Chapter 1345: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1345: Hearts Are Separated by Bellies, One Cannot Judge People by Appearances

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Zhou Zhihao came out of the cornfield, his face carrying weariness, his heart carrying emptiness.

Li Yuncui was about to get married, he knew he shouldn't disturb Li Yuncui anymore, yet his heart couldn't swallow that breath.

The things he did to Li Yuncui now were more hate, more venting, more unwillingness, rather than love.

He knew he should let go.

If he didn't let go, once Wang Yaohua found out about the sordid affairs between him and Li Yuncui, Wang Yaohua coming at him with a machete to hack him to death was entirely possible.

Yet, as soon as he thought of Li Yuncui's impending marriage, he still couldn't swallow that breath.

Why?

Why could she be faithless and betray him, yet in the end still marry an honest man?

Why did I abandon everything back then to elope with her, give everything for love, only to end up covered in wounds?

Why could she find a marriage partner so quickly, while I must remain forever lonely, unable to wait for the right person?

Zhou Zhihao lit another cigarette for himself.

He took out his mobile phone, flipped through the album, and opened a video inside the album.

It was a video he had just secretly recorded, documenting the entire process of the crime between him and Li Yuncui.

Videos like this, he hadn't recorded just this one.

The previous few times he took Li Yuncui to the cornfield, he had also recorded videos.

As for why Li Yuncui didn't discover he was recording videos?

That was because before he took Li Yuncui to the cornfield, he had gone to the cornfield in advance, set up the mobile phone, and adjusted the shooting angle.

Isn't August 1st Li Yuncui's wedding day?

If these videos were played at her wedding, what kind of effect would that bring?

At that time, it would certainly be spectacular.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhihao couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, revealing a sinister and twisted smile.

Zhou Zhihao walked back to the farm with a cigarette in his mouth, only then learning from Yao Aina that Wang Xiaohua had come for an inspection.

Zhou Zhihao felt somewhat unhappy about this.

Wang Erhai sending his Third Brother for a surprise inspection was clearly a sign of distrust toward him.

However, he didn't say anything; anyway, these past few days he had done everything he should do, even if Wang Xiaohua inspected carefully, he wouldn't be able to find any fault.

"Auntie Aina, where did Wang Xiaohua go?"

Zhou Zhihao put on a smile and asked this.

He buried those dark thoughts in his heart tight and deep.

Yao Aina said:

"He walked around the farm with a girl, then went to the village; he probably went to his home."

Zhou Zhihao nodded:

"Alright, then I'll go take a look at his place."

At this time, Wang Xiaohua, bringing Gu Wenqing, passed through the village lanes and arrived at the courtyard gate of his family's building.

He took out the key and opened the security door.

Wang Xiaohua brought Gu Wenqing inside:

"This is my home, a new building built just a few years ago, cost quite a lot of money, yet now, no one lives in it."

Gu Wenqing saw clothes hanging in the courtyard:

"Aren't there still clothes hanging there?"

Wang Xiaohua froze for a moment, then immediately understood:

"Those should be Zhou Zhihao's clothes; probably my Second Brother gave him the key to my house. After all, the farm's crude shed has no kitchen and no place to shower; Zhou Zhihao must be showering and cooking here."

Wang Xiaohua took out the key, opened the kitchen on the left side of the courtyard, walked in and saw the electric rice cooker simmering a pot of rice, confirming his guess.

Then Wang Xiaohua went to open the living room, only to see quite a layer of dust already settled on the living room floor.

Wang Erhai hadn't given Zhou Zhihao the keys to the living room and other rooms, afraid Zhou Zhihao wouldn't go keep watch at the farm and would run here to sleep, so he only gave him the kitchen and toilet keys, letting him only shower and cook here, not stay overnight.

Gu Wenqing glanced at this well-decorated living room and couldn't help but exclaim:

"Such a house, sitting empty is truly a pity."

Wang Xiaohua said:

"This is also something that can't be helped; my mother alone at home is too lonely, my eldest and second brothers both worry, so they had her go down to Guangzhou to stay with my eldest brother, and she can help look after the kids while she's at it."

Gu Wenqing asked:

"Are there many vacant houses like this in the countryside?"

Wang Xiaohua said:

"How could there be few? Without exaggeration, just in our Shanggou Village, at least seventy to eighty percent of houses are usually empty; only during Spring Festival or Qingming do people come back to stay a bit. Before, on Mid-Autumn, Dragon Boat, and National Day holidays, some would still come back, but now the festive atmosphere has faded, so nobody comes back for those holidays either."

Gu Wenqing couldn't help but sigh again:

"What a waste, I didn't expect your countryside to have changed this much."

Wang Xiaohua said:

"The torrent of the era surges forward; it can't be helped. Everyone has to make a living. If clothing, food, housing, transport, education, and healthcare could be solved in the countryside, who would run far off to the city to slave away? Let me tell you, our Shanggou Village is already considered good; some villages have long been emptied of people and become abandoned villages. But gaining a foothold in the city isn't that easy either; many rural people in the city only earn three or four thousand a month; wanting to buy a house and settle down is harder than ascending to heaven."

Gu Wenqing sighed again:

"Is this what they call 'the hometown can't contain one's ideals, but the distant land can't shelter one's body'?"

The two were chatting when footsteps came from outside.

Looking up, it was surprisingly Zhou Zhihao who had arrived.

"Xiao Hua, you're back!"

Zhou Zhihao greeted with a smile first, and also asked:

"Is this your partner? She's really beautiful!"

Wang Xiaohua was somewhat embarrassed, because he was always misunderstood.

He hurriedly said:

"This is my classmate, and also my counselor, her name is Gu Wenqing. Teacher Gu, this is the Zhou Zhihao, Big Brother Zhou, whom my second brother hired to watch the farm. He helped build this house of ours, so the connection between our two families is quite deep."

Wang Xiaohua acted as if he had never discovered the cornfield's secret, introducing them with a calm expression.

Gu Wenqing's gaze at Zhou Zhihao, however, couldn't help but carry a trace of strangeness.

Because just now Wang Xiaohua had told her that Li Yuncui was going to marry Wang Xiaohua's cousin on August 1st.

There was less than a month left until the wedding, yet Li Yuncui was actually still involved with this Zhou Zhihao.

Regardless of who was right or wrong between Zhou Zhihao and Li Yuncui, to tell the truth, both of them gave Gu Wenqing a very bad impression.

So Gu Wenqing only smiled dryly and gave a perfunctory greeting:

"Hello, hello..."

Then she didn't say anything more.

Zhou Zhihao, on the other hand, didn't notice anything unusual. He showed a simple, honest smile:

"Xiao Hua, you came back without giving advance notice. Look at me, I've already started cooking rice in the electric rice cooker, and only cooked enough for one person!"

Wang Xiaohua laughed it off:

"No problem, no problem. Tonight I'll take Teacher Gu to the town to eat."

Zhou Zhihao hurriedly said:

"Why not kill a chicken and we all eat together? Your second brother raised so many free-range chickens, you can't eat chicken this good outside!"

Wang Xiaohua hurriedly said:

"Let's not eat tonight. We still have things to do. Let's wait until tomorrow, tomorrow we'll eat a meal together!"

Zhou Zhihao nodded with a smile:

"Okay, okay. Then I won't disturb you two. I'll go cook. After I eat, I still have to go back to the farm to keep watch!"

Zhou Zhihao had the appearance of an honest, simple person. To tell the truth, if it weren't for the drone capturing those scenes in the cornfield, not to mention Gu Wenqing wouldn't have expected him to be that kind of person, even Wang Xiaohua probably wouldn't have thought so.

One can only say, hearts are separated by bellies; you truly cannot judge a person by appearance.