464 The Secret About the Past 82 (1/2)
Jin Qingyue bent down and buried her head between her legs, her shoulders shaking.
When Long Tianze went out of his house, he witnessed this sight right before him.
With his hands folded into his pockets, he went before her and asked, ”It's bright daylight now, why are you crying at your front gate?”
Jin Qingyue raised her head and slowly got up. ”Nothing. Tianze…”
”Umm?”
”There's something I actually wanted to tell you for a very long while. It's just that I didn't have the courage to.” Jin Qingyue continued in a low voice, ”Last time, for all the terrible things that I've said and for everything, I'm sorry. Seeing you so happy now, I'm actually rather happy for you. Last time, I went way overboard. I hope you're not angry with me.”
Long Tianze was rather surprised but appeared unaffected. ”It's been so long already, I've long forgotten.”
Jin Qingyue's eyes reddened and, choking on her tears, she forced a bright smile at him. ”Thank you.”
With that, she turned and entered her house.
Long Tianze stood there, feeling somewhat affected emotionally.
Jin Qingyue was someone whom he liked since he was young, and he used to go to the old residence they lived in to see her, using the excuse of finding Jin Qingyan.
In a blink of an eye, they were all grown up, and these memories seemed like something that had just happened yesterday.
But, the past was all in the past.
Hearing her words just now, Long Tianze really felt that Jin Qingyue had grown up. She was no longer that girl she used to be.
Coming out from the house, Mei Yangyang saw him staring at Jin Qingyue's back. She immediately went on her toes and pinched his ear. ”What are you looking at?”
Long Tianze grabbed onto her hand at once. ”Honey, we're outside now. Can you save me some face? How would it appear if other people saw this?”
”I asked you what you were thinking of as you were watching Jin Qingyue's back? Did you think back to the time when you were in love with her?”
He wrapped his hands around her waist and led her back into the house as he told him what had happened earlier.
”She apologized to you?”
”Umm, she did.”
Mei Yangyang pouted her lips as she thought about it. ”My sis said she's different from before. Looks like it's true?”
”People grow and change constantly.” Long Tianze leaned in and kissed her forehead. ”Honey, you look so pretty today.”
Mei Yangyang broke into a bright grin. ”Do I?”
”Yes.”
”I'm not someone that petty either. Since she's already said that, we should get along well with her from now on. Make some small talk or something when we see her, and not ignore each other's existence.”
Long Tianze chuckled. ”Oh, my wife's words are so nice to hear.”
”That's definitely true.” She widened her grin. ”Go and call those two fellows down for lunch.”
”Alright, I'll go and call them now.” Long Tianze went upstairs and realized the two children were lying on the bed and reading a comic book.
”Wenlun, Xiaoxi, come down and eat.”
”Alright, Daddy. We'll come right now,” Xiaoxi responded.
Long Tianze went forward and asked curiously, ”What are you looking at that you're so deeply engrossed?”
”A comic book.”
”Go down and eat first.”
The siblings put on their shoes and went down while Long Tianze took a look at the comic book and sat at the bedside reading it carefully. He realized it was really quite interesting. No wonder his two children were so engrossed in it.
”Where's Daddy?”
”He's upstairs,” Long Wenlun replied. ”He went to call us just now.”
Mei Yangyang dished out the rice and placed it before them. But, after waiting for some time, the three still did not see him come down.