Chapter 10 “Only my boyfriend can tell me what to do.”

Xie Hezhang glanced at her, this time he didn’t refuse, he carried Xie Xiaoqian back to the room, then went to the well to wash the dishes, wiped his wet hands, looked at the female intellectual waiting by the fence, calmly withdrew his gaze, and said in a muffled voice: “Let’s go.”

Shu Qingyao couldn’t suppress the smile on her lips, she responded, and skipped along behind him.

As soon as Xie Hezhang and Shu Qingyao left, Xie Helan couldn’t help but scold her son, “You, are you stupid? Mom is creating opportunities for you, you don’t like that female intellectual?”

Xie Wei finally came to his senses, he widened his eyes and looked at Xie Helan: “Mom, you’re planning to?”

Xie Helan: “How beautiful is she? And she has money! Did you see the watch she was wearing? It’s worth your dad’s salary for a year! If you marry her, our whole family can move to the city!”

Xie Wei recalled the female intellectual’s fair skin, and he regretted it for a moment, “Mom, why didn’t you say so earlier! It’s a pity for Xie Hezhang!”

Xie Helan “tsk”ed: “What’s Xie Hezhang afraid of? His background is not good, even if they fall in love, the female intellectual’s parents won’t agree! Do you forget Tong Yuan? She chased him like crazy, but when she heard that his grandfather was a landlord, she ran away!”

Xie Wei was relieved, he said to Xie Helan: “Mom, that female intellectual is quite pretty, you should give me more advice.”

Wang Xingde was smoking, listening to the conversation between his mother and son, he snorted, “What a character!”

Xie Helan said: “I’m doing this for your own good! Xie Wei, find a wife from the city, then ask your father-in-law to help you out, get you into the city! You don’t want to stay in the countryside for the rest of your life, do you?”

Wang Xingde looked at her, and said nothing.

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Xie Hezhang walked on the winding path, listening to Shu Qingyao skipping behind him.

This woman didn’t walk properly, she almost tripped several times, he was speechless and annoyed, he said in a muffled voice: “Walk properly!”

Shu Qingyao walked over in her small leather shoes, and asked with a smile: “Xie Hezhang, are you telling me what to do?”

“…”

“Only my boyfriend can tell me what to do.”

“…”

“So, Xie Hezhang, do you want to be my… hey!”

Seeing Xie Hezhang suddenly speed up, Shu Qingyao was speechless, she could only shut up and chase after him.

The young man walked silently.

Shu Qingyao walked for a while, and she couldn’t walk anymore.

After all, she had just recovered from a fever, and her body was tired, she was weak.

Xie Hezhang walked for a while, he felt that the sound beside him had quieted down, he turned his head, and Shu Qingyao was ten meters away from him.

He frowned, he had to turn back, and asked coldly: “What’s wrong with you?”

Shu Qingyao pouted, her voice sounded very delicate: “Xie Hezhang, I had a fever this morning, I’m still a patient. Can you be gentler to me, you’re so fierce, be careful you won’t find a wife!”

Xie Hezhang moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, he looked at Shu Qingyao’s slightly pale face and dry lips, but in the end he didn’t say anything, he continued to walk silently, but his pace slowed down.

It took more than an hour to walk from Secretary Wang’s house back to the intellectual dormitory.

Shu Qingyao looked at the young man’s eyebrows in the moonlight, she muttered in her heart, slower, slower, and finally Xie Hezhang sent her to the door of the dormitory.

After sending Shu Qingyao home, Xie Hezhang turned back without looking back.

“Xie Hezhang!”

Behind him, the girl’s soft and sweet voice called his name, she didn’t know what was wrong again, he felt troubled, but he hesitated for a moment and stopped, the sound of small leather shoes stepping on the ground rang behind him, Xie Hezhang turned his head, and saw the girl with two braids running to him.

Perhaps because she was sick, her fair face had a faint blush, her eyes were like autumn water, her delicate melon-seed face, among the female intellectuals from the city, she was the most beautiful.

Tong Yuan came to the countryside that year, because she was beautiful, she caused a small stir, but Xie Hezhang felt that Tong Yuan was not as beautiful as Shu Qingyao.

He glanced at Shu Qingyao, Xie Hezhang looked away, and asked coldly: “What’s the matter?”

“I forgot to give you your food!” Shu Qingyao took out a lunch box from her small cloth bag and stuffed it into Xie Hezhang’s hand, before Xie Hezhang could refuse, she skipped back, her delicate face was full of cunning smile, “This is a thank you gift for you taking me back, remember to wash the lunch box and return it to me!”

Xie Hezhang frowned, “I don’t…” want it.

Before he could finish the last word, Shu Qingyao had already disappeared.

Xie Hezhang: “…”

He lowered his head and opened the lunch box, inside were three neatly arranged buns, although they were cold, he could still smell the aroma of meat inside.

The buns were snow-white, if it wasn’t for the best wheat flour, the bun skin wouldn’t be so white and tender.

However, Xie Hezhang’s mind was filled with the thought that Shu Qingyao’s skin seemed to be even whiter than these buns…

He imagined Shu Qingyao staring at him, her big eyes sparkling with a smile, Xie Hezhang subconsciously closed the lid of the lunch box, he looked at Shu Qingyao who had already disappeared from the intellectual dormitory, he suppressed the emotions that arose in his heart, turned around and walked back slowly.

When she knows his identity, she will definitely not pester him anymore, there’s no point in thinking so much now.

…

Shu Qingyao returned to the dormitory, opened the window and looked out, she waited until Xie Hezhang’s tall and thin figure gradually disappeared from sight, then she closed the window with a sense of loss and sat down at the desk.

The current Xie Hezhang was completely different from the Xie Hezhang in her memory… The elegant, gentle and refined young man, and the cold, aloof young man in front of her, were almost impossible to overlap.

If she had met Xie Hezhang like this back then, they probably wouldn’t have been together.

At this moment, Shu Qingyao’s heart was filled with nothing but heartache.

She remembered Xie Hezhang telling her that he had once committed a crime, he stabbed his aunt with a knife. Although he didn’t kill her, he was arrested and spent several years in prison.

The reason why Xie Hezhang stabbed her was that Xie Helan wanted to sell his younger sister behind his back, Xie Xiaoqian was unwilling, she jumped into the well, and when she was rescued, she was already dead.

Xie Xiaoqian was only seven years old when she died!

Xie Hezhang came back from work, he didn’t even get to see Xie Xiaoqian for the last time.

So…

The jade pendant brought her back to a time before all this happened, was it her hope to save Xie Hezhang and his sister’s lives?

Shu Qingyao rubbed the warm jade pendant in her bosom, thinking that this was the only thing her future mother-in-law had left her, she whispered: “Don’t worry, this life, I won’t let them suffer the same pain again.”