Give you a pig's foot
Her home is on the mountainside. Although there is a cement road, it is slippery now and you can fall if you are not careful.
She checked her messages as she walked, and only received the belated photo a minute later.
Meilai: I’ll go down.
Almost at the same time, Zhou Qianling saw a man coming down from the fork in the road on the right, wearing only a white turtleneck sweater and black cotton trousers.
She stepped forward and asked, "Why are you coming here like this? It's so cold."
After she reminded her, Wu Meilai felt cold and shivered while hugging her arms.
Zhou Qianling took off his scarf and put it around her, then raised his hand to unbutton his coat.
"No need, you're cold too. I can resist the cold." Wu Mei came to stop him in time.
Zhou Qianling stopped and the two of them just stood there.
Wu Mei came, but he didn't invite her to his house.
"My aunt and I bought a pig's trotter to nourish Aunt." Zhou Qianling handed her the bag he had been carrying all the way.
"It's too expensive." Wu Meilai buried her face in the scarf, and her breath was filled with warm and pleasant smells.
She glanced at the whole pig's hind leg behind the transparent plastic and didn't take it. "As long as the thought is there, it's good enough."
Wu Meilai has never been used to accepting things from others for no reason, and she couldn't understand why Zhou Qianling was so close to her when they had only known each other for a short time.
On the other hand, Zhou Qianling thought that when the old lady said that they had a good relationship and Wu Meilai guiltily shook her off, she had already realized the unusual feelings between them... at least, her unusual feelings for her.
After a moment of silence, Zhou Qianling took her hand and handed the bag to her.
The hand in his palm was very cold, so Zhou Qianling naturally covered it. Seeing that she did not resist, he bravely held it to his mouth and blew on it.
The skin that was frozen and numb gradually warmed up. It was held between the two palms, making people want to hold it tightly to avoid the endless heat.
Wu Meilai did so, and she even lowered her head to look at the ground and retracted her hands, but her strength could be described as being half-hearted.
She was clearly rubbing her hands, so why was her face hot too?
Wu Meilai shrank her neck, leaving only her eyes visible outside the scarf.
It was only half a minute, but to Wu Meilai it felt like a long time had passed. Zhou Qianling put down her hand and said with a smile, "Let's go back to the house."
Looking at her rosy fingers, the tingling current seemed to still be there. She couldn't help but flex them and whispered, "Well, thank you."
In response to her, she let out a soft laugh from her nose.
Like little snakes, they crawl into the heart through the ears and bite from time to time.
Wu Meilai felt that she might be sick. She had a strange disease that caused her to have palpitations whenever she got close to Zhou Qianling.
She quickly turned around and left, forgetting even to say hello.
When I climbed up the hill, I remembered that her scarf was still with me.
Turn around.
The woman was still standing there, as if waiting for him to turn around. At this moment, she raised her hand high and waved goodbye to him.
Return it to her next time.
Wu Mei went back and forth in the room, and her father stared at the scarf around her neck and the whole pig's foot in her hand with his eyes slanted, and rarely smiled.
"Which guy sent it?"
Wu Meilai frowned and denied: "This is..."
"I'm a classmate."
After saying that, she fled back to her bedroom.
I dare not say the words "Zhou Qianling".
It seems...it seems like something will be discovered.
It's like not daring to invite her to your home.
Besides not wanting her to see his embarrassing family, it seemed... he was even more afraid of letting others see something strange and disturbing.
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The next few days went on as usual. Wu Mei didn't come to talk about returning the scarf, and Zhou Qianling didn't go to her shop to eat noodles again.
The two lost contact, and the previous times when Wu Meilai was uncomfortable but secretly happy together seemed like a dream, or an illusion that came out of thin air.
Perhaps, Zhou Qianling treats everyone like this.
Sudden familiarity, overly intimate physical contact, caring visits...
These are not due to her own uniqueness, but her usual way of socializing.
The back of her hand was burning with pain. Wu Mei came to her senses and realized that the scalding soup in the casserole had spilled out. She turned off the heat and rinsed it under the tap.
"Boss, a small bowl of mutton noodles with mild spice and no onions."
Wu Meilai paused and turned around.
Lin Yue was sitting alone at the round table near the door.
After serving the cooked bowl to the diners, Wu Meilai returned to the kitchen.
While packing, she casually asked, "Is this for Zhou Qianling?"
"yes."
After putting the kimchi in and waiting for a while, she chatted: "Why don't you eat it in the store? The taste will be worse if you take it home."
"Well, Xiaoling can't eat right now. She has had a severe cold for a week and hasn't recovered yet. She can barely eat a few bites a day. Not to mention her mother, even I am worried."
She picked up the bag and sighed, "The body shape of people in the city is so bad..."
Wu Meilai stood in front of the door, watching Lin Yue's departing back and thinking: It turns out that he is sick.
It has been exactly one week since that night. I guess I caught a cold that day.
It is only right and reasonable for her to go and visit.
So, as soon as the only customer left, Wu Mei came and closed the shop. She first went to the grocery store to pick up two cartons of milk and weighed out half a pound of fruit candy before going to Lin Yue's house.
When I arrived, Zhou Fang was there too, looking worried.
"Hey, Boss Wu, why are you here?" Lin Yue was surprised.
Wu Meilai put the things next to the legs of her table and said with a smile, "Come and see Zhou Qianling." She apologized to Zhou Fang, "She went to visit my mother last week and gave me her scarf. That's why she caught a cold."
Zhou Fang looked at her and shook her head without any expression.
"She just said she was sleepy and she just fell asleep not long ago."
"Oh." Wu Meilai was a little embarrassed and said, "Then I'll come back another day..."
"Sit for a while, you will wake up soon." Lin Yue enthusiastically brought in a bench from outside, wiped it and placed it behind her.
Wu Meilai had no choice but to stay.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that Zhou Fang was scrutinizing her from time to time, making her feel very uncomfortable.
"Little sister, you are 26 this year, right?" Zhou Fang suddenly spoke.
"Um."
"Don't you want to find a boyfriend?"
"No...nothing suitable." Wu Meilai was unreasonably nervous.
Zhou Fang's expressionless face warmed up and she asked, "What kind do you like? I'll keep an eye out for any suitable ones I see."
He breathed a sigh of relief, "It's not like or dislike, it depends on how you feel."
Zhou Fang smiled. "Young people just like to go with the flow. Xiaoling said the same thing. But it's fine this way. It's a new era now, and love is free. A woman has to find a man she likes."
"You two really hit it off. That girl rarely thinks about a friend this much. She keeps calling him 'sister, sister, sister' all the time when she's talking nonsense."
Zhou Fang said this with a smile, and Wu Meilai was also happy to hear it.
"When you get married and have children, I'm afraid they'll have to recognize you as their godmother."
Her smile froze, but Wu Meilai ignored the discomfort welling up in her heart and said with a smile, "I will definitely give you a big red envelope when the time comes."
The sharpness in Zhou Fang's eyes softened, and she said softly, "People say that you can't make friends after leaving the ivory tower, but it seems that's not always the case."
The two chatted about some family matters, and then they heard a hurried sound of footsteps in the main room.
Zhou Chengcao ran over with his short legs, "Sister, sister, Sister Qianling is calling you over."
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