vstars Chapter 157 Starting Anew
Chapter 157 Starting Anew
Five days is quite a short time. Yufei felt like she hadn't spent much time with her parents and friends before she had to return to the wetlands.
Speaking of friends, she'd noticed these past few days that Lin Tiantian, Zhao Jing, and her little cousin had been working a little too hard. Martial arts master Xuan Yuan Yongxu had been praising Lin Tiantian's diligence and rapid progress to Yufei.
Having spent decades together across two lifetimes, how could they not understand their thoughts? Their hearts were filled with emotion, and they desperately wanted to keep up with her and fight alongside her.
Should she increase the intensity for them? Yufei smiled brightly.
However, this plan can only be put into action after she returns from the other world, so she'll use this time to carefully plan it out in her mind.
At the same time, her friends felt their hair stand on end. "Mom! What do we do? I feel like something weird is watching me! T^T"
When the day of parting arrived, Yufei's initial plan was quite good. She wanted to leave gracefully; it wasn't a matter of life and death, so there was no need to make it so sad.
But Ms. Liu Meili wouldn't have it, her eyes were blurry.
"Nannan, you've lost weight since your last visit. I've prepared some food for you. Take this and eat well." With that, she gave Yufei all the ingredients she could carry: cured fish, cured meat, cured pig's trotters, and turtle—everything currently produced in Longyuan Town.
This left Yufei feeling helpless. In fact, the people at the wetland park base had been buying a lot of food, drinks, and supplies in Longyuan Town over the past five days, all in preparation for their trip.
The food her mother prepared for her was all available at the base! However, since it was all a token of her mother's love, Yufei didn't refuse and accepted it all.
Besides the food, her mother also prepared fried chili peppers, a specialty of Longyuan Town, for her, which really surprised Yufei.
She completely forgot about this! This can be used to make a very appetizing fish and shrimp paste with fried chili peppers, and also as her favorite snack, fried chili peppers.
Yufei's mom also prepared two kinds of fried chili peppers based on this: one was raw fried chili peppers, and the other was fried chili peppers that had already been stir-fried in oil with salted egg yolks.
She almost cried from the fragrance.
"I knew you'd love this! Your grandma specially pickled it for you, and your grandpa stir-fried it for you early this morning. He told me to make sure you took it with you, saying you love it."
Seeing her daughter, who had previously been indifferent to the rich and lavish food, now drooling over the two bags of food, Liu Meili said to Yufei in an annoyed tone.
It's true what they say about grandparents and grandchildren being so close; the older generation treats the younger generation this way, and the younger generation treats the older generation the same way. Only her grandparents truly understand her daughter.
Yufei looked around after hearing her mother's words.
Where are my grandparents? I don't see them.
"You're going back. Your grandpa said he doesn't like parting, so he won't come to see you off. But when you get back, stay at their place for a few nights and they'll cook you something delicious."
Liu Meili said
Yufei nodded
"Mom~ I'm leaving now, no need to see me off, it's like a life-or-death farewell, oh dear."
"Pah! Pah! Children say the darndest things, children say the darndest things!"
Looking at her daughter, who was jumping around while covering her forehead, Liu Meili silently prayed to all the gods she knew, telling them that her daughter was just being silly and shouldn't take her words to heart.
Fearing that Yufei would say something that would terrify her, Li Aiguo, who had been silently helping Yufei, quickly told her to get lost. He busied himself helping Yufei load her things into the car.
"My dear, Dad can't help much with this. Be careful on the road and eat well," Li Aiguo said to Yufei after helping her pack all her belongings and checking that there was nothing else to prepare.
A tall, burly man, over 1.7 meters tall, had tears welling up in Yufei's eyes, a rare sight for Yufei.
"Dad, 15 days will pass quickly. Wait for me to come back and cook you something delicious."
"Well! It's getting late, let's go."
Li Aiguo turned his back, as if wiping away tears. Yufei sighed, got into the car, and drove off.
If you keep comforting me and me like this, it won't leave. I just never expected that my usually strong father would cry.
Back at the wetland park base, everyone was busy, with trucks constantly coming and going. People Yufei encountered along the way quickly greeted her and then hurried away.
Completely different from the atmosphere of their recent parting, this place was orderly and full of hopeful energy, making Yufei unconsciously feel that she should do something and couldn't just sit idle.
She arrived at the location of the crossing formation, familiar with the area. Lei Jun and the others had been waiting for Yufei there for some time, while a group of people were stretching and loosening their muscles.
"Yufei, you're finally here! We were so bored T^T" Li Lanjuan said to Yufei in a tearful, coquettish voice.
"I saw how bustling it was outside, and I thought everyone was swamped with work, figuring out if anyone needed help. Why are you all so free?" Yufei asked, puzzled, when she heard Sister Juan say she was idle.
"Xiao Yufei, it would have been better if you hadn't brought this up. It makes me so angry. They said we have a more important mission later on, and Dou won't let us get involved at all. Look, even Captain Lei is bored and picking his fingers!"
As soon as Yufei asked the question, Li Lanjuan launched into a long explanation, telling her what their lives had been like for the past five days—nothing but training.
What might be considered enjoying life by others is incredibly difficult for them. A group of colleagues are busy helping them, but they're treated like old men, not allowed to do anything except exercise, and what's worse, they're not even allowed to overdo it.
Yufei couldn't help but find it amusing to see Lei Jun hurriedly pulling his hand back behind his back, pretending he didn't have long fingernails.
"We're leaving soon. You'll have something to do, Sister Juan," Yufei said, offering only half-hearted words of comfort, though there was a hint of schadenfreude in her voice.
Li Lanjuan, annoyed, tickled Yufei's ticklish spot, and the two started playing around. Their feelings for each other warmed up during this playful interaction.
Another hour or so passed, and apart from Grandpa Zhu and a few high-ranking officials from the military region who were unable to attend to other matters, all the other researchers and the project leader arrived. The researchers prepared themselves in front of the various devices used to study the tunneling formation.
The project leader brought six dimensional spaces to Yufei and her group, and handed them over to Yufei.
"These six dimensional pockets are filled with all the supplies you need and that we can think of."
The project manager explained the contents of the dimensional pocket to Yufei and the others.
“那个可以装100吨物资的必要空间我们购买了50个能装1吨物资的大冰柜，里面装满了我们在龙渊镇采购的猪肉2吨、牛肉2吨、羊肉2吨、小龙虾4吨、水鱼1吨、各种河鱼共3吨、嗦螺1吨，另外我们还紧急在沿海城市调过来了新鲜海鲜”