Chapter 6

The house was built of loess and stone, with wooden lattice windows, a big red wedding character pasted on the mottled and tattered windows, and black floor boards. When you looked up, you could see black tiles above your head.

He slept on a crude wooden bed with a patched mosquito net above it.

After a night’s sleep, Gu Qijiao dragged her tired body and sat up from the bed.

She looked around at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment, and once again confirmed in her heart the fact that she had been reborn.

“Awake?” Zheng Yunsheng came in from outside with a basin of water. There was steam coming out of the basin. He put the basin on the table and then looked at Gu Qijiao:

“Come and wash your face!”

After a night of excitement, Zheng Yunsheng’s eye sockets were noticeably dark.

But he has calmed down a lot now.

Gu Qijiao had a complicated expression.

It wasn’t because she felt strange that Zheng Yunsheng gave her the water to wash her face.

After all, in his previous life, Zheng Yunsheng treated Gu Qijiao very well, especially during their honeymoon period, he always tried his best to fulfill the duties of a husband.

If it weren’t for these sweet traps that made people feel dizzy, Gu Qijiao wouldn’t have had so many expectations for Zheng Yunsheng later.

What made Gu Qijiao feel embarrassed was that she had already made a plan and decided not to have so many entanglements and ties with Zheng Yunsheng in this life.

At this time, it would be unnecessary for Zheng Yunsheng to show off all his good qualities in front of her.

“I will do these things myself in the future, so I won’t bother you anymore!”

Gu Qijiao said as she started to look for her shoes and got out of bed.

There are three pairs of shoes under the bed.

There were two new pairs of cloth shoes, both sewn by Gu Qijiao herself, one pair for herself and the other for Zheng Yunsheng.

There is another pair, which is the wedding shoes that Gu Qijiao wore when she married Zheng Yunsheng yesterday. They are also brand new, but this pair was made by Gu Qijiao’s mother.

Gu Qijiao bent down and took out the pair of shoes her mother made, put them on and got out of bed.

The floor was very old. Whenever Gu Qijiao stepped on it, it creaked, making a disturbing sound.

“Do you have anything else to say?” After getting off the bed, Gu Qijiao looked at Zheng Yunsheng again. She didn’t understand why this man had been standing in the room staring at her.

Zheng Yunsheng shook his head and said, “Oh, it’s okay. Wash your face first. I’ll fetch some buckets of water!”

After he walked out of the door, Zheng Yunsheng turned back and looked thoughtfully at Gu Qijiao who was already washing her face with a towel. He always felt that something was wrong with Gu Qijiao, but he couldn’t tell what exactly was wrong.

Gu Qijiao, who was still wiping her face with a towel in the room, couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief when she felt the sight behind her disappear.

Ending the marriage with Zheng Yunsheng is not something that can be done overnight.

Before the marriage officially ends, Gu Qijiao has not yet thought clearly about how to get along with Zheng Yunsheng and how to gradually cool down the relationship between them.

She didn’t want to be alone with Zheng Yunsheng at all now, for fear that he would make the same shameful request as he did last night.

If this had happened at this time in her previous life, Gu Qijiao would have been overjoyed.

At that time, Gu Qijiao wanted to live a good life with Zheng Yunsheng. She tried her best to be nice to Zheng Yunsheng and wanted to stick to him every day.

At that time, Gu Qijiao’s world was very small, so small that her whole world could only accommodate Zheng Yunsheng.

Things are unpredictable. The things that Gu Qijiao had always dreamed of in her previous life have now become an unacceptable problem in her heart.

After washing her face, Gu Qijiao brought the water to the yard and poured it on the ground.

After putting the basin away, she sat down under the locust tree in the middle of the yard to eat at Zheng Yunsheng’s invitation.

Under the locust tree was a very simple wooden table made of wooden boards.

There were white, steaming big white buns on the table.

These steamed buns were sent by Gu Qijiao’s mother yesterday. In the morning, Zheng Yunsheng got up, lit a fire and boiled water, then steamed the buns.

Including the old courtyard where Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng lived after their marriage, which was also the old house of Gu Qijiao’s family.

The old house was previously inhabited by Gu Qijiao’s grandparents.

After my grandparents passed away a few years ago, this old house became vacant.

Gu Qijiao’s parents only had one child, and they spoiled her extremely. They were reluctant to let Gu Qijiao live in a dormitory in the commune after she married Zheng Yunsheng.

They cleaned up the old courtyard and gave it to Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng to live in.

Although the yard is shabby, it can at least shelter them from wind and rain, and the couple living here alone have some private space.

Gu Qijiao walked to the table and sat down. Zheng Yunsheng brought out a bowl of hot water from the house and placed it in front of her.

“Eat it slowly with some water, don’t choke yourself.”

“Thank you. You don’t have to be so nice to me. I can do all this by myself.” Holding the water, Gu Qijiao repeated her previous words.

After hearing this, Zheng Yunsheng guessed that Gu Qijiao must have said that she didn’t need his help in order to please him and not to trouble him.

Gu Qijiao was like this in her previous life when she first got married. She was always eager to do everything and was like a crazy doting husband at home.

If Gu Qijiao hadn’t found the photo in the book, she would have spoiled Zheng Yunsheng for the rest of her life.

Zheng Yunsheng thought that in his previous life, he was the one who was pampered first, but in the end their marriage did not last.

In this life, he can no longer let things continue to develop along the original trajectory, so in this life he wants to be the one who pampers the other first.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yunsheng raised his head and gave Gu Qijiao a sunny and warm smile. He said:

“I know you are capable, but I am your man, and I should help you do these things. It is only natural for a man to pamper his wife.”

When Gu Qijiao heard Zheng Yunsheng’s words, she couldn’t help but be stunned.

How could she not know that this taciturn man could say such touching love words?

Unfortunately, these words did not stir up much waves in Gu Qijiao’s indifferent heart. She replied indifferently:

“I don’t like to bother other people.”

“No trouble, no trouble.” Zheng Yunsheng shook his head like a rattle, with a bright and dazzling smile still on his face.

Gu Qijiao had never seen Zheng Yunsheng like this, with his eyebrows and eyes almost bent with laughter.

She couldn’t help but start to speculate in her heart, could it be that she rejected Zheng Yunsheng’s second request for sex last night, which aroused Zheng Yunsheng’s curiosity?

Thinking of this, Gu Qijiao couldn’t help but reveal a slightly sarcastic smile.

In her previous life, she tried her best to please him, but he always treated her with respect and indifference.

In this life, she decided to give up on him and became cold towards him, but he became more concerned about her.

Are all men like this?

Why was she so blind in her previous life that she fell head over heels in love with such a man?

Just ordinary, common, nothing more than that.