Having determined his goal, Xia Minglei walked towards Wenxi.
"The market starts tomorrow, are you guys going?" Xia Minglei asked curiously.
"Of course I'll go. Even though I can't spend the New Year with my family, it's still the New Year, so I have to take it seriously." Wen Xi nodded. If she didn't go to the market, how would she get the New Year's goods she had signed for?
Moreover, Wenxi had also signed up for a lot of hot pot ingredients, thinking about having a hot pot in the dead of winter. Of course, she had to find an opportunity to take the things out.
"Then let's go together," Xia Minglei suggested.
Wen Xi smiled and said, "We need New Year's goods, and so do others. There should be quite a few people going, so you all need to make sure you have your money and tickets safe and don't let anyone steal them."
Wen Xi wasn't speaking to Xia Minglei, but to the people around her. Since the male lead is usually the female lead, Wen Xi didn't think much of it. She assumed the male lead simply wanted to get along well with everyone, after all, he was the male lead! It was normal for him to do things perfectly.
After everyone had received their share of meat and happily went back home, there weren't many people left in the threshing ground. Wenxi also went to buy meat, but the good meat had already been distributed to everyone, and what was left wasn't anything special. So Wenxi took out her money and bought two pig trotters and ten catties of bones. Drinking a bowl of hot radish and bone soup in winter is a very enjoyable thing.
"Wenxi." Just as Wenxi was about to go home with Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue, Lin Yiwan suddenly walked over. Thinking that she must have seen her talking to Xia Minglei and came over to confront her, Wenxi subconsciously shrank her neck.
She didn't do anything, but people won't think that way. They might even think she's trying to seduce Xia Minglei!
"Wenxi, I need your help with something. Could you come to my house?" Lin Yiwan smiled at Wenxi, her eyes clear and without malice.
Wen Xi hesitated for a moment before agreeing, and then instructed, "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, take the pig's trotters and bones back, start cooking the rice first, and cook the dishes when I come back. If I don't come back, remember to come and get the pig's offal stew."
Aunt Meihua just said that the stewed pork dish needs to be simmered for another hour before it can be eaten. And once the stewed pork dish is ready, we can add some vegetables to it, which will be enough for the three of them.
After Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue left, Wen Xi walked with Lin Yiwan. Wen Xi was a little confused, wondering why Lin Yiwan had sought her out.
But she had nothing to hide; they had only agreed to go to the market together. She and Xia Minglei had nothing between them, and she wasn't afraid of Lin Yiwan causing trouble.
If the conflict between two women over one man really comes to light, Lin Yiwan's reputation will be affected. I believe that Lin Yiwan, being a smart person, will not do something that would harm both of her and her enemies; that would be no different from mutual destruction.
Lin Yiwan's family lived in a large brick and tile house, one of the few large houses in the Fengshou Brigade. The house was spacious, and Lin Yiwan and her brothers each had their own room.
No wonder the female educated youth who came later insisted on moving into Lin Yiwan's house. If they developed feelings for Lin Yiwan's brother and married into the Lin family, then such a big house would become theirs.
It was only when Lin Yiwan asked each of them to pay five yuan a month for rent and five yuan for living expenses that they were scared off; otherwise, they would all have been thinking of taking advantage of her.
Upon arriving at Lin Yiwan's room, Lin Yiwan had Wen Xi sit on the edge of the bed, then brought over a plate of bright orange tangerines and placed it on the bedside table.
Wen Xi knew at a glance that this was an orange produced by Lin Yiwan's heaven-defying golden finger. Although oranges existed in this era, they were not this big, and their peels were not as smooth and beautiful.
Seeing that Wen Xi wasn't taking it, Lin Yiwan took an orange herself, broke it in half, and placed it in Wen Xi's hand, saying, "This way, you won't get your hands dirty when eating oranges."
"Thank you." Wen Xi didn't understand why Lin Yiwan was being so polite to her. She took a segment of orange and put it in her mouth. The juice burst out, sweet and sour, and Wen Xi's eyes lit up. "This orange is so delicious! I've never eaten such a delicious orange before!"
At least in her short life in her previous life, she had never eaten such delicious oranges.
While eating an orange, Wen Xi asked, puzzled, "Lin Yiwan, why did you call me over? It can't just be a simple invitation to taste oranges, can it?"
Lin Yiwan sat down at the desk, leaning back against it, and looked at Wen Xi curiously, "Is Xia Minglei pursuing you?"
As expected, they came to interrogate Xia Minglei.
Wen Xi shook her head. "Lin Yiwan, Lu Xiaoyun confessed his feelings to me before, so I don't deny that Lu Xiaoyun pursued me. But Xia Minglei really didn't pursue me. He just invited everyone to go to the market together. He didn't mean anything else."
Xia Minglei is the male lead, and the male lead naturally belongs to the female lead, so how could Xia Minglei possibly pursue a random passerby like her? Besides, the two of them rarely have any interaction.
As for Lu Xiaoyun, Wen Xi deliberately acted ambiguous because she was afraid he would seduce Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue, but in reality, nothing happened between her and Xia Minglei.
“Wenxi, I’m not here to interrogate you. I have no relationship with Xia Minglei, and I don’t care who he pursues. I just feel sorry for you because you’re young and not living with your parents. I wanted to remind you that Xia Minglei isn’t a good person either. On Friday night, he and Lu Xiaoyun secretly left the production team to go to town to spend the night with their lovers. They both have lovers in town, so don’t be fooled by them…”
Wen Xi covered her mouth in shock, looking at Lin Yiwan in disbelief.
Xia Minglei is the male lead, how could the male lead do such a thing?
Moreover, in the original text, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have a very deep relationship, and he dotes on the female protagonist very much. When the villainous female supporting character tries to trip up the female protagonist after they return to the city, the male protagonist steps in to protect her. The two go through one trial after another, and their relationship becomes even deeper.
The female lead also gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, which her in-laws adored, showering her with expensive gifts.
Later, the female protagonist and the male protagonist worked together and became one of the richest people on the rich list in later generations.
The female lead achieves great success in her studies, career, and love life, and the ending is super happy!
But why is it different from the original text?
Is it because the world in the book has now become the real world, and each character has their own thoughts, no longer the emotionless puppets created by the author?
Or is the ending she saw not the real ending?
Later on, the story will depict the messy marriage of the male and female protagonists, their later years, and their children growing up, getting married, and establishing their own careers.
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