This person…
Su Mian flushed with embarrassment. She had not expected Wei Zhen Hui to be so bold in private, being able to say something like that. “Who wants to marry you?”
“You really do not remember?” Wei Zhen Hui stared at her intently, “That night, who was it who hugged me and would not let go, saying she would not let me marry anyone else except her.”
Wei Zhen Hui knew that she had been sleeptalking that night so he had not responded. But in his heart, he had already known that he wanted to marry her.
Although they had only known each other for a few days, he had decided that this girl who hugged him the first time they met would be his, Wei Zhen Hui’s, wife and no one could snatch her away.
“Stop saying it. You keep saying it.” Su Mian felt that even after two lifetimes, she was not as thick-skinned as Wei Zhen Hui. She would not let him talk, yet he continued to do so.
“Then you speak, when did you like me?” Wei Zhen Hui did not think that Su Mian would agree to marry him after knowing him for only a few days.
That day, when she had hugged him, she had said that it was good he was alive.
Did she know him from a long time ago?
Su Mian lowered her head, knowing that it was not the time yet. She narrowed her round eyes and decided to let Wei Min carry the blame for this, “Wei Min showed me your picture, the one where you were standing in front of the military barracks in your army uniform.” Su Mian had seen this photo in her previous life, but it was after she had gotten to know Wei Zhen Hui.
“Oh, that one.” Wei Zhen Hui’s lips twitched. That photo had been taken by Wu Feng Fei who told him to stand there not long after he was promoted to captain.
“Sister, it is noon, mother is telling you two to come eat…” Su Jin Long pushed open the door and saw the two of them still hugging each other. He covered his black eyes instantly, “Oh my god, I, you two continue, I did not see anything.” Su Jin Long slammed the door shut and ran away.
Su Mian had said that Wei Zhen Hui liked the dumplings He Qin made. She couldn’t help but shake her head. A grown girl could not be kept at home; she probably did not even know what her own father liked to eat.
While eating, Su Jin Long kept stealing glances at Su Mian, making her return to her room after eating only a few dumplings.
Wei Zhen Hui ate a full plate with a calm expression.
Wei Zhen Hui discussed things with He Qin and Su Jiang Hai and they set the engagement party to be on the 16th of the first lunar month. As for the marriage, they would wait until Su Mian turned 20. Before he left, he gave them 2,000 yuan as a betrothal gift, which was not a small sum of money in this era.
Xiao Gao’s wife was sitting on a stone near the gate eating melon seeds with a few women after eating lunch. She had seen Wei Zhen Hui enter Su Mian’s house early in the morning and by noon, he was still not out.
Yesterday, she heard from her sixth son that Su Jin Biao had called Wei Zhen Hui his brother-in-law and that because of this, he had fought with Su Jin Long. How come Wei Zhen Hui had carried things to Su Mian’s house this morning?
Just as she was pondering this, Wei Zhen Hui came out of the Su family’s house with He Qin and Su Jiang Hai sending him off until he was far away before returning inside.
Xiao Gao’s wife and the other women all had curious expressions.
“Could the news be wrong, I feel like Su Mian is the one Wei Zhen Hui is going to marry!”
“Impossible, the news was spread throughout the village yesterday. Su Hong’s mother went to Old Wei’s house for a whole afternoon to discuss marriage. I also heard that Su Hong’s mother had promised to allocate five mu of land to the Old Wei’s family every year.”
“That is out of the question, what right does she have to give him more land? When I go home, I need to talk to my husband and tell him to keep a closer eye. The reform and opening up in the past two years has been good, everyone wants more land to live better!”
“Well then why did Wei Zhen Hui not go to Su Hong’s family, but to Su Mian’s family? It has already come to this, they had lunch right after they met.”
“Who knows, this is how the world is, everyday is different.”
It had only been enough time to smoke a bag of cigarettes, yet everyone in the village now knew that Wei Zhen Hui had gone to Su Mian’s house to propose marriage.
