Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

While Yu Ru was eating, Yun Jixing was reluctant to leave and wanted to watch her, so he sat beside her. He sat on a chair beside her, like an obedient elementary school student, with his hands folded on the table and his head tilted towards Yu Ru.

"Aru, why are you so cute? I feel like you are the cutest baby in the world."

Yu Ru: (o'w'o)?

It's started again, right? How many times does Yunjixing's daily madness have to be sensationalized?

Yu Ru felt that Yun Jixing was sometimes really crazy. He had been in Lan Youde's club for so long some time ago, and now he came back without telling her what happened. Instead, he was talking nonsense here. She turned her head to look at him, but ignored him and continued to eat silently.

Suddenly, Yun Jixing stretched his head closer to her and kissed her on the cheek.

Upon seeing this, Shan Ci immediately raised his two thin arms to cover the display screen in front of him. However, he had multiple eyes, so covering the front two meant the other eyes could still see, effectively leaving them uncovered. "Ahhh! Not suitable for children! (??w??)"

"Haha." Yun Jixing glanced at Shan Ci, chuckled, and then returned to the way he looked at Yu Ru at the beginning. "It's okay, Ru, I just wanted to kiss you, let's continue eating."

Yu Ru nodded and continued eating. Although she was speechless about Yun Jixing's behavior, the corners of her mouth rose unconsciously. Yun Jixing noticed that she was laughing secretly, and the corners of her mouth widened.

Shanci: "(???.???)????"

Yu Ru was eating when she suddenly stopped eating, looking at the pickled tribute vegetables and fried pork chops in her bowl. She seemed to be frozen. Seeing this, Yun Jixing asked softly, "Aru, what's wrong?"

Yu Ru turned to look at him, a faint smile on her face, and put down her chopsticks, gesturing, "I suddenly remembered something that seemed quite amusing."

"What's the matter?" Yun Jixing asked with a smile.

[I was eating pickled gongcai and fried pork chops before, and a couple told me that pickled and fried foods are only eaten by poor people, especially those from the slums like me.]

Hearing this, Yun Jixing couldn't laugh anymore, "And then? How do you answer?"

[I responded with silence.]

Yun Jixing's expression suddenly became a little sad, and he asked: "Is that it? Aru. Who are those two people? I'll catch them and beat them up."

Yu Ru shook her head. "Later, I swiped five million in cash from their cards and used their identities to take out loans of two million each. I got nine million, and they became poor."

"Later, they asked someone to do something for them and wanted to find someone to recover the five million. By chance, the intermediary brought them to my mother. I was also there watching the show, and I said to them, why would rich people ask poor people to do something for them?" Shan Ci continued.

"Hahahaha." Shanci laughed a few times. "They didn't dare to say anything. Mom ignored them and just left. Dad, don't you think it's funny?"

"Yeah, funny..." He responded like this, but Yun Jixing couldn't smile at all. He barely raised the corners of his mouth, but soon dropped them again. "Aru, you've suffered."

Yu Ru looked at him with some doubt and shook her head. "I'm not suffering. I have food and drink, a car and a house. I can lie at home every day and still earn money. How can I be suffering?"

"But...Aru, I saw you picking up the vegetables and fruits that the owners didn't want in the vegetable market and taking them home to eat. Sometimes the clothes you wore were made of such rough fabric that I was afraid it would hurt your skin." As he spoke, Yun Jixing's eyes turned red and his voice choked.

Yu Ru:( ′?w?)?

Support words:?(?'?'? ?)?

"And... I'm sorry..." Yun Jixing took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his eyes. "Another time, I brought you a package and I saw that you bought some expired food. I..."

He looked up at Yu Ru, tears welling up in his eyes. The tears fell like beads, one by one, forming a string, which formed a chain, and then they were pulled out of his eyes one by one. It was strange. These tears were clearly falling on the ground, on his body, but why did Yu Ru feel as if her heart was entangled by these tears, as rich as chains?

"Aru... I will arrange your food, clothing, housing and transportation. I know what you like to eat. You... you should not eat those things, and don't wear clothes of such poor quality. Otherwise... otherwise..." Yun Jixing wiped away her tears, "otherwise I will be really uncomfortable and my heart will ache. I really can't bear to see you using such poor quality things, okay... okay?"

Seeing him so sad, Yu Ru was also confused. She thought she was just chatting normally, so why did Yun Jixing cry again? She couldn't think of any words to comfort him and stopped crying. She had no choice but to get up and go to the bathroom to get a basin of warm water and a towel to wipe Yun Jixing's face.

She gently held his face with one hand, and with the other, she held the towel and wiped his face again and again. Yun Jixing stared at Yu Ru, his face moving with the towel, and he took the initiative to stick to the towel. "Aru...promise me that you won't eat those things anymore, okay?"

Yu Ru did not agree, but looked at Shan Ci.

"Waha?" Shan Ci jumped, and a puzzled emoticon appeared on the screen.

Yu Ru kept secrets from everyone, even her family, but she kept nothing from Shan Ci, telling him everything. After all, Shan Ci was the embodiment of her will, a version of her in this world. Seeing that Yu Ru hadn't agreed to Yun Jixing's words, Shan Ci guessed she was asking for his help in refuting them.

Considering what Yu Ru had said to it before, it thought for a few seconds and said, "Dad, let me answer this question for Mom. Mom's answer is, no. Although Mom picked up vegetables and fruits that the boss didn't want, they were all very fresh, not those crooked ones. I can get dozens of kilograms of fruits and vegetables for free, so why not? Mom wears low-quality clothes because she has to go to work. Why wear such good clothes when she has to work? It's a waste of money if they get dirty or torn. Can't I just wear good clothes under normal circumstances?"

"The same goes for buying near-expiry foods. They're just nearing their expiration date, not expired. They still taste pretty good, and there's nothing wrong with eating them. Getting more food at a lower price, isn't that a good thing? Dad, maybe you grew up with luxury, and these things sound terrible to you. You've never touched them, and you don't even know anyone uses them. But for Mom, there's no difference between cheap and expensive, nearing their expiration date or long-term. You might find it bitter, but Mom doesn't."

"In my mother's view, whether a person's life is hard or not isn't determined by what they eat, wear, or use, but by whether they feel satisfied mentally while eating, wearing, and using those things. My mother isn't forcing herself to eat without suffering; those things she eats are no different from normal food. In fact, she's happy because she's saving a lot of money. She eats well, wears warm clothes, and doesn't feel hardship at all."