Chapter 89
The two walked to the school gate. Ji Fengxue had thought they wouldn't be able to carry everything with just their hands, but to her surprise, they had a whole cart of things. She drove the car directly in and parked downstairs. After a few trips back and forth, it was finally done. The two of them collapsed on the sofa, panting. Ji Fengxue went to pour her a glass of water, "Are you tired? Why don't you rest for a bit?"
"Not tired, I slept on the plane," Xia Linxia drank some water and looked around the house. She thought Ji Fengxue's home would at least be in a nice apartment complex, if not luxurious. But she didn't expect this place to look so old. The furniture and floor were all wooden, and the living room was filled with many things, small and cozy.
"Faculty housing, it's a bit old," Ji Fengxue smiled and explained proactively, "I've lived here since I was born. Mom never wanted to move, her work and friends are all here, and the neighbors are all old acquaintances."
"Yes. It's nice, very interesting." Xia Linxia had never experienced this kind of neighborhood life and found it novel. She looked around with a smile on her face.
Seeing her like this, Ji Fengxue couldn't help but squeeze her hand and ask, "How did you find your way here?"
For privacy reasons, none of her public information listed the specific address of her hometown, only that she had previously told Xia Linxia that her home was at a certain university.
Xia Linxia smiled and drank some water to moisten her throat, "I wouldn't have found it on my own, but the people here are so friendly. I met a Lei Feng auntie, asked her for directions, and she brought me here."
After hanging up the phone last night, she had been thinking about one thing. Ji Fengxue had visited her home several times, met her parents, and given them many gifts. Her parents also liked her very much, and she was almost integrated into their family.
But she hadn't met Ji Fengxue's parents yet, and they even seemed to avoid her on video calls. If this continued, it was hard to guarantee that Ji Fengxue wouldn't feel disappointed, and that wouldn't be good.
It was better to meet sooner rather than later. Moreover, only Ji Fengxue and her mother lived together, so they must be lonely during the New Year. The more she thought about it, the more she missed Ji Fengxue and wanted to accompany her.
So, she directly told her parents that she wanted to visit Ji Fengxue's home for the New Year. She thought her parents would object, but to her surprise, Mother Xia was very happy, "Go, go, the ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her in-laws sooner or later."
Xia Linxia: "You're the ugly one!"
In short, she brought her parents' blessings and gifts and rushed to the airport overnight. Worried that the gifts weren't enough, she remembered that her mother-in-law was a professor and hastily bought a stack of books at the airport bookstore. After arriving in the city, she rented a car and drove to the university, but there were too many things, so she had to get out of the car first to find the specific location.
When she reached the sports field, she saw a tall auntie walking from afar and greeted her, "Auntie, hello, happy new year."
The auntie turned to look at her. Her skin was well-maintained, her features were soft, and her temperament was gentle. She should also be a teacher at the university. She was stunned for a few seconds when she looked at her, "Hello?"
"Auntie, can I ask you something?" Xia Linxia had a good impression of this stranger teacher's temperament and smiled, "Do you live here? Do you know Ji Fengxue?"
The auntie raised an eyebrow, "Ji Fengxue?"
"Yes, yes, I heard she's the pride of our hometown!" Xia Linxia couldn't help but brag.
"..." The auntie shook her head, "Pride of our hometown? Never heard of it."
"Uh..." She pondered for a moment, thinking that it was possible that Ji Fengxue had been working outside for many years and no one recognized her, so she asked, "Then Auntie, do you know Professor Fang? I heard she lives here."
"What do you want to find her for?" As the auntie spoke, she turned to the side, "Come with me, I'll take you there."
Xia Linxia quickly followed and replied, "I'm her student, I'm here to wish her a happy new year, hehe."
Upon hearing this, the auntie looked her up and down again, revealing an unnamable smile, "Is that so..."
The tone sounded very familiar. Before she could figure anything out, she heard the auntie ask, "There aren't many good students like you. My daughter is most afraid of visiting teachers' homes."
"You have a daughter too? How old is she?" Xia Linxia tried to get closer.
"Quite old."
Xia Linxia: "..." It's okay to kill the conversation yourself!
But she had to say some polite words. She smiled awkwardly, "Auntie, you look so young, your daughter must not be bad either. Let me tell you secretly, I have a female... cough, a friend who is also quite old, but she's very beautiful and doesn't look her age at all."
Perfect, praised three people in one go!
The auntie also smiled, "Really?"
"Of course." Xia Linxia chatted with her for a few sentences. Seeing the dormitory building ahead, she suddenly became nervous and carefully tugged the auntie's sleeve, "Auntie, um, I haven't seen Professor Fang for many years, I wanted to ask how her temper has been all these years?"
The auntie gave her a meaningful look, "Very fierce."
Xia Linxia: "!"
Perhaps amused by her stunned and panicked expression, the auntie laughed even louder this time.
"We're here. Professor Fang's home is on the fourth floor, 402. You can go up by yourself," the auntie said, stopping at the entrance of the third unit.
"Thank you, Auntie. Auntie, where do you live? I'll come to wish you a happy new year to express my gratitude later?" Xia Linxia said.
"I live upstairs, we'll see each other later," the auntie said and turned to leave.
Xia Linxia blurted out, "Auntie, where are you going? Aren't you going home?"
"I'm going to buy some groceries," the auntie turned back and smiled, "We have guests at home."
"Okay then, goodbye Auntie." Xia Linxia waved at her, "Auntie, you are a living Lei Feng, you will definitely have good luck!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the auntie's shoulders tremble, and she left without looking back.
"We'll see each other later?" Ji Fengxue raised an eyebrow as she listened to her talk about the chance encounter, "If it's our building, then it's indeed very easy to see each other. Did you ask the auntie her last name?"
"Ah." Xia Linxia slapped her forehead, "I forgot."
"It's okay, we see each other every day here, you'll know soon," Ji Fengxue smiled and held her hand, "Don't pat your head, be careful the water spills out."
"Heh, let's see who has more water." Xia Linxia bumped her head, and both of them cried out in pain, covering their foreheads, "Hiss— Your head is so hard!"
"Are you that silly?" Ji Fengxue was both amused and annoyed. She took ice cubes and applied them alternately, "Other children kowtow when they visit, but you, when you visit, you really 'kowtow'?"
"You're the one who said I have a lot of water," Xia Linxia said aggrievedly.
"I didn't wrong you either," Ji Fengxue paused, "You really do have a lot of water."
"!!!"
Xia Linxia shook her water-logged brain, suddenly realized, and kicked her. A footprint was left on Ji Fengxue's body.
The two started fighting. Xia Linxia grabbed her hair, and Ji Fengxue grabbed her collar. After a few struggles, they fell onto the sofa. Xia Linxia knelt on her lap and rubbed her head vigorously, her hair becoming a mess.
Ji Fengxue also refused to give in and bent her knees. Xia Linxia suddenly lost her balance and fell forward. Ji Fengxue immediately pressed her back and pulled her down, decisively and accurately blocking her mouth.
Xia Linxia wanted to resist, so she tickled her all over her body, but it was no use. Her hand slipped into her clothes.
A gust of cold wind blew in. Ji Fengxue shivered, her tongue retreated, she held her hand, her breathing deepened, and she asked with restraint, "Traveling?"
"We're still fighting, what are you traveling for?" Xia Linxia sat up angrily, pursed her lips, glanced at the bedroom, and said very, very softly, "Tonight?"
"Pfft." Ji Fengxue also sat up, "Okay."
"Then are we still fighting?" Xia Linxia looked at her, wanting to say something but stopping.
"Yes."
Xia Linxia immediately leaned in to bite her, and then the doorbell rang.
Xia Linxia trembled in fright and rolled off the sofa. She looked up at Ji Fengxue pitifully.
Ji Fengxue immediately helped her up, "It should be my mom coming back, I'll go open the door."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Linxia slumped down on the sofa again, tightly gripping Ji Fengxue's hand, "Let me calm down, I'm so nervous!"
"What's there to be nervous about? She's just a woman," Ji Fengxue said with a smile, "Then how do you want to relieve your nervousness?"
Xia Linxia took a deep breath, looked down at her hand, grabbed it, and bit it.
"Hiss—"
Click—
The door suddenly opened, and Fang Xingyan stood at the door, still holding the key, looking at them.
Xia Linxia was so scared she almost peed herself, not daring to look up. In this situation, she had messed up Ji Fengxue's hair, given her a bump on the head, and was biting Ji Fengxue's hand, looking like a scene of a fight. And her professor and mother-in-law was witnessing this scene.
It was as if, in the next second, she would be dragged to the dean's office and announced that she was being kicked out.
She numbly let go of her mouth and stroked the teeth marks on Ji Fengxue's hand, "Ah, there's a big mosquito here, don't be afraid, I ate it."
Ji Fengxue: "..."
Fang Xingyan: "..."
A deathly silence.
A moment later, Ji Fengxue, with her hair like a bird's nest, turned to look at Fang Xingyan, "Mom, where did you go so early in the morning?"
"I went to buy some groceries. We have guests at home, don't we? We can't let them eat mosquitoes," Fang Xingyan walked in with several bags of groceries. After changing her shoes, she saw the little girl who had been looking down had somehow teleported behind Ji Fengxue. She looked up, "What's wrong with your forehead?"
"Ah, it's nothing, I bumped into the door," Ji Fengxue touched the bump on her forehead, turned around, and pulled Xia Linxia up. She couldn't pull her up, so she grabbed her shoulders with both hands and lifted her up, "Mom, this is my girlfriend, you should have seen her on TV."
"Yes, I've seen her more than just on TV," Fang Xingyan said.
Xia Linxia, who had been afraid to look up, was suddenly stunned. This voice sounded so familiar!
She looked up and immediately slid back to the ground, hugging Ji Fengxue's thigh for support, "You, you, you, aren't you the Lei Feng auntie!"
Why did she suddenly become her mother-in-law???
Fang Xingyan smiled, "You didn't ask who I was either."
Ji Fengxue thought about it and understood. She directly hugged Xia Linxia and sat her on the sofa, holding her hand to prevent her from sliding down again, and asked, "So you met my mom this morning?"
Xia Linxia nodded stiffly, holding her breath, and looked at Fang Xingyan, actively reporting her family, "Auntie, happy new year. I am Xia Linxia, twenty-four years old this year, with no bad habits, working in the entertainment industry, and a family of four..."
"Pfft." Fang Xingyan and her daughter both burst out laughing.
Xia Linxia looked at the two of them blankly. She inexplicably knew where Fang Xingyan's familiarity came from. Her temperament, demeanor, expressions, and tone were too similar to Ji Fengxue's.
They were truly carved from the same mold.
In her excitement, she blurted out, "Auntie, you look like Ji Fengxue's biological mother."
Fang Xingyan: "?"
Ji Fengxue: "..."
"Biological mother!" Xia Linxia quickly corrected herself.
Fang Xingyan laughed heartily, "You look very nervous?"
"N-not nervous," Xia Linxia shook her head vigorously.
Ji Fengxue, to ease her mood, pointed to the pile of gift bags on the table, "Mom, these are all from her."
"Wow, quite a lot." Fang Xingyan opened the gifts with great interest. There were health and wellness products, beauty products, and jewelry. "Thank you, they suit me very well."
Xia Linxia was a little happy and introduced the gifts one by one, "This, this, and this were all prepared by my parents."
"Please thank them for me," Fang Xingyan said with a gentle smile, looking at the stack of books on the floor, "Are these too?"
"Yes, yes, I bought these specifically," Xia Linxia squatted down to unwrap the packaging like she was presenting a treasure. There was no scissors on the table, so she just tore it open violently, which stunned Fang Xingyan.
Fang Xingyan subconsciously looked at Ji Fengxue, but Ji Fengxue was looking down at Xia Linxia, her eyes filled with smiles, her affection hidden from view.
Since her father passed away, Ji Fengxue hadn't smiled so happily at home. Fang Xingyan shifted her gaze back to Xia Linxia.
"I forgot to ask you what you taught before, so I directly asked the boss to buy a complete set. He said they were exquisite books covering all walks of life."
Xia Linxia finally finished unwrapping the packaging and took out the books one by one. She hadn't had time to look closely when she was rushing to the airport. She only knew that the boss said these books, although niche, were very tasteful and generally incomprehensible, especially suitable for cultural people like professors.
Fang Xingyan picked up a book with a smile and looked at the title, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? A Brief History of Ukrainian Tractors?"
Xia Linxia: "?"
Ji Fengxue picked up a book, "Becoming a Contract Couple with My Nemesis?"
Xia Linxia: "???"
Fang Xingyan picked up another book, "Postpartum Care for Sows?"
Xia Linxia's legs went weak, and she slid to the ground again.
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