"Comrade Lin, are you looking for a carpenter to make furniture?"
"No, we came to borrow their cart. My brother, my new mother-in-law, and I are moving. We have too much stuff to move, so we thought we'd use the cart to get it over with."
“A handcart.” Lu Zhengting laughed. “My uncle’s family has one. You guys go back to the educated youth settlement first, and I’ll pull the handcart over there in a bit.”
"Alright then." Lin Qingyan didn't refuse. After they finished moving, she would treat Lu Zhengting to a meal at their new home as a way of thanking him.
After they parted ways with Lu Zhengting, Granny Dog asked Lin Qingyan, "Who was that person?"
"He's a friend of mine." She and Lu Zhengting could probably be considered friends now.
"Oh." Granny Dog nodded. "The young man looks quite good."
"Yes, I also think he's a nice person."
Not long after the three returned to the educated youth settlement, Lu Zhengting came over with a cart and helped them load their things onto the cart and deliver it to their new house.
Lin Qingyan couldn't spare the time to move the two rabbits to a new place, so she asked Du Xiaoyue to take care of them for the time being.
Gu Mingzhou was sitting idly in the courtyard of the brigade headquarters when a bright and pretty figure popped into his mind. The girl was getting prettier and prettier with each passing year.
During these days, every time he thinks of her, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turn up.
Just as he was thinking about Lin Qingyan, several figures suddenly passed by the entrance of the brigade headquarters. Lu Zhengting was tall and big, and he spotted him at a glance.
Lu Zhengting was pulling a cart, and the figure beside him was none other than Lin Qingyan.
Seeing this, he suddenly felt as if a heavy stone had been thrown into his heart, making him feel uneasy.
The two looked more and more like a loving couple. He clenched his fists, wanting to rush over and punch Lu Zhengting twice to keep him away from Lin Qingyan.
But suddenly I realized that I seemed to have long since lost that right.
He and Lin Qingyan have absolutely no relationship now. She avoids him like the plague, doesn't want to see him at all, and probably wishes he would disappear from this world.
Thinking about this made him feel even more upset.
Those people had already walked past, and he slowly sat down on the bench again.
After a brief moment of calm, he pondered his feelings each time he saw Lin Qingyan these past few days.
Back in the military region, he felt uncomfortable when he saw Lu Zhengting holding Lin Qingyan's handkerchief. This time, when he saw her here, his first thought was to get close to her, to care for her, to help her, and to protect her.
Later, when he saw her with Lu Zhengting, his heart ached.
Every time Lu Zhengting showed her kindness after that, she wished she could kill him so that he could never appear by her side again.
After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he probably wasn't simply trying to prevent Lin Qingyan from being deceived by Lu Zhengting; he was probably jealous of Lu Zhengting and would get jealous seeing Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting getting close.
Yes, he was actually jealous, because of Lin Qingyan.
He looked up at the darkening sky and gave a bitter smile.
Unexpectedly, one day he would actually be jealous of a girl he hadn't had any feelings for in over a decade.
Yes, from the very beginning, I admired her, wanted to get close to her, got jealous when I saw her with other men, and constantly thought about her and wanted to see her when I couldn't see her...
He had never experienced these feelings and emotions with Lin Sisi.
He could no longer deceive himself; he had truly fallen in love with Lin Qingyan.
But fate is cruel, and this moment seems to have come a little too late.
He and she had already broken off their engagement, but he still had to take responsibility for another woman he didn't like, and a sudden, indescribable pain welled up in his heart.
What should he do?
On one hand, he couldn't shirk responsibility towards Lin Sisi, but on the other hand, he couldn't let go of Lin Qingyan. He felt guilty and regretful. If he had been closer to Lin Qingyan and cared more about her back then, they might have developed feelings for each other. Then, Lin Sisi might not have taken off her clothes to seduce him, because he would have been wary of her.
But now it's all too late.
Time flies and never returns; can what he has lost ever come back to him?
When he realized that he had fallen in love with Lin Qingyan, but could not have her, he was completely dejected, as if he had suffered a serious illness.
He and Lu Zhengting had just discussed their plans for tonight, but he felt so upset that he didn't want to do anything.
He tried to calm himself down, but it didn't work. Her image kept flashing through his mind, and he kept thinking about her uncontrollably, while also feeling regretful.
Overwhelmed by a mix of emotions, he even lost the strength to stand. How could he possibly continue his mission in such a state?
In contrast to his solitary melancholy, the people moving were chatting and laughing, all in high spirits.
Lu Zhengting not only provided the cart, but also did all the loading and unloading work.
He was stronger than Lin Zhiheng, so naturally he did more work than Lin Zhiheng.
After unloading the things, Lin Qingyan said to him, "Comrade Lu, thank you so much for your trouble. Now that I have a new home, I'll invite you over for dinner another day."
"Okay," Lu Zhengting agreed with a smile without even thinking.
Lin Qingyan had pots and bowls in her own space, but nothing to hold water, so she asked Lu Zhengting, "Comrade Lu, do you know anyone who has a spare large water vat? I don't have anything to hold water here."
"I don't know, but I can go home and ask my uncle and the others, and then I'll help you bring the water tank over in a bit."
"Okay, I'll go with you."
Seeing how attentive Lu Zhengting was to Lin Qingyan, the captain's family secretly smiled, though they didn't say anything in front of Lin Qingyan.
The brigade leader told them that the landlord's family used to have several extra large water vats, so Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting went to the landlord's house. Lin Qingyan spent 50 cents to buy a large water vat from the landlord's house, and then went to Hu Sanchui's house to buy two wooden buckets for carrying water and a carrying pole.
They returned to their new home after dark.
Lu Zhengting and Lin Zhiheng unloaded the items together and put them in the kitchen.
There was basically no more work for him to do, so he pulled the cart and left.
After Lu Zhengting left, Lin Qingyan and the others tidied up the things they had moved from the educated youth settlement.
There are three rooms here. The two rooms on the sides are bedrooms, each with a kang (heated brick bed). There is a living room in the middle, and a small side room outside that can be used as a kitchen.
Lin Qingyan slept with Granny Dog, while Lin Zhiheng slept in another bedroom.
She first laid her own mattress on the kang (a heated brick bed), but she was still missing a mattress for Granny Gou. She did have some new bedding that she had taken from the Lin family in her space, but she couldn't take it out in front of Granny Gou.
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