1RomanceEB Chapter 1845 - 1014: Matters of Ignorance
Chapter 1845 - 1014: Matters of Ignorance
Hu Miao Town.
The Evergreen Liquid business car stopped at the village entrance, Aunt Gu got off with a big bag in hand.
Xue Yuantong carried a small bag, breathing in the long-lost air, she nostalgically said, "Xue Xiaozhuang, I’m back again!"
Xue Chuchu stood beside her, looking at this familiar place, a hint of nostalgia flashed in her eyes.
Since high school, when they were studying in the urban area, her visits became less frequent, especially after buying a bungalow near the river dam, the concept of home seemed to have been replaced.
Aunt Gu led the two girls towards the nearby tile-roofed house.
Xue Yuantong curiously looked around, her voice crisp: "Jiang Ning told me, once we start working, we’ll become like New Year beasts, the firecrackers go off and I arrive, the firecrackers finish and I leave."
Aunt Gu glanced at her daughter, initially wanting to disdain her, but then remembered it was Jiang Ning’s words and said, "Makes sense."
"I returned to the village recently and saw Jiaxin’s family’s little kid, he didn’t even recognize me." Aunt Gu said.
Xue Yuantong said, "When I was young, I knew which family even the dogs belonged to!"
She felt a bit emotional, could there really be kids in this village who don’t recognize the name Tongtong?
At this moment, they ran into two kids playing Pokémon cards by the roadside, and Xue Yuantong asked, "Do you know who I am?"
One of the little boys shouted, "You’re Xue Yuantong, why did you come back?"
Xue Yuantong was puzzled, "You look unfamiliar, how do you know me?"
Beside him, a little girl shouted, "You’re just as short as before! You haven’t changed at all!"
Xue Yuantong fell silent.
Xue Chuchu pursed her lips, almost wanting to laugh.
The little girl shouted again, "Sister Chu Chu, you’re home too!"
The little boy cheered, "Sister Chu Chu is so pretty, I want to study hard and make it to the urban area!"
Xue Yuantong sinisterly said, "Then you better study hard, or you’ll be sent off to work!"
After cursing the little kids, Xue Yuantong and her mom went to visit Aunt Hua, their former neighbor.
Aunt Hua was already waiting at the door, a little girl named Xiao You by her side.
"Sister Gu, Tongtong, Chuchu, have lunch at my place today, we just slaughtered a rooster!" Aunt Hua said hospitality, before Sister Gu moved away, both families were very close.
"Sister Tongtong, Sister Chu Chu." Xiao You greeted them.
Aunt Gu chatted for a bit, put down her things, borrowed Aunt Hua’s electric bike, and took Tongtong and Chuchu to the fields to visit the grave.
Xue Yuantong’s expression wasn’t heavy, after all, she stubbornly believed that people in heaven surely wanted to see her happy face.
Xue Chuchu looked at the KFC bag in Tongtong’s hand, feeling strange emotions all at once.
Aunt Gu rode for two kilometers on the path by the fields, then parked the electric bike by the roadside. The place was a bit desolate, the fields seemed untended, and flowers bloomed everywhere, colorful and vibrant.
Xue Chuchu caught a faint scent, she looked at a plant and softly said, "Magnolia."
Xue Yuantong thought of yesterday’s flower viewing with Jiang Ning, so she asked, "Chuchu, do you know what variety of Magnolia this is?"
Xue Chuchu, being somewhat talented, knew Purple Magnolia and Yellow Magnolia, but the Magnolia before them was pure white as jade, the answer being self-evident: "White Magnolia."
"Wrong!"
"Jiang Ning told me yesterday, it’s actually Spring Magnolia!"
Xue Chuchu frowned, "Hmm?"
Xue Yuantong confidently explained, "White Magnolia is grand, with a diameter of over ten centimeters, but Spring Magnolia is much smaller, only seven or eight centimeters."
"Look, isn’t it?"
Xue Chuchu compared with the Magnolia flowers she saw on campus, indeed there was a difference: "Alright."
Xue Yuantong saw Chuchu concede and continued, "Jiang Ning also shared his viewpoint with me, Magnolia, looks like jade and has the fragrance of orchids, hence named Magnolia."
"The notion of ’a jade tree facing the wind’ indicates there isn’t a real jade tree, in a sense, Magnolia counts as a jade tree."
Xue Yuantong chattered non-stop, as if she became a mini literary girl.
Xue Chuchu felt her position threatened, which wasn’t great.
She pondered for two seconds, then suddenly asked, "Jiang Ning told you so much, is he a jade tree facing the wind in your heart?"
Xue Yuantong felt embarrassed, instinctively wanting to demean: "He’s not, he’s so ugly!"
But as she spoke, she was reluctant to demean Jiang Ning.
Some people, become so important that they don’t even want to hear bad words about them.
So Xue Yuantong forcefully said, "I think Jiang Ning is the most handsome!"
Aunt Gu turned back and looked at her daughter, sighing quietly.
Jiang Ning is fine, but look in the mirror yourself, Tongtong!
Aunt Gu took a few more steps forward, finally stopping in front of the small grave mound, she didn’t speak for a while.
Until Xue Yuantong arrived with a bag of KFC.
Xue Yuantong squatted in front of the grave, she could only see a mound of dirt, couldn’t see the figure of her childhood no matter how she looked.
Flames ignited from the yellow paper pile, heating the surroundings, while Xue Yuantong’s heart felt empty and cold.
"I brought my daughter to see you," Aunt Gu added paper money to the fire pile.
Tongtong huddled next to her mom, learning to add paper money to the fire pile.
Aunt Gu stared at the fire pile, she remembered every time they burned fire in the past, the fire pile remained silent, not responding to the mother and daughter.
Did it dare not respond?
But today something unexpected happened, the smoke drifted towards them and only them.
Xue Yuantong’s face was flushed red by the firelight, she suddenly whispered, "Dad, are you blaming me for not visiting me in my dreams..."
"Is it because I ate everything delicious?"
Yesterday, her mom told her, when she was young, her dad went to the urban area for business, splitting the little money he had for buying vegetable seeds, to buy her a hamburger and fries meal, which she ate clean, including squeezing out all the ketchup to finish.
Her dad boasted when he returned home that his daughter could eat well, and would definitely grow tall in the future.
"Dad, don’t be mad, today I bought you a big one!" Xue Yuantong pulled out a giant hamburger, placing it on the grave.
The smoke drifted eagerly, exceptionally hurried, seemingly trying to approach, making the mother and daughter squint slightly.
Xue Yuantong did not dodge, she solemnly said, "Dad, since you say I’m tall, then I wish I grow to be 1.8 meters tall! No, 1.85 meters, taller than Jiang Ning! "
Aunt Gu heard this and laughed, scolding, "1.85 meters, even when your dad was alive, he wasn’t 1.85 meters, you still expect him to help you now?"
Xue Yuantong chuckled, and facing the burning fire, she said Jiang Ning is her best friend, who treats her to delicious food every day...
...
Urban area.
Jiang Ning was being treated to delicious food by the twins.
Xiangtianfu is a Sichuan-style hot pot restaurant discovered by Chen Siyu’s mom, who can’t cook but is great at finding good food. Mother Chen recommended this place to her daughter for a better life and Chen Siyu invited Jiang Ning for a meal.
When Jiang Ning heard Chen Siyu’s words, he couldn’t distinguish whether it was Mrs. Chen treating him or the twins.
But Jiang Ning did not bother to figure it out; he only knew the people in front of him were the young twins.
Chen Siyu, sipping tea, hurriedly said, "Silly Fufu is simply too slow!"
Sister Chen Siqing said beside her, "Too slow~"
Chen Siyu was very confident in her intelligence, she said generously, "Forget it, I’ve already called her Silly Fufu, so don’t have any expectations of her."
Chen Siqing: "Generous~"
While speaking, the phone screen on the dining table lit up. Chen Siyu glanced at it and exclaimed, "Silly Fufu actually got lost!"
Chen Siqing: "Pick her up~"
Upon hearing this, Chen Siyu immediately stood up from the dining table and set off: "The dishes are already ordered, I’ll go myself."
She took just two steps and suddenly turned back: "Jiang Ning, by the way, you can’t bully my sister!"
Chen Siqing was unhappy; she is the older sister, how could she be bullied?
Jiang Ning pinched the cup, smiling, "Go ahead, relax. Even if the building collapses, I won’t let her miss a piece of meat."
Chen Siyu thought it over and earnestly instructed, "Not even one extra piece."
Jiang Ning: "..."
Chen Siyu added, "Not one extra, then one less piece is even worse!"
After saying that, Chen Siyu gave her sister a look before leaving at ease.
So, only Jiang Ning and Chen Siqing were left at the table.
Although Chen Siqing often secretly switched shifts with her sister, and although they often studied literature works together, at this moment facing Jiang Ning, she was still a little embarrassed.
Her sister makes her lose face too much!
Jiang Ning picked up the kettle, "Want some tea?"
Chen Siqing: "Ah? Yes."
Jiang Ning poured her some tea and continued to leisurely wait, watching the guests coming and going on the Phoenix Avenue outside the window.
During the Clear and Bright festival in the past, he was alone and went through the streets to eat Shaxian.
Life is much better now.
"My sister sometimes... acts, but she doesn’t mean any harm," Chen Siqing said.
"Uh-huh, I know," Jiang Ning replied.
"Know what about her?"
"Know she doesn’t mean any harm," Jiang Ning said, "What about you, do you mean any harm?"
"Of course not."
Chen Siyu, in some aspects, is still more excellent than Tang Fu; in less than ten minutes, she led a long-legged girl into the hot pot restaurant, whose tall figure caught Tang Fu’s eyes.
Jiang Ning expanded his Divine Sense and slightly scanned Tang Fu’s physique, realizing she seemed to have ’grown stronger’ in terms of athletics.
Perhaps after the sports meet at the end of the month, her name would no longer be limited to a small Fourth Middle School.
With her physical fitness, future development seems likely, she could leave a mark in the sports arena, why was she unknown in the past life?
Did she really die once?
Jiang Ning tried to recall, but the past memories were indeed fragmented, unable to piece together.
Though Tang Fu’s legs were impressively long, her voice was softly gentle, "Jiang Ning, it’s been ages since we met. You were so cool at the zoo last time!"
Jiang Ning: "Have a seat."
Tang Fu naturally sat beside Jiang Ning, after all, the opposite was Chen Siqing, twins have to stick together.
Chen Siyu secretly thought: ’Rash decision!’
However, it was too late now.
After sitting down, the three girls looked at each other and then at Jiang Ning, the atmosphere was exceptionally intelligent.
After all, their IQs weren’t high, not hoping they’d say anything proper.
Jiang Ning quietly admired the three, not teasing, fearing Chen Siyu would feel too embarrassed to hang herself.
Today is a holiday, the shop had quite some customers, whether Tang Fu or the twins, they easily caught others’ attention, with guests occasionally glancing their way, looking at Jiang Ning with envy.
This is something Jiang Ning and Tongtong couldn’t experience when eating.
Jiang Ning’s Divine Sense swept by the restaurant’s back door and surprisingly found a familiar figure, their classmates Zhang Chi and Han Wen Nuan were there, rather coincidentally.
He retracted his Divine Sense, discovering the three fools were still staring wide-eyed without starting a topic.
At this point, a waiter arrived with the Yuanyang pot.
The hot pot was placed on the induction cooker, and Chen Siyu felt she couldn’t remain this dumb anymore, she actively sought a topic:
"Why do you think the Yuanyang pot is shaped like an S? Wouldn’t making it linear be more convenient?"
Jiang Ning initially wanted to speak up, to slightly explain the reason.
Unexpectedly, sister Chen Siqing was very supportive, considering, "Because Yuanyang pot originated in Chengdu, maybe they have some considerations there?"
Tang Fu sipping tea, her eyes flickered with a light of wisdom.
Jiang Ning closed his mouth.
Tang Fu pointed at the Yuanyang pot and replied, "Because this way, each side can hold more."