Chapter 18

It is after the dense silk falls that it makes people remember the spring mountains.

The little girl’s white and tender fingers were like gentle willow branches, hooking the black hair on the tourist’s temples. Even after many years, the memory is still unforgettable.

It was so soft that it not only hooked under Yan Mingli’s clothes, but also hooked over the tip of Yan Mingli’s heart. The seemingly fragile softness seemed to want to break through the dusty soil and sprout into a tender green bud with the afternoon breeze.

The bud turned into a summer rain with the spring breeze, and turned into a winter snow with the autumn sun. It slowly fell on Mo Yutong’s eyebrows and heart. It seemed that one could see a pool of spring water in her beautiful eyes, with rippling waves.

A thread of connection, a stroke of longing, even if the love is so deep that I don’t know the way back, I still hope to come back even if the fate is shallow.

The two looked at each other for just a few seconds, but it seemed like a hundred years had passed. Yan Mingli gently tugged at the hem of his clothes, signaling her to let go. Mo Yutong pursed her lips and did not insist anymore, slowly letting go of his hand reluctantly.

People who were far away might not notice anything, but Yan Mingli was so close to her, how could he not notice anything? She looked like she was reluctant to let go.

She wanted to be close to him, but he didn’t dislike her? The sudden thought frightened Yan Mingli.

If other women wanted to get close to him in the past, he would be so angry and disgusted that he would want to throw them away and turn them away. But this soft and tender girl in front of him did not allow him to have such violent temper, and even…

Seeing Yan Mingli still in a daze, Li Tiezhu, who had been eager to escape, quickly turned around and took the group of children with him, flipping up the soles of his shoes and quickly ran into the woods beside the road without looking back. In less than ten seconds, they disappeared.

Li Tiezhu ran away, and Yan Mingli did not chase him. He frowned slightly and examined the sudden feeling in his heart anxiously.

But when his eyes swept across the little girl’s clean and fashionable clothes, and then passed by his dirty feet stepping on the yellow mud road, the inexplicable emotion that rose faintly from the scrutiny slowly dissipated, and he even stepped back.

Mo Yutong looked at him. How could she not know what he was thinking? She was angry at herself for not thinking it through.

At that time, she only wanted to look beautiful when meeting her Mr. Yan, without considering that Mr. Yan was not yet a hot figure in Beijing, and was not the candidate for a future husband that celebrities from all walks of life would flock to.

Is this the aftereffect of being blinded by love? The IQ has dropped quite significantly.

“Sister, my elder brother doesn’t hate you.” Yan Mingcheng, who had been standing beside Mo Yutong without saying a word, raised his dirty little face and looked at her sincerely.

He was only six years old and didn’t understand what love was, but he could see that the way his sister looked at his elder brother was different from the way she looked at him. Especially after his elder brother tore off her clothes, he clearly saw a hint of sadness in his sister’s lowered eyes.

He had seen such sadness in his sister’s eyes before. When his sister was eager to play with the children in the village, but those children were unwilling to pay attention to her and even ridiculed her, there would be such sadness in his sister’s eyes.

“I know.” Mo Yutong raised the corners of her mouth and showed Yan Mingcheng a sweet smile. Of course, her Mr. Yan would not hate her.

“Sister, you are so beautiful!” Yan Mingxue expressed the thoughts of the three brothers and sisters.

If she was just soft and sticky just now, now she is sweet, like the fruit candy her father bought for her when she was a child, and a light bite of it leaves a lingering fragrance on her lips and teeth.

He actually… Yan Mingli’s ears were tinged with a barely perceptible blush.

“Mo Zhiqing, are you going or not? Don’t delay us from reporting to the brigade headquarters.” Tian Xiaomei saw that the man actually pulled Mo Yutong’s hand away, and she couldn’t help but feel secretly happy in her heart: There are still good comrades in this world who are not tempted by vixen!

She seemed to have forgotten the good comrade in her mind, whom she had despised so much just now.

“I’ll be right there.” Mo Yutong knew she couldn’t waste everyone’s time because of him, so she quickly pulled out a clean handkerchief from her overalls and handed it to Yan Mingcheng, “Wipe your face clean and remember to apply medicine, otherwise it will leave scars.”

“Sister, I don’t want it.” Yan Mingcheng looked at the neatly folded snow-white handkerchief and shook his head hurriedly. Such a good thing looked very expensive. His sister was already very good, and he couldn’t take anything from her anymore.

“Comrade…” Yan Mingli also wanted to stop her. A plain handkerchief would cost sixty cents in the supply and marketing cooperative, and this handkerchief embroidered with plum blossoms would be even more expensive. Why should she be so nice to Mingcheng?

“I’m not giving it to you. You have to wash it and return it to me.” Mo Yutong quickly interrupted him. She could not care about an embroidered handkerchief, but she could not care about Yan Mingli’s heart.

“Sister, thank you. I will wash the handkerchief clean before returning it to you.” Yan Mingcheng did not refuse again. Instead, he took the handkerchief, spread it out carefully, and then wiped his face gently.

“So good!” Mo Yutong rubbed Yan Mingcheng’s head, took out a few red shrimp candies from her small bag and placed them in the palms of the two children, saying gently: “Sister will leave first. I will visit you after I settle down and give you some delicious food.”

“Okay, sister, goodbye!” The two children’s happy voices were heard behind her. Mo Yutong really wanted to look back at Yan Mingli, but she endured it and didn’t dare to be presumptuous again.

Just now, with her blood boiling, she had already complained to him boldly in an almost coquettish tone, and even couldn’t help but pull his clothes. But she couldn’t do anything else.

Yan Mingli, who was standing behind the two little guys, looked at Mo Yutong’s back, and something was quietly growing in his heart that he couldn’t even control.

“Mo Zhiqing, we’ve been waiting for you for six minutes.” Mo Yutong had just climbed to the front of the carriage and sat down when Tian Xiaomei started scolding him from behind: “I’m not saying anything bad about you, but children always fight, especially in the village. Besides, how much strength can children use in a fight? At most, they’ll just get a little skin broken and bleed, and it will heal in a couple of days. You don’t really need to break them up. You’re just wasting everyone’s time…”

“Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. I’ll treat you all to some candy.” Mo Yutong was too lazy to listen to her endless chatter, and didn’t want to argue with her, so she simply took out a handful of red shrimp candies from her small bag and handed them to the people behind her.

“Red Shrimp Crispy Candy! This is really good stuff. You bought it from the Jingshi Department Store, right?” Liao Qingyun was the first to pick up the candy. He couldn’t wait to peel off the blue wrapper and take a bite of the plump white candy. “The skin is thin and crispy, and it’s sweet and delicious. The candy produced by the Jingshi No. 1 Food Factory is really different.”

Seeing how he was eating, Ma Xinguo and Lian Haiguang couldn’t help but take one. When Tian Xiaomei heard that the candies were bought from the Jingshi Department Store, she immediately grabbed all the remaining candies in Mo Yutong’s palm.

The three male educated youths looked at each other in bewilderment. They were just blabbering about others, but now they were being rude when they saw something good. They were really shameless!