The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 644 Extra: Chen Huihui's Story (Part 1)

My name is Chen Huihui, and I live in Building B, Room 1703, Yunzhong Community. I am just an ordinary person with connections at the Yunzhong canteen.

Compared to me, my mother, Chen Huihong, is more well-known. She works for our neighborhood committee and is also a good friend of Chef Qin from the Yunzhong Canteen. Because of my mother, I can eat Chef Qin's snacks at the Yunzhong Canteen every day. Chef Qin often gives me some easy-to-carry snacks to take to school and share with my classmates, so I am very popular at school.

Yes, Master Qin's pastries are especially delicious.

Of course, the person I love most is still my mother. I'm not her biological child; she adopted me from an orphanage. Although we're not related by blood, my mother is the person I love most, and I believe I'm the person she loves most too.

However, my mom has been acting a bit strange lately. She said she needed to go out and asked me to stay at my uncle's house. Of course, I really enjoy staying at my uncle's house, and my cousins ​​like me a lot, but my mom is acting really oddly.

I always felt that my mom was hiding something from me, but I'm not a child anymore. Junjun is the child. I'll be going to high school after summer vacation and will be an adult soon.

Last week, I quietly told Junjun about my worries. Junjun told me not to overthink it and said that my mother was probably preparing a 15th birthday present for me.

Is there anything special I need to prepare for my 15th birthday? It's not like I'm turning 18.

Ugh, this is so frustrating. I'm about to start high school, and I still need Junjun, a primary school student, to comfort me. It's so embarrassing.
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As Chen Huihui's 15th birthday approached, Chen Huihong became increasingly anxious.

Chen Huihong is a person who rarely experiences anxiety. As a plant spirit, Chen Huihong has always been straightforward and speaks her mind. She is fearless and thinks that if the sky falls, someone taller will hold it up. What is there to be afraid of? Bifang is there for her.

The fact that the plant spirits are now starting to feel anxious shows how serious the situation is.

Chen Huihong is starting to worry so much that she's losing some hair.

Considering that Chen Huihong has successfully transcended tribulations for many years and has not failed to transcend tribulations yet, Qin Huai has reason to suspect that her hair loss is not due to her hair falling out voluntarily, but rather because Chen Huihong pulls her hair out whenever she is worried.

As for why Qin Huai had this suspicion...

Because Chen Huihong is pulling his hair right in front of him.

At home in Qinhuai.

The dining table in Qin Huai's home, which had been unused for many years, finally found a purpose. Two chairs were added to the small 6-person table to turn it into an 8-person table.

Chen Huihong naturally took center stage. While sighing and pulling at her hair, she ate the red bean buns that Qin Huai had recently made.

It's not a very complicated red bean bun; it's just a regular red bean bun with steamed red bean grains embedded in it. In a typical breakfast shop, it sells for at most 1.5 yuan each.

In recent years, Qin Huai has not focused on researching complex pastries, but has devoted himself to researching breakfast, elevating the various breakfast options at Yunzhong Canteen to a level that is beyond their reach. This has directly led to nearby office workers getting up earlier and earlier, developing a good habit of going to bed early and waking up early.

It is the company's rule to start work at 9 a.m., but waking up at 6 a.m. is my choice.

As office workers get up earlier and earlier, many companies have started flexible work hours, with some employees arriving at the office as early as 7:30 a.m., and correspondingly, the time to leave work has also been brought forward.

Leaving get off work early makes it easier to grab snacks at the Yunzhong Cafeteria.

The boss and leaders aren't connected by connections; if you want to eat there, you have to fight your way through the cafeteria.

Sitting opposite Chen Huihong was Luo Jun, who was still wearing his school uniform. He was eating red bean buns in small bites while looking at Chen Huihong with a displeased expression. His face seemed to say, "I am the flower of the motherland. You called me to Qin Huai's house for a meeting in the middle of the night for such a small thing, disturbing my sleep. If I don't grow tall in the future, can you take responsibility for that?"

Qu Jing sat to Chen Huihong's left, and An Youyou sat to her right. Qu Jing wasn't eating the red bean bun; instead, she was quietly comforting Chen Huihong. An Youyou sat next to Chen Huihong simply because she was afraid to sit with Luo Jun.

Although Luo Jun hasn't successfully transcended his tribulation yet, what if he does? What if he manages to anger him and then spits himself into a roasted toad the next second?
An Youyou says she's no longer the poor An Youyou she used to be. She now owns 52% of Yunzhong Canteen, is the canteen manager, and can easily afford the property management fees and utility bills for the Yunzhong community every month. She can eat cherries whenever she wants, and durian whenever she wants. Not only has she replaced her altar with a sandalwood one, but her incense burner is also an antique. She's a top-paid employee who gets up at 3 a.m. every day to help the boss at Yunzhong Canteen, and she even has a golden three-legged toad that shines brightly!
She's much richer now than before, she can't die like this, without even having a chance to enjoy it!

An Youyou said her ambition is to retire before she turns 40, buy a big house in a place where she can bask in the sun every day, preferably with a swimming pool, so she can lie by the pond and sunbathe every day.

Sitting next to Luo Jun were Qin Huai and Wang Gensheng, with Shi Dadan sitting next to Qin Huai. Chen Gong, who had come specifically to offer advice for Chen Huihui's birthday the day after tomorrow, sat next to Shi Dadan.

The fruit, snacks, cheese sticks, and nuts on the table were all provided by Qin Huai, not because he hadn't yet returned all of Luo Jun's money and was the richest (Luo Jun was still a minor), but mainly because Qin Huai had to take full responsibility for today's situation.

Since Luo Jun successfully reincarnated, the only thing that has troubled Qin Huai is Chen Huihui.

Chen Huihui was the most unique spirit; she didn't fail to transcend her tribulation, she simply vanished.

After Luo Jun was able to speak and communicate normally, Qin Huai tried various indirect methods to inquire about the Luan bird from him. Bifang was a divine bird, and so was the Luan bird, and Luo Jun was already well-informed and knowledgeable, so Qin Huai felt that Luo Jun should know some information that other spirits did not.

Then Luo Jun noticed something amiss.

Under the interrogation of Luo Jun, who was essentially a kindergartener, Qin Huai confessed everything.

There was no other way; I had to confess. Without telling him everything, it would be difficult to get Luo Jun to help with a detailed analysis.

When Luo Jun learned that Luan Niao, having successfully transcended her tribulation, was going to sacrifice all her divine power to forcibly interfere with Chen Huihong's tribulation, becoming an extra straw for her in her final life, he fell into a long silence.

"No wonder the Luan bird has such a low success rate in overcoming tribulations and loves to court death. No wonder it gets along well with plant spirits."

This is Luo Jun's evaluation.

Evaluations are one thing, but helping is another.

Chen Huihui is a pure human in this life, not the last incarnation of a spirit, yet she is also the reincarnation of a phoenix. Calling her human is somewhat of a stretch, because humans cannot be reincarnated. In a sense, she exists in a state somewhere between human, spirit, and straw.

After thinking about it for a whole week, Luo Jun told Qin Huai that the only way to break the deadlock was for Qin Huai himself.

The Luan bird's condition is special, but the Fei Fei is even more special.

The wishing spirits are already supermodels. If Chen Huihong sincerely wishes to Qin Huai that Chen Huihui can successfully overcome her tribulation, or if she simply wishes that heaven will give Chen Huihui another chance to overcome her tribulation, and Qin Huai also makes a wish to himself, could these buffs combined make heaven give Chen Huihui another chance?

The phoenix is ​​an auspicious creature, and the tribulations faced by auspicious creatures are either very easy or very difficult; the phoenix clearly belongs to the latter. Under such circumstances, Heaven might indeed be willing to make an exception and give the phoenix another chance.

Of course, simply praying to heaven is obviously useless; while making silent wishes, you still have to rely on yourself.

So Qin Huai relied on himself for 4 years.

On Chen Huihui's 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th birthdays, she ate longevity noodles made with all her might by Qin Huai. The noodles were a 100% perfect replica of Jiang Chengde's version, and even the bugs were fixed. They were S-level longevity noodles.

Other spirits only need one bite of this snack, but Chen Huihui ate it for four years and it was still effective?

The answer is no.

Chen Huihui always happily finished a bowl of noodles, even drinking the broth clean, and then politely thanked Qin Huai for making such delicious chicken noodle soup for her on her birthday, without changing her expression.

Qin Huai doesn't even want to open the game panel anymore. Just seeing Chen Huihui's status disappearing when he does gives him a headache.

As Chen Huihui's 15th birthday approached, Qin Huai became increasingly troubled.

Qin Huai's intuition told him that this was the last chance. The last incarnation of the Luan bird was to die on its 15th birthday. If Chen Huihui did not bring about a change in fortune on her 15th birthday, the Luan bird might truly not have a next life.

Under these circumstances, Qin Huai was willing to give it a try, even at the risk that Chen Huihong might fail to overcome the tribulation on the spot if he told her.

And that's how it turned into the situation we see now.

Chen Huihong did not fail to overcome the tribulation on the spot, but judging from her condition, if Chen Huihui did not find a way to survive on her 15th birthday, Chen Huihong would fail to overcome the tribulation on the first day of Chen Huihui's 16th birthday.

Chen Huihong has recently become so anxious that she is almost afraid to see Chen Huihui.

She feared she might lose control and say something incoherent, making Chen Huihui's already slim chances of a turnaround even slimmer. Chen Huihong knew she had little control over herself, so she could only restrain herself from seeing Chen Huihui.

This method can enable plant spirits to control the severity of their visible problems.

If making a wish requires sincerity, then there is no one in this world more sincere than Chen Huihong.

To her now, Huihui is her savior, her kindred spirit, her daughter, her friend, her regret, and her hope. No one in this world hopes that Huihui can successfully overcome her tribulation more than Chen Huihong.

Whether Chen Huihong made a wish secretly in her heart, at home, or in front of Qin Huai, it was all in vain.

Qin Huai's capabilities are currently incomplete.

Taifenglou Restaurant in Beiping has become famous soon after its reopening.

The amusement park in Xuncheng has been open for several years and has become a legend in the amusement park industry.

However, Jiang Feng and Jiang Qi have not yet recognized each other, and Qin Huai's abilities still reside within them, indicating that fate has not yet chosen the best time.

Feifei could not fully control his abilities, let alone his incomplete ones.

As Chen Huihui's 15th birthday approaches, Chen Huihong becomes increasingly anxious, almost to the point of madness, and has started seeking divine intervention. She has visited Taoist temples, Buddhist temples, and churches, and even consulted Zhou Hu, who is still unconscious, for divination.

The divination was favorable. Chen Huihong couldn't tell Zhou Hu what her specific troubles were, but Zhou Hu told Chen Huihong that she would eventually get what she wanted.

Nevertheless, Chen Huihong was still anxious.

A placebo may provide temporary relief, but anxiety will linger around Chen Huihong until the matter is fully resolved.

“Sister Hong, you don’t need to be so anxious. Huihui’s birthday is in a few days. If Huihui finds out, she will only worry about you more.”

“Huihui has secretly told Luo Jun several times that she feels you’ve been acting strangely lately. She’s worried that you might have a serious illness and be secretly receiving treatment outside, which is why you’re not seeing her.”

“We’ve done everything we can. I think the reason why all the longevity noodles I made for Huihui in the past few years didn’t work was because her only opportunity was her 15th birthday. Maybe it’s only effective if she eats longevity noodles on her 15th birthday,” Qin Huai comforted her.

"What if it doesn't work?"

“Huihui died at 15 in her previous life. If eating longevity noodles doesn’t work this time, we’ll miss our chance.” Chen Huihong started pulling at her hair again in her anxiety. “In my previous life, I watched her die right before my eyes. No, I can’t let that happen again this time. I have to do something… I have to do something…”

Faced with Chen Huihong's anxiety, no one could offer any good advice; Chen Huihong's condition was too unique. There was no precedent, and no one knew what to do.

Finally, Chen Gong spoke up.

“I booked a private room at Taifenglou using the boss’s membership card,” Chen Gong said.

Everyone turned to look at Chen Gong.

"At the same time, I also rented a short-term apartment near Taifenglou, where I can cook noodles."

"I'm not sure if doing this will work, but when we spirits fail to transcend our tribulations and then succeed, it's essentially to make up for our regrets."

“Huihui succeeded, and she failed. It’s hard for us to judge what her regrets are. I’ve talked a lot with Junjun, Qin Huai and I during this time. Huihui’s failure is more like a success. She sacrificed herself to save you, Chen Huihong.”

Luo Jun glared at Chen Gong, annoyed.

"And your meeting in this life seems to be predestined. Perhaps it was God's arrangement to make Huihui your lifeline by becoming your daughter, but isn't this also a way to make up for Huihui's regrets?"

"She longs for kindness, for family, and for a mother who loves her."

“Huihui’s regrets from her previous life have all been made up for this time, except for one.”

"She didn't celebrate her 15th birthday with her mother, she didn't get to eat that bowl of longevity noodles, she didn't live past 15."

“We all felt that Huihui’s 15th birthday was the best opportunity, and also the last opportunity.”

"In that case, why not make this birthday even more perfect?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Huihong loosened her grip on her hair and looked at Chen Gong. She knew what Chen Gong wanted to say, but she wanted to hear a definite answer from him.

"Let's go to Taifeng Restaurant to celebrate Huihui's 15th birthday."

"The longevity noodles that Huihui couldn't eat in her previous life, Qin Huai will make exactly the same in this life. The signature dishes of Taifeng Restaurant that Huihui couldn't eat last time, Jiang Feng can now make many of them."

“Last time, Huihui had no relatives, no friends, no gifts, and no blessings. This time, she has everything.”

“Huihui just finished her middle school entrance exam, so her classmates must have time to go out and have fun now. We don’t need to invite too many people, just invite a few of Huihui’s best friends to go to Beiping together. I believe their parents will definitely agree. As far as I know, didn’t Huihui go to Changsha with her classmates last year? The private rooms at Taifeng Restaurant are big enough. If one isn’t enough, we can book two. I can also ask Mr. Han to borrow a card from Mr. Xu.”

"If we're going to make up for the regrets, let's make up for them completely in one go."

"In her previous life, Huihui was unable to eat longevity noodles at Taifenglou Restaurant, so in this life, Huihui will celebrate her 15th birthday at Taifenglou Restaurant."

"Friends, family, blessings, companionship, and delicious food—even if we ultimately fail, I believe Huihui's wishes have been fulfilled in this lifetime."

"Pah, pah, pah, what failure?" Chen Huihong quickly said, "Stop saying such unlucky things. How could I possibly fail? I make a wish in my heart at least 30 times a day. It's impossible for me to fail."

"We'll hold a birthday party for Huihui at Taifenglou this year. I'll call Huihui's good friends tomorrow and pay for it."

“My parents and my brother have to go too.”

"Zhao Cheng'an has to go too."

"Call Zhou Hu along too."

"Not one can be left behind!"

(End of this chapter)