Chapter 28
Seeing her reaction, Yun Mian raised her eyebrows proudly: "If you don't want me, I'll be thrown away?"
As he spoke, he stretched the hand holding the letter out of the window.
Zhao Xiaoli snatched the letter away, glared at the grinning Yun Mian, and then unfolded the letter in front of her.
This letter was just given to her by Yunmian. Some classmates nearby were wondering if it was a love letter from someone else. Although Zhao Xiaoli had aged once before, she still had some expectations in her heart for something that only happens in the blooming season of youth.
Of course, I'm not expecting love, but I want to take advantage of receiving the love letter first to laugh at Yunmian, this heartless girl! When the time comes, I will definitely step on Yunmian's bench and despise her from top to bottom!
The scene that she had imagined countless times in her mind was finally about to come true. Zhao Xiaoli suppressed her hidden excitement, adjusted her posture, raised her chin slightly, and unfolded the letter with dignity.
The next second, the Hedong Lion roared: "Yun Mianmian!!! I want your life ah ah ah ah ah..."
Yunmian ran out of the classroom the moment she unfolded the letter. Zhao Xiaoli chased her after she dropped the letter and insisted on taking off Yunmian's dog head and kicking it like a ball to vent her anger.
Amid the chaos, the pink letter paper fluttered in the classroom and finally fell into the hands of a girl.
Facing countless pairs of gossipy eyes in the class, she cleared her throat and read in a clear voice: "Classmate Zhao Xiaoli, this is a letter from your best friend. Actually, I don't have anything else to say. I just want to tell you not to daydream so much, study hard, and make progress every day. You can only be second in the grade for the rest of your life, and you will always be my follower, hahahahaha..."
The whole class: Oh my goodness, is this the love-hate relationship between the academic genius and the academic bully? It's so childish? ?
The system squatted on the windowsill, watching from afar the two young and beautiful figures chasing and running around the campus like the wind. In a trance, it seemed as if it had returned to many years ago.
Early that morning, the sun was rising slowly in the sky, and the two little girls were running freely on the edge of the field with big, innocent smiles on their faces.
At that time, no one would have thought that they would have such a warm and bright future. Every step they took, supporting each other, was so steady and calm.
Yunmian had just had a holiday from school when her mother urged her to put down her books and take the train back to Zhaojiagou with her.
"Why do you want to go back so suddenly?" Yunmian changed into comfortable home clothes, walked lazily to the sofa, walked around the three older dogs lying on the ground, and fell into her mother's arms, holding up a dry towel and asking her mother to help her dry her hair.
Yun Jin poked the lazy girl's back helplessly while brushing her hair skillfully and carefully. Her movements were gentle, as if she was afraid of hurting the child in her arms.
That's right, even though the impetuous little girl back then has grown up, but in Yunjin's eyes, her daughter will always be the little girl who likes to act coquettishly, make trouble, and tease cats and dogs.
While helping Yunmian wipe her hair, Yunjin slowly explained the reason for going back.
"I just received a call from the village grocery store this morning. It was Xiaoli's father. He said that your aunt Jiaxiu is pregnant again, and he wants Xiaoli to go back to see them during the holidays. You know Xiaoli. She has been particularly opposed to her mother having a second child since she was a child. Every time she talks about having another child, she will make a scene. Although she is grown up and sensible now, I think it would be bad if she went back alone and made a scene. So why don't we go back together and visit your aunt Jiaxiu? A pregnant woman will suffer a lot, and she is old..."
Yunmian gradually fell asleep listening to her mother's delicate movements and gentle voice.
She seemed to be dreaming of a past that was even more distant than the past.
I dreamed that my mother was sitting beside my bed, holding my hand and gently telling me the story of the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.
After she woke up from her childhood dream, she has bought many flowers for her mother. But her mother loves her so much, and she also loves her mother so much.
So I will buy more flowers in the future, fulfill all the innocent promises of my childhood, protect mom, prevent her from crying, make her happy every day, accompany her until she lives a hundred years, and love her forever.
When I returned to Zhaojiagou, everything around me seemed to have not changed drastically in my memory.
Even though this small village has produced three women, one has become a well-known entrepreneur, and two have been admitted to the most famous universities in the country and become research partners who are equally favored by the academic community.
Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli sat in the back seat of the car. Amid the curious and admiring gazes of the children who gathered around them, Yunmian reached out and gently held Zhao Xiaoli's cold, clenched hand.
"Don't be afraid." Her bright eyes slightly curved, as firm and powerful as when she held her first book: "Mom and I will always be with you."
Zhao Xiaoli seemed to have gained enough courage to feel at ease. She pulled up the corners of her lips and smiled gently, then slowly relaxed her sitting body.
The system sat in the passenger seat, worrying day after day as the progress bar of the main task was stuck at 99%.
The news that Yun Jin brought Yun Mian and Zhao Xiaoli back to the village in a car spread throughout Zhaojiagou in just half an hour. Everyone came to the Yun family courtyard to see the excitement, but after hearing the crisp childish voice of Grandma Peng's great-grandson, they all flocked to Zhao Xiaoli's house.
Yunjin saw countless familiar or unfamiliar faces here.
Xiaoli was talking to Aunt Jiaxiu in the house, so Yunmian moved a stool and sat outside to chat with everyone who had come to watch the fun.
When she accurately called out the names of all the elders she had ever known, the scene became more harmonious. The old people, whose faces were covered with wrinkles from being exposed to the wind and sun all day, smiled and praised her for being a good child. Several aunts smiled and asked her if she had found someone suitable. At the door farther away, the children looked around timidly and listened attentively to their grandparents, uncles and aunts talking about Yunmian's childhood.
Yunmian also saw the two boys brought by Aunt Zhao Xiaoli. One of them kept his head down to avoid Yunmian's gaze.
The system said: "That was Zhao Yunbo. They beat you and you beat him. There was no advanced medical technology in that era, so he was a little disfigured. But fortunately, it's not serious."
Later, she heard from uncles and aunts in the village that none of the Zhao brothers were as successful as Zhao Xiaoli. Some people even speculated that there was something wrong with the Zhao family’s ancestral tomb, otherwise why did the ancestors only speak to Zhao Xiaoli in their dreams?
After everyone had left, Yun Mian sat on Zhao Xiaoli's bed, tilted her head and watched her cry.
"Why don't you coax me?" Zhao Xiaoli asked fiercely while crying.
The system thinks that its host must have grown a lot over the years, and should no longer be the steely straight woman and unromantic village tyrant that she used to be.
As soon as this thought came to mind, Yun Mian answered confidently: "It's not me who made you cry!"
System: Oh no!
Zhao Xiaoli was angered by Yunmian again and she started crying. She wiped her snot and tears all over Yunmian, not caring about her image at all.
She tugged at the soft flesh on Yun Mian's cheek and gritted her teeth, "Yun Mian Mian, you're not going to comfort me because I'm not angry with you? I've been so good to you, but you have no conscience! You're a super, super, super bastard. I will always hate you and will never, ever forgive you!"
Yun Mian raised her face and was pinched obediently. After hearing the words, she comforted him vaguely: "You are using me to slander others again, but it doesn't matter. I won't be angry."
Because she knew that Xiaoli was actually feeling very upset, and she didn't want to say these hurtful words directly to her parents, so she forced herself to cry and throw a tantrum in front of her.
When she exposed her behavior of taking the opportunity to vent, Zhao Xiaoli knelt on the bed in frustration as if she had lost all her strength. She was silent for a long time before she asked in a low voice: "Mianmian, why do my parents insist on having a second child? Is it because I am not good enough and not filial enough to them?"
Yun Mian casually grabbed a rag doll from Zhao Xiaoli's bedside and held it in her arms, and answered slowly: "Why don't you go ask them yourself and find out?"
"...They said they wanted to give me a younger brother. Are they so sure it will be a boy? Why do they have to have a boy? Why is this era full of ignorant people and ignorant ideas?! Are they so stingy that they are unwilling to give me even a pure love?" Zhao Xiaoli's voice became sharper and sharper as she spoke, and in the end she even revealed some hatred that was rare.
Yun Mian frowned and slowly pried open her tightly clenched hands, saying unhappily, "You can be angry, but pinching me is fine, but why are you pinching yourself?"
Putting the doll into her hand that had blood marks on it, Yun Mian turned to pinch Zhao Xiaoli's baby face: "Don't be angry, mom and I came back with you to support you, not to let you be angry at an embryo."
She reached out and gently embraced her only good friend since childhood, patted her back like her mother, and comforted her: "Don't cry, you are very good, very good, they are wrong, it is this era that is wrong, you are not wrong, every step we have taken is open and honest enough, and we have a clear conscience."
Zhao Xiaoli sobbed and cried in Yun Mian's arms. She knew that she had known these truths since her previous life.
But in her previous life, she got nothing in the end: family, friendship, love, and that life that seemed glamorous but was actually on the verge of collapse...all became an inescapable nightmare.
If possible, doesn't she want to be free and easy? Doesn't she want to be a strong enough person who never lacks love?
Just like... just like cloud cotton.
Yunmian can speak out her honesty with confidence, can act like a child in front of Aunt Yunjin every day for ten years, can be her mother's umbrella of protection, and can also curl up in her mother's solid harbor to avoid the wind and rain.
Yunmian was the only reason why Aunt Yunjin tried desperately to climb out even after falling into the glacier. It was also the only plea that made Aunt Yunjin draw a cotton flower on her clothes even after biting her finger in the water, asking the villagers to help take care of her.
But it seems that I have never been firmly chosen by my parents.
"I choose you." The girl's clear voice sounded without hesitation: "Except for mom, even if I were asked to choose from the entire world, I would only choose you!"
Zhao Xiaoli looked up blankly and met Yun Mian's clear and determined eyes.
What she said was true, she was not lying, and she was not trying to please herself - the sincerity and honesty in her eyes kept conveying this message to her.
"Sister Xiaoli, mom, Ping'an and Little Gray Wolf, and I will all choose you." Yun Mian reiterated affirmatively.
Looking at Yun Mian, who had a stern face but looked particularly sincere, Zhao Xiaoli burst into laughter after a while.
She wiped her tears on Yunmian's shoulders again and held her tightly, refusing to let go.
very nice.
She thought that she was so lucky, that was why she met Yunmian on the first day of her rebirth.
It’s great to know Yunmian, become lifelong friends with her, and be firmly chosen by her again and again!
She used to hope to be a free and easy, strong, yet relaxed and gentle person.
But now she no longer hopes so, because Yunmian has everything she longs for.
So she just needs to be herself, be herself who likes to get angry, needs to be coaxed, gets jealous of her parents' favoritism, and cries in grievance while hugging Yunmian. That's enough.
After all, Yun Mianmian said that except for Aunt Yunjin, her entire family, including three dogs, would abandon the whole world to choose Zhao Xiaoli!
In this life, although Zhao Xiaoli did not lose her parents who favored boys over girls, she had a cool friend, a powerful aunt, and three pitiful dogs!
Perhaps all her luck was used to meet Yunmian. Now who can say that she is not loved?
In the evening, the two families sat together for dinner, but they seemed like people from two different worlds.
Zhao Xiaoli sat down next to Yun Mian, facing her parents.
She looked at her mother, who was the same age as Aunt Yunjin but looked older, and suddenly realized how enlightening Teacher He's words were when she was young.
Aunt Yunjin made a choice that was completely different from her previous life, so she walked a path that no other woman in Zhaojiagou had ever walked before.
And her own mother, the mother who used to beat her daughter with a stick together with Aunt Yunjin, was destined to be trapped in this place for the rest of her life, trapped with her husband and the upcoming child.
Maybe she will also have a day to leave Zhaojiagou, but at least until their second child becomes an adult and independent, this opportunity will always be controlled by her. Her excellence has become the key to unlock the heavy shackles on her parents.
Would she use this key? Zhao Xiaoli tilted her head to look at Yunmian who was concentrating on eating, pursed her lips, and while gaining a sense of security and courage, she suddenly decided to be willful again.
She chose to leave the choice this time to the illusory fate that had accompanied her for two lifetimes.
If the child they gave birth to was still Zhao Yunshen from their previous life, the key would never touch the shackles.
If they gave birth to another new innocent life, she would take the child away, teach him/her respect, teach him/her knowledge, teach him/her to face the ignorance of this age, and teach him/her to have the strength and courage to break through the shackles of ignorant thoughts.
Thinking of this, she suddenly knew what career she should choose after completing her studies.
"Xiao Li, what are you standing there for? Your dad knew you were coming back, so he made some sausages for you. Eat them quickly!" Li Jiaxiu picked up a piece of sausage with chopsticks and put it in her bowl.
Zhao Xiaoli smiled gently: "Okay, thank you, Mom, and thank you, Dad, for your hard work."
"Host, main mission progress: 100%! We have finally completed the mission of this novice world!" The system happily announced the good news, but did not mention that we could leave the world now.
After all, who doesn't know that their host keeps talking about how he wants to live a hundred years with his mother in this world?
In fact, every time I wrote about a young heroine, I was particularly nervous, because every time someone would question whether I was misogynistic and man-centered. Xiao Kui questioned me why I had to name him with his father's surname, so Xingxing in my second book became a boy and lost his surname.
Someone asked me again about this book why the system should be called uncle instead of something else. I thought it was outrageous at first, but then I felt helpless. In fact, when I wrote this chapter, I knew that some people would feel uncomfortable, and I tried my best to avoid it, but the character setting is fixed and I can't change it. Some people say that they don't want Xiaoli to let go of her parents, but I am the author. I hope that she can live her life with an open mind, without resentment or stubbornness, and stop desperately trying to grasp that impure love. That's why I set such an ending. I'm very sorry to disappoint you with the ending. I was also very helpless and panicked. I changed a version with emotions that I was not satisfied with. After my emotions stabilized, I changed it again. This is the ending I like, and I hope you will like it too.
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
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