Chapter 64: I’m Talking About the Current You
He sat in his wheelchair, expressionless, looking at Jiang Wenshui in front of him with indifference.
He didn’t speak.
Both Yun Qinghuan and Jiang Wenshui were stunned.
Although their conversation just now wasn’t loud, it wasn’t particularly quiet either. They were a bit unsure whether Bai Naihan had heard them talking.
Yun Qinghuan was okay. Although she was stunned for a moment, she reacted quickly and directly looked at the man, asking, “Naihan, are you planning to go out?”
The man shook his head. “I just heard the noise when you came back.”
So, he thought of going to open the door but unexpectedly heard their conversation.
The man pursed his lips. Although he knew that it was just idle talk between women with no other meaning, and Yun Qinghuan probably didn’t take it seriously, he still felt inexplicably concerned.
Yun Qinghuan: “…”
Feeling a bit awkward, she reached up and tucked her hair behind her ear. “I took a little longer to bring the food today because something came up. I’ll tell you about it later.”
Then she turned around and went into the courtyard to get the locust flowers. She didn’t take too many, just enough for each person in Jiang Wenshui’s family to have a few bites.
She picked up about one or two pounds of locust flowers, put them in a bag, and then carried them out to give to Jiang Wenshui.
Jiang Wenshui stood there awkwardly, not knowing whether to leave or stay. She wasn’t familiar with Bai Naihan in the first place, so she just nodded politely.
Her face was red with embarrassment.
She regretted not being able to control her mouth, saying whatever came to mind. Now that it was overheard, she wished she could find a hole to hide in.
Seeing Yun Qinghuan approaching with the locust flowers, Jiang Wenshui didn’t even look at them. She just took them and ran.
She really ran, probably faster than she ever had in her life.
Yun Qinghuan had been feeling a bit guilty, but seeing Jiang Wenshui’s reaction, she couldn’t help but want to laugh. Any lingering guilt disappeared.
Originally, it was just idle chatter between two women, and couldn’t be taken seriously. Moreover, the things she said were a mix of truth and falsehood, even she herself couldn’t distinguish, so there was no need to explain to Bai Naihan.
They were just the relationship between a sister-in-law and a younger brother-in-law, nothing more.
Explaining would only make matters worse.
The more you explain, the worse it gets.
Naturally shifting the topic, “You have no idea how scary it was when I went there earlier. Mom actually got into a fight with someone. I was afraid she’d get hurt, so I quickly found a stick and ran over. I didn’t expect Mom not only to not get hurt but also to beat that old woman, Wang Pozi, to a pulp.”
She directly mentioned the conflict between Wang Pozi and Liu Yuzhi.
Bai Naihan’s attention was indeed diverted. He didn’t ask about her conversation with Jiang Wenshui but instead listened quietly, occasionally asking her a few questions to avoid an awkward silence.
After finishing, Yun Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go back to rest. She still needed to cut some pigweed in the afternoon.
Recently, the pigs seemed to realize their fate of being slaughtered, and their appetite had increased a lot. They were eating voraciously, and their bodies had gained a lot of fat. They felt like they were retaliating through eating, but in reality, it made the village leaders very happy. After all, with fatter pigs, the villagers could get a bit more.
This summer harvest was lacking in resources. With sufficient resources, everyone’s motivation would be higher.
She was praised for raising the pigs well.
Correspondingly, Wang Shufeng was scolded harshly. Even though she had cut more pigweed recently, it was still not enough for the pigs she raised. Previously starved, now with a bit of meat, they still looked too thin.
The village leaders warned Wang Shufeng sternly, asking her to straighten up her act. If the pigs were still thin when they checked again next time, she would have to pack up and leave!
They didn’t leave Wang Shufeng any face, her face turned red then purple, like a color palette, it was quite a sight.
Yun Qinghuan stifled her laughter beside her, not daring to laugh out loud for fear of offending her.
Although she had Wang Shufeng in her grip, and Wang Shufeng had been avoiding her lately, she still needed to guard against desperate actions.
Thinking about these things, a smile couldn’t help but curl up at the corner of Yun Qinghuan’s lips.
Although physical labor was tiring in this era, life was simple, and every day she woke up knowing exactly what she had to do. Such days were actually quite good.
Anyway, Yun Qinghuan would just fall asleep exhausted every day, and slept quite soundly.
In modern times, although she was a movie queen, her schedule was packed. She was either filming or attending various training sessions every day, hardly having any breaks. And when she finally had time for herself, she often couldn’t sleep due to various reasons.
It had been a long time since she experienced the feeling of sleeping through the night.
“Sister-in-law, do you really like my brother?”
Yun Qinghuan’s hand had not yet touched the door of her own room when Bai Naihan suddenly asked her from behind.
She paused, not expecting him to ask her suddenly like this. How should she answer?
When facing Jiang Wenshui earlier, she could lie without blinking an eye, saying that she had a good relationship with Bai Wensong, even though she had never met the man.
But now, facing Bai Wensong, looking into his eyes as deep as ink, those lies that slipped out so easily before seemed to be stuck in her throat, unable to come out no matter what.
The man’s gaze was like a mirror, able to see into people’s hearts.
Yun Qinghuan pursed her lips. The original owner did indeed love, or even one could say, adore Bai Wensong. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so saddened to the point of falling ill and passing away.
From the memories, she knew that Bai Wensong also loved the original owner, and they did have a very good relationship.
But she wasn’t the original owner.
And she didn’t love Bai Wensong.
She closed her eyes and moved her lips slightly, saying, “Naihan, why are you suddenly asking these questions? I married your brother, so naturally, I like him.”
She wasn’t sure if she was deceiving him or herself with that statement.
Bai Naihan stared straight at her. “Sister-in-law, do you really like my brother? I mean the current you.”
Yun Qinghuan’s pupils contracted suddenly. For a moment, she thought the man had guessed that she wasn’t the original owner.
But then, she shook her head vigorously.
How could that be possible? He had only met the original owner briefly, exchanged only a few words, he didn’t really know her. How could he possibly recognize that she wasn’t the original owner?
Even Liu Yuzhi hadn’t suspected her, let alone anyone else around her.
After all, it was so unbelievable.
Who could have imagined that the soul in this body came from the 21st century?
Thinking of this, her heart suddenly calmed down, and she looked at Bai Naihan with a smile. “What are you talking about? All I can say is that when your brother was alive, we had a good relationship.”
The man pursed his lips without saying anything more, just saying, “As long as the relationship was good.”
It was a somewhat inexplicable statement.
Yun Qinghuan watched his back as he wheeled away, paused for a moment, then turned and went into the house.
Inside the room, the little one had already fallen asleep.
Because she had been working all morning, she didn’t even bother to clean up. She simply took a straw mat and laid it on top of the blanket, lying down to sleep, covered by a dirty jacket.
This way, she wouldn’t dirty the bedding underneath.
After all, taking a shower and changing clothes at noon before sleeping again wasn’t practical.
However, at this moment, lying in bed, thinking about what Bai Naihan had just said, she tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
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