Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 807 - 654: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [2]

Chapter 807: Chapter 654: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [2]

However, no matter how difficult the journey was, it wasn’t as difficult as asking about where Qiu Mingyan lived.

During their two years together, she was curious about where Qiu Mingyan’s family was, but how could Qiu Mingyan tell her? Each time he would give a light smile and change the topic.

In the end, she had to call Yu Yuanshen to vaguely inquire about Qiu Mingyan’s situation.

Qiu Mingyan’s hometown was in Sichuan. Back then, they were both students at Tsinghua. Yu Yuanshen stayed domestically at the best university for convenience and to see Zhi Xuan more often, instead of studying abroad, even though he had an offer from MIT but didn’t go.

Qiu Mingyan entered Tsinghua as the top science student in all of Sichuan. In the first year at Tsinghua, he was Yu Yuanshen’s classmate. Yu Yuanshen studied medicine for a year but found he was more interested in finance, so he changed disciplines. Before that, Yu Yuanshen and Qiu Mingyan were just roommates.

In a dorm with four people, Yu Yuanshen couldn’t stand the messiness of the other boys, but Qiu Mingyan loved cleanliness the most.

Even though Qiu Mingyan had the least affluent condition, his clothes were almost all donations from poverty alleviation, but he would wash all of them thoroughly and change them daily.

This particular behavior caught Yu Yuanshen’s attention to Qiu Mingyan.

Initially, Yu Yuanshen thought Qiu Mingyan was trying to avoid feeling inferior, which made him pay attention to these details. Later, he found out it was just Qiu Mingyan’s attitude towards life; he didn’t like dirt, no matter what.

Yu Yuanshen inexplicably developed a liking for him and became familiar with Qiu Mingyan.

Later, they met Chen Siming and others, and they became lifelong good buddies.

Did Qiu Mingyan love money? Certainly, but in Yu Yuanshen’s eyes, he was the type who sought wealth in a gentlemanly way. Otherwise, after being brothers for so many years, how could Yu Yuanshen never benefit from him?

Thus, at this moment, Yu Yuanshen explained, "I only know his hometown is near the Da Liang Mountain in Sichuan; I don’t know the specifics of which town or village. I could check it through his ID card, but don’t get your hopes up too much. I remember Qiu Mingyan once saying his birthplace was registered incorrectly. He’s not from that village; the police system completely reported the wrong address."

Upon hearing such news, Feng Chengyue was truly more desperate than ever.

Although ID errors have been encountered by many people, especially in remote areas where the performance evaluation is lax, errors are more frequent, but how could she foresee she’d be the one facing such a problem?

For a moment, Feng Chengyue felt her life was being toyed with, bullied by heaven.

Tears almost welled up instantly.

Yet, hearing it’s near Da Liang Mountain was a fortune in misfortune. Fortunately, it’s just one mountain range, right? Can’t she search from village to village?

Ultimately, considering Feng Chengyue’s safety, letting a refined woman who has never done hard labor search in the mountains made Yu Yuanshen uneasy. Hearing that the Feng family was causing a stir, Yu Yuanshen didn’t dare let them know, so he sent someone to pick up Feng Chengyue in Sichuan and search the mountains together.

It was a particularly arduous process.

The weather in June and July, the daytime sun was so harsh, trekking through the particularly barren Da Liang Mountain where many villages couldn’t be reached by car.

One could only rent special transportation to enter the mountains; sometimes, cars couldn’t go up, requiring them to walk, asking house by house.

Yu Yuanshen also proactively sent people to the administrative county where Qiu Mingyan resided to check his study records and inquire about more information on Qiu Mingyan or the Qiu family.

...

Feng Chengyue eventually found the village, two months after leaving the Feng family.

In this age, finding someone in a big city with such a developed information network takes no more than a few days. However, in such a closed-off village where a television is still a luxury, without any entertainment or communication channels with the external world, finding a person is incredibly tough.

Especially since Qiu Mingyan had told Feng Chengyue they were poor, she didn’t expect their poverty to be this severe. The house was half brick, half earthen, situated in such a destitute village, not even considered good conditions.

In the yard, there was a cow, a few chickens, a duck, and at the entrance, piglets were oinking, emitting an unbearable smell.

Standing before Qiu Mingyan, her eyes slightly brimmed with tears.

In the yard, Qiu Mingyan, dressed in a white shirt, also seemed in shock.

Especially noting how much tanner she appeared, having seemingly slipped in mud after a downpour yesterday while climbing, this once branded-skirt-clad, graceful figure was now attired in rudimentary county-level coarse cloth garments, with her hair messily tied into a ponytail.

Once delicate skin had slightly cracked due to this period of intense sunlight, with red rashes appearing.

Qiu Mingyan’s heart: "..."

Seeing each other eye to eye, Feng Chengyue didn’t mind her appearance, but just looked at Qiu Mingyan, wanting to say: Ming Yan, I miss you, come back with me.

She wanted to step forward, hug him, comfort his pride undoubtedly stirred.

In terms of affection, she never seemed to love Qiu Mingyan as deeply.

Thus, without much pause, it was Qiu Mingyan who spoke first: "You... how did you come here?"

Qiu Mingyan’s voice trembled, with eyes that seemed to ripple endlessly like water disturbed by pebbles.

Much like every night back then, watching her fall asleep, enveloped in a tender gentleness.

Feng Chengyue felt it and thought instantly that all the hardships of finding him were worth it.

With a moist mood, she replied, "Can’t I come?"

Especially since you gave me a conclusion back then, without even asking if I agreed, can’t I come?

Qiu Mingyan understood, his gaze pained, gripping the basin he was about to pour water from, not knowing how to respond, his lips trembling, but unable to open.

Just then, a fairly attractive woman emerged from the main room, speaking in a pure Sichuan accent. Seeing a woman and three men suddenly in the courtyard, she asked in shock, "Ming Yan, who is this...?"

Qiu Mingyan’s lips trembled as he looked at Feng Chengyue, unsure how to reply.

Feng Chengyue glanced at Qiu Mingyan, prepared mentally for anything upfront. At this moment, she considered saying: Auntie, I’m Qiu Mingyan’s girlfriend, I came to find him.

But a clear, joyful voice interrupted everything.

At the courtyard entrance, a flamboyant figure rushed to Qiu Mingyan’s side, clutching his arm, sweetly calling, "Brother Mingyan..."

Yet, seemingly wanting to say something, seeing Feng Chengyue asked, "Who are they?"

In an instant, Feng Chengyue was frozen in shock.

Especially seeing their affectionate gestures, she seemed to guess something.

She looked a bit bewilderedly at Qiu Mingyan.

Qiu Mingyan met Feng Chengyue’s eyes, glanced at the arm holding onto his, then at his family beside him.

With an extremely bitter smile, he lowered his eyes, silent; "..."

That kind of self-mockery, hurt Qiu Mingyan so much he couldn’t breathe...