To make He Yu regret - Chapter 41

Xu Meiyin led Fan Xiuhui inside. He missed the best time to refuse, and so he could only follow her. Rongmei Furniture was a storefront converted from a residential house. They followed Xu Meiyin, bypassing the cluttered furniture, and arrived at a rusty iron door. Xu Meiyin knocked twice on the door.

“Zhen, an old friend came to see you.”

The girl’s answer came from the other side of the door.

“Come on, who is it?” She ran over quickly, opened the inner wooden door, and opened the creaking security door outside. He Yu predicted that he would meet Jiang Mingzhen who was dressed plainly. Something happened to her family, and she lived in a place like that…  He had seen her in school, dressed and tempered like she was in childhood. For him, a ‘troubled Jiang Mingzhen’ was still untrue. She did appear behind the rusty iron door. The house was so small that the inside could be seen at a glance, with a bed, a table, and a locker, which was less than ten square meters in total. Obese Jiang Mingzhen stood in the room with a hairpin in her hair, wearing a princess dress, like a large ornament that was misplaced. She looked blank when she saw He Yu and Fan Xiuhui outside the door.

“Hello.” He stretched out his hand and greeted her first.

“I recognize you!”

Jiang Mingzhen patted her head and found a familiar impression in his facial features.

“You you……” She clapped her hands and slapped her head, but she couldn’t say anything.

“What’s your name?”

“He Yu.” He replied.

Faced with the mist of doubt in her eyes, He Yu added, “Huo Yu.”

“Ah,” this time Jiang Mingzhen gave him a particularly big smile, “Hello!”

She took his hand and shook it up and down vigorously.

“Hello, He Yu!” Jiang Mingzhen repeated it again, and pronounced his name correctly.

“How are you doing?”

He smiled and said, “Very well, how about you?”

“I’m fine too.” She replied without thinking. 

The words he said in childishness and the anger and her irritation from their childhood were all written off by time. Jiang Mingzhen, now named Jiang Xiaozhen, smiled very happily because of the reunion with He Yu. Fan Xiuhui looked curiously at the small and rudimentary room behind her. Jiang Xiaozhen even stepped aside to let her see it more clearly. She was calmer than Xu Meiyin. After being seen in their room, Xu Meiyin’s expression was slightly embarrassed, and she grabbed the sleeve of her left hand with her right hand and pulled it uncomfortably. Jiang Xiaozhen’s gaze never evaded from beginning to end.

He Yu’s face was close. Jiang Xiaozhen remembered everything.

“We met in the school cafeteria before, right?”

His appearance was so recognizable that people who see him could hardly forget him.

“Yes.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

He Yu thought to himself, “Because you didn’t recognize me, you have forgotten me.” 

But to say that was too hypocritical. With their small time friendship from a long time ago, they had no unforgettable things.

So he said, “I was not sure it was you.”

Jiang Xiaozhen was startled. “Lies.”

She remembered the way he looked at her that day.

After all, it was not a confused and probing look, he stared at her quite intently. Jiang Xiaozhen was the least stranger to the gazes around her. People stared at her intently with curiosity. She was acquiesced that she wouldn’t get emotional or feel offended when they looked at her unscrupulously. Before she could tell what was in his eyes, she attacked first…

“Maybe Jiang Xiaozhen asked a stupid question. Even if He Yu recognizes her, he didn’t have to come to her, right?”

He was stunned for half a second, she laughed again.

“Well, I am indeed much more prettier than when I was a kid. It’s normal not to recognize me.” Jiang Xiaozhen returned to the soft and delicate warmth like soap bubbles.

Fan Xiuhu was very close to her. So Jiang Xiaozhen hung beside her, grabbed her arm and shook it around, acted like a baby with her. Forgetting her size and strength, her shaking could dislocate Aunt Fan’s hand. Fortunately, Fan Xiuhui didn’t mind.

With the existence of Jiang Xiaozhen, many heavy things were successfully thrown out from their talk. The double iron gate protected her, allowing her to remain a princess in a small broken den. She didn’t learn to be inferior, she didn’t learn to be afraid of society, she didn’t learn social skills, she was as reckless and natural as a child.

Almost all the furniture in He Yu’s new home was bought from Rongmei Furniture.

“If we buy more will it help your work?” Fan Xiuhui asked Xu Meiyin.

“Some of it, yes.” she tore off their shopping tickets, with a smile all over her face, “They count it on my performance.”

By the time they finished buying the furniture, it was already time to eat. In a furniture store with few customers, there was only Xu Meiyin as a salesperson. She was responsible for shopping guides, replenishment, contact, delivery, and store cleaning. Jiang Xiaozhen was hungry and sat on the chair at the cash register with her cheeks supported, waiting for her mother to cook for her.