Chapter 51 You are the most beautiful girl in the village
Gu Nan especially wanted to see Lin Layue at this moment, to see him with a deflated and indescribable expression, pinch his face, touch his head, and then tease him.
It must be a different feeling.
Lin Layue: "I searched on Baidu, you lied to me\/(｀′)Ψ"
Gu Nan smiled and stopped teasing him. She told him to go to the interview on time, and to leave if he felt uncomfortable during the process, and to call her if he had any problems.
Lin Layue agreed to all the requests and sent over a little white dog that was rolling around coquettishly.
Gu Nan clicked his tongue and felt like petting the dog.
At half past eleven, Gu Nan got on the train.
She bought a sleeper ticket and arrived at Ningjiang Station at six o'clock the next morning after a good night's sleep.
At eight o'clock in the morning, after finishing his breakfast, Gu Nan boarded a bus bound for Beiding Town. The journey took two and a half hours, but Gu Nan did not go to the terminal. Instead, he had to get off at a fork in the road along the way.
The land there does not belong to Ningqu Village, and she still has to walk for two hours to reach her destination.
However, Lin Layue asked her uncle Lin Shoucai to pick her up in advance, so Gu Nan could take his car there.
As soon as Gu Nan got off the car, he saw a brand new tricycle parked on the opposite road. A skinny man in a white coat and an old straw hat was squatting next to it and chatting with a family on the roadside.
The voice was loud, and the speech was fast and unclear. Gu Nan couldn't understand it, but the voice sounded familiar.
She walked over with her travel bag and bent down to ask, "Excuse me, are you Uncle Shoucai?"
Lin Shoucai stopped talking when he heard this and turned to look at Gu Nan. He saw a tall and slim young girl with long hair and big eyes. She was wearing a baby blue shirt and long dress. She was as bright and refreshing as a handful of spring water in the hot summer day, and was particularly eye-catching in the gray countryside.
Then I looked at the black parasol in her hand and the black travel bag she was carrying, and thought, it’s a match.
He quickly stood up and patted his gray-blue trouser legs with his hands. "It's Comrade Gu Nan, Layue's friend. He asked me to pick you up here."
Perhaps Lin Layue had told him in advance that she couldn't understand the local dialect, so he spoke in awkward and difficult Mandarin, with many tones not accurate, but Gu Nan understood it by piecing together some of it.
She smiled and said, "It's me. Thank you for coming to pick me up in such a sunny day."
He waved his hand nonchalantly, lifted his leg and sat on the tricycle, calling to Gu Nan: "Hurry up and get on. It's noon and the sun is scorching."
There was a small bench at the back of the tricycle. Gu Nan sat on it and held onto the railing. Lin Shoucai said, "Let's go," and the tricycle rushed out with a whoosh.
After the tricycle drove for about five minutes, the flat concrete road turned into a bumpy gravel road. The tricycle swayed from side to side, and Gu Nan swayed with it.
Lin Shoucai glanced back at her and said with a smile, "This road is so rotten for a long time. It's so shaky that it's almost shaking your brain."
Gu Nan was not afraid of the water in her brain being shaken out, but she was afraid of being shaken off accidentally, so she simply folded her umbrella and held on to the railing with both hands.
"Why is there no cement road in this section?" she asked.
"I can't get the money together." Lin Shoucai said loudly.
It is a government project to build cement roads into every household in every village, but before construction there is a process of collecting per capita money from the villagers. Some people pay, some do not or cannot afford to pay, and if the money cannot be raised, the road cannot be built.
This has been delayed for more than ten years. Other places are all cement roads, but this road was pieced together with some stones.
Lin Shoucai didn't talk about these things with Gu Nanduo, and instead said: "I told Layue earlier that I was worried that I wouldn't recognize you when you came. Layue said she would definitely recognize you, and that she should look for the prettiest one in the blue skirt."
"This is the first time I've seen such a pretty girl in the village. She's prettier than the female teacher at school."
Gu Nan smiled and asked, "Is Lin Layue the most handsome boy in the village?"
Lin Shoucai laughed. "How do you know? Is he just bragging to you?"
Lin Layue's face is very popular in the upper class circles, so it is certainly impossible for her to be unknown in the village.
Lin Shoucai said: "His parents were both famous for their handsomeness and beauty in the surrounding area. How could their child not be good-looking? Layue looks like his father, and Jingzhe looks like his mother."
After a pause, he turned his head again, as if testing Gu Nan, "Layue is a bit like me, can you tell?"
Lin Shoucai's skin was dark and shiny, probably because he wore a jacket all year round. There was a white mark of the jacket on his body from the sun, which was exposed during the bumpy ride and looked a bit funny.
He worked all year round, was exposed to the wind and sun, and never took any care of himself. His face looked older than his peers, but if you looked closely at his facial features, you could indeed find similarities between him and Lin Layue.
According to Lin Layue, Lin Shoucai is his father's younger brother and also their uncle. After Lin's father passed away, he took good care of them, an orphan and a widow, and was a very good elder.
Gu Nan was the best at dealing with elders. With just a few words, he made Lin Shoucai very happy, and they talked and laughed all the way.
After arriving at the destination, he enthusiastically invited her and Lin Jingzhe to have lunch at his house. Gu Nan had to persuade him to decline the offer.
The tricycle wobbled back home, and Gu Nan walked towards the small red brick house while looking around.
The architectural style of the small house is the common style of self-built houses in rural areas. However, most people build two-story houses, but this one has only one story. It is not covered with the popular one-piece red roof in the village, but with blue-gray tiles.
There is a small cement floor in front of the house, which is swept very clean. In front of the floor is a large rice field. The wind blows the rice waves, and bursts of fresh rice fragrance come.
There is a small house with a chimney on the left, which should be the kitchen. There is a fence next to it. Chickens and ducks are lazily huddled under a tall and straight walnut tree to avoid the shade.
Further to the left is the vegetable garden. It doesn't seem to be very large. The water spinach planted by the garden gate is growing very well. Even though it has wilted due to the sun, you can still see that it is a dense clump.
She walked up the steps to the door and found it was open, but no one was there.
She tentatively called out, "Jingzhe?"
Lin Jingzhe had been waiting since he received the call in the morning. When he heard the noise outside, he immediately stopped what he was doing and walked out with his crutches.
As soon as I walked out of the kitchen, I heard a clear and gentle voice coming from outside.
He felt a little nervous for no reason.
He only found out this morning that his brother's girlfriend was called Gu Nansheng, two years older than him and very beautiful.
When he heard his brother's description, he was very confused. How could such a young and beautiful girl fall in love with Lin Layue, who had nothing, and even travel thousands of miles to bring a disabled person like him to the city?
Doesn't she think he's a burden?
He moved slowly with the help of a cane, his eyes fixed on the empty trouser leg dangling in the air, a barely perceptible stern look flashing in the depths of his eyes.
If she was really a gentle and tolerant person as her brother said, then he would definitely do his best to entertain her.
If she said one thing to his face and another behind his back, pretending to be kind but actually being hypocritical, he would definitely make sure she made the trip worthwhile.
Or, just stay in this damn place with him.
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