"This is what my grandmother left for my mother. It was her dowry. She wore it when she married my grandfather. Later, my mother wore it when she married my father. She said she wanted to see her daughter-in-law wear it when she married her son!"
Although Gu Xingfan's expression was very calm, Lin Yanbai felt that he must be sad. She leaned over and gently kissed him on the face.
"Do you want to see me wear it?" she asked softly, leaning close to his ear.
Gu Xingfan smiled, took the hair crown from her hand, and gently placed it on her head. He looked at it for a long time and murmured, "Beautiful!"
His eyes gradually moved downwards, sweeping across her delicate eyebrows, small nose, and pink lips, then stopped, and his body slowly moved closer...
"Stop..." Just when the two were about to make love, Lin Yanbai called a halt to the incident.
"That...it still hurts a little..." She spoke vaguely and softly, but Gu Xingfan heard it clearly. He pulled Lin Yanbai into his arms.
"I'm sorry, I didn't do it carefully. I won't do it again next time!"
After a long while, he felt a small resistance in his arms, and he let go of her. She seemed to have just remembered something, and with a chuckle, she put the jewelry back into the wooden box, locked it, and began looking for a place to hide it.
After struggling for a long time, he hid the wooden box in the secret compartment of his two camphorwood boxes, and then he breathed a sigh of relief as if the task was accomplished.
Gu Xingfan watched her busying around like a little bee. The people hiding were enjoying it, and the people watching were also enjoying it.
As if he was teasing her, after Lin Yanbai finally hid the things, Gu Xingfan seemed to have just remembered and took out two small red books from the cabinet and handed them over.
Lin Yanbai took it, bewildered. It turned out to be two passbooks. He opened the first one... hiss! It looked like he was saving a lot. This should be his salary card, but it seemed like there was only money coming in, no money going out. Although his monthly salary wasn't much, it would add up to a lot!
It seems she found a man who is diligent and frugal. Thinking happily, she opened the bankbook below...
"!!!" Lin Yanbai was speechless. This... made her wonder if she was overweight.
Gu Xingfan next to her was even calm enough to take a sip of tea and admire her lively and changing expressions.
Lin Yanbai was so angry that she rushed over and elbowed him. What kind of person was this? He only cared about his wife.
Seeing that he had irritated the other party, Gu Xingfan didn't keep the secret any longer. "Didn't I tell you that after the Shen family went abroad, some of the unsaleable domestic properties were left to my mother? This document shows the dividends, but after those factories were nationalized, no more money was paid!"
No one could tell, he was really good at hiding it. Others just knew that he might have some wealth, but no one expected it to be so substantial. This allowed her to get such a great bargain. Lin Yan smiled secretly!
The two of them had a clear division of labor. Lin Yanbai was responsible for hiding the family assets, and Gu Xingfan was responsible for hiding the marriage certificate. This guy wouldn't let her touch it at all, as if she could destroy it.
At night, the two of them lay in bed, discussing what to bring back to her parents' home the next day. Although they had only been married for a few days, they always felt like an old married couple.
Without someone's disturbance, Lin Yanbai slept soundly until dawn. But someone cried in the middle of the night and got up to take a cold shower. His wife always wanted to cling to him when she slept, but he couldn't bear to push her away, so he could only take more cold showers himself.
The next morning, the two men carried eggs, a piece of pork belly, malted milk, and biscuits, rode their bicycles, and headed towards the Lin family. This gift was the result of their discussion. It was neither shabby nor seemed like a waste of money.
Lin Yanbai was back home today, and Lin Qingfeng and the others had specially asked for leave. The three men got together and started chatting. Lin Yanbai couldn't get a chance to join in, so he ran to the kitchen to help Liu Mei!
Seeing Lin Yanbai concentrating on washing vegetables, Liu Mei was silent for a while. Although she knew Lin Yanbai didn't like to hear it, she still said with a stiff upper lip: "Yanbai, I think Director Zhong is quite caring towards Comrade Gu. Do you think anyone in our factory can invite Director Gu to be the witness at the wedding?"
Lin Yanbai didn't think much about it, "It's okay, Director Zhong really takes good care of him!"
"Yan Bai... Look, your sister has been graduated for a while now. It's not a good idea for her to stay at home all the time. Since Director Zhong is so caring about Comrade Gu, can Comrade Gu go and talk to them..."
After hearing this, Lin Yanbai finally understood what Liu Mei was planning. She hadn't given up yet!
She looked directly into Liu Mei's eyes until she felt a little guilty, then she said, "No! Putting aside other things, do you think Lin Wan treats me and Gu Xingfan as a family? When she returned home today, there was no one there. Why didn't she come and tell everyone about it herself? She just hides behind you and lets you take the blame!"
Liu Meiyou was a little embarrassed and tried to make amends, "Your sister just happened to be feeling unwell today..."
Someone who was feeling unwell was forced to leave during dinner. She reluctantly sat at the table with a droopy face...
Lin Qingfeng really couldn't stand her behavior, but family disgrace should not be made public. He really didn't want to scold her in front of his son-in-law, so he had to glare at her secretly a few times, signaling her to restrain herself.
Gu Xingfan saw the whole affair clearly, but he was too lazy to care about it and simply pretended not to know.
After the meal, except for Liu Mei, no one else had any communication with Lin Wan, and Lin Yanbai even treated her as air.
Lin Wan was even more furious. She knew that this bitch was just coming back to show off. Just wait, she would make her suffer sooner or later! And the other members of the Lin family were indeed heartless. They could be bought off with small favors. They said nice things, but in fact, no one was truly thinking about her!
Liu Mei didn't know that her beloved eldest daughter already hated them in her heart. She was still worried about her eldest daughter's job. Seeing that her youngest daughter was unwilling to help, she was so worried that her hair turned white!
After dinner, they sat for a while before Lin Yanbai and the others stood up to say goodbye. As soon as they pushed their bicycles out of the yard, they were stopped by someone. It turned out to be Lin Chen.
Seeing the two of them stop, Lin Chen handed the small box in his hand to Lin Yanbai, and said a little embarrassedly: "This... is my wedding gift to you... It's a little late, but I made it myself. I hope you can be happy!"
Seeing Lin Yanbai take the gift, Lin Chen quickly turned around and left, as if afraid that she would return it.
Lin Yanbai was left standing there in a daze. This cheap brother...
She carefully opened the box and saw a pair of small combs inside. They were small and cute. The patterns carved on them were simple and smooth with a little roughness. It seemed that Lin Chen had put a lot of effort in carving them.
"Let's go..." Lin Yanbai suddenly covered the box and said to Gu Xingfan.
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