The rural daughter-in-law of the bank president

Lele saw the note, smiled helplessly, and moved closer to the candle. The candle flame stretched out a tongue of fire and swallowed the note.

After evening study, Lele walked towards the dormitory with a book in his hand.

The cold moonlight sprinkled on the campus. There were few lights on the campus and most places were shrouded in darkness.

Suddenly a figure jumped beside Lele, scaring Lele.

When she came to her senses, she saw that it was Ziheng.

"Are you not planning to keep the appointment?" Ziheng asked straight to the point.

"You left a note? What's for? So boring!" Lele was annoyed, but didn't stop and continued walking forward.

"It's your birthday and I wanted to give you a gift, but you really don't give me any face at all." Ziheng pouted and followed Lele closely, saying with his head tilted.

Ziheng, a little kid in the first grade of junior high school, doesn’t even like Lego.

"Who wants your gift?" Lele continued walking.

"Oh, you..." Ziheng was a little exasperated. He stuffed a small box into Lele's hand and ran away.

In the moonlight, Lele opened the box and found a sparkling crystal glass ball. Lele closed the box and put it back into the box in the dormitory.

Later, Lele discovered that Ziheng seemed to have nothing to do all day but stare at her.

The small town's school was shabby, with wooden desks and chairs in disrepair. One day, Lele's chair suddenly broke apart. She spent the entire day restlessly, unsure of what to do. When she returned to the classroom after evening study, the chair had been repaired.

During the final exam, Lele had to swap classrooms with some of his classmates. When Lele arrived at the classroom, he accidentally bumped into a tall boy who was very aggressive and Lele was very scared.

In the evening, she was reading in the secret base, and Ziheng ran over and asked her if she was okay.

Lele was surprised because Ziheng did not change classrooms.

Ziheng said that it didn’t matter how he knew, what mattered was whether Lele was okay.

Lele's face was as red as the sunset clouds that day.

However, Lele thought about it and said to Ziheng, "I'm fine. Don't pay so much attention to my affairs in the future. Just study hard."

Maybe it was because Lele's tone of voice was a little cold, and Ziheng rarely passed notes to Lele afterwards.

At that time, Lele lived in the school dormitory. The distance from school to home was about ten kilometers, which took an hour to ride a bike. Every Friday after school, Lele would go home with two of her best friends who were also going the same way, and then ride their bikes to school on Sunday afternoon.

Every time they go home, Lele goes in front and Ziheng follows quietly behind.

Ziheng's home is at the fork in the road at the end of the asphalt road, and he and Lele can go four or five kilometers together.

Every summer, there was a large canal on the main road, and boys would ride their bikes to the fork in the road and swim in the canal in groups. When girls passed by, they would be whistled at and heckled.

Lele is often praised and awarded certificates at school assemblies, and almost everyone knows him.

So, every time Lele passed by there, she would be whistled at. The boys would stand by the canal with their shirts off, some even naked, calling Lele's name loudly, shouting, "Chang Lele, I like you!"

Lele blushed when he heard this.

Every time this happened, Ziheng would jump out and scold the boys. Being so small, he was often dragged into the water by the boys, getting himself soaked.

Although Lele never responded to Ziheng's efforts, Ziheng never stopped liking Lele.

In high school, Lele was admitted to the key class with excellent grades. Ziheng's grades were not ideal, but he also went to high school, but in an ordinary class.

The two classes are right across from each other.

Ziheng often stands at the door of Lele's class whether he has something to do or not.

Ziheng is an extrovert. After high school, he grew up and became tall, handsome, fair-skinned.

The girls in the class also like Ziheng to stand at the door and often joke with him.

Lele ignored him since he didn't look for her anyway.

In the summer after the college entrance examination, one day Lele was bored in the yard. Suddenly, several friends from the class came to Lele's house on their bikes and said that they would go to the market in town together.

Lele happily followed them and met Ziheng and a group of his friends in the town. Ziheng suggested going to his house, but Lele repeatedly declined, saying that his parents were strict and he didn't have enough time and had to go home. Finally, he was "forced" to go to Ziheng's house by his friends.

After a whole afternoon of laughter and noise, in the evening, the sky was dark with twinkling stars. Suddenly, Lele felt that the atmosphere was strange and the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Lele then realized that she and Ziheng were surrounded by their friends. Ziheng stared at Lele with his shining eyes and said, "I will marry you when you graduate from college!"

The sudden confession made Lele's mind go blank. Lele didn't know how to respond. Her eyes and eyebrows drooped and her face turned red with shame.

Lele has never thought about falling in love!

She insisted on going home and refused to let Ziheng take her home. Ziheng had no choice but to ask other friends to take Lele home.

Ziheng once asked Lele, which city Lele wanted to go to?

Lele yearned for it, "A big city, a very big city!" But he didn't tell him the specific city.

Perhaps even if I tell him, Ziheng will not be able to catch up. Ziheng's grades are only good enough to get into a second-tier university in the province.

Ziheng asked Lele to meet before university started, but Lele refused.

Lele couldn't tell whether she liked Ziheng or not, but seeing the sense of indebtedness that Ziheng felt made Lele feel very uncomfortable.

But what was strange was that after entering college, Lele often dreamed of Ziheng, and each time it was the same scene: in the junior high school campus, a young man in a white shirt looked at her affectionately, and the sunlight shone on his body, warm and gentle.

After going to college, Lele almost cut off all contact with Ziheng. She didn't want to give Ziheng any hope.

.................Memory dividing line)

Maybe there really should be a conclusion, Lele thought, and replied to the message.

"I'm in Dijingyuan, where are you?"

"I'll be there right away." Ziheng replied.

Half an hour later, Lele's phone rang. It was Ziheng calling, "Lele!"

The trembling cry made Lele's body tremble.

Lele calmed down, put on his clothes, and tiptoed out of the bedroom. The landscape lights illuminated the large living room.

Fortunately, the bedrooms are scattered far apart, and Lele thought that no one should hear it.

It was one in the morning and it was very quiet outside.

When I walked to the security office, I saw the same security guard who was on night duty the first time I came.

Seeing Lele coming out, he was stunned for a moment, then greeted, "Miss Chang, why are you out so late?"

Lele responded, "Yeah, something happened."

She saw Ziheng's slender figure under the street light in front of the door.

Lele lowered his head and walked in front of Ziheng, "Ziheng!"

The voice was soft and charming. Ziheng seemed to be struck by lightning. He stared at Lele in a daze, without saying a word, his eyes full of sadness.

"Ziheng, what do you want to give me?" Lele didn't want to delay too long.