Chapter 56

    Having finished breakfast, the two went downstairs together, greeted the receptionist, and then walked out hand in hand.

    Their destination today was a very famous market in the city, held once at the end of each month. It was very lively, and they just happened to catch it. Since they were going to a crowded place, Ruan Shengyi thought for a moment and decided not to drive. She naturally took Xiao Wenyu’s hand and strolled towards the market.

    Xiao Wenyu suddenly asked, “When we have the energy later, do you want to go further west? Let’s go see the Grand Bazaar? The Northwest is so vast, I feel like there are so many things to see.”

    Ruan Shengyi fell back half a step, gently swinging their arms, and said leisurely, “Xiao Wenyu, when you were in Yecheng, did you ever go a little further east to see the sea?”

    “I did. You want to see the sea? We can. The sea is very, very gentle.”

    Ruan Shengyi smiled.

    Over the years, she had heard so many theories about the ocean being mysterious and dangerous. Some said the ocean was magnificent and vast, but rarely did anyone praise its gentleness.

    It really is that the scenery is viewed through the heart. With Xiao Wenyu’s personality, it’s natural that she would feel the ocean is extremely gentle, just like herself, accepting and embracing everything she sees.

    That’s wonderful.

    It’s wonderful that she’s willing to accept and tolerate someone as eccentric as her.

    Ruan Shengyi thought, scratching Xiao Wenyu’s palm.

    Her hand was immediately held tighter, and the woman turned back, standing in front of her, looking puzzled. “You studied in Yecheng for so many days last time, didn’t you see the sea?”

    As soon as the words fell, some unpleasant memories Flowed out.

    Bringing up the past at this moment, especially those two days, made Ruan Shengyi’s stomach clench faintly, aching.

    Xiao Wenyu couldn’t possibly not know about that time. As clever as she was, she must have figured out the whole story after hearing the story. Yet, she was still gently poking at her here, probing her.

    Ruan Shengyi understood the purpose of her doing this. It wasn’t to make her lose face and admit her mistake or anything, but to hope that she could touch that scar herself and see if she could slowly untie the knot in her heart.

    She had thought about this before, wanting to help Xiao Wenyu in this way, but she had rejected it herself. Now, Xiao Wenyu was thinking the same thing as her.

    Ruan Shengyi’s face was a little pale, but she still tugged at the corners of her lips, trying to say, “I was worried about that photo…”

    Her lips were even whiter.

    Xiao Wenyu felt a pang of heartache and wanted to raise her hand to stop her, but she was held back.

    Through a layer of lenses, Ruan Shengyi herself noticed the flickering and fluctuation in her eyes. After taking a deep breath, she said, “That photo was very popular. I was afraid that if I went out, I would be noticed, so I didn’t go to see the sea.”

    Finally, she whispered, “I regret it a little, what should I do, Teacher Xiao?”

    Xiao Wenyu suppressed the heat deep in her eyes and rubbed Ruan Shengyi’s head, saying softly, “How about I buy you flowers as compensation?”

    “Not enough.”

    Xiao Wenyu raised her eyebrows slightly, her eyes conveying a sentence—

    How dare you refuse what your girlfriend offers?

    Heavens, girlfriend?!

    Ruan Shengyi was startled by her own thought and stumbled forward half a step, hugging Xiao Wenyu, who was secretly exuding doubt.

    She liked this action so much. It was gentle and affectionate, and hugging in the street wouldn’t be considered strange.

    Ruan Shengyi decided to make this action her top1.

    Almost at the same time, Xiao Wenyu also hugged her, playfully complaining, “You’re going to hang on me all morning? Heavens, am I pregnant with twins?”

    Despite her words, the corners of her lips didn’t fall, and the hand around her waist didn’t move back, letting this person take an inch.

    She didn’t really take an inch, or even nuzzle her, just leaning against her, complaining slightly, “The treatment method is too Inspire, Teacher Xiao, my heart can’t take it.”

    “Then I’ll buy you two flowers.”

    “Don’t want.”

    “Hmm?”

    Ruan Shengyi softened her voice again, “Not as compensation, as a gift.”

    She bit her tongue, “It’s…a girlfriend’s…gift, not a gift brought about by guilt.”

    Girlfriend.

    Ew!

    These three words were so Sweet.

    Ruan Shengyi shuddered in her heart, but the other person pinched the back of her neck, shuddered, and then repeated with a smile—

    “Girlfriend.”

    Finally, she laughed.

    Ruan Shengyi was a little embarrassed and annoyed at her, “What’s wrong!”

    “You’re so innocent, Ruan Shengyi.”

    What does that mean?

    A Alarm bell sounded in Ruan Shengyi’s heart.

    What does innocent mean? Is she saying that her idea of becoming a girlfriend after sleeping together is innocent? Or is she saying that she doesn’t kiss well enough, so she’s particularly innocent?

    Ruan Shengyi stared at her blankly. After a moment, she said awkwardly, “Does Teacher Xiao want to deny everything after getting what she wanted?”

    Xiao Wenyu was so angry that she pinched her. “What are you thinking about? I’m praising you!”

    She raised her eyebrows amusedly, “Besides, who slept with whom, Ruan Shengyi, huh?”

    Ruan Shengyi came around to this point and dodged the hand pinching her, laughing. After turning around once, she took Xiao Wenyu’s hand, which was already a little cold, and rubbed it in her palm, saying softly, “Then if you don’t deny it, you’re admitting it, hehe, girlfriend…”

    “I haven’t bought flowers yet.” Xiao Wenyu didn’t look at her, her eyes falling on the market not far away. There would be flower sellers at this kind of market in the summer, but probably not in the winter, or they would all freeze to death.

    Ruan Shengyi was also very familiar with the winter in the north. There wouldn’t be any trace of flowers in this cold weather. She was a little anxious, “I’ll buy them when we go back.”

    Buy them when we go back, let’s hold hands now.

    But the Elf beside her spun away from her grasp. Fortunately, there was no snow on the ground now, and she steadily escaped the grasp. On the contrary, it suddenly reminded Ruan Shengyi of something.

    The temperature was high this year, and the snow that fell a few days ago probably wouldn’t last at all. The ground would be covered in ice, so going out would be a problem then.

    Ruan Shengyi followed behind the woman,Groping her chin.

    Should she buy some non-slip shoes? How should she buy them?

    She had tried searching for keywords these past two days and even found some nice-looking shoes, but she didn’t know if they were comfortable to wear…

    She’ll ask Chen Yuexin later, after all, she has to buy them too.

    She followed Xiao Wenyu silently until they reached the entrance of a flower shop with a warm shed, and the woman had already gone inside. She simply put one hand in her pocket and looked up slightly at the flower shop that came to the market.

    This kind of store usually sells potted plants. She didn’t know if they had the flowers that Xiao Wenyu wanted.

    It’s okay not to give them, it’s okay to give them later.

    She rubbed the flannel inside her pocket anxiously,Pink lips silently. It only stung slightly before she realized she had accidentally bitten off a small piece of her lip.

    The stinging Numb feeling made her calmer. After exhaling slowly, she simply waited peacefully.

    Waiting, wasn’t that something she was very good at?

    There would be many more days of waiting in the future, which meant there would be many more times to spend together in the future. Why rush at this moment?

    Ruan Shengyi relaxed a little and silently counted numbers in her heart. When she counted to her birthday, the Elf, who had strolled around in the flowers, came out swaying with two bunches of flowers in her arms.

    Today, she was wearing a Plush knittedlong dress with a long down jacket over it. The hem of the knitting long dress was exposed a little, swaying slightly with her steps. When she stood in front of her, she smiled and handed her a bouquet of flowers—

    “Hello, my girlfriend?”

    The smile was bright and sunny, and the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, temporarily driving back some of the densecoldness.

    Ruan Shengyi looked at her gently, took a step forward, and wrapped both the person and the flowers in her open Cotton Clothes, hugging her gently, “It’s cold, just came out of the Grey Shed.”

    “I was counting numbers waiting for you just now, I counted to my birthday.”

    Xiao Wenyu was using petals to Scratchthis person’s lower jaw. When she heard this, she looked up at her slightly, “Which day?”

    “2.21, not out of Nine yet, very cold.”

    “Then I’ll wait for you to get off work at home.”

    Wait for you at home.

    It was like a light hammer again, knocking on Ruan Shengyi’s heart.

    She lifted the corners of her lips, but before she could respond, the person in her arms suddenly said, “Now that you mention it, I remember, my birthday is at the end of the year, I’ll be 31 soon… sigh.”

    Xiao Wenyu sighed sincerely. There was still some confusion in her eyes when she was hugged again.

    She was 31. Had she really arranged everything?

    The Lin family’s affairs, Lin Simu’s hurried phone call that night, and Zhuge Jing hadn’t left yet. Would all of this really allow her to safely stay out of it?

    Forget it, she should live in the present first, otherwise she would be letting Ruan Shengyi, who was so Attentive, down a bit.

    She leaned on Ruan Shengyi’s shoulder, closed her eyes, and indulged in the tenderness of the moment.

    If there really were any things about to happen, at least let her be happy for a while longer.

    Breaking the silence was the sudden ringing of a cell phone. It was a call from home, or more accurately, from Big Cat Lady.

    The two walked side by side leisurely. Xiao Wenyu answered the phone and said softly, “Big Cat Lady, what’s your High opinion?”

    Xiao Yanyue didn’t correct her Chaos Qi, she just asked, “You went out to play? With whom?”

    “I’m in my thirties, I don’t need to report to you every time, right~”

    Xiao Yanyue calmed down, “I know, I’m just asking.”

    Xiao Wenyu laughed, “Yeah, I came out to play, with my good neighbor.”

    “Just a neighbor?”

    “What are you trying to do?”

    Xiao Yanyue rubbed her hair, “Forget it, it’s nothing.”

    With that, she hung up the phone, leaving Xiao Wenyu Swipe the phone with a confused look on her face, muttering in a low voice, “Did I miss some information? Or did I accidentally send her something?”

    Ruan Shengyi coughed guiltily and pulled the arm of the person next to her, “What did Auntie say?”

    “Nothing, she just asked where I was and with whom, and then she hung up,baffling.”

    Ruan Shengyi took her arm, “Let’s not look at it anymore, let’s go see if there’s anything delicious. I wonder if they have roasted buns here.”

    “I don’t eat mutton, that taste is a little stimulating and makes me nauseous, want to vomit.”

    Ruan Shengyi replied repeatedly that she understood, but didn’t move her arm that was holding her, pulling her towards the more central part of the market.

    Let’s go, let’s go, there must be other delicious food.

    The endless Yellow sand hid countless gourmet treasures.

    Unlike the Delightful and warm on this side, in Chuncheng, Xiao Yanyue was hugging her arms, biting her fingers, staring at the computer.

    It was still downloading at three in the morning.

    Who’s not good here?

    Zhao Wen Yougoula over Rub, “Xiao teacher when work does not study PPT, now research come up?”

    Xiao Yanyue stretched out her hand and pulled Zhao Wen’s arm, disregarding that the person repeatedly said that her clothes were dirty, and pulled her to sit on her lap, asking suspiciously, “Look, does this show that it downloaded again at three-thirty in the morning?”

    Zhao Wen laughed, “I thought Xiao teacher was watching PPT.” Saying this, she leaned over to fiddle the mouse, trying to see what it was.

    “Math never uses PPT, okay, it’s all you liberal arts people who use it.”

    “…”

    Zhao Wen Throw away her arm, “Go see for yourself.”

    Xiao Big cat was stunned and hurriedly push lightly her with all her limbs, “Wrong, wrong, wrong, help me take a look quickly.”

    “… heh. It’s downloading, so it’s downloading, what is this?”

    “A registration form for a photography competition, the gift that the little boss you mentioned last time prepared for our Wenyu.”

    Zhao Wen Slightly stunned, and then rubbed the dough with a sense of loss, “I’ve already thought about how to decorate our second floor, it seems like the smart home Pack that Xiao Yu talked about won’t be used again.”

    “Use it! Why not! Still downloading at three in the morning, I think we can use it!”

    “…Xiao Yu’s pregnant, what are you talking about!”

    Xiao Yanyue put her arms around her waist, her head Rub the side waist to turn off the computer, and said softly, “Literal meaning. Teacher Zhao, aren’t you ashamed to say this?”

    Zhao Wen Throw her, “Oh, it’s been decades, you shameless!”

    “It shouldn’t be me who’s ashamed, Teacher Zhao, what are we eating?”

    “I’m eating Sauce Noodle, you’re eating air.”

    “…”

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