Chapter 52 I Love You
After hanging up the phone with Ji Ling, Ruan Xingmian immediately sent a message to Gu Xing.
Mianmian: Gu Xing, I want to call you.
She wanted to make sure he had time.
Almost a second.
Gu Xing replied reservedly: Yes.
Ruan Xingmian called immediately.
After the call was connected, there was silence on the other end, waiting for her to speak.
Ruan Xingmian shaved his eyebrows with one hand to ease the embarrassment: "Gu Xing, that's not what I meant."
But you are a bit flighty.
"Mianmian," Gu Xing said, "Can you see the moon from where you are?"
This change of topic was exactly what she wanted, so Ruan Xingmian immediately cooperated, climbed out of bed, put on her shoes and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window.
Gu Xing heard her footsteps and said anxiously in his deep voice, "Slow down, watch your step."
"good."
Ruan Xingmian opened the curtains. The moon on the tenth day of August quietly climbed over the hill. The night sky was cloudless and the moonlight fell slowly and gently.
"Gu Xing, I can see."
Gu Xing looked at the moonlit night sky above his head and said, "Mianmian, I miss you."
The silence was prolonged. Lured by the moon, Ruan Xingmian expressed the longing that was suppressed in her heart - "Gu Xing, I miss you too."
Gu Xing seemed to have heard something and held the phone in silence for a long time.
Turing flashed on the phone screen, and a line of words floated out - Your Mianmian is sad.
Gu Xing naturally heard it.
"Mianmian, can you tell me how you feel right now?"
"I'm in a great mood," Ruan Xingmian sighed with tears in her eyes, "Gu Xing, this place is so beautiful, and the people are so nice."
She smiled softly, "Hello to you too."
Fortunately, you are mine, Gu Xing.
Ruan Xingmian smiled with relief, but also felt a little embarrassed. "I saw online that it's not that you can't do that kind of thing, but you have to..."
Gu Xing was still worried about her mood. He frowned when he heard her words: "What kind of thing?"
Ruan Xingmian took a deep breath and said, "Let's talk about it next time we meet."
She really couldn't bring herself to say it.
"Gu Xing..." Someone called Gu Xing loudly.
Ruan Xingmian said hurriedly: "You go ahead and do your work."
Gu Xing was reluctant to hang up the phone: "Mianmian, I'll come see you when I'm done."
I wish I could fly over there in a second along the Internet cable.
…
Three monitors were lit at the same time, with densely packed code windows, project schedules, and instant messaging dialog boxes flashing wildly.
The sound of keyboard tapping was like heavy rain hitting iron sheets, occasionally interspersed with the rapid click of the mouse.
Every day when I walk out of the lab, I feel like I've crawled out of hell.
Gu Xing walked impatiently towards the temporary residence. Qin Zhen said a few words to someone else, and when he turned around, his apprentice was gone.
Turing: "I can sense her mood. She is still sad. Oh, and she is listening to this song."
Soon, leisurely music sounded in the headphones.
The moon quietly passed over the hill
One by one
The moonlight slowly and gently falls
Small wild flowers blooming on the roadside
One by one
Walking on the way home, tears in my eyes
…
Turing: "She's homesick."
Gu Xing: "Who else is in her family?"
Turing kept the secret coldly: "You haven't agreed to cooperate with me, so I have the right to remain silent."
Gu Xing became even more indifferent: "I don't like being threatened."
Turing hesitated for a second and squeezed out a sentence, "Her family is here, but she doesn't know it."
Gu Xing showed a puzzled expression: "Mianmian is from this world?"
"Well, that's all I can tell you right now. She loves the Ruan family, but she's also sad that those things don't belong to her. So, she's thinking about you. She touched the baby and wanted to go back to your home, that place that's only 40 square meters."
Turing: "She was listening to this song and thinking of you."
Turing said in a playful tone: "The baby is awake too, blowing bubbles in the belly to respond to the mother."
Gu Xing stood in front of the window, his back straight, looking at the lights of thousands of homes. His whole body was filled with a silent sadness, and he tried hard to suppress the emotions in his heart.
He suddenly pulled out his phone and sent out a voice message of overwhelming emotion: "Mianmian, I love you."
After a while, Turing screamed loudly, and Gu Xing frowned, annoyed by the noise.
It said innocently, "That's what Mianmian called me after hearing your confession."
It praised him generously: "Gu Xing, you are amazing. You coaxed me into submission with just one sentence. Mianmian is going to wash her face."
Maybe it's because my face is hot.
Gu Xing was still in the same posture as before, even more upset than before.
Now, apart from saying a feeble "I love you" from afar, he can't even give me a hug.
Turing advised: "Little girls are very emotional and their emotions are like a roller coaster. Look, now it's all right."
Seeing that he was still motionless, Turing suddenly said, "Gu Xing, do you know that your daughter is pregnant with a smaller and cuter girl..."
The figure that had been stiff for a long time finally showed some reaction.
Turing: "Have you thought of a name for your baby?"
Gu Xing: “No…”
Turing was eager to try: "If you spend some money to upgrade my server and expand my data processing capabilities, I will come up with a name for you that will never be repeated."
Gu Xing rejected the proposal and picked up his phone to call his girlfriend.
I was hung up just as I got through.
Gu Xing looked at his phone, his cold eyes filled with confusion: "..."
"Want to know why you were hung up on?"
Turing hummed: "You are ignoring me, so I won't tell you!"
…
Ruan Xingmian said that he slipped his hand purely out of excitement.
Who knew that she would think of a song before going to bed, so she played it for her baby while putting it on her belly. She thought it was good, so she put it on repeat. As she listened, she became so absorbed in the story that she filled her mind with a 10,000-word sad novel.
I haven't even finished writing yet and I'm already crying my eyes out.
Gu Xing's voice came out of nowhere. Ruan Xingmian blushed and screamed after hearing it.
Then, Ruan Xingyue ran over from next door and knocked hard on her door.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling sick in the stomach?"
Ruan Xingmian had never seen this kind of expression on this face that seemed to ignore everyone.
Tension, worry, and a deep sense of unease.
"No, nothing." Ruan Xingmian racked his brains, "I was reading a novel. I was so excited..."
Her eyes were still red, and because she was in a relaxed posture and didn't suck in her belly, she was wearing a tight green floral cotton skirt, and the curve of her abdomen could be vaguely seen, which was no longer flat.
Ruan Xingyue felt the reality of her sister's pregnancy.
"Have you just been crying?"
She strode into the room and sat down on a chair.
Her right leg was folded over her left knee, her legs casually crossed, her toes hooked in a white closed-toe slipper, the heel dangling in the air, revealing an ankle as thin as a piece of cold jade.
"My eyes have been dry lately, so I rubbed them and they became dry." Ruan Xingmian closed the door and turned around, not daring to say directly that he cried while listening to the song, for fear of being called pretentious.
He turned around and saw the unlit cigarette between Ruan Xingyue's fingers, and was slightly stunned.
Ruan Xingmian opened his mouth and wanted to say that smoking is harmful to health, but was afraid that Ruan Xingyue would say, "It's my business, don't worry about it."
She sat back on the bed in a sullen manner, subconsciously pulling in her stomach and sitting with her back straight, waiting for Ruan Xingyue to speak, like a guest staying at the Ruan family's house.
Not as casual and natural as Xu Yanzi.
The two people were separated by half a room.
Ruan Xingyue glanced around the room. "You have too few things. I'll drive you to the city tomorrow. Do you have any desk plants you like? The kind that little girls like, succulents or something like that?"
She didn't like how tidy and clean her room was, as if she was ready to leave with her luggage at any time.
"No, no need."
"Go to sleep, I'll wake you up tomorrow." As she said this, she flicked away the cigarette she hadn't lit in time with two fingers and walked straight towards Ruan Xingmian's big bed.
Ruan Xingmian looked up at her with wide eyes, a silly expression.
"I'll sleep with you tonight." She climbed onto the bed without saying anything.
The bed was big enough, and the tall and thin Ruan Xingyue didn't take up much space, but she couldn't be ignored.
Ruan Xingmian stood there in a daze.
"Come up." Ruan Xingyue patted the pillow next to her.
When Gu Xing called for the first time, she subconsciously hung up the phone.
Ruan Xingyue: "Gu Xing's call?"
"Um."
"Go ahead and answer it. We've already seen the kissing scene. What else can I not hear?"
When the call came the second time, Ruan Xingmian answered it hesitantly. Thinking of that incoherent confession, she couldn't help but feel sweet in her heart.
They were chatting nicely at first, but when they heard that Ruan Xingyue would sleep with her tonight, the other party immediately fell silent.
After a long while, when Gu Xing spoke again, his tone was a little more relaxed.
"Thank Sister Xingyue for me." Even though he was gritting his teeth and secretly unhappy.
Gu Xing was still grateful that there was someone by Mianmian's side at this time.
The two hung up the phone.
Ruan Xingmian lay down and turned off the lights in the room.
Moonlight covered half of the bed.
She left the curtains open.
Ruan Xingyue stopped her from getting up and said, "Just keep it open."
The windows face the mountain and no one can see inside.
"oh."
Ruan Xingmian fell asleep with excitement and indescribable thoughts.
Without her knowing, a sleepless body was moving closer behind her.
Look at her face, her eyebrows and eyes in the moonlight.
Finally, he put his face on the back of her neck...
When she woke up, the curtains were drawn and through the gaps she could see that it was a nice day.
Ruan Xingyue didn't call her and went there by herself.
We are harvesting millet at home today.
The water was released yesterday, so we can push the machine into the fields today.
Ruan Ze does not plan to harvest the grain himself this year.
For the sake of his old waist, he paid to rent the machine for two days, and Old Man Ruan didn't say anything.
The villagers valued personal relationships, and when they learned that her family was harvesting rice, they came to help spontaneously, and there were several people in her house that she had never seen before.
Ruan Xingmian walked into the courtyard and searched for Ruan Xingyue for a long time but couldn't find her.
Ruan Ze was testing the machine and saw her and said cheerfully, "Little one, wake up. Go have breakfast. Your mom left some for you."
People in Lenan would call their children "yaoer", and the youngest child would be called "jiujiu".
"good."
She walked through the crowd, feeling uncomfortable because of the stares she received during the short walk.
The villagers never shy away from looking at others, and they think they don't have much ill will in their eyes. They just think that people are there to be looked at.
Just take a look and say a few words, it won’t hurt you.
As soon as Ruan Xingmian entered the kitchen, people outside started talking about her.
She could hear it clearly through the kitchen wall.
"Xingmian looks much better dressed up like this. The last few times she came back, she looked like a lion king, not like a girl at all."
Another echoed: "This kid is about to graduate from junior college, right? Should she find a job first or get married first? I'd say get married first. Why would a girl study so much? She's going to get married and have kids anyway. Look at her sister. After finishing graduate school, does she still want a doctorate? Forget it. It's hard for a girl to get married if she studies too much..."
Ruan Xingmian was furious when he heard this. He stood up and said, "Bullshit."
She rushed out aggressively, holding the egg in her hand.
As soon as I reached the door, I heard Ruan Xingyue's cold voice: "Your son looks more like a girl than my sister. Has he found a husband yet?"
The first person she confronted.
Ruan Xingmian leaned against the doorway, followed closely behind and glared at the second person: "Your son is a junior high school graduate at the age of 30, and he can't even write the word doctorate. Has he gotten married despite living such an outstanding life?"
They look similar, but the way they curse is completely different, but their aura is equally strong.
One is cold but hard, the other is soft but strong. In two words, it all comes down to this - hard and strong.
The two women were embarrassed by the two young girls.
She looked around, wanting to ask someone to help her give her a lecture. This kind of temper in a girl is not acceptable.
But no one dared to speak. Everyone was just watching the excitement in secret.
The words in his eyes were - why are you messing with them?
Aunt Wu, who was the first to speak, smiled awkwardly and looked at Ruan Xingyue: "We were just chatting casually. Xingyue, you misunderstood."
The second one was surnamed Liu. She was not on good terms with Li Xue. She had asked Li Xue for help with her child’s studies before. Her son did not meet the academic standard and could not enter Li Xue’s high school. She thought it was Li Xue’s fault.
Likes to chirp behind the back.
Li Xue was a straightforward person and very busy. In addition, many women in the village were jealous of her family's big house and thought she was scheming and wanted to adopt Ruan Xingmian as her daughter and share her brother-in-law's pension. They were very jealous behind her back.
Aunt Wu tried to get away with it with a smug look on her face, but Ruan Xingyue refused to listen: "You're eating my family's rice bowl, stepping on my family's land, and making things up about my family. You're so mean, you're pointing fingers at my family's affairs. What's the point of having too much time?"
"Xingyue..." Liu Fumei waited until she finished scolding before coming out of the kitchen. "Don't bother with the elderly. Everyone in the village is like this. They gossip for no reason. They feel jealous when they see others have money in their pockets and live a comfortable life."
As soon as these words were spoken, it was no less than two big slaps in the face. The two women's faces immediately darkened, they threw away the food in their hands and went home.
Liu Fumei didn't care at all, but looked at the two little girls with a smile.
Just like when we were kids, we fight and quarrel together, always protecting each other without fear.
Ruan Xingmian was stunned when he saw the large and small bags in Ruan Xingyue's hands and the large cardboard box in the car.
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