The next day, still thinking about grinding flour, he grabbed a bag of grain and went to town to grind it.
He arrived early, and there weren't many people queuing to have their flour ground. As soon as the flour miller saw him, he exclaimed, "Damn it, you're here again? Didn't I grind the flour for you last night?"
He laughed so hard he almost died, saying, "Buddy, you're talking nonsense. What would I be grinding flour in the middle of the night? You must be dreaming."
The miller was dumbfounded: "Huh, am I dreaming?"
"Hahaha..." Wei Mingshen laughed loudly.
Su Xueli also laughed.
The miller ground the whole bag of flour for the three men. When they got home, they opened the flour jar and found it was now full...
The two laughed for a while, and then Wei Mingshen told Su Xueli a story about his comrade-in-arms sleepwalking. The two laughed like that for a long time.
Suddenly, Su Xueli realized something was wrong. Didn't she just say she would have a good "talk" with him when he woke up? Why was she laughing and joking all the time?
She straightened her face, sat up straight, and said, "Wei Mingshen, I have something to say to you."
Wei Mingshen looked at her earnestly: "Go on, I'm listening carefully."
Su Xueli asked, "What were you doing this morning?"
Wei Mingshen looked completely innocent: "What did I do this morning?"
"Don't play dumb with me. You deliberately came out to entertain Teacher He, and even pretended to be affectionate with me. Who do you think I am, a fool!"
"Oh dear, how can you be so despicable? You're like a dog biting Lü Dongbin, not recognizing a kind heart. Let me ask you, do you think it's appropriate for Teacher He, a grown man, to stand outside your courtyard gate, a woman's place?"
Su Xueli thought it was indeed inappropriate, so she asked him the next question: "Then why are you being so affectionate with me?"
Wei Mingshen narrowed his eyes. "How did I get intimate with you? Remind me."
Su Xueli shouted angrily, "Didn't you brush my hair back for me? That's not an intimate gesture!"
Wei Mingshen cried out, "Heaven and earth bear witness, I just saw your hair was tucked under your neck and took it out for you. I'm completely innocent! You can't wrong me like this. Even if I'm an honest person, you can't bully an honest person like this."
Haha, you've wronged him, you've bullied him, he's so aggrieved!
The old lady crawling into bed really made the old man laugh in exasperation.
"Good, good, Wei Mingshen, you're amazing, you're ruthless, you win."
Then she quickly spun the straw in her hand, venting her anger on it. Since she was weaving a yellow-robed monster, the monster's face would look even more ferocious and menacing.
There was another knock at the door; it was Yan Yan arriving with her luggage.
The main room next door was occupied by Wei Mingshen, so Su Xueli had no choice but to let Yan Yan share a room with her, so the two sisters could talk while they slept.
As the two were packing Yan Yan's belongings, Yan Yan said listlessly, "I had a fight with my parents when I came here. They said that once I left that home, I shouldn't go back, so that they wouldn't be ashamed."
She started crying again: "Sherry, from now on I have no home, I'm all alone."
Su Xueli sneered: "Do you still miss that home?"
Yan Yan wiped away her tears and said, "Xue Li, you can't understand this feeling. After all, that's the home where I was born, raised, and lived for twenty years, and my younger brother whom I raised single-handedly. Losing him all of a sudden feels like the roots of a plant being uprooted..."
Su Xueli was loved by her parents since she was a child, and now that she is not at home, her parents are worried about her. It is impossible to empathize with her.
She softened her tone and comforted her, "Yan Yan, you'll get used to it eventually. It's really okay not to go back to that home. You'll find someone better; it's already beckoning you."
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