The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 55 Renovation Plan Confirmed
Wu Xianyu did not take the initiative to take the red envelopes, but he never expected that the students were so educated. They said everyone should take one red envelope and would never take more than one. Finally, the monitor looked at the two red envelopes left in his handbag and looked at everyone.

"Who else hasn't received it yet? Take it quickly, don't waste Old Tang's hard work."

Helplessly reaching out and taking the red envelope handed over by the monitor, Lin Miaomiao looked at the red envelope in her hand with some doubts.

"I don't think there is any problem. It feels the same as a real red envelope."

Wu Xianyu did not answer. He ignored Tang Yuanming's reminder to open the red envelope when he got home. He opened the red envelope directly and finally fell on his desk with the thing he had just taken out of the red envelope in his hand.
"I told you it was a fraud, you'll get an extra point on the history test."

"Damn, he is indeed a history teacher. He even plays the art of war with us."

"This, this, this is a plank road in the open but a sneak attack on Chencang in secret."

With Wu Xianyu taking the lead, many students opened the red envelopes and saw a heartbreaking scene.

Fortunately, there was only one question, and most of them were multiple-choice questions. It was probably a little joke that Tang Yuanming played on them.

After packing their bags, everyone started to walk out of the classroom in twos and threes. Wu Xianyu had packed the things he was going to take back in the morning and put them in his bag. He followed Lin Miaomiao to the bicycle shed and pushed the bike out of the school gate.

The road was crowded with people, and Lin Miaomiao was too lazy to ride the bike, so she handed the bike to Wu Xianyu to push, and bought some snacks and milk tea, one in each hand, and walked towards home.

"Xianyu, how are you going to spend your winter vacation? Apart from finishing your homework in the first few days, you are not going to go fishing in this weather, are you?"

"I'm not a masochist, so I won't go fishing in this weather."

Wu Xianyu looked at the pancake in Lin Miaomiao's hand with a bit of envy, but now the road was full of people, many of whom were students from Elite Middle School, so he had to look away.
"I plan to finish my homework before the New Year, clean the house, and rest for the rest of the time. After the New Year, I will go to Uncle Liu's house to pay New Year's greetings, and then continue to rest."

"Your life is really enviable, but your parents haven't come back yet? We have known each other for so long and I have never seen them once."

The atmosphere was quiet for a while. Wu Xianyu scratched his head. How could this happen? He should tell the truth. He should go back and ask Uncle Liu what he can and cannot say. He had to divert Lin Miaomiao's attention first.
"Why are you so anxious to meet my parents? It's too early, but I am very satisfied with your attitude."

"Satisfied with your head?"

Lin Miaomiao's ears turned slightly red, and she bumped into Wu Xianyu with the hand holding the milk tea, but she couldn't help but imagine the scene when they met.

After returning home, the two separated and rested at home. In the evening, Wu Xianyu was called to Lin Miaomiao's house for dinner.

Wang Shengnan picked up a piece of meat for Wu Xianyu with chopsticks and said

"Xiao Yu, Miao Miao said that your parents won't be coming back this year, so why don't you have the New Year's Eve dinner at our house?"

"Auntie, if you don't think I'm disturbing you, then I'll come."

Wu Xianyu's ambitions are great. As Lin Miaomiao's mother, Wang Shengnan is someone he must befriend. As for Lin Dawei, men usually only need a cigarette or a meal to understand each other. Wu Xianyu is confident that he can deal with Lin Dawei. Yes, he is confident.
Lin Miaomiao scolded Wu Xianyu for being inhumane and started doing her homework on the first day of the holiday, but her hands did not stop at all.

Doing homework, especially the liberal arts homework that requires a lot of memorization and is very boring to write, really requires a certain atmosphere. When you hear the sound of paper and pen rubbing against each other, the original intention to slack off will slowly dissipate. In three days, more than a dozen test papers were quickly completed by the two of them.

Lin Miaomiao stretched and sat cross-legged on a chair in Wu Xianyu's house, with Yuwan sleeping in her lap.
"Ah, I've finally finished writing. Now it's time to rest."

Wu Xianyu's writing speed was faster, and he finished writing a few hours earlier than Lin Miaomiao, but he didn't play with his phone. He was chatting with his friend. In front of him was a comic magazine, which was brought by Lin Miaomiao.

Hearing Lin Miaomiao's voice of liberation, Wu Xianyu asked

"Are we going out to play again this year? Haozi invited us out to play again, and the people there are all acquaintances."

"Go, how can I not go? Haozi is really generous. Can you bring Yuwan and Laotie with you when the time comes?"

Looking at the kitten in the hands of the two people, Wu Xianyu shook his head.
"It's better to keep it at home. It's too small, and the KTV environment is too irritating to their ears."

"Yeah, well, I wanted to show off to them."

Lin Miaomiao rubbed Yuwan's face, her tone a little regretful. Wu Xianyu scratched Laotie's chin and looked up at Lin Miaomiao across the table.
"Are you really not afraid of us being exposed? You two live in the same neighborhood and have one black cat and one white cat."

"Expose what? Do we have any other relationship?"

Lin Miaomiao answered confidently, with a cunning light in her eyes. Wu Xianyu raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"Indeed, we just played a little better. We don't admit anything else that we don't have."

"Right?"

When Lin Miaomiao returned home, Wang Shengnan told her that she had finished her homework, so she was forced to clean the house. Listening to Lin Miaomiao complaining about Wang Shengnan's perverted desire for cleaning on the phone, Wu Xianyu smiled. He was also cleaning at this time, but his usual activity area was limited, so he mainly cleaned the places where the two cats were.

The decoration plan for the room opposite has already been finalized. After seeing the renderings provided by the decoration company, Wu Xianyu was very satisfied and agreed to start work after the new year. The house is a rough house, but the water, electricity and other facilities have been installed. The decoration company also came to see it and assured Wu Xianyu that there would not be too much noise during the decoration.

Wu Xianyu didn't care how long it would take to move in, what he cared about was the quality, so he repeatedly told the decoration company that they must ensure quality and quantity. Time was not a problem, and money was not a problem either. If there was any problem at all, they had to redo the work and don't even think about getting paid. Under the pressure from Wu Xianyu, the people in the decoration company were a little cold, because they were afraid of people who could waste their time and were not afraid of spending money.

Especially knowing that this building belonged to the young man in front of them, the people from the decoration company worked even harder. They started screening the construction team after the new year and arranged a designer to specifically monitor the site.

Lin Miaomiao watched the people from the decoration company leave and ran over to ask Wu Xianyu

"You are planning to start decorating now, so when are you going to move in?"

"This is for my wedding room. I won't be moving there for a while."

Looking at Wu Xianyu's ambiguous smile, Lin Miaomiao bit her lip and pretended not to see it, but the bulging apple cheeks on her face betrayed her mood.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Shengnan also asked about the house, and Wu Xianyu told her everything.
".I have agreed with them that they can take their time and ensure the quality. They also don't do construction during breaks so as not to affect our rest. There are also no projects that make a lot of noise. Basically, it's just laying tiles and painting, which aren't jobs that make a lot of noise."

Looking at Wu Xianyu's clear analysis, Lin Dawei admired him very much. He couldn't do that at his age. Wang Shengnan thought so too. So she looked at Lin Miaomiao who was still eating and spoke angrily.

"Miao Miao, you should also learn from Xiao Yu. We are the same age and classmates, why is there such a big gap between you? Xiao Yu is already responsible for the decoration of his own house at this age, but you can't even clean your own room every day."

Lin Miaomiao, who suffered an unexpected disaster, raised her head and looked at Wang Shengnan in disbelief, but after being glared at, she lowered her head timidly, and turned to look at Wu Xianyu with an unhappy expression. As a result, Wu Xianyu picked up the juice in front of him and clinked it with the cup next to Lin Miaomiao, and raised his eyebrows provocatively.

Lin Miaomiao was so angry that her chest kept rising and falling. After dinner, she chased Wu Xianyu to his house. Of course, she was ambushed by Wu Xianyu and left a sentence.

"You two times, I two times, we're even now" "Who wants to be even with you?"

Lin Miaomiao blushed, wiped her face, and muttered insincerely. The two of them spent the last day of the year playing with the cat and crossed the New Year. They said the first words of the New Year to each other.

"Happy New Year"

The two of them stared at each other with burning eyes. Maybe it was because the air temperature from the air conditioner was too high or for other reasons, but Lin Miaomiao felt her face getting even redder. Just when she was about to close her eyes, Laotie and Yuwan started fighting, one black and one white, rolling into a ball, just like a Tai Chi ball.

The atmosphere was broken. Lin Miaomiao took back her fish ball, pinched its face angrily, and blamed them for ruining her good thing.

Finally putting down the fish balls, Lin Miaomiao looked at Wu Xianyu, but the burning gaze was gone in her eyes.

"Then I'm going back. I need to go to bed. I have to go to my grandparents' house for lunch tomorrow."

"Go ahead. I'm going to stay at Uncle Liu's house for a few days too. Call me if you have anything."

On the first day of the new year, Wu Xianyu carried a cat bag and brought two cats to Uncle Liu's house. In the beginning, the two cats were a little nervous about the unfamiliar environment, but because Wu Xianyu was present, the two cats quickly adapted to the environment and had a lot of fun playing with Dongdong and Yanyan in the small yard outside.

Uncle Liu was quite surprised to see two cats.
"I didn't expect you, Xiaoyu, would raise a cat."

"I never thought I would have a cat. In fact, I like dogs more."

"Ok?"

Uncle Liu looked at Wu Xianyu in confusion. Wu Xianyu looked at the two cats playing with the children and a smile appeared on his face.

"Uncle Liu, I... well, um, it's..."

Originally, Wu Xianyu wanted to speak directly about his relationship status, but when the time came, he suddenly became nervous, as if he was telling his parents that he had found a partner.

Aunt Liu, who was sitting quietly at the side, brightened up and sat a little closer to Wu Xian.

"Xiao Yu, do you have a girl you like?"

"kindness"

Wu Xianyu lowered his head, not daring to look up at Uncle Liu and the other man.

“Is it that Lin Miaomiao?”

Uncle Liu's voice came, with a firm tone. Seeing Wu Xianyu nod, Uncle Liu leaned back on the sofa as if it was not what I expected.

"I felt something was wrong with you guys from the beginning. Humph, I didn't serve as a soldier for nothing these decades."

"Just shut up"

Aunt Liu rolled her eyes at Uncle Liu, and with a smile on her face, she pulled Wu Xianyu to talk about Lin Miaomiao. Wu Xianyu quickly adjusted himself and spoke frankly about his thoughts. It was said that the two of them just openly liked each other, but they were very restrained. Uncle Liu nodded with satisfaction.

"That's great. Relationships are built up over time. I have no objection to your request. I trust you when it comes to propriety. Bring it to your aunt after the college entrance examination."

"Yes, I will. I just happen to have something to ask you."

Licking his lips, Wu Xianyu asked his question softly.
"How much can I tell Lin Miaomiao about my parents' situation? I don't want to keep it a secret from her forever."

Hearing this question, Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu's eyes dimmed a little. Aunt Liu thought about how Xiao Yu, such a good child, didn't have a good family, while Uncle Liu thought about the answer to this question. Finally, he sighed and said directly.

"Actually, Xiaoyu, you can tell her everything you know, because what you know is not important. The really important thing is you..."

After opening his mouth, Uncle Liu still didn't say the words "you're not qualified to know". He felt that these words were too cruel to a child who had lost his parents.

"It's okay, uncle, I understand, and I really don't want to know. The more I know, the more I want to think about it. I just know that they are all heroes."

Wu Xianyu understood the seriousness of the matter. He did not have too many thoughts on the death of his adoptive parents. He would know when he should know.

"Xiao Yu, you are so sensible."

Uncle Liu looked at Wu Xian for more than a long time, and could only utter this one sentence. After that, he stood up and prepared to go outside to smoke a cigarette.

Aunt Liu sighed, brought a bunch of food to Wu Xianyu, and told him not to be polite and to eat as if it were his own home. She went outside the house and found Uncle Liu, complaining in her tone.

"What on earth are you doing? You even hid it from Old Wu and his children."

"Oh, I can't tell you."

Uncle Liu squatted in the corner, looking very lonely, staring at the smoke in the air in a daze.

Aunt Liu also knew that some things really couldn't be said carelessly, so she leaned against the wall with a sad tone.
"I feel bad looking at Xiaoyu's sensible appearance. And I have to say, Xiaoyu hasn't offered incense to them in two years."

Uncle Liu remained silent, but his eyes were slightly red from the smoke.

During lunch, Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu felt relieved when they saw Wu Xianyu eating and drinking well and listened to him talking about Lin Miaomiao with a smile on his face.

Wu Xianyu didn't stay too long this time, and Uncle Liu and the others understood. After all, it was like this when there was someone you always cared about. But the auntie smiles on their faces still made Wu Xianyu feel a little uncomfortable, and he took his two cats and returned home as if he was running away.

Not long after returning home, Lin Miaomiao, who heard the sound, ran over, hugged Yuwan and kissed him. Wu Xianyu looked at Lin Miaomiao, who was in a good mood, and was a little hesitant whether to tell her about his parents.

Isn't it a bit inhumane to make her in a bad mood during the New Year?

But Lin Miaomiao looked at him sitting on the sofa with lifeless eyes and his hands still tangled. She had guessed that he was worried, so she took Lao Tie into her arms. Lin Miaomiao sat a little closer to Wu Xian.
"Xianyu, do you have something to tell me? Say it, you will feel better."

Lin Miaomiao thought that Wu Xianyu had done something, and since she had just returned from his uncle's place, she thought that the affair between them had been discovered.

(End of this chapter)