It was a rare day without work, so he took a day off. Ji Mingtao disappeared and no one knew where he had gone. Gu Shichu couldn't find him, so he went to the river and prepared to catch some snails to fry. These little snails tasted delicious when fried.
Many women and children had gathered by the river. The women were washing clothes and gossiping about other people, while the children were playing in the water and catching fish by the river. It was quite lively.
While Gu Shichu was touching the stone snail and listening to the women talking, he heard that Li Danyang was going to get married with Zhou Weiguo.
Gu Shichu raised his eyebrows. Li Danyang had indeed achieved his goal.
"Zhou Jianhong, your father is going to marry a stepmother for you. Tsk tsk, you will be miserable in the future. Your stepmother will scold and beat you!" A gossipy woman saw Zhou Jianhong jumping happily in the river and deliberately said this to him.
Zhou Jianhong got angry when he heard this, and said with a frown, "No way! My dad said that with a bride, there will be someone to do the work at home, my grandma can take a break, and my brother and sister will have someone to take care of them! My stepmother won't dare to treat us badly!"
"Tsk tsk, Zhou Weiguo is such a piece of shit. He's already thinking about asking the bride to work before she even walks in. This is really not nice." Another aunt couldn't help but curl her lips when she heard what Zhou Jianhong said.
"That's all Li Danyang's fault. She knew that if she married, she would have to be a stepmother to take care of the children left behind, but she still insisted on marrying. Let's see what good she can get."
"There's nothing wrong with this, right? At least Zhou Weiguo gets a salary every month and doesn't have to worry about making ends meet." Someone who disagreed said.
"That young master has to support a large family, but he is not as comfortable as the families in our village who have many sons."
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Gu Shichu slowly moved along the stone snail and got farther and farther away from the women. When he reached the banyan tree forest upstream of the stream, he saw two familiar men and women arguing.
What a coincidence! Wasn't the woman Li Danyang who was about to marry Zhou Weiguo? The person in front of her was Wei Shaocheng. It turned out that Wei Shaocheng heard that she was really going to marry someone else, and he was determined to find her to confront her again.
Li Danyang was annoyed by him and was afraid that if he continued to pester her, they would be discovered, so he had to ask him to meet in the banyan tree forest to talk it out.
At this moment, Li Danyang was cursing at Wei Shaocheng, and Wei Shaocheng begged her not to marry Zhou Weiguo, and said that he would wait for her to return to the city and take her there to live a good life.
Li Danyang had known what kind of person he was, so naturally he didn't believe him at all and scolded him harshly.
Wei Shaocheng’s plea failed, so he just took the risk and grabbed Li Danyang’s arm, lowered his head and wanted to kiss her.
If Gu Shichu didn't know the past and future of these two people, he would have thought that these two were the protagonists of a melodramatic drama of chasing each other, robbing each other, and having a sadistic love affair. Look, they even forcefully kissed each other...
Gu Shichu was watching the live-action version of the play with great interest. Just as he turned his head to look elsewhere to refresh his eyes, he suddenly saw a familiar figure standing in the grass not far away, staring at him intently.
… What a coincidence! Isn't it Ji Mingtao who disappeared early in the morning? He looked at himself with complicated eyes, and then looked at the couple who were still entangled over there.
Gu Shichu didn't know why she felt guilty. It was clear that she had done nothing wrong and was just hiding aside and watching the show.
She climbed out of the river quietly, carrying the bucket and walked obediently towards Ji Mingtao.
"Why are you here?" Gu Shichu asked him in a low voice.
Ji Mingtao raised the things in his hand, and looked at Gu Shichu with his dark eyes, as if waiting for her to explain.
Gu Shichu smiled nonchalantly, pretending that he had not been caught while peeping, and said with a surprised smile: "So you are here to catch bamboo rats, you are amazing, this bamboo rat is so fat!"
Seeing that she was avoiding the topic, Ji Mingtao did not continue asking.
He originally wanted to ask her why she was hiding in the river and watching others fall in love. He wanted to know if she had a crush on Wei Shaocheng. After all, Wei Shaocheng was a good-looking man, and Gu Shichu had never concealed the fact that she liked good-looking men... Was she going to fall in love with someone else
The more Ji Mingtao thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. Seeing the smile on Gu Shichu's face, he couldn't help but feel angry. Since she liked him, could she also like Wei Shaocheng? Was she tired of him
"What's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?" Gu Shichu keenly sensed that Ji Mingtao was in a bad mood, and his eyes became sharper as he looked at her, so he asked.
Ji Mingtao grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the river and the banyan tree forest, then asked her coldly, "Are you attracted to Wei Shaocheng?"
Gu Shichu widened his eyes in shock and said in disbelief: "Why do you think so? Is my vision so bad?"
When Ji Mingtao heard her say this, his anger instantly subsided, and his eyes softened a lot: "Then why were you peeking at him?"
"I didn't peek at him. Didn't you see Li Danyang next to him? It was just a coincidence. I touched the snail and found that the two of them were having a showdown." Gu Shichu explained, and then gossiped to him, "Li Danyang and Wei Shaocheng were dating before, and now Li Danyang is going to marry Zhou Weiguo. Of course, Wei Shaocheng is going to find Li Danyang and ask her why she agreed to marry someone else."
Ji Mingtao was not interested in other people's romantic scandals. He felt relieved when he knew that Gu Shichu was just gossiping and was not interested in Wei Shaocheng.
"Stay out of other people's business to avoid getting involved in trouble." Ji Mingtao warned her.
"Okay, okay, I didn't get involved. It was just a coincidence, wasn't it?" Gu Shichu said with a smile, and then as if he had thought of something, he suddenly realized and asked him,
"Do you think I fell in love with Wei Shaocheng and followed him here secretly? Haha... Are you jealous?"
"No, you think too much." Ji Mingtao denied with a cold face, his eyes wandering, and the tips of his ears were red.
Gu Shichu loved the way he said one thing and meant another. She threw the bucket in her hand aside, pounced on Ji Mingtao, wrapped her legs around his waist, and hung on him like a koala. She put her mouth on Ji Mingtao's face and kissed him all over.
"Don't worry, I like you the most, and I don't like anyone else except you! My standards are very high..." Gu Shichu kissed the girl until her face turned red, and then he said sweet words without hesitation.
Ji Mingtao was still holding the bamboo rat in one hand, so he could only use the remaining hand to support her hips, fearing that she would fall off him. However, his words were not as honest as his body, and he said to her with a red face, "Get down quickly, be careful not to be seen!"
Gu Shichu looked at him with sparkling eyes: "No one will see it, I just checked."