311 Escaped
After resting for a day, Xiao Sheng bought a return ticket. The journey took about twenty days. The two of them were still feeling lingering fear as they sat on the train.
When Xiao Sheng thought of the final verdict, he frowned and said, “Unfortunately, Li Da escaped.”
After hearing Xiao Sheng’s words, Yu Bing felt a little dejected. “He’s really lucky. He went to his lover’s place that day and escaped!”
When Xiao Sheng saw the displeasure on Yu Bing’s face, he comforted her. “Justice has long arms. He’ll be caught one day.”
Yu Bing nodded weakly. Staring at Xiao Sheng’s side profile as he took out the book from his backpack, she couldn’t help but think of that day when he suddenly stood in front of her and her heart skipped a beat. “How long ago did you find out about my accident?”
Xiao Sheng turned to look at Yu Bing and thought for a moment before saying, “When you went out but didn’t leave me any messages, I felt that something was wrong. Then, after I found the little boy who brought you the message, I became completely certain.”
Then, Xiao Sheng told her how he found the clues.
How many times had Yu Bing almost died of illness at home in the past without being discovered? Or rather, even if she was discovered, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. Perhaps they even hoped that she would die.
Yu Bing felt that her every move was noticed by Xiao Sheng. Thinking of the things she had ignored in the past, Yu Bing guessed that Xiao Sheng had feelings for her.
Yu Bing, who didn’t want to get married, wavered a little. For the first time, she wanted to respond to the feelings of someone of the opposite sex.
In her previous life, she was good to Yao Nian and curried favor with him because she yearned for the gentleness he had shown her in order to coax her. She had a good impression of Yao Nian at first. However, later on, during the process of doing business, she encountered people who had a good impression of her, but they all had ulterior motives. It was no longer pure love.
Now, Xiao Sheng made Yu Bing feel an emotion that she had never experienced before. After thinking about it all the way on the train, Yu Bing finally made up her mind to give herself and Xiao Sheng a year of observation. Not only would a year test if the other party’s feelings for her were still the same after a year, but a year would also give her some time to decide if she should change her mind about not getting married.
Xiao Sheng held the book in his hand but didn’t read it at all. He felt very conflicted. He wanted to express his feelings to Yu Bing and marry her, but then he thought about how he couldn’t touch the 10,000 yuan he had saved for Xiao Li’s surgery, and how the only thing he could offer her was meat at every meal.
However, Yu Bing was also good at earning money herself, so Xiao Sheng felt that this didn’t give him an advantage. Moreover, he still had to support his siblings.
The more he thought about it, the less confident Xiao Sheng became. However, in this day and age, if a woman was discovered to have lost her virginity before marriage, her life definitely wouldn’t be easy. She might even be divorced. Thinking about how Yu Bing would be criticized, Xiao Sheng felt suffocated.
Both parties returned to the village with different thoughts in mind. Feng Cai and Liu Jian’s situation wasn’t very smooth either. They returned to He Mountain Village two days earlier than Yu Bing and the others, so no one felt that anything was fishy about Yu Bing and Xiao Sheng’s return date.
Xiao Sheng naturally didn’t say anything about this journey because he feared that Yu Bing’s reputation would be tarnished. As for Yu Bing, she felt that mentioning it would seem like she was bragging about doing a good deed and was afraid that the people who cared about her would be worried, so the two of them didn’t mention it.
After returning to the village, everything seemed to have returned to normal. Only Xiao Sheng remained troubled.
After Yu Bing returned, she was as busy as usual. After agonizing over his dilemma, Xiao Sheng finally mustered his courage and asked Yu Bing to meet him for a chat two nights after returning to the village.
Under the tree in front of Yu Bing’s house.
Yu Bing wiped the sweat off her forehead with the towel hanging around her neck and panted slightly as she asked, “What can’t be discussed at home? Why did you specifically choose to talk outside?”
Xiao Sheng took a deep breath and swallowed hard. Then, he gazed at Yu Bing with earnestness and affection.
When Yu Bing sensed a possessive aura unique to males on Xiao Sheng, she stopped wiping her sweat for a moment, and her breathing couldn’t help but slow down. She was a little nervous for some reason.
Xiao Sheng looked very calm on the surface, but his heart was racing. “Yu Bing, I like you. Are you willing to date me with marriage in mind?”