SWG Chapter 84

Chapter 84

Xiao Wenyu thought for a moment, “It should be two things.”

Those who were already puzzled were now even more so. Squatting for too long had made her legs feel numb, and she staggered forward.

Xiao Wenyu quickly helped her up, “Hey, hey, no need to give me such a big bow so early, it’s not New Year’s yet!” Her words couldn’t hide the laughter that was about to overflow.

Ruan Shengyi lowered her head and said nothing. After barely standing up, she said, “…My leg is numb.”

“I know,” Xiao Wenyu said with a gentle smile.

Her smile always felt insincere, especially since this wasn’t the first time. The last time seemed like a similar scene, and she had stumbled forward.

How embarrassing.

Xiao Wenyu patted her, and said, “Alright, stop acting innocent.”

“……?” Her eyebrows shot up immediately.

What kind of talk was that! What did she mean by that! How was she not innocent anymore? Just because she guided her to try qi last night, how did that make her not innocent? It was quite comfortable!

But the woman clearly didn’t intend to continue teasing her, and patted her face, “One good news, one bad news, which do you want to hear first?”

“……Bad?”

Xiao Wenyu looked at her for a long time, finally stopped smiling, and took out her phone, “First, let’s make it clear, you’re not allowed to hide this time.”

Ruan Shengyi’s eyes trembled. How bad could the bad news be? She even needed to use those words. What’s more, Xiao Wenyu even held her hand.

She wouldn’t hide, no matter what it was, she wouldn’t hide.

Xiao Wenyu quickly found the message in her inbox and showed it to her, gently saying, “This is the bad news. At the time of that photo, someone actually asked about it. Someone asked me, is the other person in the photo Ruan An?”

“I didn’t know who Ruan An was at the time, but since you have the same last name, and your reaction was so intense, I figured it wasn’t a good question, so I ignored it.”

She looked down at the person holding the phone with both hands, trembling slightly. This time, the woman didn’t throw away the phone, nor did she run away directly. Ruan Shengyi was just looking at the phone, her cheeks twitching slightly, but trying to stay calm and composed, and slowly relaxing herself, trying to listen to her peacefully.

That was good, even if only a few short months had passed, this was very good.

Xiao Wenyu patted her head again, signaling her to stand up, “Take a look at this person’s homepage, I just suddenly realized it.”

Ruan Shengyi glanced at her, then turned back to look at the person’s homepage, and was silent for another moment.

The background picture was a pair of sisters with very different appearances. One of them was the “crutch” younger sister who had appeared here just now, the child who was fortunate enough to live a completely different life and was very happy.

She had always been grateful to this family for being willing to accept a child who had no blood relation to them. Looking at it now, this kindness was probably impossible to repay in this lifetime.

Not only did they accept a child who had no blood relation to them, but they also raised this child so well, so well that it was touching.

Tears slowly fell, but the person looking at the phone was wearing a bright smile, a heartfelt smile.

Xiao Wenyu took back the phone, “Do you want to reply?”

Ruan Shengyi pondered for a moment, and said, “Tell her, I am Ruan Shengyi, that’s all.”

She didn’t say that you’ve mistaken me, because they hadn’t. After so many years, they were still thinking about her. Even with the mosaic, they could still recognize her. How could she bear to disappoint this family?

But, she was no longer Ruan An. Don’t let the past entangle her, and don’t think about entangling her sister through her. That was not allowed. That child had finally escaped all the tragedies, and she wouldn’t allow it.

Thinking of this, Ruan Shengyi lowered her eyes, and then raised them again, “Just reply like that, they shouldn’t ask further. What’s the good news?”

“Oh, my mom said we’re going home for dinner tomorrow,” Xiao Wenyu smiled, “Bring you along.”

With a clang, Ruan Shengyi stumbled and bumped into the edge of the table. Fortunately, she supported herself with her hand, only knocking over a few empty boxes, and didn’t hit her waist, let alone her head.

But that was already funny enough.

Not to mention, the person who couldn’t save face moved her mouth and muttered, “I, I just have a numb leg.”

Xiao Wenyu laughed heartily, patting her while laughing, “They can’t see you giving them a grand salute here!”

The woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, “Don’t make me laugh, I haven’t put on makeup in a long time, it’s rare to do it once, if you laugh it off, you’ll have to compensate me!”

Ruan Shengyi’s face turned red and white from her laughter, her lips trembling, and she didn’t know what to say. After a long time, she whispered, “What kind of good news is that?”

Xiao Wenyu stopped laughing on her own, and stared at her quietly for a long time, then gently cupped her face, looked up at her, and whispered, “They all like you very much, Boss Ruan, would you like to be my family? We, a family.”

“……” Ruan Shengyi blinked, suddenly turned her head, and a tear slid down her inner corner, hanging on the tip of her nose, crystal clear, trembling. Then, it was gently sucked away, accompanied by a warm breath, and she repeated, “Do you want to or not?”

Ruan Shengyi moved the corner of her mouth, and couldn’t help saying, “Are you, proposing, to marry me?”

“No, if you want, we can. But now, it’s just attending a family gathering.”

“……Okay.”

*

Home.

This is a rather wonderful word.

It is just a cold pronoun itself, without the specific reference of a house, ethereal and without support, but placed in context, it will add a bit of meaning.

It is warm, harmonious, lovely, and reliable.

Perhaps only when these characteristics are possessed, will the place where several people live together be called home, and they will be called a family.

When the door was knocked, Zhao Wen and Xiao Yanyue were each carrying a plate of dishes to go out. Hearing the doorbell, Xiao Yanyue rushed to put down the plate to open the door, but Zhao Wen glared at her.

“If you carry such a big fish in a while, who will let me carry it?”

Xiao Yanyue refused to be outdone and did not want to give up the opportunity to open the door, glaring back, righteously saying: “I can’t carry it alone either!”

Zhao Wen quietly said: “Then let it rot in the pot.”

Xiao Yanyue: “……”

She could never beat Zhao Wen; she was used to it.

Xiao Yanyue lowered her head and responded listlessly, like a poor big cat that ran on time to the automatic feeder only to find that there was no food in the automatic feeder today.

Zhao Wen felt distressed looking at it.

She rubbed the big cat’s head, “Forget it, let’s carry it later.”

The two of them went to open the door together. Outside the door, Xiao Wenyu looked at the two of them with her hands in her pockets, somewhat dissatisfied.

Xiao Yanyue clicked her tongue.

Was her daughter already speaking up for others?

But this other person was quite good-looking.

Behind Xiao Wenyu, a slightly taller person with loose hair stood there somewhat woodenly, with an expression on her face that said she really didn’t know what to say, so she said nothing. Her polite smile was more like a forced and pieced-together product.

In short, it was a little funny, and a little scary.

This made Xiao Yanyue speechless, not knowing what to say.

Fortunately, the language teacher had a strong ability to adapt. Zhao Wen smiled and told the two to come in quickly. Then, the person holding the two large boxes put the boxes aside, habitually squatted down to find slippers, put them on for Xiao Wenyu instead of letting her bend down, and when she got up, her coat had already been taken off. She took it over smoothly, draped her own cotton coat over her other arm, and looked at the two seniors who were exchanging glances.

At this time, she felt a slight embarrassment, her face turned red immediately, and she asked in a low voice: “Where should I hang my clothes?”

Zhao Wen greeted her: “Hang them behind the door, just come on in! You didn’t need to bring anything when you came, is this being polite?”

As soon as she thought about what Ruan Shengyi had brought, Xiao Wenyu couldn’t help but laugh, laughing incoherently, and teasing: “This is what Boss Ruan specially ran to Beishi to pick out yesterday afternoon, you’re not allowed to dislike it!”

Xiao Yanyue happily said, “What big treasure? Let me see.”

Ruan Shengyi came back with a red face and picked up her bag, “It’s not any big treasure. I asked Wenyu, and the two of you should be able to raise small animals, so…”

She opened the blackout cloth, revealing the inside of the pet carrier. A calico kitten was lying inside, timidly and bravely sticking its head out to observe its surroundings.

Xiao Yanyue: …Did this girl already know her nickname?

Unlike her silence, Zhao Wen exclaimed in surprise and went forward to take the pet carrier, carefully looking at the kitten inside. The kitten was white as a base color, with black and warm brown color blocks, a very beautiful calico kitten.

Zhao Wen couldn’t help but sigh: “What a thoughtful gift!”

Xiao Wenyu hummed, “The two of us thought about it for a long time yesterday. Sending those so-called gifts is too boring, and we don’t know what to send for big items, so why not send a companion? Although the commercial street is only three kilometers away from our house, we don’t have much energy to travel back and forth every day. It’s so sad to miss someone especially but not be able to see them. With it, it will make you happier, how about it?”

She glared at Xiao Yanyue, “Ms. Xiao Yanyue, please evaluate quickly!”

Xiao Yanyue: …

She turned her head away, “It’s fine as long as Teacher Zhao likes it.”

Then she paused, “Can I hold it and pet it now?”

Ruan Shengyi considerately refused her, because this kitten was taken in a hurry, and she still had several vaccines to get. She was only bringing her over today for the two to see, and she would have to drive her to get vaccinated later.

Xiao Yanyue snorted coldly and left, still coldly saying: “I didn’t really want to hold it either.”

This made the person who came to the door for the first time stunned in place, not knowing whether to take her outstretched hand back, opening her mouth to try to say some salvaging words.

She, what should she say? Otherwise, should she bring it out now and let Xiao Yanyue pet it? It’s not impossible, the little kitten’s paws are not that sharp, it’s nothing…

Zhao Wen smiled and freed her, “What’s in the other box?”

Xiao Wenyu: “It’s related things, and there are some on the way. After the kitten is vaccinated, they should arrive one after another.”

She pulled Ruan Shengyi’s arm, signaling her to follow her. The woman was relieved, put both boxes aside, and followed Xiao Wenyu, wandering through the room like a child.

The big cat snorted unhappily again. Zhao Wen pushed her and whispered, “What are you doing? You’ve never been so dissatisfied with that dead thing, huh?”

Xiao Yanyue simply crossed her arms, looked at the white wall without saying a word, and after a long time, said sullenly: “This time seems really good.”

Everything about that little boss made her feel at ease and troubled at the same time.

Zhao Wen smiled and pinched her ear, “Then when I said I was going to have another one, weren’t you unwilling to die? Are you sad?”

Xiao Yanyue was even more aggrieved, “If you had another one, wouldn’t I have to endure this scene twice? You clearly know I can’t stand this scene!!”

She sighed deeply, looked at the steaming dishes on the table, and said dissatisfiedly: “Let’s eat, let’s visit the room after eating.”

Suddenly, a head popped out, and asked cautiously: “Aunt Xiao, can you come over here for a moment, I have a question I want to ask you.”

……