Chapter 81: After the New Year, Let's Go Our Separate Ways

  The New Year's atmosphere still lingered in the air above Guren Town, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks continued to reverberate, every household was playing joyful New Year's songs on repeat, they wore bright red new clothes, spoke festive words, and showed off their celebratory smiles. Everywhere Mingming looked, it was a sea of jubilation, but why did she feel a faint sense of melancholy lingering?

  "Su Yisu!" At this time, Su Yixin shouted her name again in the courtyard, Su Yisu responded with a sound and ran back.

  "What's wrong?"

  Su Yixin glanced faintly at the kitchen.

  Su Yixin turned her head to look, but only saw Shen Xiulan packing the tribute goods. She couldn't help but turn her head and look at Su Yixin with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong? What did you want me to see?"

  "Nothing!" Su Yixin waved her hand and got up to walk towards the living room. Anyway, Su Yisu that silly girl couldn't tell what was going on, no need to waste words! Hmm!

  "Sui Xin! Must you tantalize people's appetites like this?" Sui Yusuo also grumbled and followed her in.

  In the living room, Su Yu was reading a newspaper alone. The little yellow cat sat quietly on the floor beside the sofa, seemingly still traumatized by Su Yu stepping on its tail that night. It tilted its head and stared at him with a mixture of fear and curiosity, neither approaching nor retreating. Its cute eyes made Su Yi Su laugh, and she immediately squatted down to pick up the cat, saying: "Little kitty, what's going through your little brain?"

  "Meow——" The little kitten seemed to understand and responded with a long meow.

  Su Yi couldn't help but sigh repeatedly, "A mother is a mother after all, even the cat she raised has such a strong spirit."

  Su Yixin couldn't help but tease her, "It's just that a certain girl is a bit lacking in spirit."

  "What do you mean, Su Yixin?"

  "I believe you understand." Su Yixin's expression was wooden as he stared at her, without a hint of embarrassment or guilt.

  Listening to the bickering between these two siblings, Su Yu finally couldn't sit still either. He spoke up to stop them: "Alright, you two, you've been quarreling for over a decade. Aren't you tired of it yet? Look at your mother, she's never had a fight with anyone. Learn from her."

  "Really?" The siblings rarely chimed in unison with a skeptical cry.

  At this time, Shen Xiulan finished the kitchen work and walked in, seeing the three people chatting happily, she couldn't help but curiously ask: "What are you guys talking about?"

  "Dad is thinking that we boast about you two never quarreling, and wants us to learn from you." Su Yisuo replied truthfully.

  Upon hearing this, Shen Xiulan's originally smiling face stiffened for a moment, but only for an instant before recovering her gentle smile. She said: "Your father is right, you two are indeed too quarrelsome."

  As they were talking, Su Yu's mobile phone rang. He picked it up and took a look, then hastily put down the newspaper and stood up to leave.

  Su Yi looked suspiciously at Su Yu's back and subconsciously asked: "Who hit you?"

  Shen Xiulan rubbed her apron unnaturally and replied, "Probably someone from the company, I've been home for so long. It's time to go back."

  "Alas," Su Yisou couldn't help but sigh deeply, "the fifth day of the new year has passed, and everyone is eager to leave."

  Su Yixin glanced at her lightly, "I'm in no hurry to leave. Neither are you."

  Su Yisuo rolled her eyes and said, "A small number can be ignored."

  After a while, Su Yu hung up the phone and came back, his face indeed looked somewhat guilty, saying: "Tomorrow I'll have to go too, there are some things at the company that need me to take care of."

  The three of them had already gotten vaccinated, so they weren't too surprised to hear Su Yu's words. Shen Xiulan just calmly said, "Go ahead, don't worry about home, I'm here."

  When Shen Xiulan said this, Su Yu felt even more guilty and said: "Xiulan, after Suxi finishes the college entrance exam, you can come to Yincheng. We'll move to Yincheng for good."

  Shen Xiulan nodded lightly.

  "Oh! Gaokao!" Su Yisuo, on the other hand, couldn't calm down upon hearing the word "gaokao", let out a wail like a ghost or wolf, and went upstairs with a mournful face.

  "Despicable!" Su Yixin coldly snorted behind her back.

  Su Yisu locked herself in the room, sitting gloomily at the desk, staring blankly at her phone. Jiang Fengchen was going up tomorrow, and Dad was also going up tomorrow, so she couldn't go see him off. How annoying! He would understand my difficulties, right? Yeah, definitely! Su Yisu nodded heavily and casually flipped open the newspaper she had picked up yesterday but hadn't had time to read.

  "Huh? Snowdrop flower?" Seeing the picture in the newspaper, Su Yisu's eyes lit up involuntarily. The leaves were like those of a wind and rain flower, and the flowers were like lilyturf, giving off an otherworldly feeling!

  "Snowdrop flower, perennial herb, plant height 10-30 cm... Leaves clustered, linear-lanceolate, green with white powder... Flower stem upright, hollow, flat-round; top-end with one flower, drooping; peduncle short; tepals 6, elliptical, no tube-shaped, broadly campanulate, white, each lobe tip with a green spot. Blooming period early spring late March to April. The language of flowers is the power of moving forward bravely."

  As she read the introduction in the newspaper slowly, Su Yisu's eyes couldn't help but sprout a strong sense of longing. Now if I plant it, maybe by April it will bloom?

  As soon as she thought of it, she couldn't sit still anymore. She immediately ran downstairs with a "thud thud thud" and grabbed Su Yixin's arm, saying: "Su Yixin, help me buy snowdrop flower seeds online!"

  The days at home passed quickly, and before Valentine's Day on February 14th arrived, Su Yisuo had to end her vacation and return to school for classes. Before leaving, she gazed at Su Yixin with a hint of resentment and said, "Su Yixin, why haven't you ended your vacation yet?"

  Su Yi Xing struck back at her, "Because I'm not a high school student!"

  So Su Yisuo sat on the bus to Jiang City with an unhappy face. However, it was comforting that in her hand she held a pot of her beloved Snowdrop flower seedlings, which had not yet sprouted and only showed a pot of fertile black soil. As soon as she thought of this, Su Yisuo suddenly felt depressed again. In this gloomy mood, Su Yisuo finally arrived at school, seemingly a bit early, the dormitory was still empty.

  It wasn't until she carefully placed the potted plant on the windowsill that she remembered something very serious.

  "Oh no!" she shrieked, hastily digging out her phone from her bag and calling Shen Beiqiu.

  The phone rang once with a melodious ringtone, and then Shen Beiqiu's thick voice came from the other end of the line, "Hello? Yisu."

  "Shenbei Qiu, I'm so sorry," Su Yisu said with a face full of apology. "I had agreed to paint something for you earlier, but once I got busy, I completely forgot. Why didn't you remind me?"

  "Haha... " Shen Beiqiu laughed heartily on the other end, "Is that all? I thought it was something big. Look at how anxious you are! I just mentioned it casually, and if there's no opportunity, then forget it. I can draw something else too. Are you in school yet? I'm already here."

  "What? You started school so early?"

  "No, it's just that I wanted to come a bit earlier and feel the tender spring atmosphere of this water town."

  "Alright, extraordinary artist."

  "Su Yisu!" Just then, a familiar voice came from outside the door. Su Yisu responded hastily and when she saw who it was, she suddenly jumped up with joy, "Lin Wan! It's you!"

  Lin Wan smiled sweetly, "Isn't it me? Have you been thinking of me?"

  "Oh my, I was thinking of you!" Su Yisuo shouted, almost as if she were about to hug him. She quickly realized that she was still on the phone with Shen Beiqiu and felt embarrassed, secretly wiping away sweat. Apologetically, she said into the receiver: "Shen Beiqiu, sorry about that, I got a bit too excited and forgot you were on the line..."

  Shen Beiqiu smiled softly and said, "It's human nature, I understand. Let's talk again next time, we won't disturb the reunion of you two sisters."

  She hung up the phone and Lin Wan stared at Su Yisu with a gloomy expression, saying: "I thought it was Jiang Fengchen, but it turned out to be Shen Beiqiu."

  Su Yisu murmured a response, clearly not wanting to get tangled up in the issue, and excitedly pulled her over to the windowsill, saying: "Look at the new flowers I've planted!"

  Lin Wan looked at her with a black line on his face, "I only saw a handful of black soil."

  "Just wait a few more days and it will sprout!"

  "Alright," Lin Wan replied perfunctorily, "I just came over to say hello, I'll head back now and sort out my luggage."

  "Uh-huh."

  After Lin Wan left, Su Yisu's enthusiasm suddenly dissipated, and she lay down on the couch with a lack of energy, holding her phone and scrolling aimlessly.

  In QQ, a sudden prompt of new message appeared. Su Yisu smiled knowingly and opened the new message to find it was Tan Ziyao: "Hey, the new semester has started again, have you arrived at school?"

  "I just arrived and I'm really depressed, but my brother is still at home having a great time."

  "Your brother is in college now so it's different, when you go to college you can also be carefree. Eh, where does your brother study?"

  "Didn't I tell you at Yonsei University?"

  "No, you're confused again..."

  Su Yisu looked at Tan Ziyao's reply with a gloomy expression, patted her forehead and replied: "I thought I said? My mom said to move to Yin City after the college entrance exam, but I may not be able to get into Yin City, besides, I don't really want to go to Yin City."

  "Why? Isn't your boyfriend also in Yincheng? Then you can be reunited with both at the same time."

  "Although I say so, but I always feel that Yin City makes me uneasy, very uneasy. It seems like there is a huge conspiracy coming towards me."

  "Girl, you're thinking too much! I'm still thinking about getting into a technical university and hooking up with your handsome brother, then you'll have to call me sister-in-law, haha."

  Upon seeing this absurd sentence, Su Yisou blushed repeatedly, "Handsome and elegant? Forget it, you'd better not meet him."

  Tan Zi Yao returned a wicked smile.

  Su Yi Su stared at Tan Zi Yao's name, and for a moment, she had an inexplicable illusion that overlapped her with the eerie shadow in her dream. She hastily shook her head, slapped her forehead hard, and thought to herself that it must be because of too much recently, look at this hallucination appearing!