Chapter 6 I am your man, it is my duty to pamper you

The house was built of loess and stone, with wooden lattice windows, a red wedding character pasted on the mottled and tattered paper, and black floor boards. When I looked up, there were black tiles above my head.

He slept on a simple wooden bed with a patched mosquito net above it.

After a night's sleep, Gu Xiaojiao dragged her tired body and sat up from the bed.

She looked around at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment, and once again confirmed in her heart the fact that she had been reborn.

"Awake?" Zheng Yunsheng came in from outside with a basin of water. There was steam coming out of the basin. After he put the basin on the table, he looked at Gu Xiaojiao:

"Come and wash your face!"

After a night of excitement, Zheng Yunsheng's eye sockets were noticeably dark.

But he has calmed down a lot now.

Gu Xiaojiao had a complicated expression.

It wasn’t because she felt strange that Zheng Yunsheng gave her the water to wash her face.

After all, in his previous life, Zheng Yunsheng treated Gu Xiaojiao very well, especially during their wedding period, when he always tried his best to fulfill the duties of a husband.

If it weren't for these sweet traps that made her feel dizzy, Gu Xiaojiao wouldn't have had so many expectations for Zheng Yunsheng's birth.

What makes Gu Xiaojiao feel embarrassed is that now she has made a plan and decided not to have so many entanglements and fetters with Zheng Yunsheng in this life.

At this time, it would be unnecessary for Zheng Yunsheng to show off all these good things in front of her.

"I will do these things myself in the future, so I won't bother you anymore!"

Gu Xiaojiao said as she started to look for her shoes and got out of bed.

There are three pairs of shoes under the bed.

Two new pairs of cloth shoes, both sewn by Gu Xiaojiao herself, one pair was for herself and the other was for Zheng Yunsheng.

There is another pair, which is the wedding shoes that Gu Xiaojiao wore when she married Zheng Yunsheng yesterday. They are also brand new, but this pair was made by Gu Xiaojiao's mother.

Gu Xiaojiao bent down to take the pair of shoes her mother made, put them on and got out of bed.

The floor was very old. Whenever Gu Xiaojiao stepped on it, it creaked, making her feel upset.

"Do you have anything else to do?" After getting off the bed, Gu Xiaojiao looked at Zheng Yunsheng again. She didn't understand why this man had been standing in the room staring at her.

Zheng Yunsheng shook his head and said, "Oh, it's okay. Wash your face first. I'll fetch some buckets of water!"

After leaving the door, Zheng Yunsheng looked back thoughtfully at Gu Xiaojiao who was already washing her face with a towel. He always felt that something was wrong with Gu Xiaojiao, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Gu Xiaojiao, who was still wiping her face with a towel in the room, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she felt the sight behind her disappear.

Ending the marriage with Zheng Yunsheng is not something that can be done overnight.

Before the marriage officially ended, how to get along with Zheng Yunsheng and how to gradually cool down the relationship between them, these were things that Gu Xiaojiao had not yet considered clearly.

She didn't want to be alone with Zheng Yunsheng at all now, for fear that he would make such shameful requests as he did last night.

If this happened at this time in her previous life, Gu Xiaojiao would be overjoyed.

At that time, Gu Xiaojiao wanted to live a good life with Zheng Yunsheng. She tried her best to be nice to Zheng Yunsheng and wanted to stick to him every day.

At that time, Gu Xiaojiao's world was very small, so small that her whole world could only accommodate Zheng Yunsheng.

Things are unpredictable. What Gu Xiaojiao had always dreamed of in her previous life has now become a trouble that she finds hard to accept.

After washing her face, Gu Xiaojiao brought the water to the yard and poured it on the ground.

After putting the basin away, she sat down under the locust tree in the middle of the yard to eat at Zheng Yunsheng's invitation.

Under the locust tree stood a crude wooden table made of planks nailed together.

There were white, steaming white steamed buns on the table.

These steamed buns were sent by Gu Xiaojiao's mother yesterday. In the morning, Zheng Yunsheng got up, lit a fire and boiled water, then steamed the buns.

Including the old courtyard where Gu Xiaojiao and Zheng Yunsheng lived after their marriage, it was also the old house of Gu Xiaojiao's family.

The old house was previously inhabited by Gu Xiaojiao's grandparents.

After my grandparents passed away a few years ago, the old house became empty.

Gu Xiaojiao's parents spoiled and pampered her so much that they were reluctant to let her live in the commune dormitory after she married Zheng Yunsheng.

They cleaned up the old courtyard and gave it to Gu Xiaojiao and Zheng Yunsheng to live in.

Although the courtyard is shabby, it can at least shelter them from the wind and rain. Living here alone, the couple can have some private space.

Gu Xiaojiao walked to the table and sat down. Zheng Yunsheng brought a bowl of hot water from the room and placed it in front of her.

"Drink some water and eat slowly. Don't choke yourself."

"Thank you. You don't have to be so nice to me. I can do all these by myself." Holding the water, Gu Xiaojiao repeated her previous words.

Zheng Yunsheng listened to this and guessed that Gu Xiaojiao must have said that she didn't need his help in order to please him and not to trouble him.

Gu Xiaojiao was like this in her previous life when she first got married. She was always eager to do everything and was like a crazy doting demon at home.

If Gu Xiaojiao hadn't found the photo in the book, she would have doted on Zheng Yunsheng for the rest of his life.

Zheng Yunsheng thought that in his previous life, he was the one who was pampered first, but in the end their marriage did not last.

In this life, he would no longer let things continue to develop along the original trajectory, so in this life he wanted to be the one who pampered the right person first.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yunsheng raised his head and gave Gu Xiaojiao a sunny and warm smile. He said:

"I know you did it yourself, but I'm your man, and I should help you do these things, isn't it? It's only natural for a man to pamper his wife."

Gu Xiaojiao was slightly stunned when she heard what Zheng Yunsheng said.

How could she not know that this taciturn man could say such heart-stirring words of love?

Unfortunately, these words did not stir up too much ripples in Gu Xiaojiao's indifferent heart. She replied indifferently:

"I don't like to bother others."

"No trouble, no trouble." Zheng Yunsheng shook his head like a rattle, with a bright and dazzling smile still on his face.

Gu Xiaojiao had never seen Zheng Yunsheng like this, with his eyebrows and eyes almost bent with laughter.

In her previous life, she tried her best to please him, but he always treated her with respect and indifference.

I went crazy for him, banged my head against the wall for him, but he didn't react.

In this life, she decided to give up on him and became cold towards him, but he inexplicably began to care about her.

Thinking of this, Gu Xiaojiao couldn't help but reveal a slightly puzzled look on her face.

This man is such a complicated creature.

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