You are my wife, don't doubt it!

2023-01-10

Xiao Yao rode his bicycle leisurely, carrying Shen Jie, and rode home under the bright sunshine.

This reminded him of the time they rode a tandem bicycle in the forest park on their first date.

"Why didn't you take the subway today?" Shen Jie spread her legs and sat astride the back seat of the bicycle, with one arm around Xiao Yao's waist and the other holding flowers.

At the beginning, she subconsciously sat on the same side with her legs together, but when the car started moving, she felt like she was going to fall off at any time, so she adjusted her sitting position.

"You know what? This is my first time sitting on the back of a bicycle." Shen Jie said.

"I guessed it. How does it feel?" Xiao Yao held the handlebars with both hands.

"It's a bit strange," Shen Jie thought for a moment, "It's a bit cool."

"Doesn't it look like a scene from a teen romance movie?"

"I don't watch youth romance movies," Shen Jie said, "By the way, Xiao Yao, can you teach me how to ride a bike next time?"

"You don't know how to ride a bike?" Xiao Yao found it a little unbelievable.

"I don't know how to ride a two-wheeled bike. The ones with balance wheels we saw at the park last time are fine," Shen Jie said. "Why are you making such a fuss? Is it strange that you've never learned how to ride a bike?"

"Not strange, not strange." This is really strange.

"Hey Shen Jie, you don't actually need to learn how to ride a bicycle," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "I will take you to every corner of the Magic City."

"Then I'm going to lose my shit," Shen Jie said, "How many girls have you said this to?"

"Absolutely not!"

"How many times will it take for you to understand that I just don't love your glibness?"

"...Although I may be rude in words, my heart is very sincere." Xiao Yao thought for a few seconds and replied.

"Haha, stop the car."

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"There's a flower shop here. I need to buy a vase." Shen Jie shook the bouquet of flowers in her hand.

--split line--

When Xiao Yao returned home, he saw the complaint text message sent by Yu Luying.

"Shen...Mr....Shen Jie." Xiao Yao said hesitantly.

"Speak." Shen Jie didn't look up. She was concentrating on arranging flowers.

"You can live here, but I have a condition." Xiao Yao said.

"You're still putting forward conditions, which makes me want to live here even more." The girl sorted out her clothes one by one and hung them in the closet: "Just understand, I'm going to live with my daughter, not with you."

"Can you please stop hitting me?" Xiao Yao pointed out solemnly.

"I didn't use any force." Shen Jie said disapprovingly.

"Then if you use force, can't you beat the tiger with your bare hands?"

"... Go out, I need to change clothes." Shen Jie said: "Forget it, I'll go in and change."

As he spoke, he went into the cupboard.

Xiao Yao waited for ten minutes and couldn't help knocking on the closet door: "Are you done?"

No reply.

Xiao Yao's heart tightened, he opened the cupboard door and went into the mirror.

"You can't live here with me!" Shen Tianyun said loudly.

"Why not?" Shen Jie's voice was louder than hers: "I'm your mother!"

"Mom should live with Dad!" Shen Tianyun pointed in the direction of Xiao Yao.

My dear daughter, my love for you is not in vain!

"Okay, the old one doesn't want me, and the young one doesn't want me either," Shen Jie said as she went into the closet. "I, your mother, will go home and apologize to your grandfather, pierce my ears, and get on the bridal sedan to marry your Uncle Zhang..."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no..." Xiao Yao stepped forward and grabbed the hem of her silk pajamas.

After some fun, Xiao Yao helped Shen Jie put the things in Shen Tianyun's boudoir.

"Come, let's celebrate the reunion of our family of three. Cheers!" Xiao Yao made sweet and sour pork ribs, braised pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and crucian carp meatball soup, and bought a half-dozen beers.

"There is still a father who gives his daughter alcohol." Shen Jie teased while looking at the beer.

"Can this beer be considered alcohol?" Xiao Yao and Shen Tianyun asked in unison.

"You two wouldn't drink like this every day at home without my knowledge, would you?"

"My dad is so poor that he can't even afford to buy instant noodles with two packets of seasoning. Today, thanks to you, my life has improved." Shen Tianyun grabbed a can without hesitation, but couldn't open it.

"What is this?"

"You have to buckle it from here, and then pull it to the side." Shen Jie took it, pulled it open, handed it back, and then seemed to remember something: "The show is over, haven't you ever drunk Coke?"

"Aren't cans usually bent in the middle?"

"How can you pull it to the middle? How can you drink it?"

…………

Shen Jie and Shen Tianyun toasted with him, and the three of them drank it all in one gulp.

He refilled the glasses for the two girls, but the foam overflowed. When the foam was gone, the glass of wine was only half full.

"So clumsy." Shen Jie complained.

"Oh, don't say that. At least Lao Xiao's cooking is good." Shen Tianyun helped wipe the table with a rag.

"It's pretty good," Shen Jie commented, "It tastes similar to what she made."

"Who is it?" Shen Tianyun asked.

"Have you noticed that the moon is quite beautiful tonight..." Xiao Yao said hurriedly.

"It's not even dark yet, where does the moon come from?"

While eating, the three of them finally talked about the details of the engagement.

"This Zhang Zhengkai is the son of the district chief." Shen Jie said, "I remember when I was in the first year of high school, I went with my father to attend a cocktail party for an Italian jewelry brand, and I met him there.

"Zhang Zhengkai was sitting in the corner, playing video games and ignoring everyone. Then my dad greeted his dad, and he looked up and saw me, and his expression changed."

The girl was reluctant to talk at first, but as she spoke she became more vivid and emotional: "He looked at me like this at the time, I'll imitate it and show you -"

Shen Jie gave an indescribable look.

"Hey, a pervert, huh? So annoying!" Shen Tianyun made a "scared" expression.

"It was love at first sight, a very affectionate look in the eyes." Xiao Yao said, "What are you doing? I told you not to hit me again!"

He stood up and fiddled with something on the sofa.

"Then he just stared at me the whole time." Shen Jie turned around and leaned on the back of the chair and said, "He made me feel uneasy. Later, my father asked Johns to take me home."

"Grandpa Johns is a good man." Shen Tianyun said.

Xiao Yao walked to the closet. Shen Jie turned 180 degrees and continued to look at Xiao Yao while leaning on the back of the chair: "Then he started to pester me."

"There should be a lot of people chasing you." Xiao Yao sat back in his original seat.

"Needless to say?" Shen Jie said, "But most of them are relatively gentlemanly, right? Occasionally there are one or two who are not so gentlemanly. Can we make them become gentlemanly?"

"But you can't afford to offend Zhang Zhengkai's father." Xiao Yao touched his chin, which still hurt slightly.

"Not only can we not afford to offend him," Shen Jie sighed, "but we also deal with him frequently, because District Chief Zhang is in charge of real estate development..."

"No," Xiao Yao was a little confused: "Is Zhang Zhengkai so eager to do this? After all, he is young, and his father also helped him to rob women?"

"That's not the case." Shen Jie said, "His father still keeps controlling Zhang Zhengkai and prevents him from harassing me, but it doesn't work. He also keeps apologizing to my father, saying that he failed to discipline him properly."

"Oh……"

"My dad also told me not to tear my relationship apart and to give each other a way out. So on the day Zhou Xiaoying got engaged...ah, on Zhou Xiaoying's birthday, Zhang Zhengkai came over again, and I couldn't do anything to him."

"What should we do now..." Xiao Yao asked.

"Oh, it's complicated to explain," Shen Jie lifted her cheeks, "The group has encountered some difficulties and needs some preferential support from the district's special policies, indicators, etc. Even if I explain it in detail, you two won't understand."

"Then grandpa will sell you out?" Shen Tianyun shouted in disbelief.

"I won't sell it..." Shen Jie said hesitantly, "I was prepared to marry for the benefit of the family. But... now I have you... especially you..."

Shen Jie looked at Shen Tianyun with a gentle gaze.

"Does your previous rejection of me have anything to do with this?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Rejection? When did it happen?" Shen Tianyun widened his eyes.

Shen Jie did not answer.

"Zhang Zhengkai, Zhang Zhengkai..." Shen Tianyun muttered, "I seem to have some impression of this person. There is indeed such a baby-faced Uncle Zhang..."

"Do you know Zhang Zhengkai?" Xiao Yao and Shen Jie asked together.

"No, no," Shen Tianyun waved her hand: "I just suddenly remembered and had a slight impression of him, but it may not be him, and I can't remember it clearly..."

"It's okay, just say whatever you remember." The two urged.

"First of all, I seldom ask about things before I was born," Shen Tianyun raised a finger, "I just remember that when I was very young, I went to sweep the grave with you two...with everyone? It was Uncle Zhang. Someone told me that Uncle Zhang's father was a high-ranking official, and later he was imprisoned..."

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie looked at each other, their hair standing on end.

"Dead...dead? How did he die?"

"I forgot, I don't know. Anyway... I came to ask you two about this later," Shen Tianyun tried to recall: "You two were both hesitant, I have forgotten what you said, anyway, the final conclusion is that children should not ask too many questions."

"..."

"Well, I'll call mom to ask in the evening. Or you can ask her yourself?" Shen Tianyun suddenly turned to Shen Jie.

"I ask...her myself?" Shen Jie suddenly became a little nervous.

"Yeah." Shen Tianyun said as a matter of course: "You don't want to talk to your future self?"

"I want to," Shen Jie said thoughtfully, "I haven't thought about this for such a long time..."

"Me too..." Xiao Yao said quickly.

"Old Xiao, please clean up. Look how tired mom is." Shen Tianyun said.

As expected, when it comes to contacting his future self, Shen Tianyun avoids the question, Xiao Yao thought.

"I am a little tired," Shen Jie held her forehead with her hand, "I didn't sleep well last night."

"Where did you sleep last night?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Canhua Internet Cafe," Shen Jie said, "I trained an Elf Mage on Bloodline II halfway through the night. Zone 2, Silfart, right?"

"?" Xiao Yao said, "I went to Canhua Internet Cafe but didn't see you."

"I saw you, hiding."

"...What level are you? Tell me earlier and I'll give you a set of top-level equipment."

Xiao Yao originally wanted to ask Shen Jie to go out for a walk in the moonlight and chat alone, but he knew that Shen Jie must not have slept well last night, so he didn't say anything else and sent the two of them to the room opposite.

Xiao Yao put a kettle of water on the gas stove. It was getting late, and it was not convenient to go to the church to take a bath, so he just washed his feet today.

Staring at the blue flame in a daze, he felt a little melancholy.

As for Yu Luying...as long as we can maintain our friendship, it's already Amitabha.

Logically speaking, having a wife, children and a warm bed are the blessings in life, and we should be content with that. But... as it is now, we can only be considered as neighbors next door, and we are quite distant.

For example, right now, I want to talk to her, but it's totally impossible.

Only the two of them, mother and daughter, have a deep affection for each other, and she herself has become an outsider.

The idea of ​​letting Shen Jie move here to live is, after all, just a fantasy.

Not to mention living together, even his relationship with Shen Jie can be said to be confusing and ambiguous.

Yes, Shen Jie did make an agreement with him to marry him in the future, and her attitude towards him became much better. She even didn't mind him calling her "wife" and she ran away from marriage for him.

However, marrying you in the future does not mean marrying you now. In Shen Jie's heart, in this summer when she was sixteen, what exactly is our relationship?