Forever, beauty bone

Chapter 25
Now that Zhou Shengchen has officially returned, Shi Yi always wants to take him home once.

There was no formal wedding banquet, so Shi Yi tactfully explained that the two decided to be together only because his family's rules were complicated and the wedding banquet had to be postponed.As for the identities of the legal couple, she really didn't dare to confess, otherwise her parents would definitely be furious. They are both legal identities, and the elders of both parties have never met... Even she knows that this is really too much.

Although the parents were not very happy, seeing Shi Yi's insistence, they barely accepted the two of them being "together".

"Girls are not allowed to stay," the mother said in a low voice while standing behind her while washing her face, "Fortunately, Xiao Zhou seems to be an honest and reliable child, otherwise I would really—"

Shi Yi wiped his face clean, took a wooden comb: "Well, I also think he is honest...reliable."

"However, it's not enough for two people to be in love with each other. They also need legal protection." The mother took the comb, combed a ponytail for her, and tied it up simply. "Also, don't live together too early."

Shi Yi was surprised and remained silent.

Mother noticed something strange, seeing her awkward expression, she immediately understood.

He patted the back of her head with his hands, and frowned: "Forget it, you young people... are different from our generation."

Shi Yi took the comb, put it back in place, and said in a low voice, "Anyway, I will stay with him for the rest of my life, and it won't change."

"A lifetime? A lifetime is very—"

Mother wanted to say more, but she had already staggered away and avoided the topic with a smile.

The habit at home is that her father cooks. When she came out, she found that Zhou Shengchen was also in the kitchen, so she hurried in.He was talking slowly with his father. When she walked in, she saw him handing his father a handful of peeled and cleaned shallots, and smiled at him, "Go out, I'll help."

He looked at her, touched her tied ponytail with the back of his right hand: "It's okay."

The first time I saw her combing her hair like this, I naturally took a second look.

The two of them looked at each other behind the old man who was cooking, Shi Yi blushed a little at his sight, stretched out his hand and pulled up the cuff of his shirt, then silently raised his feet and kissed him on the face .

The moment his father turned around, he took two steps back: "Then... I'm going out, so please behave yourself."

"Xiao Zhou, come, give me the onion."

Zhou Shengchen was still holding the handful of green onions, and he was a little slow in reacting before handing it out.

And she had fled the scene.

A peaceful home cooked lunch.

Sitting side by side with Shi Yi, Zhou Shengchen and Shi Yi were in perfect harmony when eating quietly. Even the mother who was quite critical had to admit that they were really suitable.Before leaving, he was pulled to chat with Shi Yi's parents.

Most of the questions were asked by his parents, and he answered them one by one, knowing everything and saying everything.

Her mother's aunt was once a wealthy young lady in old Shanghai, and her mother had seen a lot, so she naturally speculated about Zhou Shengchen's mother based on this.He tentatively asked if he had been taken by a nanny since he was a child, and his mother didn't take care of him too much, but Zhou Shengchen didn't deny it.Shi Yi's mother smiled, relieved, and before Shi Yi left, she asked softly: "Her mother's family is probably a lady with some money in the past. People in this kind of family are not close to children, and they have a bit of a temper."

Although there are some discrepancies, there are also some similarities.

Shi Yi agreed, saying that he would get along well with his mother.

Her parents' house is about half an hour's drive away from where she lives.

When the two reached the intersection, they got out of the car and walked side by side along the small road to the community.She remembered the conversation he had with his parents just now, and pretended to ask casually: "When you were young, didn't you grow up beside your mother?"

"It is, it is not." Zhou Shengchen laughed, "Why did you wait until now to ask?"

She was exposed, she pursed her lips, and after thinking about it, she said, "I'm afraid you will be angry if you ask me directly..."

"It's similar to what your parents think. My mother didn't take care of the children herself. My siblings and I were raised by outsiders, and everyone's wet nurse is different."

She said oh: "no wonder, I think you and your brother... are far away from each other."

He didn't deny it: "It's true that I don't know him very well. I left home too early, and I only got to know him more when he was about to get married."

While she was talking, two small Teddy dogs were circling around her, and suddenly barked wildly.

Zhou Shengchen hurriedly stretched out his arms to hug her to protect her, and he didn't relax until the dog's owner rushed up, yelled at them, and quickly apologized.She was taken aback at first, but she wasn't so frightened. It was Zhou Shengchen's maintenance that surprised her.

He shook her hand, both hands were sweaty.

She was sweating because of the dog, and he was nervous because of her.

"I'm not that afraid of dogs." Shi Yi was released by him and muttered softly.

He seemed to hum, and after a short pause, he said, "I'm afraid."

"Ah?" Shi Yi looked at him.

He looked at her calmly, but after a few seconds, he suddenly smiled and stroked her ponytail: "I'm afraid they will bite you."

A touch of intimacy.

Just like that, she already softened her heart and reached out to hold his hand.

He was protecting himself, afraid of getting hurt.

When the two of them returned home, Shi Yi cleaned up the study room for him, and put the books and computer he brought over.His daily necessities are really not many, except for some necessary things for men, books, two computers, and clothes, there are no extra things.The computers seem to be one for the lab and one for private work.

She is usually in the study, and only needs to use her laptop and a desk lamp, and the socket is the simplest kind.

Now that there are two sets, I'm afraid it won't be enough.

"Will your two computers be turned on at the same time?"

Zhou Shengchen replied in the living room: "Yes."

"That socket seems to be insufficient," she thought, "You sit down for a while, and I'll go downstairs to the convenience store to buy a bigger one."

"The convenience store downstairs?" He walked to the door of the study and asked her.

"Well, otherwise it wouldn't be enough to plug in the desk lamp..."

"Okay, got it."

As he spoke, he turned around and left.

After he closed the door, Shi Yi realized that he still treated him as a guest just now.

But he has clearly regarded himself as the hero.

She propped her hands on the desk, feeling an unreal sense of happiness.After returning from Wuzhen, some things are changing, and the details are clearly visible.It doesn't refer to the skin-to-skin contact between men and women, but... more, she feels that he cares about her.

Like before, he cared about himself.

Although he doesn't remember it.

Apart from being passionate about scientific research and economics, this man, who has no interest in anything else, began to protect himself, started to act like an ordinary man, and would naturally let himself direct to buy daily necessities... She held a white Wiping every corner of the study with a rag, after a while, he squatted down slowly and looked at the history books at the bottom of the bookcase.

Most of them are exquisitely bound and have not been turned over.

It is true that many of them were bought and turned over only once.

Seeing this, she thought of the paper in the magazine in her bag, took it out, put it in a new folder, and put it on top of the book very carefully.She didn't know how long it would take to write about this memory, but she just hoped that she would not forget too much and could record it as detailed as possible.

Those things about him that only she knows.

After eating some cold dishes and noodles with scallion oil for dinner, he went into the study.

Shi Yi took a few sheets of paper by himself from the small table on the balcony, and constructed the chronology of the book, and a few hours passed quickly.Her working hours were from afternoon to late night, until after eleven o'clock, and she didn't feel sleepy. Seeing that the study room was still quiet, she went to put some snacks on a porcelain plate, knocked on the door, and pushed it away.

Zhou Shengchen seemed to be used to being alone, looked back at her for a few seconds, and then came back from work: "Sleepy?"

"No," she walked in, and put a snack and a cup of hot milk in front of him, "I'm afraid you're hungry, if you're hungry, eat some, if you're not hungry, drink milk?"

He laughed, picked up the glass, and took a sip of milk.

Put it down and drag the empty chair beside you: "Sit here, I'll talk to you for a while."

She hummed and sat down.

Although the statement was a bit strange, but the meaning was always to accompany her, probably because he felt that she was a little neglected throughout the night.

The two of them were chatting, and he opened his private mailbox casually.

Organized very neatly.

She saw a special folder called "Shi Yi" among the names of more than a dozen people, and she immediately thought of those days when she emailed him.She didn't have any other means of communication for more than half a year, so she was very discouraged at that time.But now that I know him, think about it again, this is the way he is used to communicating.

Very direct, and the response time can be chosen independently.

Especially effective in handling personal relationships...

Zhou Shengchen suddenly asked her: "Seeing this line of words, can you find something similar?"

Shi Yi glanced at his computer, there was only one line on the word:

One red calyx, two-color lotus, three steps of music, four garden bamboos, fifth watch order, six Yao order, seven ladies, eight paiman, nine pieces of machine, October peach, Bai Yijiao, and millennium tune.

She understood it, and laughed: "This is the name of the name, but the person who listed it is quite interesting."

"Can you think of anything similar?"

Shi Yi thought about it for a while, but there are some Chinese medicines: "One point of red, Eryelu, triangular grass, Sijiqing, Wulianzi, Liuhequ...Eschinensis, star anise maple, Jiulixiang, Shihuisan... Hmm, Baicaoshuang, Qianrihong."

"It's all Chinese medicine?" He didn't expect her to use Chinese medicine to deal with it.

She nodded.

He quickly wrote her answer down and pasted it in an email reply.

Quickly typed another line: This is Shi Yi's answer.

"To whom?" She asked curiously when she saw him writing her name.

"Mei Xing," he laughed, "he always likes to post such things in groups as entertainment."

She thought of that man, well, it fit his temperament.

Zhou Shengchen finished his milk and turned on the computer: "I leave at four in the morning, do you have work tomorrow? Or should you rest at home?"

"No job..." She picked up the empty glass, "Meilin and I told... I'm on honeymoon."

"Honeymoon," he pondered for a while, then smiled to himself, "it's indeed a honeymoon."

So dead of night.

He simply said yes.And when she glanced at him, her face became hot inexplicably.

The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the ghost month.

Because of the special nature of this month, Zhou's family had access control at night, and it was inconvenient for Zhou Shengchen to go back and forth between Zhenjiang and Shanghai late at night, so Shi Yi took a month's leave and lived in the old house in Zhenjiang.Meilin was not without emotion, mocking her for simply going to live the life of a young mistress instead of staying in Shanghai. Anyway, this kind of big city with its lights, feasts, and clothes is not suitable for the scientific youth of her family.

She laughed and said nothing.

Although I went back with him on the weekends of the previous few weeks, boarding and lodging together, it always felt like air.

Perhaps their family really valued things like status, including Xiao Ren, who had a good relationship with her, and only politely called her Miss Shi Yi in front of others.The only good news is that during this time, his mother was not in the country.

The mobile signal in that place is not good, so she just surfs the Internet in the room at night and uses the landline phone to communicate with family and friends.

During the day, I was tired from reading and writing, and Zhou Shengchen was not around, so I just sat and looked outside in a daze.

The books on the table are hard to come by.

A few of them are some out-of-print books collected in the library, most of them are vertical and traditional characters, and some are simply hand-copied.She had some resistance to the library, so he was the one who accompanied her to pick it up, and after finishing reading it, he would change some.

After about ten days, there were young people in the family, and the atmosphere became a little harmonious.

In the afternoon of this day, Zhou Wenxing and Mei Xing arrived at the same time.At that time, Zhou Shengchen and she were walking down the mountain slowly on the stone steps, the large area of ​​sunlight was covered by thick green leaves, there was water and wind, but it didn't feel hot at all.

When she got tired of walking, she stopped.

There are very small fish in the stream, not many, and a group just gathered at this bend.

On the water, there are several dragonflies circling back and forth.

She looked at them, sitting on a big rock with her mind empty, and she had the right to rest.Zhou Shengchen stood beside her, remained silent for a while, and looked at his watch: "Wen Xing and Mei Xing are about to arrive."

He said it was time to arrive, and he was sure to show up within 2 minutes.

People with a good sense of time will naturally restrain those around them, including her, and now they have developed the habit of being punctual.

Sure enough, he soon saw a black car driving up the winding mountain road, and soon stopped at the side of the road not far from the two of them.The car door opened, Mei Xing got out of the car first, followed by Wen Xing.The two passed under the tall tree and stopped on the other side of the creek. Wen Xing turned his head and laughed: "Sister-in-law."

Shi Yi smiled: "He just said that you should be here, and you have really arrived."

"My elder brother is very strict with time," Wen Xing pretended to sigh, "which made the driver very nervous and dare not be late."

Is this an accusation?Or act like a baby?

She felt that every time she saw Zhou Wenxing, she was very close to herself, and there were not many people in this family who were kind to her.She nodded slightly to Mei Xing, then smiled and sang with Zhou Wenxing, accusing Zhou Shengchen of his strict concept of time.

Those who were accused didn't care.

"There are a lot of dragonflies, fireflies and so on here," Zhou Wenxing saw that Shiyi was looking at dragonflies, squatted down, and tried to reach out and pinch the dragonfly's wings, "I came back occasionally when I was young, and often caught them to play with."

Her hands are very thin, which should be caused by a congenital heart disease, making her look a little haggard.

I didn't think it was the last time we met, but this time my mental state was obviously much worse.

"My little beauty, Guiyue, you can't catch dragonflies." Mei Xing reminded Zhou Wenxing with a smile.

"Why?" Zhou Wenxing was surprised.

Mei Xing smiled faintly, but did not continue to explain.

Zhou Wenxing bit his lip, and muttered angrily: "I grew up abroad, so I don't understand your heresy."

Shi Yi laughed when he heard this: "This is just a folk taboo. Usually, dragonflies and katydids are considered to be the incarnation of ghosts, so in the ghost month... it's best not to bring them home, lest you have 'good friends' as guests."

She also visited the tomb when she was a child, and she was educated by several aunts before she remembered it clearly.

"Ah?" Zhou Wenxing stopped immediately, "I usually come back here, either to sweep graves during the Qingming Festival, or ghost moon... I often catch a bunch of them and come back to play..." She was a little timid, and couldn't help asking, "Who are the katydids?" What?"

Shi Yi didn't have time to answer, Mei Xing had already told her: "It's Grasshopper, I remember you used to play with it when you were young."

Zhou Wenxing's face turned paler.

Shi Yi was really afraid of scaring her, so he laughed: "Don't be afraid, it's all just for fun."

In fact, she herself is also afraid of these folklore, so she naturally understands the little girl's mood at this time.

Just as she was about to continue to comfort her, Zhou Shengchen shook her head lightly and sighed: "Dragonflies, also known as lamp hydrocarbons, laborers, gnats, and dragonflies, belong to the insects of the suborder Odonoptera. They often fly by the water. , the female lays eggs in the aquatic plants, and has nothing to do with the soul."

That's how atheists explain it.

pure science.

Mei Xing couldn't help teasing him: "Great scientist, existence is reasonable. As for me, I believe in Buddhism and reincarnation."

Zhou Shengchen also squatted down, pinched the dragonfly's wings very lightly, smiled lightly, and rationally retorted: "It is laying eggs now, then it will be a nymph, then it will become an adult, and then it will reproduce again. It's a rigorous and complete process, right?"

Mei Xing mocked him a few words, the two had known each other since childhood, they were already used to this kind of back and forth.

(End of this chapter)