Chu Yunrou quickly agreed to the request, and after asking Bai Yu to take good care of Chu Zehuai, she signed their names on the leave notes.
She even gave Bai Yu an extra bonus - taken from her salary.
"I signed because of my status as director. I need a reliable person to take care of the main force of our Qinghe City Investigation Bureau. The bonus is because of my status as a relative. As an aunt, I ask you to take care of my nephew."
These are her exact words.
So, the man and the plant set out on the journey back to the Chu family's old house.
However, on the way, someone began to worry again.
"Grandpa, is he still alive?"
Chu Zehuai said worriedly that his aunt told him that thirteen years had passed since he knew the world.
"Yes, Grandpa is in good health and will refresh at the various lakes from time to time."
Bai Yu recalled and answered.
...
...
"That's fine."
Chu Zehuai breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately had a new worry.
"My absence from the Bureau for so many days shouldn't have any negative impact on the mission or anything like that."
"No, the Bureau does need you, but it's not to the point where you can't leave for even a moment. You've been on business trips to other continents before, and you've been gone for more than a month at a time."
Bai Yu touched the other person's fluffy light golden short hair.
"Don't worry about such things. Just treat this as a journey into the future. Rest well and have fun. Don't worry about anything else."
Chu Zehuai pursed his lips: "But I always feel guilty."
"There's no need to put everything on yourself, you have me by your side."
During the conversation, the gate of the Chu family's old house was already in sight. Grandpa Chu, who had already received the news from his daughter, was already waiting at the door, looking at his eldest grandson with a smile.
"Oh, I haven't seen Xiao Huai like this for a long time."
Grandpa Chu touched Chu Zehuai's face, but the next second, he withdrew his hand because it was burned.
"Hiss, it's so hot. If I take you with me when I go fishing next time, I can grill while eating."
After saying this, he kept nodding for this brilliant idea he came up with.
Bai Yu: ...
He finally understood where Pigeon Dad's personality came from.
"He can't control his body temperature yet. It's even higher than an adult's. We may need to prepare some ice in the old house."
Bai Yu explained, then held the hand of the person next to him tightly as a comfort.
"No, ice doesn't work on me."
Chu Zehuai shook his head. After realizing Bai Yu's intention to appease him, he shook his hand back and added,
"It's okay. I know my grandfather's character. He is just like this."
After saying that, he pulled Bai Yu straight into the old house, found an old house with ease, and pushed the door open.
"The house is much more shabby than I remembered, but it's also much better than the dusty one I imagined. I thought I would be met with countless spider webs when I opened the door."
Chu Zehuai looked around the room and nodded with satisfaction.
"I'm telling you, I put a lot of goodies in there, and I wanted to show you."
"good."
Bai Yu nodded and watched the other party start rummaging through the house.
He originally thought that the things shown to him by the young version of Chu Zehuai and the adult version of Chu Zehuai were the same - family photos and different clay plant models.
However, even if Chu Zehuai took out exactly the same thing, seeing how excited the other party was to share it with him, Bai Yu still decided to show an expression of surprise and praise.
It's a rare opportunity for someone in pain to be happy, so Bai Yu of course has to spoil her boyfriend.
However, after rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for more than ten minutes, Chu Zehuai took out something Bai Yu had never seen before.
"Please extend your hand."
The boy with light golden hair stood in front of Bai Yu, looked at the other's outstretched arm, and carefully hung a light golden bracelet on his wrist.
"What's this?"
Bai Yu looked at the material of the rope. It was a small rope made of very soft and fine down feathers.
"This is the fluff I shed for the first time. I wove it into a small rope. I was thinking at the time that if I met someone I liked one day, I would give this to him."
Chu Zehuai let go of his hand and looked at the light gold bracelet on the other's wrist with satisfaction, but he immediately realized something and his whole body froze in place.
It seemed like he...accidentally...had screwed over the adult version of himself.
"Um...I didn't give it to you before, maybe I forgot. After all, thirteen years is too long, it's normal to forget some things."
Looking at the person who was explaining in a hurry, Bai Yu couldn't help laughing out loud.
"It's okay. In fact, your future self has already given me a lot of things, and they are all things I like."
He patted the other person's shoulder, used his mobile phone to show a photo of the rose vine clay, and then shook the bracelet on his hand.
"Also, I like the gift you gave me, thank you."
He leaned forward and kissed the other person's cheek, watching the originally fair face turn red instantly.
"No...it's okay. Um, I still have a lot of things to share with you, wait a moment."
After Chu Zehuai finished speaking, he turned around and ran away, continuing to look for something in the cabinet.
Bai Yu just sat on the edge of the bed, holding his chin and watching the other person searching.
The idea of looking for something is fake, the real idea is using it as an excuse to escape.
She can express her love directly, but she can also blush when she is shy.
So cute.
Afterwards, Chu Zehuai took out a few notebooks that had turned yellow due to age.
"I remember I just bought this notebook two days ago, and it feels like it has become so worn out in the blink of an eye."
Chu Zehuai opened the notebook, which contained some small illustrations he had drawn himself.
“Is this you?”
Bai Yu looked at the golden bird flying above, his eyes fell on its long tail feathers, and asked.
The tail feathers of this bird are exactly the same as the ones that the other bird accidentally revealed last time.
"Yes, the golden eagle on the left is my aunt, the peregrine falcon on the right is my grandfather, and the dodo at the bottom is my guess about Lin Mo's awakening prototype. I didn't expect that he was actually a crow."
Chu Zehuai pointed at the three birds next to the golden bird and said.
"Why do you think he'll be a dodo?"
Bai Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Because the dodo cannot fly and is very easy to catch, every time Lin Mo and I do something bad secretly, he is the only one who gets caught. For example, taking sparrow eggs, picking grandpa's flowers, eating ten popsicles a day..."
Chu Zehuai said this while puffing out his chest proudly.
He has never been caught once.
Bai Yu: ...It’s quite glorious.
"But besides the dodo, I also thought of other birds, such as a parrot, because sometimes its mouth is too annoying and it likes to chatter next to my ear. But in the end I didn't choose to put the parrot on because I thought it was too stupid and would not be able to awaken such a smart bird."
"If Lin Mo heard what you said, he would definitely hide under the quilt and cry secretly again."
"He's already in his twenties, is he still like this?"
"Um."
One person and one plant kept flipping through the book, discussing the contents as they read.
Then the other party brought over a stack of books, which were textbooks that Bai Yu had never seen before.
"For families like ours that are prone to producing awakened people, education before adulthood is completed in special schools. I still remember that our Chinese teacher liked to take everyone out for seafood barbecue after class. Because he especially loved eating oysters, he was nicknamed the 'Oyster Killer'."
Chu Zehuai pointed at the teacher's comments on the test paper and said.
"Let me see. Her comment to you is to go back and look up the dictionary carefully, and use more idioms and allusions instead of always using plain language."
Bai Yu could barely recognize the flamboyant red-handed annotations on it.
"Well, since I often fail in my essays, let's not talk about that. Let's look at our graduation photo. Sitting in the middle is the principal, Grandpa Li, who is also the executive officer of the Dongzhou region. He should be retired now, though."
Chu Zehuai took out another group photo.
"Yes, he is now guarding Changning City, but because he is very old and in poor health, he does not show up often."
Bai Yu thought about the S-level people in the Dongzhou area and nodded.
Four S-levels, three Dongzhou regional executives, and one retired old man.
"He gave me many small gifts before, saying that he had great expectations for me. He even wrote me a graduation message in his own handwriting. Wait a moment, I'll go look through it."
Chu Zehuai clapped his hands, turned around and continued looking.
While waiting, Bai Yu flipped through the other person's Chinese textbook out of boredom.
The education in the awakened world is indeed different from that of ordinary people. The illustrations are all of various ferocious pollutants, and learning to read begins with learning the names of the pollutants.
'Space Devourer': A spiritual space pollutant, generally above level B, without self-awareness, and loves to devour anything that has life.
'Deformer': The name given to ordinary people who have been polluted and reached the third stage of distortion.
'Nightmare Mosquito': A psychotropic insect pollutant, generally ranked at Class C, that feeds on blood and spreads nightmares.
.........
Bai Yu was flipping through the book when he found a piece of paper.
He glanced at it curiously.
[Today, the weather is fine, and I have awakened my powerful bird ability. Dad was laughing so hard that he was shaking with laughter. He dressed up beautifully and went to tell Mom the good news. Mom said that she found some private money at home. Dad, who had a pretty face, was immediately frightened.
Teacher's comments: ...I can see that you looked it up in a dictionary, but I cannot comment on this kind of art. Take it back and ask your father to sign it.]
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