Chapter 15: Self-love

Zhou Chenglei frowned and looked at Jiang Xia, ignoring Wen Wan's words. Seeing that Jiang Xia didn't respond, he walked straight to her.

Jiang Xia was looking down at the tiles, trying to measure how many she could move at a time with her delicate body. She heard Zhou Chenglei talking, but she thought he was talking to Wen Wan.

She reached out and decided it would be safer to move ten pieces at a time.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, it was grabbed.

Zhou Chenglei grabbed Jiang Xia's wrist and pulled her away from the cart with a little force.

Jiang Xia was stunned for a moment, then looked up at him in confusion.

"Didn't you hear what I said just now?" Zhou Chenglei frowned.

Jiang Xia: “.”

I heard it, but I didn't know it was said to her.

Zhou Chenglei pulled her to the eaves at the door and said, "Sit down. Does your hand hurt? Have I applied the medicine I gave you? That's Yunnan Baiyao. It's very effective. If you apply a little, it won't hurt the next day."

Wen Wan watched Zhou Chenglei pull Jiang Xia away, her face flushed: So he didn't say that to her? She was just being sentimental! Jiang Xia: "I'll do it before I go to bed. I have to work now, and it will be rubbed off if I do it, which is a waste."

Yunnan Baiyao is indeed effective, but it is a bit of a waste to use it on the wound on her hand. The medicine must not be cheap.

Jiang Xia sat down on the doorstep, picked up the green military water bottle next to him, and was about to open it.

Zhou Chenglei stretched out his long arm to take it and helped her unscrew it, then handed it to her: "There's nothing for you to do. Apply the medicine sooner and you'll get better sooner."

After saying that, he walked back to help move the tiles.

Jiang Xia took the kettle, but didn't rush to drink it. He called his great-grandmother, "Grandma, the sun is strong. Come over and sit down and have some water."

The grandmother walked over with a smile, and Jiang Xia handed her the kettle. She waved her hand and said, "I'm not thirsty. This is the water that A Lei opened for you. I'm afraid it's too sweet. It's not good for the elderly to eat too much sweet food!"

Jiang Xia: “…”

Grandma sat down next to Jiang Xia and asked, "Is my A-lei very caring?"

Jiang Xia could not deny this. She remembered that he had washed her clothes last night.

"I think my great-grandmother is more caring. She feels sorry for me and is reluctant to let me drink more water. If she wants me to drink more, she should just tell me directly." After saying that, she tilted her head back and started drinking water.

The great grandmother was smiling.

This child is eloquent and is a perfect match for the quiet A'lei.

After spending some time together, grandma liked Jiang Xia more and more.

This child works fast and has a delicate body, but he is not delicate at all and has a strong tenacity.

Everyone in the village said that she would run away sooner or later, but she couldn't stand it!

"Alei is lucky to marry you."

Jiang Xia choked: "Cough cough cough"

Zhou Chenglei’s official partner is not her!

And he's in a hurry to divorce her! Zhou Chenglei heard Jiang Xia coughing and turned his head to look over.

Grandma noticed Zhou Chenglei looking over and said loudly, "Alei, Xiaoxia said that marrying you is a blessing!"

Jiang Xia’s eyes widened: How could she say that!

"Haha." Grandma laughed.

Zhou Chenglei knew that it was his grandmother who was teasing Jiang Xia, but he didn't care and turned around to continue moving tiles.

Wen Wan: “…”

She looked at the man moving tiles opposite her who seemed to be keeping a distance from her deliberately, and was extremely surprised. What was going on?

Aren’t they going to get a divorce?

How come this doesn't look like it?

Why would Jiang Xia say that?

At this time, Father Wen asked Father Zhou: "It seems that no one has lived in your house for a long time. Why are you repairing it again?"

Father Zhou: "My children are all married, and the original house is not big enough for them, so my youngest son and his wife moved in."

Wen Wan was so surprised that she blurted out: "They two moved in here?"

Father Zhou looked at her in surprise, not understanding why Old Wen's daughter was so excited, but he still said, "Well, the two of us will come together."

Wenwan seemed to be thinking about something.

It wasn't like this in her previous life. After she heard that Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei were divorced, she went straight to the city to find her lover.

She also heard that Jiang Xia followed Wu Qizhi without even getting a marriage certificate.

Later, she took the train to go to college, and saw Jiang Xia and Wu Qizhi taking the train to visit her parents. Wu Qizhi also told Jiang Xia to persuade her parents to help him find a job.

It's not like this now! Zhou Chenglei should divorce Jiang Xia, and Jiang Xia should be with Wu Qizhi.

What went wrong? Jiang Xia and his grandmother, one old and one young, sat under the eaves, watching them move the tiles and chatting casually.

It was mainly Jiang Xia who asked, and because she was afraid of being asked, she simply took the initiative and took the opportunity to find out about the situation of the Zhou family and the small fishing village in an indirect way.

The tiles were unloaded quickly. Zhou Chenglei didn't even glance at Wen Wan during the whole process, and even walked around her to move the tiles.

After unloading the tiles, Wen Wan had to leave with her father.

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She couldn't help but look back at Zhou Chenglei, not understanding what went wrong.

If Zhou Chenglei didn't divorce, what would she do? She looked at Jiang Xia, who was sitting in the corner with smooth, glowing white skin.

No, they will get divorced.

Jiang Xia couldn't stand the rural life. She wanted to be an official's wife, but now she couldn't stand living in this shabby house.

When the big typhoon came and blew away the roof, she was probably scared away.

A flower grown in a greenhouse cannot withstand the blows of wind and rain.

She remembered that in her previous life, a big typhoon landed in this area. After the typhoon, many shrimps were left on the beach. At that time, the people in this village could even sell the shrimps picked up by children for more than ten yuan.

She was also waiting for the typhoon to come, so that she could make a fortune by picking up shrimps, and then she could cover her tuition and living expenses for her senior year of high school.

Grandma said she wanted to go back to cook, and Jiang Xia also stood up and said to Zhou Chenglei, "I'll go back and help with the cooking."

Zhou Chenglei was about to climb onto the roof to clean up some broken tiles. Hearing this, he glanced at her. His first thought was, can she cook? Then his eyes fell on her hands: "No, my mother and sister-in-law can cook."

At this time, Zhou's mother came in, holding Zhou Zhou in one hand and carrying a basket woven with red, green and yellow plastic ribbons in the other hand: "It's time to eat! We can work after we eat."

Zhou Zhou had a military water bottle hanging around his neck and said obediently, "Grandpa, uncle, aunt, it's time to eat."

Zhou's father was mixing sand and cement together. He would add some water and stir it to make cement sand. After hearing what Zhou's mother said, he put down the shovel, washed his hands and ate.

Mother Zhou took two silver aluminum lunch boxes from the handbasket and handed them to Jiang Xia: "This is yours, and this is Cheng Lei's meal."

Zhou Chenglei's hands and body were covered in cement dust, so he went to wash his hands.

Jiang Xia took it and said with a smile, "Thank you, Mom."

Zhou Zhou held a green military canteen and timidly came to Jiang Xia: "Aunt, do you want some water?"

Jiang Xia smiled more gently: "Thank you Zhou Zhou, I have some water here too. I'm not thirsty, I'll give it to Grandpa."

"Okay." Zhou Zhou felt as if he had been pardoned, and ran to give the kettle to his father.

Zhou Chenglei washed his hands and face, came to Jiang Xia with a wet face, and took the lunch box she handed over: "Go to the door and sit on the threshold to eat."

After saying that, he turned and walked away, picked up the hoe, put it down, and sat directly on the hoe handle, facing the scorching sun.

Jiang Xia took a look and said, "Why are you sitting there in the sun? Come sit by the door! You've been working for half a day, don't you want to drink some water before eating?"

There are no stools here and the room is stuffy. Only under the eaves at the entrance of the hall, where there is no sunlight, is it a little cooler.

But there was no room under the eaves.

Father Zhou took his lunch box and sat directly on a bag of cement, while mother Zhou also pulled Zhou Zhou to sit on another unopened bag of cement.

The cement is placed under the eaves, so you can sit on it out of the sun and it is more comfortable than sitting on the threshold.

Zhou Chenglei glanced at her. Her skin was dazzlingly white in the sunlight, and her eyes were deep and clear, with no disgust or disdain.

He had just finished work and was covered in sweat and dust, and especially smelled of fish after coming back from the sea. She usually looked at him as if he were a fly.

Sitting together, doesn't she mind that he is dirty? (End of this chapter)