The groom was kidnapped on the wedding day? Fine! I'll marry someone else.

The two looked at each other for several seconds, and Jiang Yi was the first to "give up".

Xu Yu couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

As a modern person, if it comes to thick-skinnedness, Brother Yi in his innocent days is definitely no match for her.

Xu Yu didn't tease him. They held hands and watched Xu Xiaodi and Dingdang chasing ahead. She asked Jiang Yi, "Brother Yi, when are you going to finish building the house?"

The elders will definitely discuss this matter today, so she wants to talk to Jiang Yi in private first.

"I'll go buy bricks and tiles tomorrow."

Xu Yu was a little surprised by his quick thinking and asked, "It shouldn't be easy to buy, right?"

After all, the houses here are basically adobe, wooden and stone, and there is not even a kiln for making bricks and tiles.

"Well, we have to go to the county town to buy it."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yi said to her: "If you don't like building next to the old house, you can build a new foundation next to it when the time comes."

Xu Yu shook his head: "It's next to the old house."

Then something occurred to me, so I asked him, "When exactly were the foundations of those two rooms laid?"

"last year."

"When you just came back?"

"Ah."

Xu Yu was silent for two seconds, thinking that some things should be made clear as soon as possible so that everyone would have a clear idea. "Are you planning to marry your fiancée after you come back?"

Jiang Yi suddenly stopped and stared into Xu Yu's eyes, trying to see how she felt when she asked this question, and also wanted to know if she was angry because he had been engaged to another lesbian before.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Xu Yu asked again: "Can't say it? Or don't want to say it?"

She had actually thought about Jiang Yi's fiancée before, but she had never mentioned it. However, starting from today, she felt that she needed to know whether he still liked that woman in his heart.

After all, we are all in the same village, so we will see each other sooner or later.

She could accept that he had liked someone before, but she definitely couldn't accept it now.

Jiang Yi still looked at her with those calm and resolute eyes, and his lips were tightly pursed, and his expression looked very serious.

Xu Yu was a little dissatisfied with him for not speaking, so he poked his palm with his finger and said, "Brother Yi, speak up."

Jiang Yi still stared at her, opened his mouth, and closed it again. For the first time, he didn't know how to talk to her, and was worried that she would think too much.

After a few seconds, he asked her in a hoarse voice as if he had made a decision: "Are you angry because I was engaged to another lesbian before?"

Xu Yu looked at his serious expression and asked in confusion, "Why should I be angry? I heard that you and your fiancé have known each other since childhood, and you can be considered childhood sweethearts. If you hadn't been injured in the battlefield this time, you would have been married by now."

"Ah."

Xu Yu then asked, "Do you still like her now? Do you feel sorry for not being able to marry her?"

"No regrets!" Jiang Yi's voice was particularly serious and firm. "Comrade He and I are not childhood sweethearts. It's just that our mothers were educated youth who came here at the same time, so we have a good relationship. I have always treated Comrade He as my younger sister. The elders thought we were about the same age, so they got us engaged."

Jiang Yi's mind had never been on love before. He wanted to defend his country and drive away all the jackals and tigers that were eyeing China.

He had told He Yaqin about his thoughts at the beginning, and had asked her many times not to wait for him, but she had always said that she was willing to wait for him. In addition, they were both older, so in order to reassure his parents, he agreed to come back and marry her this time.

The foundation was also laid by his parents at home at the beginning of the year before he came back. At that time, his family didn't know that he had gone to the battlefield.

Before, he had never considered whether he liked it or not. He just thought that getting married and having children was a son's responsibility. However, after experiencing everything after returning from his injury, he suddenly felt that it was not bad to live alone.

Xu Yu was an accident in his life.

Her appearance was like a ray of sunshine, illuminating his heart which had become dark and lost because he could no longer realize his ambitions. It made him unconsciously want to chase her, want to pamper her, want to see her smile all the time, and want to spend his whole life with her.

But he didn't know how to tell Xu Yu these words, which made him inexplicably anxious and a little at a loss.

Xu Yu sensed his mood, so he scratched his palm with his fingers and said soothingly, "Tell me slowly, I believe everything you say."

Jiang Yi hummed and continued, "I'm the only one in my family. I used to think it didn't matter who I married, so I might as well marry someone I knew well and whose parents I was familiar with. After I joined the army, I came home less and less often. The more I experienced, the less I wanted to burden her. I suggested to her that we cancel our relationship, but she didn't agree."

"So she waited until last year?"

"Ah."

Xu Yu suddenly didn't know what to say.

It can be said that He Yaqin is ruthless, as she actually waited for Jiang Yi until she was 24 years old.

You have to know that in rural areas of this era, a 24-year-old girl is already considered an old aunt by everyone.

I don’t know what people will say about me behind my back.

But He Yaqin withstood everyone's criticism and willingly waited for Jiang Yi for so many years.

Although He Yaqin was affectionate, she married another man without any regrets after Jiang Yi injured her virginity and disfigured her.

Seeing that Xu Yu hadn't spoken, Jiang Yi held her hand tightly and asked, "Xiaoyu, do you mind that I'm engaged to someone else?"

Xu Yu looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you mind that I almost got married to someone else?"

Jiang Yi shook his head slowly, an extremely serious expression on his handsome face. He stared at her with deep eyes and said firmly, word by word, "Not marrying you is his greatest loss."

Xu Yu couldn't help but smile, her smile as beautiful as a flower: "Giving up on you is also her biggest loss."

After saying that, she pulled her hand out of his and hugged his waist again.

My cheek rested against his broad chest, and the heavy beating of his heart was in my ears.

Jiang Yi was stunned for a moment, then he hugged her.

The autumn sun shone through the gaps between the branches onto the two of them, as if coating their bodies with a layer of golden light.

There are fallen leaves all around.

At this moment, the two hearts are close together and their heartbeats slowly overlap.

Time seems to stand still at this moment.

At this moment, Xu Jianhua and Dingdang, who were chasing and playing, suddenly felt something, stopped at the same time, and turned their heads to look at the two people hugging each other.

A tall, upright man embraced a petite woman, surrounded by falling leaves. Ten-year-old Xu Jianhua had no idea what atmosphere was. He felt that he shouldn't be looking at this scene, so he quickly covered his eyes with both hands. Then he thought of Dingdang and took out another hand to cover Dingdang's eyes, saying, "Dingdang, you can't look at it. It's shameful."

Xu Yu and Jiang Yi, who were hugging each other, heard this and turned their heads to look at the same time. They saw Xu Xiaodi covering his own eyes with one hand and Dingdang's eyes with the other hand, but his hands were too small and could only cover one of his eyes and one of Dingdang's eyes.

Then Xu Xiaodi closed his eyes tightly and said he didn’t want to look at it.

Dingdang opened one eye and looked over here. When it met Xu Yu and Jiang Yi's gaze, a hint of helplessness appeared in its eyes.

Xu Yu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Jiang Yi let her go at this time.

Xu Yu withdrew from his arms and let Xu Xiaodi continue playing.

After responding, Xu Xiaodi half-opened his uncovered eye, and when he realized that the two were no longer hugging each other, he let go of his hands from both his and Dingdang's eyes.

Then continue playing.

Xu Yu then told Jiang Yi about his ideas for building a new house.

"I want to separate the toilet and the cesspool. Then when I go to the toilet, I can just flush it directly into the cesspool, and the toilet will be clean."

"I also want a pharmacy so I can store the herbs I collect."

"It would be better if there was also a place to make medicine."

At this point, Xu Yu saw that Jiang Yi had remained silent, so he asked him, "Brother Yi, am I asking for too much?"

"Not much." Jiang Yi encouraged her: "Tell me in detail, I will see how much space you need."

Xu Yu immediately smiled with her eyes curved, and then she carefully told him her thoughts.

Jiang Yi thought for a moment and said to her, "According to your plan, it would be best to demolish the three old houses and rebuild them directly."

Xu Yu was a little worried: "Will this cost a lot of money?"

"It's okay, I have enough money."

Then he told Xu Yu how much money he had saved over the years.