You are my wife, don't doubt it!

The boy pressed his hands to his temples.

and many more.

Xiao Yao suddenly realized that there was still a room he had not visited.

He gently took the key on the door, turned it to the right, and gently pushed open the door of the small room.

This small room once belonged to him, a small bedroom.

When he saw the person lying on the bed, the boy breathed a sigh of relief.

So you are here.

The girl was wrapped in a blanket, curled up with a pillow, sleeping on the bare wooden board without a sheet.

"Why do you come here to sleep?" Xiao Yao leaned against the door of the small bedroom and asked with a smile.

Chapter 222 Mom, let’s not embarrass ourselves!

Chapter 222 Chapter 221 Mom, let’s not embarrass ourselves!

2023-06-03

Chapter 222 Chapter 221 Mom, let’s not embarrass ourselves!

In the morning, Xiao Yao's bedroom seemed to be awakened after a long silence. This room had been empty for more than a year, and thick dust covered every corner. The sun shone through the stained curtains, bringing a faint warmth to the whole room.

The room was filled with memories of its past owner, but now only some abandoned personal belongings remained. An empty bookshelf stood to the side, with a few books scattered on the floor, the pages of which had been opened and turned yellow.

There were a few pieces of rags piled in the corner, the empty closet door was open, and only a few lonely old clothes were left on the hangers. Almost all the items had been taken away.

There was a bed in the corner of the bedroom. It used to be Xiao Yao's comfortable resting place, but now only exposed wooden strips were left. There were no sheets on the bed, only a young girl curled up in a blanket. Her body was trembling slightly, her brows were slightly wrinkled, and she seemed to be experiencing some kind of uneasiness in her dream.

The pillow rested gently against the head of the bed, cushioning the girl's head. The room was filled with the silence of time, and the air was filled with a bleak atmosphere.

On one side of the wall there was a poster of Jackie Chan with the edges curled up, and on the other side of the wall (which was next to the bed) there were posters of football stars, printed illustrations of Zhao Linger, lyrics paper for Lao Lang's tapes, album covers, and so on.

"Why do you come here to sleep?" Xiao Yao leaned against the door of the small bedroom and asked with a smile.

Yu Luying ignored him and continued sleeping.

Xiao Yao walked over, sat beside the bed, and shook the girl's arm: "Why did you come here to sleep?"

The girl opened her eyes slightly, and when she saw it was him, her body trembled violently and she jumped up.

Then, he curled up in the corner wrapped in a blanket.

?

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yao was stunned and asked in confusion, then reached out to stroke her hair.

The girl shrank her neck and avoided the boy's hand.

"What are you doing?!" Xiao Yao was a little angry.

Yu Luying's body began to sway slightly, and her eyes looked like a frightened little animal.

"Good morning." The two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and the girl said, "Can you go out first? I need to change clothes."

"You" are all out?

"Okay," Xiao Yao said patiently, "What do you want for breakfast? I'll buy it for you."

Yu Luying's head shook like the waves.

"Then I'll buy whatever you want." Xiao Yao stood up and walked out of the bedroom door.

When he reached the door, he heard Yu Luying's timid voice behind him: "Burn, sesame cake."

Xiao Yao endured the splitting headache caused by the hangover, put on two pieces of clothes at random and went out. He hailed a rickshaw in front of the Party School, went to the same pancake shop as yesterday and ordered five deluxe processed pancakes and two bowls of salty tofu pudding.

"The girl who ordered 100 pancakes yesterday was with you, right?" The thin man squatted down and picked up the cardboard box on the ground: "I'll just give it to you, right?"

"Has the money been paid?"

“I have.”

Xiao Yao picked up the heavy box of sesame cakes and thought that what he bought for breakfast was really unnecessary.

He had not walked far when he felt it was not worthwhile to carry so many sesame cakes with him. As he was looking around eagerly for a rickshaw, suddenly, a memory struck him like lightning.

Xiao Yao put the box of sesame cakes on the ground, then squatted down and pressed his temples with his hands.

Last night...

It seems like... this... that...

Oh no, no wonder she looked so dead this morning?!

She shouldn't have been left home alone.

"Dude, are you okay?" a man asked him in Dongru dialect, squatting down and shaking his arm.

"It's okay, it's okay." Xiao Yao shook his head repeatedly and showed a grateful smile.

If this happened on the streets of Shanghai, it's likely that no one would ask him, right?

Xiao Yao stood up and was about to rush back when his cell phone suddenly rang.

Is it Shen Jie?

One of the two big stones in Xiao Yao's heart fell to the ground.

The boy took out his cell phone and looked at the screen.

...WDNM, Yu Lihua!

Although Xiao Yao never added a name to her phone number, he will never forget this string of numbers.

Why did she call me? Did Yu Luying tell her about what happened last night?

Even women can't be so irrational, right?

"Don't answer it. Trust me, go back and get a statement from Yu Luying first, otherwise you'll be in trouble!" The long-lost red man appeared from Xiao Yao's feet. He raised a sharp steel fork and poked Xiao Yao's right fingers again and again, causing pain.

"Yes, answer it. Believe me, no matter what happens, pretending to be dead at this time will only make things worse." The little man in white clothes also appeared on Xiao Yao's shoulder like a shadow. He used the pointer in his hand to dip a drop of sweat from Xiao Yao's forehead and threw it teasingly into Xiao Yao's frightened eyes.

Oops! Xiao Yao's eyes were stung by sweat. He raised his hand to rub them hastily, but he heard Yu Lihua's voice in the receiver of his mobile phone.

"Hello? Xiao Yao? Can you hear me?"

Shit! I have to answer this call now.

He picked up the phone, put it to his ear, and tried his best to speak in an emotional tone: "Ah~Auntie, it's me, good morning, what's going on?"

"Is Yingying with you?" Yu Lihua asked bluntly.

"Ah~ Auntie, she is not with me." Xiao Yao hid in the shadow of the roadside, put the box of biscuits that hurt his hands on the ground again, looked around, and thought that this was not a lie.

"Where did she spend last night? Why didn't she answer my call?" Yu Lihua asked.

The little man in red clothes crawled to Xiao Yao's ear and said, "It seems that Yu Luying's mother knows nothing. Believe me, just be perfunctory first to reassure her, and then go back and collude with Yu Luying. As long as Yu Luying doesn't expose the truth, it's fine. If she does, she will be implicated as well, so you won't lose anything!"

The little man in white clothes jumped up, hit Xiao Yao's calf with a pointer, and scolded: "How do you know that she is not testing you? Believe me, your answer represents your attitude towards this relationship. This kind of thing, whether it happened or not, is not important. A positive and sincere attitude is the most important!"

"Hello? Xiao Yao? Are you still there? Can you hear me?" Yu Lihua's voice sounded a little anxious.

"Ah~Auntie, um, Yu Luying stayed at the hotel yesterday. Can I go and call her and ask her to call you back later?"

"Xiao Yao, you don't have to be so polite to me, calling me auntie all the time. I was just at the hotel and knocked for a long time but no one opened the door. I can't understand the language of the people here."

Xiao Yao was petrified when he heard what Yu Lihua said.

"Ah~Auntie, where are you~Dong~Dongru~?"

A rickshaw saw Xiao Yao had a pile of things at his feet and was sweating on the phone, so it stopped in front of him out of consideration.

"Didn't I say I would come the day before yesterday to see your hometown? Hey, I see you have rickshaws here, where is your home? I'll take a rickshaw."

rickshaw?

"Ah~Auntie, where are you now? Are you still in Yingying's hotel?"

"I'm not in the hotel anymore. Yingying said the sesame cakes here are delicious. I found a sesame cake shop and will bring you some later."

Looking back in the direction the rickshaw went, we could see the stall selling sesame cakes in the distance, and a crowd had already gathered in front of the stall.

At the edge of the crowd, there was a woman wearing a cheongsam and holding a parasol, talking on the phone.

Xiao Yao narrowed his eyes, his heart as calm as water.

"Ah~ Auntie, please stand here and don't move. I'll be there soon." Xiao Yao hung up the phone in a hurry and then quickly called Yu Luying.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Aunt, ancestor, you really don't want to answer the phone?!"

Xiao Yao couldn't get through to Yu Luying on the phone, so he picked up the box of sesame cakes and rushed home.

Along the way, his talents as a long-time and loyal reader of "The Science Fiction Emperor" began to shine again.

He realized that Yu Luying was probably no longer in the Party School.

What happened last night must have made her very angry, so she paid for breakfast, packed her belongings and ran away from home.

Wait, if you wanted to run, why didn’t you run last night but wait until the morning?

Ah, yes, it must be because the Party School’s entrance is closed at night.

No, with the symbiotic distance there, she can't run away.

Will they call the police and report my attempted murder?

Even without considering the emotional impact, from a purely symbiotic perspective, calling the police is a very irrational behavior.

But if you expect a woman to always remain rational...?

Xiao Yao really doesn't have that much confidence.

At this moment, he heard a shrill siren in the distance.

The siren sounded quite far away when I first heard it, but soon it was approaching rapidly in my direction.

Xiao Yao looked around nervously, his heart began to tremble and he felt uneasy.

No way… ?

As the boy's ideas became more and more outrageous, he began to laugh at his own overly vivid dramatic imagination.

As the sirens got closer, Xiao Yao's nervousness increased unconsciously.

He subconsciously tried to find a way to escape, but his legs were firmly rooted to the ground and he couldn't move a step.

His heartbeat quickened, and every siren sounded a strain on his nerves.

Finally, a police car rushed over from a distance, and the sirens became louder and louder.

However, when the police car finally roared past, he felt a feeling of powerless ridicule well up in his heart.

Xiao Yao secretly laughed at his overly dramatic thoughts, realizing that he was a little neurotic. He breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head, and told himself not to be dragged by emotions again - he had to calm down and concentrate on solving the current problem.

Just as he made up his mind, he was frightened by Yu Lihua's haunting phone call and almost dropped his phone.

"Xiao Yao, is there only one pancake shop in Dongru? How did you know where I was? What did you ask me to wait for? I felt that you were talking strangely today, and Yingying didn't answer the phone. Is there something you are hiding from me?! If anything happens to Yingying, I will fight you, you know?"

The rapid-fire, sharp sounds caused Xiao Yao's head, which had not yet fully recovered from his hangover, to feel particularly painful.

"Ah~ Auntie, it's okay, it's really okay, I'll be there soon, can you see me? I'm waving at you - look in the distance, isn't there a bridge? Tonghai Bridge, the top of the bridge, yes, I'm holding a big cardboard box." Xiao Yao had no choice but to look back again, holding the heavy box of sesame cakes in one hand, staggering, and waving enthusiastically to Yu Lihua in the distance.

……

Yu Lihua was quite surprised to see Xiao Yao.

"So your house is right in front of here. This is a lucky coincidence."

"That's right. This is the most famous sesame cake stall in Dongru. As soon as you mentioned it, I knew where you were."

"Oh, Xiao Yao, why did you buy so many sesame cakes?"

"I didn't buy it. Yingying ordered it yesterday, and I just happened to pick it up for her today. She said it was delicious and wanted to buy it back for you."

"Yingying bought them for me? How can I finish eating so many? I can't give them away as gifts. This girl didn't even say hello to me. I bought them anyway, and even bought a few more on purpose. I bought twenty. I'm going to return them now."