Chapter 128: Good reviews, watch the sunrise
"No, since he brought it here, you can share it. Our family can't finish it all." Li Meili said readily. Although she was not rich, she was never stingy with her relatives from her mother's side.
"That's great! You can take some back home. You won't be able to get such fresh seafood in the city!" Chen Yuelan laughed.
Zhang's mother nodded. "After all, the city is far from the sea. Fresh seafood is too expensive. We can only eat it in restaurants. Most of the shrimps and crabs sold in the market are freshwater. If you want to eat seawater, you have to go to the port and wait for fishing boats. We don't have a car, so we can't go that far."
Upon hearing this, Li Meili said directly, "Then you can bring more back. After all, it's not easy for us to eat here. There are many people in our village who specialize in catching sea fish, but we country people are not so particular and won't spend that money."
Zhao Xiaojun chimed in, "Yes, auntie, take more with you when you leave. Chen Jie's family is engaged in marine aquaculture anyway, so if you want to eat it in the future, just ask him to bring it over."
Lu Cui nodded Zhao Xiaojun's head with amusement, "You're not even talking about marriage yet and you're already thinking about going to your parents' house to get things. Fortunately, Chen Jie and the others didn't hear it!"
After the joke, Lu Cui suddenly sat down straight and said, "I didn't think much of Chen Jie when I heard my sister-in-law talk about him before. Today, I met him in person and found that he is not as bad as my sister-in-law said. He is just a little darker. If you don't look closely, you can't tell his appearance. If you look closely, his facial features are still good. He won't be ugly when he really has a child in the future. He lives by the sea, so he can't help getting tanned. This is understandable. It's also safe to let such a man go out, right? You don't have to worry about him having affairs outside.
I listened to their conversation downstairs just now, and I found that Chen Jie is quite sensible. When drinking, he did not forget to pick up food for Xiaojun's father. When he saw that his father was drunk, he would persuade him. He has a good alcohol tolerance and can respond to whatever the elders say. He is quite talkative and his family background is not bad. That's good!"
When Li Meili heard that Zhao Guoqing was drunk, she immediately jumped up and down, "That damned guy, we still have to go back tonight, how can he leave when he is drunk? No! I have to go talk to him."
Li Meili rushed downstairs and Zhao Xiaojun followed her.
Mother Zhang smiled helplessly and shook her head. Seeing that Zhang Wanwan was tired, she said, "Go to sleep first, in your cousin Qingqing's room. Go back and wash up properly tomorrow."
Zhang Wanwan didn’t care that she didn’t sweat in the middle of winter. She yawned and obediently went into Li Qingqing’s room.
The drinking party downstairs had not yet been dispersed, and the noise of clinking glasses kept her awake, but after lying down for a while she actually felt more alert.
Zhang Wanwan took out her cell phone from her bag and gave Lengzi an increasingly sleepy expression.
The other party replied almost immediately, "Are you sleepy so early? Are you tired from playing?"
Zhang Wanwan: (shaking her head) My cousin took me to her boyfriend’s house today, and then her boyfriend came with us to my uncle’s place. I watched a play and fell asleep while laughing.
Leng Ziyue paused for a long time before sending a message: The way you feel sleepy is very strange.
Zhang Wanwan: That’s because I’m tired of laughing!
Leng Ziyue: (laughing expression) Since you are sleepy, go to bed early, baby.
Zhang Wanwan stared at the last three words and her whole body jumped up. She stared at the screen and blinked several times to make sure that she was not seeing things. Her breathing became disordered and she felt the long-lost throbbing sensation. After a while, she calmed down and replied: (good night expression) You should go to bed early too.
The result was that Leng Ziyue on the other end of the phone fell asleep with a sweet dream, but Zhang Wanwan suffered from insomnia and kept tossing and turning. In a trance, she dreamed of Cao Ji'an, the scumbag who was forgotten by her and fled to Java after her rebirth. Then she dreamed of the godlike Leng Ziyue. In her dream, she cried and laughed like a madman.
"Wan Wan, Wan Wan, wake up"
Zhang Wanwan slowly opened her eyes and met Li Qingqing's worried eyes.
"Wanwan, what's wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?" Li Qingqing touched Zhang Wanwan's forehead and found that the temperature was normal. His frown finally relaxed a little, but he still stared at her without blinking.
Zhang Wanwan sat up, rubbing her forehead, and looked at the window. A faint light came through the curtains, and the outlines of some things could be vaguely seen in the dark room. Because Li Qingqing was right next to her, she could clearly see her expression.
"Maybe, cousin, what time is it?" Zhang Wanwan asked in a hoarse voice.
Li Qingqing quickly turned on the light and looked at the alarm clock. "It's only a little after four o'clock, not even five. Do you want to sleep a little longer?"
Zhang Wanwan shook her head. She was obsessed with her bed and it usually took her two or three days to adapt to an environment. How could she fall asleep again now that she was awake?
She didn't sleep, but Li Qingqing fell asleep after a while. Just then, Zhang Wanwan got up, got dressed and washed up. At five o'clock, people outside started setting off firecrackers one after another, and the atmosphere of the New Year was strong.
Zhang Wanwan tiptoed downstairs, took Li Qingqing's bicycle and went out quietly. If she rode east along the coastal highway, she would see the sea.
It was just getting light at this time and there were almost no vehicles on the road, so she could have fun.
Zhang Wanwan treated it as an exercise and rode all the way to the beach in one breath, feeling the salty smell of the sea in the wind and seeing some people who were going to the beach to touch things on the mudflats.
She stood there, staring at the sea level in the distance, and took a photo of the sunrise with her mobile phone with low pixels and sent it to Leng Ziyue, with the caption: The light of hope.
After sending the message, she excitedly greeted the people fishing in the sea. Someone came up with a fish basket and asked her in Qingpu dialect, "Would you like to buy some crabs? Wild ones."
Zhang Wanwan took a closer look and saw that there were indeed quite a few crabs in the fish basket. Thinking of the seafood that Li Meili had prepared for them yesterday, she shook her head apologetically and pushed her bicycle along the coastline for a long time. She didn't ride back until almost seven o'clock.
When they got back to Li Yongfu's house, Zhang's mother and the others were all up. Seeing that she looked very weathered, Zhang's mother asked worriedly, "When did you leave? Where did you go?"
"Let's go watch the sunrise!" Zhang Wanwan ran in excitedly, shivering with cold.
Seeing her like this, Lu Cui urged her, "Hurry up and have a bowl of porridge to warm yourself up. Who would go to the beach to watch the sunrise in such a cold weather like you? Be careful that the sea breeze might give you a headache!"
"That's right! Children don't understand. They will feel uncomfortable when they are old!" Zhang's mother muttered to herself, but her hands were skillfully preparing food for Zhang Wanwan.
After breakfast, the family carried a bunch of seafood and got on the bus back to the city. Zhang Wanwan actually fell asleep on the bus.
At the same time, Leng Ziyue, who had just woken up, picked up his mobile phone and smiled after seeing the photo Zhang Wanwan sent him, as if the iceberg had melted and the earth was coming back to life.
(End of this chapter)
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