Return to China

The moment it flew over the horizon, the joy of reunion turned into the thin string of a kite, running towards the Spring City in the golden sky.

The cold air sank and the leaves on the street were rustling.

Lan Xing was standing downstairs of Building 6 in Wenxin Garden with her bag on her back.

The boy's back had broadened, his features more profound. In his dream, he and Yu Shu were looking at each other. In reality, he was waiting for the next second for Yu Shu to open the window.

The window glass was opened on time, and a small pot of cactus was brought out. Today was the weekend, and even though the smell of winter was strong, Yu Shu still wanted to let the cactus bask in the sun.

The phone was not hung up. The fruits of the camphor tree hit the glass with the wind, and the crisp sound appeared on the phone at the same time.

Yu Shu was stunned for a moment: "Do you have camphor trees over there too?"

The dancing leaves and fruits in the sky filled the entire view outside the window, so she looked down inadvertently.

Lan Xing hung up the phone with a smile on her face, which was shining and as passionate as fire.

"Hello, hello, hello, I'm not there, I'm here!" He gestured with his hands as if answering the phone. Birds were chirping, branches were shaking, and downstairs, the radio was playing a play while someone was wiping away tears.

He grew taller and stronger, and he walked into the unit door in just three or two steps, taking three steps at a time.

In a few seconds, Yu Shu's hand touched the door handle and opened it, revealing Lan Xing standing right next to her.

"Good morning!"

Patting my shoulder, he said solemnly, "Why so sudden? Why didn't you tell me? If you had told me, I would have come to pick you up."

After saying that, he pretended to hit him.

Lan Xing slipped in, kicked the door shut, pulled Yu Shu over, and put his hand on her shoulder.

"I want to give you a surprise."

Well, if you keep speaking English, you’ll really become a foreigner, Yu Shu teased him.

Lan Xing knew that Qin Wan and Yu Hua were out, so he wasn't too disappointed. The big bag on his back was filled with a lot of things, such as chocolates, postcards from Chicago, and Barbie merchandise.

Oops, all the bits and pieces were poured out and piled up on the coffee table.

Yu Shu opened the exquisitely wrapped chocolate, and the complete heart shape was broken in the middle. I took a bite, and he took a bite, and stuffed it into Lan Xing's mouth, which was still chattering.

"Well, that's bitter."

There is an ancient chocolate town in San Francisco. Before Lan Xing went to Chicago, he used the money he saved from working in the restaurant to pick out a lot of chocolates at the market.

Yu Shu likes to eat bitter food, so he specifically asked the producer to make the most bitter kind.

The stall owner was a very romantic old lady. She put a lot of beautiful wrapping paper in the basket. Lan Xing chose a pile of paper with retro angel patterns printed on it.

"Child, who are you buying this for?"

The stall owner, his white hair tied up with a bright red flower ribbon, was carefully and slowly wrapping chocolates in paper. There was no one else around. Lan Xing rested her hands on her knees, remained silent for a moment, and said, "I'm buying it for my neighbor."

She is also my sister and also...my dream partner.

"oh."

Then she understood and put a piece of gold foil on the package and carved a heart on it.

——Puppy love——

The handwriting was very elegant. Lan Xing actually didn't recognize it, and Yu Shu didn't understand it either.

The chocolate is rich and aromatic, and no one can resist cocoa beans, at least not Yu Shu.

After eating, we started to reminisce about the past.

Lan Xing concealed a lot, only saying that he would take advantage of the holiday to return to Chuncheng.

"Hehe, don't be too envious when you come back from flying to eat boiled water."

Yu Shu clapped her hands and looked at him with starry eyes in admiration.

Yu Shu called Lan Xing and got into her car, but it couldn't carry her, so Lan Xing took her place.

If you want to eat boiled food, then go for the best.

After obtaining Lan Xing's consent, Yu Shu called Xia Qiqi and asked her to come out.

The three of them met up and braved the chilly wind to eat Xiaolan boiled food. Inside the steaming little shop, behind the transparent curtain, a large pot filled with vegetables and soy products to be boiled was revealed, and inside, a meat stew was bubbling away.

"You're really nice!"

Xia Qiqi sat down and began to sniff the chocolate that Lan Xing gave her, looking intoxicated.

That’s too exaggerated, Yu Shu laughed.

Lan Xing was grinding the broken fibers off the chopsticks for them, nodding proudly.

Fortunately, No. 1 Middle School has a free spirit, and near the end of the semester, students can apply to study at home on weekends.

"Otherwise, there won't be two of us beautiful ladies to accompany you to eat boiled water."

Xia Qiqi is a very outgoing person, and she is getting better and better at science. Her self-confidence is now soaring.

"Thank you, both beautiful ladies, for drinking this red apple juice with me."

Lan Xing bowed and raised the box of apple juice to toast Yu Shu and Xia Qiqi.

The seat was not far from the owner. She scooped up a spoonful of spicy soup and asked, "Xiaoyu, do you want to add more spiciness now?"

All three of them ate here regularly, except for Lan Xing, who was absent this year. People in Chuncheng loved spicy food, and Yu Shu's habit of eating boiled food was to start without any spice, then ask Auntie for more spice once she'd had enough of the broth.

Everyone she brought learned to eat it this way. When they saw her, they knew that she would add more spicy food later.

"Okay, add it now."

As the hot soup came down, the misty white fog covered everyone's face. Xia Qiqi was biting into the fried preserved egg.

Lan Xing was looking above her head. Yu Shu turned around and saw the TV replaying "100 Talents Talent Show".

"Are you watching this in Chicago? The group's debut night is coming up soon."

Yu Shu told him about the contestant Leng Jiajia, who won 200,000 votes with just a smile.

Xia Qiqi was anxious to talk about how close the vote was before that day, but after one night, it fell apart.

Lan Xing was stunned for a moment. The hair that was sticking up on Yu Shu's head in his sight drooped down as he lowered his head to eat.

"Oh, I haven't voted, I just know it's hard to win the vote."

Xia Qiqi shook her head and sighed, feeling sorry for the contestants who couldn't make their debut.

She is a tolerant person and votes for a different candidate almost every time.

At the exact moment, the phone rang. Xia Qiqi took a final sip of her soup and made a hushing gesture: "Hello, Mom. Okay, I got it."

Xia Qiqi's self-study at home is taught by a tutor hired by Xia's mother, a local graduate student from Chuncheng, who attends classes on time every weekend.

She glanced at the time and sighed, "I have to go back to class. I won't return until I become famous."

The sad little bicycle slid away alone along the bridge.

Yu Shu and Lan Xing parked the car by the river. There was a gentle breeze and Yu Shu was thinking about whether she should take Lan Xing to meet her "new grandmother".

Yu Yanjun wanted to know more about Qin Wan's life, and he was also very concerned about her, his granddaughter.

Xia Qiqi and Fu Xue have all met Lan Xing. She has known Lan Xing since kindergarten, so it's time for her grandmother to meet him.

After Lin Wu was busy for a while, he finally had time to go out for a walk and flew to Chuncheng as soon as possible.

I bought a cup of coffee to keep myself going, still wearing my sunglasses as usual.

It was my first time in Spring City, a moderately large provincial capital in the interior. The vast river still flowed, unlike the thin ice that covered the imperial capital.

There were groups of people fishing and walking by the river.

Lin Wu had excellent eyesight and no trace of myopia. Although sunglasses were expensive, they did not affect the brightness of the scenery at all, so he just glanced at it casually.

But I saw Yu Shu and Lan Xing standing on the river bank. The willows had turned yellow in winter, but they were still swaying softly in the wind.

She was shocked and hid her body unconsciously, lying behind the billboard to peek.

I can't help but imagine some stories in my mind. Anyway, it's better not to be a puppy love!

She looked at the boy critically. His hair… seemed to be naturally curly, perhaps from an ethnic minority? His eyes… were truly beautiful. How could his features be more beautiful than a celebrity's?

Lin Wu originally looked at them critically, even comparing them one by one.

Then she thought, how come he is prettier than the film academy student she had interviewed before? This place called Chuncheng has something special. She can come here and take a look next time she selects actors.

My mind wandered unconsciously, but my body remained hidden behind the billboard.

While in the car, You Xin saw Yu Shu saying goodbye to Xia Qiqi from a distance and asked the driver to park somewhere else. After getting his prosthetic limbs and putting on gloves, he looked no different from a normal person.

In addition to his exceptionally handsome appearance, he attracted considerable attention from passers-by.

He asked his bodyguard to buy him a pair of sunglasses, and found a dark corner to watch the two people walking by the river. The cold air emanating from his body made the bodyguard swallow his saliva unconsciously. It turned out that the employers of the Shen family were not normal people.

Lan Xing flew from Chicago, California to the capital. He bought a low-cost airline ticket and the flight lasted more than ten hours. He flew over the Central Great Plains and Greenland, and saw the vast flat farmlands and pastures, huge plains and glaciers.

There were many beautiful sights along the way. Yu Shu listened to him string these scenes together one by one, tilted her head, and looked at him seriously: "It's amazing, running this far by yourself."

She could feel that Lan Xing was not only growing physically. His behavior towards people and things was telling Yu Shu that this brother and friend was growing rapidly in a corner that she could not see.

Even if there are thousands of mountains and rivers and thousands of miles between different countries, a minor or child should not, under normal circumstances, become sensible so quickly.

"If you praise me, I will take it seriously."

Lan Xing's eyes turned red, and Yu Shu quickly took out a handkerchief, fearing that he would cry.

"Hey, don't cry, I don't have any loratadine!"

Lan Xing pinched the paper and pressed down his eyelids hard, feeling dizzy and dark for a moment.

Yu Shu recalled the first time she saw Lan Xing cry.

That was at the kindergarten graduation ceremony. Writing yearbooks had become popular, but no one had finished learning pinyin yet.

Yu Shu relied on her knowledge of pinyin and filled out the forms no matter who handed them to her, and also gave her own to them to fill out.

Lan Xing looked like a doll, but his hair was lighter and whiter than it is now. Yu Shu liked to pinch his face and watch his chubby face turn red.

“I want to fill it out too. I want to fill it out too.”

Yu Shu, the owner, had no idea where the notebook had gone, so when she finally got it back, only the last page was left.

Lan Xing immediately burst into tears, rubbing her eyes with her chubby hands as she wrote and cried.

Yu Shu lay on the small table and read the words he wrote in the notebook:

I want to write it on the first page, but there is no space, but I want to say that I am Xiaoyu's best friend.

I’m so sad…

When Yu Shu looked up and discovered that Lan Xing was allergic, his face was already swollen and only a slit could be seen through his eyes.

"Xiaoyu!"

Lin Wu couldn't help but stood up and walked out from behind the billboard.