novelHe Should Give It A Try If He Likes Her
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"Inside the kitchen?" Madam Zhou heard what the helper said and headed to the kitchen immediately, then said, "Ah, Zhiyuan, what are you doing right now? We have a chef at home. Why are you cooking? Have you been... poaching eggs all this time? Look at how many blisters there are on your hands. Someone come over!"
Zhou Yao's mother was furious as she called out quickly.
Leng Zhiyuan sat down on the sofa in the living room. Madam Zhou took a needle to prick the blisters on her hands, and as she did so, Madam Zhou chided the helpers as she said, "Young Mistress's hands were injured, and all of you just stood there like that?"
The helpers were all sweating profusely as they stuttered and explained themselves, "Madam, Young... Young Master did not allow us... to intervene..."
"Nonsense!" Old Master Zhou huffed with his beard as he glared at Zhou Yao fiercely. He waved the walking stick up as he hit Zhou Yao in the back."This unfilial kid. Our home was doing all well, and you had to make it smoky and all in a mess. Let's see if I would not beat you to death or not!"
The sound of a heavy grunt rang out, and Zhou Yao took three hits to his back.
Madam Zhou knew that her son had really gone overboard his time. She did not want to try and persuade her father-in-law, Zhou Yao's father was afraid that Old Master Zhou would be so angry that he'd hurt his health, so he stretched his hand out to pull him away."Dad, okay that's enough. This time, it is really Zhou Yao in the wrong. Let him kneel down in the memorial hall then."
"What are you still waiting for? Do I need to invite you to go over? Go over to the memorial hall and reflect to your grandmother!" Old Master Zhou bellowed out.
Zhou Yao stood up, and the three hits on his back did not seem to affect him at all. It was not painful or itchy at all. He parted his long legs and headed over to the side hall, and when he passed by the living room, he glanced over at Leng Zhiyuan's hand. Her small, fair hand had numerous large red blisters on it.
His heart tightened. It felt just as if there was a large hand clenching his heart, and he felt some pain.
He looked over at her exquisite side profile. She was comforting his mother softly, and her beautiful features were all soft...
And now, he felt that she deserved all of this. If she was willing to treat him like that...
Even if she was not as gentle as that, she could also throw the egg at his face, just as she did in the past. Before, she would fight for who was the winner, but now, her attitude was obvious that she did not want to speak much to him, and she treated him like air.
She was giving him the silent treatment.
He hated the silent treatment the most.
"Hmph!" he snorted out coldly before he parted his long legs and headed into the memoriam hall coolly.
"This child!" Madam Zhou was so angry that she was at a loss for words.
Leng Zhiyuan raised her head up slowly and looked over at his back profile that slowly disappeared into the distance...
...
Zhou Yao folded his legs as he sat down on the floor in the memorial hall. He was bored anyways, and he started to meditate until the door of the memorial hall was opened up at night, with his mother bringing in a meal basket as she walked inside.
The expression on his mother's face was not too good, but how could she not pamper her own son? She put the meal basket on the floor, and she bent down to check the injuries on Zhou Yao's back as she said, "Don't move. Let me have a look!"
"Mum, it doesn't hurt." Zhou Yao did not allow his mother to touch ihm.
"Try and move again!" His mother was furious as she stretched her hand out to pull Zhou Yao's ear.
Zhou Yao was the most afraid of others pulling his ears, and of course in his entire life, only his mother could pull his ear. He was immobile instantly as he said, "Mum, let go."
It was only then that his mother eased her grip, and she lifted Zhou Yao's shirt. There were three red marks on his back. His mother opened the bottle of medicine up and applied medication to his wounds.
"Son, it is not that Mum wants to say this, but you were really in the wrong this time. You spent so much effort to make Zhiyuan come back. Why do you still have to make her angry?"
"When did I make her come back, it was you and Grandpa..."
"That's enough! Don't try to cover up anymore. You are the life that came from my body. Would I not know what you are trying to achieve? How old are you now? You are already 27, so why are you behaving just like a small child by throwing a tantrum with Zhiyuan today?"
Zhou Yao did not say anything in response, and thinking about it carefully now, his actions were really cheap. If he had extra time, it would be better if he returned back to the army base.
"Son, Mum knows that you like Zhiyuan. Mum is relieved after knowing that. Mum knows that ever since Captain Han got into that accident, you have locked your heart up..."
"Mum!" Zhou Yao interrupted his mother immediately. This was a no-fly-zone, and no one was allowed to bring it up.
His mother let out a sigh and said, "Son, Zhiyuan is a good girl. Don't think that just because she looks cold on the outside... Her heart is very warm. As long as you treat her well, she will be more gentle than any other girl in this world. You also should not continue to throw a tantrum. A masculine man is gracious and forgiving. What are you afraid of when you like someone? Just confess bravely and go and chase her like a man."
Zhou Yao was not impressed after he heard that. He did not know how to woo girls. He normally saw other men gift flowers and chocolates as they thought of plans to chase a woman, and he felt that it was so coy and boring.
Whether he liked the person or not, wasn't it just a single sentence?
If he liked her, then just be together with her if that was so.
Did she like him?
He had a sudden eureka moment. After his grandmother's memorial ceremony tomorrow, he would ask her if she liked him or not. If she liked him, then they would give it a try. If she did not like him, forget it then. Two people forced to be together would not be happy in the end, and he would waste his efforts for nothing.
...
Inside the graveyard, Old Master Zhou and Master Zhou were chatting with the other seniors of the Zhou family. Madam Zhou brought Leng Zhiyuan along with her as they knelt down on the ground to burn paper money.
Leng Zhiyuan was dressed in all black. She tied her hair up and placed a small white flower on her ear as she threw the paper money into the fire pit.
At this moment, something cold suddenly touched her hand; it started to rain.
"Quick, go and get the umbrella." The helpers all ran off quickly.
Leng Zhiyuan did not move. Out of nowhere, a pair of black leather boots appeared in her peripheral vision, and someone held an umbrella over her head.
She followed the leather shoes and looked upwards. She was unable to look at his extremely long legs. He wore a thin green v-neck sweater and a black cotton shirt underneath. Zhou Yao held an umbrella in his hand as he stood beside her.
"It's raining now." He lowered his gaze down to look at her, and the corners of his lips up were slightly curled up.
It made him seem so tall as he looked down at her. Leng Zhiyuan needed to raise her head up to look at him. From her angle, all she could see was his perfect and sculpted curves. The lines on his neck were very defined, and his Adam's apple was more defined compared to other men's, making him look extra fierce.
She crashed into his smiling eyes, and he was looking at her gently.
Leng Zhiyuan froze before she withdrew her gaze and continued to burn the paper.
The helper took over the umbrella and continued to hold it. Zhou Yao knelt down beside her, and he took a few pieces of paper and threw it into the fire pit in front of her."Grandma, this is your granddaughter-in-law. Are you happy with her?"
He teased her.
Leng Zhiyuan did not know what he was planning to do. The man that was still lit up with gunpowder yesterday was suddenly behaving entirely different now, and at this moment, he held her icy cold right hand as he said, "Is your hand a little better now?"
She was about to take her hand back.
"Zhou Yao!" Old Master Zhou suddenly called out to him from a distance and said, "Come here."
"Wait for me, I have something to tell you." He went by the side of her ear as he whispered, "The words that I did not finish that night, I want to tell you the rest."
Zhou Yao stood up and left.
After she burned the paper money, Leng Zhiyuan stood under a corridor together with Madam Zhou to get some shelter from the rain as they waited for the men of the Zhou family.
Leng Zhiyuan looked over at Zhou Yao, and he stood in the wind and rain as he spoke to those elders. The topic that they were discussing was probably very boring, and it made him seem very nonchalant. Maybe it was because he sensed that she was looking at him, he turned his gaze over to the side to look over at her.
Their eyes met, and he curled the corners of his lips up before raising his eyebrows at her.
Madam Zhou saw the both of them interacting like that, and she quickly covered her mouth as she laughed secretly.
Leng Zhiyuan took her gaze back quickly as she looked elsewhere, but she knew that her heart started to beat again anyhow.
It was just as if someone had thrown a rock into the peaceful lake that was her heart.
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