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Chapter 220 [I Have My Own Home]

Chapter 214 [I Have My Own Home]

Planting trees, I spent the whole day planting them.

Six peach trees and four apple trees were planted in different places in the yard.

When the workers left in the afternoon, even though they hadn't done any work themselves, Lu Sisi and her daughter Lu Xiuting, who had been busy by their side all day, looked as if they were covered in dust.

Gui Geng's face was covered in black.

Lunch was a quick takeout meal, which I also treated the workers to.

After seeing the workers off, although Lu Sisi told Lu Xiuting to rest, Lu Xiuting still took a stroll around the yard, picking through the things the workers hadn't cleaned up and putting them aside.

Lu Sisi greeted them twice, then fell silent and quietly went over to help tidy up.

I didn't cook dinner, and ordered takeout again. I just reheated the radish and pork rib soup from the day before.

Lu Xiuting drank another bowl of soup that evening, and the gentle, warm feeling throughout her body made her feel much more relaxed.

That night, Lu Sisi didn't offer to take her home, and Lu Xiuting didn't mention leaving either.

It seemed that "I've worked all day and I'm very tired, so I should take a shower and rest early" had become an unspoken excuse between the mother and daughter.

Another night passed, and Lu Xiuting still slept very well, sleeping for a full nine hours before waking up.

She hadn't felt that soft, comfortable, and relaxed feeling all over her body after a good night's sleep on her pillow for a long time.

The house seemed much quieter that day when no workers came to do chores.

The two sat in the restaurant in the morning. Lu Sisi steamed a few buns, while Lu Xiuting suddenly took off a small frying pan, took out eggs from the refrigerator, and fried a few poached eggs.

Lu Sisi looked at her mother with a complicated expression, but she didn't say anything or stop her. Instead, while her mother was frying eggs, Lu Sisi stood quietly outside the kitchen doorway, watching Lu Xiuting's back.

There was a hint of warmth in the girl's eyes.

It wasn't a feeling of being moved, but rather a sense of... being wronged.

Mother, how many years has it been since you cooked for me by your own hands?
Even if it's just a simple fried egg.

Ah!
During breakfast, the mother and daughter remained silent and finished their food in silence before Lu Sisi suddenly spoke.

"I'm going to the supermarket this morning, do you want to go with me?"

A flicker of surprise crossed Lu Xiuting's mind: "...Okay!!"

Watching her petite and slender daughter skillfully start the muscular G-Class in the garage, Lu Xiuting felt a sense of disorientation.

After getting into the car, she watched Lu Sisi driving intently before suddenly asking, "Chen Yan... is he good to you?"

"Excellent!" Lu Sisi said earnestly and confidently, "He is the best person in the world to me!"

"Do you...love him very much?"

"Of course!" Lu Sisi replied again in that firm and serious tone, "I can do anything for him!"

Lu Xiuting hesitated for a moment: "Is the money he... gave you enough to live on?"

Lu Sisi then frowned, glanced at her mother, and seemed to disagree with her mother's question.

However, she was gentle and mild-mannered after all. She hesitated for a moment before slowly saying, "Mom, my relationship with Chen Yan is not as... vulgar as you think."

Lu Xiuting hesitated for a moment, then carefully considered her words before saying in a low voice, "I don't mean anything by it. You are, after all, my daughter. I just want to remind you... It's true that he likes you now, but a woman always has to think about herself. Just because he spends money on you now doesn't mean he'll treat you like this forever."

If you're thinking of yourself, you should take advantage of the time when his feelings for you are strongest and let him…

Lu Xiuting kept talking, unaware that Lu Sisi's face had unknowingly darkened.

Suddenly, Lu Sisi interrupted Lu Xiuting with a soft voice.

"mom."

"……Um?"

"Is this... how you live with my dad? Is this how you calculate things?"

Lu Xiuting's expression changed.

Lu Sisi took a deep breath and said slowly in a restrained tone, "My relationship with Chen Yan is really not the kind of relationship you think it is. Money, or other things that you think are very important, are not important to Chen Yan at all."

Looking at the silent and embarrassed Lu Xiuting, Lu Sisi suddenly felt something in her heart...

Ugh, this is so boring!

How boring!
In those two short days, the faint harmony between mother and daughter, which seemed almost illusory, suddenly faded away after those few words.

money?
She only cares about money.

Yes, that's right. In her eyes, the most important thing has always been profit.

After I was born, they took me to the port city to recognize my ancestors and clan. However, I was not allowed to enter the Yang family ancestral hall and genealogy, so they immediately became indifferent to me.

In order to solidify her position, she went to great lengths to give birth to her younger brother. Because of her brother, she was able to solidify her position as "Mrs. Yang" and her father treated her better again—in other words, he spent more money on her.

Then it's time to try for a third child...

So, in her eyes, there is only scheming and self-interest?
Hmm, money, right?
Lu Sisi felt a chill in her heart.

If Lu Xiuting knew that there was a box of property deeds and real estate certificates hidden in the cabinet at home, which Chen Yan had simply handed over to her for safekeeping, and that Chen Yan had also given her the account number and password for all the properties and the rent payment account, without ever asking her a single question in all this time.

Lu Xiuting must think that this is "good enough", right?

But Lu Sisi herself never valued these things.

She values ​​something else.

For example, last time, when Chen Yan returned home after disappearing for many days, he brought back a "spirit-connecting pill".

And, the increasingly strong smell of blood and malevolence emanating from him.

Lu Sisi knew that Chen Yan must have suffered a lot and endured many hardships for the Spirit Pill he gave her!
Even after consuming the Spirit Communicator Pill, Lu Sisi's disappointment and distress stemmed not from the act of "cultivation" itself.

She didn't care whether she could become a cultivator or not, as long as she could live a long life and spend more time with Chen Yan—now, not cultivating was already enough to fulfill that condition.

Lu Sisi herself didn't care at all about whether she could become a cultivator.

The reason she felt sad and disappointed was fundamentally due to only one thing: Chen Yan!

Chen Yan paid such a high price and endured countless hardships and tribulations in order to be able to cultivate, but I wasted his efforts and sacrifices!

Lu Sisi felt extremely guilty.

·
The harmonious atmosphere between the mother and daughter suddenly disappeared, and they did not speak to each other from the road to the supermarket.

Lu Xiuting didn't think she had said anything wrong. She just noticed Lu Sisi's unhappiness and carefully avoided that emotion. But when she tried to talk about other topics, Lu Sisi seemed to lose interest.

The shopping process in the supermarket was calm and indifferent.

There was none of the imagined idyllic scene of a mother and daughter shopping together, one pushing the cart while the other excitedly picks things off the shelves, or the mother and daughter discussing what to buy to cook at home—none of that was there.

After silently buying some groceries and household supplies, Lu Sisi calmly pushed the cart to pay, while Lu Xiuting seemed somewhat at a loss, standing silently to the side.

When she got back to the car with all the bags, Lu Xiuting took a deep breath and said in a complicated tone, "I really did it for your own good, I..."

"Mom," Lu Sisi suddenly said calmly, "maybe I'm not used to it."

"What do you mean?"

“I just’m not used to it…” Lu Sisi’s fingers gripping the steering wheel turned slightly white. “Maybe I’m used to you not caring about me, used to your distance and indifference towards me, so… now that you’re acting like you care about me and are close to me, it makes me… well, not me, but both of us feel a little uncomfortable with this way of getting along.”

Lu Xiuting's expression changed!
She said in a trembling voice, "I...I know you're actually blaming me, I just wanted to..."

Lu Sisi forced a smile, interrupting Lu Xiuting again, and said with a wry smile, "Mom, have you encountered some kind of crisis recently, have you?"

Lu Xiuting: "..."

"My father has become increasingly estranged from this family. In recent years, especially in recent years, his feelings for you have become more and more distant, and he spends more and more time away from home."

Everything you have depends on your father. His alienation must be making you very anxious.

You are very worried that if your father gets tired of you one day and wants to leave you, you will get nothing.

The property has been in your father's name for a long time. Your father comes from a family in Hong Kong. You and your father must have signed a prenuptial agreement before you got married, right? Although you were unwilling to sign that agreement, you didn't have the right to negotiate back then, so you must have signed it.

Now you are increasingly worried that your father will become distant, and you are worried that after your father leaves you, you will have nothing left.

If that happens... your younger brother's surname is Yang, and the Yang family won't give him to you. As for the inheritance, your father has always been very shrewd with money, so you probably won't get much either. You want to have a third child because you want to use that child to solidify your position.

But this attempt failed, and you must be very sad and upset, but... you must also be very disappointed.

You feel terrified because you suddenly can't hold onto the things you value.

You... have a very serious sense of crisis.

At this point, Lu Sisi looked up at her mother and asked, "Am I right, Mom?"

Before Lu Xiuting could answer, Lu Sisi seemed to smile: "So, when you felt anxious and helpless, you suddenly remembered me, your daughter."

Lu Xiuting screamed, "No!!"

Lu Sisi was not frightened by Lu Xiuting's scream. She just looked at her mother with a calm but sad look in her eyes.

"Mom, although I am young and have a soft heart, I am not stupid."

Lu Sisi's eyes also reddened, and she said softly, "For more than ten years, you didn't love me. Then, suddenly, overnight, after not loving or caring for me for more than ten years, you suddenly started loving and caring for me..."

I understand that you came to find me and visit me not because you suddenly repented, or because you suddenly started to like me, your daughter whom you've neglected for over ten years, overnight—there's no such thing as a sudden change overnight.

You just suddenly needed me.

You've encountered a crisis; your husband and your son are no longer your support.

You feel very lonely, anxious, and scared. You long to find someone to rely on—even if it's just psychological support.

So, you suddenly remembered me, remembered me, your daughter whom you've neglected for over a decade.

You've even forgotten that the last time we met, you coldly tried to drive me away from Jinling and send me far away abroad.

Then, this time you suddenly appeared in front of me and suddenly became a mother who loves and cares for me?

"Mom, I'm not stupid!"

Lu Xiuting suddenly felt as if all her strength had been drained, and her back was broken by Lu Sisi's soft words, causing her to slump into the chair.

She was breathing heavily, looking at her daughter's face, but she couldn't utter a single word in defense.

Because the truth is the sharpest weapon!

The atmosphere inside the carriage was almost frozen; the suffocating feeling prevented the mother and daughter from uttering a single word.

They remained silent for an unknown amount of time.

Lu Sisi sighed softly, "I've finished shopping. I can give you a ride home since it's on my way, Mom."

On the way...

Lu Xiuting felt a jolt in her heart at those two words.

The supermarket is at most three or four kilometers away from Chen Yan's home.

But it's more than ten kilometers away from my home.

Is it on your way home? On your way home?

However, at this moment, Lu Xiuting had no room to say anything.

“…Okay.” Lu Xiuting replied softly, her face full of disappointment and defeat.

Lu Sisi stopped talking and silently started the car.

Along the way, the car drove on the roads of Jinling Prefecture. Neither of them spoke. Lu Xiuting quietly watched every building flash by outside the window.

I don't know when, but the car stopped in front of the riverside residential area, in front of the magnificent gate of the community.

"Mom, we've arrived." Lu Sisi's words startled Lu Xiuting from her daze.

Lu Xiuting said "Oh," and slowly and laboriously unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the car door.

Just as she stepped off the train and landed on the ground, Lu Sisi finally took a deep breath.

"Mom, take care of yourself... If anything happens, you can call me anytime."

"……it is good."

·
Lu Sisi didn't know how she drove all the way home.

After parking her car in the garage, she walked out of the garage and then remembered that the things she bought at the supermarket were still in the car, so she went back to the garage to retrieve them.

As she stepped into the villa's courtyard, the sunlight shone on Lu Sisi again, and she seemed to finally feel a touch of warmth.

In the courtyard, Gui Geng had moved a rocking chair there at some point and was sitting there basking in the sun—Chen Yan had said that it was the most vibrant spot in the entire courtyard.

I also heard from Chen Yan that before, that seat belonged to Gu Qingyi—Gu Qingyi used to really like to move a chair and sit in that seat.

After Gu Qingyi left, that position once belonged to Gui Geng.

But after Chen Yan brought back Da Bai, that spot became Da Bai's.

Now that Chen Yan has taken Da Bai out, Gui Geng has regained his position.

Well… thinking about “home”, a faint smile slowly returned to Lu Sisi’s lips.

She went into the kitchen and looked at the stove.

The pan that Lu Xiuting used to fry eggs in the morning, and the plate that served the eggs at breakfast, have both been washed clean.

It was probably done by Gui Geng after he left home.

The pot was hung back in its original place, and the plates were put in the sterilizer—all were wiped clean.

It was as if all traces of the woman having made breakfast for him at home had been completely erased.

Well... what am I even expecting?

After more than ten years of not being in love, how could I possibly fall in love overnight?

How can someone you've disliked for over a decade suddenly become someone you care about overnight?
Lu Sisi took a deep breath and carefully took the items out of the supermarket shopping bag, putting them into the storage room, the refrigerator, and the cabinet.

While she was doing all this, she would occasionally lift her eyelids to look out the window at the courtyard.

Gui Geng was dozing off in his chair, his body swaying back and forth with the rocking chair.

Next to the stove in the kitchen, where the pots and pans are hung, is where Chen Yan arranged them—he likes to hang his frequently used pots and pans, arranged from largest to smallest.

In the seasoning section, the containers of salt, sugar, and MSG still have labels handwritten by Chen Yan.

Hmm, your handwriting is terrible.

Lu Sisi suddenly smiled.

“I don’t need to expect anything else… I already have my own home.”

·
The booming war drums struck like blows into one's very soul.

The blizzard seemed to have stopped in this area below Xueya Pass, but the dark clouds overhead seemed to be pressing down thicker and lower!

Below the mountain pass, in a vast, empty area, countless corpses and bones lay scattered on the ground!
Broken swords and spears, fallen flags, blood congealed into black clots... all of this, mixed with torn corpses and shattered weapons...

The dark, densely packed camp of the Beast Clan was located far from the city gate, consisting of rows of tents. However, it seemed that even more of the Beast Clan members simply sat in groups on the snow-covered plains.

At Snow Cliff Pass, a golden light enveloped the area, with runes flowing within it, and the defensive array remained standing.

What's really strange is that right below the city gate, where the ferocious beast tribe has set up their camp, lies a place of great mystery.

Four enormous, wooden mountain-like buildings stood tall in the four cardinal directions!

Countless evil spirit trees were bound together and piled up, tied together with thick ropes that reeked of blood, forming a mountain!
Beneath each of the wooden mountains, burly warriors of the ferocious beast tribe stood in the surroundings, with huge stone urns beside them filled with a foul-smelling liquid—blood!
The strongmen of the ferocious beast tribe, in pairs, held ladles the size of washbasins in their hands, scooping out the blood from the jars, one ladle at a time, and scattering it onto the wooden mountain.

Thick vines, each as thick as a human arm, were wrapped around the wooden mountain, and blood was splattered on the vines.

With each splash of blood, the vine would wriggle and swell, its surface seemingly opening up countless tiny cracks, greedily absorbing all the blood!
Then, countless sharp spikes pierced the wood of the bound evil spirit tree...

A chilling aura wafted and floated, absorbing and devouring the already thin spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the area below the snow cliff, bit by bit!

Beneath the mountain pass, this area, which originally still possessed a sparse amount of spiritual energy, gradually became a spiritless zone!

Just like a barren, desolate mountain!

(End of this chapter)