I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 63 Yu Mei Marries into the City in a Desperate Move (She Steals the Boyfriend Zou Laqian Int

The following morning, Yang Yumei arrived, filled with anger, yet unwilling to let go.

She rode her bicycle with a large frame to Yu Dajun's house, which was located on the west side of the central street in Tuandingshan Township.

Just as she entered the bedroom with its bright red wood panels, she was caught red-handed. Yu Dajun was inside, wearing a light gray jacket with a pale blue "Dacron" shirt collar peeking out from the collar.

He wore dark green military-style trousers and dark blue slippers.

With her trendy black curly hair, her fair skin accentuated her thick, dark eyebrows and large, dark eyes. On her high nose bridge, her astonished gaze met the suddenly appearing, prickly, and graceful Yu Mei's eyes.

Then, he roused himself and opened his mouth slightly, saying in a nonchalant tone, "Why are you here?"

At this moment, Yu Mei, who was captivated by the handsome man in front of her, seemed not to hear his question and was still staring blankly into the distance!

He started walking around, and then repeated it again!

Yu Mei finally came to her senses. "Why can't I come?"

When Yang Yumei first saw him with this expression, he was several times more handsome than when she was in junior high school. Seeing him was like seeing a very charming moonlight. She was at a loss for what to do, and her anger immediately subsided by more than half.

"You're welcome, please have a seat." Yu Dajun's cold and handsome face softened slightly.

Yu Mei sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) behind the screen curtain. Yu Dajun produced a "White Rabbit" milk candy from somewhere, peeled off the paper, and put it into her slightly pried-open mouth.

His White Rabbit milk candy was so sweet! She had never eaten White Rabbit milk candy before, let alone such a sweet candy!

This might be the last comforting piece of candy Yu Dajun gave her!

Yu Mei ate the milk candy that she had been longing for every day and dreaming about, and her heart was filled with joy and a sense of peace.

Then, what followed was to make her utterly despondent and lose all will to live!

"Yu Mei, I have something to tell you, but first you have to promise me that you won't be angry or hate me after I tell you."

Yu Mei was taken aback for a moment, her eyes flashing back to the scene of her visit to Xu Meili's house last night. She knew perfectly well what he was going to say. Then her heart began to race, and she suppressed her emotions, speaking calmly.

“Dajun, you don’t need to say anything. I know you’re with his girlfriend, right? She’s Xu Meili, a girl from our village. You two started dating when you were in the county’s top high school, right?”

After Yu Mei finished speaking, tears welled up in her eyes, but she used her strongest willpower to control them and not let this familiar stranger see them.

Yu Dajun didn't dare to look her in the eye, so he didn't see the tears welling up in her eyes. However, he hadn't done anything to her before, nor had he ever said anything to her. He only knew that she had come to his house a few times, and that the girl had fallen in love with him at first sight.

He nodded at her, indicating his agreement.

"I know she graduated from high school and is a college student. What am I? I'm just a lowly farmer who only went to junior high school. I'm not good enough for you, a graduate of a top high school and a soldier. Right?"

After Yu Mei finished speaking, she stood up and could no longer control her emotions; tears welled up in her eyes.

"I, I didn't mean that. Please don't get agitated." Yu Dajun immediately opened his arms, wanting to hug her to comfort her, but then he quickly let go and calmed down.

Yu Mei wiped away her tears, then composed herself and asked, "You don't need to say anything else. I just want to ask you, back in junior high, the way you looked at me—was it because you liked me? Do you know why my final exam scores dropped? Wasn't it because of you..."

“I…I don’t…I don’t…” Yu Dajun stammered.

"If I had passed the exam like you and gone to the county's top high school together, would you have dated me instead of her? She's the eldest daughter of Principal Xu of our school, talented and beautiful, and her mother is a junior high school teacher in my village school. Her family background is better than mine. My family is just a bunch of ordinary farmers. Of course you would have chosen her."

"No, it's not..."

"What do you mean 'no'? I just want you to answer me, did you ever like me? Tell me, you did like me, right?" Yu Mei couldn't help but shake one of his arms with both hands.

Yu Dajun was at a loss for what to do.

"Ahem! Dajun, it's time for lunch." A man's cough from outside the door interrupted their conversation.

Yu Mei stopped shaking her hands and lowered them, then said coldly, "Alright, I understand. I didn't come for nothing today. Your silence means you agree. Finally, I wish you and her a long and happy marriage! Goodbye!"

Yang Yumei stopped crying, stepped over the threshold, passed a handsome middle-aged man standing in the kitchen, turned around and hurriedly ran out the door, quickly got on her bicycle, and rode straight towards the dirt road to the east of the village.

After dinner, the matchmaker Zou Laqian entered the south wing, while Yu Mei and Liu Shulan were tidying up the clothes in the east room.

The mother and daughter were somewhat annoyed by her arrival. They were not very satisfied with the marriage they had introduced to Yuqiu through the Zou family last time. The two families had gone through so much trouble to get their children married before finally getting together.

She's here again now; it's like a weasel offering New Year's greetings to a chicken—Mina is being kind.

Zou Laxian arrived uninvited and skillfully sat on the edge of the heated kang in the east room.

Then, with a smile, she said, "Have you and your daughter eaten? Are you tidying up the house now?"

"Hmm," Yu Han hummed in a nasal tone.

"Aunt Zou, when did you come to visit your parents' home? Is there something you need at my house? Please come in and have a seat." Liu Shulan didn't really like her, but she still had to put on a good show.

"Second sister-in-law, I came this morning. I heard from my parents that my second brother and third brother have both passed away? What illness did they have? How could they suddenly... It's such a pity. My second brother was such a good person."

"Yes, your third brother had emphysema a few years ago, but he never went to the hospital to see a doctor. Before he passed away, it flared up, and he found a local doctor in the village and got seven days of injections."

Later, his illness not only did not get better, but it got worse and worse.

Then Yang Zhi took a taxi to the county hospital in Gucheng, but the doctor there refused to take them in and told them to go to a hospital in a bigger city. So Yang Zhi took a taxi and they went home together.

When he got home, his condition worsened; he couldn't breathe and kept passing out.

Everyone urged Yang Zhi to go to a big hospital. Yang Zhi hurriedly went to the village store to call for an ambulance, and the ambulance arrived quickly. He took his third brother Yang Zhannan, Yang Zhi, and Diao Yan to Jiamusi Hospital.

Unfortunately, her condition worsened, and the doctor said she could either be admitted to the intensive care unit, which would be very expensive, or she could be taken home. Yang Zhi didn't hesitate to take her home, put her on the kang (a heated brick bed), and borrowed a large blue oxygen cylinder from the village that was used by patients, which he used as her nose for oxygen.

"Mom, bringing Sanshu home is just waiting to die! At least in the hospital there's a chance of survival!"

"There's nothing we can do. Our family doesn't have any money either. Your dad's pockets are always empty. When we were all living together, all the money your dad earned from carpentry work was given to your grandma. After giving it to everyone, the money was all spent."

“All that money was spent on my third uncle’s wife and daughter.”

"Yang Zhi hasn't been married long, right? He and his wife should have some extra money to put Third Brother in the intensive care unit?"

"Then let's not talk about it. After all, he's your second brother's nephew, how can I say anything!"

Then, relatives and friends were notified, and those from out of town who were nearby arrived quickly, crowding around the patient and watching him breathe oxygen from the cylinder.

Everyone gestured and rubbed their fists together, each trying to show off their skills, but they were powerless to contribute a single penny to save the patient's last chance to live.

"The next evening, when everyone saw that he only had one last breath left, they cruelly pulled out the oxygen tube inserted into his nostrils. While he was still breathing, they carried him into the coffin according to local custom. Those who were brave and strong carried him and put him into the coffin that your second brother had made for himself beforehand."

"Ah, how cruel. My third uncle is still alive, still breathing. I saw in TV dramas that in hospitals, the family members of patients use electric shocks to bring the dead back to life... Mom, I was in high school, why didn't you tell me to see my third uncle one last time?"

"Second brother is so kind; he gave his coffin to third brother for his own funeral."

"Yes, your second brother saw that he was leaving in a hurry in the three places, so he asked Yang Zhi and the village to help spread the word and have the men carry the large coffin from the wood pulp room to the yard for preparation."

"On the day your second brother died, it snowed heavily, like Wang Xifeng in 'Dream of the Red Chamber.' He was wearing a silver-white coat, inside which was wrapped a small red cloth bag filled with another of his, tied tightly with thin rope!"

"Yang Zhannan didn't take anything with him. When he finally left, he waited for his only pair of wet underwear to dry before putting them on, otherwise he would have died naked!"