Hickey

Liang Qingqing sat on the porch with her chin propped up. Her long messy hair was combed and braided into two pigtails that hung neatly in front of her chest. Except for the blush on her cheeks and slightly swollen lips, there was nothing charming about her.

After watching for a while, seeing that she still ignored him, Fan Yanxing touched his nose and saw that there was no one else in the yard, so he walked towards her. Before he got close, he saw her stand up to leave, and hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Qingqing!"

Hearing the shout, Liang Qingqing first looked around, and was relieved to see that there was no one around, but she couldn't leave anymore, so she could only sit back down after raising her butt half an inch, and then glared at Fan Yanxing unceremoniously, and said angrily: "We agreed to keep a distance first!"

Before the new youth educated center was built, Fan Yanxing would live in the Liang family. If the two of them announced their relationship at this time, not only would they feel awkward, but the other people in the Liang family would also feel uncomfortable, not to mention if those gossipers in the village knew about it. It was still unclear how they would be framed.

Liang Qingqing could guess how unpleasant the words could be.

Although neither of them cared much about gossip, who didn't want to have a good reputation? Moreover, Liang Qingqing felt that this was very important if they wanted to live a comfortable and smooth life in the future, so she mentioned it to Fan Yanxing. At first, he didn't agree, but she persuaded him and he finally agreed.

"I know." Fan Yanxing did not forget this incident. He sat down on a wooden chair one or two steps away from her and changed the subject: "Are you still angry?"

Speaking of this, Liang Qingqing became even angrier. After the kiss at noon, it was almost over, and she turned around to tidy up the notebooks on the table. As a result, Fan Yanxing, for some reason, pressed down on her and left a kiss mark on her butterfly bone, and called it a "stamp".

Thinking of this, her fingertips subconsciously touched the back under her neck. The feeling of being sucked by him inexplicably surged into her heart, causing the skin there to begin to heat up. She suddenly withdrew her hand and bit her lower lip. Before she could say anything, a faint voice came to her ear, "Don't worry, you can't see it." "

Is this a question of whether it can be seen or not?" Liang Qingqing frowned, and her cheeks were dyed a deeper red because of anger.

"Then I'll let you kiss it back?" Fan Yanxing said as he turned slightly to reveal his broad back. His tone was gentle and serious, and it didn't seem like he was joking. "I asked you to stamp it before, but you didn't want to..."

When she said the latter sentence, she actually heard some grievance in it.

"Did you wrong me?"

Liang Qingqing's delicate eyebrows showed a hint of disbelief. She didn't expect Fan Yanxing to be so shameless. She was embarrassed and annoyed for a moment. Before she could say anything bad, the latter took the lead in changing the subject and said, "Brother Junqiang will accompany me to Taoshan tomorrow. I will have my next day off free. Then shall we go to the movies?"

"Watch a movie?" Liang Qingqing grasped the key point and her eyes lit up. She had never seen a movie of this era, so she was naturally very interested.

Seeing that her attention was completely drawn to him and she had forgotten about scolding him, Fan Yanxing's smile deepened and he nodded and said, "Yes, let's go to the cinema in the county town. Didn't I promise you last time that I would accompany you to the city? Don't you remember?"

How could Liang Qingqing not remember? That time at the gate of the educated youth center, she was still thinking about conquering Fan Yanxing step by step and creating an opportunity for the two of them to be alone together, so she half-teasingly "forced" him to accept her invitation. She never thought that he would be taken down by her before he had time to go to the county town.

But she didn't expect that he actually remembered and even arranged the itinerary. He was so considerate and thoughtful, saving her a lot of trouble.

"Since you took me to the movies, I won't bother with you." Liang Qingqing glanced at Fan Yanxing, and the corners of her lips curled up, but then she frowned again: "Don't do this next time."

Fan Yanxing nodded like a garlic, and chuckled: "Okay, thank you Comrade Liang for being generous and not holding my head against you."

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but frown.

Ma Xiuzhi, who was standing by the kitchen stove, happened to witness the whole process. Although she couldn't hear what they were saying, she knew from their expressions that the two had a very good relationship, and their smiles and anger were very natural.

It seems that during the time they spent together in the hospital, Qingqing and Fan Zhiqing became good friends.

Ma Xiuzhi looked away thoughtfully, and continued to use the spatula to scoop up the potato shreds.

However, the rumors in the village during this period of time involuntarily emerged in her mind again, and she tightened her grip on the spatula. She didn't have a chance to talk to Qingqing alone at noon, so after dinner, she must talk to her about this matter.

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After dinner, Liang Qingqing just wanted to take Songzi to paint, but Ma Xiuzhi asked them to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy salt.

"When your aunt comes back later, I will accompany you to paint." Ma Xiuzhi patted Songzi's head and said soothingly, and Songzi nodded obediently.

The mother and daughter walked outside with the salt jar. Liang Qingqing naturally took Ma Xiuzhi's arm and said with a sweet smile: "It's better if it doesn't rain. The ground is easy to walk on."

She didn't want to experience the feeling of muddy soles and dirty water over ankles again.

"That's right. The day before yesterday, the team leader arranged for people to clean up the road." Ma Xiuzhi turned her head to look at Liang Qingqing's little face, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but rise.

The two walked for a while and happened to meet a few aunts from the same village. Usually they would just nod politely and let them go, but they didn't expect that they would stop them.

"Xiuzhi, what are you doing?"

"To the supply and marketing cooperative." Ma Xiuzhi raised the salt jar in her hand and answered with a smile.

The man nodded, but his eyes looked at Liang Qingqing's face, and he said in an ambiguous way: "I haven't seen Qingqing for a long time. Are you back today? You didn't take care of me before. It must have been hard during this period?"

Hearing this, Ma Xiuzhi's face fell immediately. She was about to step forward to argue, but was stopped by Liang Qingqing beside her. The smile between her eyebrows did not diminish, but became deeper, with a charming and moving charm.

"Auntie Tian, ​​you are joking. Comrades should help each other. What's the big deal even if it's hard? I feel comfortable if I can help reduce the burden on the village."

Don't hit a smiling person. Liang Qingqing's smiling look was particularly frank, and there was no sign of guilt, which made those who were looking for trouble feel uncomfortable.

"Haha, that's true." He laughed dryly twice, then changed the subject and said, "Is your method of saving people by kissing real? How come we have never seen it before?"

Seeing that the visitor had bad intentions, Liang Qingqing's emotions completely faded, but she covered her lips in surprise, her tone rising, "Artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation are both relatively basic first aid measures. How come you ladies have never seen them before?"

Without waiting for them to speak, Liang Qingqing took a deep breath as if she had suddenly realized something, and said with a half-smile: "Look at my memory. The aunties have never been to school. They didn't want to go when the village opened a blindness class. They don't know a single word. It's normal that they haven't seen it."

After that, he looked at them with sympathy, shook his head and said to Ma Xiuzhi: "Mom, let's go. If we go too late, the supply and marketing cooperative will be closed."

The aunties were so angry that their chests rose and fell violently after encountering a soft nail that was not easy to mess with. However, they didn't dare to say anything too unpleasant in front of them because they were from the same village. They waited until the two walked away before sneering in a sinister way: "What emergency measures? I think Liang Qingqing is just making up an excuse. Shameless!"

"She dared to kiss a man in front of so many people. Who would dare to marry such a girl in the future? If you are not careful, you will be covered in green. Anyway, I have to keep a close eye on my Dahu. You should also go back and remind him not to let her seduce him."

"Who said it's not true? She had a bad reputation before. I heard some time ago that she had changed, but she's still the same. No wonder she can't get married at the age of eighteen or nineteen. She deserves it!"

The voices were neither loud nor soft, just enough for Ma Xiuzhi and Liang Qingqing to hear roughly. The former was so angry that he turned around and rolled up his sleeves, pointed at them and cursed loudly: "You are not afraid of rotting your mouth if you gossip behind her back? If you have the guts, curse me in person."

The scene of Ma Xiuzhi throwing herself on Ding Aixia and fighting with her some time ago was still vivid in their minds. Besides, after this incident, the village chief had issued an express ban on fighting in the village. If you started fighting, you would definitely suffer the consequences. These aunts were not stupid. After they had satisfied their desire to talk, they dared not step forward. They looked at each other and hurriedly scattered, each going home.

"Bah." After spitting fiercely at their backs, Ma Xiuzhi quickly turned around and grabbed Liang Qingqing's hand. Fearing that she would feel uncomfortable after hearing these words, she comforted her, "Qingqing, they are just barking nonsense, don't take it to heart."

Liang Qingqing was touched, her long eyelashes trembled, and she immediately held Ma Xiuzhi's hand back, smiling lightly, "It's great to have you around, mother. Don't worry, I won't take it to heart and make things difficult for myself."

Ma Xiuzhi saw that Liang Qingqing didn't seem to be pretending, and breathed a sigh of relief, still After a moment, he lowered his voice and spoke: "Actually, this is what I wanted to tell you. The rumor just now has almost spread everywhere in the village recently."

At this point, Ma Xiuzhi frowned and asked the question that had been weighing on her mind: "Why did you run to save people at that time? It was late at night and you left without even saying hello. Don't you know how worried your mother and sister-in-law were when they found out you were missing!"

Hearing this, Liang Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, knowing that what was supposed to come had finally come.

"I... I don't know. I couldn't sleep at the time, and I kept thinking about Fan Zhiqing being buried in the ground. He helped me so many times. If he died like that, I would feel bad, so I thought about going to the scene to take a look."

Liang Qingqing knew that she couldn't get away with this matter perfunctorily, so she simply told the truth half-truthfully. Moreover, her relationship with Fan Yanxing would have to be made public sooner or later, so it was a good thing to give Ma Xiuzhi a shot of vaccination in advance to pave the way for her to avoid being too shocked in the future.

"Then why didn't you ask mother to go with you? It was so dark, you are so brave!"

Ma Xiuzhi glared at Liang Qingqing in reproach, and most of the doubts in her heart were immediately resolved. This answer was almost the same as what she had guessed. After all, they only learned about Fan Zhiqing's accident during the day, and Liang Qingqing sneaked out at night. The timeline matched, so it was not difficult to guess.

"If I had told you at that time, you would definitely not let me go..." Liang Qingqing muttered softly, but Ma Xiuzhi was speechless.