Chapter 36: Parade through the streets, how is this possible?

There are only a limited number of people who can write letters to Qi Fang, and Qi Fang immediately remembered the letter he had sent a few days ago.

I walked out and took it, and it was true. I didn't expect that the other party was still using this address, and I actually replied to him.

After all, when he heard that his teacher was in trouble, he hurried back to Yanjing, hoping to find a way out for his teacher. However, everyone he knew avoided him like the plague, including his eldest brother and father...

This made him feel a little complicated. After thanking the other party, he stood in the yard for a while before folding the letter, putting it in his trouser pocket, and turning back.

A while later, Liu Weiguo had already started talking to Yan Xue about something else. "There's an open-air movie tonight. Do you and Qi Fang want to go? I'll save a spot for you."

The afforestation had just been completed these days, and the young forest cultivation had not yet begun. The forestry workers happened to have some time, so the bureau started showing movies in each forestry farm.

However, Qi Fang never joined in on these activities before, so Liu Weiguo came to ask Yan Xue. Unexpectedly, Qi Fang came back from outside and heard it. He also looked at Yan Xue and asked, "Are you going?"

It meant to listen to Yan Xue's opinion, so Yan Xue didn't hesitate and said, "Then let's go."

Anyway, there is not much entertainment at night these days, so going out to join in the fun is better than staying at home. It just so happens that the weather has started to get warmer recently.

Unexpectedly, others thought the same way. When she and Qi Fang finished their meal, they rushed to the small square where the open-air movie was shown. The square was already crowded with people, and there were many hanging on the roofs and trees nearby.

"Are there so many people in our forest farm?" Yan Xue asked Qi Fang in confusion.

"Probably not." Qi Fang raised his eyes and estimated the number of people. "I guess people from the nearby villages are here too."

"Can you still see this?"

Yan Xue stood on tiptoe and saw the back of a grown-up girl in front of her. She stood on tiptoe again and saw the back of a man carrying a baby.

As for the place that Liu Weiguo had promised to occupy for them, she apologized that there were too many people and she couldn't even see where Liu Weiguo was.

Just as I thought of Liu Weiguo, he arrived, accompanied by Zhou Wenhui, who had changed into a floral dress. Upon seeing him, she was also stunned. "Did there ever seem to be so many people showing movies before?"

"Maybe you didn't have a partner before, so you came early." Qi Fang said lightly.

Liu Weiguo thought about it and said, "We used to carry benches and sit in the first row."

This made Zhou Wenhui blush a little, "I was slow to clean up."

"How can that be? You have to come early to sit in the first row, and you have to eat dinner here." Liu Weiguo waved his hand quickly.

But the opening credits have already started, I can’t really just not watch anything, right?

Liu Weiguo looked around and asked Zhou Wenhui, "Are you afraid of climbing a tree? If not, I can help you climb it."

"Let's just forget it." Zhou Wenhui looked at the tree that was almost full of people hanging on it and shook her head.

This is when the advantages of being tall come into play. Qi Fang doesn't need to be picky about where to stand. He can just stand anywhere and see the big screen by looking up.

Yan Xue was really a little envious and couldn't help but look back at the man. Unexpectedly, the man was also looking down at her.

"It's okay, just watch yourselves." Yan Xue turned her head back, but someone grabbed her waist the next second.

Before she could react, she had already flown into the air and landed on the man's shoulder.

This instantly made her nervous, "Why are you carrying me?"

"Can't you see it?" Qi Fang's voice was normal, and he helped her adjust the angle.

"Then you can't carry me up." Yan Xue didn't know where to put her hands and feet. She wanted to get down, but the place was too high and her legs were too short, so she couldn't reach it.

Qi Fang also comforted her: "It's okay, it's dark."

The same rhetoric as last time immediately reminded Yan Xue of Liu Weiguo whom she met last time.

Liu Weiguo's eyes were sharp as expected, and he hissed quickly, "It's you, Qi Fang, who can do it. You can even think of this."

With a sour tone, he asked Zhou Wenhui: "How about I carry you up too?"

"That's not good. There are so many people here."

"It's okay. Everyone is watching the movie. Who will watch you? Come on, I'll carry you. As long as you can watch, that's all."

Then there was a rustling sound behind him, "The position is not correct, wait for me to try again."

Continuing to rustle, "No, I'm going to fall!"

This time it was Zhou Wenhui.

After a long while, Liu Weiguo finally gave up and said, "Forget it, let's just listen to the sound."

Yan Xue sat on Qi Fang's shoulders, not knowing whether the movie in front was more exciting or the two young couple in the back were more exciting.

Qi Fang was also quite steady, carrying Yan Xue without moving a muscle. Yan Xue wanted to get off several times, but he didn't let her go. He didn't let her down until the movie was almost over. They were standing at the back, so few people noticed...

That's weird!

As soon as she left the small square, Yan Xue heard a teenage girl behind her say, "That sister is so big, and she still lets her father carry her. Dad, why don't you carry me? I didn't even see it."

My older sister Yan Xue: "..."

Yan Xue's father Qi Fang: "..."

In the midst of silence, Liu Weiguo couldn't help but laugh out loud. Seeing the couple looking at him, he quickly waved his hands and said, "I didn't hear anything."

It’s better not to say anything.

This is because it was dark enough to see clearly, otherwise if Yan Xue had exercised again, his old face would have turned red.

Even when she got home, she still remembered the incident and asked Qi Fang, "Dad of that sister, is your shoulder okay?"

Qi Fang actually looked at her with his peach blossom eyes, his eyes were very meaningful, "Her father said it's okay."

He really dares to take advantage of anything. Yan Xue gave him a sidelong glance and went out to wash up.

That glance made Qi Fang inexplicably happy, and he didn't even feel the numbness in his shoulders. He rubbed them a few times and sat down at the table to open the letter.

He had been busy before and had never had the chance to look, and he didn't want Yan Xue to know that he was asking about her family affairs.

I don’t know what happened in the Yan family that caused Yan Xue, the eldest daughter of the Yan family, to have her household registration transferred to the countryside.

If the siblings were in a bad situation, they could ask Yan Xue to take her brother in, as they had just built an extra room in their new house. Although he couldn't give them a good life, it was at least better than staying in the countryside...

Qi Fang paused, took the envelope, and took another look at the sender.

It was his friend, yes, but the content of the letter...

Qi Fang unfolded the letter and read it word by word from the beginning, only to find that those words that were so familiar to him had become strange.

The letter said that no one knew what was going on in the Yan family, but to outsiders, they seemed to be living well.

The Yan family lives in harmony and has three sons and one daughter. Yan's father was not affected by the turmoil and was recently promoted to a higher level.

The letter said that Yan Xue was living a good life. After graduating from high school, her family asked someone to make a medical record for her and did not let her go to the countryside.

Probably thinking that he was asking about the Yan family and whether Yan Xue was doing well because of the broken engagement, and that the Yan family had other hidden motives, the other party also revealed a piece of news to him -

Yan Xue, the eldest daughter of the Yan family, is getting engaged again.

"I heard he's also a technician. Although his family isn't very good, he's handsome and has just made a breakthrough in his field, earning him considerable attention from higher-ups. Some people just aren't meant to be together. You don't have to take it too seriously. You'll always meet someone better, and the clouds will eventually clear and the moon will appear..."

Qi Fang had no intention of reading what was said afterwards. There was only one thought in his mind.

How is this possible!

Yan Xue had just watched a movie with him and even gave him a sidelong glance when they were leaving. How could she be staying in Yanjing instead of going to the countryside and getting engaged again?

If the real eldest daughter of the Yan family, Yan Xue, had been staying in Yanjing, then who was the one who married him and slept next to him every day?

Just as I wanted to confirm it again, the sound of water washing outside suddenly stopped.

Without a second thought, he folded the envelope and letter and put them in his pocket.

When Yan Xue came in from the outer room, she found the man sitting quietly at the table. When he heard the noise, he turned around and looked at her, his eyes deeper than ever.

The kind of depth that hides in the dark, observing carefully, examining carefully, and spying carefully.

This made her pause, not understanding what this man was thinking, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Qi Fang's face showed nothing, and he didn't even pay attention to the pocket where the letter was placed. His eyes were always fixed on Yan Xue.

Seeing that Yan Xue was about to go to bed without caring about him after hearing these three words, he went over and held Yan Xue's hand.

The soft little hands still had a slight cool moisture on them. They looked tender, but when you touched them closely, you could see thin, tough calluses on them, just like her.

How could he have taken it for granted that the eldest daughter of the Yan family had experienced the same thing as him and that was why she was so able to endure hardships.

How careless is it to not inquire about anything or ask anything...

With the person in his hands, Qi Fang finally felt relieved and began to seriously think about the ins and outs of the whole matter.

First of all, Yan Xue’s name, age, registered residence, and the fact that she has a grandmother and a younger brother should all be true.

There was no need for Yan Xue to lie to him. How could she deceive him, a stray dog ​​who could only stay in the mountains?

Then it should be true that Yan Xue has a marriage partner in Jinchuan Forest Farm, and the other party is also called Qi Fang.

But Qi Fang really didn't know that there was such a person in Jinchuan Forest Farm. Was it because he was ignorant, or was it because the other person was no longer there and Yan Xue didn't know, so she recognized the wrong person just like him?

The thought only lasted a moment. Seeing Yan Xue looking at him with confusion, Qi Fang simply embraced her and asked, "You said you received the things that day. Did you really receive them?"

Yan Xue was stunned for a moment before she realized he was talking about the day they first met. "I really received it. My great aunt gave it to me directly."

Think about it, the betrothal gift is given to the woman, it belongs to her, and how she wants to use it is her business. The man never asked before, and this time he suddenly asked, maybe there is something wrong. Then think about the fact that the man received a letter in the afternoon, and Yan Xue asked again: "Do you need money?"

She was actually talking about money, and he thought it was an engagement deed.

Qi Fang had just thought of this when Yan Xue continued, "I've been buying bricks, tiles, and food lately. I've been using the salary you've given me over the past few months. I haven't used much of the money from selling bear bile yet. If that's not enough, I have some here too."

She also received her temporary worker salary, which was 1.68 yuan a day. Together with the income from selling pine nuts and gastrodia elata, she could make up about 100 to 180 yuan.

She had calculated the subsequent costs of cultivating the fungus. At most, she would need to buy some gypsum, which wouldn't be much, so she should be able to give it to him. After all, by the beginning of next month, they would both be able to receive their salaries again.

She was thinking about how to give money to Qi Fang. Qi Fang listened with complicated feelings.

She was willing to help him find a solution without even asking any questions. How could such a good person not be his real fiancée?

Such a tenacious, brave, kind person, as full of vitality as spring grass, and as warm and bright as the sun...

Qi Fang lowered his eyes and looked at her, unconsciously tightening his arms, "I don't need it, you keep it."

Then he asked, "I just heard you mention your great aunt?"

The topic changed a bit too quickly. Yan Xue paused before saying, "She's the person who introduced us. Her eldest daughter lives in town. We even visited her during the New Year. Have you forgotten?"

Qi Fang had indeed "forgotten". At that time, he thought that Aunt Qiufang was just an ordinary distant relative of the Yan family.

Thinking about it now, I don’t know whether I should be glad that they didn’t meet anyone when they went there, otherwise they might have been exposed long ago.

Qi Fang raised his hand and stroked her temples. "What did my great aunt tell you about me?"

She had to find out clearly and find the person she was originally going to marry before she could make further plans.

The action of stroking the temples was very ambiguous, as was the hug. Yan Xue couldn't help but look up at the man, "You seem to have a lot of questions today."

If he had asked so many questions earlier, he wouldn't have recognized the wrong person from the beginning.

Qi Fang was silent for a moment, "It just suddenly occurred to me, and I'm a little curious."

The two of them had gotten to know each other better recently. Unlike at the beginning, they had both established boundaries and wouldn't easily cross over to the other's side. Yan Xue recalled, "Actually, they didn't say much. They just said you were 1.8 meters tall, good-looking, had a job, and were capable. They were all compliments on you."

As for the fact that both parents are dead and I grew up in my aunt's house, please don't hurt others when they are fine.

This person has good conditions in all aspects, and Qi Fang felt a little depressed.

If Yan Xue's real boyfriend comes and offers such good conditions, and he and Yan Xue haven't consummated their marriage yet, will Yan Xue...

In fact, the simplest and safest way is to make the matter a done deal as soon as possible, so that even if people come, it will be too late.

But if Qi Fang had respected Yan Xue's wishes from the beginning, he would never have consummated his marriage with Yan Xue because of such a thing.

He sighed, hugged her tighter, and rested his chin on top of Yan Xue's head. "Am I not okay at all?"

The often-praised achievement of getting into college at the age of fourteen is now useless.

His good family background, which had been envied since childhood, was gone. Instead, his father and brothers were demoted and he became someone that others didn't want to have anything to do with.

He only has a nice appearance, but he can't even say nice words to comfort her, and he only makes her angry...

Yan Xue couldn't see the man's expression, but she could hear his voice was a little muffled. She didn't know what had brought out his bad mood, even his inferiority complex. She simply patted the man on the back and said, "Actually, he's not bad. He looks good, can do housework, and is quite skillful. Keep up the good work."

Although not being able to speak can be annoying, the salary earned is based on the work done.

Rather than a man who is good at talking and providing emotional value to others, Yan Xue would rather have a man who is not good at talking but can get things done for her.

She really couldn't bear to be coaxed by a man with a few nice words and then willingly go back to making money and being a nanny for him.

Seeing that the man didn't say anything, she pushed him away a little, "What's wrong? Are you in a bad mood? Do you want me to hug you?" She directly opened her arms.

Yan Xue is petite and her arms aren't very big, but when she smiles her eyes bend and make people feel better.

Qi Fang looked at her outstretched arms, then simply bent down, hugged her waist and lifted her up, bringing her to a position slightly higher than himself, and said, "Hold me."

This was the first time Yan Xue looked at a man from a bird's-eye view. She felt that his peach blossom eyes seemed even more beautiful when he looked up slightly.

Because of the angle, the bridge of the nose seems to be particularly high, and the collar of the shirt reveals the straight collarbone during the movement, and there seems to be a red mole on it.

Yan Xue looked at him again and again, wanting to confirm whether she was seeing things correctly, but she didn't want to really open the man's collar, so she just closed her arms and hugged the man.

"Hey, let me tell you, there's a sequel to the incident between Liang Qimao and Cheng Yuzhen!"

The next morning, just after breakfast, Yan Xue was still washing dishes and Qi Fang was still preparing tools for the new house when Liu Weiguo came over excitedly to report.

When he walked in and saw Qi Fang with his peach blossom eyes drooping and looking very listless, he was stunned. "Qi Fang, what's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Before Qi Fang could say anything, Yan Xue had already noticed the key point in his words, "Again? Doesn't he often have trouble sleeping?"

When she woke up this morning, she also found that the man was particularly listless, with red bloodshot eyes. When she asked him about it, he just said that there was a dog barking in the middle of the night, but she didn't hear it at all.

After Liu Weiguo said this, it seemed that he was indeed lazy sometimes when he got up early in the morning, and she thought that this was just his personality.

Seeing Qi slow down his movements and look towards Liu Weiguo, Yan Xue directly blocked him and said, "Don't worry about him. Talk to me if you have anything to say."

Liu Weiguo told her, "You didn't notice? Maybe it got better after we got married. He often couldn't sleep before, otherwise why would he get up so early in the morning to fetch water? One time, I woke up in the middle of the night with diarrhea and saw him sitting outside the door looking at the stars. I was really scared."

Yan Xue really didn't know that. After all, she didn't have the habit of getting up at night. The few times she woke up in the middle of the night, the man was always by her side.

But she was awakened in the middle of the night by a nightmare or something, and he did react very quickly...

Yan Xue was still thinking when Qi Fang asked Liu Weiguo: "You just said that there is a follow-up to that matter?"

"Right!" Liu Weiguo's attention was immediately diverted. "Didn't Yu Cuiyun cause a scene yesterday? Director Yu, who rushed over after hearing the news, temporarily sent her back, but they probably couldn't reach an agreement. Today, Yu Cuiyun is causing trouble again, insisting on having those two people hang whores around their necks and parade them through the streets."

"Parade?" Yan Xue felt that this word was quite unfamiliar. At least in her previous life, she had only seen it in film and television dramas.

When Qi Fang heard this, he also frowned.

"Didn't the town do something like that a few years ago?" Liu Weiguo said. "In the first two years, when they were cracking down on work style issues, someone was paraded through the streets for wearing adulterous shoes. One person hung a pair of shoes around his neck, even got a Liberation Army car, and paraded around the town several times."

"Wouldn't that mean immediate social death?" Yan Xue felt that this was even worse than posting it online.

Even though many people will see it when it's posted online, at least you don't have to face it directly. Parading it through the streets is like dragging it out and making a fool of itself.

Director Yu also thought his daughter was just fooling around. "Why are you parading her around?! Aren't you embarrassed enough?"

"They're not ashamed, so why should I be ashamed?" Even though a day had passed, Yu Cuiyun still gritted her teeth when she mentioned it. "That damn bitch, I was so good to her, but she actually stole my man and accepted Liang Qimao's things. Is it because Lin Shangming didn't give her money or is she incapable of earning it? Why didn't she go out and sell herself when she needed money? And that ungrateful Liang Qimao..."

Director Yu had heard this so many times that his ears were almost callused. His initial anger had turned into impatience. "If it gets out, will they say it's Liang Qimao who's having an affair, or my son-in-law, Yu Dalong, who's having an affair?"

Yu Cuiyun choked, "Well, we can't just let it go like this."

She felt her liver ache just thinking about letting that bitch and that ungrateful wolf go like this. "You don't know how disgusting they are. They even went to the place where I took shelter from the rain and messed around."

If Yu Cuiyun could swallow this, she would not be herself, and she would not be the first one to be suspected after the incident of Yan Xue going to the family team.

Director Yu was in a state of great distress. "So what do you want to do? I've always told you to be more patient and not to mention Liang Qimao's job as a tractor driver, but you kept on talking about it. What grown man wants to hear that? Aren't you just pushing him out?"

If a man cheats decades later, some people will still ask if his wife is not gentle or considerate enough, hurting his masculine pride, or if she is like a block of wood in bed and cannot satisfy him, let alone now.

Director Yu is a man himself, and he got to where he is today thanks to his brother-in-law, so it is even more impossible for him to empathize with his daughter.

Yu Cuiyun burst into tears when she heard this. "Could it be that this is still my fault? Did I force him to marry me, or did I force him to go out and take off his pants?"

Yu Yongzhi was young after all, and when he heard his second sister crying, he immediately stood up and said, "Sister, don't listen to our father. I'm going to tie them up and parade them through the streets!"

Director Yu's wife was so frightened that she quickly grabbed him and said, "Can you please stop causing trouble? Will parading him through the streets solve the problem?"

"So are we just going to let it go like this?" Yu Yongzhi was furious. "I thought he was some good guy, but I didn't expect him to be such a piece of crap!"

Director Yu's wife finally managed to persuade him to go to another room to check on Yu Cuiyun's two children. If that didn't work, she could take them out for a walk so they wouldn't be scared.

Because the incident was such a big deal, Yu Cuiyun didn't pay attention to avoiding the children, and her eldest son didn't even go to school today.

After sending her son away, Director Yu's wife turned to her second daughter. "I understand you're angry, but if nothing else, you have to take care of the child. You've done something so ruthless, are you really not going to marry her in the future?"

This matter spread from morning to afternoon, but Yu Cuiyun did not actually drag the man out for parade. When Aunt Guo from next door heard about it, she also said the same thing.

"Even if we don't care about anything else, we have to take care of the child. If we really become enemies, how will we live in the future? How will the child hold his head up high?"

"If life can't get by, can't we still get divorced?"

Yan Xue said with a smile, not noticing a figure outside the yard about to come in. She paused when she heard the words.

Aunt Guo also looked at Yan Xue in surprise, "How can this marriage be divorced just like that? She's not the daughter of the Lang family, and she doesn't have any children. If we really divorce, who will raise the two children?"

That’s why life is so hard for women in this era. Even if you have a field manager as your father, you still have to endure some things.

Yan Xue rarely commented further, "Actually, she shouldn't have asked Director Yu to transfer Liang Qimao to a tractor driver. With such a relationship, she should have found herself a job. If she ran into something like this, she wouldn't have to worry about not being able to support the child and not daring to divorce."

This was a completely unimaginable perspective for someone like Auntie Guo, who was born in the old society. "How long have you been married? Why are you always talking about divorce?"

The figure outside the yard heard it and stopped for a longer time, then turned around and headed towards the Liu family.