“Yes, Brother Wang Dong, why don’t you talk to your mother about it and formally propose to her? Maybe she’ll agree!”
Guo Lili was smart enough to speak up after Ye Yun overheard her.
Wang Dong's expression turned troubled.
“Lili, you know my family situation…” He held Guo Lili’s hand, feigning pitifulness, “My father died when I was young, and my mother raised me alone. We don’t have any money at all. I want to formally propose to you, but I don’t have the ability to do so.”
Guo Lili fell silent for a moment.
Just when Ye Yun thought she had made some progress, she heard her sigh and say in an unusually serious tone, "It seems so. My older brother also lost his father when he was young, and he had a pretty tough life..."
"Yes, I heard that your older brother didn't spend a single penny to marry this sister-in-law to you!"
"You're right..."
? ? ?
Ye Yun was completely dumbfounded.
No, you can talk about yourselves, but how did it come to involve her and Qin Zheng?
Although Qin Zheng didn't give her a single penny of dowry when they got married, he handed over his entire fortune to her after the marriage, okay?
The savings book Qin Zheng gave her alone contained a full two thousand yuan!
If it weren't for that two thousand yuan, she and Qin Zheng wouldn't have been able to go to the county town to do business, make a fortune, and get to where they are today without any worries!
And you, my friend, all you have is a mouth that talks big!
Ye Yun didn't want to listen to the intermittent voices outside anymore, and she didn't want Guo Lili and Wang Dong to continue harassing her. She opened the window and called out "Qin Xiang'e" in the direction of Tian Xiaohui's house.
"Auntie! When will you be done with your work?"
broken!
Guo Lili and Wang Dong, who were standing nearby, changed their expressions upon hearing this, and were both startled by her behavior.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wang Dong urged, pushing Guo Lili as they rushed outside.
Guo Lili resented Ye Yun for not helping her and was unwilling to be tricked by Ye Yun. Before leaving, she said rudely, "Ye Yun, you're ruthless!"
After saying that, she turned around and ran away with Wang Dong.
The faint moonlight shone on the two of them, making their fleeing figures look particularly disheveled, yet they still held hands, neither letting go of the other.
Hmph...this young man.
Ye Yun withdrew her gaze and closed the window expressionlessly.
Qin Xiang'e, who was helping out at Lao Tian's house, didn't hear what she said at all. She was still squatting on the ground next to the well, washing dishes for Aunt Tian and chatting happily with her.
Aunt Tian's loud voice, combined with the clattering of bowls and chopsticks, drowned out Ye Yun's shouts.
Of course, Ye Yun didn't really intend to urge Qin Xiang'e to go home; she just wanted to scare Guo Lili and Wang Dong, the two young people.
That evening, Qin Zheng returned home.
After dropping Zheng Song off, he saw a vendor selling roasted sweet potatoes by the roadside and brought Ye Yun a roasted sweet potato, which smelled incredibly delicious.
Sweet potatoes have never been anything rare.
The soil in the mountains is barren, and most crops cannot be grown. However, sweet potatoes can grow wherever there is a place. They are not only highly resilient but also have an amazing reproductive capacity. They saved many lives when the older generation suffered famine.
Even now, Qin Xiang'e still dries sweet potatoes and stores them.
Because there aren't many things to eat in winter, and ordinary ingredients are not easy to store, dried sweet potatoes can be stored for a long time. When you make soup, you can throw some in, which will make it flavorful and filling.
In the past, we could only eat sweet potatoes ourselves.
With reform and opening up, ordinary people can now use sweet potatoes to make some small dishes to sell and supplement their household income.
The soft, sweet roasted sweet potato was fragrant and tempting. It was still warm when it was handed to Ye Yun. Ye Yun took a bite and couldn't help but squint her eyes in satisfaction.
"Thank you, honey!"
Qin Zheng's body trembled.
Sitting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), still bent over taking off his shoes, he looked up at Ye Yun with a bewildered expression. After several seconds, he asked uncertainly, "Wife, what did you just call me?"
"Honey."
Ye Yun spoke very naturally.
She took another bite of the soft, sweet potato, chewing as she mumbled, "Isn't that what everyone calls you now? What else could we call you?"
Suddenly her hand was empty.
Ye Yun raised her head in confusion and saw Qin Zheng holding her sweet potato, his eyes, beneath his thick eyebrows, gazing at her with a deep and unfathomable look.
She couldn't help but lick the remaining sweet potato from the corner of her lips, swallowing the rest before asking, puzzled, "Qin Zheng, what are you doing?"
Little did she know how alluring her gesture of licking her lips was.
It's a deadly curved blade.
Qin Zheng slowly placed the roasted sweet potato on the kang (a heated brick bed), grasped Ye Yun's shoulder, and said in a very serious tone, "Wife, there is something I need to ask you."
Ye Yun blinked.
Qin Zheng stared intently at her, pursed his lips, and his deep voice became noticeably hoarse: "You mean... it's really true that you can't have sex during the first month of pregnancy?"
"..."
After a long while, Ye Yun kicked him off the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed).
"You're not allowed on the kang (heated brick bed) tonight!"
"Oh, this isn't a good idea..."
...
The next day, Zheng Song, as promised, brought his mother to Heishui Village to propose marriage to Tian Xiaohui.
He came in a tractor this time.
Because he brought a lot of gifts!
They brought two large slabs of pork alone!
A whole, adult pig, split in two, with distinct fat and lean parts, red and white stripes, the whites pristine and the reds bright and clear, adorned with large red ribbons, took two people to lift off the tractor—it was so dazzling it practically blinded the onlookers!
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