As the day drew closer, the planned tasks were completed one by one. With three or four days left before the wedding, Li Long went to the County Seat to buy things and made a point of finding Gu Xiaoxia to ask her to take a few days off.
Gu Xiaoxia thought she only needed one day off for the customary return visit to her family. Work was busy just then. But Li Long insisted that she take at least five days off, and unable to win the argument, she agreed.
Gu Xiaoxia was young and had grown up without a mother. Although Liang Yuemei could offer a few words of advice, Gu Xiaoxia was still going to work at this point, which made some things difficult to explain clearly.
Besides, in the villagers' eyes, Gu Xiaoxia was a government employee, a cadre who worked in the County Seat. Surely she knew much more than ordinary people-including about such matters.
Having lived two lives, Li Long understood certain things, but it was difficult to spell them out to Gu Xiaoxia now, so he simply asked her to take leave.
Almost everyone in the village already knew Li Long was getting married. When he ran into children while out shopping or running errands, some would giggle and boldly ask him for wedding candy.
Li Long had experience with this. He carried some hard fruit candies in his pockets and would give a few to the more polite, sweet-talking children, spreading the wedding cheer.
Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia went to the photography studio together for their wedding photos. Gu Xiaoxia had already had her hair permed into a fashionable style at the hairdresser's. With her braids undone, she had an astonishing amount of hair, and the perm made her look much