Chapter 31

"Aunt Lin——"

Song Zhiyi walked down the stairs in her home slippers, her hair half wet and draped behind her head.

"You know the hair dryer in my room... Xiaoyu? You're back. Is Qiuqiu okay?"

"The doctor said there's nothing wrong, just observe it for a while." Song Zhiyu was sitting on the sofa, pecking at Qiuqiu, a rookie who was wrapped up like a dumpling. "Auntie Lin went out to see someone off, and will be back soon."

It was still raining outside, but a little lighter than before. The ginger soup in the white porcelain bowl on the tea table was still steaming and looked untouched.

"What are you doing?" Song Zhiyi walked to the sofa and sat down. He raised his hand to help his brother control the struggling cat, and looked at his brother in confusion as he was holding a white rod in the cat's mouth.

"Brush your teeth," Song Zhiyu pulled out the rod and shook it, squeezing some toothpaste onto the bristles. "Nanfeng said before that Qiuqiu's teeth are almost replaced and he can brush his teeth again, but he hasn't had time to deliver the toothpaste and toothbrush. The pet store just happened to be having an event, buying a can and getting a toothbrush for free, so I bought a set."

"Cats need to brush their teeth?" Song Zhiyi was very surprised. He opened the cat's mouth and took a close look at its white little teeth.

"Yeah, I just found out too...Okay, let's go play." Song Zhiyu quickly untied the blanket that was wrapped around the ball. The white cat growled angrily and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Why did you come out with wet hair?" Aunt Lin came in from outside and couldn't help but worry when she saw her hair was loose. "You have been weak since you were a child. What if you catch a cold?"

"…" Why is the wording so strange? Is Aunt Lin still watching costume dramas recently?

"I'll go get you some ginger soup first. We also have some cold medicine at home. You can drink it too." Aunt Lin took a blanket and wrapped the man up, then went into the kitchen very swiftly.

"No...oh, forget it." He was so quick that Song Zhiyi didn't even have time to say the words to stop him.

Just drink it, Song Zhiyi wrinkled her nose wrapped in a blanket. Although the solution was not particularly difficult to swallow, she hated everything in the world that could be called medicine, including the sour plum soup that Song Zhiyu bought from the Chinese medicine store in the summer.

"Sister," Song Zhiyu came out of the bathroom after washing his toothbrush, and took a tissue to wipe his hands, and asked casually, "Aunt Lin said that Qi Nanfeng came back with you?" He knew that one of these two people must have bad intentions!

"Yeah," Song Zhiyi glanced at him up and down, frowned and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? Didn't you ask him to come?"

Eh? Song Zhiyu was confused by the question, scratching his head and said, "I told him yesterday that he could come over," to give Qiuqiu toothbrushes, "Is it just a coincidence? Didn't we make an appointment?"

Song Zhiyi asked without thinking: "Of course not." She didn't even know that Qi Nanfeng had an invitation letter from the Qiao family, so how could she make an appointment?

After saying that, she seemed to understand something and asked, "Could it be you who chased him away? I said he clearly wanted to see the ball, why did he leave so quickly?"

"I didn't rush him," Song Zhiyu was visibly more confused. "He received a phone call and said he had something to do at home, so he left first. That's not right, then why did he get caught in the rain and wear my clothes?"

"It's normal to get wet in the rain without an umbrella."

"Miss, the ginger soup is here, drink it while it's hot." Aunt Lin came over with the hot ginger soup and put it down, then walked behind Song Zhiyi and carefully wiped her hair with a towel.

"Don't bother, just blow it off later." Song Zhiyi pulled Aunt Lin aside to sit down, turned his head and said to his brother with contempt, "I'm not saying anything, Song Zhiyu, why have you suddenly become so stingy that you don't even want your friend to wear one of your clothes?"

"..." Song Zhiyu scratched his head again, confused and slightly guilty.

Could it be that he really misunderstood?

*

At the same time, Qi Nanfeng shook off the raindrops on his umbrella, folded the umbrella, grasped the door handle with his right hand, and opened the door with the sound of fingerprint unlocking.

Chen Shoujing heard the noise, stood up hesitantly, then sat down again. When he saw Qi Nanfeng coming in, he said coldly, "You're back."

"Yeah." Qi Nanfeng responded with an even colder nasal tone.

"..." A trace of regret flashed across Chen Shoujing's eyes. She had been like this since she was a child. When she was nervous, she would lose her expression and even her tone became stiff.

Qi Nanfeng put down the umbrella, carried the bag and went to the laundry room. When he came back, he saw his mother still sitting there in a daze, with her lips tightened. He asked, "When did you come back? How is aunt doing?"

"Oh, fortunately," Chen Shoujing lowered his eyes, and unconsciously rubbed the pattern on the sofa mat with his right hand, "Jiang Yuanliang is not causing any trouble now, but there are some troubles in the division of property. I am not willing to let him inherit so much property for nothing.

"As for the child, your aunt plans to keep it in her own hands, so as to avoid being extorted by Jiang Yuanliang for a large amount of child support in the future. As for his temper, we can change him if we can. If we can't change him, there is still the one in her belly. We will keep an eye on him in the future and will not let the younger one be bullied by the older one..."

Qi Nanfeng listened quietly, waiting to see if he could respond once or twice.

After Chen Shoujing finished talking about his sister, he suddenly got stuck again. He held the water cup in both hands and sipped it slowly.

She has been strong-willed and sticks to her word since she was a child. Qi Nanfeng doesn't usually see it, but he has inherited 99% of her stubborn character. When he was clamoring to return to his country, the two had a big fight.

If it weren't for Chen Yuning's accident, they would probably still be stubborn with each other, and it would be unknown when they would contact each other and give in.

Chen Shoujing put down his cup and said something like, "You came back earlier saying you wanted to find someone. Have you found that person now?"

Qi Nanfeng was silent for a moment and did not answer immediately. Chen Shoujing almost immediately regretted it. It was not easy to find a person whose name and appearance were unknown in such a huge crowd. Her words did not sound like concern, but more like an accusation.

"Actually, I have some idea," Qi Nanfeng smiled lightly, his eyes softened almost instantly, "but she doesn't seem to recognize me anymore."

"You said you found the person in your dream? How is that possible?" Chen Shoujing looked incredulous. "Isn't it just a dream?"

Qi Nanfeng's smile faded a little, and he said, "Do you still remember the content of the dream I told you about?"

"Well, you had just graduated from college and suddenly said that your life was not right now, and that you should be in China, with a brother and sister of similar age. You were best friends. You also said that when you were a child, you had a fever and fell ill because you saved the older sister of the siblings."

At that time, everyone thought that Qi Nanfeng was possessed by a demon and took the dream seriously. But what was going on now? How could the people in the dream really exist?

"I don't know how to explain this to you. After all, I'm the only one who's experienced this."

During that period, he was almost suffering from schizophrenia due to the two completely different lives, dream and reality. In order to find an answer, he stubbornly chose to return to China to look for the "dream person".

"Besides, I haven't had time to tell you yet," Qi Nanfeng looked at her seriously, "the person in my dream is the same person who exposed my aunt's affairs."

"It turned out to be her, that Master Xiao Song?" Chen Yuning pondered for a moment and said, "Ningning said that she is a person with real ability. However, didn't you say that you couldn't see the appearance of the siblings in the dream clearly, and you didn't know their names? How did you recognize them?"

"It's just that I can't see clearly the images of those life trajectories that suddenly appeared. The time I met her when I was a child was something I really experienced. I remembered it after I recovered my memory. Fortunately, she doesn't look much different from when she was a child."

Qi Nanfeng spoke in a casual tone, concealing all the efforts he had made to find the man of his dreams.

"So that's how it is." Chen Shoujing thought thoughtfully.

"Mom, actually, I have always wanted to ask you something."

Qi Nanfeng asked seriously, "I remember you said that when I was a kid, I had a high fever and went to several hospitals but none of them could cure me. In the end, I was cured by a master, right?"

"That's right," Chen Shoujing nodded. "At that time, we really had no other choice, so we listened to what an old lady said and invited a master. I didn't expect that after she looked at you, your fever really stopped. Later, our family moved overseas, and it was also the master's advice. When you had the dream at the beginning of the year, we all thought that you had collided with something unclean, and we asked someone to find out the whereabouts of the master."

Qi Nanfeng asked anxiously, "Did you find it?"

Chen Shoujing shook his head: "It's too late. The master has passed away."

"..." Qi Nanfeng frowned, his intuition told him that those strange dreams must have something to do with this "master", but unfortunately the master was dead and he had no one to ask.

"But now that you mentioned that, I suddenly remembered something very strange that the master said at that time."

"What?"

"She said that you didn't have a fever, it was..." Chen Shoujing lowered his head, frowning tightly.

"You took someone else's life by force."

"She also said that she was not trying to save you, but was fighting someone."