When Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie got home, the door was still open. They pushed open the half-open door and entered the house. Before going upstairs, they went to the living room to say hello to Ruan Changfu and Feng Xiuying and told them that they were back.
Ruan Changfu was drinking tea and flipping through a magazine, while Feng Xiuying was sitting next to him knitting a sweater.
Ruan Changfu showed his concern for Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie as usual and asked them, "What did you do today?"
It wasn't something that couldn't be discussed, so Ruan Xi answered frankly, "I went to the theater to watch a performance."
Hearing this, Ruan Changfu seemed quite interested, and his expression brightened up as he asked, "Oh? What was performed today?"
Ruan Xi had no intention of standing and chatting with him for a long time, and simply replied: "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy."
Ruan Changfu went on to say: "This play is quite interesting. Yang Zirong battles wits and courage with a group of mountain bandits."
After that, he asked again: "Did you two go there by yourselves?"
Ruan Xi said: "No, there are also Xu Zhuo and his group, plus Xiao Jie and I, seven of us."
Hearing this, Feng Xiuying stopped knitting and looked up at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie.
Ruan Changfu also drank tea more slowly. He put down his old enamel teacup with the bottom chipped on the coffee table, sat up straight and looked at Ruan Xi for a moment, cleared his throat and asked, "What is your relationship with Xu Zhuo now?"
Ruan Xi said naturally, "It doesn't matter. We are just revolutionary friends and ordinary friends."
Ruan Changfu's expression did not change much, he was still relaxed, and his tone of voice was still normal. He looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie and said, "You are young and inexperienced, so I have to say a few words to you. Don't think that those boys have such prestigious families that they will be confused without much effort. Dating at this age will only do you harm and no good. They are in the second year of high school now, and they will have to join the army after graduation this year. They will have to break up in less than half a year. What future can they have with you?"
Ruan Xi accepted his advice and said, "Don't worry. Although we are young and have little experience, we are not without brains. We know what we should and shouldn't do."
Ruan Changfu felt relieved when he heard her words, so he added, "It's okay as long as you know what's going on."
Ruan Xi didn't want to stand there and talk to him any more, "Then let's go upstairs."
Ruan Changfu nodded and said, "Go ahead."
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie turned around and went upstairs with their schoolbags on their backs.
After they went upstairs, Feng Xiuying looked at Ruan Changfu and said, "We all went out to see a show together, and you just said these two words and left them alone? They grew up in the countryside and may not know what is good or bad. How can they not feel dizzy when they see these boys? If you don't take good care of them now and they really do something shameful, it will be too late to regret it! I can't control them."
Ruan Changfu was not worried. "Didn't you hear that? There were seven or eight people who went to see it together, not two people who went to see it alone. You can tell from what this girl said that she understood everything in her heart. She is not confused."
Feng Xiuying twisted the yarn around her fingers and said, "I don't understand where it is."
Ruan Changfu didn't want to talk to her much about Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie. She felt from the bottom of her heart that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were full of problems. She saw problems everywhere in them, and sometimes even their breathing was not right. No matter how much she talked, her opinion of them would not change.
He didn't mention Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie anymore, but changed the subject and asked, "What did Qiu Wen do today?"
Feng Xiuying started knitting a sweater and said, "She went out to play with some female classmates."
Ruan Changfu turned around and looked outside. "What are you doing? Why haven't you come back yet so late?"
Feng Xiuying said: "Girls are just eating and drinking, they definitely haven't finished their dinner yet."
Ye Qiuwen has always been thorough in her work, so Ruan Changfu didn't ask any more questions and continued flipping through the magazine.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went upstairs and opened the door, and Ruan Qiuyue came over from her room.
Ruan Qiuyue followed him into the room and asked with a smile, "How was it? Was the performance good?"
Ruan Jie smiled and said, "It's nice, more interesting than watching a movie. It feels good to see the curtain slowly opening."
Ruan Qiuyue sat down at the desk and said with great interest: "Cousin, please tell me about it."
Ruan Jie had just finished watching the play and naturally wanted to tell about it. She didn't interrupt when she was with Xu Zhuo and the others just now, so now she sat down at the desk and earnestly told Ruan Qiuyue about this model opera.
While they were chatting, Ruan Xi took some clean clothes and went to wash up.
By the time she finished washing, drying her hair and returning to the room, Ruan Jie had finished telling Ruan Qiuyue the model opera.
Ruan Qiuyue was satisfied after hearing this, and let Ruan Jie get her clothes and wash up.
After taking a shower, Ruan Xi didn't rush to bed. She sat at the desk waiting for her hair to dry.
Seeing that she was not sleeping, Ruan Qiuyue naturally did not go back to her room. Instead, she sat at the desk and chatted with her.
After Ruan Jie came back after washing up, the three of them calmed down and read for a while, then did some math problems under the desk lamp.
The room fell silent, with only the sound of pages turning and noses rumbling across the pages.
Ruan Jie worked on the questions for a while and began to scratch her head, so she pushed the extracurricular exercises in her hand to Ruan Xi and asked her: "Sister, can you tell me if you know how to solve this question? I have been thinking about it for a long time but I can't find a solution."
Ruan Xi took her exercise book, calculated on the draft paper with a pencil for a while, and then called Ruan Jie, "Come here, I'll give you an idea, you try it again, if you can't do it, I'll explain it to you again."
Ruan Jie nodded and came over to listen to Ruan Xi's ideas.
After listening to Ruan Xi's idea, she tried to do it for a while. After a while, she suddenly understood it. She took a pen and wrote down all the steps to solve the problem. Then she smiled and said, "Sister, I figured it out."
Ruan Xi encouraged her, "You will learn it if you practice more."
Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Qiuyue were reading and doing homework under the desk lamp. On the desk was a half-new small round mechanical alarm clock. The hands on the clock moved one by one, and the minute hand and the second hand coincided with each other with a ding, and it was exactly ten o'clock in the evening.
Ruan Qiuyue began to feel sleepy and couldn't help yawning, and her eyes became moist.
Just when she was about to close the book and go back to her room to sleep, she suddenly heard a knock on the door downstairs.
Because there is nothing to do at night and there is no nightlife in those days, everyone goes to bed early and ten o'clock is considered very late. Everyone in the house was asleep, so after the knock on the door lasted for a while, no one went to open it.
Ruan Qiuyue was a little dazed and blinked her eyes and asked, "Is this the door of our house?"
Ruan Xi has been following this era's lifestyle for several years, and now he is tired of reading. But she didn't look as sleepy as Ruan Qiuyue. She raised her hand and pressed her temple and said, "It should be. Ye Qiuwen is back."
"Ye Qiuwen?"
Ruan Qiuyue took a long time to react, "Oh, yes, she seems to have gone out today too."
There was another knock on the door downstairs, but no one opened it after listening for a long time. There was no other way, so Ruan Qiuyue had to stand up and said as she walked, "Forget it, I'll go open the door for her, otherwise I'll wake everyone up."
She yawned, walked out of the room and went downstairs. She opened the front door and saw Ye Qiuwen outside. She didn't say hello to Ye Qiuwen. She opened the door and went back upstairs, pretending not to see Ye Qiuwen.
At this time, Feng Xiuying came out again and saw Ye Qiuwen and said hurriedly, "I fell asleep while waiting. Have you been knocking for a long time? It's so late, go upstairs and take a shower and go to bed."
Ye Qiuwen didn't say anything, just nodded and went upstairs.
After going upstairs, Ruan Qiuyue did not look for Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie again. She went back to her room and lay down to sleep.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were in the room listening to Ye Qiuwen go upstairs and into her room. After a while, she left the room and went to the bathroom to wash up.
Ruan Jie whispered, "She came back so late? We came back just after dark, and uncle and aunt talked to us so much, why didn't they care about her? She was dating a boy alone and came back so late, there's obviously something wrong."
Ruan Xi said: "They may not know that she went on a date with a boy."
Ruan Jie thought about it and said, "Yeah, she definitely won't tell you."
After saying that, she stared at Ruan Xi for a while, and then asked, "Should we tell uncle?"
Ruan Xi raised her head and looked at her, "You want to get involved in his family's affairs? Even if you tell her, Ye Qiuwen won't admit it. Based on the impression we have on Feng Xiuying, do you think they will believe us or Ye Qiuwen? You may be afraid that Ye Qiuwen will go astray, but people will only think that you are jealous of her and framed her, and you are getting yourself into trouble for nothing."
Ruan Jie cleared her throat and said, "Forget it."
It’s better not to meddle in other people’s business.
Ruan Xi hummed: "Don't worry about what you can't control."
This is the love between the hero and heroine that transcends all worldly rules. Nothing can stop it and it is so passionate that it is about to burn. The more we can't be together, the more we can't help but be together at all costs.
Reality is not a consideration; love is greater than anything else.
The original novel revolves around the love story between the two of them. Love is the ultimate belief, and everything else serves love. But this love story is not all smooth and sweet, there are many twists and turns in the middle.
The two people opened their hearts to each other since their ignorant youth, regardless of anything else and fearless of the future. They experienced countless twists and turns in the middle, but in the end they remained determined. The lovers finally got married and became an enviable couple.
The twists and turns in their love were caused by the times and some by man.
The twists and turns caused by the times are a separation that must be faced, while those caused by humans are when someone maliciously trips them up, creates difficulties and obstacles for them, and tries every means to break them up and separate them.
The original person, Ruan Xi, was one of the stumbling blocks in their love.
Ruan Xi naturally would not waste her time being the vicious female supporting role in their relationship, nor would she let Ruan Jie get involved. Whether they were fighting with good intentions or with bad intentions, they would not gain anything because Feng Xiuying did not trust them.
Let others create the twists and turns in their love.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie didn't talk about Ye Qiuwen anymore. They felt tired from studying, so they packed up their books and stationery and prepared to go to bed.
When Ruan Jie was packing her schoolbag, she suddenly found a piece of chocolate in it.
She reached out and took it out, only to find that it was the piece that Chen Weidong had given her in the theater that afternoon but she had not taken. She stared at the chocolate for a while, and suddenly heard Ruan Xi say, "Huh? Chen Weidong secretly gave it to you?"
Ruan Jie came back to her senses and looked at Ruan Xi, "I don't know either."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "I saw it. It's the very expensive one."
Thinking of what happened in the theater, Ruan Jie couldn't help but blush. She lowered her head in embarrassment, stuffed the chocolate into her schoolbag and said, "I'll return it to him tomorrow."
Ruan Xi looked at her and said nothing more.
In fact, Ruan Changfu had said everything that needed to be said clearly before he came back upstairs.
Ruan Xi herself is not of that age, and of course she wouldn't go crazy over a box of ice cream and two pieces of chocolate, but Ruan Jie is of that age, and she is actually a little worried that she will fall into it.
But even though she was worried, she would not interfere too much with Ruan Jie. She needed to make her own decisions on this matter.
When going to school in the morning, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie would be with Ruan Hongjun, Ye Fan, Ruan Qiuyue, Ruan Hongbing and others, and would rarely meet Xu Zhuo and others. Ruan Xi suspected that they had all slept in the morning and skipped classes and did not go to school at all.
The brothers and sisters walked to the school gate, three of them went to the elementary school and three to the junior and senior high school.
Summer vacation is approaching, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s not even cool in the mornings.
After class in the morning and going home at noon, the sun above my head was even more scorching.
Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong were waiting for them at the school gate. As usual, they met and went home together.
When they entered the compound and reached the fork in the road, Ruan Jie did not turn around and leave immediately. Instead, she suddenly took out a chocolate from her schoolbag, handed it to Chen Weidong and said, "Here I give it back to you. Don't buy me anything in the future. I can't afford it."
After saying that, she stuffed the chocolate into Chen Weidong's hand and left with Ruan Xi.
She is different from Ruan Xi. Ruan Xi can accept the things Xu Zhuo buys because she has the money to buy things back and can also treat all of them to such an expensive meal, but she doesn't have that ability.
Chen Weidong was stunned for a moment and shouted from behind: "I didn't ask you to pay it back!"
Ruan Jie turned her head and said, "That's not necessary either!"
Although she is indeed timid and ignorant, she also knows the principle that if you take advantage of others, you will be vulnerable to their soft words. Her grandmother taught her since she was young that she should not ask for other people's things casually, and that she should return the things she ate.
Chen Weidong stood there and watched Ruan Jie walk away, kicking the stones on the ground for a long time.
Xu Zhuo looked at him with a gloating smile, "Or give it to me, or I think it will melt if I don't eat it."
Chen Weidong threw the chocolate directly into his hand and said, "Eat, eat, eat!"
Xu Zhuo didn't hesitate. He tore open the chocolate and took a bite. He nodded and said affirmatively while eating: "Well, expensive things are different. They are really delicious."
Chen Weidong: “…”
What kind of people does he associate with?
When Xu Zhuo was eating chocolate and teasing Chen Weidong with a smile, Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Qiuyang happened to walk past them.
Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Qiuyang were people who couldn't talk to them, so they usually just walked past them normally. But today, Ruan Qiuyang couldn't help herself, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly pulled Ye Qiuwen back and stood in front of Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong.
They were not familiar with each other. Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong looked at them and said nothing.
Ye Qiuwen wanted to leave, but was stopped by Ruan Qiuyang.
Ruan Qiuyang took a breath and plucked up his courage and said, "You treat Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie as your friends, buying them this and that every day. They are happy when they receive the things, but do you know what they say about you behind your back?"
Since it was the topic between Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, Xu Zhuo raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Ruan Qiuyang and asked, "What did you say?"
Ruan Qiuyang held his breath and said, "She said you are just hooligans and she doesn't like you at all."
Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong's faces darkened when they heard this.
Ruan Qiuyang was secretly delighted, thinking that Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong were so concerned about their reputation that they would definitely get angry. They might not play with Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie anymore, let alone buy them things. They might even humiliate and retaliate against them.
Can these guys tolerate being called hooligans and looked down upon by others?
But before she could even finish her snickering, Chen Weidong raised his eyebrows and said to her, "It's none of your business! They look down on us, are you happy? Did you come all the way here to laugh at us?"
Ruan Qiuyang didn't know that Chen Weidong had just been rejected by Ruan Jie, and this was just a trap. She was even a little confused - she told them kindly that they should be angry at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, why were they getting angry at her!
She said: "I'm just telling you this out of kindness so you don't get fooled..."
Chen Weidong was so angry that he took it out on Ruan Qiuyang, saying to her, "I am happy to be cheated, and I am afraid that they haven't cheated me enough. What is it to you? Get out of here!"
Ruan Qiuyang: “!!!”
You're crazy!
The word "lunatic" was on the tip of her tongue and she almost vomited it out. However, she still remembered who the two people standing in front of her were and how they should not be provoked, so she swallowed the three words.
She didn't dare to say anything else. Ye Qiuwen pulled her and she followed her.
After walking a few steps and looking back, he saw Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong had also left. Ruan Qiuyang said in a depressed voice, "Could it be that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie know some kind of witchcraft? Are they possessed by evil spirits?"
Ye Qiuwen whispered: "Stop talking nonsense, this is feudal superstition."
Ruan Qiuyang was depressed - he should have known not to go up and say it. He got scolded for nothing. It was so unlucky!
When she got home and sat down to eat, she was still angry and thought that Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie might be some kind of witches. They must have cast a spell on Xu Zhuo and the others, which is why they became like this.
Of course, she thought so in her heart, but she dared not say it out loud. She had to learn her lesson.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie didn't know that she had gone to Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong and got herself scolded, so they naturally ignored her and Ye Qiuwen as usual. They don't talk much at the dinner table, they just listen to others.
In a hurry in the morning, Ruan Changfu asked Ye Qiuwen: "Qiuwen, what time did you come back last night?"
Before Ye Qiuwen could answer, Ruan Qiuyue replied, "Ten o'clock."
As soon as Ruan Qiuyue finished speaking, Ye Qiuwen's expression froze. She had originally planned to talk about breakfast.
Ruan Changfu heard what Ruan Qiuyue said and asked again: "Where did you go? Why are you so late?"
Ye Qiuwen said calmly, "We were planning to return home after dinner, but we met an old lady on the way who couldn't find her home. We sent her home, but her memory was not very good, and she searched for a long time before returning late."
In fact, she planned to come back after watching the show, but sometimes reason is led by emotions. When the feelings are strong, she wishes they would never be apart. Unconsciously, she delayed it later and later, and it was too late to come back.
Ruan Changfu had no doubts when he heard her words. He just said, "We really can't just ignore it. The later it is, the more praiseworthy it is."
Ye Qiuwen pursed her lips and said, "This is what each of us should do."
Ruan Changfu then began to teach the moral education class again, saying to the others at the table: "You all need to learn from your eldest sister's spirit of helping others. If you meet someone who needs help outside, you must help them."
Ruan Xi couldn't help but cleared her throat subconsciously while eating.
Ruan Changfu looked at her: "What's wrong with you?"
Originally, Ruan Xi had no intention of speaking, but when asked, she had to clear her throat again and said, "Yesterday afternoon, I went to the theater to watch a performance. There was a person next to me who was very uncultured and kept smoking. I inhaled the secondhand smoke for more than ten minutes. When I woke up today, my throat felt a little uncomfortable, dry and itchy."
Hearing this, Ye Qiuwen suddenly raised her head and looked at Ruan Xi with a tense expression.
Ruan Changfu didn't pay attention to Ye Qiuwen, he just looked at Ruan Xi and said, "Your throat is uncomfortable, drink more water."
Ruan Xi didn't care about Ye Qiuwen's reaction and replied to Ruan Changfu: "I drank a lot this morning."
At this time, Ruan Hongjun heard the topic that interested him, and hurriedly continued, "Sister, did you go to the theater to watch a performance with your cousin yesterday? I was wondering where you were. I didn't see you for a long time, and you didn't come back until the evening."
Ruan Xi looked at him and smiled, "Yes, many people from our school went to watch it. There was one person who was an outstanding student representative like Sister Qiu Wen, and he was in the same class as Xu Zhuo and his name was Lu Yuanzheng. He also went."
Hearing this, Ye Qiuwen's face turned red instantly, and she quickly lowered her head, with the knuckles of her fingers holding the chopsticks turning white.
Ruan Changfu continued Ruan Xi's words, "Yes, that child is also very good."
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "Excellent people are worthy of our learning. Please continue to talk about how Sister Qiu Wen is willing to help others."
Ruan Changfu cleared his throat and returned to the topic, continuing to teach the ideological and moral lesson about Ye Qiuwen.
When Ye Qiuwen heard these words again, she felt as if she was slapped in the face, and the redness on her cheeks became more and more intense.
Ruan Qiuyue stared at her for a while, and said in the gap between Ruan Changfu's words: "Sister Qiuwen, Dad is praising you for being helpful, why do you keep your head down and your face is so red, is it wrong for Dad to praise you?"
Ye Qiuwen hurriedly smiled and said, "The weather is too hot."
Upon hearing this, Feng Xiuying immediately handed Ye Qiuwen a fan and asked her to fan herself before eating.
Ye Qiuwen took the fan and fanned herself. When she felt the heat on her face eased a little, she picked up her chopsticks and started eating again.
Ruan Changfu's ideology and morality class was interrupted again. He looked at Ye Qiuwen, then at Ruan Xi and Ruan Qiuyue, his eyes thoughtful.
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