After a night of secret special training, Mei Fang tossed and turned and couldn’t fall asleep.

He gently stroked his lips, and the soft touch of Yuanyuan still made him unforgettable for a long time. Although his relationship with Yuanyuan Youxi was already infinitely close, the status of kissing was irreplaceable.

Although Mei Fang has always boasted of his ability to keep things balanced, and didn’t care what the consequences would be if he hadn’t held Yuanyuan back at that time, he has indeed taken a step towards establishing a deeper relationship with Yuanyuan, and he has to take responsibility for what he has done.

After the happiness, Mei Fang is now struggling with how to face Youxi.

Theoretically speaking, hiding it from Youxi is indeed the right choice, but emotionally Mei Fang is not willing to do so. One secret must always be covered up with more secrets, and over time it will reveal a big bomb, which is something Mei Fang does not want to see.

Well… since he and Yuanyuan are in the wrong now, he should find a way to continue to balance the situation and bring his relationship with Youxi to the same level.

Two people are hiding the same secret. When the secret is revealed, the responsibility will not be on them. At most, they will both cause trouble for me.

Mei Fang would rather be hated by both of them than see Youxi and Xia Yuan become enemies.

Because if Mei Fang hadn’t existed, Yuanyuan and Youxi would have been close friends in their previous lives. Yuanyuan was the only shining light in Youxi’s life, but it was a pity that she died too early. In this life, with Mei Fang’s efforts, the two of them can continue to walk together. Of course, he didn’t want this beauty to be destroyed because of other factors.

In fact, Mei Fang also understood in his heart that such worry was actually unnecessary. You Xi and Yuan Yuan were now willing to even sleep in the same quilt, so the wish of the three of them being together might not be as difficult as he had originally imagined.

Speaking of which, I’m such a scumbag… In my previous life, I had never even touched a girl’s hand, so how come I became such a scumbag in this life!

Mei Fang became the person he hated the most.

Just as he was sighing over this, a message from Lin Youxi came on his cell phone.

[My dad has to go to the construction site to settle the payment tomorrow. My uncle can’t come, so I can accompany you to the ancestral house.]

【OK (‘ω’)】

[Why are you acting cute all of a sudden? You never used to send emojis before]

Just as Mei Fang was thinking about how to respond, Youxi typed as fast as writing code:

[Did you…do something to offend me? ]

Mei Fang broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the message, and subconsciously looked back to see if there were any surveillance cameras installed around her. With Youxi’s personality, she might really do it.

【What weird things are you talking about! 】

[I was just joking to scare you…You and Yuanyuan should come to see me tomorrow. I haven’t been to your ancestral home yet.]

【okok】

Mei Fang had just closed the message here when another message from Yuanbianyuan came in.

【Afang, Afang, save me, save me! 】

[Don’t be angry when you speak, what’s wrong? ]

[After we did something like that, how can we face Youxi tomorrow? I will definitely not be able to face her.]

It seems that Yuanyuan has entered sage mode and calmed down. How much I enjoyed the kiss just now, how embarrassed I am now, right?

[Why should we be embarrassed to see her? We can just forget about what happened today.]

[How could I forget? I didn’t even wipe my mouth when I took a shower today.]

[In short, calm down first…get some sleep and you’ll be fine tomorrow]

[I should just tell Youxi directly, otherwise I will be sorry for her]

[So I told you to calm down! ]

Mei Fang spent a long time calming Xia Yuan down, and only after he used voice to coax her to sleep did she fall asleep peacefully.

The next day, Mei Fang asked Xia Yuan to go to the ancestral home together, but Xia Yuan hadn’t gotten up yet, so Teacher Yu asked Mei Fang to wait in the living room.

“Ah Fang, would you like something to drink?”

“It’s okay, Mr. Yu, I can handle it myself, you go ahead and do your thing.”

“Then I won’t entertain you. I have guests at home today and I have to be busy preparing the food.”

Mei Fang was stunned for a moment after hearing this. “Um… Teacher Yu, it’s too hard for you to prepare the dishes alone. Do you want to consider hiring a chef or aunt to come back and cook? Uncle Xia knows a lot of such people.”

After hearing this, Teacher Yu immediately showed the same angry expression as Xia Yuan: “Ah Fang, do you look down on your teacher Yu’s cooking skills? I have improved a lot now.”

“I don’t mean to look down on you, I just–“

“Since you don’t look down on me, you have to eat at my house at noon today. I want to see you eat three bowls of rice today. If you can’t finish it, I will think you despise me.”

“Ah? That’s not good… they are all relatives and guests of Mr. Yu’s family…”

“Today I invited teachers from our elementary school. Many of them have taught you, including Math Teacher Yang, Ideology Teacher Li, and English Teacher Lin… You have always been the best student in their eyes since you were a child. It’s a good opportunity for them to see what you look like now.”

“Well… After all, Teacher Yu is the class teacher, so you have the final say.”

Teacher Yu was the best-maintained of the mothers. Although ten years had passed since her rebirth, she was still as beautiful as when Mei Fang first saw her. After all, she was one of her future mothers-in-law, so Mei Fang had no reason not to please her, even if it meant forcing herself to eat the dishes cooked by Teacher Yu.

Xia Yuan dawdled longer than usual today. When she came down from upstairs, Mei Fang had already been in her house for half an hour.

“…”

After going through the secret special training last night, there was an awkward atmosphere when the two met for the first time, with each other looking at each other in silence.

“Why so long?”

“I overslept.”

Xia Yuan scratched his head and looked at Mei Fang still sitting on the sofa in his house with an arrogant look on his face. He immediately slapped Mei Fang lightly on the head in annoyance.

“Why are you still sitting here? Hurry up and get going.”

“How dare you rush me? Who is taking so long?”

Mei Fang chased Xia Yuan around the living room, held her in his arms and pinched her face hard, causing Xia Yuan to scream. Teacher Yu, who was passing by, just smiled and reminded her: “Okay, stop making trouble, both of you, and go out and do your work. You have to go home early for dinner today, okay?”

Xia Yuan followed Mei Fang walking on the street to find Lin Youxi. Today is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and tomorrow is New Year’s Eve.

“Come to think of it, today is Ah Fang’s real birthday.” Xia Yuan and her friends had already celebrated Mei Fang’s birthday in advance in Jiangcheng, so they didn’t mention celebrating now. She asked Mei Fang, “Are you 15 now that you’re 16 or 16 now that you’re 17?”

“It must be the former. The birthday on my ID card is fake, so I can go to kindergarten and first grade early.”

“Then Youxi and I are both one year older than Afang…”

Xia Yuan said angrily, “Ah Fang, you have never called me and Youxi “sister” since we were young. You are not cute at all.”

“By the way, do you girls like others to call you sister?”

“You boys just like others to call you brother.”

“No, we like being someone else’s dad.” Mei Fang said with a smile, “No matter if they are boys or girls, we all want to be their dad.”

“How strange…” Xia Yuan sighed after thinking for a while, “But I have no right to say anything about you.”

“Indeed, Yuanyuan likes to be someone else’s mother.”

Youxi’s voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them, which scared Xia Yuan and Mei Fang. Xia Yuan even threw herself into Mei Fang’s arms. This subconscious action made Xia Yuan very embarrassed.

“Youxi! How come you came out from behind?”

“I was so bored waiting for you to come and see me at home. I was wondering if you had left me and me alone to go back to the ancestral home, so I decided to go to your house and take a look…”

“I will absolutely never abandon Youxi. I, Xia Yuan, swear to heaven!”

Xia Yuan saw that Lin Youxi was already feeling guilty about what happened last night and felt sorry for her. When he heard her say that, he quickly expressed his loyalty to Youxi. He put one hand on his chest and stretched out the other hand pointing to the sky.

Then she saw Lin Youxi chuckle, and Mei Fang tapped her head gently: “Don’t let Youxi scare you. I told Youxi that you overslept so we would leave later. She said she would come to find you.”

“Yes, that’s it! I was scared to death.”

Xia Yuan was panting and patting her chest. Lin Youxi watched her expression and walked forward to hold her hand and said, “Let’s go to Afang’s hometown together, shall we?”

“Uh-huh!”

Xia Yuan also smiled sweetly at Lin Youxi. With Youxi by her side, she no longer needed Afang’s special training or energy!

Chapter 196 Childhood Memories

Xia Yuanlin and Youxi held hands and followed Mei Fang to the ancestral home of Mei Fang’s family.

The ancestral home of the Mei Fang family is actually located in the main street of Baimei County. In addition to many commercial shops, there are also many low buildings. The ancestral home is among these buildings, in a relatively remote alley.

In his previous life, Meilijun did not continue to be a civil servant, but chose to go into business, but ended up losing money.

After that, Mei Fang’s family sold their new house in the community and moved to their ancestral home where transportation was more convenient. This was also the place where Mei Fang spent the longest time as a student in his previous life, so he had a special feeling for it.

Mei Fang led Xia Yuan Youxi to this small alley. As the demolition and reconstruction plan was gradually advanced, several small buildings nearby had now turned into ruins. The three of them were moving forward among the rubble.

“Here we are. This is my hometown.”

“Wow, Fang, your ancestral house isn’t that small. It feels bigger than my house.” Xia Yuan said in surprise, “I thought it would be a house with tiles.”

Mei Fang’s hometown is said to be the ancestral home, but in fact it was rebuilt from the old house that Mei Fang’s grandfather lived in before his death. It is a three-story building with its own yard.

Lin Youxi also observed the distant view of the ancestral house, “But the houses nearby are quite crowded, and the lighting may not be very good…”

“This house was built in the 90s, and it was like this back then.”

Mei Fang gently pushed open the iron gate of the yard, and the rusty iron gate, which had been in disrepair for a long time, made a sound like branches.

“It feels like exploring a haunted house.”

As soon as Lin Youxi finished speaking, Xia Yuan subconsciously hid behind Mei Fang, “Don’t scare me, Youxi!”

“It’s not as exaggerated as you say. Just go in.”

Mei Fang used the key to open the door of the cottage. The interior decoration was not rustic, but it had an old-fashioned feel of the decoration style at the beginning of the century.

As soon as Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi entered the house, they were attracted by the group photo above the living room.

“Is that the family photo on the wall when Ah Fang was a child? Where is Ah Fang?”

“I’ll take it down and show you…”

The family portrait hanging on the wall is the one of Mei Fang’s grandfather’s generation. At that time, Mei Fang’s grandparents were still alive and sat in the middle, followed by Mei Fang’s uncle and aunt, father Mei Lijun, and mother Xiang Xiaoxia.

Mei Ya was not born yet at this time. Her cousin Xiao Mei Yue, who was about 9 or 10 years old, was standing next to her grandmother, holding the hand of little Xiao Mei Fang, who was sitting in her grandmother’s arms.

“Was Ah Fang so cute when he was a child? How old were you then?”

“I remember I was about two or three years old, after all, my grandparents were still alive.”

“Jiji, why are you still exposed outside…”

Lin Youxi’s focus is always different. “Ah Fang, why are you still wearing open-crotch pants at the age of 2?”