Chapter 126 Shen Jie’s proposal

"My mother," Shen Jie looked into Xiao Yao's eyes calmly, with a hint of sadness in her tone: "I had just entered elementary school when she passed away."

Xiao Yao was shocked and at a loss: "I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, I didn't mean it..."

"Hmm~" Shen Jie made a negative sound in her nose: "Don't be nervous, you don't know."

"But..." Xiao Yao touched Shen Jie's wet sleeve: "When we were chatting before, you also mentioned your mother to me, and you were talking about... recent events?"

"I also call her mom, after all, it's been almost ten years." Shen Jie told him.

"Oh...stepmother." Xiao Yao said.

Shen Jie glanced at him.

What flashed in Xiao Yao's mind were those vicious stepmothers in fairy tales. He opened his mouth but said nothing.

Shen Jie saw what Xiao Yao wanted to ask, and while patting Xiao Yao's belly with her hand, Shen Jie said, "My stepmother is very good to me. I have nothing to say, but I still miss my mother."

"Of course," Xiao Yao nodded, "Shall I accompany you to see her if you have the chance?"

"Okay." The girl's hand touched the boy's chest again.

"Will she like me?" When Xiao Yao said this, he seemed to be talking to himself.

"As long as I tell her who you are, she will definitely accept you. Mom is such a person. She is always calm and content. Even in the last days, she never complained about the arrangement of fate."

"What did your mother give birth to..." Xiao Yao asked the question carefully, but the girl seemed to have no intention of answering, and just said to herself:

"That day, I asked Father Yu if he could offer the Mass for the Dead for my mother, but he refused and said that it could only be offered to the faithful."

Xiao Yao thought to himself that they might just follow the rules, but he responded: "Ah? Father Yu is sometimes as stubborn as an old man."

"No," Shen Jie shook her head and said, "Brother Bo only came here according to the church's regulations, right?"

"Yeah." Xiao Yao said.

"But my mother is also a Christian, but she is a Protestant," Shen Jie continued: "She is a really good and good person. She always tells me that she should use kindness to give back to everyone who treats me with kindness. A well-intentioned person...she had a great influence on me."

Why are there so many Christians, both Protestant and old, Xiao Yao thought.

"So your thinking mode of thinking about others first and wanting to meet other people's expectations was also influenced by your mother?" Xiao Yao asked her.

"Well, it will more or less matter." Shen Jie replied nonchalantly, paddling the water with her hands.

"Then...if you are a Protestant, can you go find a priest..." Xiao Yao searched for the pitiful religious knowledge in his brain, and then found it from Yu Luying's memory.

"Hmm~" Shen Jie made a negative sound in her nose: "I asked before and they said they don't pray for the dead."

"ah……?"

"Tell me, Gouzi," Shen Jie arched her head against Xiao Yao: "A good person like my mother must have gone to heaven, right?"

Xiao Yao said in his heart, how do I know? I don't even know if there is such a place, but he replied firmly: "It must be."

Shen Jie smiled sweetly, sat up, and water flowed down her wet clothes: "Okay, it's getting late, can I help you rub your back?"

"Okay, thank you." Xiao Yao turned his back politely.

Shen Jie took a bath ball, carefully applied shower gel on it, and began to scratch Xiao Yao's back: "Gouzi, there is something I have always wanted to ask you."

Xiao Yao sat in the water, enjoying his wife's service comfortably - he didn't like Shen Jie asking questions in this tone. He felt that it was very alienating, but he felt that he shouldn't dwell on it, so he only answered with one word: " ask."

"Do you love me?" Shen Jie then asked.

"Pfft -" There was no water in Xiao Yao's mouth, but this was the first action he could think of.

Xiao Yao himself didn't remember how many times he said "I love you" to Shen Jie. At first, the girl replied "Yeah, I know" to perfunctory him, but later the perfunctory way was greatly upgraded to "I "Yes." This makes me feel a lot more comfortable.

However, it was amazing when I first heard it, and then it gradually became a mere formality.

However, taking the initiative to ask "Do you love me?" is too strange.

It was almost as strange as when she said to herself just now, "You can't be sorry for me."

Xiao Yao decided to turn around and look into her eyes to answer her properly. As soon as he turned around, he was held down by the girl again: "Don't move."

There was no other way, so Xiao Yao had no choice but to maintain this posture with his back turned and his butt raised, and he answered honestly: "Love."

"Because?" Shen Jie's tone showed that she was serious about asking this question and was not flirting.

"Does love need a reason?" Xiao Yao shrugged and said, "Okay, I remembered it, it is necessary for you."

He suddenly remembered that this was not the first time Shen Jie asked him a similar proposition. On the day Shen Jie sent herself a good person card, she had asked him, "What do you like about me?"

How did I answer that time? It’s been so long ago that I forgot.

"Can I not answer this question?" Xiao Yao mustered up his courage and fought back.

"Because?" Shen Jie's tone was very calm, but she put more force on her hands.

"Because I think this is a question that girls use to make things difficult for boys," Xiao Yao told her: "Essentially, it's the same as 'Who do you save first when your mother and I fall into the water?'"

"Who do you save first when your mother and I fall into the water?" Shen Jie asked with a smile.

"Save you." Xiao Yao replied without hesitation.

It’s not like you don’t know how my mother treated me and what she did.

"SEE? It's not that difficult to answer the question. So why do you love me?" Shen Jie said reluctantly.

…

What do I love about you?

I love you for being beautiful, so what should I do if I meet someone more beautiful in the future?

I love you for being talented, gentle, kind, and this, that, and that, but none of these qualities are unique.

I love you giving me a bath, I love you being nice to me, I love that your family is rich... Even if I think so even a little bit, I can't say it out loud.

This kind of problem is simply unsolvable and is a logical trap unique to women.

"Ah ah ah," Xiao Yao said frantically: "Are there any options?"

"No." Shen Jie started to use the shower head to rinse the shower gel off Xiao Yao's back - isn't the water temperature a bit high?

"Draw a range for me." Xiao Yao whined.

"Oh, I just want to know whether you like me as a person or because I am your future wife." Shen Jie said impatiently.

Xiao Yao knew it in his heart. It turns out that this is your intention.

"Then what do you hope for?" Xiao Yao asked her.

"I don't want to listen to sweet talk, just tell the truth," Shen Jie put down the shower head and turned off the water: "Why are you so insincere when I ask you something?"

"..." Xiao Yao closed his mouth tightly and fell into silence.

"Forget it if you don't want to say it." Shen Jie pouted and sat in the water wearing a skirt.

"Wife," Xiao Yao thought for a long time and spoke slowly: "Do you still remember? The first time you rejected me on the phone, you asked me a question. You said, if you are a dark-skinned man, Can I still be that happy with my pie-faced pudgy face? You also said that I would be desperate for the rest of my life, do you remember?"

"I don't remember," Shen Jie looked embarrassed. Fortunately, Xiao Yao couldn't see it: "Why do you keep remembering these?"

"I didn't answer your question directly at that time, but now I can give you the answer," Xiao Yao turned to look at Shen Jie and said, "I read a novel when I was in elementary school. I have forgotten the name and plot. Yes, I just remember that it was set in the European Middle Ages, and the male protagonist said this to the female protagonist -

"Because you are the wife God has given me and it is my obligation to love you." Xiao Yao looked into Shen Jie's eyes and said.

"Uh..." Shen Jie said.

"Although I never believed in God before, I really like this line. I think it is the most beautiful and touching declaration. Just like in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", the witch queen asked Li Xiaoyao, "Li Xiaoyao, the Aijia asks you, Do you really love Ling'er? Li Xiaoyao replied..."

"She is my wife, of course I love her." Shen Jie said quietly.

"?" Xiao Yao was confused: "Have you played before?"

"Who has never played such a famous game?" Shen Jie sneered.

"So, you know what I'm talking about?"

"Understand."

"So, listen to me," Xiao Yao stretched out his hand to hold Shen Jie's shoulders: "Honey, even if you are not so beautiful, rich, smart, gentle, and able to fight, I will still love you the same."

"……Um."

"Because you are the wife God has given me and it is my obligation to love you." Once again, Xiao Yao declared affectionately.

"No..." Shen Jie lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly. She thought for a while and then asked: "I just want to know, if Yunyun hadn't come thirty years ago, the two of us would have met on other occasions. Will you still like me and chase me?"

Xiao Yao was silent.

There was a trace of nervousness on Shen Jie's face.

Xiao Yao simulated it in his mind for a long time: "Is it possible to like you? I think it is possible, but it still depends on the depth and breadth of contact, as well as some factors of chance; as for whether I will pursue you... ...I can only say that this possibility cannot be completely ruled out, but based on the simulated situation..."

Shen Jie slapped the water with both hands angrily: "Damn it, I just want to hear you tell me that you will like me and chase me. Is it so difficult? Luo Li is so rude..."

Xiao Yao was stunned for a moment: "I want to be honest with you. If you were in our school, I would probably like you, but I wouldn't pursue you. Because you are too perfect, and the distance between you and me... is really It's too far. So I don't dare to chase you, and I don't dare to let you know that I like you. I might just look at you from a distance, and then care about every move related to you. I might post it in the school forum See how others discuss you; I may sit in the corner of the school auditorium, watching you on stage as the host, and then be fascinated; I may pass by the window at the door of the teaching building every day, look at your photo in the window, I may I will cut out your photo from the school newspaper next to your composition or the deeds of outstanding students, press it under the glass table at home, and occasionally kiss it secretly..."

"Hey, you are so perverted!" Shen Jie yelled.

"If we were not in the same class, we would never see each other. Then during the final exam, I happened to be placed in the same exam room as you. I would look back at you secretly." Xiao Yao continued to look at himself: " Maybe I will change the ID of a character to your name in an online game; maybe many years after graduation, I will still think of you, and I will tell my friends that my goddess in high school was named Shen Jie, although I didn’t follow her She said a few words, but I still like her very much. Maybe after I work, I will go to your blog, or QQ space, or other social networking sites to see your updates and see how you are doing now. Yes…but that’s all…”
To be continued...