Chapter 973 I Have a Friend
Without causing any negative impact on anyone, and only causing Bai Qingxia, the daughter, to live in fear for several months, this whole farcical incident finally came to a satisfactory conclusion... a question mark.
Because Bai Qingxia still doesn't know what Xiao Li Feibiao used to judge that her father was cheating.
But as Brother Li said, once the truth is revealed and there is a result, nothing else matters. There is no need to care. It is something that is easy to cause misunderstandings, so why insist on getting to the bottom of it?
Bai Qingxia thought that made sense.
Okay, okay.
Hearing the sounds coming from the kitchen, Luo Wei nudged Zhong Jincheng's shin and instructed him, "Go serve the dishes, act like a guest, and don't let Bai Qingxia do all the work by herself."
"I'm just a guest..." Zhong Jincheng was a little confused.
However, my wife probably meant that this meal was originally to celebrate their housewarming, and they just ate it in a different place.
"That's great, the senior is helping the junior with her kindergarten lessons in advance." Su Miaomiao looked at the three children with a smile.
Because Zheng Wanjun was born too young, she missed the start of kindergarten this September and plans to enroll next year.
She speaks very fluently now, much more fluently than Lu Yanhe who is two and a half years old. She can even do simple addition and subtraction. Moreover, she is a head taller than Lu Yanhe, and looks exactly like an older sister in front of Lu Yanhe.
However, neither of the two little guys can compare to Zhong Yuanshuo, who is about to turn six and is the real big brother to them.
“You sit here, you, sit here, and put your hands like this.”
Zhong Yuanshuo, like a little adult, arranged for Zheng Wanjun and Lu Yanhe to sit side by side on two colorful stools. He imitated how kindergarten teachers taught children to sit upright in class, placing his two forearms in mid-air so that the two little ones in front of him could learn from him.
Zheng Wanjun obediently followed the instructions, her posture was perfect, but Lu Yanhe couldn't concentrate. His little hands were fiddling with the edge of the stool below, his eyes were fixed on his mother in the kitchen. The air was filled with the fragrant smell of food. He was hungry and wanted his mother to hold him and feed him.
"Lu! Yan! He! Pay attention in class!" Zhong Yuanshuo shouted seriously.
Lu Yanhe immediately turned around. He looked at Zheng Wanjun's appearance and immediately raised his arms and placed them in the air. However, he raised his arms very high. Zheng Wanjun glanced at him, was not convinced, and raised her arms as well. Lu Yanhe continued to raise his arms.
The two little ones started competing, going from sitting to standing, and finally stepping onto the stool at the same time.
Su Miaomiao ran over with cries of "Ouch, ouch!" and picked them both up at the same time: "My little darlings, don't fall again."
Zhong Yuanshuo looked at her: "Aunt Su, do you also have class?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Su Miaomiao smiled and pulled over a small stool to sit down, folding her hands together, and said sweetly, "Teacher Zhong, I'm ready."
When Zheng Wanjun saw her mother join in, she smiled, revealing a row of baby teeth that hadn't fully grown in, and continued to sit down, raising her arms.
Lu Yanhe ran to the kitchen crying, grabbed her mother's pants, and shouted, "Mom, I'm hungry!"
"It'll be ready soon, it'll be ready soon. Go find your dad." Bai Qingxia replied without even lowering her head.
Zhong Jincheng, carrying the dishes, looked around and asked, "Where's Lu Yuanqiu? Is he in the restroom? I can't find him."
Zheng Yifeng was looking at his wife and daughter when he glanced towards the bathroom and saw that the door was indeed closed.
Lu Yuanqiu should be inside.
In the restroom, Lu Yuanqiu scrolled through short videos at lightning speed.
He remembered it was December, but couldn't recall the exact day. It seemed like it was discovered at the beginning of the month, but he had searched through all the news reports and still couldn't find it.
You remembered it wrong? That's impossible.
"Lu Yuanqiu, what are you dawdling for?! Eat!"
"Okay!"
Lu Yuanqiu was ready to buy masks online, but couldn't find any news about them, so he could only put the masks and various disinfectants into his shopping cart first.
He opened the bathroom door and suddenly hissed. Could it be... that there was no mask incident after his rebirth?
Despite the doubts.
Lu Yuanqiu continued to check the daily news every day after that.
On December 31st, he and Bai Qingxia took Yanyan to Long Liandong's company and played Guandan with Liu Wangchun and the other three.
Lu Yuanqiu has been feeling a mix of surprise, excitement, and trepidation these past few days. There's been no news about him yet, and it's possible that his rebirth has even altered the timeline of the world.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
"New Year's Day is coming soon! How about we go to the pedestrian street to celebrate tonight? I heard it'll be very crowded," Liu Wangchun suggested, raising her eyes expectantly.
Everyone was almost 27 years old, but she was still like a child. Long Liandong, on the other hand, was as steady as ever, holding the cards without saying a word. The three of them waited for the clumsy Bai Qingxia to arrange the "mountain of cards" in her left hand as usual.
Lu Yuanqiu turned his head and saw Yan Yan lying on a small stool next to him, scrolling through short videos on her mother's phone. One catchy song after another flashed by. At that moment, he finally understood the helplessness parents felt when they saw their children addicted to playing on their phones.
“I told you, stop letting him keep watching videos,” Lu Yuanqiu said to Bai Qingxia.
Bai Qingxia was also helpless: "Then what should I do now?"
“Yeah, would you rather see Yanyan playing Guandan with us?” Liu Wangchun chimed in.
Long Liandong looked at Lu Yuanqiu and saw that Lu Yuanqiu's eyes were almost rolling to the sky. She smiled slightly.
Lu Yuanqiu didn't like listening to Liu Wangchun talk.
"...On December 30th, the Yingcheng City Health Commission...issued an emergency notice regarding the treatment of pneumonia of unknown cause..."
A voice came from the short video Yan Yan was watching, and Lu Yuanqiu slammed his hand on the table: "Wait a minute!"
Bai Qingxia shuddered and closed her eyes in fright. The "mountain of cards" she had just arranged in her left hand fell to the ground, all her efforts were in vain, and all that work was for nothing.
"What are you doing, Lu Yuanqiu! Want to fight?" Liu Wangchun put the cards on the table.
Lu Yuanqiu walked over to his son, took the phone from his hand, scrolled back up the short video he had just watched, turned up the volume, and held it to his ear.
"He's deaf at such a young age," Liu Wangchun complained.
Yan Yan pouted and looked at her father with dissatisfaction.
(The incident happened at the beginning of the month, but the earliest news was released on December 31st. In the novel, Lu Yuanqiu only remembered that the news was released in December, but forgot which day. He kept waiting and never heard from it, so he thought the timeline had changed.)
Upon hearing this news, Bai Qingxia couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with this pneumonia?"
Lu Yuanqiu had prepared his explanation for months. He put down his phone, and Yan Yan jumped up to grab it but couldn't. The short video was still playing aloud.
“I have a friend in Sakura City. He told me a few days ago that something had happened there… I didn’t expect it to be true. It’s already on the news.”
"What is it?" Liu Wangchun asked, his mouth agape.
"Disease of unknown origin D".
To avoid appearing too serious beforehand, Lu Yuanqiu returned the phone to his son, took out his own phone, bought everything in the shopping cart, and then sat back down to continue playing Guandan.
Liu Wangchun: "Don't listen to alarmist rumors or gossip."
"Believe it or not, our family needs to be on guard."
Lu Yuanqiu responded verbally.
As expected... well, who could have imagined it?
It turns out the timeline hasn't changed.
(End of this chapter)
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