Chapter 95: Have a Good Talk
Wen Wan snorted softly, "You only know how to flatter people with sweet words."
"Lu Dongping, if I become ugly, will you dislike me?"
Lu Dongping asked her: "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
"Of course it's the truth, don't try to trick me."
Lu Dongping chuckled: "Okay, no more teasing. Then I'll tell you the truth."
"If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have definitely said no, because people, regardless of gender, all like beautiful things. Only beautiful things can attract people's attention and make people approach them involuntarily. But now," he paused, standing at the entrance of the educated youth camp, "I want you to grow old with me. I will be with you, grow old and ugly together, and I won't change."
After saying that, he looked at Wen Wan cautiously. It seemed impossible to tell from her face whether she was satisfied with his answer or not.
After walking for a while, Wen Wan asked again: "Lu Dongping, do you have any shortcomings?"
Old Wen was right. A short period of time was not enough to understand a person. At least she was still not sure whether she understood Lu Dongping. She just thought he was extremely good and didn't think there was anything wrong with him.
Lu Dongping was stunned for a moment: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"I just want to know, I want to understand better."
Want to learn more? That's a good thing.
Lu Dongping thought carefully: "I am very poor!"
"I have a very strong character, not very good, and uneducated."
Wen Wan glanced at him and said, "God has given me a lot of tickets and more than fifty yuan. Are you sure you are poor?"
Lu Dongping nodded: "My situation may be better here in Lujiazui, but compared to big places, I am still very poor."
After saying that, he thought for a moment and said, "I have a bad temper and a stubborn personality, but I won't lose my temper with you."
"As for cultural knowledge, it seems that it's too late for me to go to school at my age. Otherwise, can you teach me when you have time?"
Wen Wan didn't respond, turning her head to look at him. "You won't lose your temper with me, but I will lose your temper with you." Someone who even thinks they have a bad temper says they won't lose their temper with themselves? Is that credible? Once their temper flares up, how can they tolerate it?
Lu Dongping pulled her and said, "You? How would you lose your temper with me? Yell at me or hit me? Come on, try it!"
"Oh! I'm serious with you. I've discovered that I have a bad temper and a strong personality. I can't stand any loss or injustice."
Lu Dongping nodded: "Yes, I am also very serious and serious. I will do my best to ensure that you do not suffer any loss or injustice."
"Well, you see, I can't cook, my strength is just so-so, and I can't do much work. Now that we're dating but haven't lived together, you must think everything is good enough. But as time goes by, I won't be able to help you and will have to hold you back everywhere. That's definitely not okay."
Lu Dongping frowned slightly: "Wanwan, I think there's something wrong with you today."
Wen Wan reached out and plucked a piece of grass from the roadside, rubbing it in her hand and playing with it. She raised her eyebrows and looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Everything seemed wrong, as if something had happened without his knowledge.
Thinking of this, Lu Dongping felt his eyelids twitch violently.
He reached out and stroked her braids: "It's okay, I was just teasing you! Let's go home and have dinner. I caught loaches in the fields today, and I'll stew eels tonight. I'm sure you'll like it."
"Eel? What kind of eel is that? I've never seen it before."
"Well, they're just like snakes. They'll dig a hole in the mud bank near the ditch and hide inside. When you plow the field, they'll be brought out. If you see them, you just catch them. Otherwise, they'll dig holes in the mud bank again and let water leak in."
As he was talking, he arrived at the bottom of the yard.
Entering the yard, Wen Wan sniffed: "What a nice smell!"
Zhang Hongying is already experienced in making this dish, and it doesn't require much oil. She just uses chopsticks to scoop a little from the jar and grease the pot. Then she grabs a handful of dried chilies and Sichuan pepper leaves that she had dried the previous year and throws them into the pot and stir-fries them slowly. After the aroma comes out, she throws in a handful of garlic cloves, and the flavor is even stronger.
Apart from salt, nothing else is needed. Just pour the chopped eels into the pot and cook. As the pot boils over a high fire, the aroma quietly overflows from the cracks in the lid.
Wen Wan wrinkled her nose and walked into the house and said, "Ah! It smells so good!"
Delicious food can make people feel better, and this applies to both adults and children. Zhang Hongying added firewood behind the stove and said, "It smells good. If it smells good, you can eat more later. This thing is not common year-round. I'm afraid you don't have it in the city."
Wen Wan responded, "Then I certainly won't be polite." After she finished speaking, Lu Dongping had already scooped up some water and called out to her, "Wan Wan, come here and wash your hands!"
Wen Wan went into the room and then left, squatting face to face with Lu Dongping, applying soap and rubbing slowly.
Lu Dongping's hand was not honestly stretched in the water. He quietly held her hand and took a look at it.
Because of work, my hands are no longer as delicate as before. The blisters on the palms of my hands that were rubbed some time ago have scabbed off, revealing a different color from the surrounding area.
Wen Wan struggled but failed to break free. She looked around guiltily and found that no one was paying attention to them, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Dongping pinched it and said, "Let me see." Then he let go of her hand. He wanted to ask about the letter, but then he felt that it was inappropriate to ask this question since they were about to eat.
After all, I still lack the confidence in my heart.
After washing, Lu Dongping got another basin of water and carried it to the room where Lu Chun'e lived. Wen Wan took the clothes into the room, locked the door, and washed herself briefly inside and changed her clothes before coming out.
Another thing silently came to my mind: taking a bath is inconvenient.
To stew the eels, Zhang Hongying indulged herself in a rare luxury by cooking mixed grain rice, half of which was mixed with new potatoes dug from her own plot. It was eaten with the eel soup and tasted incredibly good.
After dinner, although there was no rush to go back to sleep, Lu Dongping suggested taking a walk.
Since they got busy, the two of them haven't had a good chat for several days.
At this moment, every household is busy cooking and eating, and the fields, which have been noisy all day, are now quiet as if they are asleep.
The two men walked along the road and found a place to sit down at the edge of the field. Lu Dongping reached out and pulled the person over.
"I heard that you received a letter today?"
"Yeah!" Wen Wan responded simply.
Unable to discern her tone or mood, Lu Dongping's heart raced. "Yes, it was you. Was it a letter from the elders at home? Did they mention anything about us?"
"Yes." The whole article was about this matter. She had been thinking about the letter while working all day.
Although she had some concerns in her heart, she believed that if there was only one person in this world who could treat her wholeheartedly, that person would definitely be Lao Wen.
Therefore, Wen Wan would take every word he said to heart and consider it carefully.
"So, does he agree or disagree?"
“I didn’t disagree, but I didn’t agree either.”
Lu Dongping pursed his lips with difficulty and waited for her next words.
Wen Wan felt that there was nothing to hide about this matter, so she said directly: "He won't interfere with my dating, but he said that I should get to know you better. After all, no one is perfect. You have your good points and I have my bad points. We should get to know each other better and think carefully about whether we can tolerate each other's good and bad points. After all, if we get married, it will be a lifelong commitment. We have known each other for half a year, which is not a long time. It is really not enough time to understand a person."
"For example, when I treat you, I think you're especially good. I don't care or see how you treat others. I just think you're especially patient, especially attentive, and especially good to me. But how long can such patience and attentiveness last? Can it last a lifetime?"
Just as Lu Dongping was about to speak, a soft little hand covered his mouth: "Don't say anything yet, just listen to me."
Lu Dongping nodded helplessly.
"I don't know when and how you fell in love with me and wanted to pursue me and date me. Today, I thought about it and seriously considered what attracted you to me. It's nothing more than that you thought I was a little bit good-looking."
Lu Dongping smiled and kissed her palm and then bit it: "It's not just a little bit good, it's too good. You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. When I see you, how can I see anyone else?"
"But no matter how good-looking you are, you will get old one day. Besides this face, I have many, many flaws. I look like I have a good temper, but I never suffer any harm. I can't stand it when it's hot, cold, or tired. I'm extremely difficult to please and hard to get along with."
Lu Dongping nodded: "Yeah, I see!"
Wen Wan: ...
Please don't tell such truth.
Lu Dongping sighed softly. "I can see all this. Your seventh brother, Xu Qingming, has also told me about it. Our family isn't well off, and I can't say that anyone in our family is that great. I just know that I like you, and I'm serious about dating you. I'm 24 now, not the kind of 17 or 18-year-old who gets carried away by impulse. I know what I want, and I know what I'll face in the future if I do something."
"Wanwan, do you know why I used my connections to get you a substitute teacher at the school? It's not because I'm dating you and want to please you and convince you to get married sooner rather than later. That's all I have right now, and I can only do my best to make your life better. I mean what I say. If you think this year is too short to get to know me thoroughly, then I'll keep it this way: three years. You'll stay here for at least three years. Is three years enough for you to consider staying and spending your life with me, huh?"
Wen Wan lowered her head and looked at the soil under her feet: "You think so, but your family, this is not a matter between two people. If I really drag you for three years, no matter whether it will work out in the end, your family will not agree."
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