1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 58: Gentle and Virtuous
Liberation Park.

It was noon, the sun was at its brightest, and the swaying sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, leaving countless tiny nuggets of gold on the bluestone floor of the park.

"Whoa whoa whoa~"

"Dregs~"

The sound of wind blowing the leaves also brings the low chirping of southern swallows.

Under the shade of the trees, Cheng Kaiyan and Liu Xiaoli walked side by side on the path in the park.

Chen Shanshan tactfully found an excuse to go home, and the two of them walked around and chatted while digesting their food.

"Go back, I want to see where you live now."

At this time Liu Xiaoli suddenly said.

"Okay, you want to read the manuscript, right? I can take a look at it."

After they left the park, Cheng Kaiyan rode his bike and took Liu Xiaoli back to the editorial department's guesthouse.

In the small house at the door, the old man was taking a nap with a radio next to his pillow.

"So it's right here. It's really close."

Liu Xiaoli looked up and looked around. It took her less than five minutes to ride her bike here.

"Yeah, I didn't expect to be so close. I only found out when I finished revising the manuscript yesterday and went out to eat with them." Cheng Kaiyan said with a smile.

The guesthouse of Fangcao Editorial Department consists of only two six-story buildings.

It is located behind the editorial office building, with a yard in the middle.

In the yard, there was a young male editor drying a cup. He was stunned when he saw Cheng Kaiyan and Liu Xiaoli coming in, and then asked enthusiastically: "Mr. Cheng is back? Have you eaten yet?"

"I ate Mr. Huang."

"See you."

The two of them turned around and went upstairs to Cheng Kaiyan's room. As soon as they opened the door, the sunlight outside the window made the room bright.

"Here it is. Sorry it's a bit messy. I haven't had time to pay attention to it these days because I was revising the manuscript."

Cheng Kaiyan pushed open the door and saw the scene in the room. He felt a little embarrassed for a moment. He had been very busy these days.

There were still a dozen or so pieces of waste manuscript on the desk, weighed down by ink bottles, rustling in the wind.

"It's okay, just sit down for a while and I'll clean up for you."

Liu Xiaoli saw the obviously messy room in front of her, shook her head and said softly.

As soon as she finished speaking, she stood up and started to clean up.

First, tidy up the sheets, quilts, and pillows.

Then he put all the things on the desk in order and closed the windows, leaving only a small gap for ventilation.

Her movements were swift, and Cheng Kaiyan was filled with emotion. "Sister Xiaoli, you will definitely be a good wife and a good mother in the future."

"Thank you, Kaiyan, do you want to wash your clothes?"

Liu Xiaoli smiled faintly, holding the changed clothes in the red plastic bucket in her hand, and habitually leaned in to smell it. There was no strange smell, but instead a masculine scent.

"I'll wash it myself later, Sister Xiaoli."

"Now that we are here, let's take advantage of the bright sun and wash it for a while before drying it in the sun."

Liu Xiaoli turned around without saying a word, picked up the bucket and went to the water room at the end of the corridor to fetch water.

Living in a guesthouse is just like staying in a hotel in later generations. It is not as convenient to wash clothes as at home.

There is no detergent, washboard, clothes drying rack, clothes drying pole...

Cheng Kaiyan followed the girl and said, "Let me fetch some water. It's easier to work with a man and a woman."

"Row."

……

After getting the water, I returned to the room.

Liu Xiaoli sat on the bed, bending over and carefully scrubbing the thin clothes in her hands. The dense foam was on her fair and slender arms. She had a gentle and virtuous temperament sitting there.

Although she is only twenty years old, she is very mature in her personality and the way she treats others.

She is very determined in her dance career, and she is also a very serious and responsible woman when it comes to life and family.

Cheng Kaiyan sat aside and saw the hair falling beside her ear. She gently brushed it behind the girl's white ear and said, "Be careful, don't touch the wound."

"Ah."

Liu Xiaoli pursed her lips, feeling the trembling from her body, and a blush rose on her cheeks. She didn't know why it felt like they had known each other for many years even though it was their first meeting...

Fortunately, it was just an unintentional action.

After washing the clothes, the two took the clothes and quilts downstairs to hang them up.

Back to the room. "Are you tired? Lie down and rest for a while."

"……Um."

After hearing this, Liu Xiaoli hesitated for a while, but still chose to lie side by side with Cheng Kaiyan, lying horizontally on the bed with her legs on the ground.

The sunlight filtered through the windows and curtains, falling on their faces with warm heat, making them sleepy.

Unconsciously, their breathing slowed down, and they lay on the soft surface of the lake in the warm sunshine, their bodies gradually sinking.

"Tick tick tick~"

As the afternoon light fades, the heat decreases.

A slight chill came over her, and while she was half asleep and half awake, Liu Xiaoli could feel a warm coat covering her body.

"woke up?"

"Well, what time is it?"

There was still some confusion on her face. She propped herself up and sat up, rubbing her eyes.

"It's half past three. It's still early. Oh, I just brought the manuscript over. Do you want to see it?"

Cheng Kaiyan handed over a watch.

"Want to see."

Liu Xiaoli took the watch and found the style of the watch familiar to her.

"Isn't this my aunt's watch?"

"It belongs to my aunt. It's quite troublesome to go out without a watch."

"So this is ah."

Liu Xiaoli looked at her watch, her beautiful dark eyes flashed, as if she was making some plans.

Then she stood up and saw a thick stack of manuscripts on the desk.

Is this the new novel?

The girl pulled out a stool and sat down, looking through the books carefully.

After a while, Cheng Kaiyan went to the water room to get some hot water and poured her tea in a clean cup. She brewed the Dahongpao tea that Ye Shengtao got from her.

One of them was reading a manuscript, and the other was reading the unfinished copy of "Gone with the Wind", both were concentrating deeply.

Until the sunset.

The room was very quiet; I could hear the birds singing outside the window and the sound of the girl flipping through manuscript papers.

"Sister Xiaoli, it's five o'clock."

"what?"

Liu Xiaoli was patted on the shoulder by Cheng Kaiyan, and only then did she come out of the world of the book.

At this time, Liu Xiaoli looked up at the sky and the watch on the table, and realized that she had been watching for more than an hour.

"Where did you see it?" Cheng Kaiyan asked.

"Seeing the epidemic in the village... Kaiyan, your novel is really well written. No wonder Editor-in-Chief Yang gave it such a high evaluation. I really like the life of the educated youth who have no regrets in their youth. They seem to be full of energy and enthusiasm, and they seem to be fighting for the construction of the countryside."

Liu Xiaoli thought about it and said seriously.

In more than an hour, she had been moved by the characters and plots in the novel, the youth of the educated youth who went to the countryside, Xiaofang's secret love, and the youthful vitality that permeated the text was very desirable.

This is obviously a completely different theme from scar literature.

"Thank you, it's getting late, I'll take you home."

Cheng Kaiyan laughed and said, “You haven’t seen the rest yet, no wonder you didn’t cry.”

"Ok."

The girl reluctantly put down the manuscript, but was too embarrassed to ask if she could take it back to the dormitory.

"You can't take the manuscript away. Although several copies have been printed, the original manuscript is very precious."

"Then... can I come and see you when I get free?"

Liu Xiaoli raised her pretty face with anticipation in her eyes.

"Of course, as long as you don't worry about being alone in a room with me."

"I'm not afraid! You're not that kind of person. Besides... we're already a couple." She raised her chin slightly and snorted.

Cheng Kaiyan took Liu Xiaoli back home on a bike. On the way, they met a vendor selling candied haws on the street and bought a few. Then they went to the store to buy some snacks that girls like, such as cloud cakes, crispy candies, and White Rabbit candies.

"Jingle Bell……"

The bell of a bicycle rang at the entrance of the girls' dormitory of Jiangcheng Song and Dance Theater. Liu Xiaoli got off the bicycle and stood at the entrance of the dormitory, waving goodbye to Cheng Kaiyan. She didn't go upstairs to rest until she saw his back disappear from her sight.

(End of this chapter)