You are my wife, don't doubt it!

When she heard that Xiao Xiaoyao had called her on his own initiative, instead of blaming him for being impolite by not checking the time, she was very happy.

If there is anything to blame, it is that he doesn't make enough phone calls.

Xiao Yao promised repeatedly that he would call her more often in the future. The two of them chatted about everything under the sun, talking about each other's recent situation, and just some sweet words.

The boy felt embarrassed and kicked his daughter out of the house while talking on the phone.

After chatting for twenty to thirty minutes, Xiao Yao finally changed the subject and asked hesitantly and indirectly about the matter he was concerned about.

Fortunately, Shen Jie did not get angry, but just smiled tolerantly and heartily.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Yao was slightly stunned.

"Two days ago, your Shen Jie also secretly called me to verify this matter with me." Shen Jie sounded particularly proud of her smile: "At that time, I made a bet with her, betting on when you would secretly call me."

"Speechless," Xiao Yao said, "So who won the bet between you two?"

"Of course it's me." Shen Jie laughed: "If you call me tomorrow, she wins."

"Okay," Xiao Yao said, "This is not the point at all. What's going on?"

"Xiao Xiaoyao, listen to me carefully. This is what I told her and what I told you. I'm only saying it again," Shen Jie's playful tone suddenly became extremely solemn and dignified.

"Hey, hey, you say." Xiao Yao used honorifics unconsciously.

"I, Shen Jie, have only had one man in my life, from beginning to end, and his last name is Xiao," Shen Jie said, "At least so far, at least in this world line where I live, that's the case. Do you understand?"

"Yeah, yeah, I understand." Xiao Yao nodded repeatedly.

"I don't know where you two heard these rumors from," Shen Jie continued, "but I hope you two - I beg you two to have at least some trust in me, and not be easily influenced by other people's slander, and don't believe everything you hear."

"Hi hi hi, wagali maxida."

On this day, Shen Jie (the one in 2004) arrived home at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon. Her eyes were red. As soon as she entered the door, she threw herself on Xiao Yao's bed. She didn't speak or behaved well. Xiao Yao pulled her away. She asked for a long time, but she didn't tell her why. It wasn't until dinner time that she returned to normal.

Speaking of "returning to normal", Xiao Yao actually felt that Shen Jie had been acting a little weird ever since she woke up from this nightmare, but he couldn't quite tell what was wrong.

If I must say, Xiao Yao felt that she had suddenly become very "clingy".

Of course, Xiao Yao himself is actually clingy, so he doesn't feel disgusted by her clinginess. On the contrary, he is somewhat happy rationally - very happy. But in the final analysis, abnormal is abnormal.

For example, since being discharged from the hospital and returning home on Wednesday, Shen Jie has gone against everyone's opinion and sent her daughter back to 2034 to sleep with Yu Luying, while she herself sleeps in Xiao Yao's room.

This is actually very inappropriate. Whether from the perspective of grandma, Yu Luying or Shen Tianyun, it is easy to say but difficult to see. Yu Luying and Shen Tianyun still have some conflicts - but she still did it.

What's more, Xiao Yao had been in a coma for more than half a month. Shen Tianyun missed him and was worried about him very much. She also wanted to be close to his little father and mother, but she lost the chance.

For example, she always hoped that Xiao Yao could hold her like a six-year-old girl.

No matter how short Shen Jie was, no matter how petite she was, she was still a girl, not a child. No matter how light she was, she was still around 100 kilograms. Xiao Yao was forced to hold Shen Jie in his arms like a little girl.

His palms covered her soft back, and he could feel the warmth of her body temperature and the slight tremors.

No, it's me who's shaking, it's my arm.

Fortunately, Yu Luying contributed a little bit of strength passively, otherwise Xiao Yao would have squatted down and put her heavily to the ground.

Shen Jie sat on Xiao Yao's arm, giggling. The girl felt a weak force coming, her delicate body was held up safely, but at the same time she could also feel Xiao Yao's effort. She floated on his shoulder and rested her head on his broad shoulder. Her hair gently brushed Xiao Yao's face, bringing a faint fragrance.

"Don't go up anymore!" Yu Luying said loudly while sitting cross-legged on a square stool.

It was too late. Shen Jie's head hit the ceiling with a bang.

The ceiling height of this kind of old public housing is low to begin with - of course, in China, even new houses 20 years later will only have that much ceiling height - Xiao Yao's arms supported Shen Jie, and the two of them formed a huge monster of two or three meters, so it was not uncommon for them to bump heads.

Fortunately, the ceiling was also covered with old calendars by grandma, so although Shen Jie said "it hurts", it actually didn't hurt that much.

Xiao Yao lifted her up high, and she shrank her neck. The two of them walked around the small bedroom three times to the left and three times to the right: "Is this all right, little ancestor?"

"This is nothing, and you can't handle it?" Shen Jie teased him.

Yu Luying's eyes were almost rolled up to the sky, even whiter than her socks: "Sister, that's enough, my arms are so sore."

"Okay, then put me down." Shen Jie said reluctantly, "Am I that heavy? Is this scientific?"

Later, Shen Jie became more aggressive and tentatively proposed to ride on Xiao Yao's shoulders, but was suppressed by both Xiao Yao and Yu Luying.

"Why do I feel like you've been acting a bit strange lately? That's a bit abnormal?" At night, Xiao Yao couldn't help but asked Shen Jie this question in a half-joking tone.

"What do you mean?" Shen Jie looked at him.

……

"Isn't it because I like you too much and rely on you too much? You big fool, why do you even have to ask this?" Shen Jie sighed faintly and said, "In that dream, I spent a long time without you. Although I felt that everything was good and there was nothing missing, there was just a big empty space in my heart."

"Me too." Xiao Yao hugged her tightly with some excitement.

"After I regained my memory, I finally realized what was happening," Shen Jie continued. "I took being with you every day for granted, and didn't feel anything special. I had to lose you like this to see how important you are to me."

Xiao Yao pretended to be in tears: "I understand."

"Hey," Shen Jie raised her hand and turned off the fluorescent light: "Last time, I didn't complete the task completely. Let's try again today?"

"What? Now?"

"Why not?"

“Meow~~~~”

"Fuck, why didn't you catch the cat?"

"Go catch it."

"Your cat, you go."

"I don't want~"

"Listen, this BYD guy is chewing the sofa again."

"Just chew it. It's your sofa anyway."

"Grass."

Chapter 398

2023-12-21

Monday, October 2004, 10, had excellent sunshine early in the morning.

In recent days, the temperature has dropped sharply to a few degrees Celsius above zero, and Xiao Yao also put on long johns at the urging of Shen Jie and his grandmother.

When I woke up in the morning, Shen Jie was not by my pillow. She had only left breakfast for four people on the dining table.

There was a message from her in the inbox, saying that she was going for a morning run and then going directly to school, and reminded Xiao Yao not to be late.

Xiao Yao felt a little emotional. Be it Zhang Zhengkai or the butcher, the threat from them should be lifted, and Shen Jie finally dared to act freely alone.

After breakfast, Xiao Yao was ready to go out, but Yu Luying asked him to wait for her to "pack up".

Xiao Yao didn't know what was there to clean up. Do you still want to draw eyebrows and eyes?

It was a rare early wake-up call, a rare lot of free time, and a rare good weather. Xiao Yao gave up the idea of ​​taking a nap and helped Shen Jie feed the cat.

In fact, he also knew that Shen Jie must have fed the cat before she left, but people feed cats to satisfy themselves.

Xiao Yao squatted on the ground between the soap slices with his knees hugged, watching the civet cat bury its head contentedly in the cat bowl, chewing the cat food with a "crunch" sound.

"I really envy you," Xiao Yao looked at the back of the cat's head and said something irrelevant, "Every day you eat and sleep, and you don't have to go to school or work. Every day, our family takes care of your food and daily necessities. How do you think you got this blessing?"

A thought came to my mind. Didn’t someone say that cats don’t know when they are full? Don’t let Shen Jie’s cat eat to death, or you’ll have to wait to be skinned.

Thinking of this, he reached out and snatched the cat bowl away: "Eat whatever you want, just eat it!"

The cat was eating happily when someone snatched the food away. It suddenly raised its head and looked at Xiao Yao fiercely for a few seconds.

"Okay, okay, I'll return it to you." Xiao Yao surrendered and put the bowl back.

If I remember correctly, it seems that the one that can eat itself to death is the goldfish.

"Is that cat in my dream really you?" Xiao Yao murmured to himself, "Are you really just an ordinary cat?"

"Meow~" the cat raised its head and answered.

"You are indeed not simple." Xiao Yao reached out and stroked the cat's head.

The cat had eaten its fill, but Yu Luying was still not well. Xiao Yao saw that there was still time, so he simply carried it downstairs to bask in the sun.

At such an early hour, there were already two old ladies downstairs carrying small stools and recliners and sitting down. When they saw the cat in Xiao Yao's arms, they all praised the cat for looking energetic and having beautiful fur.

Xiao Yao felt very happy after hearing these compliments.

An old woman took a bowl from home and poured milk for the "dog" to drink.

Xiao Yao played with the "dog" enthusiastically for a while. The "dog" was in a good mood and very happy. It kept meowing and was not shy with the two old ladies at all. In the end, it just stayed in Xiao Yao's arms.

This is the first time Xiao Yao has been so close to the "dog" since Shen Jie brought it home from school.

Just when Xiao Yao was beginning to feel bored, Yu Luying came down in her school uniform and trousers, carrying a school bag, with an expressionless face.

She looked at Xiao Yao, then at the "dog", with a look of confusion on her face.

Xiao Yao carried the dog upstairs and then took Yu Luying to school.

It was indeed holding.

When walking out of the alley, Xiao Yao subconsciously held Yu Luying's hand - probably because he was used to doing this in the past.

When his four fingers touched the girl's four fingers, he suddenly realized that he shouldn't have done this.

He waited for Yu Luying to shake off his hand and scold him, but Yu Luying just looked at him strangely and let him hold her hand.

Xiao Yao wanted to pull his hand back, but the other party had already grabbed his four fingers.

He just gritted his teeth and walked out of the alley holding hands with Yu Luying without any embarrassment.

After they passed the public toilet and garbage dump at the entrance of the alley, the aunt at the canteen even said hello to them: "You two are going to school."

Nonsense, Xiao Yao thought.

"Ah." Xiao Yao said.

"Didn't you go with Xiao Xu?" said the aunt.

"Ah." Xiao Yao said.

"My mother knows." Yu Luying said this suddenly after walking out of the alley.

"Know what?" Xiao Yao asked subconsciously.

"My dad saw it that day," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao, "and I told her when I got home."

Yu Luying was wearing a brown suit and trousers today, which was part of the autumn school uniform of St. Francis Xavier's School. Everyone hated it, thinking it made her look like a migrant worker and so everyone avoided wearing it if possible.

She was wearing a pair of black, slightly square leather shoes that didn't reveal her instep, so it was impossible to tell at first glance whether she was wearing socks or not, but Xiao Yao would rather believe that she was wearing skin-colored short socks.

"Your father?" Xiao Yao asked with some confusion.

"That man." The girl realized her mistake and immediately changed her words.

"What did you see?" Xiao Yao reacted as soon as he said this.

What she was obviously saying was that after the three of them had just woken up from the nightmare, when she went to Shen Jie's ward downstairs to find her, the latter pounced on her and hung on her, and exchanged some liquid substances with her.

At that time, Yu Luying followed behind him as a matter of course, and "that man" also followed behind Yu Luying as a matter of course.

Of course, he saw the intimate behavior between Shen Jie and himself.

Of course, it was natural for him to go back and tell Yu Lihua, but Xiao Yao didn't pay much attention to it at all, so he didn't even think about it.

"Hiss, my head hurts." Xiao Yao tapped his temple with his bent index finger: "What did your mother say?"

"She's very unhappy," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao expressionlessly, "She said she couldn't even pretend to be stupid anymore."

"Hiss, my head hurts." Xiao Yao continued to tap his temple: "I really feel sorry for her when I say that - then what are you going to say to your mother?"

"What else can I say?" Yu Luying glanced at him and said, "Just tell the truth. Say that you and I have broken up."

"Oh," Xiao Yao answered calmly, but his tone couldn't hide the disappointment.

Sometimes, with some things, it is one thing for the younger generation to make a fuss about it, but once it is brought to the attention of the elders, it will inevitably give people the impression that the matter has been "finally decided".

"No, I lied to you." Yu Luying observed Xiao Yao for a while and then changed her words: "I said I can't control you."

"?" Xiao Yao said, "If you say that, won't it make me hate you more in front of your mother?"

"It's not just my mom," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao, "My dad was also angry. He said he was going to beat you up, but my mom and I stopped him."