Chapter 372 1 Electrification Chapter
Tang Lei called the phone number back home.
"Hello, Xiao Yun." Tang Xueji's clear voice came through the microphone.
"Hey, Sister Xueji," Tang Yun stared at the periodic table on the wall of his room and licked his lips nervously, "How is family lately? The New Year is coming soon, does Grandpa miss us?"
"You know the New Year is coming soon, and you'll be back soon. You can ask this question yourself then," Tang Xueji said calmly. The slightly distorted magnetic sound of the phone made her voice even more cold and ruthless. "Since your call has arrived, please tell Yu Shi that I've seen the news about him. He doesn't need to spend the New Year at the old house this year. He can go to Shai to visit his great aunt."
"Grandpa must miss my cousin too..." Tang Yun argued weakly.
"I know what you are talking about, and you know what I am talking about," Tang Xueji said, "I can tell you that based on what Yu Shi and Second Uncle said, Yu Shi will be able to bring his foreign wife home next year."
Just one year...
Tang Yun's heart skipped a beat, and a suffocating sadness poured out from his heart, "She is still so young, Sister Xueji——"
"Pity is not a stepping stone to get further," Tang Xueji interrupted him, "Remember to help me convey my message."
"Sister Xueji, you have been taken care of by your grandparents, so your medical skills must be very good," Tang Yu adopted a roundabout tactic, "Don't you want to do more research on a rare case?"
"Who told you that heart disease is a rare case?" A light sneer came from the other end of the phone, "Don't think that anything can become new just because it involves foreigners. We are all human beings. Why should I make an exception for her?"
Tang Yu had no way to refute this statement, nor did he have the energy to say anything provocative. He knew that the Tang family lived in seclusion, and that respecting destiny was the purpose of every family. Tang Xueji measured this matter according to his usual standards, without any personal emotions involved.
Tang Yu thought about the "example" Tang Xueji mentioned and whispered, "Doesn't my family also say 'the sons of the clan can use the clan's power to help their spouses'?"
"Wait a minute, let me understand. You mean that Bellinda can use this rule as Yu Shi's spouse?" Tang Xueji was still very calm. "Let's not talk about the fact that Yu Shi has not been recognized by many elders. This rule is not for making random wishes. The money and medicine can only be used for the spouse and within three generations. Della Riddle does not meet the conditions. Yu Shi will not use this rule to get in the way in front of those elders who call him a 'fake foreign devil'."
"No, that's not what I meant." Tang Yu's voice was still very low. "I think Sister Xue Ji, you know what I'm talking about."
A chuckle came from the other end of the phone. "Yes, there is a precedent in the family where a lovesick person unilaterally used this rule to help an outsider who was not in love with him. Have you thought about it? You know that this rule can only be used once strictly speaking, but your future wife cannot use it. This matter has been weighed and it is very important. If your wife in the future is not Della Riddle, then she will be invisible in the family and no sound can be heard."
"I've thought about it." Tang Yu said.
"I have to add one thing to you. In the precedents I just mentioned, many people were immediately kicked out of the house after stubbornly making demands because they were not in a clear mind. After all, the Tang family is not a charity. Ah, I like this about the family." Tang Xueji's nonchalant voice still contained a smile, "But Second Uncle is a sensible man, and you are also an honest person, so I won't do this."
"Thank you, Sister Xueji." Tang Yu said sullenly, knowing that he was being unreasonable.
"No, you're lucky. I was in a bad mood today because I lost the game, so I gave in," Tang Xueji said faintly, "your fate hasn't changed. Della Riddle is still not meant to be with you, just like the formula you couldn't write when you were twelve. But I will tell this to every woman you bring home in the future. You may run into many people one after another, but only a few will be willing to accept a lover's excessive devotion to Bai Yueguang and endanger their own interests. I will drink with your future tragedy."
"I've thought about it." Tang Yu still said this.
"I feel sad for your future wife," Tang Xueji accepted the result, "Tell Yu Shi to go home for the New Year."
"Okay, Sister Xueji," Tang Yu said obediently, "Then we'll see you during the New Year. I'll hang up first?"
"I have one more thing to tell you," Tang Xueji added some seriousness to her words, "You have to remember that it was you who brought Della Riddle to me."
"What?" Tang Yun didn't understand. The person on the other end had already hung up. He stared blankly at the beeping phone and put it away with a sigh.
He sat on the bed with his eyes wide open. He had no real sense of what he had just overdrawn. He was just in a daze. Then, Tang Yu turned his head to look at the several whiteboards next to the periodic table and walked over.
When Zhou Yushi came back with a lazy look on his face, Tang Yun was still standing in front of the whiteboard. There was a small dried symbol under the oil pen, and there were many traces of erasure and corrections next to it, which seemed to be the deduced steps.
"Are you in a daze again?" Zhou Yushi, who had not attended a Muggle school since elementary school, did not quite understand those things, but he recognized that these were things Tang Yu had written eight years ago, which caused a big uproar in his second uncle's family at the time.
Tang Yu was twenty years old and was about to graduate from graduate school. He was specially admitted to a very good university at the age of thirteen, majoring in chemistry like his grandfather. But he could have studied physics at that school at the age of twelve, as he had talent and had relevant elders at home. However, he had only a little talent as a wizard, and when he tried to deconstruct magic, he couldn't write anything, so he refused to study for the admission notice he had won through competitions and interviews.
We do not advocate domestic violence, but seven years ago, this little prodigy was so stubborn that he refused to give in no matter how he was beaten. His entire family stopped working hard for the next year and tried their best to help him make plans, so that he, who could not do well in the liberal arts exams due to his personal logical differences, could still go to a good university.
"I just wanted to write something," Tang Yu said calmly, his handsome face briefly free of the willful childishness. He suddenly rubbed a white line on the board in front of him, and said with his back to Zhou Yu, "By the way, cousin, Sister Xue Ji called just now and asked you to go home for the New Year."
"She asked me to go home?" Zhou Yushi raised his eyebrows. "Nothing happened in the middle. Why did she ask me to go home like that?"
"Yes." Tang Yu slowed down his movements in wiping the whiteboard.
"Oh, I see," Zhou Yushi said suddenly, "You take me for a fool, um... let me guess, there is a rule in the house related to partners, and I remember that it seems to be quite flexible."
"Are all of us except me raised on roundworms?" Tang Yu turned his head. His incomprehension of having his thoughts easily seen through overshadowed his panic at being exposed.
"What else did Sister Xueji say?" Zhou Yushi sat on a chair at the side and continued asking.
"Feeling sad for my future wife and that I was the one who brought Della to her." Tang Yun put away the pen and said honestly, as he would not lie.
"It means that you still have a chance to regret before you bring her back to the old house," Zhou Yushi explained. He looked at Tang Yun and said something more practical. "Aunt's salary and the pension of the two elders are actually not low, but your current house, car, and the collections added to the study and flower rack are all paid by grandfather. Second uncle's job was also arranged by grandfather. That rule is very broad. The Tang family is not stingy in making the younger generation live better. To put it bluntly, it is reasonable to rely on the elderly."
"But once this rule is discussed seriously, the situation will no longer be endless. If you know that a situation needs to be discussed seriously, it means that the situation itself is not reasonable. It is equivalent to gambling with your family with your credit and future," Zhou Yushi sighed. "If you wake up in time and don't take her back, then what happened today will only be a harmless joke at the wine table in the future."
Tang Yu turned his head and said stubbornly, "I don't drink."
"I feel sad for your future family." Zhou Yushi shrugged helplessly and accepted the result.