Chapter 25: Do you like me?

Xiao Miaomiao couldn’t stay idle for a second.

When she saw her mother packing things, she climbed onto the bed to help.

Lin Wanshu didn’t care. She reached out and pulled her onto the bed, and continued to do her own things.

The room was simply decorated. A 1.5-meter-wide wooden bed was leaning against the wall, and on one side of the bed was a wardrobe.

The wardrobe was also made of solid wood and was divided into three compartments.

The rightmost one was a long compartment for hanging clothes, and the left side was divided into two layers, the upper one was shorter and the lower one was taller.

The lower layer could hold quilts, and the upper layer was for folded clothes.

The whole cabinet was not very big, but people didn’t have many clothes in this era, and they wore the same few clothes all year round.

As the old saying goes, three years new, three years old, and three years of mending.

A piece of clothing is unlikely to be discarded unless it is worn to the point of being unwearable.

Even if it is really unwearable, it can still be worn by children after some alterations.

There was no other way. The conditions were like this. The whole country was poor. Whose family didn’t live like this?

There were not many clothes to begin with, so Lin Wanshu packed them up casually and put them in the cabinet.

But before she could close the door, the hem of her dress was pulled by Miaomiao.

“Mom~Mom~”

Hearing the baby’s cry, Lin Wanshu closed the door and turned around.

“What’s wrong, Miaomiao?”

Just after asking, she saw the little guy holding a photo in front of her like a treasure, and excitedly shouted: “Mom~Mom~”

Qin Yan’s eyes were sharp, and he soon found out what photo was in Miaomiao’s hand.

He stood up in a hurry!

“Wanwan!”

Lin Wanshu was startled, and when she was about to walk over, she saw the photo in Miaomiao’s hand from the corner of her eye!

The person in the photo had two braids, sitting under a tree, and didn’t know what she was looking at, her young face was full of confusion.? !

Is this her photo?

She still has that dress in the Qin family’s cabinet. It was what she wore when she graduated from junior high school.

But…how did she have a photo here?

Taking the photo, Lin Wanshu looked up at the nervous man beside the bed, paused, and then walked towards him step by step.

“Da”, “Da”, “Da”, the footsteps were neither fast nor slow, but every step seemed to step on his heart.

Qin Yan’s heart was beating wildly, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

What would she think of him?

It was only a few steps away, but Qin Yan felt as if a century had passed.

I don’t know how long it took, but a soft little hand was on his shoulder.

Qin Yan’s heart tightened, not knowing what she was going to do.

Until the little hand on his shoulder pressed gently, he sat on the bed like a puppet, following her strength.

“Don’t you want to explain?”

The woman’s soft voice sounded in his ears.

In those watery eyes, there was curiosity, exploration, and doubt, but no disgust.

When Qin Yan met these eyes, his heart was slightly relaxed, but his palms were already wet with sweat.

His Adam’s apple rolled up and down unconsciously, and after a pause, he said:

The person in the photo studio took it secretly, and I asked him for it.”

As for how he asked for it, he didn’t say.

Hearing this, Lin Wanshu suddenly remembered that day when her junior high school class finished taking graduation photos.

She sat alone under the tree and heard the “click”.

It turned out that they were really taking pictures of her, not her illusion?

Taking pictures was a big deal in this era. Whether it was male or female classmates, they had already thought about what to wear that day, and even how to comb and tie their hair had been thought about countless times in their hearts.

Lin Wanshu was no exception.

It was precisely because of this that she would always remember the “click” that was unique to taking pictures.

Obviously, the sound was nearby, and there was no one else nearby, but she couldn’t find the person who took the picture.

At that time, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl, with a thin skin, and she didn’t dare to ask the photographer if he took her picture.

Unexpectedly, after many years, this photo actually came into her hands in this way.

There was no plastic sealing technology in this era, and this photo was probably because people often took it out to look at it, and the edges had faded a little.

Looking at the photo in her hand that seemed to have been rubbed countless times, Lin Wanshu had an indescribable feeling in her heart.

After a long while, she looked up again, her black and white eyes seemed to be able to speak.

“Do you… like me?”

Although it was a question, she was already 70% sure in her heart.

Lin Wanshu was not stupid. A man had been carrying a woman’s photo for so many years, and even other people in the army knew who she was. What else could this be but love?

It was just that this matter was somewhat magical.

After all, they were really unfamiliar with each other, and they had not said much in the village, most of the time just a simple greeting.

How could he like her?

Hearing her words, Qin Yan’s originally nervous eyes had a hint of surprise.

“I thought you knew.” You just don’t like him.

Lin Wanshu blinked, a little confused.

“You didn’t say it, how should I know?”

Qin Yan: …

His letter was too subtle, couldn’t she see it?

If that was the case, then he would have the urge to beat himself to death now.

“It’s my fault, the letter didn’t make it clear.”

He shouldn’t have written so obscurely because he was afraid of scaring her.

Lin Wanshu was even more confused.

“What letter? You wrote me a letter?”

Seeing her expression, Qin Yan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

“Didn’t you receive the letter I wrote to you? I wrote you more than a dozen letters before we got married.”

He wanted to ask her several times why she didn’t write back to him.

But this idea was completely dispelled when he heard her tell her sisters that her ideal partner was a gentle gay man.

It turned out that she didn’t reply to his letter just because she didn’t like him.

Qin Yan also advised himself to let it go, but he couldn’t do it at all.

The more he forced himself, the more that little face appeared in his mind.

Later, he couldn’t bear it anymore, so he wrote her a few more letters.

But it was still a drop in the ocean.

And now her reaction was telling him that she might not have received the letter he wrote?

Sure enough, just thinking about this, he heard the woman’s shocked voice.

“I haven’t received your letter!”

Hearing her personally confirm that she really didn’t receive his letter, Qin Yan was stunned on the spot.

So it’s not that she didn’t want to respond to him, but she didn’t know from the beginning to the end that he liked her?

Qin Yan thought he had been in love with her for many years, but after being hit by the truth of the matter, he didn’t know how to react, and his mind was buzzing.

Seeing him like this, Lin Wanshu somehow suddenly recalled the encounters she had in the team.

His home was at the head of the village and hers was at the end of the village, but she always ran into him near her home.

This was not the point. The point was that there was a dead end in front of her house!

What she thought was a passing by was actually an encounter carefully created by the man, just to say hello to her?