"I don"t trust your taste. I"ll choose a good dress for you and it"s on me." Puja than dragged her to the shopping mall.
Xue Lin understood that her cla.s.smate had a wish to waste her money, so she got along with her. She looked around and saw the price tags. "Do I really have to spend fifty thousand RMB on a dress? What a waste!"
Puja noticed the dress Xue Lin was holding. It was a baby blue colored mermaid gown with silver design. "Oh, do you like it? I think it will suit you. Go and try it out."
"This isn"t a small size." Xue Lin said.
Puja told the saleswoman, "Give her the small size."
"This way, Mam." The saleswoman politely said. The two of them headed to another direction. After a while, Xue Lin came out wearing the dress. The saleswoman tied her hair like a woman.
Puja"s jaw dropped. "This gown looks good on you, Xiao Lin! You look like a woman."
Xue Lin asked blankly, "What did I look like before?"
"A high school girl." Puja giggled.
"You are just jealous of my youth." Xue Lin commented.
"Ahahaha!" Puja burst into laughter. She wished she could roll on the ground. The way Xue Lin said made it so funny.
When Puja bought the dress, Xue Lin thought, "Ah, how many meals could I have eaten with that money? Seriously, what a waste!"
The only reason she got along with Puja because she didn"t mean any harm. She just likes to show off her parents and husband"s wealth in front of everyone but she never looked down on anyone. Even if she did, she never showed it with her expression or behavior. And Xue Lin thinks, as long as a person doesn"t directly hurt or harm another person, is a good human being. That"s why she cannot dislike Puja. If she goes around and starts to dislike people for their every bad thing, she will never like anyone in this world. She might come to hate herself one day since she is also not perfect. A girl like Puja is very innocent and easy to be used by other greedy people.
Puja told her multiple times to come to the reunion and even gave her address and direction. After that, Xue Lin went back to her house. She was startled to see Ge Chen wearing an ap.r.o.n and said, "Welcome home, my wife." He looked very homely.
Xue Lin was startled. "I"m home, my husband. Did you cook again? Where is the cook?" Now she knew how it felt to be welcomed by her own spouse. She felt warmth spreading all over her heart.
"I let them have a day off. It"s not that they have to work every day." Ge Chen warmly smiled. His grandparents left and he couldn"t wait to be with her. Therefore, he kicked out the servants for a day.
Xue Lin said, "Do you need me to help you with work? I can do anything." She is very used to household ch.o.r.es. She had her own house after all.
"Everything is done. The servants worked in the morning before I told them to take the day off. Let"s go around the forest today." Ge Chen suggested.
Xue Lin liked the idea. "Sounds good. Let me take a bath first."
After lunch, the two of them went to the deck. There was a wooden dinghy boat. Ge Chen rowed the boat and Xue Lin looked around the woods. "There are lots of birds around here. I can hear them chirping everywhere."
"There are peac.o.c.ks as well." Ge Chen said.
"Oh, wow! I must look for them." Xue Lin took the binocular and tried to find peac.o.c.ks. She saw a few deer drinking the water from the lake. "There are deer too!"
Ge Chen chuckled seeing her so excited. "I didn"t think you would like animals."
Xue Lin replied, "I love animals because you know their characters. They won"t do anything that"s out of their character. They don"t deceive anyone by showing a good side at first and then show the bad side."
Ge Chen nodded. "You are right about that. They are so unlike us." He carefully looked at his wife. He pondered, "She didn"t mean me, did she?" Still, he didn"t have any guilty conscience. He knew that if he showed his true self from the very beginning, she would run away from him.
He suddenly remembered that she had a shopping bag with her. When she was having a bath, he checked that it was a gown. She already had enough gowns and they were more luxurious than this one. She is so thrifty. didn"t need to buy a gown unless… someone gave it to her. He asked, "Did you meet someone today?" He wished it wasn"t a man.
Xue Lin didn"t notice his expression and answered, "I met an old cla.s.smate from high school. She took me to a shopping mall and bought me a gown for the reunion. How did you know that I met someone?"