Yu Yao came back from the community supermarket and unexpectedly found the door of her house wide open. She walked into the house carrying the newly bought fruits and saw a young girl sitting on the sofa in the house. She looked about her age.
Seeing her walk into the house, the girl raised her head and looked at her in surprise. After seeing the fruit in her hand, the girl probably misunderstood something. She stood up and smiled at her and said, “Are you here to see Teacher Jiang? Teacher Jiang has something to do now. Come over here and sit for a while.”
Yu Yao raised her eyebrows. The girl asked her enthusiastically, “Are you Teacher Jiang’s neighbor or student? It should be a student, right? Also from Ocean University? I don’t think I’ve seen you before. Come on, I’ll help you put the fruit in the fresh food cabinet in the kitchen. You sit and wait. I’ll pour you a glass of water.”
Yu Yao:... Why does this girl act like the hostess of this house?
Yu Yao handed the fruit to her casually, without saying much, and ran straight to the sofa to sit down, opened the Desolate Planet game saved yesterday, and began to complete today’s task.
The girl poured a glass of water and saw Yu Yao open the TV screen of Teacher Jiang’s house to play games without any hesitation. She was a little unhappy and thought that she was very rude.
“It’s not good for you to open Teacher Jiang’s TV screen to play games casually.” Although Teacher Jiang has always been good-tempered, it is not acceptable to play games at the teacher’s house. After the girl finished speaking, she glanced at the screen showing the game and wondered in surprise, why is there a game installed on the TV screen of Teacher Jiang’s house?
Yu Yao looked at her frowning eyebrows and asked her, “What are you doing in Teacher Jiang’s?” The girl looked at her in confusion, a little unsure of her identity, and simply answered, “I came to get some information for my teacher, and Teacher Jiang went to find it for me. Are you...really Teacher Jiang’s student?”
Yu Yao shook his head honestly, “No.”
The girl was shocked: “Then who are you?” She saw that this person came in familiarly, carrying fruits, and looked natural, and thought she was a student who came to visit Teacher Jiang.
Yu Yao was about to answer something when she saw Jiang Zhonglin coming out of the study, so she turned to Jiang Zhonglin and said, “I bought fresh strawberries and put them in the fresh food cabinet.”
Their tastes were not very similar, but they both loved strawberries the most among all fruits. When they were together before, they often bought strawberries to eat together. Yu Yao went to buy fruit today and found strawberries. Then she realized that many off-season fruits were available now—she found another good thing after traveling through time. At least in the future, she would not suddenly want to eat something, but she could not eat it because it was out of season.
Yu Yao suddenly remembered something a bit embarrassing.
Not long after she married Jiang Zhonglin, the two newlyweds were inevitably inseparable. One night after doing that kind of thing, she spread her arms and legs and lay on the bed, looking at the vague red mark on her thigh, and suddenly wanted to eat strawberries. She wanted to eat it so much. Sometimes people are so strange, suddenly wanting to eat something; the more they think about it, the more they can’t help it. She put one leg on Jiang Zhonglin and suddenly raised her foot to kick him.
Jiang Zhonglin got up immediately, looking at her with a young and handsome face; his hair was wet. “What’s wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?” he asked nervously.
Yu Yao was not the kind of person who would force others to do things, but when she saw Jiang Zhonglin like this, she subconsciously said what she was thinking.
“I want to eat strawberries.” She said.
“Strawberries?” Jiang Zhonglin immediately got up and got out of bed. “Then I’ll buy them for you.”
The young man had just finished doing something happy with his wife, and his heart was restless at the moment. He had endless energy and wanted to satisfy all the wishes of his sweetheart. He even forgot that there were no strawberries in this season and was babbling so stupidly.
Yu Yao raised her foot and clamped the corner of his clothes with her toes, asking him to come back, “Are you stupid? Where can there be strawberries in this season?”
Jiang Zhonglin hesitated and said, “Then do you want to eat peaches? Can I buy you peaches?” Yu Yao liked peaches the second most besides strawberries.
“Okay.” Yu Yao answered casually.
Jiang Zhonglin went out excitedly. Yu Yao waited and waited until she fell asleep again. When she woke up and found that Jiang Zhonglin had not come back yet, she guessed that this little fool must have gone to look for strawberries.
Sure enough, after a while, Jiang Zhonglin came back, a little listless, with two bags in his hands, one filled with peaches and the other filled with... dehydrated strawberries and strawberry tea.
Seeing that his clothes were wet on his back, Yu Yao knew that he must have gone to many places to look for them, and of course he didn’t find them.
Jiang Zhonglin put the things he bought in front of her embarrassedly. “I bought dried strawberries and this strawberry tea. Everyone says it tastes good; it’s a more authentic strawberry flavor. Why don’t you try it?”
Yu Yao looked at him at the time and thought, What a stupid man he is. She took a sip of the strawberry tea, and it tasted really good, but it was a little too sweet.
...
Yu Yao held the game experience device and saw the no longer young Jiang Zhonglin smiling at her. The wrinkles around his eyes did not look ugly but made him look very stable and gentle. He said, “The strawberries in the community fresh supermarket taste very good. Most of the ones sold now are special varieties cultivated in previous years.”
Jiang Zhonglin said something to his wife, and seeing another person sitting next to him, he stepped forward and put the old-looking book in front of her, saying to her, “Contact your teacher first to see if he wants this one.”
Then he went to the kitchen, opened the fresh food cabinet, and took out the strawberries to wash.
The girl, who Yu Yao did not know, was stunned by the communication between Teacher Jiang and Yu Yao. She had previously suspected that the woman who walked in inexplicably was a strange person, but seeing that Teacher Jiang was not surprised at all and spoke to this person in a gentle tone, she suddenly felt that her brain was not processing enough.
Who is this person? Could she be a relative of Teacher Jiang’s family?
She was so absorbed in thinking that she forgot to scan the book and send it to her teacher.
Jiang Zhonglin washed the strawberries and brought them over, placing them in front of Yu Yao, and asked her, “Why don’t you buy more?”
Yu Yao took one and stuffed it into her mouth, joking with him, “I’m afraid you’ll go broke.”
Jiang Zhonglin smiled, “It’s okay, buy more if you like.”
Yu Yao didn’t reply but moved the plate of strawberries to the front of the strange girl and took the initiative to greet her. “Come on, have some strawberries; you’re welcome.”
Jiang Zhonglin seemed to have just remembered that there was a little girl here and felt a little embarrassed. Then he remembered that Yu Yao didn’t know her, so he introduced her: “This girl is Yang Mei, a student of an old friend of mine, and she came here today to get something for her teacher.”
After that, he said to Yang Mei, “Have you sent it to your teacher?”
“Ah? Ah!” Yang Mei, the girl, finally reacted, and she stared at Yu Yao for a long time, forgetting the business, and blushed with embarrassment and took out her personal terminal to scan the book.
She buried her head and dared not look up. She looked like she was working seriously, but she was wailing in her heart. What the hell? Who is this mysterious girl playing games? Why didn’t Teacher Jiang introduce her? They obviously knew each other. Could she really be a relative of Teacher Jiang? This was too embarrassing. She had just invited her to sit down and poured her some water. Damn, she was the owner of the house. Why was she being so hospitable? It was too embarrassing!
After the embarrassment, Yang Mei became more and more curious about Yu Yao’s identity. She listened to their conversation while scanning the book. She couldn’t suppress her curiosity.
You can’t blame her for being so curious. All of the students who often interact with Teacher Jiang know that Teacher Jiang is the only one left in his house. He has lived here for many years, and there is no one else. One time, when he was sick before, several students came to take care of him in turns. At other times, who has ever heard of another person living in his house? Being able to move in and let Teacher Jiang wash strawberries for her must be very close to Teacher Jiang!
Yang Mei had all kinds of guesses in her mind. She heard Teacher Jiang ask the girl, “Why don’t you eat more?” The girl seemed to be addicted to the game and said, “You eat it.”
She secretly looked up and saw that Teacher Jiang took the biggest and reddest fruit from the fruit plate and put it in the girl’s hand. The girl took it and ate it.
Why do I feel so wrong? Yang Mei thought, but what is wrong?
“You should also rest your eyes and eat more fruits in between playing games.”
“Come on, your life is not as healthy as mine. I haven’t seen you drink a sip of water in the study for so long.”
Yang Mei: ...
If we say that they are elders and juniors, isn’t this girl’s attitude towards Teacher Jiang too casual? Why is she still interrupting Teacher Jiang?
There were only a few sentences in their conversation, and Yang Mei could not hear the specific information about their relationship. Seeing the confirmation message sent by the teacher, she picked up the book and said goodbye: “The teacher said it was this one. We will send it back to you after we have entered the content. Thank you, Teacher Jiang.”
Jiang Zhonglin stood up and sent her out, “It’s okay, be careful on your way back.”
Yang Mei walked to the door and secretly glanced at the girl who was concentrating on playing games in the living room. She couldn’t help her curiosity and asked Jiang Zhonglin quietly, “Teacher Jiang, this person looks about the same age as me; who is she?”
Jiang Zhonglin paused for a while before saying, “It’s my wife.”
Yang Mei was stunned.
After leaving the community, she opened her personal terminal and called her teacher with a strange look on her face, “Teacher! Do you know? Teacher Jiang just joked with me! Teacher Jiang can actually joke with people.”
Maybe because there was a young junior accompanying him, even Teacher Jiang’s mentality became younger. Not only did he allow his children to play games, but he also joked. Yang Mei and her teacher lamented the importance of having relatives accompany empty-nest elderly people.
As for Jiang Zhonglin’s wife, Yang Mei would never believe it. What kind of person is Teacher Jiang? He is a well-known and elegant professor in their circle. He is upright and not the kind of person who would cheat young girls at an old age. Even if he wants to get married, he will never marry a young girl who is so much older than him. Besides, they have heard that Teacher Jiang loved his deceased wife deeply and had no intention of marrying another one for decades. Now he suddenly has a young wife. Who is he trying to fool?
“I just don’t know who this girl is.” Yang Mei sighed and decided to ask a few seniors who graduated from Ocean University when she had time. They are Teacher Jiang’s students, and maybe they know more.
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