"When was it ground? How come I don't even know about it?" While rubbing the slippery little stone, Ah Chou looked at Zhong Mingwei, his eyes slightly red.
"It didn't take long." Zhong Mingwei sniffed. A man in his thirties, under the gaze of this little girl, he didn't know how to put his awkward hands and feet. He picked up the chopsticks. Then he put them down. Then he whispered, "It's just that there are no good stones in this broken place. This is the most ordinary stone. It's worthless, don't despise it..."
"Who said it's worthless?" Ah Chou suddenly interrupted the man. She took the small, round stone and moved it in front of Zhong Mingwei. She held the man's hand and said seriously, "In my heart, it is much more valuable than the five hundred taels of silver."
"That's what you think." Zhong Mingwei felt warm in his heart. He pinched the red string tied to the small stone and said softly to Ah Chou, "Girl, lower your head. I'll put it on you."
"Hey!" Ah Chou responded crisply, lowering his head obediently and letting the big hands put the round little stone around his neck.
"Okay." Zhong Mingwei patted Achou's shoulder.
"It's really beautiful. Zhong Mingwei, you have really skillful hands. Hehe," Ah Chou held the little stone and turned it over and over, grinning foolishly, "How come such a skillful pair of hands can't make good dumplings?"
Zhong Mingwei's mouth twitched suddenly: "..."
"Oh, by the way, I was wondering why I lost a few red strings. Turns out they are with you!" Ah Chou suddenly pointed at Zhong Mingwei and said fiercely, "Tell me, what else did you secretly take from me?"
The corners of Zhong Mingwei's mouth twitched even more: "...Does it count if I secretly kissed you while you were asleep last night?"
"Bah! Shameless!" Ah Chou spat at him with a red face, and then twisted into his arms like a piece of candy, rubbing against him, clinging to him to death, "Zhong Mingwei, why are you so good? Hehe, Zhong Mingwei, I like you so much... Woo!"
The next second, the man covered the restless little mouth without any explanation.
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"Fortunately you insisted on not dipping in vinegar, otherwise you would have kissed me so hard that I would have been suffocated to death." After kissing enough, Ah Chou nestled in the man's arms, panting, her rosy little mouth moving constantly, but she still couldn't rest, "Zhong Mingwei, you are really... really wise..."
"It's not wisdom, it's self-knowledge," Zhong Mingwei said sourly, "I knew you must dislike me."
"I don't despise our family's pillar, hehe," Ah Chou laughed, and turned to look at Zhong Mingwei, "You only polished this stone? Why didn't you polish one for yourself?"
"It's worn out." Zhong Mingwei scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said in a low voice.
"Where is it? Is it the same as mine? Take it out and let me see it!" Ah Chou immediately became interested and said happily.
"I put it on myself last night," Zhong Mingwei became more and more embarrassed, "It's just a piece of stone, what's so good about it?"
Yeah, what's so good about it?
What rare treasures could catch his eye in the past? But now it was just a small stone that could be seen everywhere, and it made this girl so happy. Zhong Mingwei was actually more sad than relieved. It was not because he was down and out now and could not afford to give this girl any silk, silk, pearls and jade, but because this girl had never asked for anything from him.
Did she know that the request was too high and that she, a paraplegic, could not do it? Or was she born to be a foolish girl who did not ask for anything in return?
Zhong Mingwei actually didn't want to think too much, not only because of these two unsteady legs, and not only because he was sixteen years older than Ah Chou. He was different now. He was lame, down and out, and fragile. That girl became his only motivation to survive in this world. What he said about her being his backbone was very right.
He absolutely cannot live without Achou, but he dare not think whether he can still live well without his Achou.
So, how could he dare to think too much?
"Of course it looks good..." As Ah Chou said this, he pulled up the man's collar. Sure enough, on his muscular chest, there was a stone pendant of the same color and texture, but the pendant was in the shape of a circle.
Ah Chou was startled, then she picked up the pendant with one hand and the one on her chest with the other, and put them inside. Then the two pendants fit together tightly, and the circle tightly encircled the small stone, just like at this moment, Zhong Mingwei was tightly encircling her...
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