Chapter 20 Give the past an explanation
Yang Yang: What’s better?
Yang Yang picked up his phone and edited a message on Penguin, but before it was sent, Xu Yan sent another message.
Xu Yan: Is there any solid alcohol in the laboratory?
Xu Yan's questions had no beginning or end, but Yang Yang understood what Xu Yan meant.
I deleted the previous message and quickly sent another one to Xu Yan.
Yang Yang: No, but it can be made fresh and used to make Kongming lanterns, which is enough.
After handing it out, Yang Yang turned around and returned to the teaching building.
Not long after, Xu Yan sent another message.
Xu Yan: Are you a god? I didn’t even say it, you just knew it.
After reopening the laboratory door and lights, Yang Yang replied to Xu Yan.
Yang Yang: There's no point in praising me. Don't forget about tomorrow's party.
Xu Yan: Yeah.
After replying to the last message, Yang Yang began to look for experimental materials from the materials room in the laboratory.
Solid alcohol can be made by heating and mixing ethanol, agar powder, and water in a certain proportion. These materials can be found in high school laboratories.
An hour later, Yang Yang successfully used running water to speed up the cooling through the wall of the beaker, obtained a piece of solid alcohol, and took out his mobile phone to send a message to Xu Yan.
Yang Yang: The school does not allow solid alcohol in the dormitory. You can just take the empty lantern and wait for me under the auditorium of the big playground.
Xu Yan:Okay.
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On the other side in the dormitory, Ke Ni and Miaoshui looked at Xu Yan worriedly.
When they returned to the dormitory in the afternoon, they were shocked. Xu Yan was tinkering with white rice paper in the dormitory.
Although in the end it was not a scary paper figurine but a Kongming lantern used for blessing, it was still worrying.
"Today is not the Lantern Festival, Yanyan, why did you suddenly think of the Kongming Lantern?" Ke Ni looked at Xu Yan in confusion as she was fixing the wires on the Kongming Lantern.
"I want to use the Kongming Lantern to express my longing for a relative far away." Xu Yan replied with a smile on her face.
Things that cannot be changed can only be faced positively, but everything in the past is not a dream. Xu Yan wants to give herself an explanation.
This Kongming Lantern that doesn’t know whether it can lead to another world is Xu Yan’s answer.
"It looks really interesting. Can you let me go with you when the game is released?" Cao Aai looked eager to give it a try.
"We have already made an appointment with Yang Yang, so you better not come with me." Xu Yan picked up her phone and took a final look, picked up the Kongming Lantern, and opened the bedroom door.
After Xu Yan left, Cao Aai poked her head out of the dormitory, looked at Xu Yan's back, thought for a while and finally didn't follow her.
This made Miaoshui very curious, as it was not in line with Cao Aai's character.
"What's wrong, Aiai, you haven't had enough for dinner, why don't you come with us?" Miaoshui looked at Cao Aiai curiously. Is he sick for being so good?
"Hey~ I'm not a devil after all." Cao Aai spread her hands, sat on Xu Yan's bed, swayed her feet that were not touching the ground, and said:
"Just now I actually saw the shadow of my grandma on Yanyan's face. I guess she is remembering a relative who is very important to her. I don't want to disturb them."
Hearing Cao Aai's words, Ke Ni and Miaoshui no longer looked at each other. They had also felt just now that Xu Yan's smile was like an old mother's smile under the fluorescent lamp in the dormitory.
When Xu Yan arrived at the school playground, Yang Yang was already waiting there.
—Ding dong, the heroine’s favorability towards the host is 1—
Hearing the system beep, Yang Yang turned his head and saw Xu Yan walking towards him holding a Kongming lantern.
Xu Yan's eyes seemed to be shining when facing the moonlight, making Yang Yang feel a little dazed.
"The solid alcohol is ready. You can put it on the lantern and put it away." Yang Yang took out the solid alcohol placed in the plastic box.
Xu Yan took the box and handed out a piece of rice paper and a pencil.
"No need?" Without Xu Yan saying anything, Yang Yang understood that she wanted him to write a few words to his daughter Xiaoyu.
"Xiaoyu is our only daughter, don't you have any feelings for her?" Xu Yan stared at Yang Yang, which made Yang Yang feel a little overwhelmed.
"It's not that I don't want to write, it's that I don't know what to write." Yang Yang muttered, lowered his head and began to write something on the rice paper with a pencil, such as, "Eat well, don't be too playful, listen to your family, including grandparents and grandparents."
"Daddy will always love you" etc.
Unknowingly, Yang Yang, who had nothing to say at first, had filled up a piece of rice paper.
When she looked up again, Xu Yan had already installed solid alcohol on the Kongming Lantern.
When Xu Yan took out a piece of rice paper filled with pencil calligraphy of the same style as Yang Yang, the two of them smiled tacitly at the same time.
Paste the rice paper on the Kongming Lantern, take out the matches brought from the laboratory, Yang Yang holds up the Kongming Lantern, and Xu Yan is responsible for lighting the fire.
Just like that day during the Lantern Festival, they and their daughter Xiaoyu released the Kongming lanterns on the rooftop.
As the Kongming Lantern slowly rose, Yang Yang secretly reached out and held his wife's hand.
Xu Yan did not refuse, and linked her fingers with Yang Yang's backhand.
Half a minute later, the Kongming Lantern rose high into the sky.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew by, blowing the Kongming Lantern away, and soon a fire broke out.
In the blink of an eye, the burning Kongming Lantern turned into a plume of ash and disappeared into the night sky.
"Honey, I think my daughter can receive it." This coincidence made Yang Yang, who believed in materialism, hold back and said.
"Yeah." Xu Yan nodded as a response.
Just when Yang Yang wanted to let go of Xu Yan's hand and turn around to go back together, Xu Yan suddenly grabbed his hand in turn.
"Let's go up there and watch the stars for a while." Xu Yan pointed to the highest step of the auditorium.
"Okay, there are still two hours until the dormitory closes, so I will stay with you for a while." Yang Yang looked around.
Indeed, the big playground is a good place to watch the stars.
When Yang Yang and Xu Yan reached the highest point of the auditorium, their view was unobstructed. Underground was a large green grass playground. When they looked up, they could see the stars in the sky, as well as the brightly lit urban areas and villages in the distance under the stars.
Until the two of them sat on the cold cement platform, Xu Yan never let go of Yang Yang's hand, and gently rubbed his thumb with her thumb, which made Yang Yang feel a special feeling in his heart.
He knew that Xu Yan should have something to tell him tonight. Maybe these things had been hidden from him for a long time, so long that she might have never planned to tell him.
Looking at the stars in the sky, Xu Yan slowly began her story: "Yang Yang, although I never thought about liking you or loving you before, I have never been sorry to you."
"I know." Yang Yang looked at the starry sky like Xu Yan, with a smile on his lips. When he found out that it was his wife's first time in the second year after getting married, he was even surprised himself.
"Actually, you are the final winner." Xu Yan peeked at Yang Yang's expression, with a mischievous smile on her lips:
"But before I got married, I had more than a dozen boyfriends."
"But they all dumped you, right?" Yang Yang was not as angry as Xu Yan, but instead mocked his wife mercilessly.
Xu Yan is a nostalgic person. If she waits until she takes the initiative to break up, she will not have time to have more than a dozen boyfriends. Every time a boyfriend breaks up, she will probably have to hesitate for a year and a half.
To put it simply, she was prepared to break up from the beginning of the relationship. Only in that situation could she have ten boyfriends in high school and college.
The reason why Yang Yang is so determined is because he has thrown away all the old things in the house, so he can let his wife throw them away without even thinking about it. It would be good if she doesn't bring old things back from her hometown.
"You are the smartest." Xu Yan withdrew her hand and suddenly regretted revealing her true feelings to Yang Yang. Now Yang Yang was no longer the good gentleman, but an old bastard pretending to be young.
However, Xu Yan's hand was quickly pulled back by Yang Yang, gesturing for her to continue speaking.
Xu Yan looked at the moonlight and rolled her eyes at Yang Yang, as if to say that for the sake of the moon, she won't care about you.
"Haha, I'm so stupid. I didn't realize that platonic love does not exist until I was dumped by so many people. At that time, I was extremely disappointed with the world, lost my dreams, and even lost the ability to love."
"Then I appeared?" Yang Yang looked up at the stars, but his tone was full of pride.
Xu Yan no longer had the energy to argue with Yang Yang, and continued: "You are also stupid. A beautiful wife has been sleeping next to you for two years. If I said I wouldn't touch you, I wouldn't touch you. Do you know how many nights I spent in the first year of marriage?
Do you keep emergency contraceptive pills in your bedside table?”
Yang Yang:......
"But thank you for letting me understand that there is not only reality and material things in the world, but there are also people with gold-like qualities like you."
Yang Yang blushed for the first time when his wife spoke to him.
He was still young at that time, and young people inevitably like to be more passive.
At this time, Xu Yan suddenly made a 180-degree turn: "But now that I'm reborn, it's still early for you to catch me. A Platonic trial is waiting for you, haha."
Xu Yan laughed and ran away from Yang Yang.
After telling all her worries, Xu Yan felt as if she had been reborn and couldn't help but want to indulge herself.
But Yang Yangqing shook his head helplessly, feeling that his wife was confessing her IQ at the same time.
"Don't run around, be careful of falling." Yang Yang quickly stood up and chased after him.
The auditorium is so high, and if my wife falls down and is injured or killed, it will really be a disaster.
Just when Yang Yang was about to catch up with Xu Yan.
Suddenly! A bright light shone on them, making Yang Yang's body stiffen.
Chapter completed!