He could tell from her words that she was afraid he might misunderstand, but he liked her and wanted to be with her. Since he hadn't been able to accompany the person he liked to the countryside before, he didn't want to miss this opportunity!
Moreover, he believes that perseverance can overcome any obstacle.
As long as he stays close to the girl he likes, sooner or later she will like him and be willing to marry him and spend her life with him!
Zhao Yuzhou tried his best to suppress his discomfort, and smiled as brightly as ever, saying, "By the way, Jiaojiao, what time do we set off around the tenth? Can I pick you up from your house then?"
Perhaps it was vanity at play, but Song Jiaojiao did not refuse Zhao Yuzhou's suggestion. She said, "After breakfast, come to my house around nine o'clock. How about that time?"
"Okay, then we'll leave from my house at 8:30. You can wait for me at your house."
The two had agreed on a time, and Zhao Yuzhou was momentarily at a loss for words when Song Jiaojiao's voice suddenly rang out:
"Zhao Yuzhou, I almost forgot. You signed up to go to the countryside. The comrades at the street office should have arranged for you and other educated youth to take the train at the same time. Would it be inappropriate for you to come with me?"
"fine."
Zhao Yuzhou shook his head and said, "The street office also arranged for us to meet at the train station on the tenth of the month, but it's an hour later than the time we agreed on. Maybe we and the other educated youth will leave Beijing on the same train."
"I see..."
Song Jiaojiao deliberately paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, I'll wait for you at home early on the eleventh of the month."
After a brief pause, she added, "If there's nothing else, I'll head back."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Yuzhou panicked and blurted out, "Jiaojiao, I'd like to invite you to a movie. Do you want to go? It's a newly released film about solving a crime. Some of my buddies mentioned it and said it's really good. You..."
"No, thank you."
Before Zhao Yuzhou could finish speaking, Song Jiaojiao shook her head and refused, saying, "It's already four o'clock in the afternoon, and it will get dark in about an hour. My parents have a requirement for us siblings: we must be home before dark."
"..."
Zhao Yuzhou looked slightly disappointed, but he quickly regained his composure and said, "Then I'll take you back."
"It's cold. I'll be home soon. You should go home and warm up too."
As soon as the words fell, before Zhao Yuzhou could react, Song Jiaojiao turned around and deliberately quickened her pace, and in the blink of an eye she had already walked two or three zhang away.
Standing there, staring intently at her receding figure, Zhao Yuzhou lingered, unable to look away.
"Second brother, what are you looking at?"
A girl of about twelve or thirteen stood at the entrance of the Zhao family courtyard. She looked at Zhao Yuzhou with some curiosity: "Didn't you hear me calling you? Second brother, I'm calling you, did you hear me?"
The girl was Zhao Yuzhou's younger sister, named Zhao Mengmeng. She was cute and well-behaved, a sweet little girl.
Finally pulled back to his senses by his younger sister's voice, Zhao Yuzhou walked over, ruffled his sister Zhao Mengmeng's hair, and said, "What are you doing running out here? Aren't you cold?"
The brother and sister entered the courtyard. Zhao Mengmeng looked up at Zhao Yuzhou and said, "Second brother, you still haven't told me what you were looking at just now."
"I didn't see anything."
Zhao Yuzhou replied.
"lie."
Zhao Mengmeng didn't believe her. Her eyes darted around, and she said, "You wouldn't be looking at that older sister, would you?"
"Sister? Which one?"
Zhao Yuzhou pretended not to understand.
"Second brother, I saw you standing and talking with that woman wearing a mask and a red scarf."
"Don't talk nonsense. That woman was just asking me for directions. I don't know exactly which one she is."
It wasn't that Zhao Yuzhou didn't want to mention Song Jiaojiao's name; it was that he didn't want Song Jiaojiao to dislike him. In other words, he didn't want to tell others about their relationship before Song Jiaojiao acknowledged it.
As for what kind of relationship they were, in Zhao Yuzhou's mind, it was naturally a proper romantic relationship...
Song Jiaojiao felt extremely frustrated. Even though she was almost home, she still felt incredibly stifled. She couldn't understand why Chen Dongze didn't like her. She couldn't understand why she had only gone to the Chen family's compound to ask when he would return to Shisong Village.
As a result, the officer on duty refused to let her into the compound. Later, she pleaded with the officer on duty to call Chen Dongze's family and give him her name. She thought that Chen Dongze would then ask the officer on duty to let her through.
Unexpectedly, the officer on duty told her that Chen Dongze said he was not familiar with her and refused to meet her.
At that moment, she met the complicated gaze of the officer on duty and felt her face burning hot.
She even resented Chen Dongze for not giving her any face.
"What kind of person is he? What's wrong with me? Why does he have to reject me like this?" Song Jiaojiao muttered silently. "Chen Dongze, just wait until you see Zhao Yuzhou fawning over me. I don't believe you'll still be indifferent to me."
Thinking of Zhao Yuzhou, a look of disdain flashed quickly in Song Jiaojiao's eyes. He was just a toad trying to eat swan meat.
What an idiot! If he ever finds out that he and that slut Song Lan are a couple, he'll probably be disgusted to death.
She hadn't forgotten that in the original story, Zhao Yuzhou met the male lead's white moonlight through a blind date, and then doted on his wife. When she saw the description of their relationship in the novel, she thought the male lead's white moonlight was really lucky.
Despite being a fake heiress who usurped someone else's place, she married better and lived a better life after marriage than the real heiress who was reunited with her family.
She felt indignant for the real heiress who shared the same name as her, thinking that the real heiress's parents were crazy for arranging a marriage for their own daughter that was worse than for their adopted daughter, showing an extreme degree of favoritism.
Song Jiaojiao thought this way when she read the book. Therefore, whenever she saw the plot about the male protagonist's white moonlight "Song Lan" and Zhao Yuzhou, she would turn the page in a huff. She was unaware that "Song Lan" was later betrayed by her husband Zhao Yuzhou and died in a car accident while in a daze.
Actually, Song Jiaojiao only skimmed through the book, and since the ending was poorly written, she didn't remember much of the plot.
Once she becomes Song Jiaojiao in this world, all she knows is to steal the male lead from the female lead, shatter the white moonlight filter that the fake heiress "Song Lan" has in the male lead Chen Dongze's heart, marry Chen Dongze and win without lifting a finger, reaching the pinnacle of life.
In other words, when Song Jiaojiao reads, she only reads what she wants to see, and she doesn't have the slightest interest in anything else.
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On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Song Lan and Qin Yanzheng set off at 3:30 pm to return to their small home at the machinery factory. Before leaving, they invited Song Qingbin and his wife to come along. When the car arrived in town, Qin Yanzheng dropped the two off at the gate of Feng Yuanyuan's house without lingering.
Several days have passed since Song Lan and her husband returned to Shisong Village to pay New Year's visits. Qin Yanzheng has resumed his normal work, and the colleague who was supposed to take over Wu Dong's work has also arrived. He is a man in his early twenties named Yang Fan.
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