Chapter 293: My aunt is a stingy person. Never mind. May my aunt live a long life!
“Deng deng deng-“

Early autumn afternoon, 4:30.

The warm light of golden sunlight shines through the wooden-framed windows at the end of the corridor of the dormitory building in the teachers’ compound, leaving a slanted grating in the spacious and deep corridor.

A sound of gentle footsteps came from the stairwell at the end of the corridor, accompanied by faint voices.

After a while, a young, good-looking man and woman came shoulder to shoulder towards the depths of the corridor. Two elongated shadows gradually appeared in the corridor, blocking the sunlight on the ground.

“As for Ancient Chinese, I have read about one-fifth of it. There are many parts that I don’t understand. I have read the Biography of Xiang Yu in the Records of the Grand Historian so far.”

The young man was carrying two black briefcases in his hands. He was tall and thin, and spoke in a gentle and calm voice.

The woman next to him was also tall, but not thin. She had the plumpness of a mature young woman. Years of yoga exercises and a perfect lifestyle made her figure exceptionally tight and full, like a newly ripe fruit, with firm flesh and abundant juice, exuding a sweet and rich honey aroma.

However, his cold and indifferent face and the aloof temperament that makes people feel unapproachable are intimidating.

Hearing the young man’s answer, the beautiful woman gently tapped her snow-white and smooth nipples, which seemed to give her some understanding of his learning progress. She asked softly, “So… which link is he stuck at?”

“Uh……”

Cheng Kaiyan was a little embarrassed when she heard this. She rolled her eyes in her eye sockets, but finally met her aunt’s concerned gaze and explained honestly: “Actually, I don’t understand much at all. I only have a vague understanding of what I read, such as the punctuation of classical Chinese, the analysis of function words, and sentence translation…”

“…”

Jiang Ting was silent, thinking that she had overestimated him. However, despite this, her mood was not bad, on the contrary, she was quite happy.

So he shook his head and said in a light tone of comfort: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. After all, you only went to high school and were exposed to very little ancient Chinese. Your knowledge in this area is almost zero. It’s already very good that you can understand part of it.”

After saying that, the familiar iron door appeared before his eyes.

Before I knew it I was home.

“Give me the bag. The key is inside.”

Jiang Ting turned around and reached out for the small black briefcase in Cheng Kaiyan’s right hand.

“Oh.”

The latter handed it over in response, and their hands touched each other as they handed over the bag.

Jiang Ting’s white fingers touched the hand that was obviously larger than hers. After a brief pause, she grasped the handle of the briefcase and pulled away.

“Wow~”

There was a sound of the key chain shaking, followed by a click.

The door was pushed open.

When the two walked into the living room, the scene before them had changed drastically.

The living room floor was still cleaned, and there was a huge gray carpet on the floor in front of the sofa. Various small items were neatly placed on the dining table, and pots of green plants and flowers were placed on the windowsill of the balcony…

The room, which was once deserted and deserted, was now surrounded by a faint warmth.

It feels like home.

Cheng Kaiyan was stunned at the scene in front of her.

“what happened?”

Jiang Ting bent down and changed into cotton slippers, then took out a pair of black men’s cotton slippers that had been prepared long ago from the shoe cabinet and handed them to Cheng Kaiyan. Seeing that he was looking at the living room layout with some surprise, she explained:

“These were arranged by Xiaoli herself. I discovered this after I came back from southern Xinjiang. Look at this carpet. Xiaoli and I usually practice yoga or dance on it after dinner in the evening to avoid disturbing the people downstairs.”

“So that’s how it is. Sister Xiaoli is indeed very virtuous and knows how to live.”

Cheng Kaiyan smiled and nodded, saying with emotion that he had felt this a long time ago.

“You should wait until she comes back before you say these things.”

Jiang Ting looked at him with a slightly fixed gaze and spoke in a calm tone.

After saying that, she turned around and went to the bathroom with the kettle.

After a while, the sound of hot water being poured into the basin was heard.

Seeing this, Cheng Kaiyan shook her head and didn’t care. She put the briefcase and food in her hand on the dining table and followed him in.

At this time in the bathroom, Jiang Ting was holding a steaming red towel, wiping her face carefully in front of the mirror with a serious expression, not missing any part of her face, and finally wiping her slender, cold white neck.

The beautiful woman did not stop until her face was covered with a light vapor and glowed with a lustrous luster.

She glanced at Cheng Kaiyan while holding the towel, “Wash it.”

After saying that, she picked up a box of facial cream from the table and started applying it on herself.

“…”

Cheng Kaiyan paused. He thought his aunt was going to wipe his face like before.

It turned out that I was overthinking it.

“understood.”

Cheng Kaiyan didn’t mind at all.

Anyway, he was used to washing the leftover water on his aunt and sister Xiaoli’s faces.

Moreover, both of them are very clean and clean their bodies quite frequently.

Sister Xiaoli takes a bath three times a day in summer.

My aunt has a mild case of mysophobia, which can be seen from the fact that she wipes the floor until it shines all day long.

Therefore, the water used by the two to wash their faces was still clean, and even the towels still had their very faint body fragrance.

Cheng Kaiyan put his hands into the basin of hot water. The water splashed and a light steam rose up. A warmth rushed through his hands, making him squint his eyes in comfort.

It is about to enter November, and the weather in Beijing is frighteningly cold.

The average temperature is only six or seven degrees, and only one or two degrees in the morning and at night.

Even though Cheng Kaiyan’s physique is different from that of ordinary people, it is inevitable that her hands will be cold sometimes.

After soaking for more than ten seconds, he picked up the red towel, wrung it dry, and wiped it on his face roughly, and that was it.

Just when he was about to leave to go to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients, a pair of cold little hands came over, pressed on his face without saying a word, and gently rubbed something.

“what?”

“It smells good, I squeezed too much.”

Jiang Ting explained quietly.

After washing your face, apply perfume.

The two finally walked into the kitchen and saw that it was only half past four.

Because today is the day when Sister Xiaoli finishes her tutoring, Cheng Kaiyan just bought several delicious dishes at the market.

A fish, six chicken legs, a chicken bone, and some green vegetables and white radishes.

“Aunt, do you want to help too?”

Cheng Kaiyan was washing the ingredients when she noticed Jiang Ting coming in wearing gloves. She asked in surprise.

This woman doesn’t even know how to use a knife, let alone cook.

A complete kitchen loser.

“??”

Jiang Ting pursed her lips and looked at Cheng Kaiyan coldly.

What do you mean?
“Ahem… I mean it’s really great to have your help. I can’t handle so many ingredients.”

Cheng Kaiyan and she were together day and night, and had been through life and death together. He could roughly understand what Jiang Ting meant with just one look.

“Uh-huh.”

Hearing this, the beautiful woman folded her arms across her chest and nodded with satisfaction.

Cheng Kaiyan smiled secretly in his heart, tapped the chopping board with his fingers, and asked thoughtfully: “So, do you choose to deal with the shank bone? Or do you choose to deal with this crucian carp?”

“…”

Jiang Ting looked down at the pool. Water was running from the faucet and a large crucian carp was swimming leisurely in the shallow water, blowing bubbles. Perhaps sensing her gaze, the crucian carp swung its tail vigorously with a snap, and water droplets with a fishy smell splashed onto her face.

“…”

The beautiful woman wiped her freshly washed face expressionlessly. Her eyes became extremely cold as she looked at the big crucian carp that was not aware of its own life or death, as if she was looking at a corpse.

“call……”

The beautiful woman took a few deep breaths and clenched her fists.

Then?

Then he turned his head silently and looked at the bone marrow in the basin that was oozing blood.

Blood-red muscles, greasy fat, cold white bones…

Finally, the beautiful woman bit her lip and looked at Cheng Kaiyan.

She thought this guy was the easiest to deal with.

“Fine.”

Cheng Kaiyan forced herself to hold back her laughter, using her clenched fist to cover the corners of her mouth that couldn’t help but rise.

Jiang Ting’s fist was really hard this time.

“Hahaha! Auntie…you, you are so interesting and funny.”

So Cheng Kaiyan finally broke through the beautiful woman’s embarrassed and frustrated look and burst out laughing. “Bang bang bang!”

The aunt, who had long been unable to suppress her shame and anger, swung her fist and angrily hit Cheng Kaiyan’s shoulder, making a few dull sounds.

“Okay, okay, how about this, you go wash the vegetables and cut the radish?”

Cheng Kaiyan was beaten so hard that she was convinced and finally gave in. She raised the white flag and surrendered to her aunt.

“Since you said so, I will help you reluctantly.”

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

In response, my aunt crossed her arms and raised her snow-white chin proudly.

The posture is both elegant and polite.

……

So the two of them huddled in the kitchen, busily processing various ingredients.

Jiang Ting was washing vegetables in the sink, and Cheng Kaiyan would come over from time to time to wash the kitchen knife.

By the time it was done, it was already 5:10.

The school at Beijing Dance Academy ends relatively late, usually around 5:40.

But I heard from my aunt that sometimes he would stay after class for extra practice, so it was not uncommon for him to not come back until 6:30.

“Wait a minute, come to my room!”

My aunt bent down and rubbed her hands under the faucet, which had just been used to coat the chicken legs with flour, and said with a very serious look on her pretty face.

“what?”

Cheng Kaiyan’s thoughts went astray for a moment.

“Ah what? I need to check how you’re doing in your studies!”

Jiang Ting said expressionlessly.

Cheng Kaiyan felt very uneasy about this, but his super serious aunt didn’t give him a chance to refuse. She just gave him a follow-up look and turned away.

……

“King Xiang’s army, besieged Gaixia, with few soldiers and all the food eaten by the Han army, surrounded them in several layers.”

In the bedroom.

Jiang Ting stood behind Cheng Kaiyan, checking the classical Chinese sentence segmentation exercises that Cheng Kaiyan had recorded in her notebook.

I was speechless for a moment and was extremely angry.

“Cheng Kaiyan! Who taught you to punctuate like that?! You’re still short of soldiers and you’re eating up all the Han troops? Is that what I taught you last time?”

“Go back and memorize the Records of Xiang Yu, and come back tomorrow morning so I can check it!”

The beautiful woman leaned down and poked hard on the notebook with her slender white fingers. She had a stern face and scolded Cheng Kaiyan in a harsh tone, so that the tip of the soft jade nipple also rubbed against the back of his neck with her movements.

“…”

The young man sitting at the desk had no intention of enjoying himself. Listening to his aunt’s stern lecture, he realized something in an instant.

revenge!

This is definitely my aunt’s revenge, right? !
“Stingy!”

Cheng Kaiyan was secretly complaining.

But he recalled that today, on the way home, in the living room, in the kitchen…

hiss!
Only then did Cheng Kaiyan realize the problem. It turned out that she had offended her aunt so many times?
And this woman is so vindictive and petty.

The only reason she had been able to endure until now was because of their close relationship.

“What did you say?”

Almost in the next moment, a gaze as cold as ice pierced over.

“I mean…I mean you live a long life.”

Cheng Kaiyan explained awkwardly.

Whether Jiang Ting believed it or not, he believed it anyway.

“I’ve changed my mind. I’ll copy the Chronicle of Xiang Yu twenty times and hand it in tomorrow morning.”

Jiang Ting rubbed Cheng Kaiyan’s hair and said coldly.

Cheng Kaiyan: “…”

Soon.

Jiang Ting’s serious and cold voice was heard again in the room.

Cheng Kaiyan and Jiang Ting each brought a chair and sat in front of the desk, facing the setting sun and the red clouds outside the window.

One learns, one teaches.

It was just like the peaceful and warm scene when the two of them were working on their paper.

six o’clock.

The sky outside the window had already darkened, and the dormitory building had already become bustling.

At the stairwell.

A pretty girl wrapped in a military coat and with a ponytail followed the old teacher up the stairs slowly.

“Xiao Li, are you done with school? It’s a bit late today.”

Lin Xiaohong’s mother, who lived next door, greeted Liu Xiaoli warmly when she saw her.

“Yeah, I missed the meeting today, but luckily I don’t have to make up for it on the weekends.”

When Liu Xiaoli said this, a faint smile appeared on her quiet and gentle face.

During this period, she was exhausted from all the extra classes and extra lessons.

This is not the key point. The most important thing is that the tutoring class affected the time she and Cheng Kaiyan spent together.

Counting the days, the two have met quite a few times since they played together all day during the National Day holiday. Sometimes Comrade Xiao Cheng would bring lunch to the Beijing Dance Academy at noon.

However, the time we spent together was very short, probably no more than ten hours in total during this month.

Not only Cheng Kaiyan couldn’t accept it, even Liu Xiaoli couldn’t accept it.

“That’s great. Now I have time to play with Xiao Cheng.”

Aunt Lin joked with a smile.

“Yes.”

Liu Xiaoli felt a little shy, but since they were now an official couple, she nodded openly.

“Go back quickly, Xiaoli. I have good news for you. Cheng Kaiyan is here. She brought a lot of food with her this afternoon.”

Seeing this, Lin Xiaohong on the side said with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli’s bright almond eyes lit up, her heart leaping with joy, and she said with a smile, “Xiaohong, I’ll leave first then.”

After saying that, he quickly took two steps at a time and went home up the stairs.

I reached the front door and saw the hallway was illuminated by the lights from the living room.

Liu Xiaoli walked to the door and saw Cheng Kaiyan wearing an apron in the kitchen, while her aunt was helping her and serving the dishes.

“I am back!”

……

“So Kaiyan and my aunt prepared this feast specifically to celebrate my freedom and the fact that I don’t have to make up for the missed classes on the weekend?”

Liu Xiaoli held her chin and looked at the two of them with emotion.

“Well, we both prepared it especially for you.”

Jiang Ting picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it into her niece’s bowl and nodded calmly.

“…”

Cheng Kaiyan subconsciously glanced at her aunt. What this woman said sounded like the truth. Did you cook any of these dishes?
“Ok?”

Jiang Ting glanced over.

“Yes, yes, Sister Xiaoli, please eat some fish!”

Cheng Kaiyan nodded quickly.

This is the fish that my aunt is most involved in, but also the one she hates the most.

……

The three of them finished their meal happily.

It was getting late, so Cheng Kaiyan planned to go back.

Before leaving, Jiang Ting called Cheng Kaiyan:
“Come early tomorrow morning and check the homework.”

“do not!”

(End of this chapter)