NABC Chapter 60 What am I like when I'm not upset?
Chapter 60 What am I like when I'm not upset?
Wu Tianping burst into laughter, clutched his stomach, pointed at Gu Juncheng, and limped away.
Gu Juncheng: ...
Doctor:……
Lin Qingping then went to the small courtyard outside the hospital building so that the two could talk alone.
There was a persimmon tree in the courtyard. It bore fruit, then the fruit fell, leaving it bare.
When Xiao Tian arrived at the hospital, she stood under the persimmon tree and stopped Xiao Tian from going in, saying, "Your Commander Gu is talking to Commander Wu!"
"Oh!" Xiao Tian obediently stood with her under the persimmon tree.
Lin Qingping chatted with Xiao Tian, and as they talked, Xiao Tian looked at her and said, "Sister-in-law, you are different from the rumors."
"What? You've heard of my legend?" Lin Qingping said with a smile.
"Yes!" Xiao Tian nodded. "Last time I went back to the village, I accompanied the regimental commander. After dropping him off at his home, I went home myself."
"The last time I went home?" Lin Qingping remembered that it was right after she was reborn.
"Yes, in the summer!"
That was the time she came back...
"Why don't you have another meal?" Lin Qingping looked at him with the same eyes one would give a junior.
Xiao Tian's situation is hard to explain. Because he heard a lot of bad things about his sister-in-law, he didn't dare to go to the regimental commander's house. Things like she was lazy and fierce, and she wasn't good to the Gu family... Think about it, if she's not good to the regimental commander's family, how could she be good to him? He decided not to go and cause trouble for the regimental commander.
"Who's talking about me?" Actually, this is a pretty pointless question. I'm afraid everyone in Gujia Village would be saying bad things about her.
Unexpectedly, Xiaotian hesitated for a moment and refused to speak.
Lin Qingping immediately guessed that there was only one person she couldn't tell: Chen Xia.
"Is it Chen Xia?" she asked directly.
Xiaotian looked at her with a surprised expression, as if asking, "How did you know?"
Lin Qingping wasn't interested in how Chen Xia evaluated her, but since the topic of this person had come up, she was curious about something else: "Xiao Tian, were you there when Chen Xia broke off her engagement with your regimental commander?"
Oda nodded vigorously, "I'm here! I was right next to the commander!"
"Back then? When was that?" Did they annul the engagement face-to-face in the village? She had never paid attention to these things in her previous life.
“It was when the regimental commander received a letter from home telling him that the engagement was canceled. I was right next to him when he was reading the letter.” Xiao Tian frowned, full of heartache for the regimental commander. “It was winter at the time. The regimental commander burned the letter and stood on the mountaintop, letting the wind blow for half the night. Later, he stood on the mountaintop, letting the wind blow for several nights in a row.”
Lin Qingping listened and smiled slightly.
She didn't know what he felt like when the wind blew on the mountaintop. All she knew was that at this moment, the cold wind was blowing into her eyes, stinging them, and the wind was also relentlessly drilling into her heart, causing a sore pain in a certain part of her chest.
Letting go of feelings from youth is indeed not easy...
"And then?" she asked again.
"And then?" Xiao Tian recalled for a moment, "Then it was the winter of the following year, and the regimental commander's family wrote another letter. I don't know what it said, and then the regimental commander stayed up for several nights in the wind. After that, he submitted a report to the army to get married, that is, to marry you, sister-in-law."
Lin Qingping nodded. Yes, she and Gu Juncheng did indeed get married in winter. It seemed that a year after the engagement was called off, the Gu family had chosen her for him and wrote to him. Then, without even going back to see what she looked like or whether she suited his taste, he went straight to report to the military.
She understands this feeling.
In the online novels that emerged in the following decades, this kind of marriage should be described as "it doesn't matter who it is except her." Therefore, after losing his childhood sweetheart, he complied with his family's choice and married a woman he had never even met, a woman for whom "it doesn't matter who it is"...
As for why the Gu family chose her, it's quite easy to understand.
Before she got married, she had a good reputation. She was considered outstanding in appearance in the surrounding area, worked efficiently at home, was filial to her parents and loved her younger brother. These were all labels that made her a good wife for girls in the village.
However, the Gu family never expected that after marrying her, she would become a completely different person, causing trouble all the time...
As for him, she objectively assessed him as a good man, and a responsible one at that. Since he had married her, he was bound to take responsibility for her, which led to all the subsequent events.
But where is his heart?
I wonder if she'll ever be able to reach it in this lifetime...
Lin Qingping strained to keep her eyes open in the wind, trying to keep the stinging sensation from bringing tears to her eyes, and also trying to smile as she said to Xiao Tian, "Let's go in, they should be done talking by now."
She turned around quickly, just so that, where Xiaotian couldn't see, she could quickly wipe away the tears welling up in her eyes...
I hurried back to the ward, and sure enough, Wu Tianping had already left.
Lin Qingping pretended nothing had happened and took care of Gu Juncheng as usual, sitting aside and drawing design drafts when she had nothing to do.
Xiao Tian is still in charge of some physically demanding tasks and has been delivering lunch and dinner to them.
After a busy day, Lin Qingping turned off the lights and went to rest early.
In the darkness, Gu Juncheng's voice rang out again, "Lin Qingping, you've been acting strange these past two days. What happened?"
"No, really no, I was just thinking about how Zhiyuan and my second sister's studies are going. I'm even thinking of having my second sister take the college entrance exam. After the New Year, there are only a few months left." She made up a story on the spot.
"If you're worried, then go back. We don't need you here anyway; Xiaotian is here."
Lin Qingping suddenly sat up and looked at the place where he was lying in the darkness.
Yes, actually, she was never the one who was needed.
She always thought that in her past life she didn't know how to cherish him, which is why a good man didn't get to enjoy a few good years. But in reality, even if she had treated him the way she does in this life, it might not have been what he needed.
So what to do now?
She's been reborn...
She already likes him...
"Gu Juncheng, I'm not going back! Stop trying to force me to go back! I'm your wife!"
"But you're clearly preoccupied with something, yet you're not telling the truth..."
“I’m fine!” she interrupted him.
Gu Juncheng paused for a moment, "You're not like this when you're not upset."
Lin Qingping's grievances suddenly surged like a tide. You were the one who started it all, yet you still pressed me to explain what happened. How am I supposed to explain what happened?
She sat up straight, suppressing her grievances, "You're injured now, you need to rest more, don't talk so much."
"I've rested long enough, I've been resting 24 hours a day, I almost didn't wake up, I'm going to rest forever! How could talking a few words make me sick?"
"You...really want to talk?" She was already suppressing her emotions, and if he said a few more words, she wouldn't be able to hold back anymore.
He took a deep breath. "Speak! If I keep lying like this, I'll be practically dead!"
Lin Qingping got out of bed, tears welling in her eyes, and walked to his bedside. "Then tell me, what am I like when I'm okay? I don't know what I should be like. Is it like this?"
She leaned down and kissed him.