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Victory Gate.

The old Kyoto people commonly call it the Red Street.

The ordinary Kyoto University teacher was preparing dinner alone in the kitchen.

The thick fiery clouds on the horizon look like an ink painting.

Under the plaque with the words "Cao's House".

Song Chaoge stood by the doorpost, but did not go in. He looked at the long street calmly with a blank look in his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking or how long he had been waiting.

As a holy place in the eyes of people who have moved to Beijing and the heart of China, Kyoto is as crowded and lively as Tokyo, which claims to be the largest city in Asia.

It is rare to see such empty and quiet streets in Kyoto, where the cramped underground dark rooms are filled with dreamers.

at last.

A domestically-made new energy vehicle drove into the quaint street, breaking the silence.

The car stopped in front of Cao's house.

Maotu jumped down first, carrying a packed lunch box in his hand.

"Dudu."

Cao Jinse then got out of the car, pressed the car key to lock the car, and then heard a voice, "Jinse".

She turned her head and looked with reasonable surprise, then smiled: "Is it passing by, or..."

"I was passing by, but I came specially to see you."

The other party said with a smile.

Rabbit curled his lips.

This kind of sweet talk is too low-level.

He is not at all as good as Jiang Chen.

and also.

A Taoist nun with a stable mood.

Ugh.

Another day of missing you.

"Why don't you go in?"

Cao Jinse greeted the other party casually, "My brother should be at home."

Song Chaoge, who was followed by the playboys in Kyoto, smiled but said nothing.

"I don't know why you're all so afraid of my brother."

Cao Jinse was helpless, and then said: "I bought some food, let's go in and eat some?"

Maotu, who was carrying the vegetables, had a stern face. Although he didn't say anything rude, his displeasure was written all over his face.

"Forget it, you just came back, and you may have just had time to have a meal with Brother Xiu Ge. I won't disturb you."

"You really don't want to eat?"

Song Chaoge shook his head, "Just looking at you."

"What's so good about this? I'm having a better time in Japan than you think."

"That's good."

After waiting for so long, as if just to confirm that the other person was safe and sound, Song Chaoge planned to leave.

"Come in, before the food gets cold."

Cao Jinse nodded, "Let's go, little rabbit."

The two of them, one going inwards and the other going outwards, passed each other. When they were about to cross the threshold, Cao Jinse looked back.

"Thanks."

"Unfamiliar."

Song Chaoge didn't look back, nor did he pause. He just laughed and then walked away along the long street.

"Miss, what is he doing? Is he pretending to be profound?" Maotu spoke up.

Cao Jinse didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and tapped her head, "Let's go."

"elder brother."

Cao Xiuge moved the tables and chairs and sat in the yard, feeling particularly relaxed.

Hearing the voice, he looked up, looking surprised, "Why are you back?"

Cao Jinse, who is even busier after returning to China than in Japan, approaches and says, “I left early, otherwise I don’t know how long it would take.”

"You are the protagonist, and you are just going to slip away like that?"

"I'm not the protagonist. He hasn't come back yet. I'm just acting as a substitute."

"Since you are doing it for me, I have to do it to the end."

"Isn't this just for a meal with my brother?"

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I haven't even prepared the meal yet."

"It's okay, I bought it on the way." Cao Jinse ordered: "Little rabbit, go and move two chairs out."

"okay."

At home, Rabbit is quite hardworking.

"Brother, just eat these."

What's on the small round mahogany table?

A plate of lettuce, a plate of green peas, and a plate of shredded carrots. It is nutritious and green, but there is not a single bit of meat in it.

"Luckily Song Chaoge didn't come in just now, otherwise people might think that our family can't afford meat."

"Song Chaoge?"

"Well, I just ran into him at the door."

"Why doesn't he come in?"

Cao Jinse gave his eldest brother a look and said, "What do you think? Brother, how many times have we had guests over the years?"

"It seems that very few people come here." Cao Xiuge nodded and muttered.

"So what's the reason?"

"what reason?"

"Of course it's because of you."

"because I?"

"Could it be because of me?" Cao Jinse sighed, "Brother, maybe you look too fierce."

"Nonsense." Cao Xiuge scolded with a smile: "I, your brother, am the most popular teacher in Beijing University."

"Oh, look how proud you are. Maybe you are too lenient and it is easy for students to get credits from you."

No concern or condolences.

No one asked about my well-being.

They hadn't seen each other for nearly half a year, and Cao Jinse almost didn't come back, but the brother and sister acted as if nothing had happened.

"Miss, sit down."

Maotu brought the chair, one in each hand. It was a solid nanmu chair, and quite heavy, but it seemed to be very easy in her hands. She was truly like a King Kong Barbie.

"Ting ting ting... Kyoto roast duck."

Cao Jinse sat down, took out the packed lunch box, and arranged the dishes meticulously, "There are also Li's braised meat and braised pig's feet. If we hadn't come back, you wouldn't have had this kind of enjoyment."

"Yes, if I didn't have such a good sister, I would have starved to death long ago."

Even the Rabbit couldn't help but laugh.

"Brother, seriously, you are not a monk, why do you always eat vegetarian food? You are a teacher at Beijing University, a high-level intellectual in the country, don't listen to those experts' nonsense, eating vegetarian food is not healthy, the best way to eat is always a reasonable combination of meat and vegetables."

As she spoke, Cao Jinse picked up a large pig's trotter and put it into her eldest brother's bland bowl. "You've lost weight. You need to eat more."

"Miss, can you please not be so sentimental? I want to cry."

Rabbit interrupted.

"Move the chair over there and eat."

The scolded Rabbit shut up in grievance.

Cao Xiuge looked at this girl strangely, who was more like a family member than a family member.

"In Japan, I gave her to Jiang Chen to take care of. After staying there for a long time, I didn't learn anything else, but my eloquence improved a lot."

Cao Jinse said.

Cao Xiuge suddenly realized.

Although the Rabbit was quite lively before, he couldn't say such elegant words.

"You've worked hard taking care of your young lady outside. Come, eat more."

Cao Xiuge put the big pig's trotter back into Maotu's bowl.

Maotu was not polite and smiled sweetly, "Thank you, Master."

"Brother, she really needs to eat less. Look how fat she has become. Her face has become rounder..."

"Girls are cuter when they are rounder."

No wonder he is the most popular teacher.

Sure enough.

Cao Jinse had no choice but to pick up the chopsticks when she saw her elder brother looking at Maotu with a smile.

"When will Jiang Chen come back?"

Cao Xiuge took a bite of lettuce.

People’s pursuits are indeed quite different.

Some people pursue great wealth and honor.

  But some people just want three meals a day.

"I don't know. It's not like you don't have his number." Cao Xiuge laughed, "There's a difference between a national hero and a contributor to the country. Why are you speaking so harshly?"

"Brother, please don't laugh at me. I've been in jail for so long. How can I be called a hero?"

"The process is not important, what is important is the result. After so many years, at least I have a chance to be proud of myself."

"I knew I was just a prop."

Cao Xiuge suddenly fell silent.

Cao Jinse looked up and put the wrapped roast duck slices into her brother's bowl. "What's the matter?"

"Are you worried about something?"

"No."

Cao Jinse immediately denied it.

"If you have any problem, just tell me and let me guide you. Even if I can't do it, there are still psychology teachers in Kyoto University. I can contact them for you."

Cao Jinse didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Brother, please don't make fun of me, okay? Do I look like there's something wrong with me?"

Cao Xiuge looked at her carefully and said, "You are a little different from the Cao Jinse I know."

"What's the difference? Fatter or thinner? Whiter or darker?"

"My sister has always been ambitious and energetic, with a sparkle in her eyes."

Cao Jinse was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Really?"

"Ask Maotu."

Cao Jinse tilted her head.

"Well, Master is right."

Maotu nodded repeatedly, her mouth greasy, holding a pig's trotter in one hand and her favorite shredded carrots with chopsticks in the other. She probably didn't hear clearly what Cao Xiuge said.

"I just suddenly felt that there was no need for me to be so competitive."

Cao Jinse fiddled with the rice grains in the bowl.

"why?"

Cao Xiuge listened carefully.

"Before, I felt that the world couldn't do without me, so I wanted to do everything to the best of my ability, but now I find that there are many people who are working just as hard."

"So you think that now that you have someone to share your burden with, you don't have to work so hard anymore?"

Cao Xiuge helped with the summary.

Cao Jinse said nothing.

"It seems that you have gained a lot in Japan this time."

Cao Jinse looked at the other party, "Brother, so have you always thought this way?"

Teacher Cao, who was an unknown teacher, put down his chopsticks and leaned against the sunset.

“The world is neither as good nor as bad as you imagine. If you get in touch with those students, you will find that many of them have the same dream.”

“No matter how special or alternative your ideals are, you must know that there will always be people whose ideals coincide with yours.”

"Like the name?"

Cao Xiuge nodded and smiled, "Yeah, just like the name."

Cao Jinse picked up a ball of rice and put it into her mouth. "Since my brother has said so, you can't accuse me of being lazy in the future."

"When did I tell you that?"

Cao Xiuge smiled and said, "Even if you get married now, I won't say a word."

"Marry? Marry whom? Who will marry me?"

Cao Xiuge was indeed a different elder brother. He actually replied: "There are still many people who want to marry you. You have money and beauty, and you come from a well-educated family with excellent character. To use the words of today's young people, you are a rich and beautiful woman..."

The rice grains that Cao Jinse was still chewing in her mouth almost spit out.

"Rich and beautiful woman in the world, brother, where did you learn these words? Why are you like Jiang Chen, getting more and more..."

“It’s becoming more and more fashionable, isn’t it?”

Cao Jinse smiled sweetly and put down her chopsticks. "No, I have to rest for a while."

"Looks like I came at the right time."

A hearty voice suddenly came.

Cao Xiuge, who was chatting and joking with his sister, stood up quickly.

"Uncle Sui."

Cao Jinse turned around and followed closely behind him, "Uncle Sui."

While standing up, she secretly kicked Maotu's chair with her foot, but Maotu was still eating with relish.

"Why are you standing up? Sit down. Tsk, Kyoto roast duck, the food is pretty good. No wonder little Cao had to sneak back."

"Has Uncle Sui eaten yet?"

Sui Huimin smiled brightly, "Not yet."

"Uncle Sui, please sit in my chair. I'll go get the dishes and chopsticks."

have to.

Another pair of chopsticks.

Fortunately, Cao Jinse bought some vegetables, otherwise the few vegetarian dishes cooked by Cao Xiuge would not be enough.

"Xiu Ge, we haven't had dinner together for a long time, would you like to have a drink?"

Sui Huimin was in good spirits and had no airs at all. He sat with the brother and sister in the yard of Cao's house.

"I'll get the wine."

"No, I brought it."

As he spoke, Sui Huimin made a gesture, and the guard waiting in the distance quickly took a bottle of tribute wine from the car.

"Uncle Sui, you came here just to have a free meal, right?"

Cao Jinse couldn't help but say.

"Who said that? I heard that you, Miss Cao, disappeared during the trip, so I came to see what happened. Miss Cao, although you have made great contributions this time, you can't just do whatever you want."

"Uncle Sui, I haven't stopped since I came back. I've been attending one meeting after another, one social event after another. Today is the first meal my brother and I have together."

"Look, everyone is celebrating your achievement and commending you, but you are complaining about it."

"No, it's just that can there be fewer activities like this in the future?"

Cao Jinse requested in a coquettish manner.

"Uncle Sui, I can't agree to this question because I can't make the decision."

Without asking the guard to do it for him, Cao Xiuge opened the wine and poured it into the two people's glasses.

Sui Huimin picked up the wine glass, looked at the ancient courtyard, and without saying a word, he turned the glass downward and slowly poured the first glass of wine onto the muddy ground beneath his feet.

The wine that cannot be measured by money soaks into the land.

"I will do it myself."

Sui Huimin refilled the empty glass again, "Cao girl, do you want some too?"

Cao Jinse immediately shook her head.

Sui Huimin smiled and didn't force it, and just touched Cao Xiuge.

"These dishes are all Xiu Ge's cooking."

Sui Huimin's eyes fell on several plates of vegetarian dishes.

"I'll go fry some peanuts."

Peanuts to go with wine.

Ok.

Know how to entertain guests.

"That's enough, these dishes are pretty good."

Sui Huimin picked up a snow pea, chewed it carefully, and then praised: "It's no less delicious than those experienced chefs who have been cooking for decades."

"Uncle Sui, you are exaggerating. My brother learned how to cook from me."

"Cao girl, stop bragging. You are as old as your brother."

"But his food is not as delicious as mine. There is no order of learning, and the one who is more accomplished is the teacher."

Sui Huimin was speechless for a moment. He smiled and pointed at Cao Jinse without saying anything.

The meal lasted until the sun completely set.

Into winter.

The temperature in Kyoto is relatively cold.

The food was already cold, but there wasn't much left.

A bottle of specially supplied tribute wine was also consumed by two generations of men.

Sui Huimin was still not satisfied and did not talk about any official business from beginning to end. He put on the coat given by the guards and even mentioned it when he left.

"No need to send me off. Let's drink next time. Then, call Jiang Chen along."

Several figures walked out of the yard in the night.

"Miss, why are you all mentioning Jiang Chen?"

Maotu, who was concentrating on eating tonight, was puzzled as to why he felt that guy was still around after returning to his country.

"Did I mention it?"

"Miss, you mentioned it the most."

Rabbit was very serious and answered the questions seriously.

Cao Xiuge smiled slightly and cleaned up. (End of this chapter)