Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 52 Meeting Lin Xiuli for the first time

Lin Xiuli stared at the man in front of her curiously.

He didn't look very old, just a little older than me.

His appearance is not handsome, but he is very attractive.

Although the clothes on his body are a bit old, they are clean and clean. They are not like ordinary farmers who sometimes lose sight of their image when they are busy.

His face was covered in weather, and the skin on his hands looked a little rough, but his eyes were gentle, not the kind of fatigue that had been worn away by years of hard work.

When he looked at her, something seemed to be flashing in his eyes, giving her the illusion that if she gently placed a glass bead on his eye, it would reflect a colorful light.

He seemed a little shy when facing himself. He lowered his head for a time and did not dare to look directly at her. But soon, he seemed to adjust again and turned into a gentle smile, a very warm kind of tenderness.

It was as if I had just come down from Yangziling, my face was stiff with cold, and suddenly a warm south wind blew in my face.

The warmth relaxes the pores all over the body.

He said "Lili..."

Although her name contains the word "Li", most people rarely call her Lili. Her parents call her "Liva", and her relatives and friends call her "Xiuer".

So she couldn't confirm that Lili was calling her.

It can only be regarded as a coincidence.

She came today to buy herself a pair of flat shoes.

Because she is going on a blind date.

The youngest sister has finally gone to school, and her parents can take care of the rest of the work at home.

She can finally free herself and solve her life-long problem.

No, two days ago, an elder's relative in the village was a matchmaker and introduced her to a man, saying he was good in all aspects and she could meet him.

But she has been working at home for a long time and doesn't even have a pair of good shoes.

As for the shoes on my feet, the soles have actually been worn out, so it would be too late to do it even if I knew how to do it.

There’s no way to wear someone else’s shoes.

Her feet are too big.

She is 1.7 meters tall and her feet are close to 39cm tall. She can only fit into half of an ordinary woman's shoes.

So, just think about buying a pair.

Recently, I dug some white mugwort and dandelions in Yangziling, dried them and sold them to the supply and marketing center. I finally exchanged them for four yuan, which was enough to buy a pair of shoes.

But when she got to the store, she discovered an embarrassing problem.

Her feet are too big, and the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't have sizes that she can wear. I just searched here for a long time, but I couldn't find a pair of large-sized women's shoes.

At most, it is only 37 yards.
When he was in trouble, he suddenly heard someone talking behind him and turned around subconsciously, just in time to see the panicked look of this man.

I started to feel a little curious, and when I saw his candies scattered all over the floor, I quickly picked them up for him.

It was a one-time acquaintance, but I didn't dislike her. She was a warm-hearted person, so it was natural for her to do him a small favor.

In her spare time, she remembered that the man called "Lili" just now, and still couldn't hold back her curiosity, so she asked half-jokingly and half-seekingly.

Unexpectedly, I got a very romantic answer.

He said that he had seen a woman who looked like himself in a dream, so he was frightened.

Lin Xiuli found it very interesting.

This is a bit like a story in a novel or a Qin Opera script. A man and a woman meet somewhere and find that they look familiar to each other. They have seen each other in a dream.

Then after some running-in, the lovers finally got married.

Ever since she was a child, no one had ever spoken like this in front of her. The men she knew were all honest and arrogant, or simple and clumsy. They spoke in a loud voice and spoke directly.

He wouldn't say such romantic words.

She suddenly remembered the plot in the novel "Gone with the Wind". There seemed to be a similar scene. The hero and heroine met as if they were destined to meet. They were obviously strangers, but it seemed as if they were in an unknown place. The two people had known each other for a long time.

As she thought about it, her heart beat faster.

Unconsciously, there was a bit more blush on his face.Her mother once told her, "Our Liva just didn't find a good family. After finishing junior high school, we gave up on such good grades. If the family has some money, when she graduates from college in the future, she will definitely become a female prime minister."

When my mother said this, of course she felt a little guilty.

She was indeed very good at studies at that time, but because she had younger siblings at home and no one to take care of her, she did not continue her studies after graduating from junior high school.

If you insist on reading, you really can’t tell what the future will be like.

But she doesn't blame her mother.

As it is said in the book, everyone's coming into this world is inherently meaningless. If people don't find meaning on their own and passively wait for the world to reflect meaning back to themselves, they may be inactive until they die.

She was born in a poor family, and how she helps her parents raise her younger siblings is a meaningful thing.

A female prime minister needs someone to do it, and a good sister also needs someone to do it.

There is no distinction between high and low.

If given a choice between being a female prime minister and taking care of her family, she would choose the latter without hesitation.

This is what Lin Xiuli meant when she came into this world before she turned 29.

But now, her mission has ended and a new chapter is about to begin.

She will find a steady, kind, hard-working and progressive man to build a small family together and have several children of her own so that they can grow up happily.

In this new stage of life, she will still be very serious and live a good life wholeheartedly.

Don't leave yourself any regrets.

The candies on the floor were cleared away, and the two of them smiled and stood up together.

"Thank you."

Li Muyang said again.

"You're welcome. This bag of yours is useless. You can ask them to change it for you later."

"it is good."

"Then..." Lin Xiuli originally wanted to say that she was leaving, but suddenly she remembered that she hadn't bought any shoes yet, so she smiled awkwardly and said, "Should I continue working?"

"Do you want to buy shoes?"

"Yes, I want to buy a pair of shoes, but I can't choose the size of my feet."

Lin Xiuli glanced at her feet awkwardly.

Li Muyang followed her gaze and immediately understood her embarrassment. This was something Lin Xiuli had experienced countless times in her previous life.

Many beautiful shoes are not available in her size.

Many times, she had no choice but to wear men's shoes.

"I remember there is a shoe store on North Street. They seem to have large sizes. You can go there and try them out."

"Really?" Lin Xiuli was pleasantly surprised. She usually had no money and was reluctant to spend money. She rarely came to the store.

The supply and marketing cooperatives were the ones that came the most, like shoe stores and clothing stores. She didn't dare to go in and look at them. She was worried that if she didn't buy something after trying it for a long time, she would be laughed at by the salesperson.

So I really didn’t know that there were large size shoes in there.

"Well, it should be. I remember seeing her before. Today is a market day and the shoes are cheap. Go and have a look."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Lin Xiuli walked a few steps briskly, then suddenly stopped and turned around and asked, "Did you come to the women's shoe section just now to buy shoes?"

Li Muyang nodded: "Yes."

Lin Xiuli was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Goodbye."

Turn around and hurry up to leave the store.

　They finally met. Although it was a rural novel, I also wanted to write about the romance of young men and women of that era. It was different from the romance of today, a kind of simple and natural love that seeped out of the soil.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)