vrcanaries Chapter 193 So, does that mean he's willing to be with me?
Chapter 193 So, does that mean he's willing to be with me?
Lin Chang'er pouted, "Why would I be sneaking around in my own home?"
Wu Qingfeng chuckled, seeing through her act, "What are you planning to do by following Xiaomei and Chunhua?"
Lin Chang'er replied with a "Hah!" This person doesn't even understand the principle of seeing through things but not saying them out loud. He's really quite boring.
Lin Chang'er shrugged, "It's dark, can't we be worried they'll fall?"
Wu Qingfeng's laughter grew louder. "They're here to see Liu Zi?"
Lin Chang'er asked suspiciously, "How did you know?"
Wu Qingfeng smiled without saying a word, realizing that Liu Zi was quite popular here.
However, this is a good thing. He doesn't consider himself a harsh master to mistreat his subordinates. Although Xiaomei and Chunhua had a rough past, they both came from respectable families.
He wouldn't object to anyone who could be compatible with Liu Zi.
But this is just the beginning.
If someone else were to find out, they would still have their pride.
"Come with me to the ancestral hall." He grabbed Lin Chang'er's arm and half-dragged, half-pulled her away.
Lin Chang'er cursed him a hundred times in her heart until she opened her umbrella and went out. She said, "Lord Wu, do you know that you are acting like a tyrant?"
Wu Qingfeng turned his head and looked at the indignant woman who was almost a head shorter than him. "What is hegemony?"
Lin Chang'er choked, realizing that this term didn't seem to exist in this era.
However, it's not inexplicable. She said, "Hegemony is when I clearly disagree, but you take advantage of the physical differences between men and women to forcibly drag me away from the scene."
Wu Qingfeng paused, and Lin Chang'er, caught off guard, almost rushed out from under the umbrella and into the rain.
Lin Chang'er frowned, "What are you doing?"
Wu Qingfeng's gaze was fixed on her. "Don't you want to go to the ancestral hall and check on the situation?"
Lin Chang'er paused. It wasn't that she didn't want to, it's just that she hadn't wanted to just now.
Wu Qingfeng continued, "I thought you cared a lot about your neighbors and would be eager to know their situation."
Lin Chang'er was speechless. This person was clearly trying to change the subject. "I did care about them." They have their own relatives and friends. Their family also contributed to the disaster relief efforts, and Zhou Hai, the village head, took care of the aftermath.
As a neighbor, she can choose any time to visit him, whether it's tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even the day after that.
It's not necessary to brave the heavy rain to visit and offer greetings.
Wu Qingfeng sighed, a hint of disappointment on his face. "I know, you just don't want to come with me."
Lin Chang'er sighed helplessly. Why was she suddenly becoming so self-deprecating? It was just that her gossipy nature was unusually stirred; she wanted to see what it was like for others to experience the first stirrings of love.
After all, she had never experienced this in either of her two lifetimes.
Wu Qingfeng continued, "You are right. The rain is so heavy, and if Linshui Village is already in such a state, it may not be any better elsewhere. I have visited them and will return to the county government to oversee the disaster relief work."
Lin Chang'er frowned. How come these words are becoming more and more inappropriate?
With such heavy rain, who could feel safe letting him go back? He's still injured!
Lin Chang'er pouted, defeated, "I didn't say that, what are you thinking?"
"Didn't say anything?"
"I didn't say I didn't want to go with you."
"So you're willing to be with me?"
Lin Chang'er nodded, and a soft laugh immediately sounded above her head.
She looked up and met Wu Qingfeng's smiling gaze. In the deep moonlight, visibility was no more than three meters. Under the dim light of the windproof lamp, the man's eyebrows were curved and his smile was gentle.
It was as if something had hit Lin Chang'er's heart with a "bang." She was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Damn it, I've been tricked."
Lin Chang'er frowned, turned her face away, cleared her throat, and said, "Male green tea."
Wu Qingfeng laughed, "What is a male green tea?"
Lin Chang'er glared at him, annoyed. "That's exactly what you're like."
Wu Qingfeng didn't think she was being insulted, and continued to smile, "Isn't this a good thing?"
Lin Chang'er tilted her head and looked at him, "What's good about it?"
Wu Qingfeng withdrew his gaze, his eyes falling on the dark moonlight. He seemed to ponder for a moment before replying, "Kind, approachable, proactive, sincere, tolerant, good-looking, rich, and good at getting things done..."
He paused for a moment, then said, "That's all I can think of for now. I'll add more when I think of something else."
Lin Chang'er opened her mouth slightly, "You really aren't modest at all."
"One should be humble when one's virtue does not match one's position; I don't need to be."
"Are you going to go?"
"Let's go, let's go now."
The night was as dark as ink, and the rain poured down. On the muddy country road, a dim light moved slowly forward. Under the umbrella, two people were bickering. Their words continued, but their tone became more and more gentle. The distance between them gradually disappeared. Before they knew it, their hands, which were hanging at their sides, were intertwined.
The bickering stopped, and only the sound of rain remained in my ears...
Of the five families whose houses were crushed, apart from Niu Sandong's family (Niu Sandong was injured and unable to move), and the mother and son who escaped the disaster by carrying their mother to urinate, they had nowhere to go and were temporarily housed in the ancestral hall, the other three families went to seek refuge with relatives.
In addition, some families whose houses were hollowed out by termites or were in disrepair and at risk of collapse were also temporarily moved here.
Because of the two raids by pirates, the villagers, who were not very close before, became much closer than before.
When Wu Qingfeng and Lin Chang'er arrived, the family who had been settled in the ancestral hall had already eaten.
To save on fuel costs, only one lamp was lit in the main hall, where people were gathered and talking.
Despite the two landslides that occurred in the afternoon, the expressions on people's faces were not grave.
Instead, it is filled with hope.
An elderly man was puffing on his cigarette, saying, "This year's situation is so much better than before."
Another elderly man chimed in with a laugh, "Who says otherwise? A few years ago, there was a heavy rain, and Big Stone's house was blown down by the wind in the middle of the night. Nobody escaped. If we had checked things out earlier like we do now, this wouldn't have happened..."
"Speaking of which, when Hai Zi listened to Sanlang's wife and wanted to build a coastal defense team, apart from the Huo family, none of us old friends were optimistic about it! Now, we know the benefits of a coastal defense team!"
"That's right. If it weren't for this coastal defense team, would we, with our old arms and legs, have survived the last two times the pirates came to the village?"
"I even tried to get them across twice before, but they didn't make it ashore!"
"Lord Wu is good, he always rushes to the front every time. Sanlang's wife is also good. Now we don't have to go to the city to exchange for rice and flour, and we don't have to ask from house to house. We can make a sound in our pockets. Ten years ago, or even five or three years ago, who would have thought that we could live such a good life!"
"That's right! In the past, San Dong and his family wouldn't have been rescued and treated so quickly. In the past, San Dong's leg would have been crippled. Today, I heard the old doctor say that he can recover after three months of rest with a splint on!"
"In short, I, this old man, am reluctant to be buried so soon!"
The chattering continued incessantly, and Wu Qingfeng, holding Lin Chang'er's hand, stood at the door listening for a while.
His thin lips curved slightly in the night, then he turned around and said, "Let's go back!"