July 7, 1979
"Sister Wenhui, Brother Wenxuan, keep it up!"
On the Jeep parked by the roadside, the back window was open, and a small, fair hand reached out and waved at the two people standing below.
"Don't worry, Yueyue, there won't be any problems."
Li Wenhui then turned to the front passenger seat and said, "Mom, you should go back. Don't wait here; it's too hot."
“That’s right, Mom. Look, there aren’t any other parents waiting at the school gate,” Li Wenxuan, standing next to Li Wenhui, chimed in.
"It's alright, it's alright, you guys go inside. Just have your dad park the car under the shade of a tree later. Focus on your exam!"
Wenhui and Wenxuan exchanged a helpless glance, unable to understand what their mother was thinking, insisting on waiting at the school gate on such a hot day.
However, they knew they couldn't persuade her otherwise, so they could only say goodbye to her father who was driving and Wang Yueyue, and then walk into the school with the other candidates.
Seeing that the two children had already gone inside, Li Chu hurriedly drove the car to a shady spot under a tree, where it was too hot to drive in under the blazing sun.
After parking the car, he quickly opened the driver's side door.
"Yueyue, open the car door too."
Ding Qiunan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, wanted to open the car door, but when she looked down at the clothes she was wearing, she was too embarrassed to let others see them.
After Li Chu opened the car door, he got out and stood outside. Looking at his wife, who still had a piece of clothing covering her legs, he found it somewhat amusing.
Ding Qiunan looked up and saw the smile on her husband's face, and immediately felt unhappy.
"Li Chu, you're still laughing? I'm dying of heat."
When Wang Yueyue, who was sitting in the back seat, saw Qiu Nan's mother lose her temper, she hurriedly got out of the car and moved a few steps to the side, afraid of being caught in the crossfire.
"How can you blame me? I didn't ask you to wear these clothes."
Ding Qiunan was even more furious when this was mentioned: "Wasn't it you who told me? If you hadn't told me, how would I have known that wearing clothes could have a meaning?"
“I was just saying it casually that day, who would have thought you would actually do it.”
As he spoke, Li Chu turned his head and looked around. Seeing that Wang Yueyue was quite far away, he leaned into the car and whispered, "But you know what, wife, you look really good in a cheongsam. It really brings out your figure. You don't look like someone who has given birth to two children at all."
Ding Qiunan blushed instantly at her husband's words. She glared at him, turned her head away, and said nothing more.
Li Chu, standing below the car, saw her actions and secretly smiled.
Looking at his wife's beautiful figure, his eyes grew increasingly intense.
Today is Saturday, July 7th, the first day of the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao).
Ding Qiunan had already asked for leave in advance. She felt she had to be by the children's side on this important day, and she also asked Li Chu to ask for leave as well.
These days, although the college entrance examination is very important, not many parents come to send their children off, let alone wait at the school gate.
Li Chu's original plan was to drop the child off and then go home, and then come back to pick him up when it was almost time.
However, Ding Qiunan disagreed. She thought it was better to wait at the door for such an important matter.
As for the cheongsam she was wearing, it was a few days ago when the two of them were chatting. Li Chu noticed that she seemed more nervous than the two children, so he jokingly told her that she should wear a cheongsam on the day of the college entrance examination, which would symbolize a successful start.
It was just a joke, but Ding Qiunan remembered it. Since she didn't know how to do it, she went to the trust shop to look at the consigned items.
After watching it a few times, I learned how to do it and secretly made two outfits for myself.
She often makes clothes, and Li Chu didn't notice that she was making cheongsams these past few days.
Ding Qiunan only found out this morning when she put it on.
If it weren't for the time crunch in the morning and the children still being there, he could have pounced on them like a hungry wolf and torn all the clothes to shreds.
She already had a great figure, with curves in all the right places, and the slit in her cheongsam made her even more alluring, revealing glimpses of her skin.
Li Chu had already made up his mind that he had to make her wear this dress tonight and arrange something.
Ding Qiunan couldn't possibly miss the burning gaze in her husband's eyes, and she secretly felt smug.
She was still shy, and couldn't stand being stared at any longer. She turned her head and said coquettishly, "Oh, what are you looking at? It's been almost twenty years, haven't you had enough yet?"
"Look at what you're saying, how can we ever get enough of this? We could never get enough of it in a lifetime."
The sudden sweet words made Ding Qiunan's face turn even redder. Coupled with the hot weather and the fact that she was covered with a piece of clothing on her legs, she felt like she couldn't breathe for a moment.
He could only feign composure and say, "It's so hot today, go buy us two popsicles to cool us down."
Upon hearing her words, Li Chu turned around and called out, "Yueyue, here's some money, go buy some popsicles."
Wang Yueyue was squatting by the tree pit, idly counting ants, when she heard this she immediately stood up: "Daddy Chu, I still have money here."
After saying that, he ran off to find an ice pop vendor.
Ding Qiunan, who had originally wanted to send her husband away, could only sit in the car and keep rolling her eyes at him.
"Honey, it's too hot in the car, let's get out."
"I don't want to."
She didn't think anything of it when she wore the cheongsam at home, but she felt it was inappropriate when she went out, especially when she was sitting there, as the skirt could not cover her thighs at all, and her fair skin was exposed.
She's almost forty and has never worn such revealing clothes before. Even when she wore skirts in the summer, the hem would reach her ankles.
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Luckily, there was a Li Chu jacket in the car that she could cover her legs; otherwise, she wouldn't know what to do.
Ding Qiunan was now filled with regret. She secretly vowed that she would never wear those two cheongsams again.
She just didn't expect that her husband's thoughts were similar to hers. The only difference was that she thought she would never wear it again, while Li Chu thought she could only wear it for him to see.
After finally finishing the exam at noon, the group returned home. Ding Qiunan's first action was to run into the house and change her clothes.
Ding's mother had already prepared the meal, and during the meal, no one mentioned the exam.
Both children were already good students, and judging from their previous preliminary exam results, they could easily choose whichever university they wanted to attend.
However, they had both made their own decisions early on.
The only thing that bothered Li Chu was that none of his children were willing to follow in his footsteps, and his son even wanted to study Western clinical medicine.
When they went to take her to the exam in the afternoon, Ding Qiunan no longer insisted on waiting at the school gate.
It's so hot; if we keep waiting, I'm afraid I'll get heatstroke.
The first day of the college entrance examination went smoothly, but the cheongsam that I only wore for one morning was gloriously sacrificed that very evening.
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