Brother and Brother Chang'an
Outside the window, swaying leaves danced in the breeze.
The older brother kept reminiscing about his childhood.
The brother and sister sat on the soft sofa.
Listen to my brother tell me about the past.
<Listening to Mother Tell Stories of the Past> has a tone of reminiscing about the bitter past and appreciating the sweet present, while <Listening to Brother Tell Stories of the Past> has a warm and sweet mood. From leaning on his shoulder to hugging his arm and refusing to let go, Qin Yanan's slightly upturned lips were always full of cute and charming charm.
Listening to him recount his past experiences, I didn't feel the rejection or difficulty in accepting that I had imagined, nor did I feel the need to force myself to turn these stories into memories.
Qin Yanan also understood that he had indeed always treated Ye Sijin as his real younger sister and raised her, to the point that Su Mei went against everyone's wishes and forced Ye Sijin to have a relationship with Qin Peng, which ultimately led to Ye Chenyu and Ye Sijin having sex several times in one night... In simpler terms, Su Mei touched his "proudest point", which made him sever his relationship with Su Mei.
"I suspect that Shangguan Dandan's closeness to you... is because she feels she is your mother. Some people like to act as teachers, but Shangguan Dandan likes to act as a mother; she has an extreme obsession with being a mother." Liu Chang'an thought for a moment, his suspicion uncertain. "In her view, she turned you into a baby, and that process is equivalent to her reincarnating you, so of course she is your mother."
"She..." Qin Yanan recalled Shangguan Dandan's youthful face, her penchant for speaking in a deliberately mature manner, and the air of authority and elegance in her eyes. She couldn't help but laugh awkwardly, "She wouldn't really think that, would she?"
"That's very likely. You can talk to her again next time... in the absence of Su Nanxiu." Liu Chang'an paused, "You can also ask her how she managed to turn Ye Sijin into Qin Yanan."
Qin Yanan nodded. Actually, this was also something she really wanted to know, and it was a rare question that Liu Chang'an couldn't answer. This was something she could only ask Shangguan Dandan.
Considering that her brother was arguably the greatest heartthrob of all ages, from children to young girls to women, yet he was helpless against Shangguan Dandan, Qin Yanan couldn't help but smile.
"I'll go cook." From yesterday afternoon until noon today, Qin Yanan hadn't eaten a single grain of rice. She also felt that when her body was exceptionally healthy and full of energy, she had a greater need and desire to eat. No wonder Liu Chang'an was so particular about his three meals a day; now she could understand it better.
"Let's have some scallions and cucumbers with dipping sauce today, a bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), and a couple of stir-fried side dishes. My siblings and I will get together to celebrate and have a few drinks." Liu Chang'an hadn't had any northern-style food for a while, although scallions and cucumbers with dipping sauce weren't exactly representative of northern cuisine, and many northerners themselves didn't like it.
Qin Yanan was slightly surprised, her eyes sparkling. She brushed aside her hair and glared at him reproachfully, "I won't make this. Whatever I make, you'll eat."
Liu Chang'an could only sigh; the little girl was clearly getting a bit too arrogant.
In the end, Qin Yanan still made a cucumber salad and a scallion salad to satisfy him, but this was definitely not the refreshing way to eat cucumber and scallions dipped in sauce and chewing them in big bites. Liu Chang'an was slightly disappointed... However, if he didn't do anything himself and just waited to eat, he wouldn't give any comments unless the other party specifically asked him to.
"I don't want to smell like scallions when I talk to you," Qin Yanan explained. She didn't want to smell his scallion smell either, because when she was talking to him earlier, they were intimately close, and his breath was so close, like alluring silk threads swirling around her ear and lips.
If there were scallion flavors in it, how awful would that be? It's like you're singing a beautiful, romantic Jiangnan folk song, and suddenly a suona horn bursts up, tearing all that romance to shreds.
After lunch, Liu Chang'an chatted with Qin Yanan for a while. Knowing that she hadn't slept all night, he told her to rest for a while in the afternoon. Watching her sway her waist under her loose nightgown as she walked into the bedroom, she glanced back at him, Liu Chang'an smiled slightly, and left Qin Yanan's room.
Walking down the mountain from Mount Lu, the mountain breeze was refreshing. Liu Chang'an hugged his arm. Even after being hugged by her all morning, Liu Chang'an could still tell that she wasn't wearing a bra under her pajamas. Fortunately, he controlled the sensation in his arm, making his hand feel nothing... This was necessary. For a woman like Qin Yanan, this arm-hugging technique was a killer move.
Liu Chang'an felt pleased with his own cleverness. This way, he wouldn't have to push her away and make her, who was emotionally sensitive at the moment, overthink things, and he could also avoid being tempted and maintain a peaceful state of mind... Although he could control himself even without doing this, it was probably better this way.
"I was being a bit dramatic..." Liu Chang'an concluded. "But what's wrong with being a little dramatic occasionally, as an ordinary college student?"
Liu Chang'an walked onto the Juzhou Bridge, stood in the middle of the bridge and looked up at the statue of the great man at the head of the island for a while. During the National Day holiday, the island welcomed visitors from all directions, and Juzhou finally regained its lost 5A-level scenic spot status.
The river flows swiftly, and tourists throng the area, making one feel as if the past is like fleeting clouds. If one could pick up those memories again and recount them carefully with old friends, it would be truly delightful.
Liu Chang'an hadn't decided whether to meet with Gao Dewei and his group again in the afternoon, so he went home first. There he saw Zhou Dongdong struggling to dig a hole under the sycamore tree with a small hoe the size of a palm.
Liu Chang'an walked over, glanced at the door of the storage room downstairs, and then went to the sycamore tree to lean against it and watch Zhou Dongdong busy herself.
"Brother Chang'an, I'm going to dig a big hole." Seeing that Brother Chang'an was just watching and didn't ask what she was doing, Zhou Dongdong couldn't help but report it herself.
"Oh, please continue." Liu Chang'an nodded.
After digging for a while, Zhou Dongdong dug a hole the size of a vegetable bowl, then threw away the small hoe.
"This pit is huge! It could probably hold a moon tonight," Liu Chang'an exclaimed.
Zhou Dongdong suddenly realized something: why could a puddle of any size hold the moon? After a second, Zhou Dongdong realized that she definitely couldn't figure it out, so she gave up thinking about it, ran to get two mineral water bottles, filled them with water, and poured the water into the puddle.
"Let's set off firecrackers together!" Zhou Dongdong threw away her mineral water bottle and happily took out a dusty little firecracker and a lighter from her pocket, inviting Liu Chang'an.
"Not interested." It's perfectly normal for someone to secretly set off some firecrackers during National Day, so Liu Chang'an didn't ask Zhou Dongdong where she picked up the firecrackers.
"I'll play by myself." Zhou Dongdong pouted, lit the firecrackers with a lighter, quickly threw the lighter into the puddle, and then ran to the side with the firecrackers to look at the puddle.
Zhou Dongdong stared blankly at the lighter in the puddle for a moment.
"Crack!"
The firecracker exploded between Zhou Dongdong's two fingers. Zhou Dongdong stared at her fingers in disbelief, then looked at her brother Chang'an who was laughing heartily, and burst into tears.
"Zhou Dongdong, what's wrong?" Zhou Shuling called out from upstairs, opening the window.
"It's nothing, I was fighting with her," Liu Chang'an said.
"When did you get back? Have you eaten?" Zhou Shuling clearly didn't care about Zhou Dongdong's loud crying after being beaten.
"I ate, just got back... Aren't you going to check on the shop?"
"I'll take a shower when I get back, I've been so busy today... Could you come to the store and help out later?"
"Alright." Liu Chang'an thought for a moment and decided to help.
Seeing that her brother Chang'an and her mother were talking and completely ignoring the injured child, Zhou Dongdong simply started howling at the top of her lungs, which gradually turned into a series of "Aww... Aww... Aww..." sounds.
"You cry so horribly." Hearing her cries reminded Liu Chang'an of the first season of "Rural Love Story." He took Zhou Dongdong's finger and spat on it.
"Lick your fingers again." Liu Chang'an thought she should have learned her lesson, so he put her fingers in her mouth.
Zhou Dongdong sucked on her finger and looked at Liu Chang'an in surprise. "It doesn't hurt anymore!"
"Have you admitted that you're a stupid child?" Liu Chang'an asked, pointing to the lighter in the puddle.
Zhou Dongdong pouted as she looked at the lighter, then at her fingers. "It must be because that lighter is weird."
"Go play with Lu Si'en." Liu Chang'an was too lazy to waste words with her, so he patted Zhou Dongdong's bottom and sent her off to play with the dog.
"Lu Si'en!" Zhou Dongdong ran to the doghouse at the bottom of the stairs and waved.
Lu Si'en ran out excitedly, jumping around Zhou Dongdong, and went to play with Zhou Dongdong over the grape trellis.
Zhou Dongdong and Lu Si'en played for a while and then came back. When they saw their mother going downstairs and their brother Chang'an walking out of the community, they quickly followed like little tails. After running a couple of steps, they reached out but couldn't grab Chang'an's fingers, so they ran a little faster. Just then, Chang'an's hand swung back, and they quickly grabbed it.
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I recommend Ye Henshui's novel, The Authentic Cultivation. In the year 666 of the Alliance calendar, a nearly destroyed server was discovered. After years of painstaking deciphering it, it was learned that in ancient times, humans were the strongest beings in the universe, capable of flying, moving mountains and overturning seas, and even strengthening themselves to traverse the cosmos. Although cultivation methods were lost, humanity's unique creativity and relentless efforts led to the rediscovery of many cultivation techniques. The Alliance embarked on a path of universal evolution, with martial arts cultivation, magic, and technology flourishing, restoring the ancient world! At this time, a soul from ancient times unexpectedly merged with a modern youth! And then... the truth was revealed!