Bingdis, with a bamboo stick still in her mouth, spoke to me as casually as if we were discussing the weather, but what she said was like a thunderclap: "Shall we get married?"
My first reaction was... no reaction, because it was too much information to process! I stood there dumbfounded, with only a few words rolling in my mind: Let's get married... Let's get married... Let's get married... Just as these words were crazily scrolling in my brain, Bingdis poked me with the bamboo stick to snap me out of it, and I blurted out: "Let's get married."
"Oh, you agreed? Okay, I'll go tell my dad." Bingdis nodded satisfactorily, clapped her hands, and was about to stand up. That's when I finally snapped out of my thunderstruck daze, quickly grabbing her hand: "Wait a minute!! What did you just say?!"
