Chapter 17

“Wanshu, I plan to go home first.” Jiang Yule no longer had the heart to play. With Qi Bai around, Meng Wanshu would be safe, so she wanted to go home first.

“Ah, then I’ll accompany you, Yule.” When Meng Wanshu heard that Jiang Yule was going home, she ignored Qi Bai who was picking cherries for her on the tree and walked down the slope holding onto the tree trunk.

“It’s okay, I can go back by myself. It’s not far. You can go with Brother Qi Bo.” Jiang Yule waved her hand and didn’t let her go back with him.

Meng Wanshu looked at the cherries on the tree, then looked at Jiang Yule, feeling a little hesitant.

“You continue to play, I’m fine. Come back early later. Brother Qi Bo, please take good care of Wan Shu.” Jiang Yule waved to them and turned to leave.

“Don’t worry, Yule, I will send Wanshu back safely in a moment.”

“Then Yule, be careful. I’ll pick more cherries and make you a cherry cake.”

The two of them responded in unison, and when they saw Jiang Yule walking away, they continued picking cherries. However, as they were picking, they suddenly realized that something was wrong.

“No, wasn’t it my brother Chuan who went to look for Yule just now? How come Yule came back alone?”

“Ah? You’re not angry, are you?” Meng Wanshu felt that Yu Le was a little too calm, so calm that it was abnormal. Suddenly, she thought of what they had said in the morning. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She couldn’t even pick the cherries in her heart.

“Why do you have such an expression?” Qi Bai asked in confusion.

“What do you think of Mu Chuan and Yu Le?” Meng Wanshu asked tentatively.

“The two of them? They’re pretty good. Don’t be fooled by Brother Chuan’s cold appearance. He’s actually very considerate. He’s definitely a good candidate for a good brother. I don’t know much about Yu Le, but from what I’ve seen in the past few days, he seems to be very gentle. Although he seems difficult to approach sometimes, he’s a kind-hearted guy even though he looks cold.”

“Who asked you this? I’m asking you about the two of them!” Meng Wanshu looked at Qi Bai as if he was a fool. How could this guy be a soldier if he was so stupid?

“I’m talking about them…” Qi Bai was halfway through his speech when he suddenly came to his senses, looked around in horror, and lowered his voice to Meng Wanshu under the tree and said, “Do you want to bring them together too?”

After that, Qi Bai glanced at Mu Chuan’s cold back by the stream and waved his hands repeatedly, “Impossible, absolutely impossible, Brother Chuan doesn’t like women.”

“Don’t like women?” Meng Wanshu exclaimed, and then quickly covered her lips. Mu Chuan by the stream didn’t respond, so she continued to ask

“So he likes men? Then I’m screwed!”

“No, no, don’t talk nonsense. Brother Chuan is normal. It’s just that because of some things, he is more repulsive to girls, especially those who are good-looking like you.”

“He was abandoned?” Meng Wanshu’s mind was full of ideas.

“Don’t let your imagination run wild. Anyway, it’s absolutely impossible for the two of them to be together.” Qi Bai continued to pick cherries with his hands and said in a firm tone.

“Then I’m done! I was saying that they were a handsome man and a beautiful woman, and I wanted to match them up. Do you think Yule said something to Muchuan just now and was rejected?” Meng Wanshu looked hopeless. Yule listened to her and failed to pull the melon off…

“What? Yule likes Chuan?” Qi Bai was so shocked that he almost fell off the tree. Yule likes Chuan? What about Zhou Jiashu and Zhou Jialin? They had asked around, and the two Zhou brothers were very interested in Jiang Yule.

“I can’t say I like him. Oh, don’t worry about it. I have to go back and enjoy it quietly.” Meng Wanshu didn’t know how to explain to Qi Bai. Could it be that they thought Mu Chuan was good and wanted to twist him off to taste whether he was sweet or not? That was far from the truth!

“I’ll take you back,” Qi Bai said, and was about to get down from the tree.

“What are you sending me? It’s broad daylight.” Meng Wanshu said as she ran back. Besides, she was not a weak little white rabbit. It was true that she wrote novels, but she was a martial arts student when she took the college entrance examination.

“Then I’ll send the cherries to your house later,” Qi Bai shouted towards Meng Wanshu’s back.

Qi Bai’s loud voice startled Mu Chuan, who was standing by the stream and didn’t know what he was thinking. Seeing Meng Wanshu running home in a hurry

Mu Chuan’s deep black eyes couldn’t help but darken a little more.

“Why did she leave?” Mu Chuan walked under the tree and looked up at Qi Bai, who seemed to be picking cherries seriously but with an evasive look in his eyes.

“She…she went to find Yule”

Upon hearing this, Mu Chuan clenched his fists unconsciously. Why didn’t they walk together just now, so why did he suddenly catch up with them?

“What did she tell you?” Although it was a question, the tone was very firm.

“No…no.”

“Listen to your own tone.” Mu Chuan’s face sank. Is he trying to fool a fool?

“Brother Chuan, did Yule tell you anything?” Qi Bai thought about what Meng Wanshu said. He couldn’t believe that Yule liked Brother Chuan. Although Brother Chuan was handsome and capable, Zhou Jiashu was not bad either. The most important thing was that he was gentle! Don’t girls like that?…

Mu Chuan didn’t know what Qi Bai was thinking, but from the unpredictable look on his face, he knew that he didn’t have any good intentions. But he was sure that Meng Wanshu must have said something.

“Don’t talk nonsense, what did Meng Wanshu say to you?”

“Tell me… tell me…” Qi Bai’s brain was working at high speed. He didn’t want to lie to Brother Chuan, but he didn’t want to say something that was out of the question and cause Brother Chuan to misunderstand him, so he said pickily, “Wan Shu didn’t say anything, she just asked me what I thought of you two, I said it was good… Then she didn’t know what she thought of, she felt that Yu Le was not in a good state, so she chased him back.”

“Really, I promise!” Qi Bai stretched out three fingers in his ears and promised under Mu Chuan’s gaze.

“After you pack up the wild rabbits you caught today, send one to them.” Mu Chuan said, and he also walked home with his basket on his back. Seeing this, Qi Bai looked at the half-basket of cherries in his arms, jumped down from the tree and followed him.

Qi Bai hesitated to speak all the way, and finally asked when he was almost home, “Brother Chuan, what do you think of Yule?”

Mu Chuan stopped and looked at Qi Bai, “Qi Bai, you know my situation very well. I can’t even see the direction of my own path, how can I give another person a future? Let’s stop here and don’t mention it to them.”

When Qi Bai heard Mu Chuan say this, he felt as if he had heard something incredible. So it’s not that he doesn’t like Yu Le, but that he can’t give him a future, so he can’t like him!

Looking at Mu Chuan’s leaving back, Qi Bai covered his mouth tightly, not forgetting to look around. Oh my God, why is there no one to share such a shocking secret with him!

On the other side, when Meng Wanshu ran all the way home, Jiang Yule was sitting on a recliner in the yard reading a book.

“Medical books? Yule, do you know medicine?” Meng Wanshu sat down next to Jiang Yule, not knowing how to start, so he just picked a random topic to talk about.

“Well, my mother is a doctor.” My mother is a doctor, and my grandparents are also doctors. In this respect, the original owner is similar to her, and they also come from a medical family.

“Wow, studying medicine is so difficult.” Meng Wanshu was obviously not in the right state. Jiang Yule didn’t want to play Tai Chi with her, so he closed the book directly.

“Just ask what you want to ask”

“I… I just want to ask you what happened just now, did you say anything to Mu Chuan, I see you don’t seem to be in a good mood” Meng Wanshu stuttered, and then looked at Yu Le carefully, fearing that she would be unhappy because of her bad idea. Although she didn’t think it was a bad idea, it was not a good idea to make Yu Le unhappy…

“I’m not unhappy. As for Mu Chuan… I tried to test him and he really doesn’t have any feelings for me, so…” Jiang Yule said in suspense, and the next moment he pinched Meng Wanshu’s face and said seriously

“Let’s not accept anything from Mu Chuan and Qi Bai in the future. Since we don’t have any ideas, let’s keep our distance and not let any rumors spread. What do you think?”

“I understand! Then…can I keep my cherries? Brother Qi Bo said he would deliver them soon.” Meng Wanshu felt distressed when she thought of her cherries. She had also promised Yu Le to make cherry cake for her. It would be a pity if she couldn’t get them!

“Sure! Just keep your relationship with Brother Qi Bo as normal.”

“That’s good, but it’s only this time. I’ve been living too easy and have forgotten the vigilance I should have in this era,” Meng Wanshu said seriously.

In the 21st century, people are free to date or have relationships, but she has overlooked the fact that in this era, if a man and a woman are not married but have close relationships, it is considered a hooligan crime.

Jiang Yule also thought the same. Ever since they met Meng Wanshu, the same life experience made them both relax their vigilance. Although it was a forced melon, you can only know whether it is sweet after you twist it.

But now is not the era where you can break up if you are in a relationship and have sex.

If you twist this melon, you have to swallow it no matter whether it is sweet or not.

Walking back from the stream to her home, Jiang Yule thought a lot. She should focus on her career before the revolution ends. It would be best if she could use her medical skills to avoid working…

As for love….marriage….

She doesn’t plan to be alone for the rest of her life, so she wants to get married, but she will just go with the flow…

She couldn’t do such a thing as twisting a melon. When Jiang Yule thought about what happened in the afternoon, she felt ashamed of her own self-conceit. It would be more accurate to say that she came back because she was angry and felt ashamed…

The two of them sat in the yard and chatted for a long time. Meng Wanshu looked at the time and asked, “Yu Le, can we have cold noodles tonight?”

“Sure, what can I do? I’ll go with you,” Jiang Yule said as he closed the medical book and put it aside. However, before he could get up, Meng Wanshu pushed him back.

“You continue reading. I have some cold noodles here. Just take them out and mix them.”

“Okay, thank you for your hard work, Wanshu,” Jiang Yule smiled and said to Meng Wanshu in a coquettish manner.

“Oh my, my Yule is so cute!” Meng Wanshu couldn’t help but pinch Jiang Yule’s face, and ran into the kitchen with a smile under the other party’s fiery gaze.

At the Qi family next door, Qi Bai packed up the rabbit and cherries and prepared to send them to the house next door. Before leaving, he ran into his grandmother who was coming back from a walk.

“What are you doing?” Grandma Qi asked curiously as she watched her grandson happily walk out with the basket.

Qi Bai weighed the basket in his hand and did not mention the rabbit.

“I’ll send Wanshu’s cherries to her.”

“Okay, okay, go quickly!” When he heard that his grandson was going to the opposite door, he smiled happily and quickly stepped aside to let him out.

The voices of the grandparents and grandchildren were not small, and they fell into the ears of Mu Chuan, who was sweeping the yard with his ears erect inside the gate at the opposite corner. I don’t know what he was thinking, but his actions were faster than his brain, and he threw the broom and left the yard…

On Jiang Yule’s side, the two of them were joking and playing, and they just caught the eyes of Qi Bai, who was holding a basket outside the door… and Mu Chuan, who happened to pass by for some unknown reason.

“Yu Le, come here!” Qi Bai at the door shouted, not forgetting to hurriedly pick up the basket in his hand.

Jiang Yule looked towards the door when she heard that. The playful expression on her face disappeared, and she put on a calm expression. She stood up and walked to the door. She was still friendly, but Mu Chuan only felt her alienation. This was the mask she wore when facing ordinary people.

He realized now that he really wanted her to treat him the same way she had treated Zhou Jiashu, or even the way she had just treated him by the stream.

“These are the cherries that Wanshu just picked, and the rabbits that Chuange and I caught this afternoon. Chuange asked me to clean them up and bring one to you.” Qi Bai said as he lifted the cloth on the basket. Jiang Yule saw a cleaned rabbit in a large bowl. The meat was bright red and looked fresh.

“I’ll take the cherries on behalf of Wan Shu, but you don’t need the rabbit. Thank you.” Jiang Yule took the basket with a smile and returned the rabbit to Qi Bai.

Jiang Yule’s tone was very firm. Qi Bai didn’t know what to say. He was thinking that it must be Brother Chuan who made Yule angry. Yule was not like this before.

“Yu Le, Brother Chuan, this afternoon…”

Qi Bai didn’t know that Mu Chuan was not far away, but Jiang Yule saw him and interrupted Qi Bai’s words. She didn’t care whether he was explaining or clarifying.

“Brother Qi Bo, Wan Shu and I just went to pick cherries this afternoon. Did anything happen?”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, then you guys pack up and lock the door at night, I want to go back now.”

“Okay, Brother Qi Bai, take care.” Watching Qi Bai leave, Jiang Yule turned around and went to the kitchen. As for Mu Chuan behind him, Jiang Yule didn’t even glance at him the whole time. Standing so far away, it would be meaningless for her to rush forward.

“Wanshu, Brother Qi Bo has brought your cherries.”

“Let me see.” Meng Wanshu put down her chopsticks and took the basket. It was half full, enough to make cakes. She could also make some jam. Meng Wanshu was very satisfied.

“I want to pick some in a few days and make more jam so that we can send some home. Yule, I hear you always mention brother Jiashu, why don’t you send him some too?” Meng Wanshu knew that Jiang Yule had no relatives in this world. It seemed that her brother Jiashu and his family were very kind to her, so naturally they couldn’t be left out.

“Okay, I’ll go pick them with you some other day. I see there’s a lot of dried meat here, I’ll buy some and send them back together.”

“Okay, Yule, please help me set the table. I’ll be done soon.”

“Yeah.” Jiang Yule nodded and went to the yard to set up the table. It looked a bit empty, so Jiang Yule took out two bottles of juice and a serving of Fuqi Feipian.

Cold noodles must be served with Fuqi Feipian, that’s perfect!

Jiang Yule had just set the table when Meng Wanshu came out with two bowls.

The two of them ate refreshing cold noodles and enjoyed the evening breeze.

If they ignore the fact that they have to go to work tomorrow, they might be happier…