Next to the shoreline guardrail, the salty sea breeze blew past my face, making it a bit sticky.
Su Qinghe looked at the lights of fishing boats on the sea not far away, wondering what he was thinking.
"Su Hanhan, what are you thinking about?"
Gu Yifan rubbed her little head and said.
Su Qinghe's originally smooth and watery hair was a little messy by him, but it wasn't ugly at all. Instead, it looked messy and beautiful.
"I……"
Su Qinghe opened her mouth slightly and hesitated for a moment. She turned to look at Gu Yifan and whispered, "I suddenly feel very useless."
"Um?"
Gu Yifan couldn't help but frown.
He looked at Su Qinghe with some confusion and said, "Why do you say that suddenly?"
"I...you are so good."
She pouted and whispered sheepishly.
"Uh (⊙o⊙)..."
Gu Yifan was stunned, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry!
"You, you, you are such a fool!"
Gu Yifan couldn't help but pinch her little cheek, and then said softly: "Little fool, you are actually very good yourself!"
"Look at you, you study well, you are good-looking, and you are still the goddess Su in the eyes of all the boys in the school!"
When Su Qinghe heard Gu Yifan say the word "Goddess Su", Su Qinghe couldn't help but blush slightly. She always felt something strange in her heart.
"Okay, you belittle yourself, but in my heart you are also very good and outstanding!"
"Before I walked with you, didn't you see the envy in the eyes of those boys when they looked at me, and they even wanted to kill me?"
Gu Yifan smiled slightly.
Hearing this, the blush on Su Qinghe's face deepened, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes at Gu Yifan.
This stinky guy said nonsense!
It's not that exaggerated!
"Okay, be good~"
"Don't think too much, and don't care about what others say. Just be the truest version of yourself. I'll take care of the rest!"
Gu Yifan said softly and gently.
Su Qinghe raised his little head and looked at him, their eyes facing each other.
After a while.
As if she had figured something out, Su Qinghe smiled brightly and said, "Yeah, I understand."
Seeing her smile, Gu Yifan also laughed.
…
Half past eleven in the evening.
After the two took a walk on the beach, they returned to the hotel.
Perhaps because of the previous experience, this time, Su Qinghe quickly ran back to his room after taking a shower.
Gu Yifan didn't have any distracting thoughts this time. After smoking a cigarette, he took a shower and went to bed.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Gu Yifan and Su Qinghe went out after breakfast at the hotel.
The urban area of Zhangcheng City is only a few dozen kilometers away from Su Qinghe's hometown. After buying incense, candles, paper money and tributes in the city, they drove towards Shaxi Village.
Shaxi Village is where Su Qinghe's hometown is. It is a small fishing village near the sea.
Driving all the way there, we basically took the coastal roads, and the scenery on both sides of the river was indeed very good.
Gu Yifan drove at a very slow speed. The two of them enjoyed the scenery along the way and the sea breeze, which was quite comfortable!
At around 9:30 in the morning, the two arrived at Su Qinghe's hometown, Shaxi Village.
The village is not too big, consisting of more than a dozen families. Most of the languages used for communication here are in southern Fujian, which Gu Yifan naturally cannot understand.
"We're here, it's right in front."
Su Qinghe pointed to an overgrown and dilapidated brick house in front of him and spoke softly.
"good!"
"Then let's find a place to park the car first!"
Gu Yifan said.
"Uh-huh."
Su Qinghe nodded, but her eyes never left the dilapidated house.
There are very few outsiders coming here, let alone such luxury cars. As soon as Gu Yifan and Su Qinghe entered the village, someone noticed them.
After parking the car, as soon as they got out of the car, many middle-aged women sitting around under the big banyan tree picking peanuts looked at the two of them curiously!
Maybe it’s because of shyness at home!
At this time, Su Qinghe couldn't help but feel a little nervous, but Gu Yifan didn't feel anything at all. He even smiled and said hello to the old aunts under the banyan tree.
This familiar appearance, in future generations, would mean that he has a social disorder!
really!
Like mother, like son!
As expected, Chen Dongmei's socially awkward personality was passed down to Gu Yifan.
Seeing that the home that once held her childhood memories had now become mottled, dilapidated, and overgrown with weeds, Su Qinghe had mixed feelings.
Sensing Su Qinghe's strange mood, Gu Yifan walked up to her and gently held her hand, saying softly: "It's okay, I'm here!"
"Uh-huh."
Su Qinghe raised his head, glanced at him, and nodded gently.
Just then, an old woman walked out of the low house next to her.
"Hey, are you...?"
She looked at the somewhat unfamiliar Gu Yifan and Su Qinghe and said with some confusion.
Hearing the sound, Gu Yifan and Su Qinghe turned and looked over at the same time.
The old woman spoke in Minnan dialect, which Gu Yifan couldn't hear. However, Su Qinghe recognized the person at a glance. She whispered in Minnan dialect: "Third aunt."
"Um?"
The old woman whom Su Qinghe called her third aunt was obviously stunned when she heard this.
She looked at Su Qinghe carefully, her brows moving in and out.
Because she really couldn't recognize who Su Qinghe was!
"Third aunt, it's me, I'm Daya."
Seemingly seeing the doubts in the old woman's eyes, Su Qinghe spoke in Hokkien again.
"Da Ya?"
The old woman seemed to have thought of something. She looked at Su Qinghe and said tentatively: "Daya, are you the eldest daughter of the Su Mei family - Qinghe?"
"Yeah, it's me!"
Su Qinghe nodded and whispered.
"Oh, Daya, it's you!"
"In the blink of an eye, you have grown so big that my third aunt doesn't even recognize you!"
The old woman said with a surprised look on her face.
"Uh-huh."
Su Qinghe nodded and said nothing more.
That's her character, there's nothing she can do about it.
"Eh"
"Are you coming back to live?"
"Da Ya, what are you going to do when you come back this time?"
The third aunt looked at Su Qinghe and asked casually.
"No."
Su Qinghe shook his head gently and whispered: "I just came back to pay homage to my parents."
"Oh, that's it!"
The third aunt nodded and said, "You've grown so big in a blink of an eye. You probably haven't been back for a long time. It's really time to pay homage to your parents."
"Uh-huh."
Su Qinghe nodded and fell silent again.
On the other hand, Gu Yifan on the side said to Su Qinghe: "Is this... a relative?"
Su Qinghe nodded first and then shook her head. She thought for a while and said in a low voice: "Yeah, third aunt is my grandma's sister."
"Oh."
Gu Yifan nodded.
Hearing the two people talking, although the old woman couldn't quite understand Mandarin, she roughly guessed the meaning from their expressions and body language.
So he whispered to the two of them...
(End of chapter)
