Chapter 348: Chapter 344: Confirmed: The Two Are Dating

The wedding banquet was a lively and impressive affair.

This marked the completion of the ceremony.

After the meal, the guests dispersed.

On their way home, people were still talking about Leng Yuan’s uncle.

The more they talked, the more they marveled. Leng Yuan’s future was probably going to be very different now.

Listening from the side, Yun Hao couldn’t help but clench his fists.

Beside him, Hu Ziqiang nudged Yun Hao’s shoulder with his own.

"Who would’ve thought? I never realized Leng Yuan had such a powerful uncle. I’ve never heard a thing about him before. Now, Leng Yuan’s life is going to change!"

How exactly it would change, no one knew for sure.

But everyone knew that with such an influential uncle, finding a good job would be a piece of cake.

Yun Hao’s fists clenched and unclenched. He pursed his thin lips, his expression darkening.

"So what if he has a powerful uncle? If he doesn’t have any ability of his own, he won’t be able to hold onto a good position even if one is handed to him."

With that, Yun Hao headed straight back to the dormitory.

Hu Ziqiang was left speechless.

’I don’t think I said anything wrong,’ he thought. ’Why’d he suddenly get so angry?’

Scratching his head, he turned around and was startled to see Li Hongmei staring intently at him.

Li Hongmei had watched Yun Hao go into the dormitory. Catching Hu Ziqiang’s fixed gaze in her peripheral vision, she couldn’t help but look back at him.

Their eyes met, but neither of them spoke.

The other educated youths standing around looked at the two of them, then silently returned to their dorms.

This confirmed it for them: the two were definitely dating.

In just a moment, the courtyard was empty.

But the two of them still hadn’t moved.

After a long moment, Hu Ziqiang finally let out an awkward laugh. "I’m heading back to the dorm."

Li Hongmei nodded.

She had wanted to ask Hu Ziqiang to pass on a few words of comfort to Yun Hao for her.

But she was afraid Hu Ziqiang would misunderstand and think she was interested in him instead.

Torn by this dilemma, she hadn’t said a word.

Hu Ziqiang felt even more helpless. He wanted to clear things up with Li Hongmei, but looking at this girl who seemed so infatuated with him, he just couldn’t bring himself to say the words. In the end, he chose to run away from it.

He rushed into the dormitory and flopped onto his bunk with a sigh.

’Why can’t I just be a little more mediocre?’ he lamented. ’Then I wouldn’t have to break her heart.’

The other men in the dorm were speechless.

’After all that, he still claims they aren’t dating? He must think we’re idiots.’

Seeing that everyone else had gone inside, Li Hongmei returned to her dorm as well.

The women in her dorm wanted to ask about her and Hu Ziqiang, but remembering they weren’t on good terms with Li Hongmei, they held their tongues.

「At Leng Yuan’s house.」

Once the guests had left, Aunt Leng and Third Aunt Leng washed the dishes and wiped the tables clean. Then, they had Leng Qiushou and his two younger brothers return the borrowed items to their owners.

Chen JianShe and Lu Yuanbin stood by, waiting to help, but to their surprise, they couldn’t get a single task before Leng Qiushou and his two brothers took care of everything.

Chen JianShe was at a loss for words.

Lu Yuanbin had only made a token gesture of offering to help anyway. Seeing how eager they were to work, he was perfectly happy to let them do everything.

’Shameless suck-ups like them?’ he thought. ’It’d be a waste not to use them.’

Xu Chongfeng had already gone home, but Xu Chongshan stayed behind to help. However, he had barely done anything before the tasks were snatched away from him too.

He was speechless.

’It’s not like it’s some great prize,’ he thought. ’What’s everyone fighting over chores for?’

Seeing that the courtyard was clean and there was nothing left for him to do, he decided it was time for him to leave too.

Gu Jiaojiao called out to him, stopping him. She packed some pieces of chicken into a bowl from the Xu Family and handed it to him.

She had specially picked out the pieces inside; they were all good cuts of meat. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Xu Chongshan quickly waved his hands in refusal.

"No, I can’t. I can’t possibly take this."

’It’s one thing to attend the feast,’ he thought. ’But you can’t just take food home with you, too.’

Gu Jiaojiao had already guessed Xu Chongshan would refuse. "This isn’t for you," she said. "It’s for Sister-in-law Fangfang. She couldn’t come because of her pregnancy, but we’re good friends. She should at least have a taste of my wedding feast."

"And for your mother, too. She didn’t come either, so please take this back for them!"

Once she said that, Xu Chongshan found it truly difficult to refuse.

He could only thank her awkwardly before leaving with the bowl.