The Little Duck 53p2

Chapter 53 p2

Actually, besides walking the duck and dog, Jian Xin would also go out from time to time now.

With the double success of Moon Between the Clouds‘s reputation and data, she had received a lot of commercial jobs. Some of the projects were a little bigger, and her own recording equipment at home was not enough, so she had to go to the studio’s recording studio to record.

At first, Yan Lu would also be responsible for picking her up and dropping her off. Later, when the number of times increased a little, Jian Xin felt that it was not good to always be like this, so she just took the subway back and forth by herself.

Mainly, no one was anyone’s mom. To always be picked up and dropped off like this, she couldn’t be so righteous.

Besides, she had gone to the hospital for a follow-up check-up a while ago, and the doctor had said that her leg was recovering very well and she could appropriately increase her daily activity—she was no longer the self who felt pain just from going out, so there was no need to be specially taken care of in everything.

Actually, it was also good to go out by herself. On the way back, she could wander around with her crutches and give herself a short break from being at home for a long time.

When a day’s recording was over, she passed by a strange boutique, and her peripheral vision, through the glass, saw a row of neatly arranged moon lamps, and she couldn’t help but stop.

In some distant and somewhat blurry memories, Yan Lu seemed to have had a considerable interest in such decorations.

She seemed to have said that she would buy one for her, but that night they seemed to have had a fight, and when she woke up, she had no memory of that casual promise.

Looking at the row of small moons, Jian Xin couldn’t help but tilt her head slightly.

Some of the things she couldn’t figure out back then suddenly became a little clearer in her heart at this moment.

The wind in mid-April brought a hint of a late spring chill, making her shiver.

When she came back to her senses, she shook her head with a bitter smile and looked up at the sea of clouds in the sky.

For a moment, a very subtle feeling flashed through her heart.

—Winter is really over.

No wonder she always felt that the blue plumbago on the balcony had been blooming much better these past few days.

The subway on the way back swayed slowly. A kind little girl saw her with her crutches and gave her a seat.

Jian Xin never took on private work. The contact information she left on various platforms was all for the studio.

Thanks to the song “Only the Moon,” not only had Jian Xin’s commercial jobs increased recently, but the studio’s decent jobs had also increased a lot.

At this moment, the group was still dividing up some tasks.

And the small band group next door was talking about some distant future.

Just as Jian Xin was about to join in this idle chat, she was attracted by the WeChat notification that suddenly popped up at the top.

It was Huang He who was asking in her family group if she had any plans to go home for May Day this year.

Jian Xin thought for a moment and typed back, “I haven’t decided yet. There are still about ten days, right? I’ll talk about it then.”

To this, Madam Huang said, “How are there still about ten days? Just drag it out. When you suddenly want to come back, the tickets will be hard to buy!”

Jian Xin pursed her lips and slipped out of the group chat.

The next second, her eyes suddenly lit up.

—The dorm group chat, which had been quiet for a long time, had suddenly become active again.

Jian Xin curiously clicked in and saw that everyone was chatting idly about a meal.

She scrolled up the chat history and couldn’t find a cause, so she curiously popped up.

I’m Alive Again: Why are you guys suddenly secretly planning a meal?

Yang Tian: It’s not a secret, it’s very open, okay!

Li Zhu: Female celebrity! Capture!

Zhao Zhao Zhao Yiran: Wow!

Shuangyi: Great God Jian has appeared!

I’m Alive Again: [No no no no no]

I’m Alive Again: You guys be normal, I’m scared!

Zhao Zhao Zhao Yiran: [Okay okay okay]

Yang Tian: [Okay okay okay]

Shuangyi: [Okay okay okay]

Li Zhu: [Not okay not okay]

Li Zhu: I can’t be normal at all!

Li Zhu: My roommate is so successful. One is a super famous great author, and the other is a big shot who can write songs for TV dramas. No one would believe it if I told them!

Yang Tian: [Hahahahaha]

Li Zhu: Is Jian Xin coming back for May Day?

Li Zhu: I’ve already looped your new song almost eight hundred times. When are you going to sing it live for us to hear?

Zhao Zhao Zhao Yiran: Yeah

Yang Tian: I want to hear it too! Is it in the KTV yet?

Shuangyi: It’s super popular, of course it is!

I’m Alive Again: Actually, I haven’t decided if I’m coming back yet. I’m not sure if I’ll have work then.

Actually, saying that she wasn’t sure if she had work was just an excuse. The real reason was that the matter of turning into a duck hadn’t been solved yet, and she had gone to the temple to pray, but it hadn’t worked at all. In fact, she was crossing over more and more frequently.

In her current state, she was afraid that her family would find out something was wrong if she went back.

Mmm… actually, there was another reason.

She was finally getting along quite well with Yan Lu, and there was a new animated movie coming out during the May Day holiday. She wanted to go and see it with her early.

Yang Tian: Are you really not coming back?

Yang Tian: But there’s a class reunion at the end of the month.

I’m Alive Again: Huh? At the end of the month?

Shuangyi: The time hasn’t been set yet. It’s either April 30th, or the 1st or 2nd, right?

Yang Tian: This is the first class reunion after graduation.

I’m Alive Again: How come I don’t know?

Yang Tian: Did you block the class group chat?

Jian Xin was taken aback for a moment, then silently switched out and took a look at the class group chat.

Sure enough, the class president had tagged everyone this afternoon, saying that there would be a class reunion.

The originally quiet group had suddenly become lively.

Jian Xin didn’t look at any of the messages and just scrolled up for a long time, finally finding the reason for this very sudden class reunion.

It was simple. Someone had heard the song she had written and had posted it in the group in shock. Then someone had sighed that they hadn’t seen her in a long time, and someone else had sighed that it had been ten years since they had graduated from high school.

Then the class president had come out and sent three stickers, which were [confused], [salty fish is shocked by this], and [a flash of inspiration].

Finally, he had asked, “It’s been ten years. Should we have a class reunion?”

This proposal had been approved by six or seven people over the next few days, and five days later, the class president had suddenly come back to life and had decided on this class reunion.

It was just in time for May Day, and many people would probably be going home, so he thought that everyone could see if they could find some time at the end of April or the beginning of May to have a good get-together.

Jian Xin scrolled down and saw the class president’s message tagging everyone.

Zhang Yue: Class reunion at the end of the month! Please inform each other!

After this message, there were many replies.

The unfamiliar yet familiar names made Jian Xin a little dazed.

Someone asked—is Jian Xin coming this time? I’m still listening to her song lately!

The roommates from 509 said that they would go and ask later!

When Jian Xin was mentioned, it was inevitable that another person who had once been very close to Jian Xin would be mentioned.

—Hey, is our class’s great author Yan Lu coming?

—I don’t know, she’s not in the group. Does anyone have her contact information?

—Isn’t Yang Tian in the same dorm as her?

—Don’t look at me, I can’t contact her!

—Jian Xin definitely has it. The two of them were inseparable back then.

—Oh, right!

Jian Xin guiltily closed the group chat.

No, no, no, it’s best if no one comes to ask her…

Sometimes, the more she wanted to escape, the more she had nowhere to run.

The roommates in the dorm group chat started to ask her about Yan Lu.

She frowned and replied, “I’m still outside, talk to you later!” and then scurried to close the WeChat interface.

Before she closed it, the last sentence she saw was—are you and Yan Lu still as close as before? Can you get her to come to the class reunion this time?

To be ashamed to say, her current relationship with Yan Lu was somewhat hard to describe.

If you say it’s good, there’s a bit of subtlety in it.

If you say it’s not good? She was indeed living at Yan Lu’s house.

To put it nicely, she should be recovering from her injuries at Yan Lu’s house now, and also trying to find a way to solve some difficult and complicated problems.

To put it bluntly, she was now intermittently and irregularly being a duck at Yan Lu’s house…

No other meaning, just a simple, real, physiological sense of being a duck.

—What an embarrassing reality!

The subway arrived. Jian Xin came back to her senses, hurriedly got up and walked out, and slowly returned to her familiar community in the cool wind.

The moment she rang the doorbell, a familiar dog bark came from inside.

The door opened, and Xin Xin was the first to pounce on her.

Jian Xin bent down slightly, patted its fluffy little head, and when she closed the door and looked up, she looked at Yan Lu with a grin.

“After I finished recording the song today, I wandered around for a while, so I came back a little late.”

“Who asked you?” Yan Lu said faintly, turning to walk towards the study, not forgetting to add, “No one cares.”

Jian Xin made a face at her back, then shrugged, and with Xin Xin’s mischievous obstruction, she changed her slippers and slowly walked into the house.

She stood in the middle of the living room, glanced at the old-fashioned grandfather clock on the wall, and shouted towards the study, “What do you want to eat?”

“Anything.”

Yan Lu’s voice was not loud, and Jian Xin didn’t hear it very clearly, but it was just two words. She could guess with her toes—it was either “anything” or “whatever.”

Jian Xin turned and walked towards the kitchen. Cauliflower and Xin Xin both followed, circling around her.

She opened the refrigerator and looked inside. She didn’t know why, but she suddenly really wanted to eat boiled instant noodles—the kind she used to secretly eat as a late-night snack behind her family’s back in high school.

So she really did boil two packets of instant noodles. Just like back then, she added a lot of meat and vegetables, and feeling that the taste was not enough, she also added two large spoonfuls of chili.

Xin Xin was so fragrant that it was barking, but it couldn’t eat a single bite.

Cauliflower was quacking on the side, as if in mockery—of course, it didn’t quack for a few times before it was pinned to the ground and bullied by Xin Xin with its paw.

When the two of them were eating noodles, Jian Xin couldn’t help but sigh, “Sure enough, instant noodles are best when they’re not instant… It’s been so long since I’ve tasted this.”

Yan Lu was silent for a moment, and as if she didn’t care, she asked faintly, “How long is a long time?”

“After you left my house,” Jian Xin said with a smile, her eyebrows arching. “I’m too lazy to make a late-night snack by myself. I just go to sleep when I’m hungry at night.”

“…”

Jian Xin lowered her head and slurped a mouthful of noodles, then suddenly remembered something and glanced at Yan Lu.

“If you have something to say, just say it. Don’t be so hesitant.”

“Oh, it’s like this…” Jian Xin cleared her throat. “I saw in the high school class group chat today that they want to have a class reunion on May Day, since it’s been ten years.”

“Oh…”

“Someone asked me if you would go,” Jian Xin said, then suddenly laughed and shook her head to herself. “I don’t even have to ask to know that you’re definitely not interested!”

“…To be honest, it’s been so long, and my memory is not good. I’m sure I don’t know many people anymore, so I don’t think there’s much point in going.”

“It’s just that Yang Tian and the others really want to get together, so…”

“Okay,” Yan Lu said softly.

“Eh?” Jian Xin stopped her one-sided chatter and asked with some surprise, tilting her head. “Okay? Okay what? The class reunion?”

“Mmm.”

“—Whoa!”

Jian Xin suddenly stood up, limped to the window, tilted her head, and looked up at the sky.

Yan Lu was puzzled. “What are you looking at?”

Jian Xin: “Looking for the sun!”

Yan Lu: “…It’s already dark, what sun are you looking for?”

Jian Xin: “I just feel that the probability of finding the sun at night should be greater than you being willing to attend a class reunion.”

She said, then turned around with a smile in her eyes. “Are you giving me face?”

Yan Lu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and shook her head to explain, “Don’t overthink it. I’m afraid you’ll sleep like the dead on the road and turn into a duck to ask me for help—Nanjiang is so far away, I can’t save you.”

Jian Xin tried hard to suppress the corners of her mouth and nodded seriously. “That makes sense, very thoughtful, as expected of you!”

She thought, after she finished eating, she should buy her ticket home in advance.

“Don’t you say, although there’s no sun outside the window, the moon has already climbed very high!”

She said, then sat back down next to Yan Lu, her eyes full of an unconcealable joy.