Li Yuan was too lazy to talk to her anymore. Her words were so crazy that they destroyed his worldview. Now, he just wanted to find Zhang Juan and have a frank talk with her.
Li Yuan stood up and left. When he left, he glanced at Wang Xu and Gu Xi, then left without looking back.
Gu Xi stuck out her tongue at Wang Xu: "It's a bit embarrassing to be caught eavesdropping."
Tian Congbao couldn't help but say, "Gu Zhiqing, you weren't embarrassed at all just now. You almost sat at that table. It couldn't be more obvious. You looked excited when you heard it."
Wang Xu smiled without saying anything. He looked at the lunch boxes in the restaurant. They only had two kinds of vegetables and three vegetables or one meat dish and two vegetables. The meat dish was stir-fried pork with chili peppers, and there was almost no pork. The prices were 30 cents and 40 cents respectively.
Wang Xu ordered three meals, one meat and two vegetable dishes. The conductor looked at Wang Xu frequently. Not many people could come to the dining car in this era. Most people brought their own dry food or asked for a cup of boiling water to soak the cold rice. It was already very good to have a pickle.
Wang Xu saw that Gu Xi didn't like the food very much: "If it doesn't taste good, you can eat meat buns later. There are still a lot of meat buns. There will be eggs tomorrow morning. Get over it. Blame me for not being well prepared this time."
Gu Xi was not picky, but the main problem was that the smell on the train was bad. Various smells mixed together made Gu Xi feel uncomfortable and lost her appetite.
"The smell here is a bit strong, with all kinds of food smells, cigarette smells, and the smell of feet mixed together. I can't eat. It's disgusting."
Seeing this, Tian Congbao quickly covered the lunch box and said, "Gu Zhiqing, let's go back and eat."
Wang Xu handed the lunch box to Tian Congbao and filled Gu Xi's cup with water. "Let's go back first and eat when we're hungry. You have a very sensitive nose."
Wang Xu held Gu Xi's hand with a water cup in one hand and the other, while Tian Congbao followed helplessly behind him holding three lunch boxes.
Unexpectedly, when I passed by the sleeper berth on my way back, I got to hear the follow-up news.
Li Yuan found Zhang Juan. They stood face to face in the aisle outside the sleeper berth door. Their eyes met, and neither of them spoke.
There were a few people sitting on the floor of the aisle to rest, looking at the two of them curiously.
Seeing this, Li Yuan pushed Zhang Juan into the berth. Zhang Juan panicked for a moment, and without seeing any movement or expression afterwards, she was directly pulled into the door.
Gu Xi hurriedly followed, but was stopped by Wang Xu: "Be careful, don't bump into anyone when you walk."
Gu Xi greeted the person she almost bumped into: "Excuse me."
The man's clothes were patched, and there were two cloth bags beside him. He smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, we bought standing tickets, and we are a little tired, so we just sit here to rest. It's okay if you didn't touch me."
Wang Xu also nodded, and took Gu Xi carefully to the door of the sleeper berth, and whispered to Tian Congbao: "You go back first, she will probably eavesdrop for a while. Let Sister Yuan and Brother Hong go to eat first. You can also eat something casually. The food we brought is in the military green handbag. Take whatever you want to eat."
Tian Congbao nodded but didn't say anything because Gu Xi was eavesdropping and he was afraid of affecting her hearing.
Gu Xi leaned against the door and listened. The train was very noisy and people were talking quietly inside, so she could not hear anything at all. She could only go back to the next berth in disappointment.
Seeing her unhappy, Yuan Ping thought that Wang Xu had upset her. Wang Xu quickly denied it innocently: "How dare I? My status in the family can't be lowered. It's a pity that she didn't hear the gossip."
Yuan Ping didn't expect such a thing to happen. She didn't even bother to eat for a moment and listened to Gu Xi repeating the gossip she had just heard.
Yuan Ping was also shocked when she heard this: "This girl looks kind, but her mind is so vicious. You can't judge a person by his appearance."
Hong Qin didn't care about these things. They were all strangers, so he didn't care at all: "Okay, let's go out for a walk after listening. We've been stuck in the car for a whole day. Let's eat while we're here. We must be hungry."
Tian Congbao had finished his meal alone. With such a troublesome brother and sister-in-law, he could only take good care of himself.
After eating, I returned the lunch box to the dining car and walked to digest the food.
He met Zhang Ting on the way, and she had returned to normal. He saw Tian Congbao, Gu Xi and Wang Xu together in the dining car earlier. Now he was the only one there, and he was a child, so he couldn't help but ask about Wang Xu's situation.
"Little brother, what is the relationship between the man and the woman just now and you?"
Tian Congbao listened to Gu Xi's story and Gu Xi's complaints about the woman staring at Wang Xu, saying she must not be a good person. He replied with some caution, "It's my brother and sister-in-law."
Zhang Ting was a little surprised when he heard that Wang Xu was married: "Your brother is married? I thought they were just dating. Your brother is still doting on her after getting married? Don't men change after getting married?"
Tian Congbao saw that she really had bad intentions towards Wang Xu, so he deliberately angered her: "My brother treats my sister-in-law very well. My sister-in-law is beautiful and educated, and my brother listens to her in everything."
Zhang Ting couldn't help but ask again: "I see your brother is well-dressed and well-off. All the money is earned by your brother, so why would he listen to your sister-in-law?"
Tian Congbao looked at Zhang Ting as if she were a fool: "Because my brother's mother said that if you listen to your wife, you will be rich. My brother loves my sister-in-law the most, so of course he listens to her in everything. In my sister-in-law's words, my brother is a bootlicker.
My brother was very happy to hear that. My sister-in-law didn’t want to have children, but my brother listened to her. As long as my sister-in-law was happy, he was willing to do anything.”
Tian Congbao's words made Zhang Ting extremely jealous. Why could others find such a good man, but she ended up in such a situation?
Seeing that the time was almost right, Tian Congbao said nothing more and left quietly, keeping his achievement and fame to himself.
Zhang Ting touched her belly and thought of Li Yuan, the son of the village chief, who graduated from school in town and had a stable job at the post office, which was considered respectable even in Shanghai.
The reason why I told Zhang Juan that my family would not agree was just to find an excuse for having an abortion.
But he just happened to like Zhang Juan, whose belly was carrying the son of the production team leader. In order to avoid having to work and become a scorekeeper, she sacrificed herself, but the other party already had a wife and son, which meant that they each got what they wanted.
After she falsely accused Li Yuan and became pregnant, she was officially the daughter-in-law of the village chief. The production team leader's son loved to hang out with her even more, thinking that it was very cool to be able to sleep with the village chief's daughter-in-law.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ting closed her eyes. She hated herself for being like this and felt a little sick: "Why can't I meet such a good man? Why am I always the one who gets hurt?"
Little did he know that while he was asking about Wang Xu, the two people in the sleeper room had already talked it out and resolved the misunderstanding.
Li Yuan's personality is the same as his appearance. He likes to get straight to the point: "Zhang Juan, you were the one who had sex with me that night, right? Why didn't you tell me? I have been suffering from misunderstanding for so long, how could you bear it?"
Zhang Juan didn't expect him to know this, her face turned pale: "How did you know?"
Li Yuan looked at Zhang Juan with deep affection and pain: "Your sister told me that she didn't have sex with me that day, and the baby in her belly is not mine. Although I was drugged that night and I don't remember many things clearly, I remember that there was a red birthmark on my shoulder that looked like a little bird."
Zhang Juan's eyes widened in shock: "The baby in Zhang Ting's belly is not yours? How could this happen? Doesn't she like you very much? You love her so much and treat her so well, how could this happen?!"
Li Yuan smiled bitterly: "She has always known that the person I like is you, so she deliberately framed me. I have never touched her, and I don't like her. I took care of her because I thought it was her that night, and I just wanted to be responsible for her."
Zhang Juan was still in shock: "You like me? How could you like me? I'm so ordinary and I can't speak."
Li Yuan grabbed Zhang Juan's hand and didn't let her break free: "Do you like me? Zhang Ting said you like me too, is that true? Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, can you agree to date me? I will treat you well and we will date with the intention of getting married. As long as you are willing, I can marry you at any time."
Zhang Juan has been hiding her love these days and dared not reveal even a bit, for fear that others would notice her little thoughts and that it would cause unnecessary trouble for Zhang Ting and Li Yuan.
She didn't expect that she and Li Yuan were in love with each other. When her beloved confessed his love to her, she could no longer suppress her sadness and burst into tears.
Seeing how upset she was, Li Yuan thought that his confession had put too much pressure on her, and he hugged her helplessly: "Don't be sad, I don't mean to force you. It doesn't matter if you don't want to agree, I will treat you well. I just don't want you to misunderstand me. Don't be upset."
Being held in Li Yuan's arms, Zhang Juan's heart, which had been hanging in the air for a long time, finally had a sense of belonging, but she didn't know how to express herself and could only continue crying.
Tired of crying, she calmed down and looked up at Li Yuan: "Do you really like me?"
Li Yuan nodded immediately: "I really like you. I have liked you for a long time. I just like the way you get shy when you are teased. I like your kindness and tenacity."
Zhang Juan was a little shy after being praised directly. She blushed and buried her head in Li Yuan's arms: "I like you too. I promise you."
Li Yuan felt his blood boiling with joy, and he wanted to rush out of the sleeper room immediately to tell everyone the good news: "I have a partner!"
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