Chapter 55. Past Events
Even if the fox raised at home is so irritating, life must go on.
And the conversation must continue.
At this moment, when Ye Zhibai concentrated, she could speak very fluently.
Although when she was distracted, she would still occasionally blurt out some “pearls of wisdom”.
Ye Zhibai took the fountain pen out of the box again, carefully cradling it in her hands, turning it over, feeling sentimental about the small line of text on it.
Her thoughts… seemed to fly back to those years, to the orphanage that housed her during her childhood.
Ye Zhibai recounted the past events in the calmest manner.
“When I was little, whenever the orphanage handed out snacks, there were always naughty kids who snatched my things to eat. Cool Sister would always stand up at these times, bravely chasing them away. She often gave me her own things to eat, I don’t know why she took care of me so much… sometimes, I really relied on her like a real sister.”
“Grandma Director told me that Cool Sister’s name came about like this — Chi Yuliang, it was just because on the day Grandma Director took her into the orphanage, there was a cool rain falling from the sky, hitting the orphanage’s pond, so she was named that way.”
Guang Yu put the half-finished drink on the bedside table.
She lay on the bed, swinging her little feet, listening very seriously to Ye Zhibai’s recounting of past events.
Guang Yu shook her head, stuck out an index finger, and accurately pointed out the key point!
“Hahaha! So you often had your things snatched to eat at the orphanage! How useless!”
“Is that all you’re focusing on…”
“Uh… also, the Cool Sister you mentioned, her name origin is quite interesting?”
“Tomorrow, you won’t have any drinks.”
“!”
Guang Yu told the truth, but lost her drinks!
How petty!
Guang Yu sat up straight, hugging her big tail pitifully. She thought if she obediently asked some serious questions, maybe tomorrow’s drinks could still be saved.
“Then… what happened to this sister of yours later? I see you seem to treasure that fountain pen very much.”
“Yes, we haven’t seen each other for a long time, but I know she’s doing very well.”
“But, didn’t you say you had a good relationship in the orphanage? Now you say you haven’t seen each other for a long time, why is that?”
As she asked, Guang Yu’s curiosity was also piqued.
Now Ye Zhibai was pleased!
That’s more like it, as a listener, you should have basic listening skills!
Tomorrow, not only will you have drinks, I’ll even add coconut jelly for you!
Ye Zhibai turned her legs in a different direction, changing her sitting position, and continued:
“When I was ten years old, Cool Sister left the orphanage. She was adopted by a kind-hearted couple who were financially well-off but had fertility issues. The couple had always dreamed of adopting a child. When they came to the orphanage to discuss adoption procedures with Grandma Director, they immediately took a liking to Cool Sister, saying they would definitely nurture her talents. On the day she left, our entire orphanage sent Cool Sister off, because we all knew… from then on, she would live a new life free from worries about food and clothing, in luxury. This was a great thing.”
“That does sound good,” Guang Yu nodded in agreement. “Leaving the orphanage, being adopted into a wealthy family, is definitely better than staying in the orphanage waiting to become self-reliant. Look at you, aren’t you an example of falling into hard times!”
“…”
We’re chatting here, can you not praise one and criticize the other like this!
I may have fallen on hard times, but can we not bring up this sad topic!
Whether Guang Yu would have drinks tomorrow was now swinging back and forth.
Suddenly, Guang Yu seemed to notice something.
The clever little fox directly pointed it out.
“This isn’t right… According to what you said, this Cool Sister cared a lot about you. If she had good living conditions, shouldn’t she have helped you out a bit? Don’t you humans have a saying… ‘When one person attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven’! But she didn’t help you afterwards?”
Guang Yu’s vocabulary was quite extensive, and quite fancy.
Ye Zhibai shook her head gently, meaning to deny Guang Yu’s guess.
“No, in the first few years, Cool Sister was always secretly bringing me things. The snacks her new parents bought for her, portable music players, she would secretly bring them to me, lying that she bought them with her own pocket money. At first, I believed her. But once… her parents discovered that she had been bringing me things all along. They took her away, scolded her, and told her not to do this anymore.”
“Huh? Kind-hearted people who come to adopt children from an orphanage can be so stingy about charitable acts?”
“I said earlier… Guang Yu, that couple just wanted to adopt a child, wasn’t their purpose still to fulfill their own wishes? In this world, there’s rarely completely selfless kindness, that’s what I think.”
“That’s true… humans are quite selfish. Ah… but Ye Zhibai, you’re different! You buy drinks for me!”
?
How to gain the approval of a deity with just a cup of drink?
As Ye Zhibai lowered her head, her silver-white bangs half-covered her eyes, showing some helplessness.
“Actually, this is understandable. That couple was already very responsible. After adopting Cool Sister, I heard they invested a lot of money to nurture her, helping her find tutors for her studies, arranging for her to enter the best middle and high schools in the city, giving her the best living conditions. It was completely elite education. They fulfilled their promise to adopt Cool Sister and help her succeed. At that time, I was just an ignorant kid in the orphanage. No parent would want their child to play with a child of mismatched cultural level, let alone directly give them things. So, I can understand their actions.”
Guang Yu’s starry blue eyes.
For a moment, she couldn’t look away from Ye Zhibai’s slightly sorrowful purple eyes.
This human… is indeed amazing, able to understand what others cannot.
It should be known that she was just a child at that time, yet she could have such a transparent understanding.
Ye Zhibai’s soul is far more clear than ordinary humans.
This was the judgment made by Guang Yu as a deity.
Guang Yu looked away, went to the bedside table to pick up her drink, crossed her legs like an old man, took another big sip of the drink, and before swallowing, continued to ask:
“I see, your sister kept bringing you things without being discovered. How was she discovered that time?”
“Let me think… Oh, right, that time she brought the new bicycle her parents had just bought for her to the orphanage.”
“Pffft!!”
Guang Yu couldn’t hold it in and sprayed her drink all over the floor!
Are you and your Cool Sister both crazy?!
One dares to give, and one dares to receive?!
Sending such a conspicuous item, who else would they catch if not you!
Ye Zhibai’s eyes were now filled with sorrow, not for the past events, but for the wet floor in front of her.
“Guang Yu, you’ll be responsible for cleaning the floor later.”
“Oh… okay, let’s finish talking about this first. So after that, you and this Cool Sister didn’t contact each other anymore?”
“No, we were friends on QQ, and would occasionally chat a bit. I had already made it clear to her that I would slowly improve my life through my own efforts, so she didn’t need to take risks sending things anymore. Although at first she still sent this and that, gradually, after my persistent persuasion, she stopped this behavior. Actually, I’m quite relieved… From then on, Cool Sister’s life in her new family became more stable.”
People shouldn’t be bound by the past.
Guang Yu nodded.
Deities are deities, their perspective on things is always different!
“Mm-hmm, I understand. So you didn’t get a chance to improve your life before you were killed. That’s truly tragic.”
“Sometimes I think… if I had a driver’s license, I would really want to drive a small pickup truck and perish together with you.”
“Huh?”
Just kidding.
Perishing with you, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?
Ye Zhibai put the fountain pen she was holding on the bed.
Looking at it as if looking at some treasure.
Although her cold little face showed no warmth, Guang Yu could feel that Ye Zhibai was reminiscing and feeling content.
“This fountain pen was a birthday gift she gave me in my first year of high school, which was also the first year I moved out of the orphanage to live independently in an apartment. Ha… although I don’t know when my birthday is, according to Cool Sister, she gave me the gift on the day Grandma Director brought me back to the welfare institute. Guang Yu, this was the only birthday gift I ever received in my past life, you know? How could I not cherish it? It can’t be lost.”
