Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

"I'm really not used to you praising me like this... Anyway, this is just my duty."

Being praised so sincerely by Su Qing, Shizuka Hiratsuka turned her head away, touched the back of her head, and said embarrassedly.

"Just now you said it was meddling in other people's business, but now it's your duty?" Su Qing joked after finishing the remaining ramen in the bowl.

"...Tsk, never mind. I still like the way you praised me just now."

After Shizuka Hiratsuka drank the wine in the glass, just when she was about to pour some more, she found that the bottle was empty.

"Xiao Qingzi, bring me some more wine~"

Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at Su Qing with drunken eyes, her cheeks slightly flushed, with a malicious smile on the corner of her mouth. She stretched out her hand, waved gently at Su Qing, and laughed.

"What kind of weird name is that?" Su Qing had a black face, not knowing whether the other party was really drunk or pretending to be drunk.

"Stop interfering in a girl's affairs! Are you going or not?" Shizuka Hiratsuka said as she lay on the dining table, waving at Su Qing with her hand.

"At your age, you can't be called a girl, right?" Su Qing was helpless. In order to prevent the other party from accidentally touching the bottle, he took it over.

Well, the bottle is empty.

The definition of a girl is usually between 13 and 18 years old, but Kojima usually extends this concept to 20 years old.

This period coincides with the physical and psychological development stage of adolescence, especially the latter.

Mahiru, Yui, and Yukino, whom Su Qing knew, could naturally all be described as "girls".

As for Hiratsuka Shizuka?

Su Qing reserves the right to sue.

"Ah? Who are you looking down on? Are you the Chinese teacher or am I the Chinese teacher?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka was probably really drunk. Although she wasn't drunk to the point of acting crazy, her temperament was no longer as steady as usual.

No, maybe this is the true face of the great devil Shizuka Hiratsuka!

"You are my Chinese teacher, is that okay?" Su Qing said soothingly twice, then got up and left.

He planned to ask Ms. Keiko whether Hiratsuka Shizuka's current situation was normal.

"Who are you trying to please?" Hiratsuka Shizuka leaned her ruddy face on her arm, looking at Su Qing's departing back. She suddenly shouted in dissatisfaction:

"Hey, come back here! You little brat!"

Although she was shouting, the volume was only loud enough for her to hear.

The originally fierce words seemed weak and powerless at this moment, and instead made people feel pity and a desire to protect them.

"Ms. Huizi, I'm here again." When Su Qing arrived at the kitchen, he first greeted her politely.

However, before he could explain anything, Huizi covered her mouth and asked:

"That kid Ajing should have finished the bottle of wine, right?"

"That's right." Su Qing nodded.

"It's okay. It's normal for that kid to be like that. He's just too stressed out at work. You came here to say goodbye to us, right?"

Huizi smiled with success, and the wrinkles on her face became clearer, but unexpectedly she became more kind.

"Is it normal? That's good." Su Qing was relieved at first, then nodded.

"Yeah. It's getting late, and she should have classes the next day, so I thought I'd take her back to rest first.

Also, I apologize to the teacher for not being able to greet you."

This time when he went to see Keiko, he was more intending to say goodbye to her on behalf of Shizuka Hiratsuka.

It has nothing to do with human relationships.

This is just the most basic etiquette of being a human being.

"You kid, oh, you really look better and better the more I look at you." For some reason, Huizi once again looked Su Qing up and down and teased:

"You've been confessed to by many girls at school, right?"

“The students on the island were unexpectedly enthusiastic.”

Su Qing pondered for a while and said.

"Haha. Really?" Huizi smiled, but she didn't seem very satisfied with the answer. She continued to ask:

"So... do you like passionate girls?"

Faced with Huizi's determination to get to the bottom of the matter, Su Qing remained calm, his eyes drifting to a place not far away. When Huizi noticed this, his eyes followed him.

Su Qing's gaze moved slowly, and finally stopped on the middle-aged man who first greeted Hiratsuka Shizuka.

There was nothing special about the middle-aged man, he could be said to be very ordinary.

His appearance and figure have no distinctive features, making him difficult to remember.

If you put him on a busy street, he would be swallowed up by the crowd in an instant.

This is probably what a passerby role is like.

"That person should be your husband, right?" Su Qing asked.

"Xiong Jun, this kid is saying hello to you." Huizi shouted to her husband. The middle-aged man responded quickly. After saying hello and showing a kind smile, Su Qing and Huizi could no longer see each other.

It seems that the work at hand has not been completed yet.

"I'm sorry, he's always like this when he makes ramen." Keiko apologized first, then looked reminiscent, "Come to think of it... Xiong-kun and I have been married for more than 40 years."

"You must have had a pretty good time together, right?" Su Qing asked after Huizi finished expressing her feelings, without interrupting her memories.

"Are you happy? If you can ignore the big and small quarrels." When talking about this topic, Huizi's smile was a little bitter and helpless, but more of it was a sense of happiness.

Light accompanies darkness, darkness breeds evil thoughts, and evil thoughts are eventually purified by light.

So, nothing is 100% pure.

Su Qing firmly believes this, and it will probably be the same in the future.

Su Qing didn't know how Huizi and his wife felt when they had a quarrel, and whether they had ever thought about divorce.

That doesn't matter.

Because it's all over.

So what is important?

Could it be that they are now standing in front of Su Qing as husband and wife?

As for the future?

The future is just a hypothesis.

It is still an assumption that cannot be proved and does not need to be proved.

After all, the day when "the future" is proven to be not far away is coming.

The future becomes the present.

And now, it has become the past.

So, this is a meaningless topic.

"That's happiness. After all, I can feel happiness from the smile on your face." Su Qing said with a smile.

But it was obvious that he was talking nonsense again.

Su Qing couldn't even understand the emotions in the stories in the book.

How could I possibly feel Huizi's happiness at this moment?

Today is just the first day they meet.

And now, he only knew that he should say this now because of his overly terrible but unconscious memory.

"Really? You really know how to say something that makes people happy."

Staying together with your lover for many years, and having a sincere relationship praised like this by a young man, anyone would have a sincere smile on their face at this moment.

but.

If Su Qing's tone had a hint of envy, she would have smiled more brightly.

Speaking of her husband, Huizi subconsciously stroked the ring on her finger.

Obviously, it was just one of a pair.

As for the other one, you can tell who has it.

Su Qing narrowed his eyes slightly and saw more clearly.

It was a silver ring, shining brightly under the bright light at the kitchen door.

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