Chapter Forty-six: Moving House

  "Missing you suddenly, where are you, living happily or miserably." - Mayday, "Suddenly Missing You"

  "What are you staring at me for?" Ouyang asked Mais, who had just returned home and was sitting on the bed, motionless.

  Mais said: "Didn't you just go to the cold drink shop with them?"

  Ouyang seemed very calm and said: "I've seen you, can I ask some technical questions?"

  Mais is clearly surprised at Ouyang's discovery, first muttering to himself: "No way, I've done a good job of hiding," then turning to Ouyang and asking: "The one sitting next to you, isn't that Xu Yuemei?"

  Ouyang nodded and said, "Not bad, right? Just now I was forced to become her boyfriend."

  Mace, who was sitting on the bed, shook his head and said, "I think she's not suitable for you."

  Ouyang felt strange and took over: "You just met her once, and you know she's not suitable for me? Do you understand her or do you understand me?"

  Mais raised his index finger at Ouyang and shook it, then said: "Looking at the boys, I'm not good at it. Looking at the girls, I can see a bit. From the first impression, I think she's not the kind of girl you can handle. Haven't you heard that saying?"

  "What did you say?"

  "A beautiful woman will never take emotions seriously."

  Ouyang burst out laughing after hearing this and said: "Come on, you're still so young and already starting to summarize your emotions."

  Mais lay down again and said, "Believe it or not."

  Ouyang paused for a moment, as if suddenly remembering something, and turned around to face Mais, saying: "Hey, you'd better tell me what you went there for. You didn't go just to monitor me, did you?"

  Mais turned around and rushed towards the window, then said: "Of course not, I'm studying how to get our class flower."

  Ouyang thought for a moment and said: "How can the class beauty be without a boyfriend? You'd better give up."

  Mais was not convinced, hummed and said: "That's why I invited her good friends to have cold drinks. I plan to pry her over."

  "What's 'pried'?" As it turned out, Ouyang had never heard of this word before.

  "What I mean by 'poaching' is that this girl already had a boyfriend, but through my efforts, she broke up with her original partner and then got together with me." Ma Si explained.

  "Other people's boyfriends aren't stupid, how could they let you steal them away so easily." Ouyang said after taking a sip of water.

  "You don't understand this, do you? If you want to be with someone, you have to first win over her friends," Mais said with a pleased smile.

  For a long time, Ouyang didn't say anything. Mais asked: "What's wrong, stunned?" Ouyang smiled and said: "I think if you applied this skill to studying, you would have been one of the top students in class." "Get out," Mais said, picking up a pillow from the bed and throwing it at Ouyang. The two started fooling around.

  Time flies, and it's almost August. After many rounds of moving things around, Feng Qinglian has finally decided to move house. "Is everything packed up in the room? Is there no smell left?" Feng Hongyan asked as she helped her mother tidy up the last few things in the big house. "Yeah, I think the smell should be gone by now. It's always a hassle to bother you all here, and school is about to start soon, so it's more convenient over there." Feng Qinglian said as she folded clothes. In the small house, Max was also packing up his last few toys and stationery.

  "Hey, this basketball is yours." Mais looked at the basketball placed in the corner of the room and said to Ouyang.

  "What am I supposed to do with it?" Ouyang helped take out Mais's things from the cabinet.

  "Because next time we play, you'll be the one holding the ball, haha." Maas said with a smile.

  Ouyang said: "I remember, isn't your school just across from your house?"

  Mais nodded and continued: "Yeah, that's right. From now on, I don't have to get up early anymore. Lao Gu will never call me again."

  Ouyang said: "You can rest assured on this point, Grandma gets up much earlier than my mom."

  Mais sighed and said, "Well, it's better not to move at all."

  After everything was packed up, the family took the last batch of things to Ma Si's new home, no, it should be said that the new Feng family went there. Da Shu and his family, as well as Lao Shu, were already waiting for them there. Lao Shu Feng Manyan had the key to the new house, after all, most of the money for buying a house was paid by Lao Shu, and Feng Qinglian only took out the demolition fee for the old house. Ouyang could see that Da Shu's mother Li Hong was not very happy, so she asked her mother about it. Feng Hongyan's answer was that neither Da Shu nor Er Shu knew that Feng Qinglian was going to buy a new house, and they were only notified when moving. Ouyang felt that his mother had some prejudice against Li Hong, but he also thought that looking at others' good things with an uncomfortable heart was a very bad behavior. "How is it? Not bad, right?" After entering the new home, everyone found a place to sit down and looked at their own designed and decorated rooms. Feng Manyan felt very happy.

  "Lao San, how much did this house cost?" Ou Yang saw that before Da Shu said this sentence, Li Hong had clearly nudged him with her arm.

  "Ah, it's just over 5 million, plus decoration costs of 600,000 yuan. If we don't buy now, I estimate the house prices will rise even more in the future," said Feng Manyan.

  "I remember, our mom's relocation compensation was only around 200,000 yuan, so where did this 400,000 come from? Did dad leave a lot of money for mom?" Li Hong asked with narrowed eyes.

  The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, and Feng Manyan didn't say a word. Instead, Ouyang's older brother, Feng Xiaodong, asked Ouyang: "Chenxu, do you still plan to continue driving the commuter bus in District D? Isn't it very tiring? Have you considered buying a house in the city?"

  "My family... " Ouyang Gang was about to reveal that he would also be moving soon, but suddenly remembered his mother telling him not to mention the house purchase, so he said: "I'll still have to take the commuter bus, city houses are many times more expensive than D district." Feng Xiaodong didn't ask further.

  "Ouyang, come here and help me with something." Mais shouted from his own room. Ouyang ran over to him without hearing the conversation between the adults in the living room.

  "Are you saying that Old Man is not living here? What about the extra room?" Ouyang asked while looking around Mais's new room.

  "Well, when relatives come visiting and that sort of thing, or if you come over, you can stay in the house for a night." Mais said while tidying up his things.

  "This room is really big, just like the one in my new home." Ouyang looked around the room, which was much larger than his own place in District D. Next to the window was a computer desk, facing the computer desk was a bookshelf, and next to the computer desk was a wardrobe. On the other side of the window was Mais's large bed.

  After a while, when everyone had finished shopping, Old Uncle Feng Manyan decided to invite everyone to dinner. Mais thought it was not good to eat hot pot in the summer, so they went to a Sichuan restaurant instead, but Ouyang felt that this was no different from eating hot pot.

  After dinner, Da Shu's family and Lao Shu all went back. Ouyang asked her mother why Er Shu's family didn't come. Feng Hongyan explained that it was because her sister was sick and couldn't go out, so Er Shu and Er Shu's mother had to take care of her sister.

  "Mom, Li Hong didn't make things difficult for you." Ouyang and her mother planned to sit at the Feng's house for a while before going back. Feng Hongyan and Feng Qinglian went into Feng Qinglian's room, Feng Hongyan asked.

  "It's nothing, she's just curious about this house that suddenly appeared in our family. After all, Eldest is not doing well with his career now, and it's inevitable to have a bit of temper." Feng Qinglian said.

  "She doesn't think it's because Dad left you money and didn't give them any, does she?" Feng Hongyan said indignantly.

  Feng Qinglian patted Feng Hongyan and said, "Sigh, remember, whoever has something that is not as good as yours, if others have it, you will envy them, but that thing still can't become yours."

  Feng Hongyan nodded, and Feng Qinglian continued: "It's late, you all go back, by the way, when are you planning to move? It's less than a month before Ouyang starts school."

  "Feng Hongyan said: 'You don't have to worry about this, I've also asked my colleagues to move many things over gradually, and the rest of us will go over at a suitable time.'"

  Feng Qinglian sighed and said: "If you follow Chen Xi to live, it will be hard for you. You have to take the bus every day and travel a long way."

  Feng Hongyan turned around and walked to the door of the house, smiled and said: "What's the big deal about suffering for the sake of children?" Then she shouted loudly towards Mais's room: "Chen Xi, let's go!" Ou Yang and his mother were walking on their way home.

  "Mom, when are we moving?" Ouyang asked his mother

  "What's wrong, are you anxious because your brother is moving house?" Feng Hongyan said with a smile.

  "That's not it, I'm just asking. By the way, why didn't you let me tell your uncle and aunt about our family buying a house?" Ouyang continued to ask.

  "There's nothing, your aunt is a busybody, the more things she knows, the better it is to know less, let's wait until we're settled on our side and then tell them, now if we tell them, it seems like our family has a lot of money." Feng Hongyan continued, Ouyang nodded in agreement.

  Ouyang and his mother returned home after 8 pm. After washing up, Ouyang went back to his room. Feng Hongyan finished cleaning the house, put away the mop and came to Ouyang's room to wipe the floor. She saw Ouyang lying flat on the bed, staring at the ceiling without moving. Only when she walked closer did she realize that Ouyang was crying. So Feng Hongyan put down the mop in her hand and sat down beside the bed.

  "What's wrong, are you not used to it? Sleeping in a big bed by yourself is something that hasn't happened in a long time, right? Now you can just turn over however you want." Feng Hongyan tried to comfort Ouyang, but Ouyang didn't react.

  After a while, Ouyang said: "You say, is my brother now thinking about the same thing as me?"

  Feng Hongyan smiled and said: "Of course, you are brothers after all."

  Ouyang said: "Well, actually the journey is not that far, I'm just a bit unaccustomed to it."

  "It's not just you who is unaccustomed, I'm also separated from your grandma, remember, Chenxi, in this life, people will experience some separations, some are temporary, and some are eternal. If you're too sad every time you part with someone, it only shows that you're immature, you need to learn to adapt to it." Feng Hongyan said slowly, looking at Ouyang.

  "I'm just not at the point where I need to adapt yet. Or, I simply don't want to adapt." After Ou Yang finished speaking, Feng Hongyan didn't know what else to say. The phone in the living room rang, and Feng Hongyan let out a sigh, saying to Ou Yang: "Alright then, think about it carefully." She then walked out of the room to answer the phone.

  The phone number is a mobile phone number that Feng Hongyan has never seen before.

  "Hello." Feng Hongyan didn't have a good tone, her mood was also low, and she knew that most of these numbers were sales calls.

  "Hello, is this the Ouyang family? I'm Teacher Yu from Fengmao Middle School. I'll be their homeroom teacher next semester..." On the other end of the phone line came a young man's voice...