Chapter 38: The Flower of Love Blooms on the Tree of Harmony

  After dinner, Shen Xiulan and Su Yu's couple went out for something, leaving Su Yixin and Su Yisu two siblings at home.

  Su Yixin leaned against the sofa, his eyebrows deeply furrowed, seemingly preoccupied with some worry, and didn't utter a word. Su Yusu called out to him several times but he didn't respond.

  Finally, Su Yisou blew up and shouted loudly: "Su Yixin!!!"

  Su Yixin finally came back to himself, patting his chest as if he had received a fright, and rubbing his battered ears, asking: "What's wrong with you?"

  "What else are you asking me? I'd like to ask you too! What's on your mind that you're so absorbed in thought? I've called out to you several times, but you didn't respond at all!"

  Su Yixin expressionlessly glanced at her and said: "I've already told you, but you wouldn't understand anyway, so why waste my energy."

  Su Yisuo got angry, "How did you know I didn't know if you don't say?"

  "So you're saying that you didn't notice anything was wrong with mom after she came back from buying groceries?"

  "Is there... is there? Don't you think so..."

  "See," Su Yi Xin said with a "I told you so" expression on her face, "it's all been said before, and it's pointless to say anything more."

  Su Yisu didn't bother to argue with him anymore and hastily pulled over a stool to sit opposite him, anxiously asking: "What's wrong with Mother?"

  Su Yixin furrowed her brow and thought for a moment before slowly saying, "When she first came back, she did mention something about a fortune teller... I'm not too sure, huh? Is there a fortune teller in town?"

  "Yes, how can there not be," Su Yisu pouted, "In this day and age, wherever there are people, there will be fortune tellers."

  Upon hearing this, Su Yixin sank into deep thought for a moment before saying, "We should still start by investigating the fortune teller. Mom has gone to the vegetable market, let's go there and look for him."

  "Hey, I'm telling you, aren't you overthinking this? Maybe nothing's wrong with Ah-ma after all? You're investigating so recklessly, do you think you're Conan or Holmes? Don't you worry about ending up as a laughing stock?"

  Su Yixin glared at her, "Then are you participating or not?"

  "Join in!"

  "That's it, so much nonsense."

  Su Yisu smiled and said "hehe", suddenly becoming interested, and asked urgently: "When are we going to take action?"

  "It's getting late today, let's talk about it tomorrow."

  "Alright..." Upon hearing this, Su Yisou's enthusiasm suddenly dissipated, and she slumped back against the chair.

  After another whispered conversation, Su Yisou went upstairs with nothing to do. Su Yixin wanted to watch the sports game, but Su Yisou was completely uninterested and wouldn't accompany him to watch it like an idiot!

  As soon as she stepped into the room, Su Yisuo heard her phone ring softly: "I promised you not to cry or make a fuss, just stay with me until old age..." She quickly ran to the table and picked up her phone. When she saw the familiar name on the screen, a sweet smile involuntarily rose to her lips.

  "Chen!" Unbeknownst to him, Su Yisu's way of addressing Jiang Fengchen had simplified from three words to one word at some point, but Jiang Fengchen was delighted nonetheless.

  "Are you at home?"

  "I told you so!"

  "Oh yeah... I forgot..."

  Su Yi's face was covered in black lines, "Then what do you remember?"

  "Remember to love you."

  "... Hearing this sudden confession, Su Yisu's face turned bright red in an instant, and she subconsciously raised her other hand to cover her cheek, "Don't use sugar-coated bombs to blast me, I'm not that easily bewildered."

  Fortunately, she was alone at that time, otherwise it would have been really embarrassing...

  Jiang Fengchen looked wronged, "A Su, these are all my true feelings!"

  "Alright, alright, I know," Su Yisu chuckled secretly, "I know you have deep feelings for me, and I also know my own feelings are profound. I know everything."

  "That's about right."

  Listening to this tone, Su Yisu thought of Jiang Fengchen's complacent and satisfied smile, and couldn't help but feel annoyed, still being fooled!

  As they spoke, Su Yisu vaguely heard Su Yixin's loud shouting from downstairs and didn't know what had happened. She hastily said to Jiang Fengchen: "I'm not talking to you anymore, I'll go down and see what my brother is yelling about."

  "Rustle rustle rustle" running downstairs, Su Yisuo hadn't even had time to look at Su Yixin when he was suddenly dazzled by a large bunch of dazzling red roses that appeared in front of him. Looking again at his mother's sweet and happy expression, he immediately understood what was going on and also learned from Su Yixin to shout: "Dad! Mom! You actually deceived us! Didn't you say you had something to take care of? How could you sneak out for a date!!!"

  Su Yu laughed and hugged Shen Xiulan, in front of the children, without any reserve, saying: "What do we need to report to you about our feelings? Are you the parents or are we the parents?"

  Su Yixin was dissatisfied and muttered: "Afraid we'll be like light bulbs, we won't follow them so blindly, can't even say a word beforehand?"

  Shen Xiulan's ears perked up, and she heard Su Yixin's muttering. She couldn't help but smile softly and said, "Go settle the score with your dad."

  Su Yi Xing looked at Su Yu, who had already put on a fake angry face, and his neck involuntarily shrunk back as he said in a low voice: "No need, no need... You two elders have your own freedom..."

  "Haha......" Su Yu laughed again, ignoring the two of them, and said to Shen Xiulan: "Xiulan, find a vase to raise this bouquet of flowers, oh dear, I'm being romantic for once."

  "Shen Xiulan scolded: 'You don't even know how to be ashamed in front of your children.'"

  Su Yisu spread her hands and walked over to the sofa to sit down, saying: "Dad's eyes and heart are already gone from us tonight."

  Su Yixin also lazily sat down, "No choice, after all it's the 20th wedding anniversary, right? Mom?"

  "How did you know?" Shen Xiulan found a vase, unpacked the bouquet, carefully inserted each flower into it, and placed it in a good spot.

  Su Yi Xin shrugged her shoulders, "Guess so."

  "Xiu Lan, let's not tell them, come, I still have something for you."

  Shen Xiulan glanced at Su Yu and smiled scoldingly: "You're all grown up, why are you still messing around with these useless things?"

  "Ah..." Su Yisuo gazed at Su Yu, who had mysteriously pulled Shen Xiulan into the bedroom, and said: "Truly a loving couple."

  Su Yixin turned her head and glanced at her, taking over the conversation in a light tone, "What else do you want to say?"

  "Osmanthus fragrans!" Su Yisuo responded happily, "The leaves of Osmanthus fragrans, open during the day and closed at night, symbolize love and affection. People often use them to represent eternal love, symbolizing a loving couple forever entwined."

  Su Yi Xin snorted in disdain, "Go on with your affectionate words, but coming from you, they're nothing more than a fleeting flower."

  "Not romantic at all!" Su Yisuo retorted in dissatisfaction. But she didn't know that the willow tree was once called the sorrowful tree. This joyful and beautiful love was actually supported by a melancholic soul.

  Su Yi Xin let out another cold snort.

  Su Yi Su didn't bother to argue with him, suddenly thought of something, and sat up abruptly, looking at Su Yi Xin, "Are we still going tomorrow? Mom seems completely fine!"

  Su Yixin thought for a moment and replied, "Forget it, maybe mom thinks dad forgot today's important day because of work, so he's a bit down. Since dad is showing off his love so obviously, what else do we need to investigate?"

  Su Yisu feigned a sigh of regret and leaned heavily back against the sofa, "What a pity, a Holmes who hadn't even had time to take shape was strangled in his cradle."

  Su Yixin picked up the pillow and threw it over.

  "Ah!" Su Yisuo dramatically let out a mournful cry.

  Just as the two were frolicking, a commotion came from behind them. The two curiously turned their heads to look back and suddenly froze, staring blankly at Shen Xiulan, their mouths agape, unable to utter a single word.

  Shen Xiulan saw the reaction of her son and daughter, and she was already embarrassed. She lowered her head and wanted to return to her bedroom, "I said don't change."

  Su Yu didn't comply. He pulled Shen Xiulan to walk in front of Su Yi and Su Miao, smiling and asking: "Is your mother beautiful tonight?"

  "Beautiful!" The two of them replied in unison, their eyes still fixed on Shen Xiulan.

  "See," Su Yuexi said with a pleased glance at Shen Xiulan, "I told you it suited you, didn't I."

  Shen Xiulan awkwardly adjusted the deep blue fitted long dress on her body, and touched the dazzling necklace around her neck, saying: "At our age, we're still wearing such unseemly clothes, aren't we afraid of being laughed at?"

  "Ah-ma!" Su Yisou finally came back to her senses, "So beautiful! Really so beautiful!" A black butterfly-shaped ribbon was tied around her waist, simple yet elegant, eye-catching yet understated.

  Su Yi Xin also laughed and said: "So mom is still so young!"

  Su Yu glared at him with a scowl, "What are you talking about? Your mom is originally very young."

  "Yes, yes, yes." Su Yixin and Su Yisu nodded in unison, covering their mouths as they giggled.

  Shen Xiulan felt even more embarrassed, she who was used to wearing simple clothes couldn't accept such dressing at once, shaking off Su Yu's hand and rushing towards the bedroom, "Don't buy these useless things again in the future."

  Shen Xiulan's figure disappeared around the corner, Su Yisou smiled slyly at Su Yu, and said: "Dad, was scolded by Mom."

  Su Yu gently tapped her forehead and said, "You're neither big nor small, can you comment on your parents' affairs?"

  "Yes, yes, yes." Although she replied so with her mouth, Su Yisuo burst out laughing loudly and even rolled back and forth on the sofa, unable to stop.

  Su Yi Xin speechlessly stared at her, pretending to stand on the same front line as Su Yu, but in his heart, he had already laughed so hard that he was about to cry. Haha, it turns out that Dad and Mom can be so adorable too!

  Because of this incident, afterwards Su Yixi and Su Yisuo looked at Shen Xiulan with a strange gaze, their mouths always hanging with an ambiguous smile, which made Shen Xiulan finally unable to bear it, and hurriedly sent them back to school.

  Su Yisu and Su Yixin walked away with a smile.

  The days back at school were not so easy, at least Su Yixin started to get nervous, after all the fun and games there was always a price to pay. As a result, Su Yisu barely saw him anymore, but she was very happy about it, without Su Yixin's annoying lectures, she suddenly felt that the whole world had brightened up.