Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 545 Let Me Take Good Care of You

Lin Qingping lay on her side, not even lifting her eyelids, and said, "Read it to me."

So that means you can take a look?

The second sister handed her the note, saying, "Then you can read it yourself."

She can't read it! She still doesn't want to give Gu Juncheng a good look, so why is she saying nice things now? What was she doing before?

Lin Qingping picked up the note, frowned as she looked at it, and the first thing she saw was the name "Lin Qingping".

He put so much effort into writing those three characters!

Lin's first stroke tore the paper...

She continued to look behind her.

Lin Qingping:

The first time I saw you, you were washing clothes by a stream in the freezing cold. The floating ice in the stream kept hitting your hands, but you just kept washing quickly. Later, you fell into the water. The water was icy cold, and you struggled to swim to the shore.

The next time I saw you, you were running across the field, your shoes falling off, your hair disheveled, but you still didn't stop. Later, you fell to the ground, and some people came out to laugh at you. You got up and chased everyone away with stones, then went home barefoot, crying.

The third time I saw you was when I married you. You were wearing a bright red dress, more beautiful than the azaleas on the mountain.

Lin Qingping, that was in 1979, and now it has been eight years since we started living together.

So much has happened in those eight years, and you don't remember it all now. That's okay, I can tell you about it slowly. But even if you can't remember it anymore, it's not a big deal. Just forget it. We have a lifetime to start over.

Lin Qingping, you've been so good to me all these years. Give me a chance to take good care of you, okay?

The signature reads: Gu Juncheng.

Each of the three characters is written with such force that it seems to penetrate the paper.

Lin Qingping held the paper, completely bewildered.

She seemed to have some recollection of what Gu Juncheng had said, but it was all very vague.

She held the note and asked her second sister, "Did I ever fall into a stream in the dead of winter?"

The second sister thought for a moment and nodded.

"Then, did I get up by myself?" Lin Qingping frowned.

The second sister shook her head. "Really? Two aunties from the village brought it back to you."

Lin Qingping pondered for a moment, "Then why did the villagers laugh at me?"

The second sister paused for a moment, then laughed and said, "They can't stand seeing people do well. They just love to see people suffer. Whoever is unlucky, they laugh at them. If any kid in the village falls flat on their face, they'll be laughed at for a long time."

is it?

Lin Qingping fell into deep thought. Were the villagers laughing at her for losing her shoe and tripping?

The second sister wasn't telling the truth.

Before my eldest sister got married, everyone in the village laughed at her for being shameless, seducing a city student. Later, the city student returned to the city without even telling my eldest sister. Suddenly, she was seen as a used and abandoned woman, a "loose woman," and this became a topic of conversation among some of the gossipy women in the village.

Back then, my eldest sister fought with everyone in the village who mocked her, and those people spread rumors everywhere, even to other villages, openly and secretly mocking her for being unable to get married and unwanted by anyone.

However, these people were quickly proven wrong, because not long after, Gu Juncheng's family came to propose marriage, offering a dowry of 100 yuan, along with other wedding cakes and meats of the highest quality in the village, as well as a watch, which was later worn by her younger brother.

It has to be said that at that time, she was grateful to her brother-in-law for pulling her older sister out of the gossip and for giving her plenty of face, but now…

The second sister snorted.

However, another question immediately came to her mind: with the rumors spreading so fiercely back then, did Gu Juncheng even know about it? If he did know, would he still have come to propose marriage?