BXBX NOVEL Chapter 472 Going Back to the Hometown
Chapter 472 Going Back to the Hometown
“Good.” Xiao Xiaopan immediately jumps out of bed happily. And right in front of Li Yong, she takes off her cartoon pajamas and puts on a brand new gym outfit that she prepared. Then, she puts on a pair of clean white sports shoes for hiking.
Since her hometown is in a mountainous area, this kind of outfit will help her climb the mountain.
Li Yong is also dressed in a sports outfit. As the two of them stand together, they do look like a couple.
Looking at Li Yong’s dumbfounded appearance, Xiao Xiaopan says softly, “Yong, I’m done.”
Only then does Li Yong come to his senses. He was dumbfounded just now when he was faced with Xiao Xiaopan’s perfect and delicate body. What he sees in person directly and what he sees with the clairvoyant vision turned on are completely different!
There was a voyeuristic feeling of seeing something through his clairvoyant vision. No one knows about it. Only he appreciates it alone.
Xiao Xiaopan’s made Li Yong see her body in person, making him excited and impulsive, quite impulsive.
The two of them had sex once, making them have some understanding of each other’s bodies. However, after such a long time, at first glance, Li Yong seems to be more impulsive than he did when he saw her body for the first time. It makes him absent-minded, which he doesn’t even notice by himself.
Except for the first time when he faced Han Lu, he rarely becomes distracted.
“Oh, you’re beautiful,” Li Yong compliments.
“I bought this set of clothes especially a few days ago and was done with washing them. It is the first time that I wear it today. Anyway, I am going back to my hometown and should always have to wear something pretty, right?” Xiao Xiaopan smiles shyly, thinking that Li Yong is praising her clothes.
Actually, what Li Yong is praising is her gentle movements while undressing and dressing as well as her shy and feminine and charming appearance after taking off her clothes and before putting them on. She was obviously a little nervous in secret. But she still didn’t deliberately avoid Li Yong.
Li Yong doesn’t know the fact that deep inside Xiao Xiaopan’s heart, she has regarded him as her husband.
How can there be a wife who will kick her husband out before getting changed in front of her husband?
“Yong, let’s go!” Being stared at by Li Yong, Xiao Xiaopan is getting more and more nervous. She can feel Li Yong’s hot eyes and strong lust. Having just finished dressing, she doesn’t want her clothes to be roughly torn down by Li Yong again. She only prepared this set of new clothing. What should she do if it were torn?
Just now, based on the fact that when she was naked, Li Yong didn’t touch her, she already knows that Li Yong came over here early without that kind of thought in his mind. Li Yong wants to accompany her to go back home sincerely.
She hurriedly lifts up her suitcase and gift boxes as she heads out.
“Let me do it!” Seeing that Xiao Xiaopan prepared a lot of things, Li Yong goes forward to help.
After arriving downstairs and loading Xiao Xiaopan’s gifts into the car, Li Yong hits the road with Xiao Xiaopan.
Along the way, the two of them talk about their hometown. And from what they say, Li Yong can tell that Xiao Xiaopan has deep feelings for her hometown. This seems to be the first time she has returned home after a long trip. And she seems to be particularly excited.
Li Yong, on the contrary, doesn’t have much affection for his hometown. He always feels that his hometown lies everywhere and yet nowhere. This may be the special emotions of orphans, which only those who are fatherless, motherless, and rootless can understand.
As they talk and chat, Xiao Xiaopan falls asleep. She doesn’t sleep for long before she wakes up again.
Seeing that the sky is slightly bright and the car has driven into the mountain, Xiao Xiaopan grows excited.
“Look, that’s Heavenly King Mountain. I went there once with my grandfather to pick off the medicine. And that time, we picked off so much medicine that we couldn’t carry it on our backs before we got home! So we could only throw some away, which was a pity...” This is the memory of Xiao Xiaopan’s before she was stupid. Although it happened very long ago, she still remembers it very vividly.
She opens the window of the car. As the cool breeze in the mountain blows through her, she stares at the scenery in the distance, laughing and giggling for a while and then becoming silent again. When the car drives into the small village where she once lived, she suddenly closes the window of the car and cries quietly.
As the saying goes, the impending homecoming unnerves me so much that I shy away from asking about my homeland from the locals.
Li Yong slows down and asks with concern, “Xiaopan, why are you crying?”
“It’s nothing. I’m fine.” Xiao Xiaopan hurriedly wipes her tears, only to find that she can’t dry them.
Looking at the familiar and yet strange place, she feels very emotionally complicated at the scene. And she thinks of a lot of things in an instant as she recalls the past. Whether it is happy or sad things, whether it is the intimate or indifferent ones, they all make her shed tears.
She is as if a person who died and suddenly came back to life. After experiencing life and death, the waves of emotions within her are so turbulent that only when she sheds tears will she be a little calmer.
Li Yong is distressed by what he sees. And in order to divert Xiao Xiaopan’s sad, agitated, and complex emotions, he points to a tall building in the distance and says, “Xiaopan, look at that four-story building, which is like an ultra-European villa. Are there any foreigners living in our village?”
Xiao Xiaopan takes a glance at the villa and ends up staring in the direction of the school, “Yong, look, that’s the school where we studied together. More than ten years have passed, it’s still so shabby. I want to donate my money to the school, is that okay?”
“Of course you can.” Li Yong smiles.
“It’s the one million dollars you gave me,” Xiao Xiaopan says seriously.
“Oh, no problem.” The current Li Yong doesn’t care about this small amount of money at all. As long as Xiao Xiaopan is happy, donating a million dollars to the school will be okay for Li Yong, let alone ten million dollars.
He drives the car directly into the school. However, there isn’t even a single person in the dilapidated school. It seems that it has been deserted. They walk around the school and end up finding the classroom where they once studied together.
However, they don’t see a single student. Nor do they meet a single teacher.
They want to donate money. But no one will take it.
In the end, Li Yong has to take Xiao Xiaopan home first. And he is surprised when he arrives at the front door of his house. It turns out that the large four-story villa-like building in the village is actually his home.
Crippled Uncle and Widow Wang are playing mahjong with the villagers in their courtyard. And when they see that Li Yong has returned, Crippled Uncle immediately jumps up and comes to the front of Li Yong rapidly as he hugs him.
“Young Master, you’re back!” He is so excited.
“Xiaopan and I came back here to have a look, Uncle,” Li Yong suppresses his excitement and says faintly.
“Good. Good. And you know that you should come back, which is good.” The cripple is too excited to say anything further.
“Your uncle isn’t crippled. Why are you still calling him crippled Uncle?” A villager laughs out loud.
“He can call me whatever he wants.” As the cripple laughs, he urges Widow Wang to cook.
Widow Wang is still the same, who has freckles and pockmarks all over her face. Moreover, she is stricken with various illnesses. There is no telling as to why the cripple fell in love with her and insisted on marrying her and making her become a member of the family. However, it is clear that she is also happy.
Knowing that Li Yong dislikes her, she rushes into the kitchen and starts cooking.
In fact, the current Li Yong no longer dislikes her. Nor will he care about the opinions of the outsiders. He feels that as long as Crippled Uncle and Widow Wang are happy and joyful together, he will never object to their marriage even if he could go back to the past.
“Is this that silly daughter of the Xiao family? Whew! She is so good-looking!”
“She doesn’t seem to be stupid anymore!”
“Don’t you know me, silly girl?” Some villagers greet Xiao Xiaopan. But Xiao Xiaopan can’t remember anything, looking confused. She only has memories from before she was ten years old on her mind. After she turned ten, she was stupid and remembered nothing.
“Get out. Whoever says Xiaopan is stupid again should never come to my house anymore,” The cripple curses angrily.
He has taken Xiao Xiaopan as Li Yong’s wife and will never allow anyone to talk nonsense. In fact, he doesn’t know that Xiao Xiaopan has been cured by Li Yong. He only pays attention to Li Yong with awe, excitement, and joy in his eyes.
“Xiaoyong, sit inside the house. Sit inside the house.” He leads Li Yong and Xiao Xiaopan into the living room happily. And he also moves the chairs to the side of Li Yong and Xiao Xiaopan, leaving all the villagers outside, who are here to have a look.
“Uncle, when was our building built?” Li Yong measures the living room. He feels that although it can’t catch up with the luxurious decoration in the city, it is considered to be a mansion in this countryside.
“Last time, you came back, healed my leg, and gave me another half a million dollars. I used all the money to build this building, which is your wedding room. I’ve prepared the room for you and cleaned it often. I just cleaned it yesterday. You can live in it directly. I’ve been thinking for the past few days that you guys should come back. And then you guys are really here. My dream does come true!” The cripple grins, revealing a row of teeth, which are not white at all.
Xiao Xiaopan asks softly, “Uncle, where is my grandfather buried?”
Hearing Xiao Xiaopan’s voice, the cripple realizes that she isn’t silly anymore. Then he immediately laughs again. However, he suddenly notices that Xiao Xiaopan is a little sad and is asking about matters related to her dead grandfather repeatedly. When he looks at Li Yong again, he finds that he also looks serious. So he holds back his happiness and also shows a sad face as he says, “In the back of the mountain.”
“I want to go and pay my respects to Grandpa,” Xiao Xiaopan sadly says, trying to hold back her tears.
“Good. After lunch, I’ll prepare some yellow paper and offerings. Then I will bring you over there,” The cripple says seriously.
Li Yong gets up, goes outside, and brings down the gift boxes from the car. Seeing that there are many villagers converging outside, he takes out a few packs of cigarettes and candies. After that, he distributes the cigarettes to the men and gives the candies to the women and children.
Many of these people mocked him for being an orphan with no parents. And some of them bullied him often. At this time, he doesn’t take the past deeds to his heart at all. As the saying goes, a smile defuses the grudge and hatred.
What he doesn’t expect is that the more generous he is, the more ashamed these people are instead.
“Xiaoyong, I’m sorry about the things in the past.” Some people start apologizing to him. And they are too shy to take over his cigarettes. Li Yong is giving away a pack of cigarettes to each man. These are all good cigarettes. No one in the mountain has ever seen this kind of cigarette before. However, the price of it is clearly marked on it, indicating that a pack of cigarettes cost two hundred and eighteen dollars. This kind of gift is more expensive than anything their sons and daughters have given them.
“Xiaoyong, you’re now the most successful person in our village.”
“Even if all of them add together, they can’t beat you.”
“What kind of work are you doing outside? This car is worth millions of dollars! That’s great!”
“Xiaoyong, thank you.”
“I’m sorry. If there’s anything you need, just tell me.”
The villagers keep greeting him, all revealing a look of envy and pleasantness. In this extremely impoverished place, once the villagers who live in material and spiritual deprivation meet a rich man, they act in the way when vagrants in the ancient time met someone as rich as Jew. The pleasantry and awe that they show on their faces make Li Yong feel heartbreaking.
Li Yong doesn’t talk much with these people. He randomly chats with them and then goes back to his house.