Chapter 8: Tears

As if to prove what Brother Chengxin had said, after the hug with Sister Liu, Irene stared at me with her big eyes and asked loudly, “Who is Chen Chengyi?”

I stood up with a tingle in my scalp and said, “I’m Chen Chengyi. What do you want with me?”

“You are Chen Chengyi?” Irene’s eyebrows rose, and she walked up to me and looked at me up and down. Just when I was uncomfortable with being looked at, she suddenly smiled and said to me, “I am a person who doesn’t reason very well, or I help my relatives rather than reason. I care about the people I care about, no matter if she is right or wrong, if she is hurt or suffers, I will be shameless and risk my life to help her.”

I was embarrassed and didn’t know how to answer Irene.

But the next moment, I felt an itch on my face, and I instinctively wanted to touch it. Chengxin grabbed me and said, “Chengyi, don’t move. You’ll regret it if you touch it.”

What’s wrong? It was only then that I felt something crawling on my face. I never liked insects, and suddenly I had goosebumps all over my body. I didn’t dare to move, and I just asked Chengxin brother in a trembling voice, “What’s on my face?”

Chengxin brother coughed lightly and then said to me, “That spider is quite big.”

Fuck, I was furious. I was indeed the girl with the worst temper. I was indeed siding with my family rather than the truth.

“Are you afraid of this? What makes you think you’re worthy of Ruoxue? What makes you think you’re worthy of almost killing her? The important thing is, why didn’t you come to see her for so long? Are you like your master? Are you someone who runs away from relationships and abandons them when you can’t escape them? “Eileen said aggressively.

I was very angry at first, but when I faced Irene’s questioning, I suddenly felt like a deflated balloon. Master, what happened between you and Grandma Ling Qing that made everyone in the village so against you? And then I got into trouble with Ru Xue, and they targeted me so much?

Even Ru Xue, when she first met me, was cold and distant, and she had a lot of complaints about you.

But Master was only too happy to stir up trouble. He snorted, slapped the table and said, “The men of our school are straightforward in their actions and don’t need anyone to understand them. Sanwa, are you afraid? If you’re my disciple, don’t be afraid. Slap that bug to death.”

The master was talking about the spider on my face! I was very upset. He didn’t have to play with people like that. I dared to slap a ghost on my face to death, but not a spider. I and this thing are natural ‘enemies’, it beats me.

Maybe it was the girl, Yue, who told Irene about it.

“Then why don’t you try it?” Irene was not intimidated at all. This girl was not afraid of anything.

Uncle Chen, Master Hui and Brother Chengxin looked at me with a concerned expression, as if they had entered a state of meditation, an innocent state in which we didn’t see anything and knew nothing.

Only Hui Gen, who knew nothing, curiously squatted next to me and spoke up for me: “Aileen, Ruoxue and Brother E are fine. There’s no fighting.”

What is all this?

But Sixth Sister walked up and took the spider in her hand, then put her arm around Irene and said to her, “Girl, stop it. They went to the village for business. Besides, relationships are a matter for two people. No matter how close sisters are, they can’t help with relationships.”

Eileen listened to her sister and took the spider back, huffing and pouting. She said to me, “You’d better not hurt Ru Xue.”

Hurt Ruoxue? If I could, I would rather hurt myself than hurt her.

A storm passed by as Sister Liu diffused it. In the afternoon, we were ready to set off for the Yueyan Miao village. Before we left, Sister Liu finally agreed to speak to me alone. She pulled me over and said to me, “You’re right. A happy day is a happy day, and a day when you can be good to Ruoxue is also good. But I still hope that Ruoxue can find her own happiness. If one day, I’m just saying if, Ruoxue puts down her feelings for you, puts on a wedding dress, and becomes someone else’s wife, can you bless it?”

These words made my heart ache, and my hands in my pockets involuntarily clenched. But I also knew that this was the best choice for Ru Xue. Faced with the somewhat sad and helpless look of my sixth sister, I nodded seriously and said, “As long as it is what Ru Xue herself wants, I have no reason not to bless it.”

Sister Liu sighed, patted my shoulder and said, “This also applies to you. I will persuade Ru Xue, and you are a man. Men are always easier to let go of their feelings than women.”

After saying that, Sister Liu turned and left, while Irene came over and yelled at me, “She’s leaving. Sister Liu is a good-natured person who is willing to talk to you.”

I guess Irene and Sister Liu talked and learned about my choice, and they were even more displeased with me. I smiled wryly. Can this kind of thing be explained? I’m afraid no matter how you explain it, it won’t be right.

When I came to the Yueyan Miao village again, I was still amazed at the beauty of this village, especially in the middle of summer. The small grassland next to Yueyan Lake was a riot of color, and the rippling lake was so beautiful that it made you forget to breathe.

Back here, Irene finally calmed down a bit and stopped arguing with me. It seemed as if she had some reservations. I guessed that it was because Ruoxue had forbidden her to do so. According to Ruoxue’s light-hearted personality, she must be very wary of people helping her argue about these things.

The group walked silently through the small grassland, Yueyan Lake and a field, finally arriving at the entrance to the village. But under the scorching sun, there was a figure standing at the entrance to the village.

I took a closer look and realized it was not that girl, Ru Yue.

Facing this girl, I felt a very kind feeling, and my heart, which had been uneasy, also let go a lot. After all, we have been together since childhood. How could I not feel at ease when I saw her?

I happily went up to her, but Ruoyue only looked at me, bit her lower lip, and turned and left.

I was puzzled and called out to Ru Yue loudly, which attracted a cold stare from Irene. She said, “Do you think Ru Yue will help you?”

I was too lazy to argue with her at this point, so I just kept calling for Ruoyue. Ruoyue finally stopped, but she didn’t come over, she just stood there.

Our behavior made everyone around us confused. The master picked up a watermelon from somewhere and shared it with Mr. Hui. They both ate half of it, and their faces were covered in watermelon juice and seeds. Then, the master said to Mr. Hui, “Aren’t these two kids very close?”

“You don’t understand, that’s because when Ru Yue was little, she didn’t see San Wa’s porcelain horse as silly, but when she grew up, she saw it and didn’t want to be with him. Hey, actually San Wa is still okay, it’s just that you, the master, brought him along.” Master Hui said with a look of understanding.

The master heard this and, with a ‘puff’, spat out a mouthful of watermelon seeds and pulp onto Hui’s face, then threw the skin away and shouted, “You tell me clearly, what do you mean by ‘I brought it for you’?”

Master Hui also spit in the master’s face without showing any weakness, threw the watermelon skin away, rolled up his sleeves, and yelled, “You ask me, I tell you the truth. Do you want to fight one-on-one?”

Uncle Chen whispered, “It’s really ugly,” and ignored them. The others looked speechless and didn’t try to stop them. It wasn’t the first time they had fought, and everyone was used to it.

I was too lazy to care about my master and Master Hui fighting. I had seen it since I was a child. I just walked up to Ruoyue and asked anxiously, “What are you hiding from me?”

Ruyue didn’t say anything, her eyes looked misty. When she was little, she used to pretend to be aggrieved, and I was very familiar with that expression, the expression of pretending to be aggrieved.

So I didn’t take it to heart, just wondering what I had done to offend her and make her look like that.

“Do you think I harmed Ruoxue too? Ruoyue, it wasn’t like that. I couldn’t move at the time, and I couldn’t even speak. But if the same thing happened to Ruoxue, I would do it without thinking twice. Do you still not know what kind of person I am?” This was the only thing I could think of that Ruoyue would be dissatisfied with me. I patiently explained it to her.

Her eyes turned redder, and she looked at me carefully, as if she had never seen me before, as if she wanted to engrave my face in her heart. After a long time, she finally said, “My sister told me about the situation at the time. Do I seem like such an unreasonable person? The people in the village were unhappy because they were worried about my sister, and because of what happened to Grandpa Jiang and my grandmother. I… I also understand you.”

I was relieved and let out a sigh of relief. I reached out and pinched her nose and said, “Then why are you hiding when you see me? I thought you didn’t recognize me as your brother anymore?”

But I didn’t expect that the little action of pinching her nose that I normally do with her would be turned away by her hand, quickly and with great taboo.

I was stunned again, but Ru Yue looked at me and suddenly a tear fell. She said something very inexplicable: “It turns out that you and my sister have such a deep relationship.”

I suddenly didn’t know what to say, just staring at Ru Yue.

Ruyue’s tears fell one after another, and then she asked me, “Do you like my sister very much? Do you want to like her for the rest of your life and never forget her?”

Yes, I love Ru Xue, and I don’t want to forget her for the rest of my life. Even if we can’t be together, I don’t know how to answer when Ru Yue asks me like this. It’s like a brother who doesn’t want to talk too much about his feelings for his sister. And Ru Yue’s tears make me feel that something is wrong.

So, I just whispered to Yueyue, “I really like your sister.” I don’t know if that counts as an answer.

In response to my answer, Yue looked at me, remained silent for two seconds, then wiped away her tears and suddenly smiled, a very beautiful smile. After a while, she said, “That’s good, otherwise I’ll bite you with a flying flower.”

I was relieved and was about to invite her to go with me, but she turned around and left without looking back, saying to me, “I’ll go up and tell Grandma you’re here. Hurry up.”

I was puzzled. Why did she need to notify me? Why didn’t she just go up with me? What was she crying about? I realized that I didn’t understand this girl.

Instead, Chengxin walked up to me, coughed, sighed, and then shook his head and said, “What’s so good about you? Are you as charming as I am? You’re so clumsy!”

Master Hui led Hui Gen to chant a Buddhist mantra and then walked past me.

Uncle Chen looked indifferent, shaking his head and saying, “A man who is not romantic is a wasted youth. In this regard, you are like me, not like your master. Your master doesn’t have this charm.”

Erin looked at me even more disapprovingly, snorting at me with her nose.

Finally, my master took me by the hand and said to me in a strange way, “Go up. Don’t you want to see Ruoxue? Ruoyue is a suitable girl, but unfortunately, it’s not fate. Even if you had known each other a hundred years ago, it would still be the same.”