Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 484 A Small Fishing Village with Many Crabs

Su Xiaoya glanced at her husband's eyes and replied to her old classmate, "No, I'm too busy over there. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to have lunch today."

"It's okay, I'll wait for you."

"Uh……"

Su Xiaoya glanced at Lu Tian again, only to find that Lu Tian was slapping Lu Yuanqiu, while Lu Yuanqiu was huddled in the corner, looking at his father with a bewildered expression, not knowing what he had done wrong.

In the afternoon, Lu Yuanqiu brought some fruit from home. When he entered the ward, he found that in addition to Bai Qingxia, there was also a simply dressed woman. When he came to the bedside and put the fruit on the bedside table, Lu Yuanqiu noticed that there was a little girl standing next to the woman.

The little girl was so tiny; I didn't see her because she was blocked by the hospital bed.

"Who are these two?" Lu Yuanqiu asked.

Bai Qingxia was wiping her father's face with a hot towel when she heard this. She turned around and quickly introduced, "This is Aunt Zhang, the one I told you about before. This is her daughter, Ranran."

"I remember now, I remember now. Hello Aunt Zhang, hello Ranran." Lu Yuanqiu quickly greeted them.

The simply dressed woman smiled and nodded, then pulled her daughter to her side and patted her head, saying, "Ranran, quickly call him Brother Qiu."

So she knew me. Bai Qingxia must have mentioned it. Lu Yuanqiu thought to himself. He looked at the little girl and found that her eyes were lifeless. Bai Qingxia had told him that the little girl was blind.

When the two families met, it was a case of two unfortunate people banding together for warmth, Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but think to himself.

He quickly took the apple, peeled it, cut it into pieces, and put it in a cup to scald with hot water. Ranran, who was standing by the bed, sniffed and smelled the aroma of the fruit.

"Where is Aunt Zhang from?" Lu Yuanqiu chatted with the woman, the fruit he was scalding was for the little girl.

The woman was also very reserved with the younger generation, and quickly replied, "I'm from Tasmania."

"Oh, it's a neighboring province, quite close by."

"It's not close at all. My hometown is a very remote coastal fishing village in the eastern part of Tasmania province."

The woman explained earnestly to him, when suddenly the little girl standing by the bed spoke up in a soft, sweet voice: "There are lots and lots of crabs there~"

Hearing Ranran speak, Bai Qingxia turned around and smiled.

"Really? How many is 'a lot'?" Lu Yuanqiu patted her head.

Ranran seemed a little slow to process what was happening. After a moment of hesitation, she insisted, "There are a lot of them."

Aunt Zhang explained with a smile, "There are a lot. When the tide goes out, crabs can crawl into the house in large numbers. Sometimes, I'm even sleeping when crabs appear in my bed. Haha... This is pretty much a local specialty in my area."

"But no young people want to stay in my neighborhood anymore," Aunt Zhang sighed as she said this.

Lu Yuanqiu nodded. He had only been to the capital of Tajikistan Province and seen West Lake; he had never been to any other places.

Bai Qingxia wiped her father's face, then turned around and took three bottles of U-Love-Me to brew some. Lu Yuanqiu saw that the apple was ready, so he poured the hot water from the cup into the toilet and handed the cup to Ranran: "Eat the apple."

"Thank you, brother." The little girl stretched out her hands, but reached in the wrong direction to take the cup. Seeing this, Lu Yuanqiu quickly placed the cup accurately in her hands.

"Will Lao Bai get better?" Aunt Zhang asked, looking at the man on the bed. Her expression was complicated, and Lu Yuanqiu seemed to see in it a complex mix of emotions: "hoping he would get better, but also hoping things would stay the same."

"Will do."

Lu Yuanqiu responded that this was what Bai Qingxia wanted, and it was also what he wanted.

Aunt Zhang smiled and nodded, "That's good, that's good."

The U-Love-Me drink was ready. Bai Qingxia handed two cups to Aunt Zhang and one cup to Lu Yuanqiu. She then wrung out a hot towel in the basin and continued to carefully wipe her father's neck and hands.

Hurry up and get better, she's been waiting for this day for ages.

...Night fell.

After taking a shower, Zheng Yifeng pulled out a relatively nice outfit from the closet and then used a hairdryer to blow-dry his hair in front of the mirror.

As his stepmother Ye Hui passed by his room, she glanced inside and hesitated before asking, "It's so late, are you going out?"

Zheng Yifeng turned his head: "Mm."

Since Zheng Yifeng came home for vacation, she hasn't had a proper chat with him about university life. Considering the somewhat awkward relationship between them, Ye Hui hesitated many times before opening her mouth, even if it was just to ask casually.

"Come back soon, it's cold."

"it is good."

The conversation was very brief; after Ye Hui finished speaking, she turned around and went to do other things.

"Beep beep beep~" A message notification suddenly came from his phone, and Zheng Yifeng picked it up to check.

Teacher Liu: I just remembered that tomorrow is Teacher Su's birthday. She has no friends in Lucheng. Since you all came back together, why don't you spend it with her? I sent a message to Lu Yuanqiu during the day, but he's been busy with something and hasn't replied. Bai Qingxia hasn't either.

Zheng Yifeng was stunned.

Zheng Yifeng: Does Teacher Su have no friends in Lucheng?

He clearly remembered Su Miaomiao saying that she would meet some friends in Lucheng before the New Year.

Teacher Liu: Yes, she's from Zhucheng and hasn't been in Lucheng for many years. Don't let her cheerful and smiling demeanor fool you; she's actually not very sociable and prefers to stay home. I've been so busy with work and school these past few days, otherwise I would have gone to spend time with her.

Zheng Yifeng: Understood, teacher.

Zheng Yifeng put down his phone, turned around and looked at the clothes on the bed, putting them on one by one.

After waiting another hour or so, the cake shop owner finally sent a message on my phone saying the cake was ready.

Zheng Yifeng changed his shoes and went out. As he pushed open the door, he suddenly heard a sound from behind.

"Do you... have a girlfriend?"

Zheng Yifeng turned around with a surprised expression and saw his stepmother Ye Hui standing behind him. She was wearing pajamas underneath a coat and seemed to be getting ready to go to sleep. Hearing the noise, she couldn't help but come out of the room and ask him a question.

Zheng Yifeng shook his head: "No."

Ye Hui nodded and said "Oh," just as she was about to return to her room, Zheng Yifeng said to her, "Mom."

Ye Hui froze, turned to look at him, and her eyes widened.

Zheng Yifeng stood at the door and said, "If I've talked to them, I'll let you know."

Ye Hui smiled and nodded: "Okay, be careful on the road, go home early, and don't stay out too long."

Zheng Yifeng returned the smile: "Okay."

After he left, he closed the door. Ye Hui stood there, staring at the closed door. After a moment, she smiled and went into her room. The moment she closed the door, she paused and smiled again.

Room 706 in a hotel 500 meters away from the residential area.

The television in the room was blaring loudly. Su Miaomiao sat on the bed, holding the remote control, but her attention wasn't on the TV screen. Instead, she turned her head to look at the dark night sky outside the hotel window.

It was 10 p.m., and she felt as lonely as the night sky. There weren't even any stars to adorn the sky, just like how she still had two hours until her birthday, but at this moment she didn't even have anyone to talk to.

(End of this chapter)