Chapter 67: My Ex-Boyfriends Dressed Up to Attend My Wedding
As Xue Yu and Mo Li walked back, Mo Li asked, “Did the head deacon ask you for anything in return?”
“In return?” Xue Yu didn’t understand.
Mo Li was uneasy. “The extreme faction is very strict. The conditions for either leaving or transferring to the regular faction are very harsh, and the quotas are very small. I’m worried that the head deacon let you transfer to the regular faction so easily because she wants something from you.”
Xue Yu: “That’s right. I don’t know if there’s a catch. I’ll investigate when I get back.”
“I don’t want to stay in the conservatives anymore,” Mo Li’s voice was heavy.
Xue Yu held his hand. “Don’t worry about what open-minded or conservative faction you’re in. As long as you’re on this island, you’re free. When we’ve completely built the island, we’ll never go back to the White Tower.”
“Okay.”
The two of them returned to the beach. Youke’en had already moved all the living supplies down.
Xue Yu took him to the camp and introduced him to the workers. “Everyone, this is a new leader sent from the upper echelons of the White Tower. His name is Youke’en. He’s a member of the naval combat team. From now on, he will be stationed here to build the island with us. Let’s give him a warm welcome!”
A sparse round of applause sounded.
Xue Yu then lowered the ship’s retractable gangway, and the trucks hidden in the lower hold drove out one by one. Finally, the parts of the small excavator were also transported out.
She had the workers rest first, while she and Youke’en were on the beach, assembling the excavator according to the instructions.
Youke’en and Mo Li had not met many times. He only knew that Mo Li was also one of Xue Yu’s ex-boyfriends.
While working, he glanced at Mo Li, who was cooking in the distance, and asked Xue Yu in a low voice, “Are Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li all your ex-boyfriends?”
Xue Yu was busy tightening a screw and replied casually, “Yes.”
Youke’en: “Don’t the three of them fight?”
“What are you thinking? I didn’t date them at the same time. I was with Zhou Siyan first, then after we broke up, I was with Feng Qizhou, and then after we broke up, I was with Mo Li.”
Youke’en: “And now? Are you all together?”
Xue Yu was calm. “I’m a conservative now.”
Youke’en: “Then among the three of them, who do you love the most?”
Xue Yu half-closed her eyes and looked at the water and sky in the distance. She really couldn’t say. There was not much point in talking about it. She had children now. No matter what happened, she had to take responsibility.
“There’s no love or not. They had my children. I have to be good to them.”
Youke’en asked again, “You’re only good to them because they had your children?”
“Even if they didn’t have my children, I would still be good to them,” Xue Yu could lift a tire that was almost as tall as her by herself. “Don’t ask about these things. Come on, connect the axle. We have to assemble this excavator today. We still have to build a road tomorrow.”
When it was time for dinner, Mo Li did not like to shout. He walked towards Xue Yu and only said when he got close, “Let’s go and eat.”
“You go first. Youke’en and I will go after we’ve installed the tires.”
Mo Li helped her fix the tires and asked softly, “Did you also get Youke’en pregnant?”
“No, how could I?”
In the evening, after getting Xue Yu’s permission, Youke’en went to play in the sea. His spirit body was an orca, but he had never been to the real sea before. Now he was completely overjoyed and followed Blueberry around after getting into the water.
Many of the workers were anxious and said they wanted to go back to the White Tower. Xue Yu had been chatting with them on the beach, vaguely revealing the bad things about the White Tower, saying that new Abominations had appeared in the White Tower, and that there were also strange mutants.
“The situation in the White Tower is getting worse and worse, which is why we need to urgently build a new safe base. After we’ve built this base, everyone will be a veteran, and we won’t have to worry about anything.”
Everyone nodded and temporarily believed Xue Yu’s words.
Xue Yu also understood that the workers were anxious because her spiritual power was not strong enough. Only when her spiritual power was strong enough to a certain extent could she unite everyone.
She had to think carefully about how to increase her spiritual power.
The methods she knew of to increase her spiritual power were as follows.
First, the growth of the children would give her a certain amount of spiritual power in return.
Second, Feng Qizhou could transmit spiritual power to her through breastfeeding.
Third, by strengthening her own training. Spiritual power and physical fitness were consistent. The stronger the physical fitness, the stronger the spiritual power.
The growth of the children could not be rushed. She couldn’t just live off her children.
She could train herself. She was not a lazy person. But to increase her spiritual power to the point where everyone around her relied on her, the difficulty was too great.
The shortcut of drinking milk was also not very feasible. Feng Qizhou could feed her. If she took the initiative to ask, Zhou Siyan and Mo Li would probably also be willing to contribute.
But she couldn’t just keep squeezing them dry. If she drained their spiritual power, they would also be in danger.
How on earth could she obtain huge spiritual power? Xue Yu thought of meteorite crystals.
Blueberry would find meteorite crystals from time to time. If she was lucky, she could even find a crystal core in the meteorite crystal.
Meteorite crystals were for supplementing the spiritual power of spirit bodies, and the crystal core was also a great supplement for the human body.
Xue Yu temporarily placed her hopes of increasing her spiritual power on finding meteorite crystals. She would have to have a good talk with Blueberry another day and go and find meteorite crystals together.
***
The sea was particularly quiet tonight. The moonlight was bright, and the starlight was brilliant. She wandered on the beach for a while and then went into Mo Li’s tent.
Mo Li was already lying down. His sleeping posture was very proper. He was always lying on his back. Even though he was showing, he still maintained the posture of lying on his back.
Xue Yu went over and lay down beside him, saying, “Mo Li, why don’t you try sleeping on your side? Otherwise, when your belly gets bigger, it won’t be good for your body to always lie flat.”
Mo Li didn’t move. “I think this is fine.”
“Oh, then as you wish. As long as you’re comfortable,” Xue Yu was used to sleeping on her side. She lay on her side, facing Mo Li, and admired his clean features in the darkness.
She stared at Mo Li for a long time and found that he had not been sleeping.
Until Mo Li himself spoke, “Why are you always looking at me?”
Xue Yu pursed her lips and smiled. “You’re handsome. Looking at you makes me feel comfortable.”
Mo Li’s voice was very soft. “I thought…” he only said half a sentence and then fell silent.
Xue Yu held his arm. “What did you think?”
Mo Li still didn’t speak.
Xue Yu racked her brains and seemed to understand. Mo Li had been lying flat on his back. Could it be that he was worried that she would take the opportunity to nibble on his pectoral muscles?
“Mo Li, don’t worry. That was an accident during the day. You can turn over. I won’t do that again.”
Mo Li slowly moved his body, adjusted his posture to face Xue Yu, and after some deliberation, as if it were hard to say, “Xue Yu, I don’t know if this will offend you. When you kissed me there today, I felt very good.”
He was even too shy to say the word “comfortable” and could only use “very good” instead.
He had grown up under the education of the conservatives and had decided from a young age that he would join the extreme sexual conservatives when he grew up. His body was for fighting, not for pleasure.
If it weren’t for the one-night stand with Xue Yu, he probably would never have had contact with sex in his life.
When he had relations with Xue Yu, he had only considered pleasing Xue Yu’s body and had never thought about himself.
Today, when Xue Yu had kissed him there, his mind had been split open by a white light. How could it be so sensitive, so comfortable? He had never known that a man’s this place could also tremble from being teased.
“It’s good that it’s good! As long as you feel good, I’m happy,” Xue Yu said.
Mo Li’s voice was hoarse. “Will you think I’m too promiscuous? But I’m not. I’m not that kind of person. I don’t want to pursue sex. I’m very afraid of being controlled by desire.”
As he spoke, Xue Yu had already opened his collar…
Mo Li gritted his teeth and held onto the thin blanket tightly. His other hand was pushing Xue Yu’s shoulder, his palm against her shoulder, but he couldn’t really push her away.
He closed his eyes, his lips almost bleeding from biting them. His chest tightened again and again. He vaguely felt that when Xue Yu was kissing his chest, she had also kissed his heart.
Xue Yu switched to the other side and sucked. Mo Li looked down slightly. He always felt that Xue Yu was like a hungry cub, and he had become the pacifier for her oral fixation period.
He had gained happiness and hoped that Xue Yu was as happy as he was. He stroked her back. “Xue Yu, are you happy?”
Xue Yu was still smacking her lips. “I’m happy. It’s delicious.”
Because he was a sniper, he couldn’t have too much muscle, which would affect his camouflage and stealth. Mo Li had always trained for lean muscles. Xue Yu had thought that lean muscles wouldn’t have much to offer, but she hadn’t expected that it would be even more interesting.
Xue Yu had her fill and then came up to kiss his Adam’s apple. “So, were you electrocuted?”
Mo Li: “A little. Not very serious.”
Xue Yu pressed her face against his and said, “Mo Li, I really like you.”
Mo Li took the initiative to kiss her. The two of them kissed in the tent for a long time.
***
Xue Yu stayed on the island for three days, rushing to make a new plan.
The main work now was to build a road, build a sewage treatment pool, and then cut the felled wood into planks to build wooden houses.
After making the work plan, Xue Yu handed the blueprint to Youke’en. “Youke’en, you stay here and work with everyone. I’ll go back first.”
“I also want to go back and attend your wedding,” Youke’en complained.
Xue Yu patted his shoulder. “What’s there to see in a fake wedding? I’ll just go back and go through the motions and then come back.”
Youke’en now obeyed Xue Yu’s every word and did not bargain with her, just saying, “Then when you come back, can you bring Xue Xiaohai over?”
“I’ll try my best. Alright,” Xue Yu thought this plan was feasible. The children were cooped up in their rooms all day. It was really pitiful.
After everything was arranged, Xue Yu said goodbye to the workers, saying that she was going back to the White Tower to transport supplies. Then she took Mo Li onto the ship and first transported the fine iron ore to the South Continent.
Time was tight. After unloading the goods, the two of them did not rest in the South Continent.
Xue Yu casually bought some food for Lu Sen at a stall at the port and then returned to the ship, setting sail back to the White Tower.
When she returned to the White Tower in the afternoon, it was the wedding that night.
Xue Yu had no clue about this wedding. The whole process was handled by Meng Wu and the conservatives.
The things she had left in the naval combat team’s dorm had all been moved to his apartment by Meng Wu. His apartment was in the residential area of the Manster Building. The room was decorated like a wedding room, with “囍”(double happiness) characters on it, and the bed sheets and quilt covers had all been changed to bright red.
Xue Yu looked around the living room and then the bedroom.
Meng Wu stood at the door with his arms crossed. “The bed sheets and quilt covers were a gift from Zhou Siyan. He’s quite kind.”
Xue Yu smiled but did not speak.
Meng Wu added, “I’ll sleep in the side bedroom in the future. You can sleep here in the master bedroom.”
“Why don’t you sleep in the master bedroom? I’m not picky. I can even sleep on the floor in the living room.”
“Even if it’s a fake marriage, we are still a couple in name. I should also be more considerate of you,” he placed his hand on his flat abdomen. “Besides, I’m already pregnant with your child.”
Xue Yu walked up to him. “That’s right. We have a baby now. I will also take care of you in the future.”
Meng Wu returned to the living room and sat down, chatting with her in a relaxed tone. “I’ve stopped taking all my antidepressants. I’m afraid they’ll be bad for the child.”
He picked up an orange from the coffee table and slowly peeled it. “I had a psychological check-up a few days ago. My condition has improved a lot. I guess it’s because of the baby.”
Xue Yu sat down beside him. “That’s great. You have to be happy so that the baby can grow up happily too.”
“I will.”
Meng Wu put the peeled orange in Xue Yu’s hand and then went to get tonight’s wedding clothes for her to see.
This was the first time Xue Yu had seen the wedding clothes of the White Tower. They were all black, just two sets of black uniforms with a purple flower on the chest, and no other colors.
“Is this a wedding or a funeral? It’s so gloomy,” Xue Yu touched the clothes and could only say that the fabric was quite good.
Meng Wu: “The wedding clothes of the conservatives are like this. If it were the open-minded faction, there would be more choices.”
Xue Yu took the clothes and held them up to herself. “Thank you for your hard work. I’ve been busy outside and haven’t been able to come back and help you.”
The corner of Meng Wu’s mouth curled up. “It’s no trouble. I’m quite happy to prepare these.”
Xue Yu and Meng Wu changed into their clothes and waited for seven in the evening to go to the church of the regular sexual conservatives for the ceremony.
She didn’t know if Zhou Siyan and the others would come to the wedding.
She sent a message in the group chat: I’m getting married tonight. Are you coming?
Feng Qizhou was the first to reply: I’m busy. I have to watch the children. The babies have been crying, and it’s making me want to cry too.
Zhou Siyan did not reply.
Mo Li replied with a small heart emoji.
Over here, after Feng Qizhou got off work, he dressed up exquisitely, even got a new hairstyle, and his leather shoes were polished to a shine. He was impeccably dressed.
He took both children to Zhou Siyan’s apartment. “If you’re not going, can you help me take care of Xiaobei and Xiaonan?”
Zhou Siyan was feeding Xue Xiaohai and didn’t even look at him. He said in a deep voice, “Didn’t you say you weren’t going?”
“I changed my mind.”
Feng Qizhou took the two children out of the box, placed them on the foam mat, and tidied their clothes. He then grabbed the two floating jellyfish and placed them in their arms respectively.
At the same time, he summoned his own arctic fox and instructed, “Cake, take good care of the babies. I’m going out tonight.”
Cake nodded, its fluffy tail wrapped around the two children.
Xiaobei and Xiaonan each held their bottles and crawled to Zhou Siyan’s side to watch Xue Xiaohai eat, staring intently—she can eat so much.
With someone watching, Xue Xiaohai ate even more enthusiastically. After swallowing the food in her mouth, she even opened her mouth wide and let out an “ah.”
Feng Qizhou also couldn’t help but laugh on the side. “This glutton is eating so deliciously.”
He touched Xue Xiaohai’s chubby face and sighed. “Big fatty, your mother is getting married tonight. You’ll have a stepfather in the future. A child with a stepfather is a pitiful child. What will you do in the future?”
Zhou Siyan squinted at him. “Are you annoying?”
Feng Qizhou held his two children on his lap. “Am I not telling the truth? No matter what, Xue Yu and Meng Wu are getting married. This is a fact.”
He kissed each of the children on the face. “But it seems even more exciting. In the future, I can go to Meng Wu’s apartment to date Xue Yu. It will be a different flavor.”
Zhou Siyan ignored him the whole time, completely focused on feeding Xue Xiaohai.
Only after Xue Xiaohai was full did he put away the bowl and chopsticks, wipe the child’s mouth, and take her to the bedroom to change into a new set of clothes. Only then did he bring her out and put her on the foam mat. “I’m going to the wedding. you take care of the child.”
“Didn’t you say you weren’t going?”
Zhou Siyan: “I never said that.”
Feng Qizhou was speechless for a moment. He couldn’t argue with that. When Xue Yu had asked in the group chat, Zhou Siyan had indeed not replied.
In the end, Zhou Siyan put up a safety fence around the foam mat in the living room and put all the children in there. At the same time, he also summoned his own spirit body, the black panther, and had the black panther take care of Xue Xiaohai.
After so much time of getting used to it, the spirit bodies were also quite good at taking care of the children.
Zhou Siyan and Feng Qizhou were completely at ease leaving the children to the spirit bodies to look after.
Zhou Siyan also went back to the bedroom to change his clothes. He also dressed up meticulously, exquisite from head to toe.
The two of them did not leave together, nor did they want to walk side by side. With a tacit understanding, they staggered their time and arrived at the church one after another.
Very few people got married in the White Tower. Even though the marriages of the open-minded faction were open, no one was willing to get married. The one-on-one, binding marriages of the conservatives were even rarer.
It was rare to have a wedding banquet to join in the fun. Many people came to watch and also to eat.
When Zhou Siyan arrived at the main door of the church, he saw the “wedding photo” displayed at the entrance. In the photo, Xue Yu and Meng Wu had serious expressions. The two of them didn’t look like they were getting married at all. There was a strong sense of strangeness.
Especially Xue Yu. She had probably been scared by the flash when the shutter was pressed, and she looked very dazed, much like a mugshot taken after being arrested and imprisoned.
The steps of the church had all been flattened and changed to a round table mode. Each table was filled with all kinds of food.
Zhou Siyan looked around and saw Feng Qizhou and Mo Li in the center.
Mo Li was also wearing a well-tailored suit for a rare occasion. To cover the curve of his protruding abdomen, he was also wearing a wide trench coat over the suit.
When Feng Qizhou saw Zhou Siyan come over, he whistled at him from a distance. “Sit here. We can just chat.”
This was a rare gathering. Everyone was chatting, and the topic was all about Xue Yu.
“Why does Xue Yu always do such shocking things?”
“That’s right. I heard she’s very horny. If she cheats after she gets married, won’t she be sentenced?”
“Why would Meng Wu agree to marry her? Could it be that he likes the feeling of being cheated on?”
“Sigh, I quite like Xue Yu. Why did she have to join the conservatives? If this marriage were an open marriage, I could be her mistress.”
“I also want to be her mistress. I like her very much. Every time I get close to her, I have a feeling that I want to have a baby. It’s so strange…”
The topics of conversation among the open-minded faction were very broad.
Zhou Siyan couldn’t listen anymore and glanced at those people. After all, the authority of the Director of the Security Division was still there. Sensing his low pressure, the voices of that group of people became much smaller.
At exactly seven o’clock, Xue Yu and Meng Wu appeared from the back door.
Under the guidance of the emcee, the two of them, dressed in black, came to the center of the stage. They didn’t seem to be very familiar with each other.
The whole process was also very simple.
The emcee had a straight face and read from the script word by word. It didn’t sound like he was hosting a wedding ceremony, but more like he was reading a verdict.
“The two newlyweds, please listen carefully to my next words.”
“The form of your marriage is a one-on-one relationship of the regular sexual conservatives. If there is spiritual infidelity, you will be sentenced to five months or more in prison. The sentence will increase according to the number of people you cheated with. Are you two willing?”
Xue Yu lowered her head and said, “I am willing.”
Meng Wu also said, “I am also willing.”
The emcee read, “Next is physical infidelity. If you hold hands with someone other than your partner, you will be sentenced to one year in prison. If you kiss someone other than your partner, you will be sentenced to two years. If you have relations with someone other than your partner, you will be sentenced to three to ten years in prison.”
“Can the two newlyweds do it?”
Xue Yu and Meng Wu said one after another, “We can.”
The emcee: “If one party cheats and the other party does not report it but helps to conceal the truth of the infidelity, the couple will be sentenced to three years in prison. Are the two newlyweds still willing to get married?”
Xue Yu and Meng Wu: “We are.”
The emcee closed the script in his hand heavily. “Alright, congratulations to the two of you on becoming husband and wife. Please always remember your responsibilities in the future.”
The emcee’s way of speaking was too oppressive, and the whole venue was decorated in black. Xue Yu’s heart was heavy.
She thought to herself, It’s a good thing my marriage partner is Meng Wu, not Zhou Siyan and the others.
If she had to go through such a “dark” wedding with Zhou Siyan and the others, she would really be filled with guilt.
She and Meng Wu came down from the stage and ate with everyone.
Feng Qizhou beckoned to her, signaling her to come over.
Xue Yu walked over and sat down. Meng Wu also pulled out a chair and sat down beside her.
Feng Qizhou clinked glasses with Xue Yu and said sarcastically, “Xue Yu, I wish you a happy marriage.”
“Thank you. Everyone, eat and drink well,” Xue Yu tried to make the atmosphere as relaxed as possible.
She carefully observed Zhou Siyan, Feng Qizhou, and Mo Li. They were really dressed up.
Zhou Siyan even had a black earring on, and his suit was shimmering with pearls.
Feng Qizhou, needless to say, looked like he had just gotten a new hairstyle at the salon and had also sprayed on some perfume. The woody agarwood was particularly seductive.
Mo Li was clean and fresh, and also had a different flavor.
The wedding clothes of the conservatives were dark and simple. In contrast to these three, Meng Wu seemed a little dim. Even his usual flamboyant and roguish air was now listless.
“For my wedding, you guys are quite dressed up,” Meng Wu took a sip of water, his tongue pushing against his cheek, his eyes unreadable.
Feng Qizhou retorted without reservation, “After all, Xue Yu is our ex-girlfriend. We have to come and support her, don’t we?”
Xue Yu buried her head in her food, not participating in any topic. She would occasionally wink at Mo Li, flirting with her eyes.
Mo Li winked back at her, but Xue Yu couldn’t understand what he meant. She thought that Mo Li was too innocent and didn’t know how to flirt, so she continued to wink at him.
Feng Qizhou coughed hard, as if to remind her of something.
Xue Yu still didn’t understand and even threw him a flirtatious look.
Zhou Siyan slammed the table hard. Xue Yu thought he was jealous and smiled at him, her eyes full of affection.
Suddenly, she was held down by two strong hands and handcuffed. “Xue Yu, you’ve already had a spiritual affair at your wedding. Please cooperate with the investigation!”
The two conservative supervisors had dark faces and stared at her.