Chapter 501 I Really Didn’t Mean It
Bai Qingxia nodded with confidence, then went back with the spatula to continue stir-frying the vegetables in the pot.
Lu Yuanqiu turned around and saw the little girl Ranran standing inside the door holding onto the door frame, not daring to come out. He walked up to her, picked her up, and said softly, "It's snowing, Ranran."
"Snow?" four-year-old Ranran muttered.
Lu Yuanqiu lifted her up and let her sit on his neck, then held her waist and turned around a few times in the open space outside. Little Ranran giggled, she raised her head to the sky, blinked her eyes that were covered with a layer of cloud, and seemed to feel the cool touch of snowflakes falling on her cheeks.
"Ranran, do you know what a snowflake looks like?" Lu Yuanqiu raised his head slightly and asked from below.
Ran Ran answered irrelevantly: "Snowflakes...are cool."
Lu Yuanqiu was slightly stunned, thinking that she probably had never seen it before. She was only four years old, and maybe even if she had seen it, she would not have any impression of it.
Aunt Zhang came back with the cooked food. She glanced at Lu Yuanqiu and Ranran who were playing together outside, with a warm smile on her face. Then she put the cooked food on the table and walked over to compete with Bai Qingxia for cooking.
Bai Qingxia finally failed to persuade her, so she washed her hands and came to Lu Yuanqiu's side. Seeing that Lu Yuanqiu's body was turning quickly, she raised her hands to protect Ran Ran's body and said in a tender voice, "Don't slip."
"Don't worry, it won't happen."
Lu Yuanqiu made the last turn steadily and came in front of her. They were looking at each other with smiles when Lu Yuanqiu suddenly let out an "Ah!" and leaned forward. Bai Qingxia opened her eyes wide in fear and quickly stretched out her arms to hug him, pressing her body against him, resting her shoulders on Lu Yuanqiu's chest and acting as a support.
When Bai Qingxia heard Lu Yuanqiu's laughter above her ear, she realized that she had been deceived. She slapped Lu Yuanqiu on the chest unhappily, and raised her eyes like a cat with raised eyebrows, so cute and fierce.
Lu Yuanqiu looked down at her, and then an exaggerated mask of pain appeared on his face: "Ah~ it hurts."
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"Dad, it's time for dinner." Bai Qingxia walked into the room, bent down and touched Bai Songzhe's shoulder.
Bai Songzhe sat on the lower bunk, his eyes dull, as if he had lost one of his three souls.
But he could understand what Bai Qingxia said, so he stood up obediently and was led outside by Bai Qingxia. The two walked very slowly. Bai Qingxia kept looking back and paying attention to every step of her father, just like when she was a child holding the hand of her father at this time. Her father was as obedient as before, and she grew up quietly.
The dining table was set up at the door. Lu Yuanqiu sat on an upside-down bucket, Aunt Zhang sat on a beer box, and only Bai Qingxia, Bai Songzhe, and Ranran sat on low stools.
There was heat coming from the dining table under the eaves, and the heavy snow outside the eaves was gradually gathering like goose feathers, fluttering down.
"It's so delicious..." Lu Yuanqiu picked up the dishes with an exaggerated expression and exclaimed in a very supportive manner. The two women who participated in the cooking both had satisfied smiles on their faces.
Bai Songzhe's eating movements were somewhat mechanical, but Bai Qingxia seemed to know how to take care of her father at this stage. She would occasionally pick up dishes that were not difficult to eat for him, and occasionally hold the bowl to feed him. Aunt Zhang would look up and observe carefully while eating, as if she was learning quietly.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at Aunt Zhang, who also looked over, smiled embarrassedly, and lowered her head to continue eating.
Another lovesick person?
Lu Yuanqiu blinked his eyes, reached out to pick up the food, put the roast duck leg into Ranran's small bowl, gave the other roast duck leg to Bai Qingxia, and started to gnaw on the duck neck.
I just don’t know if Aunt Zhang can let it go after Uncle Bai fully wakes up, because Lu Yuanqiu feels that Uncle Bai is an extremely pure loving person, the kind who is only capable of loving one person in his entire life.
But Lu Yuanqiu also felt that Aunt Zhang probably wouldn't express anything. When Uncle Bai got better, she would just smile and bless him, then hide her "merit and fame" and take Ranran back to the alley to continue her ordinary life.
They are not the same kind of people.
If Bai Songzhe's life trajectory fluctuates like a trigonometric function, then Aunt Zhang is the straight line that is tangent to it below.
She had lived an ordinary life for more than thirty years, and finally, in her thirties, she encountered the downward curve of Bai Songzhe.
Except for the point where the two lines intersect, the straight line can only look up at the upward curve.
This is an unchanging fate.
Perhaps, there is only one way to change fate.
Lu Yuanqiu turned his head and looked at Bai Qingxia who was feeding her father seriously, with a faint smile on his face.
After dinner, Aunt Zhang covered Bai Songzhe's legs with a blanket as he sat outside the door. She raised her hand and gently brushed away the few snowflakes that had fallen on Bai Songzhe's hair.
"Mom, what are my brothers and sisters doing?" Ran Ran asked while sitting on a small stool with her chin supported by her hands. She heard the shouts of Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia.
Aunt Zhang looked back.
The black cement ground in the alley has turned white because of the snow, and stepping on it leaves a black footprint.
Lu Yuanqiu grabbed a handful of snow in each hand and chased after Bai Qingxia. He stopped and yelled, "You've learned bad habits now, haven't you? You dare to stuff snow into my neck?"
Bai Qingxia stopped and turned around when she heard him talking. She gently shook her arms at her sides, not daring to look at Lu Yuanqiu. She just explained with an unnatural expression on her face: "I didn't..."
Just when she picked up a handful of snowflakes, she found Lu Yuanqiu sitting on a stool with his back to her, with his neck exposed. She walked behind Lu Yuanqiu, and the handful of snowflakes in her hand accidentally fell into Lu Yuanqiu's neck.
That's all. Lu Yuanqiu suddenly stood up and wanted to catch the two big guys for revenge. Lu Yuanqiu was really stingy.
"I don't care!" Lu Yuanqiu shouted, and he rolled two lumps of snow into a ball with his hands and continued to chase after him.
Bai Qingxia suddenly screamed and ran away laughing.
Lu Yuanqiu chased after him and laughed: "You're still laughing! And you said you didn't mean it!"
"I really didn't mean to..."
The two chased each other in circles in the open space at the door, letting out a series of laughter. Lu Yuanqiu quickly forced Bai Qingxia to the wall under the eaves.
"Lift up your collar yourself." He supported himself against the wall with one hand and gave her a domineering wall-bang, cutting off her way out.
Bai Qingxia leaned her back against the wall, pouted her lips and snorted softly, but finally she compromised and raised her hands to pull down the collar of her sweater, revealing her white neck underneath.
Seeing that Lu Yuanqiu had pinched a bigger piece of snow, she anxiously raised her thumb and index finger in front of Lu Yuanqiu, making a heart-shaped gesture: "I only pinched a little bit, just a little bit."
"Okay, okay, I'll pinch a little bit too." Lu Yuanqiu smiled.
(End of this chapter)
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