Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

Chapter 296 Let’s Be Good Friends for Life

"Why are you suddenly saying this?"

Su Qing glanced at Yui and felt that there was something else behind her words.

He was such a naive child, but now he has learned to be a riddle teller?

"I just feel like... your memory seems to be too good. Sometimes when I can't find a certain knowledge point, you can quickly tell me which page and line it is in the book. Moreover, you never take notes in class, but you can repeat what the teacher said verbatim.

These...are not coincidences, you remember them all, right?"

Yui tilted her head, pretending to be thinking, but there was still a hint of uncertainty in her tone.

"I was like this when I was a kid. Why, are you jealous?"

When Su Qing was with a few people on weekdays, he actually had no intention of hiding his memory. It was just that compared to others, Yui, who was his deskmate, was more likely to notice it.

After all, there are a lot of things to remember in textbooks and classes...

"In the past, there was a little bit."

Yui shook her head gently. It was impossible for her to say that she was not envious at all.

In fact, everyone secretly yearns for the extraordinary and dreams of becoming a magical girl or an armored warrior. However, when they grow up and realize the cruelty of society, they deny it outright.

But what the girl said next made Su Qing slightly stunned.

"But I don't think that's a good thing, right? If I remember everything, I won't be able to forget [the sadness]? Remember the cat I once told you about that I secretly raised in the community?"

"Of course...I remember."

Su Qing felt that even if his memory was not that good, he would definitely remember that day when there was a girl whose ten white fingers were scratched by tree branches but she was unaware of it.

"In fact, since that day, I have gradually let it go. Now I am no longer so scared when I see cats. Although it may be difficult for me to get close to them, I will be able to do it one day in the future.

I think...it was [you] who gave me the courage."

Yui put her hands behind her back, poked her head out and said with a smile.

"What does it have to do with me? That's your own hard work, just keep it up."

Su Qingzhen didn't think he had done anything.

Girls are inherently strong and brave, they just lack some opportunities.

but.

He already understood what the other party was going to say.

"You need to be more open to accepting compliments from others!"

Yui said something angrily, then suddenly reached out and timidly grabbed the corner of Su Qing's clothes.

It's just the corner of the clothes.

She said softly:

"I actually didn't think so much about it before today, but when I saw that 'robbery' just now, it felt like something was pulling at my heart, and I had an inexplicable bad premonition.

Although there may be no connection, I still can't help but think that your good memory means that you can't forget all the bad emotions, or even dilute them?"

As Yui spoke, she felt a palpitation and pain.

If the pain from her childhood remained in her mind forever as if it had just happened, then let alone mustering the courage to overcome it, isn't it true that living itself is a kind of courage?

Su Qing listened quietly to the girl's worries, with a hint of tenderness flowing deep in her eyes.

After adjusting your mood.

He smiled and asked:

"So that's why you want to use your 'good luck' to offset my 'calamity'?"

"Um..."

Yui didn't deny it.

She subconsciously felt that she should do that.

In fact, she also knew that it was definitely useless and was just psychological comfort.

Otherwise, what is the point of developing modern medicine?

There must be an essential difference between what can be done and what cannot be done.

Yui thought secretly in her heart.

"You're just overthinking it. I'm standing here talking to you. If something was going to happen, it would have happened a long time ago. Why would we have to wait for fortune-telling?"

"Aido, it seems so too?"

Yui was stunned at first, then tilted her head cutely, probably thinking about life.

According to this logic, wouldn't she have been worrying so much for nothing?

[But I hope he's okay....]

"What else? You are just too stupid. You believe everything others say."

Su Qing sighed and said with regret.

"You're the fool! I don't believe everything others say, okay!"

Yui clenched her fists angrily, the meaning was self-evident.

If you keep talking, I’ll beat you up!

These words were written in the girl's clear big eyes.

"Okay, okay, let me mark you first."

Su Qing said this suddenly without any context.

"What? Mark?"

Yui stood there in a daze, and her clenched fist slowly fell.

Is the other party talking about a joke from a certain game?

I think I saw it when I was browsing the comment section of a short video...

"Well, mark it and sell you health products when you are old..." Su Qing pondered for a moment, and quickly changed his words, "It seems that it is not necessary? I feel that it is okay to sell you health products now."

"You have Alzheimer's!"

Yui finally understood this time.

It turns out he wanted to cheat her out of her money!

So he immediately retorted angrily.

"Forget it. You don't look very rich, so I won't embarrass you."

Su Qing said the cruelest things in the calmest words.

To be honest, Yui doesn't have much money.

The last time they had coffee and cake together, he was the one who paid for the other party.

But didn’t this guy say he would give it back to him?

"Who, who said that? I still have some money... If you really want it, I can give it all to you..."

Yui's face turned slightly red, and she actually took out her wallet and showed all the cash inside to Su Qing.

Probably tens of thousands of yen.

Then she pushed it to him and said pitifully:

"All, all are here. There are no more!"

Su Qing:......

"You should keep this money for yourself."

Tens of thousands of yen is actually a lot of money, and the monthly living expenses of an ordinary college student are around this level.

But let's not mention that Su Qing still has 100 million yen in his bank card that he brought with him before traveling through time. Even if he was penniless, it would be impossible for him to live off Yui.

"Keep it safe and don't take it out carelessly. You're clumsy sometimes. What if you lose it?"

After pushing back the wallet that Yui held out to her, Su Qing gave another worried reminder.

"I'm not a clumsy person..."

Yui quietly defended herself, but there was a barely perceptible smile on the corner of her mouth.

Then he patted Su Qing who was sighing and said happily:

"Hey, hey, Xiaoqing."

"how?"

"I want to give you a gift, can I?"

Yui said.

"...What gift?"

Su Qing couldn't make a guarantee that he would accept it directly.

“Ding ding ding~ It’s this one!”

Yui mysteriously took off her schoolbag and pulled out a solid black item from it, which was very consistent with the impression Su Qing gave people.

——That’s a scarf.

"You said before that you didn't have a scarf. Winter is coming, and winter in Tokyo is actually quite cold, so I thought about buying one for you."

Yui explained with a smile while secretly observing Su Qing's expression.

Seeing that his expression did not change much, she asked cautiously:

"Um... do you want to accept it?"

Yui gave the other party the right to choose and did not force it on him.

"I should have mentioned that I never wear a scarf."

Su Qing said slowly.

“Ah, of course I remember!” Yui said, “But not wearing it and not having it are two different things, right?”

indeed so.

Having it but not wearing it and not wearing it because you don’t have it are two different things.

But the problem is, Su Qing doesn't need...

"Feel sorry..."

Su Qing stared at the black scarf for a long time, seemed to have realized something, but finally refused.

"Ah... As expected."

Yui made a sound of "as expected", but there was no obvious frustration on her face.

It was as if she had rehearsed failure countless times.

"Then could you please at least accept this?"

Yui stuffed the scarf back into her bag and took out the amulet she had just bought.

"Didn't you say you were buying this as a souvenir?"

Su Qing asked.

“That’s what I thought, but souvenirs are meant to be given to people, and I can’t think of anyone suitable.

So I thought, I might as well give it to you, after all, I am a lucky guy and I don’t need it~”

Yui's words were well-reasoned and logical.

"If it was just this, I would have accepted it even if you didn't ask me so seriously."

Su Qing shook his head and reached out to take the amulet.

To be precise, it is "jieshou".

Can this be simply understood as "Yui's protection"?

But this explanation is a bit too abstract.

Su Qing thought secretly in his heart.

"Huh... Because I don't really know what can and can't be given as a gift."

Yui blew on her hands, rubbed them and continued,

“I’ve been thinking lately, even between very good friends, are there some things that can be given as gifts and some things that cannot be given as gifts?

And even if it works at the beginning, even if the relationship between the two people hasn’t changed, it may not work someday.”

What she said was actually quite confusing, giving people the feeling that they couldn't quite understand her.

In fact, nothing was said directly, that's it.

But Su Qing still understood it very clearly.

He nodded gently, without objection, but also without agreement:

"Maybe?"

"Xiaoqing is also uncertain about something?"

Upon hearing this, Yui was stunned at first, then looked at him in surprise.

"...I'm not an encyclopedia. Even an encyclopedia would have things that are unclear."

Su Qing hesitated for a moment, then added,

"Besides, it's not that I'm unsure, it's just that I don't like to say things too absolutely. After all, many things change too fast in this era."

Yui looked at Su Qing quietly and smiled slightly.

It was as if time had traveled back to the time when the two first met.

In fact, she didn't say one thing to the other party:

That is, Su Qing is very different from all the boys and everyone she has met before.

so...

Su Qing is [special] to her.

"I understand this! Just like when we were in elementary school, everyone was still using 2G phones and playing games like Snake, but by the time we got to college, it had already developed to 5G, right?"

Yui clapped her hands and added for him.

"Well, almost."

The topic between the two of them suddenly came to an end.

They are still standing where the fortune paper is tied and have not left yet.

Judging from the time, their group should also head to the next destination.

So Su Qing wanted to remind Yui that it was time to leave.

But the girl suddenly said:

“But even though this era is developing very quickly, everyone is gradually getting used to the fast-paced life.

I still like things that take time to warm up. This is what I learned from you and Xiaoxue. If I hadn’t met you, I probably wouldn’t have the courage to say this.”

"How old are you? You're going to meet a lot of people."

Su Qing said.

“It’s different!”

Yui shook her head and argued with Su Qing,

"The mentality of the people you meet in your teens and the people you meet in your forties are completely different!"

What Yui said was right.

But Su Qing subconsciously wanted to tell her: Don’t think like that, the future is still long and the road is still long.

actually...

Both of them are right.

So Su Qing didn't say anything else.

The atmosphere fell into awkward silence for a moment.

"Am I a little weird today?"

The sweet voice of the past is now filled with a melody of worry.

"No, you're weird enough normally anyway."

Su Qing wanted to make a joke to change the atmosphere.

When he turned around, he found that the girl was staring at him with curved eyebrows.

silently.

No sound was made.

Su Qing suddenly found that he couldn't resist such a gaze.

He had no choice but to turn around again, his eyes wandering around.

Finally, he looked at the fortune papers of the three people.

There are the two girls' best wishes.

There are 1.4 billion people living on this blue planet.

But a person can only meet tens of thousands or even thousands of them in his or her lifetime.

And among these thousands of people, how many can treat you sincerely?

The world is big, but the circle is small.

"Xiao Qing... you know what? Probably because of that cat, I used to be afraid of parting with my friends. I was afraid that we would have no connections after graduation and would no longer keep in touch. I wouldn't even say hello to them if we met on the street.

In fact, I also know that friends are actually staged. Elementary school friends may still keep in touch after entering junior high school, but they will gradually forget each other after entering high school.

I think this will happen more and more after you graduate from college, start working and have a family, right? "

"Things like this still depend on the specific relationship and a little bit of fate."

Su Qing said.

But Yui seemed to have not heard what he said and continued to speak:

"But even so, I still want to be friends with you for life."

Su Qing felt the girl's gaze.

When I turned around, I was met with a pair of eyes that were unspeakably gentle.

The breeze cast a spell on the girl's long eyelashes, and they turned into a pair of slender butterfly wings.

Under the butterfly's wings is a gentle spring.

The girl had her usual cheerful, familiar smile, but with a hint of sadness.

The wind chimes at the shrine suddenly began to jingle.

It must be urging him to respond quickly.