contract marriage, marry one get one free

Chapter 434

Taohuayuan is on the outskirts of the city, and it is a two-hour drive from the city. On Friday afternoon, Le Yao asked for leave and got on the bus bound for Taohuayuan.

A few years ago, Taohuayuan was a famous place to watch peach blossoms in Z City. Every spring, there was an endless stream of people who came to enjoy peach blossoms. In Taohuayuan, almost every family had a farm shop, and the business was extremely hot.

Back then, Biyuan used to be one of the farmhouses with the largest area and the best business in Taohuayuan.But later, with the passage of time, more and more luxury-decorated and unique farm shops opened one after another, and Biyuan gradually fell into disrepair. Later, the building furnishings became more and more old, the layout was aging, and the business gradually slowed down. Faded.By the time Le Zhengming took over the management, Biyuan had become a sign of failure.

However, the life of father and daughter depending on each other is always happy in bitterness.

If it wasn't for the fire five years ago... five years ago, then she and her father would still be living here now.

Thinking of her father, Le Yao's heart ached slightly.Five years had worn away her father's will, and also made her state of mind fall into a trough, and now things are changing.

The car finally arrived at the Peach Blossom Spring. It was a bleak winter day, and the place was no longer as prosperous as it used to be. Le Yao climbed up the steps along the Qingshiban Road. When he was at the intersection, he looked over from a distance. At the location of Biyuan, there were construction workers busy working, but they did not see the tall and handsome figure. Although the garden has not been fully completed, the general outline of the garden has come out, and the layout seems to be the same as that of Biyuan five years ago. At that moment, she was a little excited and her eyes were wet.

When Le Yao arrived at He Zi's house, it was dusk, and the courtyard of He's house was crowded with guests, and happy words were pasted all over the doors and windows.Under the light, He Zi's face was flushed, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were filled with the joy of a newlywed. She dragged Le Yao into her room.

The room was filled with big red quilts and other dowries, and it was full of joy.

"Sister Le Yao." He Zi brought out a lot of food, tonight was her last night at her mother's house.Tomorrow will be the beginning of her new life.

Perhaps it was the lively atmosphere that made Le Yao feel better, and asked, "He Zi, where is your groom?"

"At his house." He Zi stuffed the jujube into Le Yao's hand, a little shy, but she couldn't hide her joy and said: "The elders said that we can't meet each other the day before we get married. He will come to pick him up tomorrow morning." I."

Le Yao asked: "Is he also from our Taohuayuan?"

"His hometown is Dongchuan, and he bought Xie's farm store three years ago." He Zi made tea for Le Yao: "It's the Xie's store next to Biyuan,"

Next to Biyuan?

Le Yao's heart skipped a beat, suddenly, she wanted to go to Biyuan to find him.In that familiar environment, meet him again.Thinking of this, she was slightly excited.

At this time, He Zi's cousin came over and asked her to come over, to the effect that the elders had something to say to her.

"Don't worry about me, I'll take a look around." Le Yao said.

"It's getting dark, Sister Le Yao, I'll let Xiaolan go with you." He Zi was worried.

"No need." Le Yao looked at her with a smile: "I grew up here, I am familiar with every corner here, and I won't get lost. Don't make the elders wait for a long time, you go quickly .”

Le Yao walked out of He Zi's house, leaving the lively scene behind her. She walked down the Qingshiban road. The night in Taohuayuan is not like the bright neon lights in Z City. There are only dim street lights on both sides of the small street. , After walking a short slope, she came to Biyuan.

The workers had already left work, and on the construction site of Biyuan, only two or three incandescent lamps were on.

Where is he?

Le Yao looked around, but there was no one there.Didn't he live on the construction site during this time?But except for the low shed at the gate of Biyuan, the other places have not been built yet and cannot be lived in at all.

She called him and heard the prompt to turn off the phone.

Not seeing him, Le Yao felt a little lost, she had nowhere to go, sighed lowly, and was about to go back to He Zi's house, the cold wind brushed her cheeks, her lonely figure was stretched very long by the dim streetlights .

"Le Yao?"

She was startled and turned around.

He Haotian was standing across the small street: "It's really you?" He was surprised that he would meet her here.

In Wen's, He Haotian is Wen Yunting's shadow, if he is there, Wen Yunting should be nearby, Le Yao looks behind him, but there is no figure she wants to see in the small street.

"Why did you come here?" He Haotian approached her.

"Come to my friend's wedding." Le Yao said.

"Wedding? Is that the one?" He Haotian pointed to a farm shop next to Biyuan.

Le Yao looked over, and there was a noisy place, which was the former Xie's shop, which was also the home of He Zi's new husband, "I'm a friend of the woman, and I'm staying at her house tonight. He Zhu, are you alone? "

"Oh, I usually live there." He Haotian pointed to another house: "Sometimes when Mr. Wen comes, he will live there."

"Boss Wen?" Le Yao raised her heart slightly, and asked cautiously, "Is he here too?"

"He went back to the city today." He Haotian said, "I didn't leave until evening."

Le Yao was extremely disappointed, she mustered up the courage to face him, but passed him by: "What is He Zhu doing here?"

He Haotian pointed to the construction site in Biyuan: "Here, Boss Wen bought it over there and it is under construction." Because of this small project, he has spent most of his time in this already defeated tourist area.

"I heard from my friends that this land was rebuilt according to the original form." Le Yao asked.

"Yes," He Haotian said, "Mr. Wen said that he wants to restore the Biyuan five years ago."

five years ago?
Le Yao's heartbeat gradually accelerated.

He Haotian and Le Yao walked side by side: "According to Mr. Wen's vision, the construction here will be completed before this summer."

Five years ago, also in the summer, she saw him for the first time by the little lotus pond in Biyuan.

"Le Yao, you're so good, why did you suddenly resign from Times Ginza?" He Haotian remembered that after Le Yao's continuous absenteeism, the HR department wrote a report requesting her to be fired according to the company's system, but that report was always pressed by Wen Yunting. There is no signature on the desk.He vaguely guessed what Wen Yunting was thinking, so he asked Liu Ya to persuade Le Yao to stay when she was going through the resignation procedures, but, Liu Ya said, she left very thoroughly at that time.

Regarding the matter of resignation, Le Yao didn't want to say anything more, and kept silent.

He Haotian didn't ask any more, but said: "Mr. Wen will come over next Monday."

"Really?" She replied lightly, and when he came again, she had already returned to City Z.She smiled wryly. When she went to Taohuayuan, besides attending He Zi's wedding, she also wanted to see him, but she just passed him by.Is this - predestined but not shared?
"Why are there really so many rules?" He Zi returned to the room from the voices of the elders, her face was slightly hot, a little irritated: "Pay attention to this, pay attention to that... Oh, getting married is really troublesome." Although a little irritated , but there was a faint joy that could not be suppressed in the words.

Then she pulled Le Yao and asked, "Sister Le Yao, where did you go just now?"

"Just take a walk around here." Le Yao sat, his eyes fell outside the window.

"Have you visited Biyuan?" He Zi asked.

"I've been there." Le Yao looked at the pair of small red pillows in her room, with the word "Happy" embroidered on them.

"How is it? Are you a little excited?" He Zi looked back at her: "A new green garden is about to be built."

Le Yao nodded, but the only regret was that she passed by Wen Yunting.

"Then have you met that Mr. Wen?" He Zi asked with a smile.

"No." Le Yao was absent-minded, he hurried back to City Z tonight, will he return to Tianlu No. [-]?She squinted slightly: "Do you see him often?"

"En." He Zi raised her eyebrows slightly: "As long as he is in Biyuan, he must be on the construction site." Every time she went to her fiancé's place, she would pass by Biyuan, and most of the time she could see Wen Yunting's figure. "But I find it very strange, why would he buy Biyuan?"

Le Yao looked sideways slightly, not understanding the meaning of her words.

He Zi closed the closet door: "The elders say that whoever buys a piece of land and rebuilds it must be a loss-making business. Now the business in Taohuayuan is not as good as before." The He family also opened a farm store before, but with the business After Moluo, he started the mushroom business: "Besides, we are short of resources here, and we are far away from the city. Due to pollution, the environment is getting worse and worse. He is so rich, how could he think of opening a farm shop here?" She smiled again and said: "Look at what I'm thinking, it's someone else's business, he must have his own considerations when he does this, what's the use of me being anxious? Sister Le Yao, do you think I'm so stupid ?”

In the bottom of Le Yao's heart, there is a faint hope swimming: "Who said, our He Zi is very cute." In her impression, He Zi is innocent and cute.

"But he always says I'm stupid!" He Zi smiled shyly.

Seeing her happy appearance, Le Yao was extremely envious, and had a faint guess in her heart, so she asked, "That Mr. Wen, has he asked about Bi Yuan's past?"

He Zi nodded: "When he first came here, he sent people everywhere every day to ask about the previous furnishings and environment of Biyuan. I heard from neighbors that his renderings were designed to be exactly the same as the previous Biyuan.

Under the light, Le Yao's face was slightly hot: "Then...has he asked about the former owner of Biyuan?"

"Sister Le Yao," He Zi suddenly thought of something and stuttered, "He...he..." In his mind, some blurred images appeared: "Mr. Wen...could it be that..."

Le Yao looked up at her, and finally nodded after a while.

"Oh my God, Wen is always Shao Wen," He Zi was extremely surprised: "No wonder I feel familiar every time I see him." Five years ago, she had met Wen Yunting several times, but she had always been careless, and just now It wasn't Le Yao who asked, she almost never connected Wen Yunting with Wen Shao five years ago, "Have you met?"

Le Yao nodded, but her heart was astringent.

"Did he buy Biyuan for you?" He Zi looked at her in surprise, recalling that she had met Wen Yunting several times since summer, either in Hetian or Biyuan, and five years ago, Hetian was the place where Le Yao and The place where Wen Shao walked in the evening.

"He doesn't know," Le Yao's brows slightly tightened, how should this relationship be explained clearly? "He didn't know that I was the..."

"Ah?" He Zi was slightly startled, and said anxiously, "Then tell him quickly."

tell him?But Ke Leyao couldn't muster up the courage to say that those thorns hurt so much in her heart, and they tortured her for five full years.

"Sister Le Yao, when did you become so hesitant?" He Zi became anxious, and pulled Le Yao as she spoke, "I'll help you."

Le Yao broke free from her hand, "He Zi." She shook her head bitterly: "I can't say it." I can't say it, I really can't say it.

"You don't like him anymore?" He Zi looked at her.

Le Yao shook her head.

"Since you like it, tell him." He Zi was anxious, and looked at her incomprehensibly: "I bought Biyuan for him, and I told him to go to Hetian often. I'm sure he misses you." I wouldn't be so stupid to spend wasted money on this already defeated tourist attraction.If it wasn't for her, how could he buy Biyuan?

Le Yao turned her head silently, her eyes were clear, but she held back a little: "It is impossible for me and him to be together." Her father's last words made her ashamed, and she could only be with him secretly; What happened years ago is still something she can't let go of. His ups and downs and his cruelty are all things she can't erase from her memory.

"What's impossible?" He Zi was anxious. Although she didn't see Wen Yunting many times back then, she knew about Le Yao's relationship with him: "You obviously like each other, why can't you be together?"

"He's getting married." In addition to bitterness, it was still bitter in my heart.

He Zi was startled and sighed in frustration.She just remembered that she seemed to have seen the news that Mr. Wen was getting married in the newspaper.

"He Zi." Le Yao looked at her, and in the bottom of her heart, she could bear the pain: "Please help me keep silent." Five years is a dividing line, separating them forever.

He Zi frowned slightly: "I don't need to say, but most of the other people who will come to the wedding tomorrow are from Taohuayuan, and they all know you." In her opinion, this secret cannot be concealed at all. .

"But they didn't know that he lived in Biyuan back then, and they didn't know anything about me and him." At that time, Wen Yunting was recovering from illness in Biyuan. Except that she occasionally accompanied him to the lotus pond, she hardly visited other places in Taohuayuan. However, the only one who knew about their love was He Zi.

"Sister Le Yao." He Zi held Le Yao's hand, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"I'm fine." Le Yao pretended to smile, "It's been so long. And if he really wanted to find me, he should have found me long ago." Instead of waiting until now... what has been missed, will eventually be missed .

He Zi was silent.

*
He Zi's wedding was very lively.

He Zi was dressed in red, beaming with joy. Although it was cold in winter, her face was always filled with joy that could not be concealed.

Married in the countryside, there is no so-called bridesmaid and best man, so Le Yao is always by He Zi's side, occasionally helping her and the groom pour wine.

How many people in Taohuayuan recognized Le Yao, asked about his health, and lamented Le Zhengming's death. In Taohuayuan, Le Zhengming was famous for his cooking skills, and he was always friendly with others, so he had a good relationship with others.

"Le Yao, your green garden has been rebuilt." An elderly woman pulled Le Yao, "You must go and see."

"Auntie, Biyuan does not belong to our family." After the fire five years ago, the landlord took away all the compensation from the insurance company with the real estate certificate, and everything belonging to their father and daughter was burned in the fire. , and ended up with nothing.

Auntie shook her head: "Your family has been in business for almost 20 years, why don't you say it's not yours?" She watched Le Yao grow up: "Le Yao, you moved away, and I don't know how often you come back to see it."

Le Yao was silent.After moving away that year, many things happened. Those things were branded in her life and could not be erased... But Le Zhengming was determined not to return to the sad place of Peach Blossom Spring.Biyuan, carrying the broken emotions of the father and daughter, burned their hopes and expectations clean.

"Sister Le Yao, my hairpin fell off, help me tighten it." He Zi walked over, pulled Le Yao and left.

In the new house, Le Yao helped He Zi tie up her hair, looking at her blushing cheeks, they who used to be young have grown up.

"Sister Le Yao, you have to drink less wine." When she helped pour the wine just now, Le Yao blocked several glasses for her.

"I know." Le Yao looked at He Zi, envious of her simple happiness, and she discovered that the groom from Dongchuan never left He Zi's eyes... In fact, simple love is the happiest .

After leaving for a while, someone came upstairs to call the bride.

At the end of the wedding banquet at noon, Le Yao drank several glasses of wine, her head was a little groggy.He Zi arranged for her to take a nap in the room next to the new house.

While slightly drunk, Le Yao closed her eyes and rested her mind, but couldn't fall asleep anyway.Maybe it's back to Taohuayuan, or maybe it's Biyuan not far away... Her thoughts returned to that summer five years ago, the summer that made her suffocate until now.

I remember that in Biyuan at that time, many laurel trees were planted, which bloomed every month, and had a sweet fragrance all year round.And every year in June, the lotus leaves in the small pond in Biyuan are full of fragrance.Occasionally, the wind blows, it must have the fragrance of osmanthus and lotus leaves... If you stay in Biyuan for a long time, you will feel that your whole body is fragrant.

During the summer vacation of her freshman year, Le Yao returned to Biyuan.And she unexpectedly discovered that there were guests coming to live in Xia Tian.

Coke Zhengming ordered her to stay in the front yard and was not allowed to go to the backyard. She just said that the guest had a bad temper, and she also found that her father often cooked and sent food to the building in the backyard, but soon the dishes were broken. the sound of.

Looking from the window of her bedroom, there seems to be a young man and a middle-aged woman in the backyard building from a distance. It seems that the man has a very violent temper and throws things at every turn, while the middle-aged woman , often followed behind him to clean up the mess silently.

Under Le Zhengming's deliberate arrangement, during that summer vacation, Le Yao mostly helped pick mushrooms at He Zi's house, going out every morning and returning to Biyuan at night.

On a summer night, Le Yao fell asleep with the sound of frogs in the small pond, but was suddenly woken up by the man's roar, and she felt a sense of unhappiness in her heart. She lifted the quilt and stood by the window with bare feet. forward.But in that small building, it was dark.She stomped her feet angrily, turned around and lay down on the bed again.

After that, she kept tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, and finally, when the sky turned white, she fell into a deep nightmare: In the dream, there was a monster with a man's head and a sphinx standing in Biyuan and roaring towards the sky, and she, hiding Trembling in the corner, suddenly, a monster appeared in front of her, its mouth with fangs was about to pounce on her, but unexpectedly Le Zhengming stood in front of her, next, the monster let out a roar, then stretched out its claws, Lifting him up high, Le Yao was filled with fear and fear, she cried and shouted angrily, reaching out to try to save him: "Dad!"

Le Yao, who was awakened by the nightmare, suddenly sat up from the bed, her forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and after she realized that it was just a nightmare, she realized that the corners of her eyes were full of tears.

At this time, the sun had already slanted into the room through the window, and fell on her face. The morning sun made her eyes close quickly after she opened them.However, the previous dream was so clear in her mind, and it scared her so much that after a while, her heart was still beating non-stop.

The sun shines on the small building behind, and there is not much luster on the dark roof. Le Yao wipes away the tears from the corners of his eyes, but in his heart, he has a bad premonition that the man living in that building is not right. Was it a monster from her nightmare?Thinking of this, she was really worried.

The first time Le Yao and Wen Yunting met was in the afternoon when the breeze was blowing and the fragrance was filled. On that day, she finished picking the mushrooms early that day, and she returned to Biyuan early.Father went to the city to buy, but she quietly came to the backyard.

In Green Garden, the man sat on the bench under the lush Jue tree. After thinking about it, Le Yao walked over.

"Who?" The sound of light footsteps came from behind, alerting the man who was sitting quietly, his voice was low-pitched with a bit of anger and authority.

Le Yao frowned, her heart trembled slightly, but after a while, she calmed down a lot. This is Biyuan, her home... Could it be that she is still afraid of a guest?
But after more than ten steps, she looked at this unwelcome tenant who often overturned Le Zhengming's dinner plate... He was sitting, so he couldn't measure his height visually, and he didn't turn his head, so he couldn't see clearly His appearance, but just his "Who?" made Le Yao's disgust towards him a little bit more.

"Who is it?" No one answered, Wen Yunting's thick eyebrows were frowned, and he clenched the stick by his side. There was only a slight sound of wind in his ear. Ever since he lost his sight, he was very sensitive to the slightest movement around him. Just now he clearly felt the footsteps behind him approaching, but at this moment, the surroundings were silent.

Suddenly, he turned around.

He is so young, at this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun is shining on his shoulders, his face is like a god's mansion, when he saw him for the first time, Le Yao's heart skipped a beat for half a beat, his eyes were full of helplessness Moved away from him, even, forgetting to blink.

In Z Normal University, there are as many handsome and handsome male students as the carp in the river, but at this moment, the man in front of her cannot use such words as handsome and handsome to describe him, what's more, she can't find any words to describe him he.Even, even if his face is too fierce now, his eyes are too fierce, and his bushy eyebrows are frowned, but none of them can subtract from his appearance score in the slightest.

He was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, which was extremely simple, but it couldn't conceal the nobility and elegance exuding from him, even when he was furious, she couldn't hate her.

"Who the hell are you?" Wen Yunting was in the dark, he heard people's breathing, even though the breathing was so shallow, he suddenly raised his hand, and pointed the black stick straight at Le Yao.

His sudden movement brought Le Yao back to her senses. For some reason, her face flushed red, she bit her lower lip slightly, and when she looked at him again, she found that those black pupils without any focus in the fierce light in his eyes, deep down in her heart , as if being bumped lightly by something, a sense of sympathy suddenly arose, and she took a big step in his direction.

(End of this chapter)