Han Chen watched Xuemei walk forward, thinking that he had been reckless, and quickly pushed his bicycle to catch up with her.

Han Chen pulled Xuemei's sleeve and said, "Xuemei, I'm sorry, I was rude to you just now!"

Xuemei looked at Han Chen's guilty expression and paused to explain, "Although we are a couple now, we still need to be careful about our words and actions outside and pay attention to the impact! After all, the regulations in this area are very strict now!"

"I understand, Xuemei. I will be careful when I'm out with you in the future!" Han Chen said regretfully.

"It's okay as long as you understand. By the way! Han Chen, how much alcohol can you tolerate? My father was really drunk last night and vomited again. He started singing military songs for several hours in the middle of the night and his voice became hoarse! My mother said that my father hasn't been this drunk in more than ten years!" Xuemei looked at Han Chen's serious expression and asked to change the subject.

"I haven't tried it, but the most I drank was a pound of white wine, and I was only a little drunk!" Han Chen recalled.

"No matter how much you can drink, you'd better not drink. Drinking is very harmful to your health! In the future, if someone asks you to drink with my dad, if you really can't refuse, you have to watch out for my dad. The same goes for you. Even if you can drink a lot, you can't drink just because others persuade you to. What are you laughing at? Did you hear that?" Xuemei looked at the grinning Han Chen with a puzzled look.

Han Chen was happy, of course, because Xuemei treated him as her future husband. He was happy in his heart and smiled foolishly, but Han Chen didn't dare to say it out loud for fear of angering Xuemei.

Xuemei thought Han Chen didn't hear her, so she asked again, "Han Chen, are you listening to me?"

"Xuemei, I'm listening. I will take better care of my uncle in the future, and I will try not to drink if possible!" Han Chen replied.

"I hope you will do what you say, and don't just talk without doing anything. I hate this kind of behavior the most!" Xuemei looked at Han Chen seriously and said.

"Xuemei, just wait and see how I perform in the future! I will use my future actions to prove that what I said is true!" Han Chen looked at Xuemei and said firmly.

Xuemei smiled and nodded.

"Xuemei, I have something else to give you today!" Han Chen said, then took out a pen from his shirt pocket and handed it to Xuemei.

Xuemei smiled when she saw it and asked, "Is this the birthday present you gave me last time?"

Han Chen nodded and said, "Can you accept it now?"

"Of course. By the way, I don't know when your birthday is yet." Xuemei asked as she took the pen.

"Are you going to prepare a birthday present for me? My birthday is April 17th in the lunar calendar." Han Chen's eyes lit up and he looked at Xuemei in surprise.

"We'll talk about birthday presents later! By the way, have you grown a little taller than when I came last year? Why do I feel that it is a little more difficult to see your head now?" Xuemei said as she stood on tiptoe and looked up.

The reason why Xuemei asked Han Chen this was that she was planning to make a shirt for him.

"Probably not! I feel like I'm still about the same size as before when standing next to Zhou Bing. I'm still a little above his eyebrows, unless we both grow taller." Han Chen thought for a while and said.

Xuemei wanted to estimate Han Chen's clothing size, so she said, "Then weigh the bicycle on the scale and spin it around in front of me a few times so I can see!"

Han Chen turned around a few times in confusion, then asked, "Is it okay? Xuemei!"

"It's okay. It must be because you and Zhou Zhiqing have grown taller!" Xuemei said.

Han Chen and Xuemei chatted with each other all the way. When they were almost at Liu's house, Xuemei said, "You should go back to the educated youth institute first! If you don't have time in the afternoon, don't come and wait for me every day. You work hard every day!"

Han Chen looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he said to Xuemei, "The work in the village is not too busy now. If you want to find me after work, I'll wait for you on the way home! Xuemei, let's go to the county town together on my birthday!" After Han Chen said this, he looked at Xuemei with anticipation.

Xuemei thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I still have one day off this month. Oh, and remember to come to my house for breakfast on your birthday!"

Han Chen nodded happily. Xuemei saw Liu's father walking towards them and quickly said, "Go back quickly! My dad is here!"

When Han Chen saw Liu's father coming, he panicked for a second, but he immediately calmed down, said something to Xuemei, handed her the schoolbag and bicycle, and then walked up to Liu's father and greeted him before leaving.

"Dad, you came to pick me up today too!" Xuemei pushed her bicycle and walked up to Liu's father and asked.

Father Liu snorted, looked at Han Chen's back and said, "I saw that you hadn't come back at this time today, so I guessed that the guy was blocking the road. Sure enough, I saw him when I came out!"

Xuemei smiled and changed the subject, saying, "Dad, are you feeling better today? Don't drink so much next time. You weren't feeling well last night, and Feifei's bed suffered as well!"

Father Liu poked Xuemei's forehead with his finger and said, "You bad girl, how dare you make fun of me? I just wanted to get Han Chen drunk and trick him into saying something! No, next time I'll call your second uncle and make sure to get him drunk once!"

"Dad, I just asked Han Chen, he can drink a pound of white wine! You and second uncle combined may not be able to drink him down. You'd better not compete with him in drinking in the future, it's so bad for your health! Besides, mom doesn't like you drinking!" Xuemei advised.

Father Liu said dissatisfiedly: "Your mother doesn't allow me to drink because she feels sorry for me! You, I don't know now!"

Xuemei quickly expressed her concern, "I'm worried about your health, too, Dad."

Father Liu said jealously, "I think you're worried about that kid! Now that he's gone and can't be seen, why are you still watching him?"

Xuemei said helplessly, "Dad, I just looked up casually, not at him. Besides, when you two were drinking, I would definitely feel sorry for you first. Even if I felt sorry for Han Chen, it was just incidental!"

Father Liu finally felt a little better and said, "Give me the bike, I'll push it! Your mother started cooking this dish just as I left the house. It should be almost done by now. Let's go back!"

Xuemei replied, "Okay, Dad!"

As soon as Xuemei entered the yard, she saw Feifei collecting sheets and quilt covers on the clothesline. Xuemei turned her head and looked at Liu's father and gave him a mischievous smile.

Father Liu touched his nose awkwardly and pushed his bicycle away.

The next day, when Xuemei got off work, she took home a nine-foot piece of blue Dacron cloth, using up all the cloth coupons she had received in the past few months.

Xuemei rinsed it with water that night, and after it dried the next night, she asked Liu's mother to cut it according to her estimated size of Han Chen. This made Liu's father jealous. Finally, Xuemei coaxed him and said that she had exchanged some cloth coupons with her colleagues in the past few days to make a new piece of clothing for him and Liu's mother. Only then did Liu's father stop being jealous and stopped complaining!