Though it’s a small village, it has hundreds of people.
Xu Lin drove for a while longer.
From afar, Xu Lin saw so flat-roofed rural buildings.
"Brother-in-law, that’s our village!"
An’an pointed at the houses ahead and said.
"An’an, are you okay in the car?"
"I’m fine!"
"How about Suisui?"
"Suisui is fine!"
"That’s good."
A few more minutes passed.
Xu Lin’s car finally entered the village.
He glanced around and saw all flat-roofed buildings, no tile-roofed houses anymore. The road even had streetlights; the construction seed pretty good.
"There are quite a few cars over there, should I park there?"
Xu Lin saw a large playground, right behind the village’s small shop, with eight cars parked inside.
Ning Haifeng: "Yes, people in our village basically park here."
"Okay, I’ll drive over there first."
Ning Haifeng directed Xu Lin on the way.
A few minutes later, Xu Lin had parked the car.
"We’re ho!"
The two children were very happy, jumping out the mont the car door opened, breathing in the fresh air.
"Easy now!"
Ning Yuhuan watched them bouncing around and quickly reminded them.
Xu Lin got out of the car as well, opened the trunk to let everyone take their things.
He didn’t have much stuff.
Xu Lin curiously examined the village.
The village was surrounded by mountains, very tranquil. Opposite the village were vast farmlands; this season, spring plowing hadn’t started, so the fields lay empty.
"Brother-in-law, let’s go ho!"
Just then, An’an ca over, tugging Xu Lin’s pant leg.
"Alright, let’s go ho!"
Xu Lin picked her up, and Suisui ca over too, so Xu Lin lifted him up as well, holding one in each arm.
"Where is our house?"
"There!"
An’an and Suisui both pointed to a three-and-a-half-story house.
Ning Haifeng laughed, "Lin, that house is our ho."
"Are Grandpa and Grandma at ho?"
Xu Lin asked.
"They’re ho!"
Then Xu Lin followed Ning Haifeng and the group towards the house.
They walked past the small shop.
At the shop, many people were gathered, all curious about this new face of Xu Lin.
"Haifeng, who’s this?"
A woman said in the local dialect.
Of course, rural areas like this all spoke the local dialect.
Xu Lin knew that speaking Mandarin here would make him be seen as an outsider and unable to blend in with the local village people.
So, Xu Lin proactively used dialect to chat, letting Ning Haifeng and them go ahead.
Xu Lin’s dialect leaned towards the Guang Mansion dialect; here, the dialect was more varied. Dialects differed even across different regions of a city, but as long as it was dialect, it’s fine; at least middle-aged and elderly people understood.
At the small shop were more than twenty people, the so-called rural information station, all gathered here.
It wouldn’t take a day for news of Xu Lin’s arrival to spread throughout the village; everyone would know the son-in-law of Ning Haifeng had arrived.
"Young man, where are you from?"
Almost everyone asked Xu Lin, and Xu Lin answered a few questions.
Two n even offered him cigarettes, and Xu Lin accepted them.
Xu Lin understood that integrating into local rural life required knowing so customs.
For instance, accepting a cigarette when offered.
Whether to smoke it was another matter, and being taciturn in rural areas wasn’t good.
Xu Lin knew how to be adaptable, so at the small shop, he stayed for about ten minutes, getting familiar with the information bureau crowd. They knew he was Ning Yuhuan’s boyfriend, from a certain eastern province, studying in the big city Jiangdu, at the sa university as Ning Yuhuan.
From chatting with the information bureau crowd, he learned Ning Yuhuan had done the best in the village’s exams. There were two others with first-tier degrees, six with second-tier degrees, several with diplomas.
After staying at the shop for ten minutes, Xu Lin had already created a smart and clever image for the people, initially integrating into rural life.
Actually, Xu Lin felt the people here were quite nice.
He held Suisui and An’an, and the people in the shop played with them. The shopkeeper also gave them snacks, chatting felt comfortable.
The crowd was just curious about the appearance of this new face, Xu Lin.
"Do you two understand dialect?"
Xu Lin said goodbye to the people at the small shop and left with the two kids.
"Brother-in-law, I can understand!"
"I can understand too!"
"How about speaking the dialect?"
They both shook their heads, indicating they couldn’t speak the dialect.
"Fine, let’s go ho!"
Xu Lin left the small shop, headed along a straight concrete road. Walking about fifty or sixty ters, it was Ning Yuhuan’s house, actually quite close.
Ning Yuhuan was already waiting for them at the door.
Ning Yuhuan stood there, graceful and elegant, giving off an impression of gentleness.
She seed out of place in the rural area.
Girls from rural areas rarely had such fair skin, but Ning Yuhuan’s skin was very white, and she was exceptionally beautiful, with great temperant.
Indeed, she was unlike a girl from a rural area.
That was Xu Lin’s thought.
Actually, he didn’t know that Ning Yuhuan thought similarly about him.
Ning Yuhuan’s eyes sparkled, watching Xu Lin approach.
For a mont, Ning Yuhuan felt sowhat dazed.
"The young master should et the painting; only I know the way through—Su Shi."
Xu Lin’s appearance here, his look, and temperant didn’t fit the rural setting, feeling like a noble young man from a grand household arriving.
However, Xu Lin could always make Ning Yuhuan laugh.
Just as Xu Lin walked over, looking serious; suddenly, Xu Lin said, "Oops! Stepped on chicken poop!"
Ning Yuhuan couldn’t hold back, bursting into laughter.
"Actually, I was joking, didn’t step on it."
Xu Lin laughed.
"I knew that!"
"What were you thinking just now?" Xu Lin asked curiously.
"Thinking about you!"
"Too cheesy, let’s be more normal."
"Humph!"
Ning Yuhuan reached out, "Suisui, An’an, let sister hold you!"
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