It’s inevitable to feel a bit anxious, what should she do about it?
In a whirl of thoughts, the three arrived at the entrance of the farmhouse.
Looking in, the well-lit main room had an Eight Immortals table set up, Lin Zida and the others were drinking soup at the table, each with an enal bowl, enjoying themselves with soup and flatbread.
Lin Zida noticed the things in Jiang Ning’s hand and greeted: "Want so soup?"
Jiang Ning smiled: "Just a little bit."
Boss Yang rushed out from the kitchen, saying enthusiastically: "Co on, Jiang Ning!"
Jiang Ning brought the pot and basket of buns, walking toward the kitchen with a smile.
Leaving Tongtong and Chuchu to wait in the main room.
Yang Qian’s gaze lingered on Xue Yuantong briefly for two seconds, then moved to Xue Chuchu’s face, and after looking carefully, she couldn’t help but be astounded.
She had only seen Xue Chuchu’s figure on the river dam for two days and hadn’t noticed her face, who would’ve thought it would be so...
Yang Qian always thought she looked quite good, but upon seeing Xue Chuchu’s flawless face and her aloof elegance, her mindset instantly beca unbalanced.
She could only console herself, thinking that imperfect beauty is actually the best...
"What if Zhuang Jianhui..." Suddenly Yang Qian thought of, and couldn’t help but focus on, Zhuang Jianhui.
Zhuang Jianhui and Ding Shuyan were good friends, with a certain resistance to beauty, having seen Xue Chuchu multiple tis, he only glanced at first and wasn’t looking now, Yang Qian instantly regained confidence.
Jiang Ning took the lamb soup, and under Boss Yang’s enthusiastic farewell, left the farmhouse.
Yang Qian lastly watched the little girl bouncing around, even she, as a woman, found her sowhat adorable.
However, in her mind, she didn’t quite understand her cousin Yang Fei, always feeling that his attitude toward Jiang Ning was just as considerate as toward Zhuang Jianhui and the others.
...
Aunt Gu didn’t work overti today, ca ho early, Xue Yuantong had just finished her soup, and was thrilled when her mom returned.
Excitedly, she left all the dishwashing and pot scrubbing to her dear mom.
She herself dashed off to Jiang Ning’s house.
Aunt Gu reprimanded her daughter: "Are you gaming again, get back!"
Xue Yuantong responded in a crisp voice full of denial: "Not at all, I’m attending military-style managent at Jiang Ning’s house!"
At that instant, Aunt Gu felt like she was aging, unsure how to interpret that phrase.
Xue Yuantong seized the chance and ran off.
After she arrived at Jiang Ning’s house, she found Chuchu on the couch reading a book, Xue Yuantong booted up the computer and clicked on the CF icon.
In the midst of winter, after having lamb soup, she felt warm all over and desperately needed an exhilarating battle to alleviate the heat within her!
Biochemical mode, selecting Silent Village.
Opening the match to find a teammate with a Da Pao, using the Silver Killer she exchanged from the box for a cannon sniper.
However, she was cruelly refused, and the teammate turned on the mic to insult her telling her to look in the mirror.
Xue Yuantong was furious, she ran to block the crucial path on the entire map leading to the highest platform.
The teammate with the cannon sniper intended to seize the high ground for a satisfying sniping match.
Yet no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t ascend, the teammate was almost driven mad, wondering why there was such a shaless person?
The teammate with the cannon sniper refused to give up, squeezing, jumping repeatedly.
Shortly after, Xue Yuantong got chosen as the terminator, directly shocking him into mutation.
Then, she started hunting throughout the ga.
After a fulfilling biochemical mode match, Xue Yuantong ran to the transport ship, equipped with the Malay Sword from the challenge mode box.
Simultaneously cursing cowardly sniping teammates, stealthily sneaking to the opposite position via the side passage.
Then held down the left mouse button continuously, swinging nonstop, turning into a "Malay Dog" hated by everyone.
Jiang Ning, while cutting wood, occasionally looked up, seeing Tongtong on the screen performing a triple kill using lee weapons.
He couldn’t help but admire Tongtong’s excellent dynamic vision and reaction speed, with the screen shaking for just a mont, while ordinary players couldn’t even make out the image, she had already precisely locked onto an opponent, gauged their number, followed up with continuous slashes, enemies realizing what happened only after death.
Similar to when Jiang Ning watched FPS ga professional matches.
Having this level of gaming skill, in any fair competitive ga, is akin to a divine presence, the gaming experience couldn’t be better.
"No wonder Tongtong likes gaming, while Chuchu isn’t as fond." Jiang Ning glanced at Chuchu beside him.
Xue Chuchu, engrossed in her studies, baffled, "What does that gaze an?"
Tongtong and Chuchu each had their tasks, Jiang Ning too had his own.
He opened the QQ dynamic page and clicked into his QQ space.
Recently noticed his dynamic view counts inexplicably increasing.
This afternoon, Jiang Ning intentionally posted sothing, setting it visible to a select group of friends.
It was a picture from middle school gym class, he brought a ping pong paddle intending to play badminton with Shen Qing’e, ended up her playing badminton with the class celebrities.
That day Jiang Ning had a button phone, snapping a blurry ping pong paddle photo.
Today he happened to make a post, reviewing it, the afternoon post’s views had already exceeded a hundred by evening.
Jiang Ning pondered: "Seems quite viewable, soone gave over a hundred."
After thinking for a bit, he deleted the dynamic, locking the QQ space.
...
February 1st, 8:30 AM.
Tongtong ca reluctantly crawling out of the covers.
By the ti she ran to Chuchu’s house, she saw Chuchu uncovering the pot, white steam filling the room.
She proudly said to Jiang Ning: "Coming early isn’t as good as coming tily, isn’t it?"
Jiang Ning: "Eat up, today the river dam is bustling."
Xue Yuantong curiously asked: "What’s going on?"
Xue Chuchu, while taking buns from the steaming plate, said: "Mr. Qian was out early saying a lot of city folks ca to play in the snow at the dam."
With much snow accumulating near the river dam, rarely cleared, due to the dam’s special terrain and slope, it ford a natural ski ground, it’s no surprise attracting folks to ski.
Upon hearing, Xue Yuantong could imagine the scene, she exclaid: "Indeed, a few years back too, loads of people! I nearly forgot about that!"
Then she hurried to eat.
This morning, they made sweet potato rice soup, heated Aunt Gu’s homade buns, Chuchu stir-fried snow vegetables and shredded pork, boiled three eggs, though simple, Jiang Ning stayed in the kitchen with lingering warmth, eating at the table, listening to Tongtong and Chuchu chatting, and still felt genuine happiness.
For many, this might be just commonplace, rely daily occurrences.
But growing up as a left-behind child, besides year-end occasions, he seldom experienced family warmth, even post-graduation he was alone out in the world.
Hence, such simple monts like family gathering at a table for als and chats hold great value for him.
Just like the world’s most precious things: air, sunlight, water.
Jiang Ning moved sluggishly, making Tongtong uncomfortable, urging him to speed up.
Jiang Ning kept dawdling, Tongtong glared, pouting, wishing she could eat him.
Xue Chuchu secretly smirked but couldn’t evade Tongtong’s sharp eye, was then accused: "Chuchu, you’re laughing!"
Encountered, Xue Chuchu defended: "Which eye saw laughing?"
Tongtong: "Jiang Ning, did she laugh?"
Jiang Ning: "She laughed."
Xue Chuchu ended up isolated.
After breakfast, she claid she wouldn’t wash dishes, Xue Yuantong fearlessly retorted: "Ha-ha, your aversion proves you laughed."
She collaborated with Jiang Ning on dish and pot washing.
Once tidied up, the trio decided to go playing in the snow by the river dam.
After securing the door, Xue Yuantong didn’t forget to say: "Should we fetch Dongdong to supervise his workout?"
"Workout? Clearly you want him to pull the sleigh!" Xue Chuchu couldn’t hold back, critiqued: "You’re so wicked..."
Xue Yuantong reluctantly said: "Fine, spare him for now from a ruined fate."
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