Seeing the three kids eating happily, Aunt Gu didn’t stay in the kitchen and went back to her room to watch TV.
After mom left, Xue Yuantong imagined, "If I save a bit more, maybe I can buy a snowboard!"
Jiang Ning glanced at her: "The question is, can you snowboard?"
Xue Yuantong felt underestimated; she imdiately stood up from the small stool, moved to the empty space beside the dining table, and demonstrated the side-to-side swaying movents of snowboarding on TV, then asked Jiang Ning, "Is it professional?"
Jiang Ning: "Not professional."
Xue Yuantong swayed her small waist like a flower in the spring wind: "Is it professional now?"
Jiang Ning: "Are you a noodle?"
Xue Chuchu: "*Cough, cough.*"
"Chuchu, what’s so funny? Co and show Jiang Ning!" She urged.
"Like this!" Xue Yuantong offered her guidance.
Xue Chuchu thought she was too crazy and softly refused: "I don’t want to."
Xue Yuantong, heartbroken: "Chuchu, are you trying to ruin this family!"
Xue Chuchu was falsely accused.
To conquer Jiang Ning, Xue Yuantong kept demonstrating to Jiang Ning, twisting playfully.
Aunt Gu heard the commotion and ca to look, only to see her daughter acting like she lost her mind, while Chuchu remained gentle and ladylike.
In comparison, Aunt Gu disdainfully advised: "If you have ti, wipe the wall with your butt."
...
After finishing the boiled shrimp, Jiang Ning switched locations and returned to the small room, with Tongtong and Chuchu trailing behind.
Tongtong initially wanted to ask Jiang Ning to play gas together, but Jiang Ning got a call and went out.
It took ten minutes before he ca back from outside.
"Who was it, Jiang Ning?" Tongtong was still waiting for him.
Jiang Ning said with a smile: "It was a call from my mom."
Xue Yuantong: "Oh~"
She imdiately pictured Jiang Ning’s parents, though she had never t them.
Before Tongtong could ask, Jiang Ning spoke about the call: "It’s almost New Year, and there are so wedding and funeral matters on my side. My parents are busy out of town and can’t co back, so they asked if I am going back ho to attend."
Xue Yuantong: "Oh, are you going to go back ho then?"
Jiang Ning: "I’m not planning to for so, but there are others I need to; my cousin from my aunt’s side is getting married. But looking at the schedule, it’s after the holidays, ten days or so."
Jiang Ning had co to the urban area to stay with his uncle; the first fourteen years of his life were spent in the township where there was a complete circle of relationships.
Childhood friends, classmates from primary and middle school... he barely had contact after moving to the city, not even their contacts.
Because Jiang Ning didn’t have a smartphone back then.
’I wonder if they would recognize upon seeing again?’ Jiang Ning pondered this.
And how was his middle school now? It was a unified township middle and high school; normally, one would continue to high school after graduating middle school.
Just that he and Shen Qing’e didn’t follow that path.
Xue Yuantong blinked: "Can I go to the banquets? I heard the dishes at every town’s banquet are different."
Xue Chuchu, upon hearing this, raised her face and glanced at Tongtong.
’Is she foolish, going with Jiang Ning to hotown banquets, not afraid of the relatives asking all sorts of questions?’ Xue Chuchu just imagining it felt numb to those occasions.
Wonder how many acquaintances they’d et, relatives, friends, classmates...
Xue Chuchu inquired: "In Guyang County, can you go to the banquets as two people?"
In their village, usually only one person from each household attends banquets; Jiang Ning surely counts as an adult.
Jiang Ning: "Typically, no, unless adults are taking children."
Xue Yuantong felt insulted and angrily started a ga.
Jiang Ning leisurely remarked: "However, since it’s a celebration at my aunt’s place, two people shouldn’t be a problem; are you sure about going?"
Faced with the decision, Xue Yuantong chickened out: "My ga matched successfully, let’s discuss another day."
Just as Chuchu expected.
Let alone the fragile Tongtong, even if she and Jiang Ning went to the banquet together, it would be hard to handle the nurous relatives; it was overwhelming.
Jiang Ning planned: "After Fourth Middle School’s holiday, I should go back to the village for two days before the New Year."
Xue Yuantong pretended to be indifferent: "Go ahead, you’re spending New Year in Jiang Province anyway!"
It was like this last year; Jiang Ning didn’t spend New Year at her place and only returned on the fifth day of the New Year.
Thinking about this, she pouted her lips again, recalling the wonderful mont on New Year’s Eve night when Jiang Ning suddenly appeared before her, and they released a Kongming Lantern together. Her lips curled up again.
Observing the whole ti, Chuchu felt Tongtong was probably acting crazy, with expressions changing unpredictably.
Jiang Ning was too lazy to bother with her; he closed his eyes, his Divine Sense spread like ripples, slowly expanding, crossing walls, crossing the river dam, and sinking into the thick ice layer of the Huishui River.
Days of low temperatures, assisted by the array, have now resulted in an ice thickness of up to 10 centiters.
This thickness is just enough for walking, yes, the frail Wang Yan Yan can walk safely, but Pang Jiao would crack the ice layer and fall into the river.
Jiang Ning predicted, today is Sunday, the following week will continue with low temperatures, even reaching minus 10 degrees. Assisted by the array, in a week, the ice thickness of the Huishui River is expected to reach 40 centiters, thick enough to support a car.
His Divine Sense, following the array, found the giant fish that had devoured nurous array-born Spirit Crystals, discovering it had beco the overlord of the riverbed, the king of the waters.
He felt slightly relieved; everything was going smoothly.
When the ice breaks, it’ll be fish-catching ti.
’I should prepare so necessary items,’ Jiang Ning thought.
’Tongtong ntioned before, inviting the twins and Bai Yuxia to play at the river dam, they probably won’t ditch us. As for Chuchu, that’s hard to say, she might be fully focused on the final exams...’
’Hmm, by then, Yuzhou news will surely report the anomaly at the Huishui River, and the urban area will probably attract a lot of visitors.’
He slowly opened his eyes, Xue Chuchu was holding a book of incorrect problems, studying by the side of the sofa, while Tongtong was in the midst of a killing spree.
"Chuchu, after I finish this round, wanna play gas together?" Xue Yuantong invited.
"Sure, but I’ll only play one round."
Xue Yuantong sped up her progress, soon finishing the fight, she switched her account.
Chuchu’s Party and Tongtong Fishing tead up again to conquer Jianghu.
Tongtong quickly picked Little Fishman as a jungler, but after the ga started, the opposing Caitlyn’s nickna was [Leading Four Pigs to Fight Five Dogs].
Tongtong was very angry, why choose such a derogatory nickna?
As a guardian of online justice, Tongtong imdiately ssaged: "Opposing ADC, how many tis do you plan to die this ga?"
Caitlyn hadn’t replied yet, when the opposing mid-lane Yaoji confidently said: "Hehe, try touching her once?"
Leading Four Pigs to Fight Five Dogs: "Hehe."
Turns out she’s a girl.
As for Yaoji, he was very confident; because the champion Yaoji counters Little Fishman, as long as he can bait out Little Fishman’s E, he can easily dominate!
Twenty-five minutes later.
Xue Yuantong slaughtered everyone on the high ground and opened the match history.
Caitlyn’s stats: 0/8/1.
Yaoji’s stats: 0/10/0.
Xue Yuantong typed in the public chat: "No skill, much talk."
...
Outside Fourth Middle School, Zhengde Internet Cafe.
In a dimly lit residential house.
Cui Yu was playing the ga effortlessly, recently Brother Tian hadn’t been gaming, so Cui Yu returned to the normal realm of training players, yet he felt sowhat lonely.
Nearby, Guo Kunnan picked up his phone, glanced at it, sighed, and tried to find a topic: "Brother Ma, there’s a rumor that Fourth Middle might search nearby Internet cafes again, we won’t be exposed, right?"
If caught, they’d definitely need to call parents, Guo Kunnan wanted joy but worried about safety.
Ma Shicheng: "Where did you hear that?"
Guo Kunnan: "Forum."
Ma Shicheng: "No worries, Longlong will handle it."
Longlong, while eating instant noodles, responded: "Fake."
Guo Kunnan’s worried feeling finally eased slightly, but he still felt unsettled, he checked his phone again, the entire chat page was filled with ssages he had sent.
At 8:30, he sent a ssage to the senior he had t on the Fourth Middle dating forum: "What ti do you finish eating and return?"
No response.
"Alright, seems you’re busy, I’ll continue attending class."
Later at 9:30, he sent another ssage to the senior: "Do your friends at the party not let you use the phone?"
It’s now 11 PM, still no response.
Guo Kunnan was very anxious, but anxiety was of no use.
At 1 AM, the screen suddenly lit up, and the senior sent a ssage: "Anan, you’re a good person."
Guo Kunnan was stunned: "What do you an."
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