Chapter 35: A Day Apart Feels Like Three Autumns

Xia Keqing racked her brains and wrote a letter to Shen Jichuan.

The letter was very interesting.

It was both subtle and passionate, making full use of various metaphors and allusions.

Those who understood, understood.

If someone who understood saw the little tricks Xia Keqing used in this letter, they would know that she was both aggressive and defensive.

If someone exposed her, Xia Keqing could retort righteously.

It was just the literal meaning, don’t overinterpret it.

Besides, she and Shen Jichuan were engaged, even if their words were intimate and ambiguous, outsiders couldn’t criticize them.

The main thing was that letters to and from the military district were subject to stricter inspections.

It was inevitable that a third party would see them.

Xia Keqing had already thought of all this.

As for whether Shen Jichuan could understand it…  Anyway, she had to find ways to flirt with him.

She had to completely control him!

The letter also mentioned how much she was looking forward to seeing Shen Jichuan again. When the winter break came, if he couldn’t get leave, she would go to the army to find him. She really wanted to see where he worked.

And she firmly believed that his work was very sacred and noble.

No man dislikes being admired by his woman.

This was no exception for Shen Jichuan, a seemingly emotionless iceberg man.

His work being praised by his fiancée was like his whole self being fully recognized and respected.

When Shen Jichuan saw this letter, he felt like he was soaking in warm water, warm and fuzzy. He couldn’t say where the warmth came from, but thinking about the girl’s gentle and charming appearance, he couldn’t help but feel warm in his heart.

Besides this, Xia Keqing also used a little trick.

She cut the high-quality soap she bought from the department store into thin slices, put them in a thin paper bag, and hung them in the closet. Over time, the clothes were imbued with the scent of soap.

This scent wasn’t strong, but it was faint and always present, like a shadow.

During her brief time with Shen Jichuan, he might not have noticed this scent at first, but this time, after she wrote the letter to him, she hung it in the closet, and it was imbued with the same scent.

When Shen Jichuan smelled this familiar scent again, he would immediately think of her.

As a vigorous young man, especially one who had lost control in front of his fiancée, Shen Jichuan couldn’t help but feel something different about this woman.

Now, smelling this familiar scent, he recalled the feeling of holding the girl tightly in his arms.

His lower abdomen tightened inexplicably, and Shen Jichuan’s eyes suddenly deepened.

He tapped the envelope with his finger, a slight smile curled at the corners of his lips. After thinking for a moment, he began to write a reply.

The distance from Shen Jichuan’s army base to the provincial capital wasn’t actually that far, and letters from the army had a certain priority.

So Xia Keqing received Shen Jichuan’s reply on the third day.

To Xia Keqing’s surprise, Shen Jichuan’s handwriting was actually quite good.

The handwriting was neat and decisive, the strokes were sharp.

He was the male lead after all, just looking at the handwriting made him feel very domineering.

The letter didn’t say anything, it seemed a little pretentious.

But thinking about the male lead’s personality, Xia Keqing knew that he wasn’t pretending, this was just his personality.

It was just telling her to study hard and achieve her dreams, etc.

Xia Keqing found it boring and didn’t read it carefully.

But besides the letter, Shen Jichuan also sent her twenty yuan and several food coupons. He also reminded her in the letter to eat well, saying that she was too thin.

Humph! He’s complaining that she’s thin now, he’ll see.

She’ll be fat where she needs to be fat, and thin where she needs to be thin, she’ll definitely drive him crazy!

After reading the letter, Xia Keqing didn’t plan to reply.

She wasn’t that kind of girl who was truly in love and liked to chat with her boyfriend on the phone.

Of course, that kind of thing wasn’t possible in this era.

But the frequency of writing letters shouldn’t be too high.

Otherwise, it would seem like she had nothing to do all day.

She was a college student with a high gold content in this era, a future talent of the country, how could she possibly be idle all day?

She could write an ambiguous letter to flirt with Shen Jichuan, but she couldn’t write to him one after another.

She had to maintain an air of mystery.

…

Shen Jichuan had been a little absent-minded these past few days.

He kept thinking about what his little girl meant in her letter.

For example, “A day apart feels like three autumns.”

He hadn’t been to school before joining the army.

His family didn’t have the conditions back then.

Later, after joining the army, he went to a literacy class.

But the literacy class was just for literacy, it didn’t include learning deeper knowledge and national quintessence.

As the male lead, Shen Jichuan was undoubtedly a smart person, and he had a strong comprehension ability.

So he tried to guess what his fiancée meant from the literal meaning.

Did she mean that a day apart felt like three autumns?

What did that mean?

How could a day apart feel like three autumns?

But he couldn’t take his fiancée’s letter to ask others.

Letters, no matter what era they were in, were very personal things.

Shen Jichuan didn’t have the habit of letting outsiders peek into his privacy.

Although computers already existed in this era, and the military district was equipped with the most advanced computers, computers weren’t widespread, and their uses were relatively limited.

If it were the future, Shen Jichuan might have used his fingers to tap on the keyboard and searched online for the meaning of “A day apart feels like three autumns” when his girlfriend said it.

After much thought, Shen Jichuan decided to ask her directly next time they met.

Of course, he also had his own little trick. Because he was particularly impressed by this sentence, he left a line of small writing on his letter, and the small writing was “A day apart feels like three autumns.”

He wondered what his fiancée would think when she saw these words.

Xia Keqing didn’t really have any thoughts about it.

As long as the content of Shen Jichuan’s letters was relatively straightforward, without any messy stuff, it was very consistent with his straight man character.

So Xia Keqing didn’t read it carefully, she just skipped over it.

Think about it, she even skimmed the main text.

How could she notice those words that were specifically written so small?

Besides, she wasn’t planning to reply for now.

Shen Jichuan was waiting for Xia Keqing’s reply, one day, two days, three days…

Letters from the provincial capital to the military district were usually expedited, but it hadn’t arrived in four days, which was clearly abnormal. Was she too busy with her studies and didn’t have time to write?

Shen Jichuan tasted the pain of anticipation for the first time.

…

On the other hand, Xia Keqing was having a very fulfilling time.

She was either in class or introducing classmates to buy clothes from Yu Hong.

Basically, she styled outfits according to their individual characteristics, and the classmates she brought over would buy them.

The prices weren’t expensive, they were the same as usual.

But everyone knew that Xia Keqing was taking a commission from Yu Hong.

Anyway, it wasn’t their money.

Of course, there were also some people who thought they were very smart and thought that the money Xia Keqing took from Yu Hong was also theirs.

As soon as she showed this thought, Yu Hong would directly say that her clothes were all of good quality and her profit margin wasn’t high, it didn’t matter whether they were brought by Xia Keqing, her “cousin”, or not.

As for Xia Keqing taking a commission, it was because she specifically took it to thank her cousin for bringing her business.

If they really felt uncomfortable, they could style themselves and buy their own clothes.

That way, no one would take advantage of them.