“Silly girl.” Meng Yuhui tightened his daughter’s hand and advised, “Don’t think about it so much, things will pass in the past.”
Can it really pass? Can the wound in the heart that was torn out alive by him really heal? And, her little bean …
Thinking of the child, thinking of the cruel words that Lan Yu Feng said today, a circle of astringency rippled in his chest. Afraid of his father’s worry, he didn’t dare to think about it any further, only shaking his head to disperse the thoughts, barely raising a smile, following his father towards the house.
In the distance, I could hear my mother’s laughter, coming from the kitchen.
“You, just sit outside and go watch TV. You’re a big star, and Auntie doesn’t expect you to make anything.”
“Auntie, don’t underestimate me, I’m a natural at this craft!” A smug male voice came from the kitchen, “You can taste the flavor in a while, I guarantee you’ll want to eat it again.”
Ziggy cried and laughed at the sound of it.
It seems that this guy is still as brazen as he was in the past, and also still just as incapable of knowing how to write the word ‘modesty’.
“So it’s Heng Jun who’s here!” Meng Yuhui piled a smile on his face and pulled Zi Ge’s hand, “You hurry and hitch a ride to the kitchen.”
“Right away.”
Watching the smile on her father’s face, Ziggy rolled up her sleeves as she headed for the kitchen.
As a matter of fact, she admired Ke Hengjun.
Ever since he brought her back from Malaysia, he has been running here from time to time, not being polite at all. In a couple of clicks, he had bought off the two elders, who were all smiles when they saw him, as eager as if they were seeing their own sons.
When Ziggy walked in, she saw that he was wearing his mother’s apron and stealing work from her.
“Chopping pig’s feet and such heavy work is for us men to do! Auntie, you just stand to the side as a supervisor, just leave this to me.”
“Will it work?” Mo Simin had an uneasy look on her face. After all, Ke Hengjun looked like he was born wrapped in brocade from top to bottom.
“Absolutely no problem!” Ke Hengjun patted his chest in assurance.
Mo Simin hesitated, but still handed him the kitchen knife. Again, she was uneasy, fearing that he would hurt himself, and stood by the side to give him repeated instructions, and in the meantime, gave him some pointers.
Ziggy stood and stared at him in his apron.
Wobbly Ran …
It seemed to overlap with some figure from memory.
Back then, Lan Yu Feng … was also dressed funny like this …
hands full of white flour, chasing her all over the room.
Until now, she still clearly remembered that time each other laughing and smiling, so beautiful that people thumped …
Even remembered … the temperature of the palm of his hand … so hot that even his heart was burning …
Just …
Now, only to wake up … originally, everything, is false …
He, however, is just lightly acting …
That’s all.
“Zige, what are you gawking at?” Mo Simin turned her head and saw her daughter standing in the doorway, that sad and cool look made her immediately worried.
Hearing the commotion, Ke Hengjun also turned his head.
Her look, before she could hide it, was fully in his eyes.
Bright eyes, darkened.
But he pretended to be relaxed and raised his eyebrows, “What? Am I so good looking as to make you stare?”
Only then did Zi Ge come back to her senses and met Ke Hengjun’s bright smile, and the gloom in her heart seemed to fade away for a moment.
Heh …
How could she think of him uncontrollably again?
It shouldn’t be …
That cruel man should be completely cut out of her life …
“You guys!” Mo Simin really thought that her daughter was looking at Ke Hengjun in a daze, and heartily smiled at the two of them, intentionally leaving the space for them, “Xiaozi, come and help Hengjun, mom will go out and talk to your dad for a while.”
Since Meng Yuhui had gotten it all out of the way, they had immediately gone to the Civil Affairs Bureau to re-tie the knot. Moreover, now both elders were glowing, and the feeling of being glued together was almost like a first love.
Zige couldn’t help but probe out and look at the two people snuggled up on the sofa, heartfelt envy in her heart. When she thought of her own situation at the moment, she felt an indescribable sadness.
It may be easy to find a person you love, but how hard is it to find a person who loves you and, moreover, loves you for the rest of your … life?
Ke Hengjun looked at her dazed look and laughed, “What’s the matter? Want to get married?” .
“Nonsense. I’m young, why should I get married?”
Zige immediately retorted.
Ke Hengjun took the kitchen knife and chopped on the cutting board, looking at Zi Ge’s eyes always contained a smile, “If you really want to get married, I can reluctantly marry you. Back when we are old, we will also be like uncle and aunt, hugging and watching TV on the sofa, that’s beautiful.”
Ziggy clenched her fist and whacked him on the arm, “Any more nonsense and I’ll kick you out of the house.”
“What kind of attitude is that, little man?” Ke Hengjun’s oil-stained fingers retaliated with a scrape on her face, causing her to yell in anger.
He then laughed heartily and pointed at her dirty little face, “Look at you, you should be snickering if I’m willing to marry you.”
“Snickering? Are you sure your fans won’t nickel and dime me?” Against him, Zige couldn’t let out any anger even if she really had it. Only resigned to her fate, she went to get a towel and wiped her face, reaching out towards him, “Give me the chopper!”
“What for?” He warily hid the kitchen knife behind his back, looking like he was afraid she was going to cut someone.
She took a deep breath, “Are you sure you want to chop a pig’s foot? Are you sure you can do it?”
“I … won’t.” After being embarrassed, he gave a frank account.
It’s not the first time I’ve been in the kitchen, but it’s really the first time I’ve chopped a pig’s foot.
“I knew you were showing off!” Ziggy took the chopper over and put it on the cutting board, then went around behind him to untie his apron, “You can’t do it and you still take it all on, I don’t know how my mom could trust you.”
“Am I not also pleasing auntie?” Ke Hengjun had an innocent look on his face, and then laughed, “Thanks to you coming back.”
Ziggy laughed a little, “Why are you trying to please my mom? Here, drill your head out.”
Shun pressed and gasped. As she spoke, she came around in front of him, minding her toes, her hand moving to her neck to fetch his apron.
“You said why.” He didn’t answer, instead throwing the question at her. Obediently, dropping his head down slightly, those eyes then met hers straight on, the tips of his falling hair almost brushing the end of Ziggy’s nose.
The too-handsome face, so close to her own, froze her.
The hand that fetched the apron, touched his neck, and the hot touch stunned her for a moment.
He kept looking at her with a seriousness he had never seen before.
Zi Ge was a little uncomfortable by his stare and drew back her hand, pushing him. She pursed her lips before saying self-consciously, “If I asked you, why did you push me again? If I knew, would I still need to ask you?”
Looking at her turned sideways, Hua Siyan couldn’t help but be a little sarcastic.
Removing the apron and tossing it over her head, “Stupid woman! I’m pleasing my aunt, of course, because …”
Ziggy turned and looked at him.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly raised his eyebrows with full power and resumed that cynical and mischievous look, “Of course I want to come and dabble a few more times. Now that I’m begging you to visit the class, it’s not as reliable as looking for auntie.”
“Just for this?” She asked as she put on her apron.
“Or what?” He spread his hands. Stupid woman, did she never know the words ‘love the house’?
“No modesty!” She ‘tsked’ twice, shaking her head in disgust.
Ko Hengjun couldn’t have been more natural to walk behind her and take over the tying of her apron.
“Ziggy …,” he suddenly called to her from behind her.
Bring the two straps of the apron behind you and tie them in a pretty bow.
The other two were tied around her neck. Under the black hair, her snow-white neck was unusually beautiful.
Ko Hang-jun could hear his heart beating.
“What?” Ziggy held the cleaver skillfully and half turned her face sideways when she heard him call to her.
“I have to go to Japan for the next half of the month, there’s a new movie to promote over there.”
“Oh, got it.” She nodded.
He cocked his neck and glared at him with his eyes, “Isn’t there anything you want to say to me?”
Ziggy tended to her pig’s feet and took the time to lift her eyes to look at him, “No!”
She did it on purpose, to get back at him for dirtying her face just now.
He was a little resentful. But, still, he couldn’t hide the worry in his heart, “You … will be fine while I’m gone, right?”
After a moment’s hesitation, he asked his concern out.
Zi Ge’s movements slightly paused. Only after a long while did she raise her head and smiled at him with feigned relief, “Don’t worry, if there’s really something I need to find you, I won’t be polite.”
Ke Hengjun looked at her with deep eyes, his lips moved, wanting to say something, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
The kitchen was a hot mess afterward, and the sound of ‘banging’ could always be heard, accompanied by Ziggy’s scratchy growls.
“Ko Hengjun, step aside!”
“Please, don’t touch my soup, it’s hot!”
“Hey! It’s not cooked yet, don’t you steal it.”
Listening to their daughter’s yelling, Meng Yuhui and Mo Simin looked at each other and smiled, slightly relieved in their hearts.
“It’s really rare to see her in such good spirits these days.” Mo Simin said.
Meng Yuhui nodded, agreeing with his wife’s words, “I think this young man is quite reliable.”
Mo Simin’s eyes swept in the direction of the kitchen, and her complexion was a little worried, “I just don’t know about the little beans … whether he cares or not.”
Looking at his wife, Meng Yuhui sighed, “Alright, let’s not care so much. This is, after all, the child’s own matter, they will know how to handle it themselves. We can’t worry about it even if we want to.”
Mo Simin nodded sadly, heartbroken for her daughter, “It’s all because we were blind at first that we let Xiaozi fall for that person’s tricks! But …”
“But what?”
Mo Simin shook her head, “Back then when you weren’t around, he put his life on the line to save my life. I don’t know, whether it was from a true heart at that time, or whether it was an act.”
Thinking of the menacing images of that day, Mo Simin still felt something.
Meng Yuhui patted her, “Things are in the past, and your daughter is letting go. You’ll only cause Xiaozi to feel uncomfortable in her heart if you keep on reciting about the past. Look, isn’t there someone next to her now who can take good care of her? Turn around and you’ll give her a knock on the head, telling her to cherish the present.” .
“Okay, I know.” Mo Simin nodded her head.
A hot dinner for four.
Ke Hengjun did not feel that he was an outsider at all, ‘blah blah blah’ ate it with gusto. Eagerly peeling the shells of the shrimp for Mo Simin, pleasing Mo Simin.
As soon as the two elders complimented him, he raised his eyebrows towards Zi Ge in triumph. Zige couldn’t help but lose her smile, and in her heart, she was really glad to have someone as rowdy as him around at times like this.
Hot and heavy, even grief … will fade a lot …
The night, deepening.
Ziggy went back to the city with Ke Hengjun’s car. Wanted to meet head on.
Only after sitting in the car, Ke Hengjun twisted his body to fasten Zi Ge’s seatbelt. Zi Ge was closing her eyes and leaning back in the recliner, her fine eyebrows slightly furrowed in some pain.
“Did you hurt your foot?” Ke Hengjun gave her a worried look.