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In the evening, after Liu Guiyan finished cooking, Zhou Qianling immediately stood up to serve the dishes.
"Oh, no, no, little one, just pull Qianling away. You don't need help."
"Auntie, don't be so formal. Just treat it like home."
"Well, I'm the one who cooks at home. It's really bad for my mother and I to eat and drink for free at your place."
Zhou Qianling had no choice but to sit at the table with Wu Meilai and watch Liu Guiyan carry the bowl to serve rice.
To be honest, it's a bit embarrassing.
The only sound on the dining table was the clinking of porcelain.
"By the way, are you going out?" Liu Guiyan looked at the suitcases at the entrance. "Let me see when is the best time to buy a bus."
Zhou Qianling looked at Wu Meilai.
They had planned to set off for the island tomorrow.
"I'm not going back. I'm living well in Yanzhou, why should I go back?"
"Look at how old you are. If you don't find a good husband soon, what will you do when you get old?"
"What else can I do if I die when I get old?!" Wu Meilai's voice became louder.
The two of them were on edge when the topic came up, so Zhou Qianling started to play peacemaker again, "My business is booming right now, I can make two thousand a day. It would be a shame not to make more while I'm still young."
"What? Two thousand?" Liu Guiyan was dumbfounded. Two thousand a day was unthinkable to her. She repeatedly confirmed, "Really?"
"Yes." Wu Meilai didn't say that she couldn't earn this much every day.
After hearing the answer, Liu Guiyan stopped talking and calculated for a long time. She was even shocked by herself. Two thousand a day, that's sixty thousand a month. After deducting living expenses, she could save at least fifty-five thousand.
Tsk tsk, those poor men in town are not worthy of my girl.
"You can't just think about making money. When you have free time, look for some good-looking, good-tempered young men. Otherwise, no one will take care of you when you are old."
Liu Guiyan's tone softened, and she picked up a piece of meat for Wu Meilai as she spoke.
…
Liu Guiyan stayed there temporarily, and Wu Ergou called every few days to scold her: "I told you to bring her back, but you left and never came back?"
Liu Guiyan held up the phone Wu Meilai had bought her and explained, "Yao'er is making a lot of money now. What are you going to do when you go back?" She gestured and lowered her voice, "Two thousand a day."
"Is this true?" Wu Ergou was skeptical. "What does she do that makes so much money?"
"Isn't it still mutton noodles? 12 a bowl."
"Really? Can selling mutton noodles make this much money?"
Liu Guiyan frowned and immediately started cursing, "I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be fake? You old bastard father, don't you want the best for your child?!"
Wu Ergou was stunned for a moment, then he yelled, "Liu Guiyan! You must be itching for trouble! How dare you yell at me!"
After saying that, he picked up the small stool at hand and smashed it hard, and immediately a loud and heroic roar was heard in the video.
"What are you doing? Did Han'er provoke you?!" Liu Guiyan was anxious, but she couldn't fly over to see what was going on. She could only grit her teeth and say, "You heartless man! If you keep hitting him like this, he'll beat you to death when you're old and can't move!"
The person on the other end of the video wanted to say something, but Liu Guiyan heard someone laughing outside the door and immediately hung up the phone.
The door opened and Wu Meilai and Zhou Qianling came in together.
"I'll just say you're stupid."
"You're stupid."
"I'm not stupid, you are."
"You're stupid, that's you."
…
Liu Guiyan stopped walking forward and watched the two people changing shoes side by side, chatting meaningless nonsense as if no one was around.
For some reason, she always felt sticky and it made her feel uncomfortable.
"You're back?" Ignoring the strange feeling, she quickly cleared the table. "We'll be able to eat soon."
When the two of them walked into the living room, Liu Guiyan discovered that Zhou Qianling's clothes were covered with soup spots. She advised: "Qianling, there is no need to come to the stall with Wu Mei. If your students see it, it will have a bad influence."
"Don't worry, Auntie. It's just selling powder. It won't have any impact."
"Change into this black one." Wu Meilai's voice came from the bedroom. Zhou Qianling agreed and went into the room, closing the door behind him.
Liu Guiyan served rice to the two of them and started eating first, listening to the occasional laughter from the children inside, seeming to be lost in thought.
Even sisters who have been playing together since childhood are probably not this affectionate, right? They don't even hide from each other when changing clothes?
She also remembered seeing the two of them brushing their teeth in the bathroom the morning before yesterday. Zhou Qianling scraped the foam from the corner of his daughter's mouth with his fingers, then pressed his forehead against Wu Meilai's like a spoiled child.
She was so frightened that she felt like they were going to kiss her in the next second.
Liu Guiyan shuddered. Even if they were good friends, this was too clingy.
In the bedroom, the two of them changed their clothes and came out. They sat at the table and started to eat. Liu Guiyan was speechless when she saw this.
"Mom, why don't you eat?" Wu Meilai also picked up a piece of meat for her.
"I haven't digested the lunch yet." Liu Guiyan answered casually. She noticed a grain of rice at the corner of Wu Meilai's mouth. Just as she was about to remind her, she saw Zhou Qianling scoop her a bowl of soup, picked up the rice grains and put them in his own mouth, and then scooped another bowl and handed it to her.
"Thank you for your trouble." Liu Guiyan suppressed the sudden discomfort in her heart, raised the corners of her mouth and took it with a smile.
Turning to Wu Meilai, she said, "Little one, I see Qianling hasn't slept well these past few days. You should stop disturbing her and move in to sleep with Mom. It just so happens that Mom hasn't talked to you in a while."
They both looked up at her, and Wu Meilai hesitated and said, "This..."
"It's settled then. Mom also has something to tell you."
The two looked at each other and quietly concentrated on eating.
…
After taking a shower, Wu Meilai came into the guest bedroom, drying her hair. "Mom, what do you want to say?"
"Keep some distance from Zhou Qianling in the future."
The hand wiping her hair paused, and Wu Mei asked tentatively: "Why? Don't you like her?"
"It's not that I don't like you, but you two..." She didn't know what to say, "You two are too close. Although you are both girls, you are grown up after all. Don't be so clingy like children. What a shame."
When she didn't get a response, Liu Guiyan asked again, "Did you hear that?"
Wu Meilai was absent-minded, but there was a slight urge to confess in her heart.
She suppressed her unrealistic thoughts and asked, "Mom, when will you go back?"
Liu Guiyan was stunned by the question. After a moment of silence, she feigned a curse and said, "You idiot girl, you're even chasing your mother away. Don't worry, I'll be leaving on the 10th of next month."
She asked again, "Did you listen to what I just said?"
Wu Meilai calculated that Zhou Qianling would start school on the 22nd, so the two of them still had at least a week to travel the island, and she felt a little relieved.
Isn't it just fifteen days? She could bear it, so she agreed without hesitation, "I understand. I will stay away from Qianling from now on."
——
The days passed in an orderly manner. Although it was not kind, Wu Meilai was indeed counting the days and looking forward to her mother's quick return.
Since being "warned", the two have been very careful about their words and actions. If they want to say something like "I miss you, love you, kiss you", they have to hide in bed and send WeChat messages.
That day, Liu Guiyan had a stomachache, so she didn't join them at the stall. But she was busy cleaning the house inside and out.
After resting on the sofa for a while, they saw that it was time for them to finish selling, so they went to the market to buy vegetables for dinner.
There were not many people in the market today. She bought some meat and picked out some vegetables that the two girls liked and handed them to the boss.
When she was weighing the peppers, she noticed that one of them was wilting, so she hurriedly said, "Hey, boss, please pick out the bad one."
The boss casually took it out and chatted: "From your accent, you don't seem to be a local."
"No, from Qianzhou."
"Live around here? This place isn't cheap."
"Well, where can I afford to live? I'm staying at someone else's house, XX Apartment."
When the boss heard the name, his eyes lit up. He handed her the plastic bag and said in a low voice as if in secret, "Have you ever seen a teacher and a mutton noodle vendor?"
Liu Guiyan had a bad feeling, "Yes, what's wrong?"
The boss slapped his thigh anxiously, "Didn't you notice something was wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
"They are..." The boss raised his hand and touched his thumbs together. "This, do you understand?"
Fruits and vegetables fell to the ground.
Liu Guiyan was incredulous and retorted with a trembling voice, "I know those two are girls."
"Hey, they're just two women, lesbians."
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