Chapter 115

"We want a whole roast duck, and another half portion, two portions of shredded pork with green onion and ginger, spicy chicken, stir-fried shrimp slices, sea cucumber soup..."

After Wen Leyu entered Quanjude, she picked up the menu and ordered a bunch, looking like she actually had a bit of style.

This was completely different from the Wen Leyu in Qingshui County.

But when she turned back to communicate with Li Ye, she returned to being that calm and casual little girl, but her eyes could speak,

"Is this enough to eat?"

Li Ye held up four fingers: "Four taels of rice."

Wen Leyu immediately said: "Five taels of rice, plus two taels of lotus leaf pancakes."

She knew Li Ye had a big appetite and was afraid he wouldn't be full.

The waiter at Quanjude was quite kind. Seeing the two little adults "showing off their wealth," he didn't laugh at anything, just reminded them—the duck is easy to take away; you'd better eat the dishes and drink the soup first.

That meant, don't treat money like it's not money, you "little second generation," if you can't finish it, pack it up for me.

If you only look at the amount of money, this meal didn't seem "too expensive."

Shredded pork with green onion and ginger was 0.95 yuan, spicy chicken was 2.6 yuan, stir-fried shrimp slices were 4.4 yuan, Shandong sea cucumber soup was 2 yuan flat, rice was 0.03 yuan per tael, lotus leaf pancakes were 0.1 yuan per two taels...

Roast duck was 8~10 yuan each depending on the size, and half a duck was 4~5 yuan.

This meal added up to only twenty-something yuan.

But what was the concept of twenty-something yuan in '82?

The big capital wasn't all wealthy families; ordinary people with a monthly salary of thirty or forty yuan still accounted for the majority.

And this thirty or forty yuan was likely to be used to support a whole family.

So Wen Leyu's "wealth" seemed a bit wasteful.

But Li Ye didn't have any intention of persuading Wen Leyu.

The little girl had been sponging off his meals for more than half a year in Qingshui County. Although she did it with justification, he didn't know how long she had been holding back the little thought of "treating him to a proper meal in return."

Girls have self-esteem, don't they? This little thought and little wish must be satisfied.

Must be greatly satisfied.

"Hiccup~"

"I'm full, really full. You hurry up and eat; this roast duck won't taste good if it gets cold."

Li Ye hiccuped hard and pushed the half roast duck back to Wen Leyu.

The waiter said to eat the dishes first and the roast duck later, so Wen Leyu really didn't touch her half portion of roast duck, but pushed it all in front of Li Ye.

In this day and age, some traditions in Shenzhou hadn't completely disappeared. When a family ate, the men and children ate first, and the women...

Sigh, break all inequality; I absolutely cannot treat my Wen Leyu poorly.

So Li Ye, who was nine-tenths full, pretended to be twelve-tenths full.

Wen Leyu asked suspiciously: "Are you really full? Your appetite seems to be not as good as before!"

Li Ye hurriedly said: "I ate a lot of snacks on the train and haven't digested them yet..."

Wen Leyu then nodded, narrowed her eyes, and asked in Dongshan dialect: "Is it delicious?"

Li Ye said very sincerely: "It's really delicious; the master chef's level is really high."

Li Ye had eaten roast duck when he went to the capital in his previous life, but it was a bit different from the dish in front of him.

Li Ye didn't know if the chef had sliced the Quanjude roast duck in '82 into 108 slices, but it really tasted good.

What's more, to take care of Li Ye's Dongshan taste, Wen Leyu had also ordered Shandong-style shrimp and sea cucumber!

All wild animals, truly fragrant.

Wen Leyu then stopped, eating her half portion of duck with a smile.

She still ate quickly and elegantly, eating only a little bit at a time, but the frequency was very fast, and there wasn't much chewing movement visible on her cheeks; she finished the half roast duck in a few minutes.

Then Wen Leyu took out two handkerchiefs, handed one to Li Ye, wiped her mouth, and got up to pay the bill.

Roast duck is quite oily; the little girl was well prepared.

When paying the bill, Li Ye discovered that Wen Leyu also had a yarn wallet, in the same style as the one she gave him. Looking at the crooked stitching, it must have been made by the little girl herself.

Sigh, a pair, precious in sincerity.

However, the little girl's wallet wasn't very wealthy; Li Ye estimated it had at most fifty or sixty yuan.

After paying the bill and coming out, Li Ye teased with a smile: "A meal cost you nearly half your pocket money; does it hurt?"

Wen Leyu narrowed her eyes, her lips curved, and she said: "Why would it hurt? When mine is spent, I'll spend yours."

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"Hahahaha~"

Li Ye was stunned for a few seconds and couldn't help but laugh heartily.

Wen Leyu was becoming more and more beautiful and more and more interesting.

But hearing Li Ye's laughter, Wen Leyu seemed a bit shy and angry, clenched her small fist wanting to punch Li Ye, but finally let it go with a smile.

"You look quite good when you laugh!"

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Li Ye couldn't laugh anymore and thought to himself, what a pity.

It's a pity why it's '82 now. If it were a few decades later, he could have taken advantage of the situation to gently pull the girl in front of him into his arms, feel each other's heartbeats, and whisper their love.

But now he must restrain himself.

Being caught as a hooligan on the street is no joke.

Wen Leyu noticed the fluctuation in Li Ye's eyes, couldn't help but blush, turned her head to push her bicycle, lifted her leg to get on, and waved her arms at Li Ye.

"Go, I'll take you to see Houhai."

"How about I take you! You rest for a while..."

"We agreed I'd take you, hurry up!"

"Sigh~"

Li Ye gladly obeyed, letting the stubborn girl carry him through the streets and alleys, swaying and attracting the contempt of countless passersby.

But Li Ye's mood was already different. The more contemptuous those people looked at him, the happier he felt inside.

【You guys just envy me! Whether you're single or not, you deserve to die of envy!】

Houhai, in the capital forty years later, is quite famous.

The playboys from all over the country always want to go to Houhai to see if there are so many pure girls who, because of a temporary emotional setback, sit in those dim and hazy bars, waiting for their lucky encounter.

And Houhai in '82 didn't have any bars.

The most famous Prince Gong's Mansion around it was still home to more than two hundred households at this time, and you couldn't visit it even if you wanted to.

So the most important activity for Wen Leyu to take Li Ye to Houhai was—boating.

Houhai is smaller than the Beihai of *Let's Row the Oars*, and its fame is also smaller, but it is very quiet.

There are many weeping willows by the lake. If you row along the lake in the hot summer, you can block the dazzling sun.

Li Ye and Wen Leyu rented a boat and swayed gently along the lake.

Swaying together was also the increasingly wanton smile on Li Ye's face.

Why do couples like boating?

Because there is a private space and unavoidable eye contact.

What? Just the two of you, sitting one-on-one rowing, if you don't look at her, who else are you looking at?

What? Looking at the scenery on the water?

Are you a blockhead?

You don't take the opportunity to look enough at such a beautiful girl, when will you?

Wen Leyu was still very generous, but being stared at by Li Ye for such a long time at such a close distance, she was still a bit embarrassed.

So she found something to do.

When Li Ye rowed the boat under a weeping willow, the little girl stood up, reached out, and pulled down two willow branches hard, then lowered her head and started weaving.

She was weaving a straw hat, weaving it very carefully.

But before she finished weaving, she felt a heat on her head; Li Ye had rowed the small boat out of the shade of the trees by the lake and sailed under the sun.

Wen Leyu smiled and said: "I'm weaving a straw hat for you; you don't have to specifically look for the sun to bask in, do you!"

Li Ye shook his head and whispered: "No, we can't disturb other people's good deeds."

"Good deeds? What good deeds?"

Wen Leyu was stunned, and then she discovered that not far in front, under the shade of the trees, there was a pleasure boat. On the pleasure boat, there was a sun umbrella, and there seemed to be two people under the umbrella.

The little girl asked subconsciously: "What are they doing?"

Li Ye said directly: "Don't ask about things you don't understand, little kid."

Wen Leyu was stunned, and then she was a little annoyed, directing Li Ye: "You row over, I want to see."

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Li Ye looked helplessly at the unhappy Wen Leyu, and finally whispered: "They are learning from Zhou Yun and Geng Hua to be intimate. Do you want to crowd over and learn too?"

Wen Leyu: "."

A movie, *Lushan Love*, let the men and women of Shenzhou know what it meant to be intimate.

Just that one misaligned kissing shot of the male and female leads, just cheeks touching cheeks, didn't know how many people it caused to contribute countless movie tickets by watching it twice or three times.

So Wen Leyu, this "little kid," also knew what "kissing" was.

So, Li Ye watched as Wen Leyu, after a brief confusion, became messy.

The atmosphere in the capital in '82 was very contradictory. A wicked wind had actually blown over; face-to-face dancing wasn't strange, and some things that developed too fast were quite amazing even to Li Ye when he heard about them in later generations.

So much so that when it came to next year, when they were cracking down hard, many fancy men and women with backgrounds fell.

But most conservative girls were still resistant to the radical atmosphere. They firmly believed that men and women were different, and that being reserved and traditional was the right way.

It stands to reason that a child of Wen Leyu's level, if she had been living in the capital all along, would naturally be used to seeing things with an open horizon.

But the little girl used to be in the countryside with her mother. At this moment, she was as pure as a blank sheet of paper and had no rational control over certain things.

"Splash~"

Wen Leyu, as expected, was annoyed and angry. She suddenly reached into Houhai, scooped up a large splash of water, and splashed it on Li Ye's body.

"Sigh, this... it's not my fault."

Wen Leyu wouldn't listen. Her small arms moved quickly, and splashes of water splashed onto Li Ye's face.

【I'll splash you to death, you dirty hooligan.】

【Who did you say was a little kid just now?】

【You think I don't understand? You want me to not learn well?】

【Want me to kiss you? I'll kiss your big head!】

"Don't splash, don't splash, it's wet..."

Li Ye blocked continuously with his hands, but water is formless. Even if his hand skills were powerful, he couldn't prevent the water from splashing in, could he?

"Stop, stop, stop, Xiao Yu, don't splash anymore..."

"If you splash again, I'll fight back!"

Wen Leyu was splashing with excitement; how could she listen to Li Ye's persuasion and stop?

Aren't you the one who breaks bricks with one hand? Aren't you the one who kicks a dog to death? Aren't you still being splashed by me in a sorry state?

"Alright, watch this!"

A thread of Li Ye's little thoughts, which had been suppressed for a long time, finally broke through the suppression of rationality and rushed into his brain briefly.

"Slap, slap, slap~"

Li Ye swung his shoulders, his arms stirred up the lake water like a high-speed water wheel, and covered Wen Leyu all at once.

"Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle~"

The cool lake water fell on her body, and the wet feeling was very wonderful. She soon fell into the wonderful realm of playing with her lover. The more water Li Ye splashed, the more excited she became!

This was truly a wonderful feeling. Wen Leyu actually realized the deep meaning of the idiom "wanting to stop but unable to."

But not long after, Wen Leyu felt something was wrong.

Because Li Ye's eyes were wrong.

She had been with Li Ye for more than half a year and was too familiar with Li Ye's eyes.

That was warm and moist, that was upright and peaceful. Even if the two were very close, Wen Leyu had never felt anything wrong.

For example, when Li Ye was writing, Wen Leyu would secretly sit by his side, stretch her neck, and stick to Li Ye's neck to peek.

For example, when she was sleepy, she would lie on the table, close to Li Ye, and take a nap in a safe and comfortable environment.

But now, why did there seem to be sparks in Li Ye's beautiful eyes?

"Boom, boom, boom, boom~"

Wen Leyu's little heart beat wildly out of control.

【What's going on?】

(End of chapter)