one person's life

Chapter 336 Christmas

When Tang Yuan returned home, it was Xu Jinrong who opened the door.

Tang Yuan stretched her head and looked into the house, then walked past Xu Jingrong, not seeing her uncharacteristically calm eyes at all.

"Where is he...Muzhi?"

Tang Yuan was still carrying vegetables and seafood in her hands. She turned around and asked Xu Jingrong in surprise.

"...oh, he's gone."

Xu Jingrong said as she walked. She walked to the kitchen and pulled out a few pieces of paper, put down the things on Tang Yuan's hands for the somewhat dull Tang Yuan, and then reached out to gently wipe the sweat on her forehead.

Tang Yuan seemed to accept this fact easily. She reacted, put down what she was holding, took Xu Jingrong's toilet paper and wiped it.

"Huh - it's so hot. I'm sweating all over from walking." Tang Yuan walked to the living room, closed the window, and turned on the air conditioner.

Xu Jingrong sat back on the sofa with some dejection. She reached out and touched her white porcelain water cup. There was still warmth on the wall of the cup.

Tang Yuan was aimlessly busy in her house for a while. She threw the crab into the sink, and then stuffed the vegetables into the refrigerator. When she saw the heater under the electric kettle, she said in surprise: "Ah, you Found this."

"He found it." A forced smile appeared on Xu Jingrong's face: "Oh, he still likes to joke. He actually said that he had fortune-telling to find something... You can see it from another angle, right behind the TV. What?"

Tang Yuan poured herself water, took a sip and said silently: "It has been boiling for a while."

"Yes, you never come back..."

"..." Tang Yuan opened her mouth, as if she wanted to defend herself, but in the end she couldn't speak out.

Xu Jingrong: "Tang Muzhi said that he is getting married, let me tell you."

Tang Yuan put down her cup and sat with Xu Jingrong, her eyes dim and said: "That's good. It's just that I haven't had time to cook a meal for him yet."

"He should be quite busy." Xu Jingrong rubbed his eyes: "He said he is now working in a government agency in Jiangcheng."

Tang Yuan was surprised: "What? In Jiangcheng, how could..."

Xu Jingrong looked at her and asked strangely: "What's wrong? Does it matter where you work?"

Tang Yuan nodded: "Most of our family members have settled down for a long time... I'm talking about adulthood. He should be an exception."

Xu Jingrong lay on his back on the sofa and sighed: "You, mother and son, are indeed strange."

"...Well, he gave me the impression that he was...very mature since he was a child. He started talking when he was two or almost three years old. I went to many doctors at that time and they all said everything was normal. They asked me to wait. Some people It’s too late to speak.”

"Oh, you told me that the first time he spoke, he said... you guys went the wrong way or something."

Tang Yuan recalled: "I seemed to be taking him with me at that time. I can't remember where I was going. In short, the first thing he said was, 'We are going to the wrong place.'"

"The first time I met him was in No. 1 Middle School. We had assigned seats, but he was sitting in the last row. After class, he told me that he wanted to sit in my seat, and we changed seats. Take a seat?" Xu Jingrong suddenly chuckled as if he thought of something.

"I remember meeting him when I climbed over the wall to go home again. He was with Guang Shao, and he called me 'comrade' at that time. Haha, when I heard that, I thought of my dad, Old Antique."

"Ha..." Tang Yuan also covered her mouth and laughed, "Maybe after I left him, he felt more comfortable living alone. Now he looks much more cheerful."

Xu Jingrong said slowly: "My impression is that he has always been like this, but his temperament has changed a bit. He looks like a soldier." "It's good for a boy to be a soldier..." Tang Yuan nodded slowly, "You Do you want to eat something? The vegetables are all bought."

Xu Jingrong turned his head away lazily, leaned out of the sofa and looked into the kitchen.

"Crabs... I'll cook them. If you put them in the refrigerator and eat them again, you'll get upset."

Tang Yuan said half-jokingly: "It would be great if you were my daughter-in-law... It's just a bit weird."

Xu Jingrong's body froze. She did not look at Tang Yuan, but after a long time she smiled and said: "Oh, it's a bit strange. Sister Tangyuan, I'd better call you sister, so that I can take advantage of Tang Muzhi."

Tang Yuan stopped talking.

Ever since Tang Yuan came in, the atmosphere in the house seemed to be quite strange.It's like two people who are close to each other suddenly put a mask on their fragile hearts. The iron mask is very hard, but it always feels cold when it is attached to the sensitive heart.

Xu Jingrong stood up and walked into the kitchen with her back to Tang Yuan. She washed her hands and then untied the reeds that bound the crabs. The reeds were heavily stained with water. She said, "Hey, Sister Tangyuan, are you being raped?" What a trap, the grass the crabs are tied with weighs only half a catty..."

"Half a catty? It's not that exaggerated. I bought it in a hurry. I can't help it. It's like this here."

Xu Jingrong threw away the reed grass, and the dying crab felt its body become lighter for the first time in a long time, and struggled to crawl in the water tank.Xu Jingrong started cutting the side dishes and ignored the struggling crab.

While preparing side dishes, she asked Tang Yuan nonchalantly:

"Sister, why don't you ask him when he will get married?"

Tang Yuan, who was sitting on the sofa, found something to do. She was still holding a piece of reed grass in her hand. The reed grass had been kneaded into a rough ball by her. When she twisted it through her delicate palms and fingertips, she would feel a slight tingling sensation. Tingling sensation.

"Oh, come here at this time, it should be the Mid-Autumn Festival wedding."

"Tsk, I didn't realize it, but you know him pretty well."

Tang Yuan felt a needle-like pain in her palms and responded: "Just guessing..."

"Oh."

The two of them experienced a period of silence again. Xu Jingrong finished processing the side dishes and saw the crab in front of him that was still struggling in the tank. Its pincers hit the metal wall of the tank on the other side. Its body was tilted upward and lifeless. It could be seen that In the short period before death, it struggled with all its strength, at least it touched both sides of the sink.

Xu Jingrong's unconsciously frowned brows softened, and her eyes were slightly hollow, as if she was moved by the crab's life experience. It was unknown how long it had been tied to the heavy reed grass, but when the restraints were untied After that, it ran head-on into a stronger cage... and now there was a stove fire waiting for it.

"Sister, are you willing to tell me now? Who is his father..."

Tang Yuan's face was calm. She stood up, walked to the TV cabinet, squatted down, and took out a book from it.

"Historical Records"

Xu Jingrong glanced at it and roughly knew which book it was.

Tang Yuan doesn't like reading, but she often reads the thinly bound "Historical Records".

"The Taihao Fuxi family, with the surname Feng, succeeded the Suiren family to become the king. His mother's name is Hua Xu. He followed the great master's footsteps in Leize and was born. Fuxi was born in Chengji..."

(End of this chapter)