Chapter 70 Familiar Face

"Yeah, sure." Liu Ya laughed dryly and called out to Zhou Xixi, "Hurry up and take Teacher Chen to your room. You didn't clean it up properly before."

Zhou Xixi responded with two "ah-ahs" and grinned at Chen Wan, "Teacher Chen, let's go to the room to study!"

Hearing her emphasize the word "learn", Liu Ya smiled with satisfaction, "I'll go prepare some fruit for you two."

Chen Wan watched her figure disappear behind the frosted window of the kitchen, lowered his head and breathed a sigh of relief.

He followed Zhou Xixi to the bedroom, half-closed the door, and after their eyes met for a few seconds, they both smiled.

"Teacher Chen, please don't mind me. This is the norm in my family, especially my mom. She treats all the girls in the world except me as her biological children. She's so affectionate to them." Zhou Xixi took out the physics test paper, shrugged, and explained, "I really don't mean any harm. Please don't take it too seriously."

Chen Wan nodded to show that she understood.

After coming to the north, she has gradually become accustomed to the local customs and practices.

The most ridiculous greeting she had ever encountered was when she went to the cafeteria to buy breakfast. The cafeteria aunt served her soy milk and asked her if she had eaten.

Zhou Xixi is only two years older than her and has a lively personality. She would even chat with her in between doing her homework, and all her chatter was very cute.

After a few days of tutoring, her relationship with the Zhou family became more and more harmonious.

Liu Ya always invited Chen Wan to dinner, and Chen Wan had to agree because he couldn't resist her and Zhou Xixi's enthusiasm.

The warmth and beauty of the family of three did not make her, an outsider, feel alienated, and she even gradually developed a sense of integration.

Zhou Xixi's wisdom tooth is inflamed, and Liu Ya doesn't allow her to eat sweets. However, Zhou's father secretly hides her favorite snacks in his briefcase, and then shows his love to his daughter under the pretext of checking her homework.

"Teacher Chen, this is yours." Father Zhou handed her the pudding with a gentle smile. "It's normal for you little girls to like sweet things. Eat as much as you like. When you're our age, you really can't eat anything."

Zhou Xixi laughed and poked his father's belly, "Dad, have you gained weight again?"

Zhou's father said this was happiness fat.

The father and daughter were laughing together. Chen Wan watched for a while, and a soft sour feeling arose in his heart, as if he had eaten a green plum.

She politely accepted the pudding and thanked Zhou's father.

Zhou Xixi approached her with a smile and said, "From now on, Teacher Chen will be our snack ally!"

The pudding in her hand revealed a sweet color under the light. Chen Wan stared at it for a long time. Although she hadn't eaten it yet, she could already taste the sweetness. She nodded and said, "Yes, I will keep it a secret."

After the tutoring class, Chen Wan packed up and prepared to go back to school. Zhou Xixi saw her put the pudding into her bag and also caught a glimpse of several snacks in the bag, all of which she had given them.

"Teacher Chen, you don't like these?" She scratched her hair, "Then what do you like to eat? I'll ask my dad to buy it for you!"

Chen Wan shook his head. "It's not that I don't like it, I'm really grateful and I cherish it."

"That's nothing. When I go to South City to play, I'd like to have dinner at Teacher Chen's house, hehe." After she finished speaking, she stuffed another chocolate bar into Chen Wan's hand. "How did you convince your parents to go to university so far away? My parents didn't want me to go too far away."

"But the purpose of going to college is to go out and explore the world, and my parents always dislike me when I'm at home..."

Hearing her mention the word "parents", Chen Wan was stunned. He wanted to speak, but found that his nose was getting more and more sore, his eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and his emotions became erratic.

Her heart was trembling, and she felt a pain. Her voice was hoarse, "My parents are gone."

Zhou Xixi paused in packing up her papers upon hearing this and turned to look at her: "Huh?"

After seeing Chen Wan’s red and moist eyes, he was at a loss for a moment and apologized in frustration, “I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I didn’t know.”

She hugged Chen Wan carefully, "Sister Wanwan, don't cry, don't cry. Ah, no, if you are really sad, then just cry loudly and vent it out!"

There was a gentle touch on her shoulder, and the small warm palm gave her warmth.

Chen Wan sniffed, waiting for the mist in his eyes to dissipate. After a while, he replied in a muffled voice, "It's not your problem. I'm just a little emotionally unstable. I'm sorry."

Time is fleeting, but memories remain, like a seasonal rain that suddenly arrives at a certain point, perhaps in a dream, or in the happiness of others.

"Xixi, I envy you, really."

Chen Wan looked at her cozy room and the old childhood photos on the desk, showing the family of three laughing happily. She once had all these, but now there were only two black and white photos and an empty house left.

Chen Wan chose to come to Linbei, a completely unfamiliar city, on the one hand to follow Lin Yu's footsteps, and on the other hand to escape from the dark past.

She has always been introverted, and she suppresses the ups and downs of her emotions without showing any emotion. She has already hidden her sadness without even shedding tears, and when she looks up again, she still looks calm and composed.

"I'm fine. It's all over."

Good or bad, it’s all in the past.

Her voice was low, like a sigh spoken to herself.

Although Zhou Xixijing could not empathize with the situation, he understood that recounting painful memories and analyzing changes in one's mood was a cruel thing.

So I didn't ask any more questions, but just hugged her quietly, wanting to give her a little warmth.

......

After Chen Wan left, Zhou Xixi told her mother about this.

Liu Ya sighed in understanding and said, "No wonder she is so sensible."

Chen Wan's aloofness and reserve when interacting with others revealed her deep defensiveness. She had guessed that Chen Wan must have experienced a lot, but she had never imagined that the reason for his maturity and understanding was that both his parents died at a young age.

Because no one will tolerate her grievances and immaturity, she can only rely on herself. Even if her life is bumpy, she has to pretend to be at ease.

Liu Ya is both a mother and a daughter. She feels sorry for Chen Wan and understands her.

"I think my uncle and Teacher Chen are a perfect match. They're both very gentle, and my uncle is so sunny and cheerful. He's sure to bring her happiness!"

As a young girl who loves Mary Sue novels, Zhou Xixi never gets tired of this type of subject matter and secretly makes up her mind to bring the two people together.

So when Chen Wan came to teach her again, he heard her talking about her uncle all the time.

After Chen Wan finished outlining the knowledge points, under Zhou Xixi's expectant gaze, he feigned curiosity and asked, "Who is your uncle?"

"He is a super nice person, gentle and handsome. Teacher Chen, you will definitely like him, hehe." Zhou Xixi said and was about to show her Lin Yu's photo.

Chen Wan shook her head and said solemnly, "Xixi, I already have a boyfriend."

Instead, she sent the photo to Zhou Xixi first, "It's him."

Looking at Lin Yu's gentle smile in the photo, Zhou Xixi's mouth opened as wide as a goose egg. She wanted to help add some fuel to the fire, but she didn't expect that the progress bar had already been filled up.

Uncle, you are worthy of being me.

She and Liu Ya agreed not to tell Lin Yu that Chen Wan was taking classes at her house. She had originally intended to hint at his intentions, but now that she had received a positive answer, she breathed a sigh of relief.

When he looked at Chen Wan again, his eyes were burning and his joy was beyond words. He felt that Chen Wan and Lin Yu were truly a match made in heaven.

"Then my aunt...oh, not Teacher Chen, how did you two get together?" Zhou Xixi held her chin, her eyes wide open, and asked a series of questions, "Have you been dating for a long time?"

Girls of this age group are full of yearning for love, which is mainly reflected in their strong gossiping nature.

"Then you finish the test first, and get more than 90 points, and I will tell you."

“…”

Chen Wan smiled slightly, and Zhou Xixi looked miserable.

But driven by curiosity, he concentrated on the questions and actually got 90 points. After putting down his pen, Zhou Xixi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Chen Wan pitifully, "Can you tell me now?"

Chen Wan was amused by her. After pondering for a moment, he sorted out his thoughts and mentioned his relationship with Lin Yu in a light-hearted way.

"He was a policeman, and because of a transfer, he came to South City. We happened to become neighbors, and then we gradually became familiar with each other..."

"Ah! So it's love that grows over time? Then who confessed first?" Zhou Xixi became more and more excited as she listened, her eyes sparkling. "Was it my uncle?"

"Uncle?" Chen Wan frowned, somewhat puzzled. "Did you hear wrongly?"

Zhou Xixi laughed dryly and stopped talking, "Slip of the tongue...slip of the tongue...go on."

Chen Wan's eyebrows curved, her smile was soft, and she briefly talked about how Lin Yu confessed his feelings to her at school after they went to college.

Recalling that day, she subconsciously pinched her earlobe, and the warm touch made her eyes look a little more shy.

The gentle emotion she inadvertently revealed made Zhou Xixi see some clues. She raised an eyebrow and was about to reveal her identity to Chen Wan when she heard her say, "I took this part-time job to save money to buy him a birthday present."

"You want to give him a surprise, right?" Zhou Xixi stopped herself from saying anything and followed Chen Wan's idea, saying, "How romantic."

Chen Wan nodded a little embarrassedly, "Yeah, by the way, you just said that your uncle's birthday is coming up too, right?"

"Yes, yes, hehe, what a coincidence, we have the same birthday." Zhou Xixi smiled ambiguously and grinned at her, "It feels like we are destined to be together. I'll introduce you to each other later."

Chen Wan quietly moved to the side and saw a notebook on the corner of the table. The three words "Li Jinhe" were written neatly on the title page. He smiled and said, "I've told you everything. Do you want to tell me the story of this physics class representative?"

Zhou Xixi followed her gaze and after a moment of stunned silence, her face flushed. "We are just desk mates, there's nothing special about us!"

"Oh, just a simple deskmate." Chen Wan nodded, emphasizing the word "deskmate" intentionally. When he was about to make a joke, Zhou Xixi covered his mouth.

"Oh, stop it. Okay, I have a crush on him! It's embarrassing for a girl to chase a boy!" Zhou Xixi snorted in frustration. "Li Jinhe is so stupid. We've been desk mates for three years and he can't tell I like him. He just forces me to study every day. He wants to get into Linda University, which I can't possibly get into, and he nags me every day."

"He said that if it wasn't for me, he would have sat in the first row. I didn't pull him, but he had to sit with me."

Although Zhou Xixi was complaining, her eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles.

If two people like each other, how can they not notice it?

Chen Wan smiled and glanced at his watch, then thought of the word "time" and suddenly understood Lin Yu's little thoughts.

Every time you look at the watch, you will think of me.

Time and I are always with you.

As the two were talking, they heard a knock on the door. Liu Ya smiled and said, "Xiao Xi, my aunt is here."

When Zhou Xixi heard the word "grand aunt", she was stunned for two seconds, then she exclaimed "Wow" and looked at Chen Wan with more excitement.

"Teacher Chen, come with me to see my aunt. Let's find out the situation in advance." Zhou Xixi said as she went outside.

Chen Wan was still thinking about the second half of her sentence, and followed Zhou Xixi to the living room in confusion.

Why does she want to find out about her great aunt's condition? Does it have anything to do with her?

Li Ying and Liu Ya were chatting about family matters in the living room. When she saw Zhou Xixi come out, she greeted her with a smile, "Xixi, I brought you..."

Before she finished speaking, she saw Chen Wan standing side by side with her. After being stunned for a moment, she frowned slightly, feeling that the girl looked familiar.

Seeing this, Liu Ya smiled and introduced her, "This is Xixi's physics tutor, Chen Wan."

The moment Chen Wan and Li Ying's eyes met, they were also stunned.

The woman in front of him looked to be about forty-five or forty-six years old. From her gentle facial features, one could imagine her charm in her youth.

After looking at her for a while, Chen Wan was sure that he didn't know her, but her appearance seemed familiar.

Especially those slightly drooping smiling eyes, which are exactly the same as someone's.