Depressed wife runs with the ball

Her eyelashes fluttered as she said cautiously, "Auntie will prepare breakfast and wait for you to go out."

"After Auntie finished making breakfast, she went out to buy groceries." Zhou Xingzhi smiled triumphantly. Now there were only the two of them in the house.

Chu Yue suddenly felt something was wrong and started struggling again, "Zhou Xingzhi?! Don't mess around!"

Zhou Xingzhi had no choice but to let her go. He watched her sitting on the edge of the bed, nervously fixing her hair, and walking out of the room shyly and angrily. He actually thought she was very cute.

I wanted to get up, but couldn't. I could only pick up my phone and arrange some work. After lying there for over ten minutes, I finally got up and saw her still eating her breakfast, chewing it slowly.

I walked over to the opposite side and sat down. I saw that when she ate, she always looked very serious, chewing slowly and carefully. She was not picky about food, but she took a long time to eat, but not a big amount.

"If I have a holiday, can I go back to Cuiyuan?" She looked at the glass of milk, hesitating whether to drink it.

"No, wait for me to rest for three and a half hours, then we'll set off together."

He didn't sleep much last night, and he was afraid of driving while tired if he drove rashly.

"Where are you going?" Today was the first day of the art festival. Was he taking her there? Wouldn't that count as work?

"Luoxia Village, Haicheng County, Qiancheng City." He told her word by word.

Chu Yue was shocked. Luoxia Village was where she lived with her grandparents when she was a child. It was also the place where her grandparents returned to their roots.

The hand holding the milk cup unconsciously squeezed the cup. He asked seriously, "Did I talk in my sleep?"

"You said you missed your grandparents." He took the glass of milk from her hand, knowing that she didn't drink milk.

Chu Yue was sitting upright eating breakfast, but after hearing this, he lowered his eyes, became discouraged, and hunched his body slightly.

"Okay." After a long time, she uttered a word.

Zhou Xingzhi felt relieved, poured himself a glass of water, added a few ice cubes, and drank a sip of the ice water. The previous heat was slightly relieved.

"Do you want to take a shower and rest?" he asked in the kitchen.

She was still lost in the words "Luoxia Village," counting the years since she'd been back. What would she tell her grandparents when she returned? What should she say first? University? Work? Or the years of conflict with her parents? The hardships of her job? The only good news would probably be that her paintings were worth something, and what her grandmother had said before she died...

"Yueyue?" Zhou Xingzhi called her back from her memories.

"Okay, I'll go back to Cuiyuan and meet up with you after you've rested." She took her bag from the clothes rack and went back home.

"I'll let the driver take you there." Zhou Xingzhi originally wanted to let her sleep here for a while, but thinking that she might need to prepare something, he didn't stop her.

"No, you should have a good rest." She put on her canvas bag, thought for a moment, looked at her watch, and said, "We may have to stay overnight, so remember to bring a change of clothes."

Seeing how much she cared, he no longer forced her to stay, but just told her to be careful on the way and send him a WeChat message when she got home.

Back at Cuiyuan, Chu Yue took a shower, packed her things, put on makeup, and stared at the painting in a daze. Suddenly, she felt the seal in her pocket, took it out, and said to the painting, "Grandpa, look, someone will also give me a seal."

Looking at the seal, she felt even more lonely. What she needed was not the seal at all, but the noisy scene at home when her grandfather carved the seal for her.

"We'll meet again. I'll show my best to you." She said to the painting dejectedly.

After lying on the sofa and resting for a while, Zhou Xingzhi called as expected, and he was already downstairs.

She jogged downstairs, carrying her backpack, which she rarely wore.

She felt a little embarrassed because he should have a lot of things to do today.

"Sorry to trouble you." She had never told anyone that she was going back to the village to visit her grandparents. This was the first time she went back with outsiders.

She started to be polite and distant to him again, and he thought that their relationship was at least better than that of a superior and a subordinate.

"It's okay. I haven't been back to Haicheng for a long time." He turned the steering wheel and started the car.

Chu Yue leaned against the car window, watching the bleak winter street scene gradually fade away. After the highway, there was no one around.

"That seal is not cheap, is it?" she suddenly said.

He learned how to make seals from a teacher and carved the characters himself.

"It's not carved well. I'll carve another one for you next time." He replied faintly.

In fact, it can be seen that the calligraphy was specially learned by a master. I don’t know how long he has studied it, but he must have some understanding, otherwise Chu Yue would not have mistakenly thought that it was engraved by a master when he was drunk.

"It's just a seal, no need for too many, one is enough." She didn't want to have more seals, the ones carved by her grandfather were enough.

Zhou Xingzhi no longer forced it.

She fell asleep leaning against the car window, the warm winter sun, as if she was back in her childhood.

She was awakened by hunger. Zhou Xingzhi handed her some chocolate and said, "We'll be in Haicheng in just over ten minutes."

In fact, she was very anxious now, more anxious than ever before. "Actually, I haven't been back for a long time. The last time I was in Haicheng was because a childhood friend passed away. They...may not necessarily want to see me."

The chocolate is bitterly sweet.

Zhou Xingzhi felt a surge of pity at these words. How could he not want to see her? Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her back, completely lonely. So, was that why she didn't like interacting with people?

"They... are grandpa and grandma?" He didn't dare to think about how she had lived all these years.

"Yeah." The car drove out of the toll station and got off the highway. Gradually, we could see the buildings in the county town. There were more and more people, and we could see the sea level. Haicheng is close to the sea. It is a relatively niche tourist destination with a slow pace of life.

The air even smelled of the unique salty smell of seawater. "Don't you want to see them?" Zhou Xingzhi's clear voice echoed in the car.

"You may not understand what it means to love and hate at the same time."

Human nature is always complex. It's true that her grandparents loved her, but it's also true that they held her to high standards. Whether it was drawing or writing, if she didn't put in the effort, they'd spank her with a ruler. Even if she was better than her peers, they still felt she wasn't good enough. Perhaps this was how Chu Jie'an was raised, which is why, after marriage, he's leaned more towards his wife, who favors boys over girls?

His family is similar to Ji Yan's. Happy families are always similar, but unhappy families each have their own misfortunes.

It was the first time Zhou Xingzhi had heard someone speak of his family in this way. The car pulled into an underground parking lot, and the two got out and went to the hotel front desk to check in. Chu Yue had been to this hotel before, and the reef overlooking the sea in the distance was no longer visible.

It was the end of winter, and not many people were visiting the seaside. Zhou Xingzhi had booked the only suite at the hotel. A gust of sea breeze blew by, and Chu Yue wrapped herself tightly in her lambskin coat.

"Go upstairs and put your luggage first." Zhou Xingzhi saw that she was cold and gestured for her to go to the elevator. The receptionist said to the two people from behind: "Do you think that man looks familiar?"

"You think he looks familiar because he's handsome? He even has a girlfriend with him!" another receptionist teased her.

The suite was actually a loft, with a bed on the ground floor and another upstairs. Perhaps because they had lived together for so long, Chu Yue had forgotten his gender and didn't see any problem with living this way; she slept upstairs.

After putting away his luggage, Zhou Xingzhi replied to some work matters on the first floor. Chu Yue leaned over the railing beside the bed and looked at him. He was wearing a navy blue suit and a pair of slippers. He leaned against the TV wall and said slowly, "What do you want to eat? Do you want it brought up or do you want to go out to eat?"

This scene seemed exactly the same as when she woke up in the hospital three years ago. He really was the policeman who saved her.

"Haicheng has a famous dish called lime squid. Have you ever tried it?" Her voice was tender and contained a warmth that Zhou Xingzhi had never seen in her before. It was like a stream of clear spring water flowing into his ears, creating ripples.

"Okay." He looked up and saw her looking down at him. Did she really have no feelings for him at all? He let himself be trapped in her gaze, and the phone in his left hand kept popping up work messages.

"Uh...you go ahead and do your thing. I'll take care of the food." Chu Yue felt her ears burning with anger when he looked at her. She quickly dodged him and picked up her phone to order takeout.