered his head and kissed her on the lips, "I'm so happy."

Chu Xia laughed, "You should be happy if you can meet me and marry me in this life."

After saying that, she propped herself up, tilted her head back and kissed him on the lips.

After the kiss she was ready to continue watching TV.

But before she lowered her head, Lin Xiaohan kissed her again.

He let go without even a kiss. Chu Xia blinked twice slowly and closed her eyes to respond to him.

The wet and long kiss melted the bones.

His breathing gradually became erratic, his ears became red with blood, and his cheeks began to turn slightly red.

His large hands were placed on his waist and caressed.

The tremor on the tip of the tongue spread throughout the body.

Chu Xia groaned softly and held his hand, finding a gap to breathe, and said in the rising and falling breath: "Hold it a little longer..."

Lin Xiaohan kissed her ear: "I can control it..."

***

I have to get up early every day to go to work, so of course I have to sleep in on the rare day of Sunday.

Especially in this season of ice, snow and cold wind, a warm bed is the place people least want to leave.

Without setting an alarm clock, Chuxia slept soundly, but Lin Xiaohan woke up early.

When he got up, he kissed Chuxia on the lips and whispered in her ear, "I'm going to go out for a while."

I don’t know if Chuxia heard it or not. She closed her eyes and said “hmm” and then there was no more movement.

Lin Xiaohan didn't bother her any more. He got up, washed, put on his cotton coat and scarf, and went out.

Chuxia was the only one left in the room, sleeping.

The room was quiet. Suddenly, a magpie landed on the windowsill outside the curtains, then flapped its wings and flew away, leaving two claw marks on the thick snow.

Sleep until you wake up naturally in early summer.

He lay on the bed, opened his eyes, and stared blankly for a while.

After a moment, she became more sober. She turned her head to look at the empty room next to her, and sat up from the bed with confusion in her eyes.

She sat on the bed and called out, "Lin Xiaohan?"

When no one answered, she changed her way of addressing him: "Comrade Xiaolin?"

Still no one answered, so she changed her name to "Xiao Lin classmate."

Chuxia thought for a while with a blank expression, and remembered that when she was half asleep in the morning, he seemed to say in her ear, "Go out for a while", so she stopped calling him.

Still a bit lazy to remember.

Chuxia fell back, covered herself with the quilt and stayed there for a while.

When I was lying in bed, I reached out to turn on the radio on the bedside table and listened to the broadcast.

She listened to the radio to her heart's content before she got up from the bed again.

It was not as cold inside the house as outside, so she put on a cardigan, found a rubber band to tie her hair casually behind her head, and went to the window and half-opened the curtains.

It snowed all day yesterday and now it's all white outside.

There was also a thick layer of snow on the windowsill, with paw prints left by birds.

Sunday is for relaxing and resting. In early summer, I stand in front of the bed and look at the snow scene outside the window, stretch my body and relax for a while, and then turn around and go to the bathroom to wash up.

She came back from washing up leisurely and sat down in front of the dressing table at a leisurely pace.

Take the bottle of vanishing cream, unscrew the cap, and then apply the vanishing cream slowly.

When I wiped my face and lowered my head to wipe my hands, I suddenly heard someone opening the door and coming in.

She knew who it was without thinking, so Chuxia didn't stand up, but just turned to look at the door.

After a while, Lin Xiaohan opened the door and came in.

Chu Xia looked at him and asked, "Where have you been?"

Lin Xiaohan did not answer.

He took off his scarf and hung it up, then took off his clothes and hung them up.

Then, under Chu Xia's puzzled gaze, he walked straight to Chu Xia, pulled her up from the stool, let her turn around and sit on the dressing table, and lowered his head to kiss her hard.

His action was so sudden that Chu Xia was too stunned to react.

I was caught off guard and was suddenly pulled into the turbulent heat.

There was a chill on his lips from outside, and Chu Xia couldn't help but shiver slightly.

I wanted to ask him something else, but then I was so confused that I didn't know what to ask.

The hot air hit her ears, and she heard Lin Xiaohan say in her ear: "I went to the hospital."

Went to the hospital?

Thinking is a bit slow in this situation.

Chuxia took a while to react - was his arm fully recovered after examination?

After understanding, she suddenly became more sober, opened her eyes and tried to hold her breath, looking at Lin Xiaohan nervously and said, "It's not dark yet... Do you want to calm down..."

Lin Xiaohan decisively blocked her mouth again, "Calm down after you're done..."

***

The two curtains were drawn tightly.

The radio on the bedside table was playing the latest pop songs.

Chuxia's breathing was still uncertain, and her face was buried in Lin Xiaohan's arms, with only a slightly flushed face exposed.

After lying down for a while, she said in a muffled voice: "I know you again."

Lin Xiaohan held her in his arms and said in her ear with a smile: "Maybe we will have to get to know each other again many times."

Because it was her first time, I was afraid she couldn't handle it, so I restrained myself a lot.

Chuxia lowered her head and raised her hand to cover his mouth to stop him from speaking any further.

She lay in his arms and continued to say in a muffled voice: "I wanted to go home today, but now I can't."

She felt like her whole body was falling apart and she didn't even want to get out of bed.

After saying that, she raised her head and looked at Lin Xiaohan again, her face flushed as she said, "I'm hungry."

Lin Xiaohan took her hand away, put it under the quilt and said, "I'll go make you something to eat."

Chuxia rolled up the quilt and quickly closed her eyes when Lin Xiaohan was getting dressed.

She was embarrassed to look at him in broad daylight.

For such a long time just now, she didn't dare to open her eyes and look at him.

She closed her eyes for a while, then secretly opened one eye and looked over.

He took one look and immediately closed it, then opened the other one and looked again.

This time, Lin Xiaohan happened to catch his eye.

Her face felt hot, so she closed her eyes silently, turned over and buried her face in the quilt.