Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The punch was not heavy. Yang Guang was just being playful.
Li Haotian pretended to look painful after he was hit. Then, he asked with a bitter face, “I haven’t seen you for a few years. I didn’t expect that you became a person who would choose a woman over your friend.”
“Screw you. It is because you kept staring at Sister…” Yang Guang laughed.
“Sister?”
Li Haotian’s eyes widened and he looked at Xu Ling. “I remember you only have a brother.”
Li Haotian and Yang Guang were junior high school classmates, and they were not from the same village. After graduating, they drifted apart and had not seen each other for several years.
Hearing his words, Yang Guang chuckled. “She is not my real sister.”
“I see. Where did you meet such a beautiful lady? Can I…” Li Haotian asked.
“All right. Stop talking nonsense. Go back and sit down before your seat is taken,” said Yang Guang.
He let Xu Ling sit by the window and then sat beside her.
Li Haotian mumbled, “You are such a heartless man.”
After that, he asked, “We haven’t met each other in a while. How about you and me chat for a while?”
Yang Guang replied, “Let’s exchange phone numbers and talk later.”
He didn’t want to leave Xu Ling. Because if he did, somebody would definitely take his seat.
As a man, Yang Guang knew exactly what the male passengers in the car were thinking about.
Xu Ling looked beautiful and approachable. Sitting next to her was simply an enjoyment.
Therefore, Yang Guang couldn’t let the men get their way.
Knowing that Yang Guang was unwilling to sit with him, Li Haotian shook his head helplessly. After the two of them exchanged phone numbers, Li Haotian went back to his seat.
Yang Guang sat down, saw that Xu Ling was looking at him, and asked, “What’s wrong, Sister Ling?”
“That’s your classmate, right?” Xu Ling inquired.
“Yes, he is my junior high school classmate. We haven’t seen each other in a while,” Yang Guang nodded and said.
Xu Ling went on, “Don’t you have any contact with your classmates?”
“No, I don’t. When I graduated from junior high school, I didn’t have a cell phone. Later on, my classmates either chose to work or continued to study. A few years after that, I bought a phone, but I didn’t know my classmates’ numbers. Hence, I lost contact with them,” Yang Guang said.
“Do you have anyone that you really want to contact?” Xu Ling asked.
“I don’t think so.”
Yang Guang thought for a moment and then realized that Xu Ling had a strange look on her face. He demanded, “Sister Ling, why are you asking this?”
“Nothing. I just want to know if you had a girlfriend at that time.” Xu Ling smiled.
“Well, my biggest hobby back then was to steal birds’ nests and catch fish in the river. I wasn’t interested in girls,” Yang Guang said with a bitter smile.
“No way.”
Xu Ling sat up and looked at him. “You were already a junior high school student, yet all you were thinking about was to steal birds’ nests and catch fish?”
Yang Guang laughed. “Yeah. Maybe I am a late developer.”
“Well…”
Xu Ling leaned back in her chair.
Yang Guang looked at her. “What about you? Didn’t you have a boyfriend when you were in school?”
“No, I didn’t.”
Xu Ling blushed and rolled her eyes at him. “Why do you ask?”
“I want to know it.”
Yang Guang was helpless. Then, he smiled and said, “Sister Ling, you’re so beautiful. It’s impossible that no one chased after you, right?”
“Of course I had some suitors. It’s just that I didn’t want to talk to them,” Xu Ling said with a proud look.
“I knew it. Ordinary men don’t deserve you.” Yang Guang laughed.
Xu Ling smiled happily. “I like to hear that.”
Seeing that she was delighted, Yang Guang was happy too. Then, he asked, “Sister Ling, do you think I am an ordinary man?”
“You?”
Xu Ling turned to gaze at Yang Guang. She sized him up with a serious expression and gave him weird looks, which made him feel uneasy.
Although they had some close contact before, Yang Guang could not figure out what Xu Ling was thinking about and he did not know how she felt about him.
However, right after Yang Guang asked the question, he felt regretful.
Xu Ling looked at him for a long time and slowly said, “I think that you cannot be more ordinary.”
Yang Guang’s face turned pale and he smiled awkwardly. He felt as if his heart was stabbed, which was extremely painful.
However, Yang Guang was still smiling. After a while, he asked, “Are you serious? How can you say that I am ordinary? Have you forgotten what happened when you were trapped in the fire?”
Before he could finish his sentence, Xu Ling interrupted him, “Forget about it. At that time, I thought that I was going to die, so I lost control of my emotions. What I said was not my real thoughts.”
“Huh?”
Yang Guang was completely dumbfounded. He remembered how he hugged Xu Ling back then. She told him it wasn’t that she didn’t like him but she needed some time.
But now everything changed.
Yang Guang was so disappointed that the smile on his face disappeared and his heart was heavy.
At first, he was happy that he could go to the county with Xu Ling. However, he couldn’t feel any worse now.
Xu Ling pretended that she didn’t notice Yang Guang’s expression. She put her arms around her shoulders, leaned against the seat, and closed her eyes.
The two of them didn’t talk to each other until the bus drove into the county.
After getting off the bus, Li Haotian caught up with Yang Guang from behind. “Where are you going?”
“I’m going to the county government. What about you?” Yang Guang asked.
“I’m going back to work. Remember to call me when you have time. I’ll buy you a drink,” Li Haotian said.
Yang Guang answered, “Okay. Let’s have a drink today. I’ll call you later.”
Although he was depressed, his eyes lit up when he heard the word “drink”.
Li Haotian didn’t expect Yang Guang to say yes so quickly. Hence, Li Haotian was stunned for a moment before he nodded. “Okay. I’ll wait for your call then.”
After Yang Guang and Li Haotian separated, Yang Guang and Xu Ling left the station. They did not take a taxi. Instead, they walked across the street, took a few turns, and arrived at their destination.
Yang Guang and Xu Ling registered at the gate first. Then, the doorman called Li Jinyun’s office to confirm that they had an appointment with Li Jinyun. After that, Yang Guang and Xu Ling entered the building.
As they went into the office, Li Jinyun stood up and smiled. “You’re here. Take a seat, please.”
“County Commissioner Ms. Li, did you call us over because there was some progress in the scenic spots thing?” Xu Ling asked.
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Li Jinyun responded, “Yeah. The plan of the scenic spots, as well as the quote, has been finished. I thought you guys would be anxious to know the progress, so I called early in the morning.”
Li Jinyun smiled and took out a folded drawing from an envelope and handed it to Xu Ling. “Take a look at it. This plan was done with reference to many famous scenic areas in the country.”
Xu Ling nodded, took the plan over, and looked at it. Then, she said happily, “That’s great. If the scenic spots can be built like this, they would be so beautiful.”
Li Jinyun said, “There will be some difference between the plan and the actual scenic spots. After all, everything is beautified on the plan.”
Li Jinyun smiled. Then, she looked at Yang Guang and found that he was a little absent-minded.. She asked, “Yang Guang, why don’t you say anything about that?”