Meng Yiming shrank his neck, bent his body, held the clothes in his arms, shivered and sneezed twice.
He is 50% cold and 50% acting.
Lin Ye had already walked up to him and said in a reproachful and distressed tone, "I told you it's very cold sleeping in the car, why don't you go and stay in my bed for a while."
Meng Yiming was embarrassed, "This is not good."
"What's wrong with that? I'm already up."
Meng Yiming reluctantly followed Lin Ye to the bedside.
Lin also spread the quilt for her and said, "Go up and cover yourself for a while."
Meng Yiming took off his glasses, climbed onto the bed, and covered his face so that only his face was exposed.
The quilt was stained with Lin Ye's scent, a faint fragrance, very unique. Meng Yiming took a few deep breaths.
Lin also said, "I'm going to see the doctor to get some medicine and come back to get breakfast."
Meng Yiming looked at her steadily. Without his glasses, his eyes were even gentler than usual.
However, what he said was really annoying, "I really want to eat a bowl of Cross-the-Bridge Rice Noodles."
“There are only steamed buns here!”
"Is there a bridge here?"
Lin also asked: "What are you going to do?"
"Then let's eat the Crossing the Bridge Buns." Meng Yiming looked at her eagerly and said, "Crossing the bridge represents a wife's love and care for her husband."
Although Lin had experienced Meng Yiming's pretentiousness and meddling many times before, he still gritted his teeth and said, "I'll feed you a fist-sized bun!"
Cross-bridge rice noodles, that means people have to walk across that bridge!
What is a cross-bridge steamed bun?
Meng Yiming had a look of grievance in his eyes and coughed a few times at the right time.
Lin Ye: "... Hold it for a while. I'll talk to the cafeteria and ask them to make you a bowl of noodles."
Meng Yiming's body had eased a lot. He asked weakly, "I'm sick. Can you not go to work today?"
Lin Ye: "I took a leave yesterday and will accompany you today."
Meng Yiming immediately became alert.
If he had known that Lin had taken leave, why would he still pretend to be sick?!
He said, "I'm so sorry that I've delayed your work."
Lin also glanced at him, "You are as fake as my sister-in-law!"
She often saw Yu Xiangnian talking to Cheng Jingmo like this, so fake!
Meng Yiming: "...I'm warm now. I'd better get up and go to the cafeteria for breakfast."
Lin Ye: “…”
Meng Yiming got out of bed, folded the quilt, and went out to wash up.
After washing up, I also used some of Lin Ye’s fragrant facial cleanser.
"It's so cold and dry here that my face is peeling," he said.
Lin also asked, "None of the men here wipe their faces, so aren't their faces fine?"
"Maybe my skin is more delicate than theirs."
Lin Ye's face twisted when he heard this, and he said with disdain: "You are more delicate than Coco!"
A word suddenly appeared in her mind: old and spoiled husband!
The two of them packed up and went to the cafeteria to have breakfast, steamed buns with pickles.
Suddenly, a man about the same age as Meng Yiming came and sat down at their table uninvited.
The man said excitedly: "Meng Yiming, do you still remember me?"
Meng Yiming looked at the man, confused. He had no impression of him at all.
"I'm Qin Tianhua. We went to the same high school, but you transferred!" the man said to himself. "Yesterday, I saw you and you looked familiar. I thought about it all night and then I remembered that we were classmates at Wucheng High School."
Meng Yiming still hadn't remembered this classmate, but he showed surprise on his face, "Old classmate, I didn't expect to run into you here."
"Of course I did! I thought I'd never see you again!" Qin Tianhua said, "I never expected your partner to be our forest engineer!"
Qin Tianhua looked at Lin Ye, then was stunned for a moment. He seemed to suddenly remember something and was about to speak, but Meng Yiming quickly stuffed Qin Tianhua's mouth with the steamed bun in his hand.
Meng Yiming said to Lin Ye, "You can eat slowly in the back. I'll catch up with my old classmates and I'll come to the dormitory to find you later."
He pulled Qin Tianhua and walked out. Qin Tianhua asked while eating a steamed bun: "What do you want to say? Why can't you say it in the cafeteria?"
Meng Yiming took Qin Tianhua for a long distance and there was no one around.
Meng Yiming then said, "Old classmate, I need a favor from you."
"What's up?"
Meng Yiming said, "Let's not talk about what happened in Wucheng before."
Qin Tianhua recalled what he was about to say. He said in shock and realization, "Mr. Lin must be Yao Erni! I can't believe you actually kidnapped her!"
Back then, a classmate from their class took the initiative to help find Yao Erni. He remembered that Yao Erni had a crescent-shaped birthmark on her wrist.
He had worked with Lin Ye for seven or eight months and had seen the birthmark on Lin Ye's wrist, but he didn't think much of it at the time.
Now that he saw Meng Yiming and Lin together, he naturally thought of it.
Meng Yiming had a headache. "She's not Yao Erni, she's Lin Ye. Her parents are both from Beijing and have never even been to Wucheng."
Qin Tianhua said doubtfully, "This is too coincidental. Engineer Lin also has a crescent-shaped birthmark on his wrist."
Meng Yiming said seriously, "It doesn't matter whether it's a coincidence or not. Look, Lin Ye and I are getting married soon. If those things in the past were to get to her ears, it would definitely affect our relationship. So don't mention it anymore."
Qin Tianhua nodded in understanding, then asked in confusion, "Engineer Lin is not Yao Erni, so where did Yao Erni go?"
Meng Yiming looked into the distance, a look of loneliness on his face. "A little girl like that, out there alone in the middle of winter, might have died a long time ago."
Qin Tianhua felt that this was very likely. He said angrily, "I heard that your family paid a large sum of money in compensation back then! We all believed that you wouldn't do such a thing, but I don't know what your family was thinking at the time. Paying the money would make outsiders think you did something wrong! The worst that could happen is that you can just confront her family head-on!"
Meng Yiming has let go of this matter.
The decision to pay compensation was made after careful consideration by his father.
On the one hand, his father couldn't afford to waste time, and on the other hand, if the matter got out of hand, it would affect his father's future, so his father would rather pay a large sum of money to settle the matter.
Meng Yiming smiled and said, "Thank you for believing in me. Those things are in the past, and our family doesn't care about them anymore. Lin Ye and I are getting married soon, and I don't want to think about those things anymore, nor do I want Lin Ye to know about them. So, please do me a favor and don't mention this matter again in the future."
Qin Tianhua patted Meng Yiming's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell."
"Thank you, old classmate." Meng Yiming said politely, "If you come to Beijing in the future, please contact me."
Meng Yiming felt a little heavy-hearted. He never expected to meet an acquaintance in this place and learn about what happened back then.
Walking outside the dormitory, Meng Yiming curled the corners of his lips and pretended to be very happy as he walked in.
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