CHAPTER 53: CHAPTER 49: TIAN YE’S SORROWFUL FIELD, WILL THE LITTLE PIG SLIP AWAY?

"I’m actually curious why you didn’t kick me out..."

"Your legs are on your body. I won’t do something meaningless and exhaust myself," Sui Yi said, leaning against the window and closing his eyes halfway.

With a grin, Ah A pinched his cigarette. "Well, if you think about it, isn’t there someone to carry your bags for free...?"

Sui Yi turned to look at him and nodded lightly, seriously replying, "That’s exactly what I was thinking."

How very honest of you!

Amused beyond measure, but upon seeing Sui Yi frown as smoke drifted by, Ah A quickly regained his senses, pinched out the cigarette, and tossed it out the window.

Just then, as the bus started, he saw a chubby middle-aged man with a briefcase at the bus stop behind them hurrying to catch up, waving one hand and shaking his belly as he shouted, "Driver, driver, wait for me, driver—wait for me—driver—"

Ah A suddenly leaned toward Sui Yi, stuck his head out, and yelled, "Apprentice, apprentice, you go back to Gao Laozhuang!!! Go back—I’m off to Women’s Country—"

With that shout!

The whole bus burst into laughter! The driver laughed and said, "You little rascal, stop spouting nonsense... I’m his real master—you’re just a monkey spirit."

The laughter grew even louder—

Sui Yi curved his lips into a smirk. As this rascal earnestly made his way back to his seat, Sui Yi glanced at him, "Are you always this wicked?"

"There really isn’t!" Ah A raised an eyebrow, looking smug.

Both of them were quite handsome, and to the aunts and uncles on the bus heading back to the village, they seemed quite charming.

There were also high school students on the bus going home for the weekend.

They all sneaked glances at the two men.

When the bus stopped and picked up the man who was supposed to go back to Gao Laozhuang, it slowly drove off, entering a road bathed in glorious sunlight.

Heading to the place Sui Yi was going to.

Pottery Kiln, this was where she returned every month.

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In Ah A’s Jianghu-tainted view, Sui Yi was the most unique girl he had ever seen. No, she should be considered the most unique person.

Sui Yi, true to her name, was casual and natural, composed and elegant with a restrained sharpness, and she had an elusive and profound sense of mystery.

Maybe this description sounded too pretentious, but he sincerely felt that his limited literacy couldn’t capture the feeling this girl gave him.

The way she drank tea, spoke, laughed, and interacted with others all revealed her distinctiveness.

There were many speculations, but none could decipher her.

It was like he could never understand how such an ancient and primitive little village could breed an elegance that was almost indistinguishable from Tang Hanyan’s.

There was an elegance that came from the years’ sediment, but also from their complete unawareness and indifference.

But a house connected to a pigsty and covered in crumbling moss and dark tiles...

When Sui Yi saw Ah A quietly standing in front of the house, she raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Wait until I take the medicine to my grandma, and then I’ll see you off at the village station."

Half an hour away was a small township with an inn, a restaurant, and naturally, a small bus station.

She had already mentioned to Ah A to go back, but since he insisted on staying, she just went with it.

After all, he had to go back sooner or later.

Ah A came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Sui Yi and initially wanted to smoke, but then thought better of it and said, "Did you think I was going to leave?"

"Are you planning to stay?"

Ah A withdrew his gaze, touched the climbing vines on the trellis in front of him, and said with a nostalgic tone, "When I was young, my house was like this... I often took piglets out to play from the pigsty. My mother always said I was too mischievous and dirty..."

After a pause, Ah A lit a cigarette, puffing smoke, "After my mother died, the house was gone. I’ve been to many places, done many things, lived in many homes, but never once felt like any of them was my home..."

Even though it was a dark thatched cottage that always smelled of pig manure, why did it feel like paradise to him?

After several deep puffs of his cigarette, he suddenly came out of his melancholic state and turned, only to find that Sui Yi was no longer there. He was a bit startled.

Huh, when did she leave?

Could it be that I was talking to myself?

But as he looked up, he saw Sui Yi standing at the threshold of the courtyard, tossing out a sentence casually.

"The pigs in the sty are quite fat; I’m afraid you won’t be able to carry them, but if you just want to hold one for old times’ sake, that’s fine. Just don’t come inside the house, it’s too smelly."

In that moment, Ah A decided to retract all his previous descriptions of this woman’s composure and elegance.