Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan can understand Li Mengyao's heartfelt words, because for them, they also have their own peace of mind.
Ling Zhi's words made him feel most at ease when he was sitting aside and watching Zhao Shiyan's game, when he was sitting behind Li Mengyao and watching her refereeing the game, and when he was walking at the end of the team during the East-West sprint.
At the end.
Ling Zhi has never been suitable for being a pushy person. He prefers to stand behind them and support them silently. As long as they are happy, Ling Zhi himself will be happy too.
Of course, if he encounters any problems, he will still have the courage to deal with them as soon as possible.
As for Zhao Shiyan, this girl is much simpler than Ling Zhi. Logically speaking, she doesn't have many worries, but meeting Chen Yi when she was an undergraduate was a turning point in her life.
Since then, her temper has calmed down a lot, and it wasn't until Lingzhi helped her untie her knot that her mentality returned to its previous state.
So for Zhao Shiyan, the place where Ling Zhi is is where she feels at ease.
But Li Mengyao is very different from the two of them.
Before meeting Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan, Li Mengyao had never had a true close friend. Whether it was the middle-aged uncle who took her to the bar or the black jacket who had a brief relationship with her, they never treated her sincerely.
.
So when she later met Zhao Shiyan and Ling Zhi, Li Mengyao felt that this was the luckiest thing in her life.
But despite this, there was always a thorn in her heart, and she knew she would have to face it sooner or later.
That's why she changed her mind temporarily and returned to Yingshan Village with Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan.
After finally being able to find this place, she felt that the decision to return home this time was really the right one!
At this moment, standing in the secret base that belonged to her as a child, with someone who made her feel at ease next to her, Li Mengyao felt that there was probably only one chance in her life where she could enjoy such treatment!
The three of them stayed here for a while and felt that it was almost time, so Zhao Shiyan suggested:
"Then Mengyao, just stay here and wait for us. I think the signal here is okay. After we meet your parents, can we call you and find a place to meet?"
Li Mengyao nodded, and Ling Zhi naturally had no objections.
"Then Lingzhi, why don't we jump down from here directly? If we jump, won't we go directly to Mengyao's house?"
Zhao Shiyan walked around the hammock set up by Li Mengyao, looked at the steep slope below, and said jokingly.
Zhao Shiyan thought that Ling Zhi would laugh and scold her for being dishonest as usual, but he didn't expect that this time Ling Zhi didn't act according to common sense:
"Okay, you jump first, and I will follow you."
Zhao Shiyan was stunned for a moment, then glared at Ling Zhi, then his mind changed, he faced the direction of the steep slope, bent his legs, and was about to take off.
Ling Zhi quickly stepped forward to hold her:
"Be good! My little ancestor! You really jump when I ask you to jump! If I jump, I won't be able to kill you!"
"We have to throw them together! Didn't you say you would follow me after I got down? You don't want to break your promise, do you?"
"Why don't you break your promise? What's wrong with this! Damn girl, you only know how to play with me!"
"..."
As the two flirted, Li Mengyao gradually couldn't stop smiling. After many years, her secret base was once again filled with life because of the arrival of the three people. Unfortunately, this time, there was no azalea to accompany her.
However, if this visit goes well, there will always be a chance to come here again in the future.
...
The speed of going down the mountain was much faster than when going up the mountain. After a while, Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan returned the same way and arrived at the place where they got off the car in the first place.
"Lingzhi, then we will go directly to the village?"
"Don't worry, I think it's almost time. Qin Fei should be here soon."
"Ah? Qin Fei? Why did he come over?"
"Actually, it's very simple. Isn't he a local? I guess he may be familiar with this place... Hey, Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived."
Zhao Shiyan turned around and saw Qin Fei riding his electric car to Lexus. As soon as he stopped the car, he couldn't wait to start shouting:
"How's it going, brother? I came straight here as soon as I got home. Isn't it fun?"
Ling Zhi nodded:
"Indeed, I owe you this time. When this matter is finished, I will thank you very much later."
"No, Ling Zhi, please wait a moment. What did you agree on behind my back?"
"That's right! Girl, Lingzhi did make an agreement with me behind your back! Let me tell you, your boyfriend sold you! He asked me to help him with something, and after that, he wants you to play ball with me!
"
"Hey! Liar! Ling Zhi wouldn't make such a promise! If you want to deceive people, please make up a similar reason, okay?"
"Forehead......"
Qin Fei was a little embarrassed. He originally wanted to tease the young couple, but he didn't expect to be found out so quickly!
Ling Zhi is really a guy who seems to be quiet, but he didn’t expect that he still gets along well with the girl!
"Ahem! Come on, Qin Fei, stop talking nonsense."
"Shi Yan, I invited him here so that he could lead the way for us."
"Leading the way? We can find the way ourselves, why do we need him to lead the way?"
"Well, it's not that simple. Anyway, let's go first. After a while, you will know why I invited him here."
Hearing what Ling Zhi said, Zhao Shiyan didn't ask any more questions. She knew that Ling Zhi must have a reason for doing this. Besides, it was almost noon. In order to get this matter settled in the morning, she couldn't waste any more time now.
Already.
So, the three of them went straight into the village. Ling Zhi used his memories of being in the mountain to lead the other two people straight to the white house that Li Mengyao pointed out to them.
After wandering around the village, the three of them finally came to the house.
There is no big difference between this house and other houses in the village. It is just a very ordinary two-story small building. However, compared with the scene of lights and colorful decorations in front of other villagers' houses, the front of this house is slightly brighter.
A little more deserted.
The doors of other villagers' houses are open, and people can often be seen visiting each other. However, the door of this family's house is closed, and it is not known whether anyone is inside.
"I don't know if Mengyao's parents have moved away."
"It's really a bit deserted, and I can't hear any movement inside. Why not ask the surrounding villagers first to see what's going on with this family."
"Okay, okay, then I'll ask."
After saying that, without waiting for Ling Zhi to stop him, Zhao Shiyan hurriedly grabbed an old woman who happened to be passing by the gate and asked:
"Hello grandma, I would like to ask, do you know the situation of this family?"
After speaking, Zhao Shiyan pointed to the door of Li Mengyao's hometown.
The old lady glanced at Zhao Shiyan and said:
“@#￥%……”
???
Zhao Shiyan looked confused. What was this old woman talking about? I couldn’t understand it at all! The accent of this dialect was too strong! When I went to Yuanxi Village, I didn’t feel that the locals had such a strong accent!
However, what Zhao Shiyan didn't know was that the situation in Yingshan Village and Yuanxi Village were not quite the same.
When Ling Zhi followed Zhao Shiyan to Yuanxi Village to conduct social surveys, although he could feel that the locals had some local accents, he could still understand the meaning.
Besides, at that time in Yuanxi Village, Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan mainly stayed in the school to talk to the children. The children listened to the teacher speak Mandarin in class, so they were accustomed to speaking Mandarin in school.
But Yingshan Village is very different.
Before Yingshan Village was renamed, it was still a very isolated small mountain village. Few outsiders came to visit, so the local accent here was still a bit strong.
Fortunately, Qin Fei didn't stand aside and watch the excitement, and quickly stepped forward to help Zhao Shiyan out of the siege:
"Grandma is asking you, why are you asking this family? Do you have any relationship with this family?"
"Oh, that."
Zhao Shiyan finally understood the meaning of Ling Zhi inviting Qin Fei here, but at this moment she had no time to think about it and hurriedly added to the old lady:
"We are Li Mengyao... um, the high school classmates of this family's daughter. We want to come and see her."
This was also the argument that Zhao Shiyan had discussed with Li Mengyao before. Although it was a bit far-fetched, Li Mengyao's parents had never met her high school classmates, so it was barely reasonable to use this reason to visit Li Mengyao's hometown.
The old woman had a strange look in her eyes. After Qin Fei translated, Zhao Shiyan successfully talked to the old woman:
"You came to see this family's daughter? Don't you know that this family's daughter hasn't come back for several years?"
"Ah? Is that so? Why?"
Zhao Shiyan pretended not to know.
"This is a long story, but I don't want to gossip about other people's affairs. You young people can go in and ask for yourselves. The family is still here, so you can just knock on the door."
After saying that, the old lady seemed unwilling to stay any longer and left the house in a hurry, as if she was afraid of getting into any bad luck.
Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan felt a little complicated. Of course they knew the reason why Li Mengyao left home, but here, they couldn't show that they knew the inside story. After all, Li Mengyao didn't want to go home yet.
Back then, Li Mengyao's parents forced her to marry a lazy man in the village, forcing a good girl in the eyes of her parents to run away from the marriage.
Not surprisingly, this matter must have spread in the village a long time ago. No wonder the old woman regarded this family as the god of plague.
However, listening to the old lady's tone, she did not comment too much on Li Mengyao's behavior of escaping from marriage. This gave Ling Zhi a feeling that this matter might not be so easy to distinguish between right and wrong in the village.
This is a good thing. On the other hand, if Li Mengyao's reputation in the village is not good, then the visits of Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan are destined to be viewed with colored glasses by the villagers.
"Hey! I wanted to ask just now. The girl named Li Mengyao you are looking for should be the girl sitting with you in the car, right? I heard you call her name. So what are you doing?
?Didn’t the person you are looking for come with you? Where is the girl named Li Mengyao? Why didn’t she come with you? "
Qin Fei asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Zhao Shiyan frowned. She stared at Qin Fei closely, not knowing how to explain it. Ling Zhi looked at him coldly, not planning to say anything more.
Qin Fei saw the two of them like this and patted his head:
"Okay! Don't worry, I'm talking too much! After all, I already promised you in the car not to ask any more questions, so I'll keep my promise. Just go on and treat me like air."
"You're a smart kid!"
After saying that, Ling Zhi knocked on the door of Li Mengyao's house and shouted "Is anyone home?"
After a while, a middle-aged woman in plain clothes opened the door:
"You are?"
This sentence was relatively short, but Ling Zhi could still hear what it meant, and he immediately replied:
"Hello aunt, we are Li Mengyao's high school classmates. Isn't it the Chinese New Year soon? I want to come and see you."
"High school classmate? She's not here, you can leave!"
After that, she made a move to close the door, which caught Ling Zhi off guard!