Rebirth and the Beautiful Soaring

On August 29th, a typhoon arrived, and the weather turned windy and rainy.

Sitting on the bus back to Linxian, Yu Fei looked out the window at the hazy rain and listened to the pattering rain. At this moment, he felt completely at ease.

From Jian Linyang's perspective, both the trip to Beijing and the trip to Ningbo can be considered failures.

But Yu Fei felt that he hadn't gained nothing; at least he had learned some lessons from it.

First of all, life is full of uncertainties, and you can't fully control it just by being reborn.

Secondly, one should do things at the right age; you can't rush things.

Finally, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, meeting might be as if we had never met at all.

In fact, besides these insights, Yu Fei did gain other benefits as well.

For example, during his trip to the capital, he painted many pictures of the capital and also made a like-minded friend, Luo Lin.

His trip to Ningbo allowed him to see his mother ahead of time, and last night he even had the opportunity to sleep in the same room with her, sharing their heartfelt feelings on adjacent beds.

Having been withdrawn in the past, Yu Fei rarely confides in his mother at this age.

Fang Yun generally doesn't discuss matters of the heart with her son.

Yu Fei is very skilled at communication, and he subtly reminded his mother of her past relationship with Yu Fei's father, Yu Ming.

Fang Yun still cherishes those dreamlike, romantic memories.

Yu Fei could tell that his mother missed that past, which showed how much his parents had loved each other.

Why can't two people who love each other live happily together? Is it because they love each other but hurt each other? Are they both too strong-willed? Where is the breakthrough to mend their broken relationship?

As a son, Yu Fei believes he was an inadequate son in his previous life. He doesn't really understand why his parents divorced or what the conflicts between them were. He simply attributes it to two people who loved each other separating because of their different life philosophies.

But looking back now, there are some issues here. Something must have happened during that time that caused the conflict between the two to erupt. Otherwise, in the conservative era of the 1980s, how could the parents have divorced so easily?

Yu Fei really wanted to ask his mother what had happened all those years ago, but he knew he couldn't ask her directly. It was a scar on her body, and she must have suffered a lot during that time.

So he mentioned to her his conversation with his father in the martial arts world, and subtly expressed his longing for his father.

Yu Fei sensed that his mother was clearly surprised, because he almost never mentioned his father in the past.

Then Yu Fei heard his mother ask him, "If one day your father asked you to go abroad to live with him, would you go?"

Yu Fei told his mother without hesitation that he would not go abroad with his father because he wanted to stay by his mother's side. His mother was moved to tears and praised Yu Fei as a good child.

Then Yu Fei deliberately said that if his father wanted to see him, he would have to go back to China. What kind of person would a Chinese painter be if he stayed abroad all the time?

These words earned him a reproachful look from his mother, who directly warned him not to speak of his father in that way. She then explained to him that oil painting has a better future abroad, and that it wasn't that his father didn't care about him.

When Yu Fei heard his mother say this, he secretly laughed to himself, but on the surface he nodded repeatedly, which was quite obedient.

In short, through subtle questioning that evening, he discovered that his mother still greatly admired his father's painting skills, and that her feelings for him were still only vaguely expressed.

Since both father and mother still have love for each other deep in their hearts, he, as their son, is determined to be the matchmaker for their reconciliation.

So he gently hummed "Phoenix Soaring" to his mother by the bedside. His mother was stunned and asked Yu Fei why he suddenly sang this song.

Yu Fei then mentioned that when he met Grandpa Yu Hong in the martial arts world, the old man specifically talked about the origin of his name.

The mother's eyes welled up with tears again as she listened. She gently brought up the matter of naming Yu Fei, who was born in 1981, the Year of the Rooster.

Chickens are also likened to phoenixes, and there is the story of phoenixes flying together, so the old man said to call it "Flying Together".

Everyone agrees that the name is good, and Yu Ming and Fang Yun both like it very much because it represents a beautiful blessing for their marriage.

His mother asked him if, during his years of growing up, he had ever longed for his father to be by his side.

Yu Fei said that there was a time when he saw that other people had their parents by their side, while he only had his mother by his side. He was envious and longed for his father to be by his side every day. But later he gradually got used to the days when his father was not by his side.

Feeling a little guilty, Yu Fei quickly changed the subject, smiling as he said he had heard a song about "Mother" that he found very beautiful and wanted to sing it to her softly.

Without further ado, he began to sing softly.

Someone will carry your new schoolbag when you start school!

Someone will hold your floral umbrella for you in the rain.

Someone will make your favorite three-delicacy filling for you~

Someone will wipe away your tears of grievance~

Ah! This person is Mom~

Ah! This person is Mom~

This person gave me life.

Give me a home~

This is Yan Weiwen's song "Mother". Both the melody and the lyrics are full of deep emotion, and listening to it brought tears of joy to my mother's eyes.

When her mother asked Yu Fei when she started to like singing, Yu Fei smiled and said it was during the few days her mother was away from home.

His mother was quite surprised and asked him how he could sing so well. Yu Fei proudly said that he was a singing genius and that he also had a good teacher—his aunt.

The mother suddenly realized what was going on, and then told Yu Fei that singing was fine as a hobby, but it shouldn't interfere with his studies.

Yu Fei immediately swore in the name of Chairman Mao that he would never delay his studies.

The mother and son talked very intently that night, and Yu Fei felt that he had never had this experience in his previous life.

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When the car arrived in Linxian County and passed through Fairy Town, Yu Fei told his mother that he wanted to visit his maternal grandparents and aunt in Yunwu Village and would go home the next day.

Fang Yun had a lot of things to do at work that day, so she agreed after a moment's thought.

Yu Fei returned to Yunwu Village with the small gifts he had bought in Wulin, the capital, and Ningbo.

Actually, Yu Fei really wanted to buy some nice gifts for them, but at his age, buying something too expensive would just cause him trouble, so he could only buy some small gifts.

Sending goose feathers from thousands of miles away is a light gift but heavy with affection.

Grandpa and Grandma were overjoyed to receive the gift, their smiles beaming from ear to ear. The gift itself didn't matter; as long as it was bought by their grandson, it was a wonderful gift.

Fang Yi received a very beautiful dress. It wasn't bought by Yu Fei alone, but rather yesterday afternoon when they went shopping in the Ningbo market, Yu Fei said that this dress would suit his aunt very well, so his mother said she would buy it.

Fang Yi was naturally delighted to receive the dress and praised Yu Fei for her good taste, saying it was exactly the style she liked.

A day apart feels like three autumns!

Yu Fei hadn't seen Zhou Meihua for several days, and he really missed her beautiful appearance.

So, before dinner that day, Yu Fei secretly slipped out and went to Zhou Meihua's maternal grandmother's house, using the excuse of apologizing for not keeping his promise to be a teacher to see the person he wanted to see.

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