Chapter 72 – The end of the second world, we’ll meet again in the next world.

Translator: Rin    Editor: Mars    Proofreader: Ume

After leaving Chi Guoheng’s house, Jiang Li told Chi Fang about Mother Jiang.

The next day, the two went to the place Chi Guoheng told them about to find Mother Jiang from B City.

It was a little remote mountain village. Chi Guoheng was afraid that they couldn’t find the place, so he sent someone to take them there. As they needed to take train transfers, it took two days and one night to reach the place.

It was learned from the local villagers that after Mother Jiang came here, she became a teacher in the primary school in the village. She was good-natured and gentle, and the students liked her very much, but she seemed to be in poor health and looked unhappy. She then died the second year after coming to the village.

As the village was far away and poor, the primary school in the village was not successful in recruiting teachers. The principal was very grateful that Mother Jiang volunteered to stay in the village to be a teacher. After her death due to illness, the principal’s family dealt with her funeral affairs under the circumstances of being unable to contact her relatives.

Seeing the similar appearance of Jiang Li and Mother Jiang, and after learning that he was Mother Jiang’s son, the principal did not hide it from him: “Your mother is buried in the back mountain, I will take you there.”

Jiang Li nodded: “Thank you.”

Although the village was remote and poor, the scenery of the back mountain was beautiful with birds singing and fragrant flowers

Mother Jiang’s tomb was on a small slope on the mountainside and there were shaded trees next to it. A simple stone tablet stood, which read: Tomb of Teacher Lu Xuan.

It seemed that after Mother Jiang came here, she changed her name to Lu Xuan.

Probably because the principal’s family had come to sweep the tomb due to the Double Ninth Festival, the weeds on and around Mother Jiang’s grave were clean, and there was a half-burned candle in front of the tombstone that had been blown out.

After arriving at the place, the principal went back, leaving Jiang Li and Chi Fang there.

Chi Fang didn’t expect to see his mother-in-law in this way for the first time. Looking at Jiang Li who was standing silently in front of the tombstone, he reached out and patted him, and asked in a low voice, “Are you okay?”

“En.” Jiang Li replied in a low voice.

He came to this world with two tasks, one was to capture Chi Fang, and the other was to see Mother Jiang again and ask her why she left him alone in the first place.

In fact, Jiang Li could understand the reason why Mother Jiang had to leave under the original circumstances, but the original host was only ten years old at the time, and Jiang Li could not agree with the practice of her leaving the original host alone.

When he knelt down before the grave, he was doing his filial piety for the original host.

The moment he knelt down, System whispered: “Master host, the side quest has been completed.”

Chi Fang next to him saw him kneeling down, so he also knelt down and Jiang Li turned to look at him. He reached out and touched Jiang Li’s head then said to the tombstone, “Aunt Lu, I don’t agree with you for leaving Jiang Li back then. I’m kneeling down because you are his mother. I want to tell you that I will take good care of him in the future. Rest in peace.”

Jiang Li looked at him quietly for a few seconds then reached out to hold his fingers, and he whispered to the tombstone, “Rest in peace.”

At the same time, he whispered in his heart: Rest in peace too.

The two came in a hurry this time. Jiang Li did not rashly bring back Mother Jiang’s ashes. He planned to come again during the winter vacation and left the village with Chi Fang that night.

After National Day, everyone went back to school.

As soon as National Day passed, Jiangcheng County began to turn cold and before the Indian summer had completely passed, winter sneaked in quietly at night.

The matter of Mother Jiang came to an end, and Father Jiang was detained and sentenced because he not only took drugs but also participated in drug trafficking.

During the winter vacation, the land in the old city area was included in the scope of the demolition plan. Taking advantage of the time when Jiang Li was away, Chi Fang went to pack his things and directly took them home.

After Jiang Li found out, he was both speechless and amused, but his things were all moved over and the old man also said that it was too troublesome to run back and forth, so he just stayed at their house and didn’t move back.

However, while living together, Jiang Li was quite worried that the relationship between them would be discovered by the old man. After all, the old man was in his seventies and could not be stimulated too much.

He told Chi Fang about his worries and Chi Fang lay on the bed as he rolled around with laughter.

“What are you laughing at?” Jiang Li was puzzled.

“I’m laughing at you being stupid.” Chi Fang rolled over and looked at him with his stomach lying on the bed, “Do you really think that the old man doesn’t know anything?”

Jiang Li was taken aback: “What do you mean?”

“Don’t worry.” Chi Fang stretched out his hand and pulled him to the side, lowered his head, and kissed his nose, “The old man doesn’t say it, but he knows better than anyone else. It was his idea to bring your things here.”

Jiang Li: “…”

Jiang Li really did not expect that the old man would come up with the idea of taking action without his permission. After being speechless for a while, he also laughed.

Although his relationship with Chi Fang didn’t take into account other people’s opinions, he had to consider the old man’s feelings. In this way, after the old man agreed, he would have no worries.

The New Year was approaching and when he learned that Chi Fang would not be able to go back to celebrate the New Year, Father Chi came to Jiangcheng.

The first time Jiang Li saw Chi Fang’s father, he found that he looked very much like the middle-aged version of Chi Fang and he couldn’t help but imagine what Chi Fang looked like in his middle age.

The father and son did not have a close relationship, and they didn’t have much to say when they met. Father Chi left after a day’s stay. Chi Fang didn’t even bother to send him downstairs and only said “Safe trip” at the door perfunctorily.

Father Chi seemed to have something to say, looking at Chi Fang’s absent-minded face, but he finally still said nothing, turned, and went downstairs.

Small towns weren’t as strict as big cities. On New Year’s Day, fireworks were set off everywhere. The sky was full of colors and the whole night sky was illuminated. As the bell at midnight rang, a new year came.

Chi Fang and Jiang Li stood on the balcony, fingers interlocked. They turned their heads and smiled as they looked at each other: “Happy New Year.”

Jiang Nuomi squatted by the waist of the two of them and called out, “Meow~”

The old man who was awakened by the fireworks came out and saw the backs of the two of them and smiled.

Under Jiang Li’s guidance, Chi Fang’s grades in various subjects improved significantly, and his grades in the final exam of the second year of high school successfully made him into the top 200 in the grade, which was so much better than when he had first entered the school.

It was just that although the results had improved a lot, there was still a very large gap to the goal of entering Tsinghua University.

So Jiang Li used his points to go to System’s mall and bought several sets of Five-year College Entrance Examination Three-year Mock Tests.

Looking at the Five-Three that was stacked in front of him, Chi Fang looked at him in disbelief. Remembering the trauma dominated by the previous set of Ultimate Edition, his fingers were shaking, “Where did you get so much of this stuff?”

Jiang Li touched the cover with his hand and smiled, “This is the second and third volumes.”

Chi Fang saw that there was a small circle where his finger was pointing, with the word “two” in it, and his eyes suddenly darkened. So the one he did before was only the first set?

Collapsing weakly on the chair, Chi Fang said lifelessly, “Let’s set our goals a little bit smaller. I’ll just try to enter a first-tier university near Tsinghua University, alright? It’s in the same city anyway.”

“No way.” Jiang Li shook his finger, his tone was firm, “If you say it’s Tsinghua, it’s Tsinghua.”

Chi Fang: “…” I really owe you in my last life.

After the start of the third year of high school, the atmosphere of Year 3 Class 1 became very tense. The calligraphy and paintings on the board newspaper at the back of the classroom were removed and replaced with the countdown to the college entrance examination.

Jiang Li was already recommended to enter Tsinghua University so all his time was spent on making up lessons for Chi Fang, and Xu Haowen was also recommended along with him.

Feng Yu had already determined the school he was going to study and he had already taken care of everything at home, so he didn’t need to worry about it at all, but although he didn’t have any pressure on the college entrance examination, he still studied obediently and did not cause any trouble for Zhang Ling and the whole class.

Another Spring Festival came, this time the old man persuaded Chi Fang to go home.

“Go back and have a look.” The old man smiled and patted his shoulder, with kindness on his chubby face, “No matter what, he is your father. Go back and see him, be obedient.”

Chi Fang pursed his lips, remembering the back of Father Chi when he left the year before, and he nodded after a long silence.

Chi Fang didn’t tell the family what happened. When he appeared at the door on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, the housekeeper holding the kettle was stunned, and then an excited and happy smile appeared on his face.

In the dining room, Father Chi was sitting alone. The table and chopsticks prepared for Chi Fang were placed opposite him just like last year. When he was about to start eating, he suddenly heard a voice saying, “I haven’t come back yet, you’re eating by yourself first?”

Father Chi’s hands stiffened, he looked up and saw Chi Fang coming over with his hands in his pockets. He pulled out the chair opposite him and sat down.

Thinking about it in detail, their father and son hadn’t had a New Year’s Eve dinner together for three years. Father Chi looked at him, his eyes were slightly astringent, and he said repeatedly, “You’re back.”

At twelve o’clock that night, Chi Fang stood on the balcony and sent a video to Jiang Li. When Jiang Li’s face appeared on the screen, he smiled at him: “Happy New Year.”

Jiang Li was on the screen, holding Jiang Nuomi, and laughed: “Happy New Year.”

Jiang Nuomi: “Meow meow meow meow!”

Chi Fang smiled: “Happy Chinese New Year to you too, little bastard.”

The day before the college entrance examination, Zhang Ling held a class meeting. Before the meeting, she asked Feng Yu to buy milk tea and give it to everyone.

At the end of the distribution by Feng Yu, Zhang Ling picked up the last cup, handed it to Feng Yu, smiled, and said to him, “Thank you for your hard work.”

Zhang Ling’s personality had always been known for being indifferent, rigid, and inhumane. The tenderness in her smile at this time made Feng Yu’s eyes warm.

“Tomorrow is the college entrance examination.” Zhang Ling stood on the podium and looked at the young faces below, “Some of you may be looking forward to it, and some people are confused. I’ve also gone through everyone’s age, and I know what everyone is thinking. ”

Everyone looked at her silently.

Zhang Ling took a deep breath and raised her voice slightly: “I’ve been guiding you all for so long, and I’ve already said almost everything that I should say. The rest is just one sentence, and it’s all written on the board at the back. Good luck.”

Everyone turned their heads and eight big characters were written on the board newspaper behind – Leave no regrets, the future will be promising.

After the college entrance examination, Chi Fang and Jiang Li went on a graduation trip. Feng Yu, who was left behind by the two, harassed them by sending videos and he was finally blocked by Chi Fang.

After the results came out, Chi Fang’s score was a few points higher than the admission line of Tsinghua University and he was successfully admitted.

……

On the day he got the admission notice, he took a picture of himself and Jiang Li’s admission notice and sent it to WeChat Moments, with the caption: My wife and I are going to Tsinghua University together!

After he posted it, within two minutes, his WeChat received messages from all directions, asking him when he had found his wife. Even Father Chi called and asked him to find time to bring the person back to have a look.

Chi Fang ignored everyone’s message and hugged Jiang Li, who was taking a nap, silently hoping that National Day would come soon and his wife would become an adult soon.

…

Ending

In this world, Chi Fang, like Jiang Zhan, did not reach 100% favorability until the end of his life.

Jiang Chen had doubts about whether anyone was controlling his favorability, and asked System, but System said that the authority was too low to know.

Jiang Li could only suppress the doubts in his heart and instruct System to start the third world. Since he could meet Chi Fang in the second world, maybe he could do it in the third world as well.

He reached out to hold Chi Fang’s hand and closed his eyes beside him.

Wait for me.

Volume 3: You’re useless trash, stop fucking sleeping, get up and train!