Chapter 49: Secret Love
The meal ended in a joyous atmosphere.
There were so many dishes but not much was left. Wenxi didn’t even think about maintaining her figure. After eating heartily, she lay down on the chair with Liu Wangxue.
After the meal, we had some drinks and chatted, actually just to relieve our bloated stomachs. Then everyone got up to clear the table and clean the kitchen.
There were a lot of plates, cups and bowls to wash, so Tao Huayu simply pulled the water pipe to the cement floor outside the yard and put them in the large basin used for washing vegetables to wash them together.
My sister was treated like fragile porcelain and pressed down on the sofa by Mother Tao: "She's less than three months old. You must be careful."
The elder sister was helpless: "How can she be so fragile?" During the busy farming season, she could even carry sacks.
Next, the men washed the dishes, the women cleaned the kitchen, Tao's father and mother cleaned the living room, and Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai went to the neighbor's house to return the tables and chairs.
After cleaning up, Dad Tao made tea for everyone and sat in the living room to chat.
Xu Qingsong caught a glimpse of something like a photo album in the glass cabinet, and told Mother Tao to take it out and have a look.
The first half of the album contains photos of Tao's father and mother when they were young. As soon as you open it, you are greeted by a photo studio style with a strong sense of time. Interspersed among them are some photos taken when they went out to play.
Wenxi studied fashion design and could tell at a glance that no matter whether the photos were taken in a studio or outside, Tao's parents were wearing the most fashionable clothes of the year: "Wow, uncle and auntie's outfits really followed the fashion trend of the year."
"That's right," Tao Huayu said proudly, "My father was a village hunk, and my mother was also a village beauty. Otherwise, how could they have given birth to such a handsome and charming young man like me?"
Tao's mother slapped him, and his sister followed up with a complaint: "You're still okay, you two should turn over."
The following photos are of my sister and Tao Huayu, and they were basically taken at home - after having the child, Tao's father bought a camera specifically to record his growth.
There is nothing special about my sister. She has always been a pretty and lovely girl.
The style of the painting suddenly changes when it comes to Tao Huayu. There are some characters who are throwing tantrums and falling to the ground, some who are caught stealing their sister's clothes, some who fall into the mud in the fields, and some who even fight with roosters.
Liu Wangxue was curious: "Who won?"
Tao Huayu said with a haughty expression: "Of course it's me! It's just a chicken. If it dares to provoke me, I won't beat it!"
The elder sister said, "Provoking? I don't know who it was. The rooster was just walking on the road, but you had to provoke it. As a result, it was chased and pecked. It ran and cried for help."
He was ridiculed by Xu Qingsong and Yue Chenghao.
As I was flipping through the pages, I unexpectedly saw Xu Qingsong's figure.
He and Tao Huayu stood arm in arm by the lotus field. The picture quality was not very clear, but it could be seen that both of them were covered in mud, their faces were scratchy, their hair was tangled, and they smiled at the camera with their white teeth bared.
Neither of the two protagonists remembers much. Father Tao took a look and said, "It was during the first year of junior high school. During the summer vacation, Qingsong came back to play and went to the fields with us to dig lotus roots. As a result, the two of them started fighting in the fields for some unknown reason."
"Are you still fighting?" Liu Wangxue's eyes moved back and forth between the two of them.
"It's inevitable for young people to be impulsive," Tao Huayu touched his chin and asked Xu Qingsong, "Why?"
Xu Qingsong smiled and shook his head: "I can't remember."
"I know!" said Lan Xiaoxi.
Everyone's gossipy eyes instantly surrounded her.
Yue Cheng asked: "How do you know? You are not from Tao Village."
"My deskmate is right," Lan Xiaoxi said, and then asked Tao Huayu, "Do you remember the little fat girl?"
Tao Huayu nodded. He and Lan Xiaoxi were in the same junior high school and he had some impression of her desk mate.
Lan Xiaoxi continued, "The little fat girl and the class beauty are cousins. At that time, the little fat girl liked Tao Huayu, but Tao Huayu liked the class beauty." She glanced at everyone, "But do you know who the class beauty likes?"
Liu Wangxue instantly turned to look at Xu Qingsong: "It's not you, is it?"
Xu Qingsong: "What a joke! I don't even know any class belle!"
Lan Xiaoxi said, "Yes, it was Brother Qingsong! The beauty in class liked you at that time."
Everyone looked like they were enjoying a good show, but Xu Qingsong couldn't remember when he had "provoked" the class beauty.
Lan Xiaoxi found it funny when she thought about it: "Brother Qingsong, do you still remember that you came back very early during the summer vacation after the first grade of junior high school? At that time, our school had not yet had the final exams. One time after school, you rode your bicycle and waited for Tao Huayu at the school gate, and then a girl accidentally knocked your ice cream cone off your head."
Du Yunkai understood and nudged Xu Qingsong with his elbow: "Oh, that girl is the class beauty. She fell in love with him at first sight."
"That's right!" Lan Xiaoxi became more and more excited. "When she saw Tao Huayu and Brother Qingsong leaving together, she thought of Pangniu and wanted to get close to Tao Huayu through Pangniu, and then get to know Brother Qingsong. After a few days, she became familiar with Tao Huayu, but still failed to get in touch with Brother Qingsong.
On the eve of summer vacation, Pangniu confessed her love to Tao Huayu, but Tao Huayu rejected her directly. What's more, he even told Pangniu that he liked the class beauty. So Pangniu was so angry that she told him that the class beauty liked Qingsong.
At this point, Xu Qingsong seemed to remember something and looked at Tao Huayu: "I seem to remember that you came to my house to find me and asked me if I stole your girlfriend?"
Everyone burst into laughter, and Tao Huayu defended himself: "No way, am I that kind of person? How can I be her girlfriend when we haven't even established a relationship?"
Xu Qingsong's memory became clearer: "Yes, that's right. I remember it now. I listened to you tell the whole story and analyzed the ill intentions of the class beauty. You didn't say anything and went home. I thought the matter was over."
Two days later, Xu Qingsong's cousin bought a new game console, so he went to look for Tao Huayu to play with him. But when he got there, he found that he was not there. His sister came back to get something and said that Tao Huayu had gone to the fields to dig lotus roots.
Xu Qingsong followed his sister to the lotus field, but Tao Huayu was still angry. Xu Qingsong tried to persuade him, but every word he said hit Tao Huayu's sore spot, and Tao Huayu couldn't hold back and started fighting.
Xu Qingsong was not the kind of person who would just stand there and let others beat him, so the two of them wrestled in the mud.
Mr. Tao and the others were all scared at the time, but before they could get over it, the two separated and were still laughing at each other.
In fact, after Tao Huayu left Xu Qingsong's house that day, he went to find Pangniu, and through her contacted the class beauty, wanting to get things clear.
But the class beauty just hesitated and didn't say anything. After Tao Huayu hung up the phone, he understood.
He wasn't really angry with Xu Qingsong, he just felt that this was the first time he liked a girl, but that girl only treated him as a stepping stone to get closer to another person, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.
If he was left alone, he would have recovered in a few days, but Xu Qingsong came to him, and his words of comfort hit him sorely. How could he bear it? But during the beating, Tao Huayu actually said everything in his heart.
Xu Qingsong was so angry at this idiot that he laughed. It was an unexpected disaster! He relaxed his strength, and Tao Huayu also stopped, and the two of them returned to their brotherly state.
My sister took out her cell phone and took this photo.
(End of this chapter)
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