The Reluctant Bride

24-hour chain Chinese restaurant.

There are porridge and soy milk here, and Gu Xuewu has a stomachache. I used to work too hard and I often forgot to eat three meals normally. So often stomach pain.

After returning to Beidu, Wang Xiu'e would call to remind him to eat when he was fine. There has been no pain for some time. It's past dinner time, not many people. The waiter brought Gu Xuewu's porridge at the fastest speed.

He picked up his chopsticks and was about to eat, but his stomach cramped. The discomfort caused his eyebrows to twist together again.

The physical discomfort caused Gu Xuewu's movements to be slow.

"Gu Xuewu?" A voice sounded at this moment. He looked up at the visitor, Li Lan. There was some concern in her eyebrows.

"Are you okay? Are you uncomfortable?"

When I just came in, I saw that his face was not so good. A closer look at this time confirmed her guess. Seeing Gu Xuewu's movement of stroking her abdomen with one hand, her eyes were somewhat clear.

"You have an upset stomach?"

"I'm fine." Gu Xuewu commanded the pain. Gu Xuewu looked at Li Lan and didn't mean to leave: "Come here for dinner?"

"Yeah." Li Lan took the initiative to sit down opposite him and glanced across his face: "I have been working overtime until now, and I am too hungry. I came here thinking of porridge to drink."

"Miss, what do you want?" The waiter came over and asked Li Lan what he wanted. She didn't even look at the menu, she just said, "Let's have a seafood porridge. Hurry up."

"Okay." The waiter said, and Gu Xuewu glanced across the dining room. After eating time, most of the dining room was empty. His eyes swept back to Li Lan's face.

"A person?"

"Yes. Alone." Li Lan was a little helpless, but didn't miss the look in Gu Xuewu's eyes just now: "What? Do you mind if I sit with you?"

It's not a question of whether or not to mind. It's that he hasn't ascertained Li Lan's true face, let alone her purpose.

That kind of uncertainty made him not want to get too close to this woman.

But he knew very well that this woman must know Zhou Ying's whereabouts.

"Gu Xuewu, do you want to be so unfeeling?" Li Lan sighed and looked sad: "How can you say that you took off my clothes and took advantage of me. Why do you look like this when you see me now?"

Her voice is not too small. A couple of men and women at the next table are chatting. At this moment, their eyes are flashing, especially the woman with a look of contempt.

Gu Xuewu's face changed, and he put down his spoon and looked at Li Lan: "Is this a dog biting Lu Dongbin?"

If it weren't for him, how would Li Lan be upset and regret today? Maybe, he should let her try.

I knew in my heart that I would never leave Li Lan alone, just because she had the same face as Zhou Ying, or maybe she was a sister to Zhou Ying. He would never do this, but he didn't mean that he would let her say that to herself.

Call her a dog? There was no anger on Li Lan's face. He raised his eyebrows faintly, and put his hands on the table, with a joking expression: "It's not like being a leader so careful."

Gu Xuewu's expression remained unchanged. The stomach discomfort made his face a little serious. He lowered his head and quietly solved the porridge in front of him.

Then he stood up and left. Li Lan grabbed his hand, "Gu Xuewu, I can't believe it, you are so unsympathetic to me? How can we be regarded as loving each other?"

Gu Xuewu watched her pull her hand and leaned closer, with a very soft voice: "The person I have loved is Zhou Ying, not you. You can't be her. Don't play such tricks in front of me, it's nothing. meaning."

Li Lan's hands hooked his neck, his expression was a bit provocative and teasing, and his voice was extremely soft. The breath he exhaled was in his ear: "Are you sure of this? That night, your admirer came after him." School, in the dormitory, I gave you my first time. Do you remember?"

Gu Xuewu's body paused, and Li Lan continued: "Every time, you come to me after the school is gone. Because I don't want to hurt you. You are the county magistrate. If something is unfavorable, Even if you are unmarried, it will not affect you well. Our relationship like this has been maintained..."

"Enough." Gu Xuewu opened her hand, his eyes were a bit solemn. These things are very private and confidential. He believed that Zhou Ying would never tell someone.

So, how did this Li Lan know? Unless, she is really Zhou Ying. Gu Xuewu sat down in the chair opposite her again, and the waiter brought the seafood porridge for Li Lan.

She also didn't pay attention to Gu Xuewu, and took care of the porridge slowly and gracefully and generously. Finally, she put down the bowl and raised her head to look at Gu Xuewu with a smile in her eyes.

"Why don't you leave?"

"Where is Zhou Ying?" Gu Xuewu is very sure about one thing now: "What is her relationship with you? Why did she tell you such a private and confidential thing?"

"I am Zhou Ying." Li Lan half-closed her eyes and looked at her hand: "Why do you just refuse to believe me? On my birthday, you gave me a necklace. Later, you brought me to Beidu. You said you want to marry me."

"I still remember, you..."

"Enough." Gu Xuewu looked at the person in front of him, his eyebrows constricted tightly: "Tell me. If you were Zhou Ying, why did you leave four years ago?"

"I……"

"You said, why did you leave me?" If Li Lan is Zhou Ying, why did he leave? He has obviously decided to marry her. What reason is there to let her leave her?

Be him before. "I have difficulties." Li Lan bit his lip and looked at Gu Xuewu: "Do you think I want to leave you? If it wasn't because of me..."

After a while, she suddenly stopped talking, hiding her face and wept.

She cried very softly, depressed, with a painful voice. But how he refused to say the second half.

"What reason? What difficulties?"

"I can't say, I'm sorry, I can't say." Li Lan sniffed, his expression growing sad.

She just cried, but didn't tell the truth. Gu Xuewu didn't want to stay any longer. The hot porridge just cooked warmed his stomach, and he felt much better now. Once again stood up and looked at Li Lan.

"When do you tell me your difficulties, when do I believe you are Zhou Ying."

Abandoning this sentence, regardless of Li Lan's reaction, he just checked out and left. Li Lan watched him leave the Chinese restaurant. Wiping away the tears on his face, he raised his head and looked out the window.

Gu Xuewu got into the car and left. Don't wait for her either. With a chuckle, she also stood up and left, not surprised at the same time when the waiter informed that the bill had been settled.

This is quite like Gu Xuewu's style.

Gu Xuewu, Gu Xuewu, I know what you want to know. I just won't tell you. I will make you uncomfortable in guessing, and in the future, I will make you more uncomfortable.

Let's wait and see...

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Zheng Qimei will watch Tang Yanan open the rolling gate, then take a look at her and turn to leave. The heart is full of bitterness, but I don't know what to say.

It has been a week since he agreed to stay.

He has not been in the store every day this week. In the morning, he would accompany himself to open the shop and then leave. She asked him where he was going, but he refused to say.

In the past, she had reasons to restrict his behavior, saying that he was her bodyguard. He had no money and no way to survive without her. ZmoT.

But now, it doesn't work. Because he is not only rich, but also very rich. He can live better without himself. She suddenly felt that she had no confidence to ask him.

Fortunately, he would leave during the day, but he would show up on time at night. Close the store for her, and then go home with her.

But their relationship still hasn't improved. He didn't sleep in the same room with himself. As soon as he got home and took a shower, he went to the study to rest.

Obviously there is only a very small sofa bed in the study, which can't even contain his body completely. But he is still so stubborn.

I was full of confidence before, and I felt that Tang Yanan would definitely think of her Zheng Qimei, and at this time she couldn't be so confident. Seeing this situation, she will have a baby in less than a month. When she gives birth to her baby, is it when Tang Yanan is leaving?

With a tangled expression, she entered the store with heavy steps. The clerk is not here yet. He finished the work with a heavy belly, and then sat in a daze on the dyed hair in the shop.

What is she going to do?

The wind bell rang and the glass door was pushed open. She looked up and thought it was Tang Yanan who was returning, but the person who came in was Gu Xuewu.

"Mayor Gu?" Zheng Qimei stood up, looking at him a little puzzled. Although she doesn't care much about the time, she also knows that Gu Xuewu seems to have been transferred from City C some time ago, and it has been a while since the new mayor arrived. Then why did he come to City C again?

"Yeah." Gu Xuewu nodded and looked around in the store. He didn't see Tang Yanan, and his eyebrows wrinkled: "Where is Tang Yanan?"

"You..." Zheng Qimei was stunned for a moment, her expression somewhat shocked: "Are you looking for an Asian boy?"

"he is not here?"

"He went out." Zheng Qimei was very surprised, Gu Xuewu would even know Tang Yanan?

"Where did you go? Will you be back soon?"

"I don't know." Zheng Qimei shook her head. She also didn't know what Tang Yanan was busy with every day: "You, do you want to sit down and I'll call him?"

"Phone?" Gu Xuewu was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Okay, trouble."

"No trouble." It was too unexpected, it really surprised her. Zheng Qimei took out her mobile phone to dial the number. From the first day when Tang Yanan disappeared and disappeared for a day, she bought him a mobile phone and let him take it with him at any time.

Although she doesn't call often, at least he can be reached.

"Hello." The call was connected. On the other side of the phone was Tang Yanan's faint voice all the time: "What's the matter?"

"Someone is looking for you." Zheng Qimei looked at Gu Xuewu, the accident in her eyes has not gone away: "You come back to the store quickly."

"Who is looking for me?" Tang Yanan wanted to ask, and then realized that only Xuanyuanzhen knew that he was in Zheng Qimei's shop. Nodded to the phone: "Okay, I'll be back soon." ()