Xu Muqing pinched a little too hard, and her little face was slightly red from pinching herself.
Li Hang, on the other hand, said with a heartfelt smile as he reached out to touch her face, "Stop pinching! Now, we're back in the past."
Xu Muqing looked at Li Hang dumbfounded and let Li Hang hold her hand as she went to the old house of their family.
The so-called old house was relative, but the walls of the neighbourhood Xu Muqing was in now were new, with no patches of age on them.
One or two black Santana cars could occasionally be seen parked underneath the building, while the rest were basically motorbikes or bicycles.
Li Hang held Xu Muqing's hand and slowly went upstairs before arriving at the door of his house, "Aiyo! Qing Qing is back!"
Grandpa Lei from next door came out of his room with a smile, and when he saw him, Xu Muqing's eyes instantly moistened.
It was because when she was little, Grand Master Lei had been so kind to her, like her own grandfather, and every time he saw her, he would take out a lollipop to make her happy.
Sure enough, Grand Master Lei pulled out two lollipops and handed them to Li Hang and Xu Mu Qing, then smilingly stroked their heads before carrying a vegetable basket in his hand and disappearing at the end of the corridor while walking and singing an off-key Yue Opera.
"Come, eat the lollipop. Didn't you love to eat the lollipops Grand Master Lei gave you when you were little?" With that, Li Hang unwrapped the lollipop's candy paper and handed it to Xu Muqing's tender little mouth.
Eating the lollipop and feeling the strong childhood memories, the tears that had been swirling in Xu Muqing's eyes instantly flowed down.
"Honey, what's going on here? Why are we back here? Is this part of the game?"
Li Hang shook his head slightly as he walked up and took out the key from the bottom of a flower pot in front of his house.
This key had been hidden here by Liu Yufen all along, and there were times when people in the family lost their keys and would take this spare key to get in.
Li Hang opened the door and led Xu Muqing into the house, everything inside the home was all too familiar.
Now although Xu Muqing and the others had lived in a villa area, the old home had not been sold or rented out, but had remained in its original state, it was their memories, Liu Yufen could not afford to sell it, and Xu Xiaoyang could not afford to give it to anyone else.
So the two couples would still occasionally come back and clean together.
After all, this was their first house and the place that had carried them through decades of years.
And now everything in the house looked that brand new.
Li Hang held Xu Muqing's hand and the two of them sat down on the sofa that they had just bought in their own house not long ago.
Li Hang said to Xu Muqing, "Yesterday, when Dad and Mom became younger, I noticed a very strange look flash inside your eyes."
"That look wasn't because of Mom and Dad's becoming younger, but because you were hiding a matter in your heart."
"This thing may be a memory that can never be erased for you."
"And this one memory carries a very, very strong melancholy."
Xu Muqing looked at Li Hang in surprise, she did not expect her husband to observe so carefully.
Moreover, Xu Muqing had not mentioned this matter to anyone, even their parents.
Li Hang was right, this matter was the only wound in Xu Muqing's heart.