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On the day she was supposed to hold the wedding ceremony with Xiaobinzi, she had not regretted enjoying it early. However, once a man has tasted the pleasures of intimacy, it becomes difficult for him to restrain himself. Yezhi felt tired every day and even had the impulse to pack her bags and return to Tun'er early.
Unfortunately, things were different now. She had a family and a home; she could no longer just leave a note and walk away like before. Being single was much freer!
"Is anyone there?" The vibrant and energetic voice made it clear that Aunt He had arrived. Aunt He lived at the end of the alley and loved to visit. If she didn’t swing by Yezhi's house every day, she felt like something was missing.
"Yezhi, your flowers are blooming beautifully!"
"If you like them, I’ll pick two for you!"
"Don't pick them! Just let them grow. Every time I come by and see them, it brightens my mood!" Yezhi, who had just crouched down, almost sat right in the snow. Oh dear, Auntie, can you not come by every day? Yes! I know my 'charming' image attracts you, but my family has been stripped bare by you; I really have no topics left to discuss.
"Yezhi, you've really landed in a fortunate spot! Xiao Lin!"
Aunt He gave a thumbs up. "With just this person, there are plenty of city girls who would be eager to pursue him, and he even has a house! No one in this alley can compare. Don’t be fooled by Wang Dachuan’s bigger house; it’s shared by twelve households. Where can you find a place as nice as your own courtyard?"
Yezhi quickly replied, "This house isn’t his!"
"His grandfather and mother have passed away; how could this house not belong to him?"
"So this house belongs to Xiaobinzi's grandfather!" Yezhi remembered asking Xiaobinzi when she first moved in; he said the house belonged to his relatives. When they decided to get married, she asked how long they could live there, and he seemed to have said they could stay for a lifetime. However, she hadn’t paid much attention to it since they would definitely buy another house in the future.
Aunt He exclaimed in surprise, "What! You didn’t know?"
Yezhi nodded. "What difference does it make whether I knew or not? We still live here." She used to be indifferent about Xiaobinzi's family matters, but now that they were a family, it felt inappropriate not to care. It seemed like it was time to pry into Xiaobinzi's family history.
"Ah~ You silly child, how can you get married without understanding your partner's family background? If it were a few years ago, your life would be ruined!"
"Come on, it's not like his family is a flood or a beast!"
"More terrifying than a flood or a beast. Others may not know, but I've lived here for forty years. His grandfather was the big landlord in this area, and later he became a Big Leader after getting involved in the revolution. A few years ago, he was labeled as a 'capitalist roadist'... The old man is actually quite nice, never acted like an official, always smiling at people!"
Yezhi sighed along with her. Good people usually don't live long. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "What about Xiaobinzi's mother?"
"His mother got implicated because of the old man and was sent back to our county. She was taken out for struggle sessions every day, and one day she just didn't come back. Later, we heard she died!" Aunt He said as she wiped her tears. "We used to play together when we were kids."
...
Zhang Dou entered first with a big fish in hand. "Yezi, I'm here!" Yezhi wrapped her scarf around her neck and slowly walked out of the room. "Yezi, why do you walk like an old lady after just a few days apart?"
Lin Haitao, who entered behind her, paused for a moment, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"It's so cold outside; walking like a popsicle can't be comfortable!"
Zhang Dou circled around her. "This doesn't look like a popsicle at all; you clearly look like a rice dumpling!" Lin Haitao chuckled; she did indeed resemble a rice dumpling.
"I mean Yezi, how many layers are you wearing?" Zhang Dou pulled up Yezhi's sleeve and started counting with his eyes. "One layer, two layers…!"
"Xiaobinzi, are you just going to watch your wife get taken advantage of?" Zhang Dou immediately tossed the sleeve aside and clarified, "I didn't do anything; I just pulled her sleeve!"
Yezhi retorted proudly, "Can you just pull on a woman's sleeve casually? Not slapping you twice would be considered polite!"
Zhang Dou exclaimed, "I'm not! Sigh... Leaf Sister, why have you become so unreasonable since getting married?"
Yezhi shrugged her shoulders and said, "There's nothing I can do; I belong entirely to my husband now, and I have to protect his interests." After saying that, she burst into laughter.
Zhang Dou, who was momentarily stunned, finally reacted and squinted at Xiaobinzi, saying, "You two really are something with your 'husband' and 'wife' titles. Who came up with that? Leaf Sister, do you think he's too old for you?"
Lin Haitao, uninterested in the banter, walked over to Yezhi and asked, "Are you bored staying home alone?"
"How could I be!" As soon as Lin Haitao heard her tone, he knew Aunt He had been over.
"Aunt He came to chat with you again!"
"Yes! At 8:45 AM when I was still half asleep!" Yezhi's little pout made Lin Haitao chuckle.
Zhang Dou watched the two of them as if they were in their own world and said sourly, "I think I should head back!"
"Wait a minute!"
Pretending to head for the door, Zhang Dou quickly turned around. "I knew Leaf Sister couldn't bear to see me go!"
Yezhi snatched a big piece of fish and said, "Who can't bear to see you go? You can leave now!" Zhang Dou was dumbfounded while Lin Haitao cooperatively opened the door and said, "No need to see you off!"
"You guys...!" It was Yezhi who couldn't hold back her laughter first. "I'm just kidding; if you want fish, come in and help out."
As soon as the fish was served on the table, Zhang Dou couldn't resist grabbing a piece and putting it in his mouth. "So delicious! This fish must have been fried before being stewed; it's definitely more tender."
"Well, the tofu skin, mushrooms, black fungus, and vermicelli are delicious, and the soup is absolutely amazing!" Yezhi laughed. She was actually just throwing the ingredients together and adding more water, so there was soup and vegetables, and the key was that it was still hot.
"Sis, where's the rice?" Zhang Dou, who had already eaten two bowls, filled another bowl to the brim. Yezhi watched enviously and questioned herself whether she wanted to maintain her figure or eat more.
Without saying a word, Lin Haitao directly added a bowl of rice for her, and Yezhi glared at him.
"Save the flirting for later; I'm still eating!" Zhang Dou was really fed up; he decided that as soon as he finished eating, he would roll out!
"Just eat your rice!"
Zhang Dou, being yelled at, lamented, "Sigh~ You all should tone it down a bit; our Reiko and Xiao Huang are not like you two!"
It's not normal for them to be unlike them! Yezhi asked, "Have those two come back to your house together recently?"
"They just came back home for dinner last week!"
"What do they look like together?"
"They're doing pretty well! They're not like you two who leave people speechless... Hehe~!" Seeing Lin Haitao's unfriendly gaze, Zhang Dou immediately switched to a silly grin.
Yezhi was furious. "Think about how your sister and brother-in-law interact with each other from your police perspective."
As soon as Zhang Dou heard this, he felt something was off. "What's wrong?"
Yezhi urged him, "Think carefully!"
"Nothing's wrong, they're both smiling!" Yezhi rolled her eyes; it seemed that the truth couldn't be extracted from Zhang Dou's mouth.
...
"What's wrong? Still worried about Reiko?" Lin Haitao asked while drying his hair, glancing at Yezhi, who was lost in thought on the bed.
"A little bit!"
"A little bit?" That didn't quite look like a little bit.
Yezhi sat up and said thoughtfully, "Life... is something we have to live ourselves. Zhang Ling is an adult now; let's just wait and see!"
Lin Haitao stared at her face. "Then why do you still look troubled?"
Yezhi pondered for a moment and looked at him seriously. "Can I ask you about something you don't want to talk about?"
Lin Haitao was silent for a while. "Are you asking about my family?"
Yezhi corrected him, "Not my family, but our family?"
Lin Haitao felt warmth in his heart and embraced Yezhi. "What did Aunt He tell you?"
Yezhi turned to look at him. "Aunt He said this house belonged to your grandfather and now belongs to you. She also mentioned your mother."
"My mother is a very gentle person. She gave birth to my older brother, my sister, and me. I was very mischievous when I was young; she would often scold me. When I didn't listen, she would lock me up, but my mother always left something for me in the room—sometimes candy, sometimes toys."
Yezhi pouted. When she was young, her father often served her with chopsticks, and what annoyed her the most was her mother's post-fight consolation; she never came to stop it when she was being hit.
"That person is still around, right?"
"Yes!" Xiaobinzi seemed really reluctant to mention him.
"Is he a Big Leader?" Yezhi thought that a time-traveling girl would always have some traits of a time traveler.
Lin Haitao smiled, looking more pitiful than when he cried. "A leader! Unfortunately, he exposed my grandfather along with others and distanced himself from my mother. He couldn't even become a leader; he's just an ordinary staff member in the agency."
Yezhi touched his face and said sadly, "Stop smiling!"
Lin Haitao shouted hoarsely, "I can never forget how he forced my mother!"
"Who told you to forget? Of course, you should keep this in mind!"
Lin Haitao held Yezhi tightly, so tightly that there was not a single gap between them. "But my brother and sister have forgiven him!"
"On what grounds?" Yezhi was furious.
Thinking back to the past, he felt both sad and angry, but for the first time, he thought it was okay!
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