Chapter 40: I’m giving it back to you. You were originally going to go on a blind date with me? ...
He came to his house at this time and specifically asked for Yan Xue. It was hard for Qi Fang not to think too much.
What's more, the other party had once told him personally that he couldn't find a blind date...
But didn't Yan Xue say that her blind date was 5'8" tall and very good-looking? Is that 5'8"? Is that good-looking?
Qi Fang pursed his lips and stared at the other person intently. For a moment, he wanted to go back to the beginning and take back the words "It's okay, I'll find it eventually."
It was purely accidental for Qi Fang to see Qi Fang.
He rubbed his head and glanced back, "Yan Xue lives here. Am I right?"
Qi Fang wanted to say that he had come to the wrong place, but Miss Yan had already heard the sound and came out.
Seeing her, Qi immediately assumed she was the person he was looking for and walked over to her. "Hello."
"Hello." Miss Yan was well-educated after all, and she still had the most basic manners, but she obviously didn't understand why.
Being stared at with doubtful eyes, Qi Fang couldn't help but touch his head again. "Um, I'm Qi Fang, the one you went on a blind date with before. Didn't I miss you? Your cousin also thought you were lost. I heard you were in Jinchuan, so she asked me to come and see you."
The words were a bit confusing, but Miss Yan still understood. She turned to look at Yan Xue and said, "I came to see you."
Qi Fang followed her gaze into the inner room and was stunned. "You, you are Yan Xue?"
Yan Xue also wanted to imitate him and ask, "You are actually Qi Fang?"
It's fine if Jinchuan and Xiaojinchuan were wrong, but what about the 1.80-meter-tall height they promised? What about the exceptionally good looks they promised?
She had seen his childhood photos, and his eyes were quite big. How come they were so small now? Could it be that he had only grown taller over the years, but not his eyes?
Although she was speechless, but since the person had come, Yan Xue still invited him to come into the house and sit down.
Seeing that she stood up again, Qi Fang came over and helped her back to the kang, "You sit down." He went to pour a glass of water for Qi Fang and Miss Yan.
Miss Yan then remembered that Qi Fang had never shown any intention of giving her any water to drink since she arrived.
Qi Fang was even more surprised. When Qi Fang handed him the enamel pot, he was flattered and said, "Thank you." Qi Fang looked at him inexplicably.
When Qi Fang sat down next to Yan Xue, right next to Yan Xue, he finally realized, "She married you?"
Isn't that nonsense? We introduced it to each other when we were on the mountain.
But she was the real one, and he was the one who got a marriage for free, so Qi Fang didn't say anything in the end.
Qi Fang looked at Yan Xue again, "You, you were originally going to go on a blind date with me?"
She had tried to hide it to some extent before, but now that it was asked, she could hardly conceal her dejection.
Even though he was used to being honest, facing this kind of scene, he couldn't help but ask one more question: "Why did you marry him?"
Yes, why did she marry Qi Fang?
Yan Xue was silent for a moment. "Aunt Qiufang wanted to send me here that day, but her son Daqiang fell into an ice hole and couldn't come. When she left, she told me your name was Qi Fang and you were at Jinchuan Forest Farm."
"Huh?" Qi Fang hadn't expected this to happen. "What about him?"
This was obviously a question for Qi Fang, so Qi Fang responded, "My surname is Qi, Qi with a single ear and a single name, Fang."
"Your name is Qi Fang too?" Qi Fang now understood a little.
Shan Qiufang had given the wrong address, so Yan Xue naturally went to the wrong place. And there just happened to be a place in Jinchuan Forest Farm with a name that sounded the same as his...
Everything was a coincidence arranged by God, and he was the only one who lost the girl by accident in this coincidence.
Qi Fang was even more distraught, and even felt a little annoyed that he was too busy with work to ask for leave to pick up the person.
No, he should take a few more days off and go back to his hometown to go on this blind date. That way, there would be no mistakes...
Qi Fang was so depressed that he lowered his head and rubbed his face, unable to speak.
At this time, Miss Yan finally finished listening and looked at Qi Fang carefully. "Since you've come here, why don't you two switch back?"
"Change it back?" Qi Fang obviously didn't expect this and was very shocked.
Miss Yan nodded cautiously, "It just so happens that I'm engaged to Qi Fang, so I came to marry him..."
"Yan Xue." Qi Fang's voice became heavy.
Yan Xue and Miss Yan both looked over. He paused, then subconsciously grabbed Yan Xue's hand and said, "I'm not talking about you."
The scene was really chaotic, and what was probably even more chaotic than the scene was Qi Fang's mind at this moment.
He pondered for a long time, but still couldn't figure out the relationship between these people. Instead, Qi Fang across from him spoke again, "I recognized the wrong person at the beginning. I'm sorry, but I'm already married to Yan Xue and have no intention of getting a divorce."
Qi Fang didn't dare to look at Yan Xue beside him. "I heard that you gave Yan Xue some money. How much? I'll give it back to you now."
Qi Fang was in no mood to care about this right now, but he didn't know how to care about the thing he wanted to care about the most.
Finally, he could only stand up and rub his aching head. "Let's talk about this tomorrow. My aunt and Aunt Qiufang will be here tomorrow."
He is also very confused now and needs to go back and think carefully.
"Aunt Qiufang is coming?" Yan Xue grasped the key point of the words.
Qi Fang nodded. "My aunt heard I hadn't seen you, so she took me to find Aunt Qiufang. She thought you were lost, so she wrote a letter to your hometown. The reply arrived this afternoon, saying your address was in Jinchuan. There were no cars available at the time, so my aunt called the farm office and asked me to come over to take a look."
In those days, ordinary people didn’t have a telephone at home. I don’t know how much effort his aunt went through to find the phone number and call him.
Unfortunately, although he found the person, it did not make him feel relieved. Instead, he felt uncomfortable as if something was blocking his heart.
Qi Fang lowered his head and said, "I, I'm going back."
Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Yan Xue was about to stand up, but her hand suddenly tightened and was held tightly by Qi Fang.
She turned to look at the man. Qi Fang stared at her for two seconds, then let go. "Your foot is injured. I'll go get you."
It would be quite embarrassing to actually give it away.
One of them lost his wife by accident, and the other picked up a wife by accident. It doesn't seem like the two of them can get along well.
This is because Qi Fang has a good temper. If it were anyone else, they would probably quarrel with Qi Fang at this moment, and those with a worse temper would even quarrel with Yan Xue.
Qi Fang walked in silence for a while, "Your money..."
"Let's talk about it tomorrow. I don't want to think about it now." There was still some emotion in Qi Fang's words.
After saying that, he felt that he was too impulsive. The other person had admitted his mistake and was not deliberately trying to steal his wife.
But when asked to say something nice, he felt so overwhelmed that he couldn't say anything. Finally, he said something out of nowhere: "Thank you for being on the train that day. I finally found the person."
This time Qi Fang also felt very suffocated. He even looked at the other person for a second time, wondering if this person did it on purpose.
But Qi Fang kept his head down, immersed in his own emotions, and looked naive, not seeming to understand what was meant by sarcasm.
There was no need to talk now. The two of them walked the last short distance in complete silence, and neither of them knew what to say to the other.
When Qi Fang returned and faced Miss Yan, things would be different. "Do you want to leave now, or do I report you for not having a letter of introduction and have someone take you away?"
If he had treated Yan Xue like this at the beginning, Yan Xue would never have married him even if she hadn't realized that she had chosen the wrong person.
Miss Yan was obviously frightened by his cold face. She stood up without saying a word and started packing her things.
However, Yan Xue saw that she had come so far alone and asked, "How did you get here without a letter of introduction?"
Nowadays, you need a letter of introduction to do anything. Without one, you can't take a single step, let alone travel thousands of miles.
Facing her, Miss Yan was not so nervous. She tugged at the red armband on her arm and said, "I have this. With this, I can be greeted wherever I go. I don't even need to buy a ticket."
Yan Xue then remembered that this kind of thing did happen in the early days. At that time, many elementary school students even wore red armbands and followed middle school students to many places across the country.
The other party is indeed not afraid of anyone checking the letter of introduction when wearing this. It would be good enough for most people not to be afraid of being checked by her.
It seems that this girl looks innocent, as if she is too well protected by her family and has no idea about the world, but at least she is not really stupid, unlike in the original book.
In the original book, she never left the ivory tower woven for her by others. When she was a child, it was her parents, and when she grew up, it was her husband. Until something happened at home, she didn't know what her father and husband had done.
She didn't even know that her husband, who had always been gentle, considerate and obedient to her, actually followed the trend after the reform and opening up and had a child outside.
She spent all the money from both of their salaries and always thought her husband was clean, but he embezzled a lot of project funds and gave them all to her to support his two illegitimate children.
While she was working so hard for her father and husband, even at the cost of her own life, that young man absconded with the money and almost managed to leave the country...
The characters in the book are the characters in the book. When the characters in the book stand in front of her alive, Yan Xue still feels a little softer.
She had been planning to personally send her to the guesthouse, but Qi Fang obviously wouldn't agree, let alone go himself, so Qi Fang carried Yan Xue on his back, while Miss Yan walked beside him with her bag.
It was already dark when they returned. A few lights were lit not far away, dimly illuminating the way home. The two of them walked while the other listened, and for a moment they both chose silence.
After a while, Yan Xue finally asked, "When did you know?"
He didn't ask "Did you know this a long time ago?", obviously he was sure that he already knew. Qi Fang felt a little uneasy, but he still told the truth: "Seven days ago."
Yan Xue knew it right away. "What day did you receive the letter?"
"Well, the letter is from a friend of mine. I thought you weren't doing well at home, so I wanted to ask someone about it."
Yan Xue should have known when he sent the letter. It was the day after he asked her about her head injury.
And he asked about the reason for her head injury...
Yan Xue asked the man, "Did you not even notice the scar on my head?"
"Um."
They both had really good imaginations. She thought he had such a big reaction because he hadn't finished his studies, and he thought she had lost her memory because she didn't know he had finished college.
It's a pity that they have been talking at cross purposes for more than three months, and they still agree with each other without being exposed.
She felt sorry that he was born at the wrong time and couldn't go to college, but he had already graduated from college.
Yan Xue didn't want to talk, but Qi Fang, who was carrying her on his back, spoke up, "Are your brother and grandma the only ones left at home?"
Since she is not the eldest daughter of the Yan family, she never mentions her parents, so there must be some other hidden story.
Sure enough, Yan Xue whispered, "My parents are both dead."
This made Qi Fang pause. He carefully lifted her up again before stepping over the threshold. "Sorry."
"What's there to be sorry about?" Yan Xue said, "You didn't mean to hurt me."
However, Qi Fang still moved gently, placing her on the edge of the kang, then squatting in front of her legs, looking up at her, "Yan Xue."
Yan Xue is small in stature, so she usually looks up at most people, especially Qi Fang. She rarely looks down at them from this angle.
She looked at those peach blossom eyes, feeling as if they had a thousand words to say, "What's wrong?"
"I won't divorce you." The man held her hands with both hands, leaning against her legs, and emphasized, "I won't change either."
The strength in his hands gradually tightened. "You can let me compensate him in any way you want. We are already husband and wife."
This was a rare display of emotion for him, especially towards the big boss in the book who died alone.
Yan Xue didn't know what had upset him, but he kept saying he didn't want a divorce, as if no one had said that he wanted a divorce.
She tugged at the man, "Don't listen to your fiancée's nonsense. We've been married for almost four months. Do you really think she's willing to change back?"
A good first marriage turned into a second marriage. It’s not that he doesn’t have the conditions, but he can’t find a girl who is willing to marry him.
Qi Fang was thinking that might not be the case, but since Yan Xue said so, he did not mention it, and only emphasized, "ex-fiancée."
Not only did he emphasize it, he also frowned, obviously disliking his real ex-fiancée.
"You don't want to take revenge on others, do you?" Yan Xue suddenly asked.
Qi Fang looked at me with a look of "Are you kidding me?" and said, "Revenge her? Do I need to?"
That’s right, in the original book, he was not targeting his ex-fiancée, but her husband, his ungrateful senior brother.
The other party initially appears as the male protagonist's mentor, but at the age of 40, he has become a top-notch person in the industry. He is also gentle and humble, which once made him very popular. Qi Fang, on the other hand, is more like a villain, constantly causing trouble for the state-owned engineering machinery group where the male protagonist works, and in the early stages, he can even be said to be suppressing the male protagonist.
But as the plot progresses, the story takes a big turn.
The true face of the tutor was gradually revealed. Not only did he remember what happened in the past, but he also embezzled public funds and took the students' research results for himself.
He even colluded with overseas capital and almost turned the state-owned enterprise group he worked for into an overseas-controlled one. But what about Qi Fang?
He worked tirelessly to turn the tide, but no one appreciated his efforts. Ultimately, he donated all his research findings, including the company he founded, Changqing Heavy Industries, to the nation. However, he died young in his early forties...
Yan Xue pulled the man up and said, "Don't you want to see a doctor? Go tomorrow."
The topic changed so quickly that Qi Fang was a little distracted.
Yan Xue was serious, "Someone's coming tomorrow, and you can't go to work, so why not take this opportunity to watch it?"
The big guy in the book was already sick when he appeared, and he coughed up blood every three steps. Who knows if he had any other problems.
Yan Xue didn't want to be a widow at the age of 40, and she didn't want to have to stay by his bedside all day to take care of him before she turned 40. She was already very tired in her previous life, so let her rest in this one.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to go see a doctor tomorrow, because Yan Xue asked around, and the recommended doctors are either in the town hospital or in the town, and they simply don’t have time to go tomorrow.
However, early the next morning, Qi Fang came back from outside, covered in cold dew, carrying a piece of wood more than one meter long.
Yan Xue was washing up with one foot up. When she opened her eyes in the morning, she didn't see him. "Where have you been so early in the morning?"
"Aren't you looking for ear buds?" Qi Fang stood the wood up to show her, "Look, is this it?"
Where his slender finger pointed, there was indeed a piece of transparent gum, light yellow in color, attached to the surface of the wood. It was invisible without careful observation.
Yan Xue was also experienced and looked for it deliberately, and finally found it on a fallen tree while she was resting. Where did Qi Fang find it from?
And all he needed to do was bring back the piece with the earbuds, but he actually brought back the whole thing...
She looked at the man's trouser legs, which were soaked from being beaten. "What time did you go up the mountain this morning?"
"Not much." Qi Fang avoided the question.
In fact, he set out before dawn, and when he found the forest where Yan Xue and the others had been tending young trees yesterday, the sky was just beginning to turn pale.
But there was no need to tell Yan Xue about this. "I couldn't go yesterday because of something I did. Let's see if I can still make it today."
What else could Yan Xue say? She could only say, "There's still time. I'll take care of it after dinner."
It takes at least half a month for the black fungus buds to grow into mature ears in the natural environment, but if they are artificially ripened, seven days are enough.
First of all, the temperature must be controlled between 10 and 25 degrees Celsius. If it exceeds 25 degrees, ventilation and heat dissipation are required, and if it is below 10 degrees, insulation is required.
Secondly, the humidity should be maintained at 70% to 95%. If the humidity is not enough, you need to water the ear bed.
The rest of the attention needs to be paid to ventilation and lighting. Yan Xue simply set up a rack on the kang and placed it with the ear buds facing down in the place with the most suitable temperature.
But in this case, they would have to keep the kang on to maintain the appropriate temperature. Qi Fang looked at the piece of wood that occupied Yan Xue's sleeping place and said, "Let's move sometime soon. There are more rooms over there."
Yan Xue thought the same thing. "Let's ripen these ear buds first, and then move them over."
For subsequent culture of bacterial strains, glass containers can be used, which are more convenient to move. They can also use these few days to carefully clean up the new house.
However, their room was not big to begin with, and with the addition of the mushrooms, it seemed a bit cramped. If Shan Qiufang and the Qi family's aunt and nephew wanted to come, they probably wouldn't be able to stay, and it wouldn't be convenient to discuss their affairs here. After thinking about it, the two of them simply changed the meeting place to the new house.
Afraid that Qi's aunt and niece and Shan Qiufang couldn't find them, the two of them went to the small train station to pick them up. When they arrived, Qi Fang was already waiting there.
Compared to yesterday when he came in his work clothes and looked hurried, Qi Fang changed into a very clean set of clothes today and it seemed that he had his hair done again.
This made Qi Fang look at him again, and he calmly put Yan Xue further away from him.
Qi Fang saw this and his expression froze, but he still smiled and greeted the two of them, "Actually, you don't have to come all the way here, I remember the way."
You remembered it after just one walk?
That’s really thoughtful.
Qi Fang looked at him and said, "The main reason is that we just built a new house, and we plan to go there to talk today."
Qi Fang didn't know how he left, scratched his head and said nothing more.
Not long after, the train arrived at the station and Shan Qiufang hurriedly got off, accompanied by a woman in her forties.
When Yan Xue saw the other person's swollen eyes, she guessed that it must be Qi Fang's aunt. Sure enough, Qi Fang immediately said, "My aunt and Aunt Qiufang are here."
Shan Qiufang also saw Yan Xue and ran over. "What happened to you, kid? You ran away without saying a word? You almost scared me to death, don't you know?"
That anxiety didn't seem fake. Seeing that, Yan Xue couldn't help but touch her nose and said, "I recognized the wrong person before. I just found out too."
Aunt Qi was still thinking about the hundred yuan she had saved. When she saw Qi Fang, she asked, "What happened? Have you found the person?"
"Found it, found it." Qi Fang quickly pulled the person aside and explained in a low voice.
Shan Qiufang finally noticed Qi Fang, "Is this the one who kidnapped you..." After thinking about it, she felt that it was not appropriate to say this, "Is this the one you mistakenly recognized?"
If a person looks like this, there is really no need to kidnap her. If she were Xiaoxue, she would have to admit her mistake.
So when the group arrived at the bridal chamber, Aunt Qi started to complain, "What the hell are you doing? You can't even get a person wrong!" Shan Qiufang stood up and said, "I didn't say it was my fault for being in the wrong place, but Xiaoxue recognized the wrong person, so it's really not her fault."
She pointed at Qi Fang, then at Qi Fang, "You told me your nephew is 1.8 meters tall and very good-looking. Look who they look more alike!"
Aunt Qi was choked up. "Then who says anything good about their own nephew?"
She felt that there was nothing wrong with what she did. Who would have thought that there was actually a 1.8-meter-tall and very good-looking Qi waiting there in Jinchuan Forest Farm.
Qi Fang himself didn't know that this was what his aunt said when she was looking for someone to introduce him to a date. He felt very embarrassed and quickly pulled his aunt aside, "Aunt, let's talk it over nicely. Don't get excited."
Aunt Qi looked at her nephew, then at Qi Fang, and still couldn't say that her nephew was just better looking than him.
But in the final analysis, it was still Shan Qiufang's fault. If Shan Qiufang hadn't said the wrong thing, even if she did exaggerate a bit, she wouldn't have gotten the wrong person.
Aunt Qi simply stopped arguing and said, "Just tell me what to do about this matter. My nephew paid the money and waited for four months in vain. You have to give us an explanation for this matter."
Everything else is easy to deal with, but the issue of the bride price is really unacceptable. Shan Qiufang also looked at Yan Xue and Qi Fang.
Qi Fang was not one to talk nonsense. He took out a stack of big unity notes from his pocket and handed it to Aunt Qi. "Here is 500 yuan. It's to pay back the betrothal gift from your family and to compensate for your family's losses."
It suddenly increased from one hundred to five hundred, which was enough to marry a wife.
From this point of view, the other party is sincere in his apology and is not just planning to say it and get a wife for free.
This made Aunt Qi's face look much better. Just as she was about to say something, Qi Fang pushed the money back.
This action stunned everyone present. He didn't look like the kind of person who would be so disrespectful to others.
Qi Fang had come into contact with the other party several times and didn't want to insult him by saying "Do you think it's too little?" He just frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I..." Being stared at by so many people, Qi Fang was stuck in thought.
But Yan Xue was sitting opposite him, next to Qi Fang, in a place where he could see her but could never reach her...
He clenched his fists and looked up at Qi Fang, "I don't want the money. Don't you have a girl who's engaged to you and wants to marry you?"
Qi Fang endured the man's instantly cold gaze and insisted on finishing his words, "Can you, can you get that person back?"
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