You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao told Shen Jie roughly what happened today, how Wang Ming took the initiative to provoke him twice, what his plan was, how he told Zhang Jialong and others about it, and how Zhang Jialong and others blocked Wang Ming behind the machine hall and beat him up after he came back. He narrated everything in detail.

"You," Shen Jie sighed, "Is this what you call repairing a tire?"

"Does the tire need to be repaired?"

"You didn't even tell me that you were going to fight with your classmates. You say 'wife, wife' but you act like a young fool and do things your own way." Shen Jie complained.

"Uh...are we just going to let it go? Or are we going to go and complain to Song Haijian?"

Shen Jie was silent for a while: "Alas, I don't know. People in our family must not be bullied by others outside, but I don't want... I don't want you to become like Zhang Jialong and Daiyu. I'm afraid that if you hang out with them for too long, you will really become a little gangster... Alas, it's so contradictory."

"Then what do you want me to do?" Xiao Yao asked, "I won't offend others unless they offend me. If you encounter such a thing, what will you do? If you are bullied?"

"I, I don't know either." Shen Jie thought for a while and said, "I don't think I've ever been bullied?"

"..." Xiao Yao shrugged while lying down: "Do you feel better now?"

"It's okay, I can't really say." Shen Jie said.

"Then you don't like me associating with Zhang Jialong, Daiyu and the others?"

"That's not the case. Didn't I ask you to play ball with them?"

"My birthday is coming soon, and I want to invite them to my house for dinner and have some fun." Xiao Yao turned sideways and gently hugged Shen Jie.

"Okay, just the few of them?" Shen Jie asked.

Xiao Yao then realized that this matter was a bit of a pre-emptive decision: "Let me think about it. Zhang Jialong, Daiyu, Chen Lu, the other three. I haven't asked Xiong Jihua, Ang, and Shen Bin yet. Ouyang Qianqian, my godsister, I want to see if she is willing to come. Brother Bo is very busy, I don't know if she is willing to come. And... and... if you agree..."

"If I agree, there's also Bo Ge's niece, right?" Shen Jie asked calmly.

"That's just what I said. If you think it's inappropriate, don't call her." Xiao Yao was a little timid again.

Shen Jie was silent for a few seconds: "Why do we have to stay at home? Where will the guests sit in such a small room? Let's book a private room outside."

"I want Tianyun to be with us," Xiao Yao explained, "This is the only way for our family of three to celebrate this birthday together."

Shen Jie also turned sideways. In the darkness, her pair of cunning eyes lit up again. "I thought you wanted to be alone together, or for the three of us to live together as a family?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Yao pondered, thinking about how to explain to her.

"I have no problem with it. It's your birthday, you can call whoever you want and celebrate it however you want. I will fully cooperate." Shen Jie stated.

"You've been a little too easy to talk to lately. I'm a little panicked." Xiao Yao said.

Shen Jie didn't respond to his question: "I suddenly don't know what birthday gift to prepare for you?"

Xiao Yao shook his head: "I don't want it."

"You're still being polite to me?"

"That's why I don't want it because you're being polite." Xiao Yao explained: "The money you brought seems to be quite a lot, but it's limited, right? What if you spend it all? You've already bought me a lot of things, and I don't want to spend extra money on gifts. We need to plan our spending as a family."

"From what you said, it seems like it's natural for you to treat my money as yours?" Shen Jie teased him.

Xiao Yao was shocked: "That's not what I meant!"

"But, this is my first birthday with you after all. Don't you literary young men all pay attention to rituals and such?" Shen Jie touched her cheek.

"If you must give me a gift, I want you." Xiao Yao hugged her a little tighter.

"Me? How should I send it? Get into a cardboard box, tie it with a ribbon, and ask someone to send the package to me? Ahem." Shen Jie said with a smile.

"It sounds good, but it's too much trouble. Besides, this kind of thing should be a surprise, right?"

"Then what should we do?" Shen Jie pouted deliberately.

"Otherwise, just fulfill your wife's duties?" Xiao Yao said half-jokingly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yao regretted it immediately. Experience told him that although joking would not cause any trouble, he would most likely get beaten up.

At this moment, the two of them were squeezed on a narrow single bed, and it was extremely difficult for him to parry and dodge.

Therefore, if you make such a joke casually and get hit a few times, it is not a big deal, but it is too inconsiderate of others.

"..."

The expected punches and kicks did not come, and the girl in his arms did not move at all.

This made Xiao Yao even more panicked: "Well, I just drove——"

"Xiao Yao," Shen Jie interrupted him: "I may not be mentally prepared for this yet. Let's talk about it later..."

? ?

Xiao Yao was a little confused.

It was just a deliberate teasing to get into a fight, but the other party actually gave a serious reply of "seriously considering it" and "definitely next time"?

I really can’t do this!

Xiao Yao felt like a gangster trying to molest a decent woman, but the decent woman told him to meet her at the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning with his household registration book: "No, that, I..."

"How about changing to something else?" Shen Jie no longer gave him a chance to argue.

After the embarrassment passed, Xiao Yao felt happy.

Even though he subconsciously knew that this might just be a blank check, the girl acknowledged his "legal claim", which was enough to make a boy of this age happy for a while.

Then he remembered what he had read in a book - for example, if you said that the room was too dark and you wanted to open a skylight here, everyone would definitely not allow it. But if you advocated tearing down the roof, they would come to compromise and agree to open the skylight.

But Shen Jie was still ill, so some things were not suitable to be said: "Okay, go to bed early. If you can recover before my birthday, it will be the best birthday gift for me."

"Is the illness getting better?" Shen Jie smiled weakly. "It doesn't have much impact. Isn't it just entertaining classmates at home?"

"I was just about to tell you that our literature club is going to Zhouzhuang for a field trip on July 1st. I wanted to take you with me, but if you're not fully recovered by then, I won't go."

"What's so good about going to Zhouzhuang? I can go with you anytime if you want. I'm not a member of your literature club..." Shen Jie stopped talking halfway because she suddenly thought that Xiao Yao might take the literature club activities seriously. "Okay, okay, I'll try to get better before then?"

"Thanks, baby." Xiao Yao said sincerely.

"Isn't it Meow Mama?"

"If I go then..." Xiao Yao thought for a moment, leaned close to Shen Jie's ear, and whispered a few words.

"Ah? No." Shen Jie punched Xiao Yao lightly this time: "Are you perverted?"

I'm sorry, Lao Yu, I couldn't escape it after all.

"You, you, you, let me think about it, cough cough cough." Shen Jie said.

Huh? Really?

"Ahem, that's enough," Xiao Yao said, "What time is it? Are you still going to sleep?"

"..." The girl curled up even tighter: "Dog, I can't sleep."

"What's up? Are you still having a great time chatting?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Close your eyes and go to sleep. Do you want me to sing a lullaby for you?"

"Okay." Shen Jie said.

This is a bit embarrassing because Xiao Yao doesn't know how to hum a lullaby.

"Dog." The girl called again.

"Ok?"

"I seem to be feeling uncomfortable again." The girl's teeth chattered twice.

"It's okay." Xiao Yao touched Shen Jie's forehead again: "Take another quick-acting pill and close your eyes and go to sleep."

"Um……"

Xiao Yao stood up and helped Shen Jie get the medicine, poured hot water, fed her to drink, then stepped over the girl's body and returned to his position in the bed to lie down: "Good night!"

“Dog…” The girl whimpered again, “I miss my mother.”

"Be good, be good," Xiao Yao hugged Shen Jie's head: "Mom is here."

"You are Wang Papa..."

Only at times like this did she finally stop acting like a little adult, Xiao Yao thought.

Xiao Yao fell asleep in a daze, and he had a dream. He dreamed that he and Shen Jie were sitting in the lobby of a tall Gothic building, warming themselves by the fireplace.

The fire in the fireplace grew bigger and bigger until it burned Xiao Yao's hand. Xiao Yao's hand was burned and he wanted to pull it back, but he couldn't move.

Then, Xiao Yao was shaken awake.

"I can't sleep! I feel uncomfortable!" Shen Jie's voice was filled with tears: "I want to go to the hospital! Cough cough cough cough cough cough!"

What's going on? Xiao Yao was shocked. He was fine before going to bed, but now——

The girl's body was burning hot, and Xiao Yao could tell that something was wrong without even touching her forehead.

He cast his eyes towards the clock in the room; it was almost four o'clock.

I actually slept for three hours? I thought I had only been asleep for ten minutes.

Xiao Yao jumped up, wrapped the blanket around the girl, threw a pair of slippers on her, and pushed her out the door.

The two of them went down the stairs. Xiao Yao squatted down, picked up Shen Jie on his back, and trotted out of the alley.

I waited on the empty road for several minutes but no taxi came.

"Wait for me here!" Xiao Yao put Shen Jie down from his back, but the latter sat down on the ground.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough."

"Don't sit on the ground, it's cold!" Xiao Yao was so anxious that he pulled her up and helped her sit on a stool: "Wait for me! Just a moment!"

After saying this, Xiao Yao ran into the alley again, went up to the second floor where his home was, and started banging on the door of room 202.

A New Year’s letter to book friends

2023-01-25

This is actually a Yuewen activity. It says that at the end of this chapter there will be an Easter egg chapter where you can win a prize by leaving comments? Please pay attention. Good luck in the prize draw.

I hadn’t originally planned to attend, because I had already said what I wanted to say in my remarks for the launch not long ago, and I had no idea what to say anymore.

But unfortunately, now I have something to say again.

Shen Jie fell ill and was hospitalized. I was also ill, but fortunately I was not hospitalized.

The problem is with the spine, not a big one, but a problem nonetheless.

On the day when "The Young Lady" was released, the first order was not bad, but it still failed to meet my previous psychological expectations.

Therefore, a great author from the group of nine authors advised me to try to achieve “10,000 a day”, saying that it could significantly improve my performance.

Friends who are familiar with me know that my meticulous writing habits make 4000 words a day painful, let alone words a day. However, I have a lot of manuscripts in my bank this time, and I have been relatively free recently due to the nature of my work, so I am bold and want to give it a try, so I will just write one day at a time and see how it goes.

In the past ten days...well, from a macro perspective, the average subscription has indeed increased significantly, but the daily number of readers has not fluctuated much.

Forcing myself to write 8 articles a day not only affected my cervical spine and destroyed my life (I had to spend 10- hours a day writing and revising manuscripts, and could hardly carry out normal entertainment and social activities, and I was exhausted). After my manuscripts were exhausted, it also more or less affected the overall quality of subsequent chapters (my personal feeling).

Therefore, in order to live like a living person and to ensure the quality of the work, I may have to reduce the amount of updates to a normal level.

At the same time, I should also appropriately speed up the pace and speed of the current plot advancement.

I hope that you who see this text can continue to support me, thank you.

The supported methods are as follows↓

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I originally thought that if the book is updated frequently, fewer people will continue to support it, but it seems that people will still support it.

So I'm asking you shamelessly, if you want to support the books, can you turn on automatic subscription?

To be honest, a few cents doesn't matter, but every follow-up subscription from you is a kind of confidence and a shot in the arm for me.

Also, I hope to see more chapter comments and hear your feedback on the updates (instead of just silently raising the story?), so that if there are any big or small problems with the direction of the chapter, including with the rhythm, I may be able to make timely adjustments more easily - this is a good thing about not having any drafts saved.

It's also OK to say it in the group, although I hardly ever talk in the group, but I'll pay attention. It's better to say it in this chapter, because you'll hardly miss it.

I just looked at the book friends circle and the comments on the book being published. I saw that some of the book friends who had given good reviews and said they would continue to follow the book are still "apprentices". Maybe I really didn't write it well? In short, I still want to hear your criticisms in a timely and frequent manner.

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Please complete the essay topic required by Qidian for the activity chapter below. If you don’t want to read it, you can skip it and go directly to the end of the chapter for the lottery.

1: Review the creation stories of 2022.

Creation story… Actually there is no creation story.