"My mother," Shen Jie looked at Xiao Yao's eyes calmly, but there was a trace of sadness in her tone: "I just went to elementary school when I died. ”

Xiao Yao was taken aback and was at a loss: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ......"

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

"But......" Xiao Yao touched Shen Jie's wet sleeve with his hand: "When we chatted before, you also mentioned your mother to me, and you talked about ...... What's recent? ”

"I also call her mother, 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 was the vicious stepmother in those fairy tales, who opened his mouth and didn't say anything.

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

"Of course," Xiao Yao nodded, "If there is a chance, I will accompany you to see her, right?" ”

"Okay." The girl's hand rested on 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, 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 didn't seem to have any intention of answering, just said to herself:

"On that day, I asked Father Yu if I could help my mother to dedicate Mass to the deceased, but she was refused, saying that it could only be given to the faithful."

Xiao Yaoxin said that people might just do things according to the charter, but he responded: "Ah? Father Yu is sometimes stubborn like an old man. ”

"No," Shen Jie shook her head and said, "Brother Bo is only here according to the rules of the church, right?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yao said.

"But my mother is also a Christian, but she is Protestant," Shen Jie continued, "She is really a very good person, and she always tells me to give back to everyone who has kindness to me...... She had a great influence on me. ”

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

"So your mindset of thinking about others first in everything and wanting to meet the expectations of others was also influenced by your mother?" Xiao Yao asked her.

"Well, it probably matters." Shen Jie replied nonchalantly, paddling with her hands.

"That'...... If you are a Protestant, can you go to the priest......" Xiao Yao retrieved the pitiful religious knowledge in his brain, and then turned it through Yu Luying's memory.

"Uh-huh~" Shen Jie made a negative voice in her nose: "I have asked, and people say that they will not pray for the dead." ”

"Ah......?"

"Dog, you say," Shen Jie's head arched on Xiao Yao's body: "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 in a firm tone: "It must be." ”

Shen Jie smiled, sat up, and the water flowed down from the wet clothes: "Okay, it's not too early, can I help you rub your back?" ”

"Okay, thank you." Xiao Yao turned his back honestly and unceremoniously.

Shen Jie took a bathing ball, carefully applied the shower gel, and began to scratch Xiao Yao's back: "Dog, there is one thing 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 to ask questions in this tone, he felt that it was very distant, but he felt that he shouldn't dwell on this, so he only replied with one word: "Ask." ”

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

"Poof-" Xiao Yao's mouth was empty, but it was the first action he could think of.

Xiao Yao himself doesn't remember saying "I love you" to Shen Jie a few times, at first the girl replied "Well, I know" to perfunctory herself, but later the perfunctory way was greatly upgraded, upgraded to "Me too", which is much more comfortable.

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

However, take the initiative to ask, "Do you love me?" "It's so unusual.

It's as strange as when she said to herself, "You can't be sorry for me."

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

There was no way, Xiao Yao had to keep this posture with his back to him and pouting his buttocks, and replied honestly: "Love." ”

"Because of what?" Shen Jie's tone showed that she was asking the question seriously, not flirting.

"Does love need a reason?" Xiao Yao shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, I remembered, it's what you need." ”

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

How did you answer at the time? It's so old, I forgot.

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

"Because of what?" Shen Jie's tone was very light, but the strength in her hands increased.

"Because I think this kind of topic is what girls use to make things difficult for boys," Xiao Yao told her, "It's essentially the same as 'who you save first when your mother and I fall into the water.'" ”

"Then who will you save first if your mother and I fall into the water?" Shen Jie asked with a smile.

"Save you." Xiao Yao replied without hesitation.

You don't know how my mom did to me and what she did.

“SEE？ Answering questions isn't that hard either. So what do you love about me? Shen Jie didn't give up.

……

What do I love about you?

Love you pretty, then what if I meet a more beautiful one in the future.

Love you talented, gentle, kind, this, that, but such qualities will not be unique.

I love you for giving me a bath, I love you for being good to me, I love you for having money...... Even if I think the slightest bit like that, I can't say it.

This kind of problem is simply unsolvable, and it is a logical trap that belongs to women alone.

"Ahhh ”

"Nope." Shen Jie began to use the shower head to wash the shower gel on Xiao Yao's back - is the water temperature a little too high, hey?

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

"Gee, I just want to know if you like me as a person, or if I like me because I'm your future wife." Shen Jie said impatiently.

Xiao Yao knew it in his heart, it turned out that your intention was this.

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

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

"......" Xiao Yao closed his mouth tightly and fell silent.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it." Shen Jie pursed her lips and sat in the water in her skirt.

"Wife," Xiao Yao pondered for a long time and said slowly, "Do you remember?" The first time you rejected me on the phone, you asked me a question, and you said, if you were a chunky guy with dark skin and a big pie face, would I still be so happy? And said that I would despair for the rest of my life, do you remember? ”

"I don't remember," Shen Jie showed an embarrassed look on her face, but fortunately Xiao Yao couldn't see it: "What are you always remembering these for?" ”

"I didn't answer your question head-on at the time, but now I can give you the answer," Xiao Yao turned his face, looked at Shen Jie and said: "I read one when I was in elementary school, I have forgotten the name and plot, I only remember that it was a European medieval background, in which the male protagonist said such a sentence to the female protagonist-

"For you are the wife whom God has given me, and it is my duty to love you." Xiao Yao looked at Shen Jie's eyes and said.

"Uh......," Shen Jie said.

Although I had never believed in God, I loved this line so much, and I thought it was a beautiful and touching statement. Just like in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", the witch queen asked Li Xiaoyao and said, Li Xiaoyao, the mourning family asked you, do you really love Ling'er? Li Xiaoyao replied......"

"She's my wife, and of course I love her." Shen Jie said quietly.

“？” Xiao Yao was stunned: "Have you also played?" ”

"Who hasn't played such a famous game?" Shen Jie sneered.

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

"Yes."

"So, you listen to me," Xiao Yao reached out and pressed Shen Jie's shoulders: "Wife, even if you are not so beautiful, rich, smart, gentle, and able to fight, I will still love you the same." ”

“…… Well. ”

"For you are the wife whom God has given me, and it is my duty to love you." Again, Xiao Yao proclaimed affectionately.

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

Xiao Yao was silent.

Shen Jie's face showed a hint of nervousness.

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

Shen Jie slapped the water with her palms angrily: "Damn, I just want to hear you say that you will like me and chase me, is it so difficult?" Rory's rambling ......"

Xiao Yao was stunned for a moment: "I want to be honest with you." If you were in our school, I would have liked you, but I probably wouldn't have chased you. Because you are so perfect, the distance between you and me...... It's just too far. So I don't dare to chase you, and I don't dare to let you know that I like you, I may just look at you from afar, and then care about your every move. I might watch what other people talk about you in the school post bar; You might sit in the corner of your school auditorium, watch you be the host on stage, and then be fascinated; I may look at your photo in the window when I pass by the window at the entrance of the teaching building every day, and I may paste the school newspaper next to your essay, or next to the deeds of outstanding students, cut out your big sticker, press it under the glass table at home, and occasionally ......kiss it secretly."

"Oh, you're so perverted!" Shen Jie shouted.

"If we weren't in the same class, then we wouldn't normally see each other, and then during the final exam, I happened to be placed in the same exam room as you, and I would look back at you secretly;" Xiao Yao continued to think to himself: "Maybe I will take a character's ID into your name in an online game; Maybe many years after graduation, I will still think of you, I will tell my friends that my goddess in high school is called Shen Jie, although I haven't said a few words to her, but I still like her very much. Maybe after I get to work, I'll go to your blog, or QQ Zone, or some other social networking site to see your dynamics and see how you're doing...... But that's about it......"

"Dog......" Shen Jie looked a little moved.

"Shen Jie, I know that I am not worthy of you at all, follow me and let you be wronged. Ever since my parents divorced, I've been like a ...... In Yunyun's words, the salted fish lying flat is completely rotten. It is you, it is you now, who gives me the motivation to work hard, I want to become a better version of myself, so that I can be worthy of you, so that I can give you happiness......

"Whether you are my wife or not, as long as God lets me know you, I will always like you...... Xiao Yao's voice was a little choked.

Shen Jie blocked Xiao Yao's mouth and used her own.

Should be...... Cleared?

"Alright, okay, good." Xiao Yao stroked the girl who was snuggled on his shoulder like a cat: "I'll rub your back too, right?" ”

"Don't be so arrogant," Shen Jie raised her head and looked at him with crystal eyes: "The distance between us is not so far, really." Now that I'm helping you, I'm sure you'll be able to turn you into a very, very good boy — even better than you are now. ”

"Hmm!" Xiao Yao nodded vigorously.

……

"Shall I rub your back for you?" After a few minutes of snuggling and silence, Xiao Yao repeated it again.

"You're trying to get up to the wrong mind again?" Shen Jie deliberately sank her little face: "It wasn't enough just now?" ”

"It's never enough for you," Xiao Yao said softly, "But I really just want to help you rub your back now, don't you think it's very warm?" ”

Shen Jie bit her lower lip, lowered her head and muttered, "Don't you just want to see me......"

Xiao Yao innocently pointed to Shen Jie's long skirt, which had become a "see-through suit" because it was soaked: "Of course I want to see it, I want to see it-but I have already seen it now, okay?" ”

"You ——!" Shen Jie stomped her feet and stepped on the water, scratching her back: "Then you have to promise me-"

"I promise you, I'll only rub my back today." Xiao Yao interrupted her.

Shen Jie turned around hesitantly, and her right hand, which was trembling slightly because of nervousness, unbuttoned the first button under her neck.

-- Dividing line --

After the two of them took a shower, they were already exhausted.

Shen Jie drank and made Xiao Yao turn around, take off his underwear that was still dripping, change into the white silk pajamas he brought over, and climbed into bed.

"Dog, how long are you going to go?" Shen Jie leaned on the huge cat's head pillow and stretched out her hands to Xiao Yao: "Come here, I want you to sleep with me~~~"

"Wait a while," Xiao Yao smiled bitterly, "You won't let me hang your skirt, what will you wear tomorrow?" ”

"You didn't make it......" Shen Jie stuck out her tongue and rolled around the bed mischievously twice.

Alas...... It's hard to serve the eldest lady.

came out of the bathtub, Shen Jie climbed into bed directly to watch TV, Xiao Yao washed her underwear and underwear, washed her underwear and pantyhose, and the most difficult thing to wash was the long skirt - at first Shen Jie didn't let him wash it, saying that this skirt was sent to a special place to wash it before, for fear that Xiao Yao would wash it for her, but after Xiao Yao politely asked her whether she was going to go back naked or go back in wet clothes the next day, Shen Jie finally chose to believe Xiao Yao.

Yu Luying's laundry skills are really a must, Xiao Yao thought.

He knelt on the bay window, carefully fixed the "seventy or eighty thousand skirts" with seven or eight clothespins in the night breeze, closed the glass window, locked it, ran back to the bed on tiptoe, opened Shen Jie's quilt corner, and put the surrounding space without lying down, not shrinking with her.

"Xiao Yao." The girl with a hot body took the initiative and hugged the boy tightly.

"Hmm." The boy agreed.

"I love you too." The girl said.

“？？？” The boy seemed to have been struck by lightning, and his whole body stiffened.

This...... This? Which one is this?

"Ask me why?" Shen Jie poked Xiao Yao, who was stunned, into the waist.

"Why?" Xiao Yao obediently asked, according to her instructions.

"For you are the husband whom God has given me, and it is my duty to love you." The girl said proudly.

"Okay." The boy nodded vigorously in agreement.

(End of chapter)