Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 835 - 679: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession

Chapter 835: Chapter 679: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession

Qiu Mingyan felt a sudden pang of anxiety.

As the motorcycle maintained its speed, he watched the elder take the photo handed to him by the deputy steward. He pulled up the hood of his raincoat, which he had put on earlier to guard against the expected rain, covering his face as he rode steadily past without a sound.

By the side of the black motorcade, the deputy steward heard the roar and glanced back at Qiu Mingyan but didn’t discern anything peculiar. Since the elder responded, the deputy steward turned his gaze back.

The elder looked at the photo for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don’t know. I’m just a farmer and don’t know any doctors. Besides, we only have Chen Family Village, Li Family Village, and Zhou Family Village nearby. I’ve never heard of anyone with the surname Qiu. There is a health clinic that opened in Longkou Town; maybe you should check there?"

Thinking that the deputy steward and his group were looking for a doctor, the elder candidly shared his situation.

The deputy steward furrowed his brows upon hearing this.

The news from Da Liang Mountain is really too isolated.

They knew Qiu Mingyan was the top science student in the province back then, and it was easy to track him to the county level. Yet, Qiu Mingyan always boarded at school when he studied in the county and never returned to any village. No one knew which town or village he belonged to.

The IDs were haphazardly issued, adding to the confusion.

The villages around this county are as numerous as ox hairs, with many inaccessible by main roads. How do you even begin to search?

When you finally find someone, they are just like this elder, clueless about the top science student who swept the province! Some don’t even know what is science or liberal arts!

Seeing the situation, the deputy steward could only offer thanks, pocket the photo, and return to the car.

He took out his phone, hoping to access a 4G network to check satellite maps but couldn’t find a signal... after a long effort, he could only manage to hover on 2G.

Annoyed, he resignedly pulled out an old-fashioned map, drew a big red cross over the place they had just come to, then pointed to another spot with his finger and said, "Let’s try here next."

"Yes," the driver replied, lowering his head in embarrassment for the toughness of the past two days.

Qiu Mingyan rode his bike a bit further, stopped, took another look at their actions, and silently furrowed his brows. His deep black eyes grew even deeper in thought.

...

Inside the Qiu Family room.

Feng Chengyue’s heart was still painfully hurting.

Even after that momentary panic. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Reason quickly made it clear to her that this must be false! She understood how shy Qiu Mingyan was about intimate matters.

This kind of Qiu Mingyan possibly touching the fifteen-year-old Mai Manxiang? What a joke, Qiu Mingyan could spend three months with Mai Manxiang and still never touch her!

Yet, perhaps because of the marriage arrangement between Qiu Mingyan and Mai Manxiang, hearing about such an alleged physical tie made her uncomfortable, even knowing it wasn’t true, pricked by a woman’s possessive jealousy.

Frowning, Feng Chengyue felt her headache from her cold worsen and said, "Do you think I would believe you?"

Mai Manxiang only retorted with a mocking smile and said, "Whether you believe it or not is Sister Feng’s concern. Anyway, a woman as materialistic as you will not be accepted by the people of this village; you better give up. Besides... I am the rightful bride arranged for Brother Mingyan. I will certainly marry him. Believe it or not, that is the ultimate outcome."

Mai Manxiang confidently finished speaking, smiled lightly, and walked out as if lifted by the breeze.

Feng Chengyue’s heart was filled with discomfort from the provocation.

Soon, Gui Lanzhi came in to help tidy up the room.

Feng Chengyue didn’t know how much of the conversation Gui Lanzhi overheard, but watching Gui Lanzhi come in, seeing their exchange, and her continuous sniffling followed by using and discarding large swathes of tissues.

Gui Lanzhi furrowed her brows slightly, gave an awkward smile like any woman from the mountain village would, and carried the wastebasket out.

Feng Chengyue knew exactly what she was doing out there. She was no doubt picking out the still-clean tissues to use them later in the bathroom.

In a poor mountain village, everything is economized.

Since she arrived, Qiu Mingyan couldn’t bear to see her suffer in the least, so he went to town early to buy her new towels, new toothbrushes, cups, including tissues and wet wipes, anything he could get, he would bring back for her.

To the best of his ability, he tried to restore the metropolitan living standards for her.

She didn’t think much of these things before, but after Mai Manxiang highlighted them, seeing how Qiu Mingyan’s mother acted, and hearing, "I am Qiu Mingyan’s bride, and the whole village acknowledges me."

It still stabbed her heart, with a pain so acute that it left Feng Chengyue almost breathless.

...

Again, suffering from a severe cold, having slept through an entire afternoon nap.

Upon waking, Feng Chengyue realized the prowess of Mai Manxiang, shedding even more of her naive perception of "innocent, simple" mountain village life.

Who knows if it was intentional provocation or an unintentional slip of tongue by Mai Manxiang?

Anyway, post-nap, upon seeing Aunt Fourth Chen who came over inexplicably to visit, staring at all the new things that filled Feng Chengyue’s room.

Items rarely seen in the village like hair dryers, dry hair towels, large bags of tissues, new pillowcases, and new sheets...

While they were actually inexpensive things, their newness made them near-rich luxuries in this mountain village. To Aunt Fourth Chen, it was as if her own money was being spent.

Feeling distressed, she immediately began to chatter at Gui Lanzhi.

"Heavens, Lanzhi, who is this extravagant woman you have here? I wouldn’t know without visiting, but even for a cold, she uses tissues rather than towels? And she bought so many new things? Is that a hairdryer? I thought only city women could afford it? Can your electricity handle it? Won’t the bill skyrocket? And she’s not Mingyan’s colleague, is she? Why is she staying here, spending your family’s money like this?"

Gui Lanzhi’s attitude towards Feng Chengyue was ambivalent, driven more by fear of affluent people.

But after Feng Chengyue had been here for days, her son constantly buying this and that, she, as a mother, couldn’t be indifferent, her heart ached seeing it.

Yet Gui Lanzhi wasn’t the sharp type, and since her son was willing, she found it hard to object.

She only managed a resigned smile and said, "People from the city, they have quite a good relationship with Mingyan, we can’t neglect them."

"Of course, you can’t neglect them, but with our living conditions like this, she seems to be staying long-term, not earning anything, and spending like this really means she’s spending Mingyan’s hard-earned money, the kind of money we had to scrape for, rationing our grain supplies to afford Mingyan’s education back in the day, doesn’t it?"

With this debt of gratitude mentioned, Gui Lanzhi’s face showed a brief look of discomfort.

Aunt Fourth Chen questioned, "You wouldn’t have mistaken this woman as your daughter-in-law, right? I’ve heard quite a few people in the village talking these past two days, Lanzhi, you can’t forget our gratitude, right?"

Gui Lanzhi immediately shook her head, denouncing, "No, not at all, the whole village’s kindness is not forgotten by the Qiu Family. Especially the favor from Village Chief Mai’s family to us is greater than life itself. There’s no way Mingyan would do such a thing, and our Qiu Family wouldn’t forget our gratitude. This girl really is just a colleague. Seeing Mingyan opening a clinic, she’s staying to help in the future."

Upon hearing that she was a doctor, Aunt Fourth Chen sighed, "Colleagues, that’s good. We do lack doctors here, if she stays to help, spending a bit is okay, but not too much, please. Look at us, even now, we can’t afford new scrap paper for Tietou to use for school, we’re still struggling beneath the poverty line, how can she be so wasteful."

"Yes, we shouldn’t waste, it’s hard for everyone...," Gui Lanzhi replied.

"That’s why I’m saying this is what happens when Mingyan isn’t married, without a wife to keep things in order, I reckon the marriage with Manxiang could be held this year. Manxiang is so beautiful, ten miles around, people are asking for her hand, and she’s not married, waiting for your Mingyan for years. If you don’t give an explanation, in my view, it’s just not right..."

Aunt Fourth Chen kept on rambling, as if the sacks of rice and flour they had saved to fund a university student were akin to nurturing her own sons, now interfering with everything.

Gui Lanzhi understood the village owed too much gratitude, what words could she say, but only nodded, repeatedly saying, "Yes" and "Alright."

In the room, after being led around by Qiu Mingyan, visiting home to home, Qiu Mingyan had informed Feng Chengyue: in this village, people are of various types, some wagging their tongues unduly, and advised her to ignore any unpleasant talks she might hear in the future.

Feng Chengyue had been wholly focused on being with Qiu Mingyan, indifferent to these matters, and couldn’t fathom the extent to which these seemingly simple villagers could gossip, naturally responding with an unwavering "Alright!"

She also overlooked the slight resignation and bitterness in Qiu Mingyan’s smile back then.

And at this moment...

Listening to those piercing words, audaciously highlighting: "Manxiang is such a wonderful girl, she’s the Village Chief’s daughter. In our place, what could be bigger than a Village Chief? This isn’t something those outsiders could compete with; our local boy should marry a local girl..."

Feng Chengyue, raised like a princess, never having been insulted like this, was already distraught from her cold and fever. Hearing how she was compared with Mai Manxiang in the villagers’ eyes.

Tears welled up in her eyes from the sheer grievance...