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#389 - Extra: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival came a little earlier than usual, and it was also a little different than in the past.

“Zha Yin, what was the Mid-Autumn Festival like last time?”

On the rooftop of Bing City No. 2 High School's teaching building, Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin sat shoulder to shoulder, looking at the round moon in the sky.

During this Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, they should have been at their respective homes eating mooncakes, but how could two young people in the throes of love miss their first Mid-Autumn Festival together?

“Last Mid-Autumn Festival seems to have been spent at school, right? You even ate two of my mooncakes.”

Tan Zuoyin remembered that during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, those experts didn't know what they were thinking, but they had to reschedule the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday to the last day of the holiday, causing them, the high school seniors, to sit bitterly in the classroom for self-study.

But at the time, she didn't think it was a bad thing.

Every year, they spent it at home, and spending it at school was a different kind of experience, especially when she was with a wooden deskmate who didn't understand the romantic atmosphere.

“Really? I remember that last time, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day seemed to be together? We had several days off, and I had a great time.”

Hearing Qi Jing's words, Tan Zuoyin rolled her eyes at him:

“That was the Mid-Autumn Festival before last, not last one. How is your memory so bad? You can even forget this.”

Qi Jing carefully recalled it, and it seemed that the Mid-Autumn Festival of his senior year was indeed spent in the classroom.

He scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly:

“Oh, I remembered the wrong year. It's all because of these two months of summer vacation. I've forgotten almost everything from before.”

Tan Zuoyin continued to recall:

“I remember that I brought two mooncakes in my schoolbag at that time, preparing them as dry food after the evening self-study, but I didn't expect to benefit you, the glutton.”

“I remember, one was five-kernel, and one was red bean paste, very delicious.”

This guy still has a deeper memory of food.

In fact, those two mooncakes were specially brought by Tan Zuoyin for Qi Jing. As a beautiful girl who wants to maintain her figure, how could she add extra meals on a high school evening when she doesn't exercise much?

But this blockhead didn't think of this at all, and he didn't even know that she didn't have the habit of eating late-night snacks. What an idiot.

Qi Jing took out a mooncake from his space and held it in his hand, looking at it and said:

“Those two mooncakes stuffed me to death. I remember that I ate five mooncakes in total before self-study that day.”

“Ah? Five? How didn't you burst? You've already eaten five, why did you still want to eat those two?”

“Of course, it's because these are your mooncakes. I don't know why, but your mooncakes are more delicious than mine.”

“How can mooncakes be delicious or not...”

Tan Zuoyin's voice became smaller and smaller.

So, he was forcing himself to eat that day. Why did she bring two? Wouldn't it be better to bring one? What if this blockhead's stomach is damaged?

Thinking carefully, he seemed to swallow everything she gave him in one gulp, without leaving even a residue. He never said “not delicious” or “can't eat”. What a stupid pig.

It's as if that's not his stomach.

“Be nicer to your body. Know when to eat and when not to eat. Take care of your stomach, and don't get sick one day.”

“Don't worry, I'm now the little prince of love songs, the rookie king, the future king of supernatural powers, a master among masters, absolutely won't get a stomachache.”

“You're just recklessly relying on your good health, right? No, your diet must be controlled!”

“My stomach never gives me feedback. I can't control it.”

“Then I'll help you control it! You can only eat three meals a day. You must eat breakfast every morning. You can't skip it, and you can't eat too much. The situation like you only eating an egg every morning to sleep ten more minutes during senior year can't happen again. Noon......”

......

“Did you hear me?”

“I heard you, I heard you, I respectfully obey Your Majesty's decree! Hey? There seems to be an old man lost down there. Let's go take a look.”

Qi Jing stood by the rooftop, noticing an old man carrying a small sack on the path outside the school, looking around with a worried expression.

Tan Zuoyin pulled him and stretched her head out to look down, and sure enough, there was an old man wearing simple clothes and a black hat below, his eyes full of worry and very confused.

“The old man must be lost. Let's fly down from there.”

Qi Jing spread his wings, and with his arms around Tan Zuoyin, slowly landed on the ground from the corner of the wall.

Then they walked up to the old man and asked:

“Old man, why are you walking alone on the street?”

When the old man saw Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin, it was as if he had found a savior, and he spoke intermittently:

“I want to go home, go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but I can't find the way.”

“It's Mid-Autumn Festival, I have to go home, but I forgot the way home.”

“There's no one on the road, and those cars won't stop. I can't find my home.”

“How can I not go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for reunion. I have to go home to give mooncakes, watch the moon, I have to burn incense, go home.”

Can't find home? Alzheimer's disease?

Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin looked at each other, and then asked:

“Old man, where is your home?”

“My home is on the east side of the village. The biggest house next to the big locust tree at the east end is my home.”

“Old man, what's the name of the village?”

“The name of the village is, is, Xiaogoudong Village, there is a stone puppy at the door, easy to recognize.”

Qi Jing silently opened his phone and searched for the name of the village on it.

Just now, he used Observation Haki to see that the old man didn't have any smart devices on him, and he didn't even have a sign that could prove his identity and contact his family. He could only send him back.

Tan Zuoyin continued to appease the old man:

“Old man, he will find it out in a while, we will send you home.”

Hearing this sentence, the wrinkles tightly wrinkled on the old man's face slowly loosened:

“Can I go home?”

Tan Zuoyin nodded heavily:

“Yes, you can go home in a while.”

“Thank you little girl, thank you young man, thank you, I can go home, thank you, I'll give you mooncakes to eat.”

Saying that, the old man opened the small woven bag he was holding tightly in his hand, revealing the only ten mooncakes inside.

These are the most common mooncakes on the roadside, often used by old people to burn incense.

“Little girl, here are two for you, delicious.”

“Old man, we have them, no need, no need.” Tan Zuoyin declined.

The old man picked up a mooncake and stuffed it into her hand:

“Take it, take it, you have to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.”

Seeing that she couldn't refuse, Tan Zuoyin had to accept one, but who knew that the old man took another one and shoved it into her other hand, so she had to accept it again.

At this time, Qi Jing, who had been holding his mobile phone and searching for a long time, said:

“Zha Yin, I found it. Xiaogoudong Village is not far outside the suburbs. It takes forty minutes by taxi.”

“Young man, here are two for you too, delicious.”

Qi Jing knew that it was impossible to be let go without accepting these two mooncakes, so he had to accept them, but he secretly put four more mooncakes into the bottom of the old man's bag with Universe in Sleeves.

"Grandpa, you've come so far from the village, how did you walk all the way here?"

It's a forty-minute drive! Grandpa is so old, how could he walk so far?

Besides, the name of that village has changed. If I hadn't looked through the old village name records, I wouldn't have been able to find it.

"I didn't come from the village. I... I came from the nursing home."

Ah?

So, he sneaked out of the nursing home.

I just don't know which nursing home it is.

The nearest nursing home in Bing City is quite far from here. How did Grandpa walk so far?

No, no, shouldn't we send him back to the nursing home, instead of that village?

"Grandpa, which nursing home did you come from? Do you remember the name?"

"The nursing home is just called nursing home, it doesn't have a name."

Although Grandpa said that, Tan Zuoyin could tell that the old man was lying.

He remembers the name of the nursing home, but he's not saying it.

It seems he knows it's wrong to sneak out and doesn't want us to send him back.

Is it for a Mid-Autumn Festival reunion?

In that case, should we send him home or back to the nursing home?

Send him home!

Tan Zuoyin and Qi Jing smiled at each other. They thought the same thing: to send the old man home, not to the nursing home.

We have to send him to the home that Grandpa was willing to sneak out and get lost to return to!

"Grandpa, let's take a taxi, and we'll send you home right away."

"Thank you, thank you."

Qi Jing opened the taxi-hailing app on his phone, ready to call a car, but suddenly a police car turned the corner and stopped in front of them.

What happened?

I didn't pull out a gun, did I?

Qi Jing subconsciously thought that this police car was here to confiscate his guns again, but a middle-aged man hurried out from the back and shouted towards them:

"Dad, why did you run here?"

Who is he calling? Oh, he's not calling me.

Qi Jing quickly stepped aside and saw the middle-aged man run to the old man:

"Dad, why did you sneak out of the nursing home?"

"I want to go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is a mooncake, delicious, for you." The old man took out a mooncake from the woven bag and shoved it into his son's hand.

"Dad, if you want to go home, just give us a call, don't sneak out."

"I forgot."

......

Seeing the old man's son come to find him, Qi Jing's heart and phone were put down.

Tan Zuoyin leaned closer and whispered:

"It seems like we should have called the police first."

"It seems so."

They had both forgotten about calling the police.

"Little Qi, Little Tan, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Thanks to you for stopping this old man, otherwise he would have slipped away from the surveillance again."

A police officer got out of the driver's seat of the police car. It was Officer Zhang Jing, who often confiscated Qi Jing's guns:

"We've been looking all the way, and finally found him here at the school."

"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, Uncle Zhang. What's the situation with this old man?"

"So it is, so it is."

Under Zhang Jing's explanation, Qi Jing and the others understood the whole story.

It turned out that the old man suddenly realized that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival and started clamoring to go home from the nursing home.

He took advantage of the staff's inattention, took his pocket money and a woven bag, and sneaked out, buying ten mooncakes on the way.

When the nursing home discovered it, it was too late to find him. They could only quickly contact the old man's son and call the police, and start searching using the city's surveillance.

But they didn't know how the old man was walking. He often disappeared from the surveillance, so they couldn't find him all afternoon, until now when he was constantly under surveillance that they caught him.

Qi Jing looked up and saw the surveillance camera in the corner of the school wall quietly watching them.

Zhang Jing said with a smile:

"This old man is really tough. He actually walked for a whole day, from the nursing home in the east of the city to Erzhong in the west of the city. He's harder to catch than a fugitive."

"We were still planning to send him back to the village. We didn't expect Uncle Zhang to come so quickly, otherwise it would have been even harder to find Grandpa."

Qi Jing scratched his head. He almost increased the workload for the police officer.

Zhang Jing laughed twice:

"There's no one in the village anymore. His son has rented a house in the north of the city. Even if you send him back, you'd have to send him back here."

"Ah? That's good, that's good. It's a good thing we don't have a car."

"Yes, it's a good thing you don't have a car. By the way, why aren't you two going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival and running around at school?"

Zhang Jing looked at Qi Jing, then at Tan Zuoyin, and then at their hands touching each other, with a look of sudden realization:

"Oh~ I understand. Young lovers strolling around on Mid-Autumn Festival, back in the day..."

In the end, with the thanks of the old man's son, Qi Jing and Tan Zuoyin quickly fled the scene.

Unexpectedly, the old man's son was the same as him, insisting on stuffing money into their hands. If they couldn't stuff it in, they would shove it into Qi Jing's neck, forcing them to run away quickly.

After escaping to the small park next to the school, Qi Jing said with a smile:

"It's a good thing we're in good shape. The old man's family is really tough. Uncle's speed can keep up with me after the enhancement, and I was almost caught."

"It was really funny how Uncle chased after you, trying to stuff things into your neck. It's a pity I didn't take a picture."

Tan Zuoyin held back her laughter, forcing herself to look regretful.

"It's enough that you didn't help, but you're still laughing."

"There's nothing I can do. Who told Uncle not to chase me, but only you."

Qi Jing took out a silver-white mooncake:

"I'll punish you to eat a mooncake, with dried fish filling."

"I don't want to eat it, I want to eat something sweet!"

Tan Zuoyin put her hands on her hips.

Qi Jing said with a smile:

"Sweet? I only have one sweet one, I'm going to eat it myself, hehe."

He took out a dark red mooncake and quickly took a bite.

Who knew that Tan Zuoyin would directly pounce her mouth towards Qi Jing, wanting to snatch the mooncake from his mouth.

But how fast was Qi Jing's reaction, he dodged in a flash:

"Can't eat it, can't eat it, come chase me, if you catch me, I'll give you half of this."

Looking at Qi Jing running slowly forward, Tan Zuoyin smiled helplessly:

"You're such a blockhead."

"What did you say, I didn't hear you clearly."

"I'm coming to chase you, you'll be finished if I catch you!"

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Mid-Autumn Festival blessings: This is the first Mid-Autumn Festival I've spent since writing this book, and also the first extra chapter. Although not many people are reading it, I still want to give my blessings.

I wish everyone and their family and friends all the best, with hope, expectations, no disasters, and no difficulties. I wish you health, peace, happiness, and good luck in the days to come!

May the moon be round, people be together, and everything be complete! May people be smooth, hearts be smooth, and everything be smooth! May the moonlight reach everything as you wish. I wish you, I wish me, I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

I hope everyone, like the moon and fireworks outside the window, shines wantonly and lives brilliantly!