Chapter 92: Emotions Heating Up

Chapter 92: Emotions Heating Up

Pine Mountain High School.

In a classroom, Deng Yunheng and Zhu Chenglong ate together the food that his elder brother and sister-in-law had packed for him from a state-owned restaurant.

The reason they chose to eat in the classroom instead of the dormitory was that Deng Yunheng didn't want to make other students feel bad. After all, they were eating so well, while most other students were eating rice with pickles. The psychological gap was too big.

If they were to eat together, Deng Yunheng would feel guilty if he didn't share some with the other students.

Although the food his elder brother and sister-in-law had packed for him wasn't a small amount, it was only enough for him and Zhu Chenglong to eat to their heart's content. If they shared it with other classmates, even if each person got just a little, there wouldn't be much left after dividing it among more than 20 people, and he definitely wouldn't be able to eat his fill.

So, after much thought, the two decided to eat in the classroom, avoiding other classmates and enjoying this rare delicacy.

I have to say, a state-owned restaurant is a state-owned restaurant. The chef's skills were much better than those of the school canteen chef.

The ginger and scallion beef was especially delicious. Deng Yunheng, whose father had raised his culinary standards, couldn't help but praise it. Zhu Chenglong almost cried while eating it. This was the second time in his life that he had eaten such delicious food, the first being the meal Deng Yunheng had brought the week before last.

In front of the delicious food, neither of them spoke.

In just two or three minutes, the two of them finished their meal like a gust of wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Zhu Chenglong even licked all the juice from the vegetables clean, determined not to waste anything.

After eating his fill, Zhu Chenglong sighed with satisfaction and said, "Brother Heng, your elder brother and his wife are so nice to you. When they came to the commune to do business, they packed meals for you from the state-owned restaurant and brought them to school for you to eat. And your sister-in-law is so beautiful, just like those actresses in the movies."

Deng Yunheng chuckled upon hearing this and began to show off in front of his best classmate...

…

After Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping packed the food and brought it to school for Deng Yunheng, the couple returned home.

This time, with the experience of coming here before, and now that they had obtained their marriage certificate and were a legal couple recognized by the state, after leaving Pine Mountain, Zhang Xiuping took the initiative to hug Deng Yuntai's waist.

Deng Yuntai became excited again.

However, this time he didn't pedal as hard as he had on the way there. Instead, he rode at a normal speed while chatting with his wife to deepen their relationship.

When a man and a woman are together, as long as they are in love, they will have endless topics to talk about. Even if they are just trivial matters, they can discuss them with great interest for the whole day.

Once a marriage is settled in this era, it is basically a lifelong commitment. At least, this is the mindset of rural people at the time. No matter how well they live in the man's family, they won't think of divorce. Unlike couples in later generations, whose feelings are thinner than paper and can't withstand the slightest grievance; Couples nowadays might quarrel over a small matter at night and meet at the Civil Affairs Bureau the next day, treating marriage as a joke.

The couple chatted along the way and became much more familiar with each other.

At around 1:30 in the afternoon, the two returned to Dragon Lake Town.

Nowadays, when getting married, the man basically has to make a few new clothes for the woman. These requests are usually conveyed through the matchmaker. However, since Deng Shirong is both the matchmaker and the man's parent, many things aren't discussed. They just make the price clear.

But the fact that the woman didn't bring this up doesn't mean that Deng Shirong forgot about it. When Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping went to register this time, Deng Shirong told his eldest son to take this opportunity to arrange the new clothes as well and not to let any problems arise with these trivial matters.

So, after returning to Dragon Lake Market, Deng Yuntai took Zhang Xiuping with him to select cloth and asked a tailor to make clothes for them.

By the time they finished all this, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhang Xiuping looked at the sky and said, "Brother Tai, it's getting late. You should go home quickly!"

Deng Yuntai said, "I'm not in a hurry. It will take you a long time to walk back. I'd better take you to your team first, and then I'll ride back!"

In later generations, before men and women get married, they must each go home to meet their parents. It's very rare for them to get married without even meeting their parents.

In this era, when a woman visits the man's house, the man's parents will definitely see the woman. But it's different for the woman's parents, who may not necessarily see their son-in-law before their daughter gets married.

Because according to the rules, the girl's parents won't attend either the house visit or the wedding banquet, so the only way for the parents to meet the boy before their daughter's marriage is for the boy and girl to get to know each other at the beginning.

Of course, before the house visit, after learning about the man's information from the matchmaker, the girl's parents can also go to see the man secretly on their own. Even if this is discovered by others, it won't be a big deal.

The man usually goes to his father-in-law's house on the second day of the Lunar New Year in the second year of his marriage.

On this day, according to the customs of Bobai County, if there was a new marriage in the previous year, the bride must bring her new son-in-law back to her parents' home to celebrate.

Therefore, even though Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping have already registered, he won't send Zhang Xiuping home directly at this time. Instead, he plans to take her to the brigade and then let her walk back by herself.

Today was the first time the two of them were alone together, and it was the time when their feelings were heating up the fastest. Zhang Xiuping didn't refuse his kindness and nodded in agreement.

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Ten minutes later, they arrived at their destination.

After Zhang Xiuping got off the bike, she waved to Deng Yuntai and said, "Okay, Brother Tai, I'm here. You can go back quickly!"

Deng Yuntai said reluctantly, "Well, I'll go first. Remember our agreement. We'll go get the clothes together in a week."

"Got it. Bye!"

"Goodbye!"

The two said goodbye to each other. Deng Yuntai watched Zhang Xiuping leave, and then, as he got back on the bike and started riding home, he vaguely felt that he had forgotten something.

After thinking for about ten seconds, Deng Yuntai reached out and patted his head. He finally remembered what he had forgotten. He quickly turned the bike around and chased after Zhang Xiuping.

Zhang Xiuping was walking home while recalling every detail of her time with Deng Yuntai today. When she was lost in thought, a bicycle suddenly passed her and stopped in front of her. She was startled. When she realized it was Deng Yuntai who had returned, she couldn't help but ask, "Brother Tai, do you have anything else to say to me?"

Deng Yuntai said embarrassedly, "I forgot earlier. There's indeed something very important I need to tell you."

Zhang Xiuping asked, "What's the important thing?"

Deng Yuntai said, "It's like this. When you came to visit me that day, do you still remember the friend Deng Changyuan that I told you about, the one I grew up with?"

Zhang Xiuping blinked and said, "I remember. What happened to him?"

Deng Yuntai smiled and said, "My friend has taken a liking to one of your two sisters. He wants you to help him find out if there's any possibility that the two of them could be together."

(End of this chapter)