Romance
"Come out for some fresh air."
She sat on the stone bench in the yard, raised her head, and the moonlight fell on her face.
Chen Yan leaned on the matching stone table, looking down at her, his breath filled with the annoying smell of tipsiness.
Ye Yuanyin couldn't sit still any longer, so he stood up and said, "Do you want some water? I'll pour it for you."
She turned to leave when Chen Yan suddenly extended his index finger and gently hooked it around the tie of her apron. Ye Yuanyin was in a hurry to leave, and the pinching made her heart tremble, but she didn't dare move.
Sedimentary An lowered his head and saw that the coarse cloth belt wrapped around his fingertips had wrapped around her slender waist twice, and finally tied a knot and hung at the junction of waist and hips.
He didn't touch her, but his fingers lingered on the belt, staring at the folds of her clothes at her waist, lost in thought.
"...Isn't the story about Grandpa and Grandma still finished?"
Ye Yuanyin was fixed there like a specimen. His urging fingers moved, and her waist felt like it was on fire. She answered with a trembling voice, "Yes."
Yan Dian was still playing with the straps of her apron, and Ye Yuanyin felt like she was about to fall.
The voice came from behind her, and he asked: "Well, do you still want to listen?"
"want."
His deep voice revealed an unquestionable dominance, just like what a husband would ask of his wife.
"Come back after you get the water."
"……good."
After hearing the promise, Xiandian let go of his hand.
Ye Yuanyin breathed a sigh of relief, took two steps, and reached out to stroke his throbbing chest. He wondered if Hua Mei had stimulated him so much that he was having an erotic dream. Otherwise, what had just happened? Didn't he dislike him?
She waved her hands constantly, fanning away the heat that was rising in her heart.
*
Ye Yuanyin went into the room to pour a glass of water. Ji Quan saw her and suddenly called her, "Miss Ye, what happened?"
"Oh, he wants some water."
Ji Quan turned to look at his uncle and said with a polite smile, "Secretary, thank you for your hospitality. Shall we stop here tonight? I'm really tired after a long day of riding."
"Okay, okay, let's go out together."
Chen Yan'an, with his hands in his trouser pockets, dressed in clean white clothes, with a carefree look, lowered head, seemed to be smiling. Seeing her come out, he stood up to greet her, but soon, the smile on his face disappeared.
Everyone filed out, and the two of them didn't get to drink the water, and their conversation, which had not yet ended, was interrupted.
The banquet was over. After receiving the promise from the Dianchi An Association to fully support the development of Jiutao Village, Longyan felt that he had eaten and drunk enough and could go home to have a peaceful sleep.
"Ayin," my uncle said, his face etched with drunkenness. He pointed at Ji Quan and said with a thick tongue, "Send Manager Ji back to the village committee's guesthouse." He burped and added, incoherently, "We have to take good care of him, right? Manager Ji, don't worry, I've made all the arrangements."
Ye Yuan looked at Ji Quan. Because she had been drinking, her cheeks were flushed and her smile was distinct. She must have been drinking a lot.
Ji Quan noticed her gaze, turned his head and nodded at her.
Ye Yuanyin also returned a polite smile.
Zheng Baoshu had drunk too much. Township and even village officials were supposed to be seasoned drunken warriors, but unfortunately, he was allergic to alcohol and never quite mastered his skills, so he was relegated to second place. He'd been second for a thousand years, always playing second fiddle to Longyan. He flung his arms wide, waving them as if venting his frustration.
"Do I have the ability? Ah, Duofu, tell me, is your uncle-in-law powerful? Is your small restaurant well-supported?"
Duofu was afraid that if he continued to talk, he would reveal everything. This kind of overt relationship should be known in private, it would be so embarrassing to say it out loud.
"Great, great! You've really opened up a lot today." He kept calling him "cousin-law", vaguely changed the subject, and hurriedly helped him walk away.
In the hotel yard, only Dian Chen, Ye Yuanyin and Ji Quan were left.
Following her uncle's request, Ye Yuanyin had to fulfill her duty as a host, so she had to ask, "Manager Ji, let me take you home."
Perhaps it was the wine he had been drinking, and the gentle mountain breeze that stirred the subtle feelings that had long been buried in his heart. Ji Quan looked at Chen Yan'an and asked with a hint of meaning, "Is Mr. Chen also staying at the guesthouse?"
He didn't say anything, his eyes resting lightly on Ye Yuanyin, "It's too late. I'll go with her to see you off."
Ye Yuanyin didn't understand who the subject of his words was, but his eyes were looking at himself.
"No need~" She waved her hand quickly, taking the responsibility, "I'm used to walking around here, you go and see Manager Ji off."
Chen Yan thought that since he was able to get into Ancheng University, his IQ should be good. How could he be so slow? He looked dashing on the surface, but in his mind he was abstractly stripping her naked. "You use it."
Ye Yuanyin met his gaze, which seemed to be about to smile or not, and really couldn't figure out what he was thinking. He wondered how to strike the right balance between them as a fake couple.
She asked in a negotiating tone, "How about..."
The mountain wind blew across the ground, and Chen Si'an's cool voice struck her smooth forehead, word by word. "No."
Ye Yuanyin wrinkled her nose. She wanted to ask him to send Ji Quan off before coming to pick her up, but this guy was so annoying that he rejected her suggestion without even listening to the end of her words.
Ji Quan's makeup masked her inner anxiety. She smiled carefully, taking a step back to advance. "I still remember the way here. I can go back by myself. I won't bother Mr. and Mrs. Shen anymore."
With a "bang", the stainless steel basin fell to the ground. With the inertia of falling, the basin was still spinning on the ground, making a "clang clang clang" sound like a devilish sound piercing the ears.
Ye Yuanyin turned around and saw Lin Huamei's horrified face.
She asked her two questions.
The first sentence was: "You married, damn girl?"
The second sentence is: "Fuck, your man is impotent?"
Ye Yuanyin's face changed drastically, and he rushed over at the speed of a 100-meter sprint to cover her mouth.
She looked up and met Chen Yan's sharp gaze without surprise. She quickly explained, "No, no, no, this is a misunderstanding! I never said that. Seriously! I swear!"
*
The next day, the news that Ye Yuanyin was married spread throughout Jiutao Village.
"Ayin married '100,000 Yuan', did you know?"
"What? Ah Yin sold himself for 100,000 yuan?"
"Oh, I know. If '100,000 Yuan' wasn't infertile, how could he have fallen for A-Yin?"
…
The rumors in the village were spreading to every corner and every piece of land at the speed of a virus, and even Chunfen would meow when he saw her.
During dinner, my mother had a stern face, and her expression was filled with dark clouds, as if thunder and rain would start at any second.
Ye Yuanyin lowered his head to eat, not daring to say a word.
Chen Di'an looked quite relaxed. He ate his meal as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Wang Yaya is just a child after all, and she is the one who is the most impatient.
"Sister," she said timidly, glancing at Chen Dian'an and feeling aggrieved, "Are you really marrying Uncle?"
Ye Yuanyin suffers from selective deafness.
Chen Yan put down his bowl and chopsticks and was about to explain, but his mother suddenly stood up, and there was no warmth in her cold tone.
"Ayin, come with me!"
Aunt Long lived next door to the main hall on the first floor. Ye Yuanyin followed her through the corridor of the house and looked outside. There was a square patio in the middle of the yard, and a crabapple tree was planted in the square flower bed next to it. Opposite the main hall was a square pottery room, and even the exposed sky was square.
They walked into a small house. Amma sat down on an old-fashioned wooden chair facing south and shouted sternly, "Kneel down!"
Ye Yuanyin knelt down obediently.
She pulled out a bamboo stick from under the table and hit her on the back. The stick was soft and flexible, and it felt like it was burning.
"Tell me in front of your father's tablet, did you really sell yourself out?"
Ye Yuanyin was so stubborn that he refused to say a word.
"I worked so hard to send you to school, and now you won't even pick up a paintbrush." Grandma showed no mercy, swinging the bamboo stick and lashing her hard on the back. "Do you admit your mistake?"
"I'm not wrong."
"How dare you be so stubborn? How did your father and I raise you? We worked so hard to raise you to be like this, and yet you allowed yourself to fall into depravity."
"What's wrong with that?"
She grew up in an obedient manner under their education. Her father told her to be upright and brave, to treat others with honesty, and to repay a drop of kindness with a spring of gratitude. She did everything he said, but what was the result?
She was toyed around by You Jing like a dog. He chased her and blocked her during class and after class. The campus was full of rumors that ignored the facts. She didn't even have time to study and read, but was insulted, provoked and harassed by girls who liked him from time to time.
If she had not been taught by them to be self-disciplined, kind, respectful and frugal, she would not have been left with no choice but to take care of an elderly person at Huang Hua's introduction, and then marry a man she did not know at all in exchange for the qualification to study.
Poverty means she has no choice, and studying represents all the expectations of her father and mother. What else can she do except sell her worthless self-esteem?
"You still dare to talk back? Do you really have to let me beat you to death before you admit your mistake today?"
The door, which was locked from the inside, was hit several times by Dian Yan. Wang Yaya was so scared that she kept shouting, "Aunt Long, stop hitting me. It hurts."
Ye Yuanyin shed tears and said stubbornly, "You can beat me to death. I have been studying hard and living a good life according to your teachings, but what is the result?"
"Even selling myself wouldn't have helped. Now that I've finished my studies, I can finally support myself through work. I thought I could buy a house of my own in Ancheng with my own efforts, bring you home, and never have you go into the mountains in the middle of winter to find clay. I thought we could all live a good life. But Mom, I can't even find a job. In the end, I still came back here with nothing."
"There was a time when I took pills every day, but I couldn't die. Dad died a long time ago, and you couldn't help. I was alone outside. Do you know how desperate I felt?"
"I want lots and lots of shoes, lots and lots of clothes...but I'm so poor I don't even have money for a meal...it would be nice if I didn't feel ashamed to sell myself, but why do you make me understand so many things?"
"Why did you marry a poor bastard like my father? Why did you give birth to me? Why did you let me live in this disgusting world?!"
"Mom, I don't want to live anymore. Just beat me to death."
Aunt Long slumped in the chair, the bamboo stick no longer able to hold on, and it fell from her hand in pieces.
Ye Yuanyin lay on the ground, the thin clothes on his back were soaked with blood.
The door was finally opened, and Chen Dian looked at the scene in front of him, feeling deeply moved.
He leaned over and picked her up, then turned to his mother and said, "Aunt Long, I'll take her to the county hospital first. I'll explain it to you when I come back."
It took the driver more than an hour to drive to the county. Dian Di made a phone call and took the emergency passage. It was already night when the doctors finished various tests and gave him infusions.
Secretary Ma asked him, "Why don't you find a hotel in the county to stay overnight and go back tomorrow? You can hire a caregiver for Miss Ye."
"I'll go back tonight." Yan Chen looked at the person lying on the bed with her back to him and said without question, "I promised her mother that I must go back tonight."
The night in the village is dark and silent, as if it will never end.
The driver was driving, and tears kept appearing in Ye Yuanyin's sleepy eyes. Seeing her like this, Chen Yan'an felt uncomfortable in his heart and asked her softly, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
She shook her head, tears silently rolling down her cheeks.
"It's really dark in here."
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