Chapter 23 Heart-to-heart Talk Are you nice to me because you like me?
Zhou Yangze was leaning against the off-road vehicle at this time. He had no intention of returning it to the program crew yet. Of course, he had to make the best use of the vehicle he rented.
At this moment, Chen Ziyou ran over and started talking loudly, "Zhou Yangze, I just asked Ning You, and you two aren't together at all. And you still told me you're not single. Haha, I'm dying of laughter!"
Zhou Yangze looked at Du Ningyou who was running over with a shocked expression when he heard this. "Why did you tell him that we're not together? Didn't you agree this morning?"
Du Ningyou didn't know how to explain it to him for a moment. She wanted to just admit her mistake, but she also felt that she couldn't do that. So she answered honestly, "Listen to me, what you said this morning was that if this continues, I'm afraid I really will have no choice but to marry you. I agreed with that, but you never mentioned being together to me. We can't be so confused. At least..."
"I understand." Zhou Yangze interrupted her.
Confused? She actually said confused?
She was truly hurt now. Didn't tacitly agreeing to marry him mean they could be together in the future? And she had been sending him signals all day, and she hadn't objected in the slightest, she hadn't even said it out loud.
As a result, he was happy all day, and now I tell him that I misunderstood?
Young Master Zhou was truly devastated, so he got into the car with a blank expression. Du Ningyou wanted to have a good chat with him, so he leaned over the car window and asked anxiously, "Where are you going?"
"Go to Mrs. Wu's house to get the handkerchief." After saying that, she pursed her lips and added, "I misunderstood you about this matter today. I'm sorry." Then she started the engine and left.
Du Ningyou looked at the direction the SUV left in, feeling angry and anxious. Why didn't this person listen to her and explain everything before leaving? Leaving now would cause a big misunderstanding. He must have gone off somewhere alone by now.
Chen Ziyou finally understood what was happening and coughed awkwardly, "Um... did I accidentally ruin something?"
Du Ning sighed softly and replied weakly, "It's okay. I'll just wait for him to come back and explain everything."
Summer weather can change suddenly. A clear, blue sky suddenly became overcast. A howling wind swayed the trees along the road, sweeping fallen leaves high into the air and disappearing in an instant. The SUV drove alone on the small road, as vast, dark clouds pressed down like a monster.
After Zhou Yangze went to Mrs. Wu's house to get the handkerchief, he drove to a deserted place and was alone.
In his opinion, Du Ningyou didn't like him that much at all. He had always been the one who took on the responsibilities. In fact, he didn't expect to get the same return for his efforts. All he wanted was an affirmative attitude to make him feel at ease.
But Du Ningyou was unwilling to give even this.
The cell phone on the seat next to him kept ringing, but he stubbornly turned his eyes away and didn't look.
On the other side, Du Ningyou returned to Grandma Li's house. Seeing that it was about to rain heavily outside, Zhou Yangze had not come back yet. He did not answer the phone calls or reply to the messages. She walked back and forth under the eaves anxiously.
After a while, heavy rain suddenly fell with a "swish", and in the blink of an eye, it wet the road at the door and the floor of the courtyard, but Zhou Yangze was still nowhere to be seen.
Next to the orange-yellow rice fields, the "crackling" sound of heavy rain falling on the car roof interrupted Zhou Yangze's thoughts. Seeing that the mobile phone next to him had been ringing non-stop, he picked it up, and immediately heard Du Ningyou's blaming voice from the other side.
"Zhou Yangze, where have you been? You didn't answer the phone or reply to the messages. I contacted Mrs. Wu and she said you took the handkerchief and left a long time ago. It was just a misunderstanding. How could it be so serious that you wouldn't come home in the pouring rain? Do you know that I'm worried about you?"
The rapid-fire barrage of words instantly swept away most of his previous emotions. He curled his lips and replied, "I'll be right back. Ten minutes, no, eight minutes."
"I want to see you in ten minutes, drive slowly!" he said in a fierce tone.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yangze no longer cared about emo and quickly started the engine and drove home.
When I was almost at Grandma Li's house, I could see a dim light coming through the rain from afar. As I got closer, I saw a small figure in a white team uniform at the door. He had finished recording the show and had not had time to change his clothes.
The force on the accelerator suddenly increased.
He parked the car on the side of the road. Grandma Li's house was a short distance away from the highway, so he didn't care about getting wet and rushed over in the rain.
Du Ningyou was about to go back to the house to get an umbrella when he saw him running towards her. She immediately said anxiously, "Why are you getting wet in the rain? I'll get you an umbrella."
"It's okay, just a little rain." However, he was soaked in an instant.
Zhou Yangze looked at his watch and said to Du Ningyou with a smile, "Eight minutes, not late."
"..." She didn't know what to say anymore, so she could only order fiercely: "Go take a shower, and then we'll talk."
"All right."
After a while, Zhou Yangze took a shower, changed into clean clothes, wiped his hair with a towel and walked into Du Ningyou's room. He looked up at the camera in the corner and found that it was covered with a towel.
Du Ningyou sat on the edge of the bed. There was no other furniture in the room except the bed, so he pulled the suitcase in the corner over and sat down.
Zhou Yangze said softly: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Du Ningyou looked at him for a while, and after a while, he asked directly: "Zhou Yangze, are you nice to me because you like me?"
He rested his arm on the armrest of the suitcase, lowered his eyes to the ground and said, "Before, I was nice to you just subconsciously, without considering whether I liked you or not. Later, my mother proposed to marry you. I agreed at first because she said that if you married someone else, you would be bullied and suffer. I thought that with our relationship, there was no way I could push you into the fire pit. Anyway, I would get married sooner or later, so I might as well marry you."
He raised his head and looked at Du Ningyou. "After deciding to marry you, I felt like my mentality changed. I became more possessive of you. I was happy to see you acting coquettishly and making funny faces. I couldn't stand seeing other people of the opposite sex around you. I imagined our life after marriage. I also hoped that in your eyes, my existence should be different from others, and that I should be favored... I guess this is love."
Du Ningyou's face flushed under his gaze, and after a pause she began to explain what happened today: "This morning I did tacitly agree that I would marry you in the future, but being together always takes a process, there has to be a confession. You had to ask me to be your girlfriend, and I had to agree, only then could we be considered together. That's why I answered that way when Brother You asked me today. But you, on the other hand, didn't even listen to me and ran off to sulk."
Zhou Yangze looked to the side uncomfortably. "Actually, I realized later that there must be a difference in our thinking. I was mistaken." He then confessed his true feelings, "To be honest, I'm a little confused about your attitude. You're like the Persian cat at home. When you're happy, you come to coax me and ask for some dried fish. When you're unhappy, you act like you don't respond. It was fine before, but as my possessiveness of you deepened, I started to feel inadequate and insecure."
This was an angle Du Ningyou had never considered before, and he asked uncertainly, "Do I have it?"
"You have."
"...Okay, I'll pay attention next time."
After talking it out, the two of them finally felt relieved. Zhou Yangze slid his suitcase closer to Du Ningyou and confirmed again with a serious look on his face: "So you are willing to marry me now, but we still need time to cultivate our relationship as lovers, and then take it step by step. Is that what you mean?"
Du Ningyou nodded, "Well, after all, we never thought about dating or even getting married one day." Although she had been paying attention to Zhou Yangze some time ago, it wasn't so fast.
"Okay, I understand."
It was still raining heavily outside, but the atmosphere in the room began to become ambiguous. The two were silent for a while, and their eyes met unexpectedly and then quickly looked away.
"Well, let's go out and see if anyone needs help. It's time to make dinner now." Du Ningyou said.
"Um."
The two of them walked into the kitchen to help the old lady prepare the food. However, although they said they were helping, in fact, they were both new to cooking. In the past few days, they had been eating at this restaurant and that restaurant, and it didn't seem like they were too useless. But now that they started cooking, their true colors were revealed.
The old lady looked at the pumpkin they had cut into large chunks, the meat in thick and thin slices, and the washed vegetables that still had worms hanging on them. She silently took the spatula and said, "Let me cook. Go help me check on Xiaodou's homework."
Du Ningyou and Zhou Yangze also felt that they were wasting too much food. They felt a little guilty standing by, but they still wanted to struggle again, "Grandma, let us help you light the fire."
"No, you guys can go out. Although grandma is old, she's still a good cook. Even though you can't cook, you can help Doudou with his homework. Everyone should just do what they are good at."
"Okay then, Grandma, please call us if you need anything."
"good."
After leaving the kitchen, Du Ningyou suggested, "Why don't we go find Sister Ai to learn how to cook? We can't always go to other people's houses to eat and drink for free, and we can't always let grandma cook. It would make us feel bad."
"Okay, tomorrow we'll go to town and buy some things we need for the house, and some vegetables, and then we'll go learn how to cook from Sister Ai."
"good."
The next day, they slept until they woke naturally, then packed up and headed to town for some shopping. They'd done some shopping the previous night, like some spare ribs for Xiaodou to get some calcium, a study lamp for him, and two new clothes for Xiaodou and Grandma...
Anyway, I kept a little money for the later recording of the program, and spent the rest on grandma and Xiaodou.
When they arrived in town, they first looked for a place to have breakfast. The last time Zhou Yangze was wandering around, he found a breakfast shop selling bamboo tube rice, so this time he took Du Ningyou there to try it.
The bamboo tube rice contains glutinous rice, peas and bacon. The boss opened the bamboo tube and served it to them.
Du Ningyou took a bite and said with great satisfaction, "Mmm, delicious, not greasy at all, and with the fragrance of bamboo."
"He also has tofu pudding, but you can only eat the salty kind. Do you want to try it?"
"want!"
So they ordered two more servings of tofu pudding.
After eating and drinking, we went to the market, and it was still as lively as last time.
The residents here basically carry a backpack when they buy things. They have a lot of things to buy today, so Zhou Yangze also carried one.
When they passed by the vegetable stall, they found the aunt from last time was there. She greeted them warmly and said, "Young couple, are you out shopping today?"
Du Ningyou laughed, and Zhou Yangze naturally replied, "Yes, Auntie wishes you a prosperous business."
"Haha, thank you." Then she picked up a few tomatoes from the stall and stuffed them into their mouths. "Take these and eat them. They're all grown by Auntie herself. They're big and sweet."
"No need, auntie, we have some at home."
"That's different. Just take it if it's given to you."
They refused for a while but finally accepted it and thanked their aunt again.
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