The rural daughter-in-law of the bank president

Lin Xianglan glanced at Wei Wuya, then looked at Lele knowingly, "As expected, even when sons grow up, they still need their wives to take care of them. I've told you so many times, but you never listen. You've gone to so many gyms, signed up for so many membership cards, and you've only been there a few times."

Lele's face turned red.

There were too many things to do in the afternoon, so this meal couldn't really be called dinner. All three of them were very tired.

"Le Le, why don't you take a rest today, or go get a foot massage to make yourself more comfortable and sleep well?" Lin Xianglan asked while picking up some food for Le Le.

"I'm a little tired, so I'd better just take a rest." Lele didn't want to move anymore.

"Okay, let's go back and rest after dinner. We can't stay too late tomorrow. The gold shop over there opens at 10 o'clock, and we'll go out after 9 o'clock." Lin Xianglan said as she picked up a bunch of dishes for Lele.

Lele stuck out his tongue. He couldn't finish the food. Lele was a very slow eater, chewing his food carefully. He had been scolded by his father countless times at home. Fortunately, his godmother was also slow, so the two of them ate slowly.

Wei Wuya took a few bites and stopped eating. He just sat there and stared at Lele while he ate.

Lele was a little embarrassed, "Brother..." Lele hesitated for a moment, then said, "You don't have to go on a diet deliberately, exercise is more effective. You've worked hard today, so eat more."

Wei Wuya smiled happily, "It's okay, I'm full."

After the three of them finished their meal, Wei Wuya went to the garage to deliver the car, while Lin Xianglan and Lele walked towards the community arm in arm.

Lele's room has a bathroom. After taking a shower and getting ready to go to bed, someone knocked on the door.

Lele glanced at her underpants, then grabbed her underwear and put it on before opening the door. It was Wei Wuya who knocked on the door.

"Is there something wrong?" Lele left the door half open and had no intention of letting anyone in.

"Can I go in and talk?" Wei Wuya asked tentatively.

"Oh." Lele frowned, but let Wei Wuya in.

Wei Wuya also changed into blue silk pajamas and held a handbag in his hand, "I'll give you some money. Go buy whatever you want. Here's this card. You can use it at will. The password is your birthday." As he said that, he took out a stack of money from his handbag and then took out a card.

"Ah, I don't need so much money, and I have it myself." Lele was a little surprised when he saw the pile of money.

"Just take it when I tell you to. Don't be polite to me." Wei Wuya said, and placed it directly in front of the makeup mirror.

"This..." Lele bit her lip, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.

"Are you going to sleep?" Wei Wuya looked at Lele's cherry-red lips that had been bitten, and his heart was beating fast.

He stared at Lele, and Lele felt a little uneasy.

"I'm going to sleep. Can you go out now?" Lele avoided his gaze and retreated to the door.

"Brother wants a kiss!" Wei Wuya approached Lele with a rogue look on his face.

Lele's heart was pounding, and she pushed Wei Wuya, "Get out now!"

Wei Wuya half-reluctantly walked out the door with a pout.

After closing the door, Lele gasped nervously, confirmed that the door was locked, and then ran to the bed carefully.

In a daze, she heard her cell phone ringing. She touched the phone with her eyes closed and saw a text message. It was from an unfamiliar number. She glanced at the content and immediately lost all sleepiness.

"Le Le, are you okay?" There was no signature. Who was it? But before Le Le could guess, the other party revealed the answer.

"I'm Ziheng."

When Lele saw Ziheng's name, her heart trembled. She sat up, leaned against the soft headboard of the bed, thought for a while, put down her phone, did not reply, and deleted the message.

But soon, news came again.

"I heard you're back from Xijing? You're in Jiangquan now."

"I'm in Jiangquan too. I just came down to do something. Can we make an appointment tomorrow?"

"I just found the number Chang Hong wanted. If you're asleep, call me back tomorrow morning."

Lele was upset.

"I don't have time tomorrow. I don't have time these days." Lele finally replied to the message.

"I woke you up from your sleep. I was so happy to hear you were back that I couldn't help but send you a message right away. Where are you? I'll go find you now!"

Lele was startled, "No, what's wrong with you?"

"I have something to give you!"

"What?" Lele sighed helplessly, "Ziheng, I'm getting married!"

There was no message from the other side for a long time.

Lele waited for a moment and found nothing. He put down his phone and prepared to go to bed. At this moment, another text message came, "Then you should meet me. You left without saying goodbye, and now... you said you want to get married. Have you never considered my feelings?"

"I've never been inside your heart, have I?"

Lele curled up in a corner of the bed, sadness flooding her mind.

(..................Memory dividing line

Ziheng is Lele’s junior high school classmate.

In the 90s, in rural northwest China, although nine-year compulsory education had been implemented for a long time, many girls still had no education.

Most girls who have the opportunity to go to school and are admitted to junior high school aim to take the entrance exam for a teachers' college or nursing school after graduation. After graduation, they are assigned a job, which means they have reached the peak of their lives.

At the end of the first semester of the first grade of junior high school, the head teacher who was transferred from the city had a serious talk with Lele. Besides her, there was another person, Ziheng.

The homeroom teacher said, "You two are the two children in our town who have the greatest hope of getting into college. I hope you will live up to your talents, study hard, and get into high school and then college.

If you get into university, you can go to a big city and live a different life!"

That was the first time Lele realized the significance of reading.

She went home and told her grandmother, "I want to go to college. I want to go to a city where I can wear skirts all year round!"

Lele used to be the first in his grade without studying seriously, but now that he has started studying seriously, his grades have taken off.

She no longer played with her bestie, chatted or had fun. She became the "arrogant" Lele, with only studying in her eyes.

She often hid in a broken wall of the school to study alone. When she was tired of studying, she looked up at the clouds flowing in the sky. She enjoyed this kind of solitude.

However, there was always a pair of burning gazes watching her.

Every time she felt someone was looking at her, she would just turn around and meet Ziheng's bright eyes.

Ziheng has beautiful eyes, with thick eyelashes wrapping around his shining eyes. Every time Lele turns around, his eyes turn into a pair of crescent moons when he smiles.

But Lele was not happy with it. She did not understand this kind of ignorance and did not want to touch the taboo.

Lele’s birthday was in September. During evening study that day, there was a sudden power outage - power outages were common at that time.

The moment the power went out, the boys blew their whistles and the girls hurriedly took out candles.

Lele felt that someone was pausing at her desk, but when the candlelight came on, there was no sign of him, but there was an extra note in her pencil case.

"See you at the small door on the west side of the auditorium after evening study." No signature.