Chapter 279 Things change and people change
Aunt Liu cooks very quickly, and it only takes half an hour.
"There is no meat in the house, they are all vegetarian. Don't dislike it." Aunt Liu brought the last dish to the table and invited them to eat, "You guys eat first, I'll go see Niuniu."
Gu Qingyin smiled and thanked her, then stood up and said, "Let's get together."
Seeing this, Huo Xingchen hurriedly followed him, "Wait for me." Seeing him running out, the paper man followed silently.
Niu Niu was sitting in the yard, next to the grave that Gu Qingyin had repaired for the dog, hugging her knees and looking up at the dark night sky.
Aunt Liu came closer and was about to speak when Niu Niu spoke, "Am I never going to be able to see the sun again?"
Aunt Liu closed her mouth, sadness welling up in her eyes. Unlike adults, they have seen enough scenery, but Niu Niu encountered this kind of thing when she was still so young.
Gu Qingyin sighed, "But you live longer than ordinary people."
Niu Niu shook her head, "This is not what I want. I want to grow up, I want to leave the village, and I want to know how good it is outside."
Gu Qingyin suddenly discovered a problem that they had ignored - although the people in this village were immortal, they would not grow up either.
Her heart sank, this meant there was no way they could evolve into a new species... they were just monsters.
Niuniu probably discovered it a long time ago.
After a moment of silence, Niu Niu got up and went back to the house, and Aunt Liu followed her worriedly.
"Dahei?" Huo Xingchen saw the wooden board on the ground and went to pick it up. "Is this the dog's name?"
"Probably." Gu Qingyin glanced at it. The handwriting on the wooden board was very childish, and it was probably written by Niu Niu.
Huo Xingchen inserted the wooden board in front of the grave bag, took out three incense sticks from the storage bag, lit them, and stood in front of the wooden board as a simple memorial.
Just as he was about to enter the house, Huo Tianshi came back.
The three of them walked in together, and when they reached the dinner table, Master Huo Tianshi said: "I have contacted someone to go over and have a look. The results will be available later."
Not long after finishing the meal, Huo Tianshi went out again, and when he came back he also brought news about Niuniu's parents.
Huo Tianshi said: "There is only one old man living alone at that address now, named Liu Chuanjia."
"It's him! It's my son!"
Village Chief Liu and Aunt Liu couldn't help but stand up, with surprise and expectation in their eyes.
Niu Niu also glanced at Huo Tianshi, but quickly lowered her head, pretending not to care at all.
Huo Tianshi nodded, "It's too late now. I'll ask someone to ask him tomorrow if he wants to come over."
There was no word for the rest of the night, but Huo Tianshi received the news the next morning that Liu Chuan's family was preparing to come over.
After learning the news, Village Chief Liu and Aunt Liu became even more excited. Even Niu Niu, who had been pretending not to care before, frequently ran to the entrance of the village.
She said she was going out to play with the children, but in fact everyone knew that she was waiting for her father.
Two nights later, Liu Chuanjia finally arrived. The person who brought him here was an acquaintance, Huo Zhaohua.
Huo Xingchen met Huo Zhaohua once before at Huo's house. The two didn't get along very well at that time, and they didn't look good when they met this time.
But Huo Zhaohua soon lost the energy to compete with Huo Xingchen. He saw Huo Yunjing and was shocked to the point of being speechless. He kept looking back and forth between the two people, trying to distinguish who was the real head of the family.
"Don't talk nonsense when you go back." Huo Tianshi warned him calmly.
Huo Zhaohua said "Ah" and responded: "Yes."
This time I can tell, then...who is the other person? I never heard that the head of the family has twins. And... He looked at Huo Xingchen and Gu Qingyin, whose family these two people belonged to?
Although he was scratching his head with curiosity, Huo Zhaohua did not dare to ask any more questions.
On the other side, the gray-haired Liu Chuanjia stood with Village Chief Liu and Aunt Liu, who were just over fifty, looking at each other, and no one spoke for a while. However, Liu Chuanjun's eyes turned red as he looked at it, and he said tremblingly, "Dad, Mom!"
This sound brought Village Chief Liu and Aunt Liu back to their senses. They tried to find the shadow of Liu Chuanjun's youth on his face. The old man in front of them was too strange to them.
After a while, Aunt Liu pulled her lips and said with a smile: "So many years have passed in the blink of an eye."
Things change and people change, isn’t that what we say?
"Where is Niuniu?" Village Chief Liu didn't know what else to say to a child like Lao Cheng. He felt that it was superfluous, so he simply turned to look for the child, "She has been looking forward to you coming back to see her."
"Yes." Aunt Liu asked: "Where is Chunxiu?"
Chunxiu is Niu Niu’s mother.
Liu Chuanjia wiped the turbid tears from the corner of his eyes and said in a heavy nasal voice: "I was ill and had surgery two years ago. I didn't survive it, so I left."
The living room was silent for a while, and then Village Chief Liu spoke again, "Where is the second baby? Are you doing well now?"
Liu Chuanjia's eyes showed pride, "I have a bright future, I will become a policeman."
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"Oh, that's really promising." Village Chief Liu smiled, "Our old Liu family has a successor."
Liu Chuanjia also lamented, “It’s not in vain that I spent so much money on his education.”
Village Chief Liu asked the second child about his age and family situation, and the family of three started chatting in the living room.
They didn't know that Niuniu was hiding at the corner of the stairs upstairs, watching them.
When Huo Xingchen saw her, he inexplicably thought of the lonely little mushroom in the corner. He walked over, poked her, and asked in a low voice: "Don't you want to see him? Why don't you go down?"
Niu Niu didn't move, her little brows knitted into a knot, and she responded like she was muttering to herself for several seconds, "He is different from what I remember."
In fact, her memory of her parents was very vague. She only remembered that they were young and had a beautiful smile... Anyway, they had nothing to do with the old man downstairs.
That's not the dad she wants to see, that's a stranger.
Huo Xingchen could understand this feeling, but he was luckier than Niu Niu, because his mother did not change much after she came back, and after he came here and became smaller, he made up for a lot of childhood regrets.
He's grateful for the journey.
But Niu Niu... Huo Xingchen sighed secretly and advised: "Everyone is here, so let's go and have a look. Don't let yourself have any regrets."
Niu Niu hesitated for a while and finally made up her mind to go downstairs.
At that time, a family of three who had not seen each other for decades were sitting on the sofa chatting animatedly.
Although they felt awkward because of the strangeness when they first met, the strangeness quickly faded away when they talked about the memories shared by the three of them.
Liu Chuanjia was talking about going to school when he was a child with a smile on his face. When he looked up, he saw the little girl coming down from upstairs. He was stunned for a moment and his eyes turned red again.
"Niuniu?"
Village Chief Liu and Aunt Liu also looked over, and the latter smiled and waved to Niu Niu, "Come on, haven't you been clamoring to see dad?"
Niu Niu pursed her lips and walked to her grandma silently, looking at the person opposite her with strange eyes.
Liu Chuanjia opened his mouth, wanting to say that he was his father, but looking at Niu Niu and then at him, he couldn't introduce the word "Dad".
In the end, he just whispered: "I'm sorry..."
(End of chapter)