Chapter 477: Do you only miss them and not ?_1
“I’m Tang Feng, who is this?”
“I am… Han Xiaoxiao.”
“…”
After hearing that na, Tang Feng suddenly fell into a prolonged silence.
Han Xiaoxiao?
How could it be Han Xiaoxiao?
He must still be half asleep, right?
He hastily pinched his face, which imdiately hurt so much that he grimaced in pain.
This was not a dream.
It must be a prank.
But he didn’t have many friends who knew the na “Han Xiaoxiao.”
It probably wasn’t a prank.
If it wasn’t a dream, and it wasn’t a prank, then…
He felt his heart pounding “thump thump,” growing more and more intense as if it was about to jump out of his mouth.
“Hello, are you still there?”
The person on the other end, perhaps because he hadn’t spoken for a while, asked timidly.
Only then did Tang Feng co to his senses and quickly replied, “I… I’m here, Xia… Xiaoxiao, is it really you? I… I thought I was… was dreaming…”
The usually articulate Tang Feng suddenly started stamring.
“We haven’t seen each other in years, and now you’ve developed a stutter?” Han Xiaoxiao probably joked to ease the awkwardness.
Tang Feng’s emotions stabilized sowhat, “You… how did you get my contact information?”
“It’s a long story. I went back to the village a few days ago, and I just happened to et Xiaoming and the others. Everyone has changed quite a bit after not seeing each other for several years.”
The “Xiaoming” she ntioned, whose full na is Zhang Xiaoming, also grew up playing with them.
Speaking of which, Tang Feng hadn’t seen them for a few years either.
“Isn’t the National Day holiday coming up in a few days? We planned to go to Zhonghai for so fun and reunite. Since you’re in Zhonghai as well, we thought of inviting you to join us, but they didn’t have your contact information. In the end, I got your phone number from Mrs. Qin…”
Han Xiaoxiao recounted the whole situation, and although it was a bit wordy, Tang Feng was engrossed.
“You’re coming to Zhonghai? Welco! I haven’t seen them in years and I kind of miss them.”
“You only miss them and not ?” Han Xiaoxiao couldn’t help teasing him.
“Cough cough… I miss… sure,” Tang Feng was a bit embarrassed.
“Alright, I won’t tease you anymore. I’ll add you on WeChat first and then pull you into our group chat so we can talk there.”
“Okay…”
The two then added each other as friends.
Han Xiaoxiao’s nickna was “See You and Smile.”
The first thing he did was to go through her Monts.
There she had shared so news and life musings, without a single selfie.
He carefully searched but couldn’t find a trace of any romance, which was a relief.
He didn’t know what he was worried about.
Soon after, he was added by Han Xiaoxiao to a group chat.
The group was nad “Kids Who Grew Up Shining Butt Together,” and there were already 6 people in it. When he joined, the number beca 7.
“Tang Feng has entered the group, let’s welco him,” Han Xiaoxiao sent the first ssage.
Imdiately after, the group chat beca lively.
“Yo yo, welco back to the missing person.”
“My God, is that really Fengfeng? Where have you been these past few years? We’ve been looking for you all this ti.”
“Tang Feng must have been busy making a fortune, what do you think, that everyone’s an unemployed bum like you?”
“What do you an ‘unemployed bum’? I am a freelancer, thank you very much.”
“Hahaha, finally, our Four Heavenly Kings are all here. As the fifth of the Four Heavenly Kings, I warmly welco Feng’s return.”
“Where’s Tang Feng? Co out and say sothing… ”
Even with his fast browsing speed, Tang Feng was dazzled by the rapid pace.
Though he couldn’t yet match these nicknas to their real-life counterparts, he could feel the strong bonds of friendship in his childhood friends’ tones.
He imdiately composed a ssage and sent it out, “Hello everyone, I am Tang Feng.”
His ssage instantly triggered countless replies.
“Yohe, quite polite, aren’t we, with ‘hello everyone’? Feels like you’re about to give a speech, doesn’t it?”
“Feng, that’s where you’re wrong. We treat you like a brother, and you treat us like strangers?”
“Yeah, what’s with ‘hello everyone’? Who is ‘everyone’? That calls for a penalty.”
“When we have our dinner gathering, you need to start by downing three drinks as self-punishnt…”
Tang Feng was imdiately amused and retyped a ssage to send out, “Alright, alright, I misspoke, retracting my last sentence. You bunch of grandsons, where the hell have you been these past years?”
“That’s more like it. If you hadn’t called us ‘grandsons’, I would’ve felt all wrong.”
“Damn, how low can you get? Anyone else here uncomfortable not being called ‘grandson’?”
“Fine, from now on whenever we see Qiuyang, we’ll call him ‘grandson’, and whoever doesn’t call him that is the grandson.”
“Fine, fine, fine, am I the grandson now? Make sure you prepare the red envelopes for during the holidays.”
“No problem, as long as you call ‘grandpa’, you’ll get a red envelope…”
With Tang Feng’s addition, the atmosphere in the group chat gradually ward up.
Everyone chatted freely about their experiences over the years.
Just then, soone suddenly joined in, “Yo, how co it’s gotten so lively in here all of a sudden?”
Tang Feng didn’t even need to ask to know who it was.
The person’s profile picture was his own photo, featuring an extrely flamboyant slick-back hairdo, a chin adorned with a tuft of goatee, holding a wine glass in hand, emanating a big-ti gangster vibe.
This person was nad Sun Haiyang, and he too grew up with them.
However, when they were in the fifth grade of elentary school, Sun Haiyang’s family moved to the county seat, and he transferred schools there.
They t again when they started middle school.
Seeing this person triggered so rather unpleasant mories in Tang Feng’s mind.
In middle school, he, Sun Haiyang, and Han Xiaoxiao were in the sa class.
The person who deliberately showed off in front of him every day to win Han Xiaoxiao’s favor was Sun Haiyang.
The reason he later distanced himself from Han Xiaoxiao was that Sun Haiyang had sought him out to mock him in many ways, even saying he was a toad lusting after a swan’s flesh.
Back then, Sun Haiyang’s parents made a good amount of money doing aquatic business in the county seat.
Sun Haiyang could thus be considered a slightly rich second generation—his food, clothes, and possessions were all things these country bumpkins had never seen.
Plus, he was good-looking, stylish, and witty and humorous, which made him very popular with the girls in class.
Seeing that Han Xiaoxiao often laughed and talked with Sun Haiyang, Tang Feng started to feel extrely insecure.
After Sun Haiyang’s mockery, he even felt he was a bit like the toad himself, so he actively kept his distance from Han Xiaoxiao.
Now seeing him again stirred a mixture of emotions.
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