Chapter 45

"Well, there's only one box of miscellaneous items left in the warehouse. Everything is in its proper place."

Ruan Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he thought about how he had been running back and forth from the warehouse to the room every day recently, and now that it was completely over.

It would be tiring to clean him up right away, and it wouldn't be easy to do it bit by bit.

"Are you missing anything? Is there anything inconvenient?"

Ruan Yan laughed when he heard Ming Yunle ask this.

What was there for him not to understand? It seemed that forgetting to buy the trash can had left too deep an impression on Ming Yunle.

Ruan Yan: "I have everything I need this time. If I do need something, it's because I want to buy it later, not because I forgot to buy something."

Ming Yunle nodded.

*

Recently, Ming Yunle goes to Ruan Yan's house whenever he is free.

Ming Yunle watered Ruan Yan's flowers, looked at them, and said, "It seems you've taken good care of them."

Ruan Yan came over with a fruit plate full of fruits and said, "Of course, I put a lot of thought into it."

Speaking of flowers, Ruan Yan thought of the flowers they planted every year and said, "We'll have to plant flowers soon, right? Have you bought the seeds?"

Ming Yunle said, "This time, the flowers have been selected and the seeds have been bought long ago. Everything is ready and we are just waiting to plant it."

Ruan Yan couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the tangled scene last year.

“It seems this year is very different.”

"Of course." Ming Yunle finished watering the flowers, admired them for a while, and then sat back.

"Would you like to take a good look around my home?" Ruan Yan asked.

Ming Yunle was stunned by his question.

He also discovered that he had come here many times but had never thought of visiting it.

Every time I go to the study or the entertainment room, or the living room, I don’t think about anything else.

Ruan Yan saw Ming Yunle's expression and said with a smile, "It seems that none of us have thought about this."

Ming Yunle thought about it for a moment, but didn't move. Instead, he said, "Let it be."

"Let it be?"

"Well, why bother visiting it on purpose? Maybe at some point I'll visit a place in your house and unknowingly visit all of them. In all these years, I've only visited less than half of Xia Chen's villa."

"Less than half?"

At this point, Ming Yunle sighed helplessly and said, "Yeah. One time, I couldn't find the toilet, so Xia Chen took me there. He laughed at me for a long time."

"Can't find the toilet?"

"Yeah. I haven't been to that place, so isn't it normal that I couldn't find it?"

At this point, Ming Yunle became interested and said, "Don't we go to the second floor more often? Then did you know that there are three invisible doors on the second floor?"

Ruan Yan really didn't know.

Ming Yunle: "Don't mention it's you, I don't even know."

Ruan Yan: “…”

Ming Yunle said, "But I won't tell you now. Take your time exploring. There's a bar behind one of the doors."

"Bar?"

Ming Yunle said, "I saw it once when I accidentally walked in. I even went in to make a cup of tea."

This is really his style, Ruan Yan thought.

"Later, Xia Chen told me there were three and took me there. One was the bar, one was a regular rest area, and one was the gaming area. Qin Bai didn't know about this either, so I was the one who told him in the end."

After that, they went back to their own business.

While Ruan Yan was cleaning the kitchen, Ming Yunle went for a walk outside.

After Ruan Yan cleaned the kitchen, drank a glass of juice and read for a while, he found that Ming Yunle had not returned yet.

He was out for a long time this time.

According to past experience, it seems that Ming Yunle went somewhere on a whim.

When Ming Yunle came back, he was holding something. Ruan Yan looked at it and thought it was exactly what he thought.

Ming Yunle handed the bag to Ruan Yan and said, "Look, I brought you a gift."

"Thank you." Ruan Yan took it and asked, "What is this?"

"Blanket, didn't you say you wanted to buy one?"

Ruan Yan showed a surprised expression. After seeing it, Ming Yunle asked, "Do you like it?"

"Um."

Ruan Yan hugged Ming Yunle and said, "I like it very much."

They walked to the front of the bar, and Ruan Yan asked, "Where is the store?"

Ming Yunle said: "Do you remember the restaurant we went to some time ago?"

"Um."

"Walk towards the restaurant from your side, turn right at the end of the street, and then walk a little further and you'll see it."

Ruan Yan nodded and said, "I've never been there before."

"Never been there?"

"Well, because besides the mall, the park and your house are the only places I usually go, I've never walked that route."

Ming Yunle: "There's a flower shop on that street. If you want to buy flowers, you can go there. There's also a cafe, a bookstore, and I think there's also a...fruit shop. I don't remember much else."

"I've remembered a lot. We can check it out next time we go for a walk together."

They sat for a while before Ming Yunle remembered that he had bought more than just this.

Ming Yunle took something out of his pocket and handed it to Ruan Yan. When Ruan Yan saw it, he showed a helpless expression.

Ming Yunle said, "Just tell me if these two items I bought are what you particularly need."

Ruan Yan smiled as he unpacked the package: "Yes, so you still remember it."

"You mentioned it to me last night. How could I not remember what happened last night?"

Ming Yunle handed Ruan Yan the bookmark he had just bought.

Although Ruan Yan had been short of bookmarks for a long time, he still used two tags plus a photo.

Last night, Ruan Yan told Ming Yunle that he must remember to buy bookmarks next time. Ming Yunle was speechless for a long time.

It's been so long, and it turns out he hasn't bought it yet.

Ruan Yan bought an eye mask and a bag, and even bought several other things mentioned later.

Ming Yunle had mentioned casually that he wanted a special hat before, and Ruan Yan had remembered to buy it, but he had forgotten to buy the thing he was looking for in the first place.

Ruan Yan said last night that he must buy it today, but judging by his appearance now, he seems to have completely forgotten about it.

Ruan Yan said, "I didn't take it seriously for a moment. I had nothing to use as a bookmark, so I could just use a tissue. Once I lost that urgency, I started putting it off."

"So I bought it for you." Ming Yunle said.

Ruan Yan and Ming Yunle went to the study together. He took out the tissue paper from the book, unpacked the bookmark, and put the bookmark in.

Looking at the style of the bookmark, Ruan Yan said, "You have a really good eye."

"Of course." Ming Yunle accepted Ruan Yan's compliment.

At this point, Ruan Yan thought of what Ming Yunle had done and asked, "Have you found all your bookmarks?"

When talking about this, Ming Yunle said: "We found a lot, but we can't get it out."

"Hmm?" Ruan Yan was a little confused.

"I think I use bookmarks so often because they're related to my hobbies."

Ruan Yan nodded.

Ming Yunle said, "For example, I put a lot of bookmarks in the baking book. These are all things I want to make. And the flower book, the bookmarks inside can't be taken out either. They are for the flowers I plan to plant in the future. There are also some health-related things. I have marked many of them, so I can't take them out."

In fact, Ming Yunle didn’t have many books with bookmarks, and they were placed very close together, so he didn’t find it last time.

For example, books about cooking.

Ming Yunle has related books at home. He bought some of them because he was learning cooking. Later, he bought some books on fruit tea making and some books related to baking.

Because there were so many types, he even forgot which one he marked.

He put the bookmark in the last batch of baking books he bought, and not in the other kinds of books, which made it difficult for him to find it.

There are also a few books where the bookmarks can only be placed inside and cannot be moved because he has not tried it yet.

For example, books on learning new skills or books on health preservation should not be moved.

So when Ming Yunle said he was looking for a bookmark, what he was looking for was nothing more than the bookmark that he forgot to take out after marking it.

After hearing this, Ruan Yan also understood why Ming Yunle needed so many bookmarks.

Because he likes many types of things, he wants to do many things.

It would be nice if he could join in when Ming Yunle does these things in the future. He likes to accompany Ming Yunle to do what he likes.

Ming Yunle said, "I took out the bookmark from the baking book and made everything I wanted to make."

"Is that the one that..."

"Well, it's the book you mentioned where I put a dozen bookmarks. Most of my bookmarks were in there, and I forgot to take them out after I was done."

Ming Yunle said, "I remember now. We were talking about desserts at the time, and I was the one who handed you the book."

After Ming Yunle added some details about the incident, Ruan Yan also remembered some of the circumstances at that time.

Because this is so common and has happened more than once.

The exact same thing happened before when making fruit tea and stew.

So he didn't remember which book was handed to him, but he inadvertently remembered that there were many bookmarks in a book.

Maybe he remembered it because there were so many bookmarks that time? But he wasn't sure about that. He couldn't be sure about memory.

Ming Yunle said, "I was wondering which book could allow me to put so many tags in it. Now I know."

Ruan Yan nodded and said, "I put those tags into the recipe. I wanted to make new dishes for those dishes, but then I forgot about them."

At this point, Ruan Yan asked, "How many bookmarks do you have in total?"

Ming Yunle really didn't remember. He said, "I don't know. I just remember that I bought a book and planned to read it. After reading it for a while at Xia Chen's house, I realized that I didn't have a bookmark."

"What happened next?"

"On the way back, I stopped by a store and bought a box of bookmarks, the kind with dozens of them in a box, and I started using them."

Thinking of this, Ming Yunle calculated the time.

"That was all several years ago, I can't remember exactly. There were probably... over thirty bookmarks in one set? I just bought them randomly, I really can't remember."