Chapter 482 Extra Chapter: Shuli's Dream (Part Two)
After finishing dinner, Yao Shuli chatted with Yao Shula for a while, played with Lei Wenxin for a bit, and whispered to Tiantian for a long time before finally going back to her room to sleep around 11 p.m.
He didn't go back to his villa in Shanghai. Although his eldest sister often arranged for people to clean it and it had everything he needed, Yao Shuli still preferred to stay there with his eldest sister.
He liked listening to his older sister speak softly so as not to disturb his rest, and he also liked listening to Xin Xin whisper goodnight to him.
Only here can Yao Shuli sleep soundly and feel at home.
Back then, Yao Shuli bought four villas in one go. One was for her eldest sister's dowry, one was for her second sister who was busy at the hospital all day, and one was also bought for Xiao Tiantian, even though Xiao Tiantian didn't lack houses.
Yao Shuli kept the last set for herself.
But those four villas... it seems they never stayed in any of them.
Such a big villa... it's really not very comfortable for one person to live there.
With her head on the pillow that smelled of sunshine, Yao Shuli finally fell into a deep sleep.
He hasn't been sleeping well these past few days!
...
In a hazy state, Yao Shuli felt as if she had returned to a familiar scene, as if it were her home in Yun County, not the three-story house with a courtyard now, but the old brick and tile house.
Yao Shuli faintly heard her eldest sister sobbing softly, as well as her own and her second sister crying. The courtyard... was all white!
Oh, Mom left this year.
Yao Shuli stood in the courtyard, looking at the people who came to help, unable to say a word.
The older sister, dressed in mourning clothes, led him and his second sister to kneel before their mother's memorial tablet, while their father, Yao Guohua, stood silently on the other side.
This day... Yao Shuli will never forget.
Yao Shuli looked at her younger self, her equally young second sister, and then at her eldest sister with tears streaming down her face…
He knew that from now on, all the burdens would fall on his sister's shoulders.
...
Not long after her mother's funeral, Yao Shuli skipped school and came home one day. She heard her older sister and father arguing loudly. It was the first time Yao Shuli had ever seen her older sister get angry, and the first time she had ever seen her older sister swear!
She cursed her father, whom she always respected, and also cursed her mother's apprentice, Song Yuling...
It was only then that Yao Shuli realized that her mother's death was not such a simple matter.
And then...
What Yao Shuli saw were all things that actually happened to him, and these things had always existed in Yao Shuli's mind.
Until the day Yao Guohua remarried...
Yao Shuli was surprised to find that his eldest sister did not take him and his second sister to disrupt Yao Guohua's wedding banquet as he remembered.
The three of them stayed silently at their uncle's house for three days until Yao Guohua came to pick them up, at which point they returned to their home.
Is that home still the same home?
The position of "mother" originally belonged to someone else, namely Song Yuling.
The room that belonged to Yao Shuli became the room of Song Yuling's son, while the three siblings had to squeeze into the small west room.
Yao Shuli watched as everything unfolded in a completely different direction from what he had experienced, and he couldn't tell which was real and which was fake...
Which is reality, and which is the dream?
It wasn't until her eldest sister was married off to a distant place by Yao Guohua that Yao Shuli screamed in fright and then woke up.
Yao Shuli woke up covered in a cold sweat.
The things in my dream... were just like the real thing, except that things were different after Yao Guohua got married, everything else was exactly the same.
He sat up, panting, and took a sip of water from the bedside table to calm himself down.
He pinched himself again; it hurt. This was reality; the dreams were all fake.
Yao Shuli breathed a sigh of relief. He was really scared of the scene in his dream; it couldn't be real!
After finishing the water in the glass on the bedside table, Yao Shuli decided to get up and go to the kitchen on the first floor to get some more water.
He had just stepped out of his room when he heard noises coming from the second floor...
Brother-in-law Lei Jingwu returned, and he was talking quietly with his eldest sister.
"Is Xin Xin asleep?"
Eldest sister: "Yeah, I played with Shuli and Tiantian for quite a while. If I hadn't urged them, I don't know how long they would have played!"
Lei Jingwu: "Xin Xin is close to both of them. They don't often live in Shanghai, so it's normal for them to spend more time together since it's a rare occasion. Shu Li and Tian Tian are also resting."
Eldest sister: "Yeah, they're all resting. Shuli looks pretty tired! Tiantian will be going to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in another week, so we'll have even fewer days to get together."
Lei Jingwu: "Isn't this normal? They're all adults now, they definitely have to walk their own paths. But you're still the same, always thinking about those little ones."
"Oh, I went to Hang Lung Plaza this afternoon to talk to someone and saw a bracelet that I thought would suit you, so I bought it. Do you like it?"
Eldest sister: "I love it! I love everything you bought!"
...
Yao Shuli quietly retreated back into her room.
The life we live now is real; the life in our dreams is all fake!
Yao Shuli stopped drinking water and went back to bed to continue sleeping.
He slept very soundly, without any dreams, and didn't wake up easily. It wasn't until around 8 a.m. that Yao Shuli opened his eyes when Yao Shula knocked on the door.
“Every day they take Xin Xin to the teahouse over there for breakfast. They didn’t wake you up because they saw you were still sleeping.”
"I remember you said you were going to make a few phone calls this morning, don't oversleep!" Yao Shula said with a smile as she stood at the door looking at Yao Shuli.
Yao Shuli quickly sat up with a smile.
"I almost overslept! Luckily, my older sister woke me up. Big sister, I'll get up right away, I'll be quick!"
Yao Shuli jumped up as she spoke.
Yao Shula smiled and turned to leave.
...
After washing up, Yao Shuli quickly went to the teahouse that Tiantian had taken Xinxin to. Xinxin was already telling Tiantian how delicious the shrimp dumplings in front of her were. As her favorite uncle and maternal uncle, Tiantian insisted on trying the remaining shrimp dumplings.
"Uncle, I gave you this food because I like you!" Xin Xin said earnestly.
With this reason, Tian Tian was forced to eat the shrimp dumplings that Xin Xin had left over.
Although I don't really like eating shrimp dumplings.
Just as Yao Shuli appeared in front of the two, Tian Tian's eyes lit up.
"Xinxin, look, your favorite uncle is here!"
Upon seeing this, Xin Xin quickly called out to the waitress, "Sister, bring another basket of shrimp dumplings. My uncle loves them, and we must let our beloved elders try delicious food!"
Yao Shuli...
Actually, he doesn't really like shrimp dumplings. He's gotten tired of eating them at these teahouses in Hong Kong over the years.
Right now, what he craves most is soy milk, fried dough sticks, and tofu rolls, or perhaps pancakes, glutinous rice balls, and fried dough sticks...
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