"I heard that you planned to wait until your legs were healed before marrying her?" Gu Changlin said again, squinting his eyes and looking at Zhong Mingwei's slightly red face. His tone was a little stern, "Boy, let me say something unpleasant. If your legs are not healed for the rest of your life, then you won't marry her in this life?"
Zhong Mingwei was startled. Then he suddenly looked at Gu Changlin: "Sir, my leg...can't be healed?"
"No, I just said it casually." Gu Changlin looked at Zhong Mingwei's panic, couldn't help but sighed, and patted Zhong Mingwei on the shoulder. He sighed. "I don't understand. If you like someone, just like them. If you want to marry someone, just marry them. Why add so many preconditions? Wait until your leg is healed. Wait until I become the top scholar. Or wait until I return home with wealth, and then I will definitely marry you in a grand manner. Are these preconditions really that important? Are they really more important than just marrying someone and living a simple life together?"
"Sir, if I were younger, in better health, and had a clean record and had never married those wives, I wouldn't be like this." After a long silence, Zhong Mingwei finally spoke to Gu Changlin, expressing the concerns and guilt that had been weighing on his heart. "But sir, you have to look at me. I am thirty-three years old this year, sixteen years older than that girl. In fact, I am old enough to be her father. But all along, it has been that girl who has taken care of me and accompanied me. What can I do for her? Make a bowl of tea or wash a piece of clothing? To be honest, I despise and spit on myself in my heart. But I am still a cripple and have been crippled for so long. I don't say it, but... I'm anxious and uneasy, not knowing when it will get better, let alone when it will be my turn to take care of that girl," Zhong Mingwei paused here, looking at the lifelike little bat on the bottom of his socks, his mouth tight, "Sir, I feel guilty and have a hurdle that I can't get over. I really don't have the courage to marry that girl. When I think about that girl marrying a cripple like you, an old cripple who has married so many wives, you don't know how sad I feel, it hurts more than a knife. I can't make myself young again, nor can I change the facts of the past. I can only hope to get healthy again, at least my legs can get better, so that I won't be a burden to her. Otherwise..."
Zhong Mingwei didn't say anything else, and Gu Changlin didn't ask any further. The two of them sat in silence for a long time, until they heard Mei Ya's laughter outside, and then they came back to their senses.
"Boy, I can't say that your thoughts are wrong, but I don't think they are all right either." Gu Changlin reached out and patted Zhong Mingwei's shoulder, standing up. "Maybe, you care about these things, but that girl doesn't care. That girl's heart is as clear as water. What's in it, what's she looking forward to, don't you really know?"
Zhong Mingwei didn't say anything, still staring at the black little bat. Gu Changlin didn't say anything else, and went out with the plaster.
"Pang Yi, what did you do to Miss Gu? Why did Miss Gu look as if she had seen a ghost when she saw you?" Mei Ya and Pang Yi came in one after the other. Pang Yi looked embarrassed, but Mei Ya was full of curiosity and gossip. "Tell me quickly! Did you meet Miss Gu again when you went to the village last time?"
"I didn't do anything," Pang Yi felt so wronged that he was busy explaining to Mei Ya, "It was just that time when Miss Gu happened to be going to the street to buy something, so I gave her a ride. Apart from that, I really haven't seen Miss Gu again."
"Then why did she give you more than two taels of silver for no reason?" Mei Ya continued to ask, while sitting down next to Zhong Mingwei.
"What silver?" Zhong Mingwei asked casually while pouring a bowl of jujube tea and handing it to Mei Ya.
"Two taels and three cents! It's quite a lot!" Before Pang Yi could answer, Mei Ya spoke first, tilting her head and staring at Zhong Mingwei, "Just now when Pang Yi and I came out of the private school, Miss Gu chased out and stuffed the money into Pang Yi's hand, and Pang Yi took it without saying a word!"
"It was that time when Miss Gu went to the street to buy something and she didn't have enough money, so I paid for her first. This time when we met, Miss Gu returned the money to me. That's it." Pang Yi really didn't want to explain anymore, but Mei Ya still wouldn't let go.
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