You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"It's okay, you can wear mine too."

"Your socks are too expensive. What if I wear them out?"

"Shen Jie, your athlete's foot has healed - ah, don't hit me, the silly sister is still there! I'll say it again, I'll say it again - OK! That's right, good sisters who change their pants!"

Yu Luying had consulted the chubby Father Li at the summer camp a few days ago and learned that the mass time for Sundays and major holidays here is 8 a.m.

It was almost 7 o'clock in the morning when the three little ones went out. It took more than an hour and the distance was just over 10 kilometers. If there was a car, there would be no problem, but the problem was that there was no car.

As always, it is impossible to get a taxi. You will never get one in this lifetime. It is also unlikely to take a rickshaw for this distance.

The nearest bus leaves at 8:10. Buses run once an hour, and the nearest one just left - after this round, it was already 7:20.

The three little ones stood under the old and dusty bus stop. Yu Luying was holding a mobile phone, looking unhappy. She bit her lower lip and stomped her right foot lightly - considering that it was still summer, Xiao Yao guessed that it was not due to the cold.

She couldn't help but jump: she jumped with both feet. Although it was not very high, Xiao Yao still noticed it.

The girl didn't say anything, but Xiao Yao heard her cursing herself in her heart, scolding herself for not making any plans when she went out, for being blind, and for not taking her affairs seriously.

Xiao Yao knew he was in the wrong and reflected deeply on himself, but he couldn't help but think: You only know how to blame me, why didn't you do your homework beforehand?

It's broken! Yu Luying raised her head and looked at Xiao Yao angrily. That pretty face looked very beautiful when she was angry, but Xiao Yao was not in the mood to pay attention to this.

"Then what do I need a man like you for?" Xiao Yao seemed to hear Yu Luying scolding him in her heart.

He leaned forward slightly and made a "salute" gesture towards Yu Luying to express his apology.

Shen Jie stood on the curb, looking around, and waving her little hands in vain at the sparse four-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles passing by.

A rickshaw stopped in front of the girl and asked her where she was going in an incomprehensible dialect.

Shen Jie guessed what he meant and replied "Fang Bing". The driver told her that this distance was not cheap.

Miao Mama didn't understand and looked at Xiao Yao, who quickly said to the driver, "We'll pay the due amount."

At this distance, the speed of a rickshaw is obviously far from enough, but it is better than running.

Although it was unlikely, Xiao Yao couldn't help but ask the driver if he could arrive before eight o'clock.

"You can't make it in time, you can't make it in time." The rickshaw driver grinned.

Only then did he learn that a section of National Highway 334 leading to Fangbing was under construction and had just been closed at both ends. He had to take a detour via the country road nearby, which increased the journey by at least 50%.

Xiao Yao made an immediate decision and called Xu Ruiyi.

Although I am a bit thick-skinned, there is nothing I can do about it now.

After a long wait for the reminder tone, the guy finally answered the phone, and his voice of "Hello? Who is this?" was filled with sleepiness.

Xu Ruiyi had been indulging himself in debauchery all night and had only fallen asleep for an hour or two. He was in a bad mood when he woke up and scolded Xiao Yao. He refused Xiao Yao's request to be a driver and only asked Xiao Yao to come to his house to ride the scooter away.

"Oh Yi——" Xiao Yao shouted at the rickshaw driver who was walking away.

It was already 7:43 when the three little ones arrived at Xu Ruiyi's house in a rickshaw.

"Why is there another one?" Xu Ruiyi, wearing something that looked like a bathrobe, rubbed his eyes with one hand, and pushed out the scooter with the other hand and inserted the key on it.

"Hello, I'm Xu Qingwei." Shen Jie introduced herself gracefully.

"Ah, hello, hello, my sister." Xu Ruiyi subconsciously stretched out his right hand, but was slapped away by Xiao Yao.

"Fuck you," Xu Ruiyi said, "fill up my tank when you come back."

Yu Luying sat in the front, and Shen Jie sat behind Xiao Yao: "No, you are tall, you should sit in the back."

Xu Ruiyi watched the three people leave - Xiao Yao was hugging the beautiful girl who looked like a junior high school student in front of him, and sitting behind him was the girlfriend he brought back last time, also hugging his waist tightly, and disappeared around the corner.

"Fuck." Xu Ruiyi muttered to himself, "What's going on?"

Xu Ruiyi knew that he was really jealous this time.

People from Shanghai are just amazing, right?

……

However, Xu Ruiyi's scooter was really small, so the three of them had to maintain a posture of chest-to-back contact and completely cover the body of the scooter - so, passers-by from a distance could only see the three conjoined twins as if they were suspended in a sitting position on the national highway, just running on the road. The scene was quite strange.

“At least before the Gospel… never mind, how about getting there before the Creed?” Yu Luying’s voice rang out from the bottom of Xiao Yao’s heart.

"Understood, sir!" Xiao Yao stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. The little donkey was shaking all over as if it was falling apart. It reached the maximum speed of 5 or 60 miles per hour and sped along National Highway 334 towards the rising sun.

At this speed, you wouldn't feel anything if you were sitting in a car. If it was a big motorcycle, it would be just average. But on this small light motorcycle, it gave people a terrifying feeling, and the cat mother was so scared that her face turned pale: "Are you going to die? Drive slower!"

It's really embarrassing, one of you tells me to go faster and the other tells me to go slower.

At this distance, Xiao Yao could smell the body fragrance and hair fragrance of the two girls at the same time, and feel the temperature and heartbeat of the two girls at the same time, but he was in no mood at all. He just wanted to speed up, speed up, step on the accelerator to the bottom, and speed up again.

There are no fast lanes or slow lanes on National Highway 334. Xiao Yao rode his bike along the roadside and riverside. Overloaded trucks and damn dump trucks kept passing by him, making tank-like noises, which made the three little ones and the road surface tremble.

Under such intense pressure, Xiao Yao had to slow down and ask his leader to go first.

However, new large trucks will soon arrive.

Xiao Yao couldn't help but wonder, if I died now, could I go to heaven?

And Yu Luying and Shen Jie...

Listening to Shen Jie's endless complaints about the rural town - mainly about transportation, but also about the strange behaviors of restaurants not turning on air conditioning, not selling iced drinks, etc. - Xiao Yao drove to the closed road.

On the right was a green and turbid river. Xiao Yaolong turned the car and turned into a country road on the left.

The side roads have their advantages. At least your whole family won’t be killed by truck drivers. But back then there were no Amap navigation systems on smartphones, so you could only drive in a general direction.

The country roads were intricate and Xiao Yao was in a hurry. He also felt that he was getting further and further away from his destination, so he couldn't help but become impatient.

"Oh oh oh, outside the quiet little village there was a silly kid who was born in the 80s..." Xiao Yao sang a song to relieve himself.

"Stop singing, it's annoying." said Yu Luying.

"Oh, you see, we have tried so hard, the Virgin Mary will definitely forgive us, right?" Xiao Yao changed his words to a joke: "Otherwise, why would she call her the Virgin Mary?"

On one side of the road is a farmland. The crop in the farmland should be rice, and it is growing well. However, Xiao Yao is a lazy intellectual who doesn't work hard and doesn't know the difference between crops. All he sees is an unpleasant green.

The other side of the road was also green - it was a small river, with many duckweeds floating on the surface... It was called duckweed, right? In short, it was a thin and thick layer of green things, drifting with the wind, sometimes alone and sometimes in groups of three or five.

After slipping on the corn husks on the road, Xiao Yao cursed loudly, feeling lucky that nothing happened. At the same time, he couldn't help thinking what would have happened to the three of them if he had made a mistake and rushed into the river.

Then he was stopped by three barking wild dogs...well, they were domestic dogs, so he had no choice but to rush forward.

There were several dogs blocking the way between the small bridge and the houses behind. Xiao Yao almost bumped into one of them - one of them even chased the motorcycle for a long time. Xiao Yao felt that he was almost bitten on the foot or trouser leg by it. Shen Jie was also very scared.

Xiao Yao's irritability accumulated to a critical point. He said hatefully, "If I see a dog like this again, I will beat it to death." Yu Luying was so scared that she tried to stop him and told him not to hurt the "dog." Shen Jie also teased him, saying things like "Don't hurt your own kind."

"What do you mean by sympathy for one's own kind?" Xiao Yao said unhappily, "Your No. 7 Girls' High School really doesn't have Chinese classes. Sympathy for one's own kind means sympathy in a sentimental sense, not a hurtful one."

"It's just that we don't have Chinese classes in the international department..." Shen Jie said.

It turns out there really is no Chinese class. I’m impressed.

"Tsk," Xiao Yao said, "Fuck it."

When he finally saw the cross held high in the sky by the Bingfang Catholic Church, Xiao Yao was so excited as if he had seen Jerusalem.

"This is our pilgrimage." Xiao Yao said with emotion.

"It's almost nine o'clock!" Yu Luying jumped out of the car and ran into the hall.

Yu Luying asked him to arrive before the "Gospel" or at least before the "Creed", but by the time Xiao Yao parked and locked his light motorcycle and walked into the church gate, everyone had already knelt down, ready to watch the priest perform the Eucharist.

After the mass, Yu Luying walked to the door of the church in a somewhat depressed mood, waiting for Xiao Yao to come and push the cart.

Shen Jie also took off her veil, stood next to Yu Luying, and looked around the church with her, searching for Xiao Yao in the crowd.

"Strange, where did the dog go again?" Shen Jie said to herself.

The church is full of old men and women, so a teenager mixed in with them would be very conspicuous and there would be little chance of missing him.

"Maybe he went to the toilet?" Yu Luying said, "Wait a minute."

Shen Jie: "I really don't see any young people here."

Yu Luying: "Yeah, it's quite different from our Magic City."

Shen Jie: "Although there are more elderly people in Shanghai, at least..."

The two kids were chatting idly when they suddenly saw Xiao Yao appearing from somewhere, followed by the short, fat, and smiling Father Li.

"Father Li." "Father Li."

Shen Jie had met him in the summer camp and had interacted with him, so she could also call out his last name.

Father Li took the three of them to a small chapel in the annex building and held a small mass for them and three or two other latecomers.

There was no grand procession of the Virgin Mary, no incense burners or bells, no one singing, no sermons, and all the scriptures were recited in a plain and rough manner.

Yu Luying was the second Scripture Reader. Xiao Yao was originally assigned to be the first Scripture Reader, but Xiao Yao said that he had not been baptized yet, so Father Li assigned another boy, a stranger.

The entire mass was completed in just over twenty minutes. Yu Luying felt that she had fulfilled her obligation and was satisfied with it. Xiao Yao and Shen Jie also felt very happy.

Father Li invited the three kids to have dinner with him, but Xiao Yao declined on behalf of the two girls. The three kids got on their bikes and started their journey back to Dongru.

"Don't you hate Father Li?" On the way, Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao, "I didn't expect you would take the initiative to find him."

"Children do things according to their preferences, and adults do things according to their needs." Xiao Yao said complacently.

Shen Jie: "Are you an adult now?"

“I really didn’t expect you could convince him to say another mass for us,” said Yu Luying.

"Are you impressed by my diplomatic abilities?" Xiao Yao said.

"Yeah, how did you do it?" Yu Luying expressed her sincere admiration.

"Is this something special?" Shen Jie asked Yu Luying.

"Hmm...how should I put it?" Yu Luying thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, I have never seen any priest hold a mass for a few people outside of the scheduled time. Well, I have never seen it."

"Didn't Bogo do that once in Shadow Time?"

Yu Luying: "That was an emergency, right?"

Shen Jie: "It may also be because Father Li is such a nice person."

Xiao Yao patted Shen Jie's cat head with his left hand: "Is it so difficult to admit that your husband is good at negotiating with others?"

"You have strong diplomatic skills and yet you are the one in the class..." Shen Jie laughed, then bit her tongue.

"Fuck, there are police." Fortunately, Xiao Yao didn't hear this. He braked suddenly and turned the car around to drive away.

"Has the dog really grown up?" Shen Jie whispered to herself.

By the time we got back to Dongru Town, the pancake shop had already sold out and closed.

Xiao Yao was already used to this kind of setting, so he took Shen Jie and Yu Luying to a shabby little shop for lunch.

"You always say I'm not a local," Xiao Yao said, "Don't underestimate this restaurant. It's an old restaurant. It serves authentic local dishes. Let me give you a try."

Indeed, there were a lot of customers in the restaurant. When Xiao Yao and his friends started ordering food, there were even people queuing up.

"Stir-fried clams, give me one," Xiao Yao pointed at the menu in his hand and said to Shen Jie, "This is the most delicious food in the world, you must try it."

"I won't taste it, otherwise you will vomit all over the floor again." Yu Luying teased.

Didn't you vomit too? Xiao Yao thought.

"That's my girl." Xiao Yao patted Yu Luying's head and flipped through the menu a few pages: "Braised dog meat, give me one, to vent my anger."

"Ah?" Yu Luying's eyes widened in surprise: "No, no, no, how can you eat a dog?"

Xiao Yao: "? Why not?"

Chapter 329 Our Love

2023-09-19

"Ah?" Yu Luying's eyes widened in surprise: "No, no, no, how can you eat a dog?"

Xiao Yao: "? Why not? We have been eating it since we were young."

"Ah?——" Yu Luying stretched out the word "ah" for a long time.

Xiao Yao had lived for 16 years and this was the first time he heard that dog meat was not eatable, so he asked Yu Luying what the reason was.

"Dogs are so cute," Yu Luying said after a long pause, "Dogs are good friends of humans and have spirituality. We had dogs in our family before..."

Xiao Yao patted Yu Luying's shoulder heavily and said, "We used to raise goldfish at home. Do we not eat fish anymore?"