Chapter 4 Meeting
Qin Suisui stayed in bed and slept until noon the next day. When she was queuing to disembark, she met the female educated youth who had switched rooms with her.
Because she bought the boat ticket at the last minute, she could only get an eight-person cabin. In the end, she paid extra to exchange it with a beautiful young woman from the educated youth on the boat for a first-class cabin, a double room.
Seeing that her face was pale and her lips were bloodless, the female educated youth stepped forward and asked with concern, "Are you alright, comrade? You look terrible, are you feeling unwell?"
Qin Suisui waved her hand and smiled weakly at her: "Thank you, I'm fine. I'm just a little seasick. I'll be fine after I get off the boat and rest!"
The female educated youth nodded and moved a little closer so that Qin Suisui could lean on her for support. Qin Suisui was touched; girls really are the most wonderful creatures in the world!
The female educated youth took the initiative to speak again: "Comrade, are you going to the countryside too? My name is Su Yunyi, I am 20 years old, and I am an educated youth going to Guangmingding Brigade, Jianghui Town, Yashan City. You can come to play with me when you are free!" Su Yunyi liked this fair-skinned, beautiful girl with a rosy face very much.
To her surprise, Qin Suisui was stunned by her words, as if struck by lightning.
Family members, who understands? She's met the female lead! The female lead in the original story is the daughter of a textile factory director. Not only is she beautiful, but she's also extremely talented in fashion design. She could have made a name for herself, but after meeting the male lead, she willingly gave up her career and stayed in the backyard, cooking and cleaning for him every day. She also had to constantly outwit and fight against the bees and butterflies that the male lead attracted. Isn't that too frustrating?
Qin Suisui nodded vigorously: "Hello, Comrade Su! My name is Qin Suisui. I'm going to the army to find my fiancé, who is also in Jianghui Town! I'll definitely come to visit you when I have time!"
The female lead is so kind; if she wanted to, she would definitely save Su Yunyi from this predicament!
About ten minutes later, the crowd at the front finally thinned out a bit. Su Yunyi helped Qin Suisui carry her luggage off the ship before running to rejoin her group.
It was only then that Qin Suisui was dumbfounded; she had no idea what Pei Jiuyan looked like!
She had only seen a photo of Pei Jiuyan when he was 15 years old. He should be 23 now. How could he still look the same?
Qin Suisui, carrying a small floral cloth bag and a suitcase, stood disheveled in the wind at the dock.
Pei Jiuyan, who had been waiting under the shade of the tree for five hours, recognized the girl standing there dumbfounded at a glance. No wonder; she had fair skin and an outstanding presence, making her stand out in the crowd. But why was the bright and cheerful girl he remembered now frighteningly pale?
Pei Jiuyan frowned and strode over.
Qin Suisui stared at the tall man suddenly standing in front of her. In the photo, the 15-year-old Pei Jiuyan was also broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, tall and straight, but much paler than the man before her. It definitely wasn't him! She quickly looked away and continued searching the crowd.
Seeing the disdain in the little girl's eyes, Pei Jiuyan almost laughed in anger. He gritted his teeth and slowly uttered her name:
"Qin Suisui!"
Qin Suisui was shocked. She stared at Pei Jiuyan for a long time, but still couldn't connect the person in front of her with the person in the photo. She was a little confused and blurted out, "Black Charcoal Head, who are you?"
"Pfft! Hahahaha!"
Several hearty laughs came from behind, followed by Chi Donglin's voice: "Ayan, your fiancée doesn't recognize you!"
Upon hearing his address, Qin Suisui took a step back in shock. He...he really was Pei Jiuyan?!
This man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, who exudes a sharp aura, is completely different from the pretty boy in the photo! Isn't it normal that she can't recognize him?
However, she quickly remembered her mother's advice, to be gentle and considerate, to be generous and decent, to act coquettishly when necessary, to be a qualified fiancée, and not let others break the engagement. After all, he was the only one she could turn to now!
She composed herself, took a small step forward, tugged at Pei Jiuyan's sleeve and gently shook it, calling out the name they used to use in their childhood correspondence: "Brother Jiu, you've changed so much, I didn't recognize you at first..."
Pei Jiuyan's brow twitched. He remembered when he was 10 years old, his mother came back excitedly from the post office, holding up a pink letter: "Your wife wrote a letter!"
It is said that this was the first letter Qin Suisui wrote after she learned to write at the age of 5. He was very disdainful at the time, thinking that what could a five-year-old girl write?
Then, at night, under the lamplight, I secretly spent a long time piecing together the rounded pinyin in the letter before I could read through the letter, which was half text and half pinyin.
He procrastinated for several more days before finally replying to the little girl "reluctantly" under his mother's urging. He comforted himself, saying that the main purpose was to teach the little girl what it meant to write a letter.
In this way, the two began their correspondence when Qin Suisui was five years old. Until the little girl was ten years old, she learned to look at handsome boys and act like a spoiled child, and insisted that she send her a photo.
Poor Mr. Pei, who had been so arrogant for 15 years, how could he have taken pictures or done the things girls love to do? But in the end, he couldn't resist the little girl's constant calls of "Ajiu brother". He was afraid that his photos would not look good and the little girl, who had just established her aesthetic sense, would dislike him and no longer want to pay attention to him. He even wore a white shirt, secretly used Qin's father's hair wax, spent a huge amount of money to take several pictures, and finally chose the one he was most satisfied with and sent it to her.
The more he thought about the past, the more his head ached. Pei Jiuyan seemed oblivious to the coquettishness in her tone. Amidst Chi Donglin's teasing, he calmly took Qin Suisui's suitcase, then took the small floral cloth bag from her back and hung it on his own arm, asking casually, "Where are you feeling unwell? You look so pale."
Qin Suisui waved her hands weakly, her body as limp as noodles. Seeing this, Chi Donglin stopped smiling and said, "Sister, are you seasick? The symptoms are quite similar."
Chi Donglin, Pei Jiuyan, and Song Yunlai were childhood friends who grew up in the same courtyard. They had known about Qin Suisui since they were young and had even greeted her on several phone calls before. Therefore, they were very familiar with this "sister" they had never met.
Qin Suisui simply couldn't bear to hear the word "boat" now. As soon as she heard it, her body felt like vomiting as if it was a conditioned reflex.
"Yue!" She gagged and bent over to vomit bile.
Pei Jiuyan frowned, and after she finished vomiting, he bent down, picked her up, put her in the car, and drove straight to the military hospital.
When they came out of the hospital, almost the entire family compound knew that Commander Pei's fiancée had arrived!
Therefore, on her way home to her family compound, Qin Suisui felt like a monkey in a circus, attracting attention wherever she went.
After forcing a smile the whole way, they finally arrived at Pei Jiuyan's residence. Pei Jiuyan was a regimental commander and had been assigned a separate house, a two-story building with a small courtyard. However, Pei Jiuyan usually lived alone and preferred to stay in the dormitory with Chi Donglin and Song Yunlai, so the courtyard was usually empty.
Upon learning that Pei Jiuyan wouldn't be living with her for the time being, Qin Suisui slowly breathed a sigh of relief. But before she could fully relax, the courtyard door suddenly opened from the inside, and a small head popped out.
"Mother!"
"Are you my mother?!"
A slightly excited voice came from below. Qin Suisui looked down and everything went black. What... what is this little black charcoal head?!
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