After watching everyone leave, Ye Beiping put the bed sheet into the closet and immediately opened the window on the other side of the room.
"Is Su Xinyi still there?" He asked in the gentlest tone he could muster.
Although Ye Beiping initially harbored some resentment towards the girl while he was in prison, he softened when he learned that Su Xinyi had committed suicide by jumping into a lake because she knew he was pregnant.
Compared to his five years in prison, a precious life is the most valuable thing.
Not receiving a response immediately, Ye Beiping became somewhat anxious.
Looking back at the room and seeing nothing unusual, he flipped over and jumped out of the window.
Fortunately, it was on the first floor, otherwise Su Xinyi, a girl, wouldn't know how to run away.
"Su Xinyi?"
Behind his house was a hillside, and Ye Beiping walked along, putting his hands to his mouth and shouting.
He searched for more than ten minutes without seeing anyone. He muttered to himself, "Could they have gone back to the educated youth settlement?"
Just as Ye Beiping was about to leave, he noticed a shadow behind a large rock.
With a slight frown, he slowly walked towards the large rock.
"Is that you, Su Xinyi?"
"You...you don't come any closer." The voice was indeed Su Xinyi's, but it was choked with sobs and filled with grievance and fear.
Ye Beiping immediately raised his hands, took two steps back, and said, "I didn't go over there, I'm standing right here."
Waaaaah!
Hearing Su Xinyi's crying, Ye Beiping's heart softened. After all, she was no longer the naive young man from his previous life; her body housed the soul of a shrewd, seventy- or eighty-year-old man.
Waaaaah!
Ye Beiping stayed in place for a while. The September sun had slowly risen and was shining on him, hot and dazzling.
But when he thought of the crimson stain on the bed, his heart softened a little: "Su Xinyi, if... if you need me to take responsibility, I can."
Waaaaah!
I don't know what I said that offended her, but she cried even louder.
A man and a woman were separated by a rock. One was being scorched by the sun, while the other was hiding in the shade of a tree. It seemed that the man had done something wrong and was being punished.
Ten minutes...
Half an hour...
A full hour passed before the sobbing behind the stone gradually subsided.
Immediately afterwards, Su Xinyi walked out, supported by a stone, her eyes filled with a fragile sadness, like a little white rabbit begging the hunter to spare it.
"Ye Beiping, I know exactly what kind of person you are. I don't need you to take responsibility, and... and I'll be going back to the city soon. I don't want anyone to know about what happened last night, do you understand?"
Looking at the pitiful yet beautiful and generous woman, Ye Beiping unconsciously nodded in agreement.
Seeing that Ye Beiping had agreed, Su Xinyi continued, "Then we won't have any contact anymore. Although I hate you, you're right, reputation is indeed very important in this era."
After saying that, Su Xinyi walked straight past Ye Beiping.
A gentle breeze blew by, and Ye Beiping could still smell the fragrance emanating from Su Xinyi.
It's an indescribable fragrance, but it smells so good that you wish you could smell it again and again.
The fragrance faded, and Su Xinyi had already gone far away.
Ye Beiping then remembered and asked, "Su Xinyi, it's already noon. Why don't you eat something before going back?"
In the end, all that remained was the lingering fragrance of Su Xinyi in the wind.
Suddenly, he remembered that Su Xinyi had just said she was going back to the city.
A meeting on the return of educated youth to the city was held in October 1978, and a policy on the return of educated youth to the city was issued in December of the same year.
Previously, educated youth had to stay in the city for three years to obtain a transfer order before they could return. Otherwise, even if they stayed in the educated youth settlement for ten years, they could not go back.
Back to the city!
child!
These two words filled Ye Beiping's mind.
If Su Xinyi is pregnant, doesn't that mean she can never return to the city?
Moreover, if she doesn't explain how she got pregnant, it might be difficult to explain to the commune and the educated youth settlement. Will Su Xinyi be subjected to torture to extract a confession?
Thinking about some of the trial methods of this era, Ye Beiping felt a vague sense of unease.
"What should we do? Marry her? No, no, if we marry Su Xinyi, she will go from having an urban household registration to a rural household registration, that won't do."
Growing increasingly irritated, Ye Beiping scoffed and kicked at the roadside grass all the way home, finally sighing, "In this day and age, I doubt even doctors in hospitals would dare to abort a child if someone is pregnant out of wedlock."
"What?"
Ye Beiping, who had just returned to his own courtyard, suddenly heard a woman's voice.
A sense of familiarity washes over me.
He looked up and his face immediately lit up with a smile: "Sister, Ye Xiaoxin."
"What did you call me?" Ye Xiaoxin stood with her hands on her hips, glaring angrily at Ye Beiping. "I just went to my maternal grandfather's house with Mom to help out for a few days, and you're already being so disrespectful, daring to call me by my name directly. Do you want a beating?"
"Hey hey hey!"
Suddenly, Ye Beiping was grabbed by the ear by a large hand coming from the front, making him wince in pain.
"Sister, I was wrong, I was wrong."
I never expected my older sister, Ye Xiaoxin, to be so violent.
However, Ye Beiping was still very happy to see his sister again.
Thinking back to her past life, she recalled being imprisoned and her mother falling seriously ill and being hospitalized due to overwork. The family had little money, and she was eventually introduced by her second uncle to marry Yan Laoshi from the next village.
Yan Laoshi appears to be an honest and kind person. He has two children, and his previous wife ran off with someone else. What he's after is Ye Xiaoxin's strength, ability to do farm work, and her curvaceous figure, making her a good mother.
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