After dinner, Yan Yuqi pushed Yan Ning's bicycle out the door.
As soon as the two of them walked out of the yard, they saw Zhou Lingye riding a bicycle towards them on the road in the distance.
The two stood at the door waiting.
Zhou Lingye stopped at the gate of the courtyard on his bicycle and returned it to Yan Yuqi.
"Thank you, Comrade Yan, for lending me your bicycle."
Yan Yuqi said politely: "It's just borrowing a bicycle, it's not a big deal."
After saying that, Yan Yuqi pushed his bicycle into the yard.
Zhou Lingye turned his gaze towards Yan Ning, and mustered up his courage. "Comrade Yan Ning, I have a few words to say to you. Can I have a moment with you?"
Yan Ning glanced at him, a little confused but didn't say anything.
She pointed to a willow tree in the distance beside the yard. "Go talk over there!"
The two walked towards the willow tree.
After standing still, Yan Ning said, "Just tell me what you want to say!"
Zhou Lingye looked at Yan Ning and took a deep breath. "Comrade Yan Ning, my name is Zhou Lingye. I am 23 years old and currently serving as the regiment commander of a certain unit.
My family is in Shanghai. My family members are my grandparents, my parents and a younger sister.
I've never been in a relationship or had an affair with anyone."
Zhou Lingye finished speaking in one breath, looking at Yan Ning without blinking.
Yan Ning was completely bewildered. Was this the prelude to someone confessing their love to her?
"So? What does it have to do with me?"
Zhou Lingye looked at Yan Ning with deep eyes and said gently, "So, are you willing to be with me?"
Yan Ning sneered, his expression indifferent, "If I remember correctly, we seem to have only met twice! And we don't know each other,
You can confess your feelings to a girl you have only met twice and don't even know, which makes it hard for me not to suspect that you have ulterior motives."
Zhou Lingye quickly explained: "Although we have only met twice, I fell in love with you at the first sight when I saw you at the gate of Tongshi Public Security Bureau.
We didn't meet each other that time, and now I finally meet you here again.
This time I don't want to miss you again, I want to tell you that I like you,
I'm leaving here today to go back to the army, and I want to leave without any regrets."
Bullshit love at first sight, it's clearly just lust at first sight.
Do you think she's an ignorant girl?
If you don't have any regrets, then you won't have any regrets.
In a situation where everything is unknown and they are separated by distance, he still wants to provoke an innocent girl.
I used to have a somewhat good impression of him, but now it has fallen to negative.
Yan Ning looked at him calmly, "Then I tell you clearly that I don't like you.
I don't even have a good impression of you, and your words and actions now disturb me."
Zhou Lingye's face showed a bit of loss and panic, "Comrade Yan Ning, it doesn't matter if you don't like me now, we can be friends first..."
Yan Ning interrupted him, "No need for that. We are not the same kind of people and cannot be friends. I will pretend I never heard anything you said today."
After saying this, Yan Ning turned and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.
Yan Yuqi had already seen the two of them standing under the willow tree and talking. Now that he saw Yan Ning coming over, he hurriedly asked:
"Sister, what did you say to him?"
Yan Ning: "Nothing much, just getting to know each other. We met before in front of the Tongshi Public Security Bureau. Don't you remember, brother?"
Yan Yuqi thought about it and it seemed to be true. "I remember now. It's the person who asked you for directions that time, right?"
Yan Ning smiled and said, "Yes, you are not mistaken. Let's go quickly and don't waste time."
Yan Ning quickly put the matter behind him and didn't take it to heart at all.
Yan Yuqi got on the bicycle and Yan Ning sat sideways on the back seat.
The bicycle drove towards the village entrance, and the two figures disappeared at the corner of the road.
Zhou Lingye stood under the willow tree in a depressed mood, with an indescribable emotion in his heart.
The first time he mustered up the courage to express his feelings to a girl, he was rejected.
He couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart. It must be because he had ruthlessly rejected many female comrades' confessions in the past, and now it was his turn to be rejected by others.
Zhou Lingye quickly recovered his composure and walked towards the back mountain.
Yan Yulin rode a bicycle with Yan Ning to Qinghe County.
After storing their bicycles, the two took a shuttle bus to Chunshi.
They arrived at Chunshi around half past ten. Yan Yuqi took Yan Ning by car to a yard in an alley.
Yan Yuqi took out the key and opened the door, explaining: "This yard is where I rented to store goods.
Since the calligraphy is genuine, I will give the remaining food to the old man."
Yan Ning took a look around the courtyard and asked, "How much food did you agree on?"
Yan Yuqi: "Except for the 20 kilograms of rice and 2 kilograms of pork I gave you before,
I will also give him 30 kilograms of rice, 50 kilograms of flour and 8 kilograms of pork."
"It's too little. After all, we're the ones who got the upper hand. Give him 100 kilograms of rice and 100 kilograms of flour!"
Yan Ning followed him into the warehouse. There was not much stock inside, only two bags of rice and one bag of flour.
Yan Yuqi nodded. "Okay, wait here for a few minutes. I'll go borrow two bicycles. Otherwise, we won't be able to move all these things."
This yard is near the black market. Yan Yuqi went out and came to the black market and borrowed two bicycles from his men.
The bicycle was parked at the gate of the yard. Yan Yuqi came back and took out a bag of rice and tied it to the back seat of the bicycle. He rode this bicycle.
Another bag of flour was tied to the back seat of the bicycle that Yan Ning was riding.
Yan Yuqi locked the gate and led the way on his bicycle.
Yan Ning followed behind on a bicycle.
After riding for more than twenty minutes, the two entered an alley and stopped at the gate of a courtyard.
Yan Yuqi parked his bicycle and went to knock on the door.
“Boom boom boom!”
After a while, the gate was opened a crack. The old man saw that the person knocking on the door was someone he knew, so he opened the gate and walked out.
The old man looked at the things on the bicycle and said, "Young man, are you sure about this?"
The old man was thin and his loose clothes looked very empty on him.
His face was so thin that it was just skin and bones, and it was hard to tell his real age.
Yan Yuqi nodded, "Okay, so I'll bring you the remaining food. Let's go in and talk!"
"Come in!" said the old man as he walked into the yard first.
Yan Yuqi first moved the rice in, then came back to move the flour.
Yan Ning also pushed two bicycles into the yard.
In the yard, the old man looked at the two large sacks and asked Yan Yuqi, "Why did you send so much food?"
Yan Yuqi looked at Yan Ning, asking her with his eyes what to say.
Yan Ning looked at the old man and said with a smile: "The Lanting Preface by Wang Xizhi is indeed an authentic work. We exchanged the food for it from you.
We are the ones who have taken advantage, so my elder brother will give you a little more food so that you won’t feel that you are at a disadvantage.”
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