The man before him, dressed in a suit and tie, was elegant and refined. He looked like a successful, intelligent, wealthy man, not a small-time executive from a state-owned enterprise from a remote rural area.
This is the fourth man Xu Lanyin has insisted on going on a third date with since they started dating.
After Hao Qun finished ordering, he handed the menu to Xu Lanyin and said with a smile, "Doctor Xu, feel free to order anything else you like."
After saying that, he placed his hands on the table.
Xu Lanyin felt a little regretful because the dining table was made of tempered glass and was not conductive.
She took the menu, looked at it, and ordered a plate of foie gras for 658 yuan.
Hao Qun smiled and said to the waiter, "Okay, that's all." His expression was frank, without any sign of reluctance.
Xu Lanyin thought to herself, this is a good performance. If possible, we can talk about it again. But she smiled and said, "I have a shortcoming, which is that I don't know how to live well."
Hao Qun smiled gently, "You're a happy and spoiled girl, so it's normal for you to be careless. Unlike me, I came from a poor family and am more frugal." He quickly explained, "Although I'm usually frugal, I won't be stingy with the money I have to spend, and I will occasionally indulge in luxury."
As he spoke, he placed one hand on the fork on the table.
Honesty and thriftiness are the fine traditions of the Chinese nation. They are also adaptable and not stubbornly stingy.
Xu Lanyin felt more satisfied, but she still couldn't help but reach out to play with the cup on the table, and her hand touched the other end of the fork.
Hao Qun heard the roar in his heart, "This old woman, she's already in her thirties, but she doesn't know how to live better than a young girl. She wants so much, how can she not be stuffed to death?" He suppressed his dissatisfaction, raised an eyebrow at Xu Lanyin, showed off his sexiness, and thought to himself, "Fortunately, you earn a lot, you're an only child, your family has three houses, two cars, and your savings must be more than five million. Oh, and there should be some stocks..."
Xu Lanyin withdrew her hand. She was only one year older than this dead man. She was in the prime of her youth and youth, so how could she become an old woman!
She closed her eyes, and when she opened them she saw Hao Qun still smiling elegantly and sincerely.
This man is so damn good at pretending!
Xu Lanyin couldn't continue eating with him. She took out seven hundred yuan from her bag and placed it on the table. She suppressed her smile and said, "Mr. Hao, I don't think we're a good match. Our social status is not right for each other, and our worldviews and values are too different. Let's split the bill. Since you're the man, you can pay the extra fifty-two."
After saying that, he got up and left.
Hao Qun stood up and shouted, "Doctor Xu, what do you mean? Are you kidding me?"
But when I saw the money on the table and thought about the meal I had already ordered, I couldn’t bear to chase him out.
Xu Lanyin didn't take a taxi and walked blindly along the street.
She was already thirty-three years old, and including this man, she had dated twenty-two boyfriends. Not only had she never married, but she'd only been with them three times at most. It wasn't that she was too picky, but she was just unlucky. The men she met were always so eccentric. And she had the ability to listen to people's thoughts. As long as she had the right connection, she could tell what was going on in those men's minds...
As he was thinking, he felt that he stepped on empty air and fell into a dark cave.
…
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Lanyin felt a sharp pain in the back of her head and a sharp ache in her back from being poked by rocks. She sat up and found herself in a valley, surrounded by lush greenery: trees, shrubs, rocks, and grass. It was daytime, not night, a world completely different from before she closed her eyes.
She blinked her eyes, calmed herself down, and remembered that after she had a date with a Phoenix man, she fell into a pit on the side of the road... She thought she must have fallen into an uncovered well, so how did she end up here?
She looked up and saw the blue sky with white clouds and the setting sun. The sky was as clean as if it had just been washed by a heavy rain, unlike the city sky which was always covered with a layer of fog.
She looked down at her body again. She was not wearing the blue gauze dress and white leather sandals that she had worn this morning, but a faded blue cloth dress and old cloth shoes with several patches on the clothes.
Looking at her hands again, they were black, there was dirt between her nails, and the calluses on the palms were thick and yellow. These were definitely not her fair and tender hands.
She must be dreaming!
She pinched her left hand hard with her right hand a few times, but the scene didn't change. She pinched her thigh with both hands a few times, but the scene didn't change.
Oh, my goodness, could it be that she traveled through time? As someone who loved reading online novels to pass the time, she thought of this possibility.
She shook her head, her mind buzzing, and another memory really came to her. Although it was not very clear, she also remembered that her father had died and she had lived with her mother and two younger brothers until now.
She thought carefully again. In this life, she was also called Xu Lanyin, and she was fifteen years old. Her mother, Qin, was thirty-two, a year younger than when she died in her previous life. Her eldest brother, Xu Lanzhou, was twelve. Her youngest brother, Xu Lanting, was just five. It seemed she had a fiancé… Another piercing pain shot through the back of her head, causing Xu Lanyin to gasp for air.
She touched the back of her head and found a bump slightly larger than a thumb, with some blood seeping out. The original owner must have died from the fall.
Oh my God, she really traveled through time, and a date sent her to the ancient countryside.
Xu Lanyin saw a bamboo basket beside her, which was mostly filled with wild vegetables, some herbs, an axe, and a few mushrooms.
She rummaged through the herbs and found one called "hemostatic grass" in this world. She took a piece, chewed it finely, spit it out on her finger, and rubbed it on the small lump on her head.
Looking again, there was a broken branch next to it, with a few green and red wild jujubes on it. The easy-to-pick jujubes on the tree were gone, only a few on the top of the tree. The original owner fell down from the tree just to pick these jujubes.
If you lose your life for a few dates, you can imagine how hard life is in this life.
In her previous life, aside from her unsuccessful love life, her life and career were all going well. Now, she had fallen into this godforsaken place. Thinking of her father and mother, she felt even more heartbroken. They were almost sixty years old, how could they possibly handle the loss of their beloved daughter?
Xu Lan's thoughts were in turmoil, and she didn't know what to do next. She couldn't just run into someone and die, could she? She didn't have the courage to do that.
She sat there blankly for a long time, greeted the Phoenix Man hundreds of times, and prayed that her parents in her previous life would live the rest of their lives well... Seeing the sun getting further west, she had no choice but to pick the dates and put them in the basket, carry the basket on her back, and walk towards the home in her memory.
I remember that today is July 23rd, which should be late August or early September according to the modern Gregorian calendar, which is the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the emerald green is beginning to show some yellowing.
After turning over a fork, she could see a large village not far from the foot of the mountain. Beyond the village was a winding river. This village was called Xiaozao Village, and most of the residents were surnamed Xu. As far as the eye could see, on the other side of the river, a large courtyard stood out, its whitewashed walls and black tiles. She knew without hesitation that it was Sujiazhuang.
Her yard is at the northernmost entrance of Xiaozao Village, close to the foot of the mountain.
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