Want to eat me?
Wu Meilai felt relieved and followed her to Zhou Qianling's bedroom. Zhou Chenghua and the youngest were playing around the bed.
"Xiaohua, can you take your sister and brother out to play for a while?"
After the siblings left the house noisily, Wu Mei closed the living room and back doors, then lifted the mosquito net and sat on the edge of the bed.
Zhou Qianling's lips were cracked and peeling, and he looked much more haggard.
"I woke up when I vaguely heard your voice. Have you been here for a long time? Why didn't you call me?"
The voice is also hoarse.
"I chatted with your mother for a while. She just got here too."
"Did you take your temperature? How high is it?"
"It's nothing, just a persistent cough."
Zhou Qianling stretched out his hand and placed it on the back of her hand.
The scorching heat made her heart tremble, but she did not shy away.
The unruly fingers were gently drawing circles on the back of her hand, which was very itchy.
Zhou Qianling: "What's wrong here? It looks like there are blisters."
Wu Meilai lowered her head and found that she was just touching her burns.
"I got splashed with soup, but it's nothing serious."
She remembered Zhou Fang's words and smiled, "Did you dream about me?"
"Yeah." Zhou Qianling was frank, but her heavy nasal tone made her look a little pitiful.
"What did you dream about me?"
She lifted his hand and slowly placed it on his forehead.
"I dreamed that you took my temperature."
She covered the back of Wu Meilai's hand, placed her index finger on hers, lifted her knuckles with her middle finger, and slowly slid her fingertips from her eyebrows to the bridge of her nose, and then climbed up to the tip of her nose.
"Then touch my nose." She released her hand and placed it casually on her stomach.
Wu Meilai maintained her original posture and asked softly, "What happens next?"
"And then... touch my mouth."
The index finger slid down gently and touched the dry and hot lips.
My breathing became a little faster.
"What else?" Wu Meilai was like a bewitched believer, staring at her lips, waiting for the next instruction.
However, the messenger did not give any order, but opened his mouth and held half a knuckle on his lips.
Wet, hot, soft...
All kinds of stimulation gathered at the fingertips. Wu Meilai withdrew her fingers as if she had been electrocuted and curled them tightly into her palms.
She pretended to be calm and said angrily, "So you were dreaming about eating me."
Zhou Qianling stared at her gradually reddening face and said with an ambiguous smile, "Yes."
Wu Meilai's face became redder and redder.
The words "eat me" seemed to have a special meaning in her smiling eyes.
What is it?
Her thoughts were about to reach the edge of danger, but she stopped them in time.
No, she and Zhou Qianling are both women.
woman……
I feel sad for no apparent reason.
"Will you really get married?"
Zhou Qianling shook his head, "No."
"And you?"
Her mood inexplicably improved, and Wu Meilai also smiled and shook her head.
"Why?" Zhou Qianling was a little surprised, of course, more of a delight.
Wu Meilai pondered for a moment and said uncertainly, "Maybe... I like freedom."
As if to support her point, she enumerated them one by one: "Married women always have endless housework to take care of, and they also have to deal with the beatings and kicks that may appear at any time. Well... a dollar has to be spent in two halves, and every time you go to the market, you buy other people's things..."
She recalled Liu Guiyan's life and told it in detail.
However, not all women are like this, for example, Zhou Fang...
Wu Meilai stopped thinking about it. After all, the only option she had was not wanting to get married.
After her thoughts came back to her senses, she saw Zhou Qianling's face filled with a faint smile, and her eyes, with curved eyebrows, were as bright as the rippling water in summer.
Wu Meilai was slightly startled.
Is she happy that she is not getting married?
Perhaps it was rare to find someone like her, she told herself.
Seeing that it was getting late, Wu Mei came and told her to drink more hot water and not to stay outside in the wind, and then she went home.
When he stood up, he was pulled back again.
Zhou Qianling pinched her fingers and said reluctantly, "Next time on market day, let's go play together."
Wu Meilai has always felt that some girls are so cute that people want to protect them, and this is especially true for Zhou Qianling who is currently ill.
She smiled, put her hand back into the quilt, tucked it in carefully, pinched her ear and said, "If you're well by then."
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Transportation in rural areas is inconvenient and villages are scattered, so it is difficult to form a small market like Laowa Village, so the custom of "going to the market" came into being.
The so-called "going to the market" means that everyone agrees to go to a fixed place at a fixed time to trade goods.
The market days are different in every town. For example, in Duishi Town where Laowa Village is located, the market days are on the 3rd, 9th, 13th, 19th, 23rd, and 29th of every month. The market place is the same street where the aunts waited for Zhou Qianling and her daughter.
When the third aunt heard that Zhou Qianling was going out, she immediately asked if she should find a car for her.
"No, ahem, no need." Zhou Qianling changed into leather boots and put on lipstick in front of the mirror in a good mood, pursing her lips.
Zhou Fang sat by the fire, looked at her back, and asked, "Come with Wu Mei?"
"Yeah." After saying that, she opened the door and went out. After walking a few steps, she heard Zhou Fang calling her.
Zhou Qianling turned around and looked at her in confusion.
Silence for a few seconds.
"You haven't recovered from your cold yet, put on more clothes."
"No, it's sunny today."
When Zhou Qianling went down to the street, he saw Wu Meilai coming over, but he didn't know when she arrived.
The weather was good today, so she changed into a gray windbreaker and was sitting on her motorcycle with her hands in her pockets, looking bored.
Hearing the noise, she turned around and smiled faintly: "Can we set off now?"
"Well, why don't you come inside?"
Wu Meilai averted her gaze, scratched her face unconsciously, and said, "It's stuffy in the room, let's get some fresh air."
In fact, she felt that Zhou Fang didn't seem to like her very much... No, she should be wary of her, although she didn't know why.
Zhou Qianling didn't think much about it. When he saw Wu Mei come to light the fire, he naturally sat behind her.
"So you can ride a motorcycle," Zhou Qianling said with some regret. When she heard her aunt say that it would take two hours to walk up the mountain road to get to the city, she was still thinking about how she could hold her hand and chat with her to strengthen their relationship.
"Well, I need to go to the street to buy ingredients frequently."
The motorcycle started slowly, and a cool breeze blew on his face, making Zhou Qianling cough a few more times.
"And he said he was fine."
Zhou Qianling chuckled and didn't answer. Anyway, he couldn't send her back.
The motorcycle passed through the village smoothly, passing by several old ladies wearing Miao costumes and children in open-crotch pants, and finally climbed up the gravel road behind a house.
There is a row of plum trees planted on the roadside, and the branches that are baring their teeth are already showing a hint of green.
“It’s going to be beautiful in the spring.”
"Well, not only on the roadside, but all over the mountain are flowers of sour baili and wild peach trees."
Wu Meilai tilted her head as she answered.
Perhaps worried that she couldn't hear clearly, Zhou Qianling spoke very close to her ear. His warm breath spread behind her ear, making her tailbone tingle. She could even feel the warmth of his lips.
She didn't hate this feeling, but she felt a little shy.
There is also some resistance.
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