This game store is very large and divided into many areas. Most of the people walking around are young people. Although Yu Yao is not familiar with the games from 40 years later, she relied on her keen intuition to find the classic game area directly. Compared with the most popular game area surrounded by people, she wanted to try the classic games more.
There were fewer people in this area. There were only two young boys in their twenties standing in front of the entire row of experience walls, discussing the game in front of them with great interest. The games here are briefly introduced, and if you are interested, you can try them for free for 15 minutes. Yu Yao listened for a while and was slightly curious about the game in their hands, so she stood by and listened. When they stopped talking, she interrupted and asked, “This game sounds fun. What’s its name?”
The two boys heard the voice and turned their heads to see Yu Yao. One of them answered casually, “Desolate Planet.” After that, he suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Jiang Zhonglin standing behind Yu Yao with a stunned expression. He stammered, “Jiang, Teacher Jiang...”
This scared his companion next to him, who didn’t notice Jiang Zhonglin. He quickly looked at Jiang Zhonglin with the same expression as if he had seen a ghost and called him "Teacher Jiang".
The two boys who were talking about the game with great enthusiasm just now became two little chickens in a moment, huddled together and rubbed their hands. Going out to buy games and meeting a teacher, even if it is a good-tempered teacher like Jiang Zhonglin who never scolds people, is still a headache.
It was the first time that Yu Yao heard someone call Jiang Zhonglin "Teacher Jiang". When she married him, he was still in graduate school, and was about to finish it and was going to continue to study for a doctorate. Unlike ordinary people like her who studied casually, Jiang Zhonglin was a thorough academic master. Yu Yao was not surprised at all that he would become a teacher.
Jiang Zhonglin noticed the nervousness of the two little classmates, so he smiled warmly at them, greeted them, and said nothing more. He consciously walked away so as not to make them uncomfortable. He stood in an empty corner not far away, put his hands behind his back, and pushed his glasses, looking at a game promotion hanging on the side, waiting for Yu Yao to choose a game.
Seeing Jiang Zhonglin walk away, the two boys stretched their unconsciously shrunken necks. Seeing them like this, Yu Yao said with a smile, “Your teacher Jiang has such a good temper; are you still afraid of him?”
The two little boys were embarrassed. “Teacher Jiang is indeed easy to talk to and has no temper at all, but his students don’t dare to speak loudly in front of him. This is the subconscious reaction when facing a respected elder.”
Yu Yao: “...” What an exaggeration.
The little boy glanced at Jiang Zhonglin over there, a little embarrassed, “Actually, I’m not really a student of Teacher Jiang. I just accompanied my girlfriend to attend Teacher Jiang’s open classes a few times. My girlfriend’s tutor is a former student of Teacher Jiang, and she admires Teacher Jiang very much.”
Another little boy asked Yu Yao curiously, “Sister, are you Teacher Jiang’s granddaughter? Teacher Jiang must love you very much, and she even came with you to buy games. He doesn’t look like a match for games at all, and it feels weird to be here. I was scared when I saw him just now.”
Yu Yao looked at her old husband, who was looking at the mecha game promotion hanging on the wall with a cautious look, as if he was studying an unfamiliar field. For some reason, she wanted to laugh a little and answered casually, “I’m not his granddaughter; I’m his wife.”
The two little boys would definitely not believe it.
Sure enough, the two boys laughed, “Sister, you are so humorous.”
“Sister, do you want to buy this game? We’ll introduce it to you~”
Yu Yao didn’t mention her relationship with Teacher Jiang again and carefully chose the game under the introduction of the two little boys. After choosing, she also added the contact information of the two people, which was added to WeChat.
So, why is WeChat still around after forty years? Not only is it still around, it has even become a platform that integrates QQ, Weibo, and other communication, contact, and friendship platforms.
After choosing the game, the couple, one old and one young, went to buy daily necessities and clothes. Yu Yao bought these casually. She pushed a cart in front and threw things into the cart. Jiang Zhonglin followed behind. Occasionally, when he saw her throwing some snacks in, he would pick them up and look at the ingredient list. Yu Yao chose a lot of junk food. After all, junk food is the source of happiness in life. When you are unhappy, you still have to eat some junk food to soothe your soul.
Jiang Zhonglin did not object to this. He said one sentence from beginning to end, pointing to a red-packaged potato chip: “This food has too much polyol and synthetic seasoning. It’s not good. Change to the one next to it. The ingredients are similar.”
Yu Yao: “Okay, you pay anyway.” He changed to the one he mentioned.
Buying clothes is the fastest. Yu Yao took the size that suited her and chose a few sets that were comfortable to wear. Finally, Jiang Zhonglin took her to the door of a store and said, “Go in and buy some. I’ll wait for you at the door.”
Yu Yao was puzzled. “What store? Why don’t you come with me?”
She walked in and saw a lot of underwear. She realized what was going on. She turned her head and looked behind her. The old man was looking up at the dome of the square. The 65-year-old man didn’t have the face to take his 28-year-old wife to a lingerie store to buy underwear.
They bought a lot of things this time. Fortunately, the goods could be delivered to their door. The two of them returned home easily and signed for a lot of goods at the door. They moved them into the house again and again, and it took almost half a day to pack up.
That night, Yu Yao, who was still lying alone in the guest room, thought that she had just spent a simple day. Although something extraordinary had happened to her, there was actually nothing difficult to accept in life—including the husband who had become an old man, which didn’t seem difficult to accept. Jiang Zhonglin had sorted out a thread of her messy new life, and she felt much less uneasy than last night.
Yu Yao was lying on the bed, using her own terminal to play the game she bought today. She had to say that the game forty years later was much more fun than before, and it was very immersive. The slogan of immersive experience was not exaggerated. She forgot the time while playing and only realized that it was late when she was awakened by a knock on the door.
Jiang Zhonglin knocked on the door outside, “Go to bed early; don’t play games anymore; you can play again tomorrow.”
Yu Yao turned her head and looked at the closed door. She suddenly remembered Jiang Zhonglin when he was young. His studies were actually very heavy, but whenever he had time, he would come to her when he stayed at home.
He was a nerd and couldn’t play games. It seemed that there was no other fun in his life except for his major. Occasionally, on a rare day off, she didn’t have to go to work and stayed at home playing games. Jiang Zhonglin looked at her eagerly, wanting her to pay attention to him, but couldn’t say it. In the end, he wanted to please her, so he asked her to teach him how to play games. As a result, this nerd was really bad at playing games. She was so clumsy that she couldn’t teach him. He made her King of Glory account drop two levels, and his teammates called him an idiot.
Then he watched her beat the two people who scolded him and knock them offline.
Yu Yao smiled, then immediately stopped smiling. Suddenly, she felt bored. She threw away the game in her hand, fell on the bed, and shouted, “I’m going to sleep.”
There was no sound outside the door, and she didn’t know if he had left. Yu Yao lay down for a while, got out of bed quietly, and quietly opened the door. There was no one outside.
Teacher Jiang downstairs was talking on the phone.
“It’s so late, I’m bothering you. I don’t know if you have time now. Is it convenient to talk?”
The man on the other end of the phone smiled and said, “Teacher, why are you being so polite to me? Just tell me if you have anything to say!”
Jiang Zhonglin said, “I want to modify the content of the will I made a year ago.”
“Oh, so what do you want to modify?” The man on the other end of the phone was a little curious.
Jiang Zhonglin: “It’s about my inheritance heirs.”
***
Yu Yao fell asleep very late at night, so when someone woke her up from the bed in the morning, the muscles on her forehead twitched and she had a headache. Frowning and opening her eyes, Yu Yao saw an old lady in fashionable clothes in front of her bed, shaking her vigorously with tears in her eyes.
She was called an old lady, but in fact, she didn’t look old because she was well-maintained and had black hair, but after all, her age was there, and at first glance, people still thought of the word "old lady".
Yu Yao was confused for a moment, not knowing who she was, but soon, she found a familiar feeling from the old lady’s facial features.
The old lady looked at her excitedly and called her “Yaoyao!”
Yu Yao opened her eyes wide. “Ah Yun?”
The old lady nodded vigorously, tears fell from her eyes, and she choked and said, “It’s me, it’s me!”
The person who appeared in her bed early in the morning and woke her up was Yang Yun, her best friend. The two had been in the same class since kindergarten and continued to high school. They were close friends who insisted that the other be the maid of honor when they got married.
Yu Yao yelled and hugged the crying old lady, “Fuck, I thought you were dead!”
Yang Yun: “Fuck, I’m only 68, still very young, okay! How could I die so early!”
Compared to the inability to let go of her husband, Yu Yao regained the familiarity with Yang Jun, her best friend, almost instantly. “Ah Yun, you are so old...”
Yang Yun laughed and cried at the same time and took the time to answer her: “You are talking nonsense. How can I not be old after 40 years? But you are still like this, exactly the same as when you suddenly disappeared.”
Yu Yao was a little worried that her friend would cry so hard at such an old age, so she asked her, “Are you not sick? Don’t cry so hard that you faint.”
Yang Yun: “...I have a little diabetes...”
Yu Yao quickly said, “Then you’d better stop crying.”
Yang Yun looked at her overly young best friend and suddenly laughed with tears in her eyes. She was still the conceited friend who loved beauty and crying.
She cried a snot bubble.
Yu Yao pulled a tissue for her. Yang Yun didn’t feel embarrassed at all. She held Yu Yao’s hand and said, “I received a message from Jiang Zhonglin yesterday morning, so I rushed back from abroad. My husband came with me. I wanted to bring my two sons and grandchildren with me, but they were too busy with work and couldn’t leave. I couldn’t wait, so I came first.”
“Do you know, when Jiang Zhonglin told me that you were back, I was stunned. I thought he was lying to me.” Yang Yun burst into tears again, and her makeup was all smudged.
Yu Yao: “...Wow, so you’re not putting on makeup when you’re in a hurry to see me?”
*****
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