“If you come to our village, I guarantee that every man’s eyes will pop out of their sockets!” he said seriously, his face contorted with sarcasm.
Wei Xiaoqing was taken aback and asked, "Why?"
"Because you're so beautiful, no one can compare to you. Even the announcer at the TV station in our county isn't as pretty as you!" He said this without a trace of teasing on his face.
Wei Xiaoqing laughed again. No girl dislikes being told she's pretty, and she was no exception. However, praising a girl's beauty depends on the occasion and place. If a few strangers on the street stopped a girl and said she was pretty, she would definitely be called a pervert.
But he spoke with great skill, without a trace of a smile on his face, and his manner was so charming that Wei Xiaoqing liked him more and more as he listened, finding his words increasingly amusing.
He started chatting with her casually, from cats at the foot of the mountain to wolves on the mountain, from rabbits in the fields to wild boars in the forest, leaving Wei Xiaoqing bewildered. Achang, who was in front, found it all quite amusing.
The story gets increasingly absurd. "One time, my younger brother and I went to the back window of Erniu's house at night..."
Zhou Xuan didn't care about the nonsense, but when he heard that Er Niu was mentioned, he was startled. He quickly reached out and poked her in the waist. She froze for a moment, then realized that she had let something slip while talking nonsense, and immediately stopped talking.
Wei Xiaoqing peeked out and asked, "You mean Zhou Xuan, the younger brother you're talking about? What were you doing at Erniu's back window?"
He said awkwardly, "Nothing, nothing, I was just going to catch wild rabbits behind her house."
"Catching wild rabbits?" Wei Xiaoqing muttered doubtfully for a moment, then unexpectedly asked, "Is Erniu Zhou Xuan's lover?"
Zhou Xuan was immediately embarrassed and spat out, "What nonsense are you talking about? It's not mine!"
"If it's not yours, then it must be Brother Zhang's?" Wei Xiaoqing asked with a smile.
She was also a bit flustered, "No, no, that's not true,"
But her words sounded unconvincing. Wei Xiaoqing smiled brightly and asked again, "I..."
Neither Zhou Xuan nor Er Niu answered the question. They fell silent. When they were twelve or thirteen, Er Niu's half-mature body had indeed had a powerful impact on them. No one can forget their first time, right? Er Niu's body was imprinted on their minds, and they still remembered it vividly more than ten years later.
After passing Tianjin and entering Taiyuan, they ate at a restaurant. When they resumed their journey, ** took over from Ade, Achang continued, and Zhou Wang, who couldn't drive, had to take turns resting.
Wei Xiaoqing could drive, but she didn't ask, so Achang and Ade naturally wouldn't let her take over. Ade sat in Achang's passenger seat and could fall asleep right away. Zhou Xuan was quite impressed. The back seat was spacious, and he suggested that Ade come and rest in the back, but Ade refused, saying he could sleep on his own. They were used to it because of their military service; compared to their time in the army, this was like heaven. Wei Xiaoqing went to sit with Liu Yufang, and Zhou Xuan let her be. Since Ade insisted on not coming to the back, he just lay down sideways to sleep.
Wei Xiaoqing actually wanted to chat with Liu Yufang. Liu Yufang, holding her son, was also bored, and the two struck up a conversation. Liu Yufang quite liked this pretty and lively girl, but she didn't know her identity and hadn't had a chance to ask earlier. But since she was going back to the countryside with them, there must be some connection, right? Could she be Zhou Xuan's girlfriend?
Liu Yufang thought about it and felt it didn't seem quite right. After all, she knew Zhou Xuan's background well. But then she realized she had forgotten that Zhou Xuan was now a wealthy man. It was normal for a rich man to have a beautiful girlfriend. Didn't she marry him because he was good at making money and had some wealth? Girls have dreams when they are young, always dreaming that a handsome, rich prince charming will fall in love with them. But as they grow up, they become more realistic. Dreams are just dreams, and there is a big gap between them and reality. Dreams are unrealistic because they are just dreams. You only think about them when you are dreaming, and you don't think about them when you wake up.
Liu Yufang also thought that this might be the case, but she felt that Wei Xiaoqing was too beautiful, a bit too much, and she was also a little worried about Zhou Xuan. Would a girl like that really stay with him? What if she cheated him out of his money and then ran away?
Wei Xiaoqing had no idea that Liu Yufang was thinking so much. She reached out and gently touched her son's face with her finger. The little guy wasn't shy at all; instead, he grabbed her finger with his soft little finger and giggled.
"So cute, how old are you?" Wei Xiaoqing asked.
"He'll be one year old in a month." Liu Yufang held her son with both hands, letting him play with Wei Xiaoqing on her lap, then stared at Wei Xiaoqing and said, "Little sister, you're so pretty!"
"You're so beautiful, prostitute," Wei Xiaoqing said with a smile. Everyone was acting strangely today; men and women alike were praising her beauty. Of course, she knew she was beautiful herself.
"You're all old and faded!" Liu Yufang said with a smile. "Sister, are you also coming to our village?"
Wei Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes. Zhou Xuan and I are going to visit his hometown, since we have nothing else to do anyway."
Liu Yufang's smile deepened; it really did look somewhat plausible!
Although she had only met Wei Xiaoqing online, her intuition told her that Wei Xiaoqing was a straightforward and unpretentious girl, and there weren't many girls like her in big cities these days.
Liu Yufang tried to get information out of Wei Xiaoqing, but Wei Xiaoqing took the initiative and asked, "Sister-in-law, are you from the same village as Zhou Xuan and Brother Zhang?"
Liu Yufang smiled and shook her head, saying, "We're not from the same village, but we're not far apart, only about a ten-minute walk."
"Oh, does your sister-in-law know a girl named Erniu?" Wei Xiaoqing asked casually, as if she were not paying attention.
"Erniu?" Liu Yufang frowned and thought for a moment. Then she said, "I think I often heard my mother call the second sister of the Chen family behind **'s house 'Erniu,' but she got married a few years ago. Do you know her?"
“Oh, maybe it’s not her.” Wei Xiaoqing shook her head and immediately denied it. “I heard Zhou Xuan mention her. I was just asking, just asking.”
The driver in front was a little nervous, not expecting Wei Xiaoqing to chase after the car to try and get information out of Liu Yufang. Fortunately, Liu Yufang didn't know anything, and the fact that he and Zhou Xuan were spying on Erniu was a secret; no one else knew about it except the two of them.
Despite all the probing, there was no substantial progress. Liu Yufang was unaware of the secret between ** and Zhou Xuan, so she couldn't get any information out of her. As for Wei Xiaoqing, whenever Liu Yufang probed into her relationship with Zhou Xuan, Wei Xiaoqing either brushed it off lightly or gave vague and ambiguous answers, neither confirming nor denying.
They drove through the night, and Achang and Ade switched places again. After resting for three hours, they switched places again. Achang and Ade were much stronger than the driver, and they drove until dawn before the driver switched places with them.
By the next morning, we had been driving for nearly 24 hours, passing through Tianjin, Dezhou, Tai'an, Kaifeng, Xuchang, Shenhe, and Nanyang. After passing Xinye County, the site of the burning of Xinye during the Three Kingdoms period, we entered Hubei Province, bordering Xiangfan. Another hour later, we reached Laohekou, and around 11 a.m., we entered Danjiangkou. Driving north for another hour or so, the roadside became familiar.
Zhou Xuan hadn't been back for many years. The mountains were still the same mountains, but the roads were different. After passing through the town and entering the village roads, they were all paved with cement, much better than the old gravel roads, and the roads were also wider.
When they arrived at Liu's small shop in the village, the car couldn't go any further, so everyone got out, opened the trunk and took out their luggage. At first, there were only a few children, but when they saw the two powerful Hummers and then saw these people, they quickly called out a few adults.
Zhou Xuan recognized the adults who came out and greeted them, "Second Uncle Liu, Brother Jiang Cheng."
The two men were stunned for a moment, and then said, "You, you are Zhou Xuan? Zhou Diwa?"
Zhou Xuan nodded, but before he could speak, someone called out from the other car, "Second Uncle, Jiang Cheng, it's me, Boss Zhang, the eldest son of the Zhang family, I'm back!"
But Uncle Liu and Jiang Cheng only glanced at him before turning around and shouting, "Zhou Diwa is back! Zhou Diwa is back!"
Zhou Xuan was taken aback. "I'm back, do I need to make such a big fuss? What's there to be excited about?"
The people on the side were also a bit strange. I drove such a big car, but they weren't envious or jealous. Instead, they just called me "little brother." Did he become more handsome?
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Volume 1, Chapter 73: Reunion
When no one is paying attention to him, he experiences a moment of online amusement with a sense of boastfulness. Then look at Zhou Xuan.
This guy was also a little surprised. Could it be that everyone in his hometown knew about his fortune? If so, then there was nothing more to say. His own wealth was really no match for Zhou Xuan's.