After rebirth, I became Qingmei's white moonlight

Chapter 187 Chapter 185 Xiaolu, Zhuzhu, Yaoyao, who do you choose?
Xu Xinzhu trotted over wearing a simple suspender skirt with a pure white T-shirt underneath. Facing the evening breeze, her long hair was draped over her shoulders and fluttered gently, giving off a very summery vibe.

"Hello, Aunt Qi!"

"Hello, Zhuzhu."

Qi Wanling smiled slightly, started the car and drove towards the Green Heart Forest Park not far away, which is known as the "Lungs of Jiazhou".

Going up along Green Heart Road, Jiang Shu discovered that in this hot summer, there were quite a lot of people coming to Green Heart Park to relax and cool off, but the further in he went, the fewer people there were.

The car turned from a fork in the road, but before it had gone far it was stopped by the security guard on night shift and was told that the scenic road ahead was still under construction and vehicles were prohibited from passing.

Qi Wanling had no choice but to turn around and park the car in a nearby parking lot, then walk slowly over like everyone else.

Jiang Shu gave each person a bottle of water from the bag. It must be said that the air in the forest park is much better than that in the city. After taking a deep breath, he felt refreshed.

"Mom, where are the fireflies you mentioned?" asked the white deer, waving his net bag.

Qi Wanling hesitated slightly: "I also heard from others that it should be not far ahead."

The street lamps on both sides emitted gentle light. Jiang Shu looked at the glass jar in Xu Xinzhu's hand and couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Zhuzhu, are you planning to learn from Che Yin?"

"Not at all!"

"Brother Xiaoshu, who is Che Yin?" Zhong Yaoyao asked puzzledly.

Jiang Shu smiled slightly and explained slowly: "This is an idiom from Che Yin's firefly bag. There was a man named Che Yin in the Jin Dynasty. He loved reading since he was a child, but his family was poor and had no oil. So he borrowed the light from fireflies on summer nights to read day and night. This tells us a truth..."

"Don't listen, don't listen!"

Zhong Yaoyao ran away muttering to herself. There was no doubt that Brother Xiaoshu would start preaching about studying hard again.

Yaoyao ran away, and Jiang Shu looked to the side again: "Xiaolu, you must know the principle of Che Yin's firefly bag!"

"I know, but I think this story is fake. It's not as good as Kuang Heng drilling a hole in the wall to steal light!" Bai Lu argued: "Che Yin's family was very poor and couldn't afford lamp oil, but he was willing to use expensive silk to make a pocket to hold fireflies."

Seeing this, Qi Wanling couldn't help but chuckle. It was rare to see her daughter refuting Xiaoshu.

The few of them continued to walk slowly, with stars twinkling above their heads and cicadas chirping all around them. The girls looked everywhere for traces of fireflies, but found none.

"Mom, are there really fireflies here?" Bai Lu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. This was somewhat different from the scene she had imagined.

"The weather is so good today, there should be some." Qi Wanling was not sure either.

"Little deer, a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. We'll know if there are any fireflies when we get there tonight."

"Yes, yes, I understand, Teacher Xiaoshu..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuzhu and Yaoyao's joyful voices suddenly came from the front: "Wow! It's fireflies! So many fireflies!"

Hearing this, Bai Lu was shocked and immediately ran forward waving his net bag: "Where, where? Let me catch it!"

Jiang Shu and Qi Wanling also quickly followed. Outside the railings of the scenic road was an open area with lush vegetation and the faint sound of water. At this moment, countless fireflies were flashing faint lights and flying through the area, making it look like a fairy tale world.

"Wow, so beautiful!"

"Little deer, look, I've caught one~"

Xu Xinzhu proudly showed off the glass bottle in his hand, which contained a firefly emitting a faint light.

"Wait for me, I'm coming too!"

"Xiaolu, Zhuzhu, Yaoyao, you are not allowed to cross the railing, do you understand? We don't know how deep the water is out there, and there might be snakes!" Qi Wanling reminded.

"understood!"

Watching them happily chasing lone fireflies, and putting them into glass bottles after catching them, they were just like putting stars in them.

"Xiaoshu, why don't you go and play with them?" Qi Wanling glanced at Jiang Shu, who was just leaning against the guardrail, quietly looking at the brilliant stars outside.

"Aunt Wanling, how long has it been since you last saw fireflies?" Jiang Shu asked softly.

Qi Wanling was slightly stunned. How long?

Ten years, twenty years, or even longer.

"I forgot. I remember that when I was a child, I seemed to see it every summer." Unconsciously, Qi Wanling's voice gradually became distant.

"My mother once told me that when she was little and lived in the village, she would herd cattle and sheep at a very young age. At that time, the sky was bluer, the water was clearer, and at night, fireflies were everywhere in the mountains and plains," said Jiang Shu.

"Yes, that's right. I saw it with my own eyes." Qi Wanling said with a smile, his tone filled with some childhood memories.

"But now, if we want to see fireflies, we have to go all the way to the forest park and try our luck." Jiang Shu sighed softly.

Qi Wanling touched his head, thinking that he was lamenting that human development had destroyed the natural environment and squeezed the living space of other creatures.

"Xiaoshu, this is inevitable with urban development. Fireflies are not gone, they are just in more remote places."

"I know, that's why I think since we finally get to see it once, we should try to see it longer within the limited time." Jiang Shu said softly. He couldn't help but think of the Firefly Forest, where a momentary hug is eternal.

Qi Wanling was slightly stunned. This kind of sentence, which contained a bit of philosophy and life insights, was not something that someone of his age could say.

I couldn't help but wonder, "How come you are so young, but sometimes you look more mature than some adults?"

Jiang Shu remained silent. Perhaps it was because he had lived two lives, which made him more emotional in many aspects.

He couldn't answer this question, so he stared at the fireflies in the distance in a daze.

"Xiaoshu, what do you think of the deer?" Qi Wanling suddenly asked.

In the dark night, Jiang Shu had a strange expression on his face, as if his future mother-in-law suddenly asked him, Xiaoshu, what do you think of my daughter?
"Very good, Xiaolu is a very good girl."

Jiang Shu thought for a few seconds and chose a conservative answer instead of praising Bai Lu in terms of appearance, study, personality, and daily performance.

Even in his previous life, Bai Lu was the white moonlight in his heart, so outstanding that he felt inferior.

Qi Wanling smiled and asked again: "What about Zhuzhu?"

Jiang Shu's heart suddenly jumped. What was his mother-in-law going to do? Was she going to make him make a choice now?

"Well... Zhuzhu is of course excellent, but I think the two of them complement each other rather than exclude each other."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Upon hearing this, Qi Wanling became obviously interested.

Jiang Shu was confused. If he had known earlier, he should have gone with Bai Lu to catch fireflies instead of staying with his mother-in-law and reflecting on his life.

"Aunt Wanling, excellent people are always attracted to each other. The two of them grew up together and have a very good relationship with each other. They show a healthy competition in their studies. Xiaolu is quiet and elegant, while Zhuzhu is more lively and active. One is quiet and the other is active, just like the yin and yang fish in Tai Chi. Yin alone cannot grow, and yang alone cannot grow. In my heart, they are equally excellent."

Hearing this flawless answer, the smile on Qi Wanling's face gradually deepened, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

This guy is a master at keeping things in balance at such a young age. I'm afraid Zhuzhu and Xiaolu will have a hard time in the future.

"What about Yaoyao? Have you always treated her as your sister or..."

Jiang Shu: "..."

He never expected that his mother-in-law would throw such a direct question at this moment. Was it because he acted too mature and was testing her in advance?
"Aunt Wanling, Yaoyao lost her parents when she was young and has always treated me as her brother. On the day she recognized my parents as her godparents, I promised Grandma Yaoyao that I would protect her well."

Jiang Shu spoke sincerely, but it was actually a repetitive speech. He said everything but did not directly answer his position.

Several people played in the Green Heart Forest Park for nearly an hour. Each of them brought a bottle filled with about a dozen fireflies. The faint lights flickered at the same time, and from a distance they really looked like lanterns.

"Look, Xiaoshu, we caught so many!"

"Great!"

"Why don't you come and catch them with us? If you come, you will definitely catch more!"

Jiang Shu smiled slightly: "Because I think fireflies are most beautiful when they are flying freely in the air, and the sky full of fireflies is as brilliant as the stars."

"Yes, yes, yes! So I brought the stars back home~"

Xu Xinzhu looked down and suddenly discovered that the fireflies caught in the glass bottle were not as energetic as before. Each one of them was lifeless and stuck to the wall of the bottle, with only their abdomen continuing to emit faint light as if breathing.

"Little Tree, do you know why fireflies glow?"

"This is actually just like a peacock spreading its tail, which is a signal they release to attract mates."

"Then brother Xiaoshu, can I keep them all? That way, I will have lots and lots of fireflies." Zhong Yaoyao asked.

Jiang Shu shook his head slightly: "The life cycle of a firefly is usually only 3 to 7 days. The light we see it emits may be the last splendor of its life."

"what?!"

The three girls were all shocked.

"Doesn't this mean that these stars may go out after tonight?" Bai Lu suddenly felt that the fireflies were very pitiful. They were so beautiful, but their lives were so short.

Jiang Shu smiled faintly: "That's why I don't like to catch them. The stars are more beautiful when they are in the sky."

Bai Lu was silent for a while, then she suddenly said, "Zhuzhu, Yaoyao, should we release all the fireflies we caught? If we take them back, they will die soon."

Zhong Yaoyao nodded silently: "If we release them, will they be able to give birth to many babies?"

Xu Xinzhu also agreed: "Nature is their home!"

After saying that, they each opened the bottle cap and poured the fireflies into their palms. Then dozens of fireflies flew into the sky together with their faint lights flashing. The scene was just like a sky full of fireflies.

Qi Wanling was always watching quietly from the side, watching them play and fly. I guess this is what is called growth.

(Summer vacation is over, I will start junior high school tomorrow)
(End of this chapter)