Chapter 142 The Journey Ends
"Many people have moved away in recent years. After all, the community has been around for a long time and the supporting facilities are a bit out of date."
Uncle Jiang was chatting with Wu Xianyu while looking for the key.
"The only people who still live here are the elderly who are used to living here. The younger people in their 40s and 50s have all moved to the city."
Uncle Hu stood at the door with his hands behind his back, his tone without any emotion, as if he was saying something very ordinary.
"I guess you won't see those guys this time. They've all moved away. This place is too far from school."
Uncle Jiang found the key, stood up on his knees, and called Wu Xianyu and Lin Miaomiao to follow him.
"If you can stay a few more days, maybe you can meet them."
"Forget it. We haven't seen each other or contacted each other for three years. I don't know what to say when we meet."
Wu Xianyu shook his head and declined, and Uncle Jiang nodded in understanding.
After many twists and turns, they arrived at a door on the fifth floor. It was still a big iron door. Uncle Jiang inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it a few times. The door creaked, like the last gasp before decay.
Uncle Jiang opened the door, covered his mouth and nose, fanned his hands, and spoke to the two people behind him.
"Come in later and wait for the dust to dissipate."
"It's okay, we just need to walk slowly."
Wu Xianyu took Lin Miaomiao in. The ground was covered with a layer of dust, and clear footprints were left behind as they walked.
Standing in the living room of this house, Wu Xianyu turned his eyes and felt a little heavy in his heart. It was here that he had a different life.
Feeling a touch on his palm, Wu Xianyu lowered his head and found that it was Lin Miaomiao who had put her hand into his palm. Lin Miaomiao, who had been observing Wu Xianyu, smiled at him and moved her body closer.
Wu Xianyu smiled and said nothing. He took Lin Miaomiao's hand and walked around the whole house. The space that seemed so large in his memory now seemed a bit small. The layout of two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom had a total area of only about 60 or 70 square meters.
All the things from the past had been moved away, leaving only some large pieces of furniture, which had decayed over time and the air didn't smell very good. After walking around, there was nothing to see, so Wu Xianyu didn't feel too much and walked out of the house with Lin Miaomiao. Uncle Liu, who was standing in the corridor, saw the two of them coming out and spoke.
"finish watching?"
"Well, I've finished reading it."
Uncle Liu locked the door again and led the two down the stairs and asked casually
"How was your college entrance exam? Where are you planning to go?"
"I think the exam results are OK. I have already contacted the professor at Peking University. We are both going to Peking University."
Uncle Liu stopped walking and looked back at Wu Xianyu and the others in shock. It took him a long time to recover. He put his hands on the handrail and walked downstairs. When he reached the bottom of the stairs and his feet were firmly on the ground, Uncle Liu slowly spoke.
"Good boy, really good boy, awesome! Old Wu and the others won't say this. Good job, study hard in college, and come over when you have time."
"Yes, yes. After all, I have lived here for more than ten years."
As he spoke, Wu Xianyu took Lin Miaomiao out of the community, and finally left the community under the watchful eyes of two security guards.
Along the way, the car was very quiet. Wu Xianyu didn't speak, and Lin Miaomiao also remained silent. Until the car stopped at a place, Lin Miaomiao raised her head and looked around.
"Where is this?"
“Remember that place I told you about eating dumplings and ending up eating three cans of chili sauce?”
Wu Xianyu parked the car, unbuckled his seat belt, turned to look at Lin Miaomiao, and kept a smile on his face.
"Here it is. Let's go down and look for it. We still have to walk a few steps. I don't know if it can still be opened."
"Your mood changes too quickly."
Lin Miaomiao complained, but was also in high spirits, and walked towards the street with Wu Xianyu.
However, they didn't walk for long before they seemed to have found their target.
“Xin Yi Chili Sauce”
Lin Miaomiao looked at the sign of the store, and then looked at the old faded sign at the door.
“Xin Yi Dumpling House”
"Wow, they really changed to selling chili sauce."
Wu Xianyu couldn't help but complain silently, then walked straight into the store. He could smell the aroma of chili sauce as soon as he entered the door. Wu Xianyu felt that his mouth had begun to drool.
The boss greeted two people
"You two want to buy chili sauce?"
"Yeah, didn't your family run a dumpling restaurant before? Why did you change directly to selling chili sauce?"
“It’s because dumplings don’t sell as well as chili sauce. People who come to eat dumplings come for our chili sauce.”
The boss explained it very familiarly, and I guess many people ask this question.
"What kind of chili sauce do you want? Dried chili sauce is a bit spicy, fresh pepper is moderately spicy and has a strong aroma, and vegetable pepper is almost not spicy and can be eaten with rice."
"How about one serving each?"
Lin Miaomiao on the side couldn't help but speak. She had swallowed her saliva several times. The taste was so tempting and it would definitely go well with rice.
"Then let's have the same portion, but the biggest one. We are both from other places and we only come back once in a long time."
"Okay, I'll install it for you right away. They were all fried this morning."
The two waited for a while and saw the boss come out with three large cans, which were about the same size as the largest cans of fruit in the supermarket. They were also specially placed in a plastic basket and he told Wu Xianyu and Lin Miaomiao to take them.
"Don't put this thing upside down. There are vents on the lid. If it's upside down, it will leak easily. I can only use this plastic basket as a makeshift one. Please be careful when you drive."
"Okay, okay, thank you, boss."
Wu Xianyu thanked the boss and got into the car with Lin Miaomiao.
When they got in the car, Lin Miaomiao sat in the driver's seat. After so much time on the road, her driving skills had become proficient. Wu Xianyu and Yuwan Laotie could safely hand over the steering wheel to her. When the car started slowly, Lin Miaomiao looked at Wu Xianyu.
"Where's the next stop?"
"It's up to you. I can do anything."
"Why don't you just go home? You've been out for so long, and you're a little tired."
Lin Miaomiao started the car in a lazy tone. Wu Xianyu had no objection and nodded.
"Okay, then let's go straight back to my house."
"Hmm? It doesn't seem impossible, haha. It's settled. Let's go home."
It took them two days to return to Jiangzhou. When they got home, they unloaded the specialties they bought along the way one by one from the car, putting those that needed to be refrigerated in the refrigerator and those that needed to be frozen in the freezer.
After finishing their work, the two fell on the sofa, feeling extremely tired. Even the two cats went back to their own room to sleep early.
Lin Dawei, who had just finished all the donation work, was sitting on the sofa at home, watching TV with Wang Shengnan. Seeing the two protagonists in love on TV, Lin Dawei unconsciously thought of his daughter, so he turned to Wang Shengnan.
"Shengnan, Miaomiao has been out playing for half a month now, right? She hasn't said when she'll be back?"
"No, I guess she was having too much fun. After all, she has been studying for three years. The last time I saw her friends, she was eating barbecue in Shandong Province."
Wang Shengnan responded to Lin Dawei casually. She was quite confident in her daughter, or rather, in her future son-in-law.
"Hey? Did you get their acceptance letters?"
Lin Dawei suddenly thought of something and sat up straight on the sofa. It was already August, and the admission letter should have arrived by then.
Wang Shengnan was suddenly reminded of this matter and shifted her attention away from the TV. She took out her cell phone and sent a message directly to Lin Miaomiao. After waiting for a while and seeing no reply, she called her directly.
“I want to take a helicopter ride.”
"Hello, who is this?" Without waiting for the phone to finish ringing, Lin Miaomiao reached out for the phone, lay in Wu Xianyu's arms, and answered the call without even opening her eyes.
"Miao Miao, have you received your admission letter?"
"Mom? The notice. I received a call from the courier. He left it at the security booth. We'll pick it up when we get home. What's the matter?"
Lin Miaomiao was awakened by Wang Shengnan's voice. She perked up, remembered what happened when she and Wu Xianyu received a call from the post office before, and prepared to go to the security booth to pick up the express delivery.
"Nothing else, just this. When are you coming back? It's already August."
Looking at Wu Xianyu beside her, Lin Miaomiao felt a little reluctant, and after thinking for a while, she spoke
"One more week, I'll be back in mid-August."
"I've been having so much fun that I don't even want to go home."
Wang Shengnan muttered something, and finally gave him a warning.
"You should take care of your body and don't just seek temporary excitement. You are both young and have no resistance to such things."
"Oh my, mom, my signal is bad, I'm hanging up."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Shengnan was becoming more and more nagging.
Putting down the phone, Lin Miaomiao lay back on the bed and snuggled into Wu Xianyu's arms. Wu Xianyu put his arms around her, his voice filled with fatigue.
"What did Auntie say?"
"She asked us about our admission letters, and when we would be returning. Finally, she told us to be careful because she didn't really want to be a grandmother yet."
Lin Miaomiao spoke lazily, and after she finished speaking, she kissed Wu Xianyu's mouth. Wu Xianyu's hand around her waist moved down.
"So, are you feeling well lately?"
"No problem, what's the problem? You have to take medicine and use condoms. Even if your descendants are powerful, they can't withstand it."
"We don't use them together. Sometimes when you get excited, don't you say you don't want to use a condom? Don't forget to take the medicine."
"Hey, don't you like not using a condom, big brother? Don't worry, my phone reminds me to take the pills every day."
After Lin Miaomiao finished speaking, the bedroom fell into silence again, but the two of them were obviously not that sleepy anymore. Lin Miaomiao turned over, looked at the ceiling, and stretched.
"Can you still sleep?"
“Not so sleepy anymore”
"Then let's go get the admission letter. We don't even know what Peking University is like."
"Walk"
Wu Xianyu sat up, put on his clothes, and walked towards the security booth with Lin Miaomiao.
It was afternoon now, and the sky was filled with gorgeous orange-red sunset glow. Both of them were wearing simple short-sleeved shirts and shorts. After getting their belongings from the security booth, they returned home.
Putting the package on the coffee table, Wu Xianyu didn't rush to open it. He turned and walked towards the kitchen to ask Lin Miaomiao
“What to eat tonight?”
“It’s all right. I want to eat some rice.”
"Okay, what about the food?"
"It's up to you. I can eat anything now that I have chili sauce."
"You should eat less. Eating too much will cause you to get irritated."
"I'm here with you, hahahaha"
Walking to the kitchen speechlessly, Wu Xianyu washed the rice and put it into the rice cooker, then began to think about what to eat in the evening. He had been eating chili peppers recently, so he decided to make something to clear away heat and reduce internal heat.
He bought some vegetables on the way home. There was no shortage of ingredients at home. Wu Xianyu took a look and took out a bitter gourd. The bitterness of this thing can be reduced by a lot if the white flesh in the middle is removed. Then put it in hot water for more than ten seconds, the bitterness can be basically ignored, and it tastes crisp and refreshing.
I made two dishes, one was scrambled eggs with bitter melon, and the other was scrambled shrimp with celery. The shrimps were brought from the beach, and they were quite big. Lin Miaomiao was very happy to eat them, especially the bitter melon, which was not that bitter.
"How did you make the bitter melon no longer bitter?"
"Just remove the pulp and blanch it in water, and it will basically have no bitter taste, but its function of reducing internal heat will be less."
"Better than my mom, she works so hard from the bottom of her heart"
"That's what Auntie did on purpose. Bitter melon has to be bitter to reduce internal heat."
Lin Miaomiao glanced at Wu Xianyu with a smile on her face.
"My mother is not around, so no one can hear me flattering you."
"You are here, you will definitely help me convey it, right?"
"Tsk, wishful thinking"
After a simple dinner, the two sat on the sofa and began to study the package from Peking University.
After opening it, in addition to the admission letter, there was also a handbook containing notes for new students, a school introduction and a simple map.
After flipping through the manual, Wu Xianyu raised his eyebrows and pointed to the place he had just seen to Lin Miaomiao.
"Look, the school will allow you to register on August 8th, and the military training will start on September 27st or 9nd at the latest. The training will last until the 1th, which is more than ten days. It's okay, and it seems that your menstrual period will be during those days."
"Oh, that's true. Can I take a leave then?"
Lin Miaomiao also reacted. Her first thought was that it would be best if she could avoid military training, but Wu Xianyu was not optimistic and shook his head.
"You probably don't have menstrual cramps right now. It might be hard to ask for leave, but you should be able to report and ask for a break at any time."
"It's all your fault. You made me stop having period pains."
"Hey, hey, hey, what does it have to do with me? It's obvious that if you are healthy, you won't have dysmenorrhea."
"It's all your fault. It's because you're hot there. You always help warm my stomach."
Wu Xianyu looked at Lin Miaomiao and felt that she had been speaking more boldly recently. He cleared his throat and shamelessly accepted the credit.
"Okay, it's my fault, I admit it."
“That’s pretty much it”
Seeing Wu Xianyu admit his mistake, Lin Miaomiao turned around with satisfaction and continued to look at the rest of the things, and finally opened the admission letter.
There is a cultural and creative ornament with the Peking University logo on the cover, stuck in the middle. Open the book from both sides of the logo, and then open it up and down, and the complete admission letter will appear in front of you.
Lin Miaomiao took photos excitedly and only looked at the words on it at the end
"Student Lin Miaomiao, our school has decided to admit you to the (English Department of the School of Foreign Languages) major. Please report to the school on time on August 0, with this notice."
Reading the above content, Lin Miaomiao felt excited and turned to look at Wu Xianyu's. Except for their names, all other content was the same. They were both from the English department.
After being excited for a while, Lin Miaomiao put away the admission letter. She must keep it well.
After both of them had packed their notices, Lin Miaomiao threw herself into Wu Xianyu's arms.
"Honey, we can take classes together again"
"Do you still want me to help you with your lessons?"
"Yes, I want it now, hehe"
(End of this chapter)
