Chapter 48

coax?

The journey is long and thoughtful.

"Look at you, you're trapped in love!" Shi Lei mocked Lu Yuanzheng unceremoniously.

The journey is long and arduous, are you trapped by love?

"Tsk! You'd better stay away from me! It's too embarrassing to be with you." Shi Lei walked away shaking his head.

"Fuck! Didn't you say you would send me back?" Lu Yuanzheng shouted at him.

You took away his documents and now you don't care about him anymore?

Shi Lei hissed, stopped and turned around, looking very disappointed: "Are you stupid? Your brain is quite useful when dealing with the enemy? Why are you dealing with your wife who is like those idiots in Guigang?"

"My wife is not an enemy!"

Shi Lei took a few steps back and said earnestly: "I didn't ask you to treat your wife as an enemy! But you have to study it as seriously as you would treat an enemy, formulate a combat plan, no, a coaxing plan, and execute a coaxing mission."

He patted the wheelchair armrest and said directly: "Let your sister-in-law push you!"

This time he really left after saying that.

Lu Yuanzheng looked thoughtfully at the adults and children playing games not far away.

After playing eagle and chicken, they started playing hand string.

He thought that intellectuals like Xu Wen would not like such childish games, but he actually got into it.

Dongsheng and he look like a pair...of siblings.

Lu Yuanzheng touched his face, feeling a little unhappy for some reason, and called out to Xu Wen: "Wenwen, come over and help me."

In front of so many people, Xu Wen couldn't help but give Lu Yuanzheng face. He let Dongsheng play first, walked to Lu Yuanzheng's side, and pushed him back.

"Do you want to see the sea?" Lu Yuanzheng looked up to ask Xu Wen's opinion.

Xu Wen replied with two words: "I don't want to."

"It's hot in the room so early in the morning, how about we take a walk together?"

Xu Wen didn't even say anything in response, but pushed him firmly towards the family building.

"Don't you want to see the place where I... grew up?"

"We have a nice view here."

“…”

Xu Wen remained silent no matter what Lu Yuanzheng said. When they were about to reach the door of the unit, Lu Yuanzheng stopped the wheelchair with his hands and sighed softly: "Xu Wen, shall we talk?"

Xu Wen still didn't say anything, but he didn't push anyone into the family building either.

"It's inconvenient to talk here with so many people coming and going, and the room is damp and hot. Shall we go downstairs?"

Xu Wen was silent for a moment, then pushed the wheelchair back and walked down the main road.

At the end of the road, you can see the distant scenery through the gap between the two companies.

When I was in the car, I saw the sea was very close, but if I really wanted to go there now, I would have to walk for a while.

Xu Wen was not afraid of walking, but the road below was all dirt and there were traces of tanks. After pushing the wheelchair for a while, all the wounds on Lu Yuanzheng's body would open, including the scars that had already healed.

She looked around and saw a stone table under a tree not far ahead. There was also a stone bench next to the stone table. She pushed Lu Yuanzheng under the shade of the tree and said, "Let's talk here!"

Lu Yuanzheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Frankly speaking, he was a little scared if he really had to go through this.

Not being afraid of pain does not mean that it doesn’t hurt.

He looked up at Xu Wen, who had a blank expression on his face.

Lu Yuanzheng asked softly, "Are you still angry?"

"I'm not angry. You've been so considerate of me in every way. Why should I be angry?"

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

Your expression and your tone don't say that.

"Since you have someone to take care of you here, just consider it as me sending Dongsheng back to you. I will leave tomorrow!"

"Where are you going as a girl during the Chinese New Year? Can you please stop saying those angry words?"

"Does it have anything to do with you? We haven't reported it or obtained a marriage certificate. Oh, the wedding isn't done yet, and we're both free, which is good. In your words, I can find a promising job in college right away, so why should I stay here?"

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

He was so choked that he couldn't utter a word. He didn't know why a well-educated and well-mannered girl could speak so harshly.

Thinking of Shi Lei's words, Lu Yuanzheng swallowed his explanation and said, "I'm sorry, it's my fault. I apologize!"

This time Xu Wen didn't say anything. He stood aside with a stern face, looking up at the tree.

Lu Yuanzheng bit the tip of his tongue lightly and subconsciously wanted to reach for a cigarette, but there was nothing in his pocket. He reached out and picked a leaf, pinched off the leaf, put it in his mouth and bit the stem, thinking about how to coax her.

"The journey is long." Xu Wen suddenly spoke.

"arrive."

Xu asked: "..."

But you know, every time Dongsheng is called, he will answer whoever it is.

Lu Yuanzheng explained: "I'm used to it."

I was distracted just now when I heard my name being called out of habit.

"Before we got married, I wavered once." Xu Wen sat on the stone bench and faced Lu Yuanzheng. "That time, I was thinking about what you said yesterday."

"ah?"

"At that time, I knew that I would take the college entrance examination this year, and I knew that I would definitely pass it."

Xu Wen's words sounded a bit arrogant, but Lu Yuanzheng knew that Xu Wen had no intention of showing off, he was just stating a fact.

"I thought about it for a whole week. Until I was framed and arrested by Wen Yiming, I hadn't made a choice. The reason for not marrying you is obvious. I can get out of the current predicament on my own if I endure it for another three or four months. Like you said last night, I may have a better future and more choices in the future. It must have been troublesome to break off the engagement at that time, but as you said, I am generally a more rational person. I have weighed the pros and cons. Compared with the loss after entering university, the loss brought by breaking off the engagement is actually nothing."

Lu Yuanzheng listened silently.

"I even took a piece of paper during evening study and wrote down in detail the pros and cons of marrying you and the pros and cons of not marrying you. Frankly speaking, not marrying you is obviously better for me."

Lu Yuanzheng couldn't help but ask, "Then why did you decide to marry me?"

Xu Wen shook his head. "I didn't think clearly at that time. After all, there were some complicated things between you and me at that time. You left with the intention of dying. I always thought it might be because of hero worship, or sympathy for you and Dongsheng. But now you are still alive, at least the sympathy does not exist anymore."

"Is admiration all that's left?" Lu Yuanzheng raised his eyebrows, smiled and shook his head, "I'm just an ordinary person, and we'll live together forever... If you say that, I can't delay you. What if one day you find that I'm not what you imagined, won't you regret it?"

Xu Wen did not refute him, but only said: "You told me the story about Mrs. Li last night to distract me, but I saw that you reacted!"

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

His face suddenly turned red, and he stopped talking in an instant.

"I……"

Xu Wen waved his hand to stop him: "I'm not questioning you. You don't need to explain. I just want to ask you, do you like me? Or is having a reaction different from liking me?"

Lu Yuanzheng has always been a very organized person, but when Xu Wen asked him to explain, his mind went blank due to embarrassment, and he couldn't follow Xu Wen's train of thought for a while. When he heard her question, he nodded subconsciously: "I like it."

Xu Wen smiled.

Lu Yuanzheng looked at her smile and laughed too. After he finished laughing, he remembered what he had said and sighed, "Xu Wen!"

There was a hint of pampering and helplessness in his tone.

He is a human being, not a piece of wood.

Xu Wen is young, beautiful, well-educated and well-mannered.

It's only natural to like her.

“Yes!”

"I..." Lu Yuanzheng sighed again and smiled bitterly, "Love can't be eaten. It's hard to follow me."

"What do you like about me?" Xu Wen only picked out what he wanted to hear.

Lu Yuanzheng's Adam's apple rolled, and he thought about the scene when he first saw her.

It wasn’t in the pond, it was when I was catching moths.

Lu Yuanzheng counted the good things he had asked on his fingers: "You are smart, kind, pretty, well-educated, and well-mannered..."

He piled up almost all the words he knew.

Xu Wen was a little disappointed and pouted: "The love that can be expressed out loud is not love."

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

Lu Yuanzheng suddenly had an idea and asked, "Do you like me?"

"I don't like it!" Xu Wen answered bluntly, "Who likes a piece of wood?"

After saying that, he turned and left.

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

He called out to Xu and asked, "What should I do if you leave?"

"Just reflect on yourself there!"

Xu Wen left very decisively, without even looking back once.

It's not that she has no conscience, the stone table is in a corner of a company.

She noticed that when she was talking to Lu Yuanzheng, someone was looking around in the room. He was the new battalion commander after all, so why would he worry about no one sending him back to the family building?

As Xu Wen walked, the corners of his lips began to rise.

Do you like him?

Of course I like it.

Marry only if you like someone.

This is what she figured out last night.

Which girl doesn’t have a dream of being a hero?

What's more, Lu Yuanzheng is a true hero, both to her and to the capital.

The same goes for Xu Wen. Although he has lived two lives as a human being, he just graduated from college in his previous life.

I didn't have the chance to think so much before. Just like what she told Lu Yuanzheng, I just thought it was pure admiration and sympathy.

If I think about it carefully, the reason I didn't cancel the engagement even though I was shaken last time was probably because I liked her.

She knew that people in this era cared more about the matchmaker's words and parents' orders when getting married.

Few people would use liking or not liking someone as a reason for two people to get married.

At least it is rare in rural areas.

But who doesn't like a love affair that's mutually congenial?

If Lu Yuanzheng didn't like her, he would have just arranged everything for her, just like he arranged everything for Dongsheng, and he wouldn't have tried so hard to coax her.

It’s okay if you really don’t like him. There is always time and you can make him like you.

Men! You have to teach them slowly.

Lu Yuanzheng and Xu Wen returned to the hospital early in the morning on the second day of the Chinese New Year.

I have no choice but to reply, because Li Daoming's prescription for medicine only lasts until the second day of the Chinese New Year.

In some camps, the health departments can handle it, but in others, they have to go back to the hospital.

The camp sent a car to take them both away.

The health company has an ambulance.

This time, Lu Yuanzheng insisted on climbing into the car by himself and refused to be carried.

I didn't bring Dongsheng with me, mainly because even if I took him to the hospital, Xu Wen wouldn't be able to take care of him.

There were some kids in the compound who played with him, and most of them were people he was familiar with.

This Dongsheng had rabbit eyes all morning, and complained to Xu Wen: "Mom, you said you would never separate from me."

Lu Yuanzheng promised him that he would have someone send him to the hospital in two days. Only then did Dongsheng reluctantly agree to stay.

Li Daoming had been waiting for Lu Yuanzheng early in the morning. He was relieved to see him come back. As soon as he saw him, he complained with a bitter face: "Because of you, I haven't had a good New Year. You ran away and I'm free. Do you know how the dean scolded me? I should have taken a day off today! I was summoned to the hospital early in the morning because of you. Our dean said that if you don't come back today, he won't let me go home."

"Is that so?" Lu Yuanzheng said with regret, "If I had known, I would have come back at night!"

Li Daoming: “…”

"Lu Yuanzheng, look at your mean face!"

After returning to the ward, Li Daoming checked Lu Yuanzheng's injury and sighed.