Volume 1: Peaceful Childhood Chapter 24: Being Myself Again

  Yun Chenyi's elementary school let out later than Yun Xiangfei's university, so Yun Xiangfei had been back home for several days before Yun Chenyi was sent over by Yun Xiang and his wife.

  This day was Yun Xiangfei's weekly holiday. Yun Xiangfei, Yun Chenyi and Yun Qingran were all in Yun Qingran's study, which was the place where Yun Xiangfei and Yun Chenyi liked to stay most often. In winter, a light brown plush carpet had been laid on the wooden floor early, and three orange soft cloth sofas were placed on the empty space in front of the desk.

  Yun Chenyi sat on Yun Qingran's desk doing his winter vacation homework, while Yun Qingran and Yun Xiangfei each held a thick book sitting on the soft sofa looking at it.

  "Little uncle, what book are you reading?" A voice suddenly sounded in Yun Xiangfei's ear, and it turned out that Yun Chenyi, a little friend who hadn't done his homework, had run to the back of Yun Xiangfei.

  "English." Yun Fei coldly spat out two words. After speaking, he suddenly thought of Old Man Yun's "legend" about when Yun Qingran learned to read and write, and wondered if he could try out this legend in a little while to see just how legendary it was.

  "Ah!" Yun Chenyi suddenly understood, this incomprehensible worm-like script was actually the legendary English language.

  To verify the legend, Yun Fei began his plan. "Xiao Ran, want Uncle Xiao to teach you English?"

  Yun gently lifted his head from the book, took a look at the title of the book in Yun Xiangfei's hand, and nodded. It was an original English anatomy textbook. He raised his hand to signal him to bring the book over.

  Yun Xiangfei put the book in Yun Qingran's arms, and then saw Yun Qingran directly flip through the book casually, stopping at a page to start reading. The sound made Yun Xiangfei feel that legends were indeed legendary. Others could do it naturally without being taught, with standard intonation just like foreigners, although he had never heard how foreigners read, but it sounded better than tapes.

  "Xiao Ran, have you learned?" Yun Xiang Fei was surprised, but also got used to it. The extent of Yun Qing Ran's abnormality had been seen by him in the past few days since he came back, and he had also gone from being extremely shocked at first to now only being slightly surprised before recovering.

  "Yes. Master has books and tapes for me." As he spoke, Yun Qingran stood up and walked to the bookshelf, pressed a button, and the bookshelf slid aside like a hidden door, revealing a small door about one person high.

  This time, both of them jumped down. Immediately, one was full of excitement and the other was full of curiosity, following Yun Qingran into the small door.

  Inside is very bright, row upon row of milky white bookshelves are neatly arranged, the distance between each row is just enough for a person to walk through.

  "The books here are all quite valuable, many of them are original medical texts." Yun Qingran led the two to the third row before summer vacation, "Master knew I liked to study medicine, so he helped me collect medical books from various countries, some of which were researched by Master's disciples."

  Yun Xiangfei took a look, this row of bookshelves is about anatomy, neurosurgery, brain surgery and heart, some English he recognizes, the others he doesn't know what language they are.

  "Little uncle, the row behind this one is all about medicine, mostly Western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine you know, apart from books on medicinal materials and diseases, there are very few others, mainly accumulated experiences. You can take these books back to read yourself, but don't let others know." Yun Qingran said, pointing at the bookshelf.

  "Sister, why won't you let me take the book to read?" Seeing Yun Qingran only paying attention to talking with Yun Xiangfei, Yun Chenyi started to feel a bit sour.

  "There's a book for you in the back." Yun Qingran walked directly to the last row of bookshelves, pulled out a book and a cassette tape specially prepared for Yun Chenyi, and handed them over. "The use of English will become more and more extensive, this book is an English primer, and the tape is a matching set with the book, you can go back and learn by following the tape."

  Yún Qīng Rán, who had experienced a past life, knew the importance of English in her later years. In her previous life, she had studied eight foreign languages and was proficient in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Latin, with no problem communicating in any of these languages.

  Yun Chenyi was stunned, how did this feeling seem like something his elders had said to him before. He shook his head and walked out of the small study, oh, never mind.

  Yun Xiangfei was also stunned, although he had been stimulated enough, but such a Yun Qingran was someone he had never seen before, calm and mature.

  How could this be? He thought he was over-stimulated and his nerves were all messed up.

  "What language are these books?" He stroked the row of bookshelves and picked out a few in English.

  "There are French, German, Italian, Spanish and so on." She temporarily took out only these four foreign language books except English.

  "Have you studied these languages?"

  Yun Qing raised an eyebrow, thinking for a moment, and decided not to provoke him. "Get ready to study, haven't started yet."

  Yun Xiangfei pointed to a book he couldn't understand and asked, "Do you have introductory teaching materials for this language?"

  Yun Qing walked to the end of the bookshelf, pulled out a German textbook similar to Yun Chenyi's, thought for a moment and then pulled out a medical English dictionary.

  "Thank you." Yun's eyes sparkled with joy as he took the book, which was too big for him. These books were too precious to him, and earlier he had hastily flipped through the books in his hands, many of which were not even available in the school library.

  Yun Qing looked at Yun Xiangfei with a calm expression, "You are my relative, my little uncle. No need to be so polite."

  "You don't have to hide your true personality in front of us, you said it yourself, we are family, no matter what you're like, everyone will love you." Yun Xiang Fei looked at Yun Qing Ran, now he was truly certain that this was the real her.

  His intuition had always been very keen, and the innocence of everyday life was just a mask she wore on her face, only to make everyone happy and not worry. However, he always felt that there was something awkward about it. In his feeling, she should be a person with a light and gentle personality, who did not like to show emotions, cared about people but would not express it. Especially when dealing with the enthusiastic residents of the town, he could even feel the sense of alienation under her smile.

  "Really?" Yun Qingran was slightly moved. Indeed, she had been pretending to be someone else every day, although her emotions were real, but always felt awkward, as if she was acting out of character, not like herself, even though she had already gotten used to it.

  "En." Yun Xiang Fei nodded affirmatively. He hoped she could be herself again, didn't want her to be too tired, although he had no idea what she had been through. "At least in front of me."

  Yun Qingran lowered her head and didn't respond. "Let's go, out."

  Yun Xiangfei looked at Yun Qingran without persuading her. She would figure it out herself.

  "Don't tell anyone else about this study, there are some secret books inside that can't be known to others." Once they were outside, Yun Qingran began to remind the two of them. Yun Xiangfei was reassured because he had never been a talkative person, but Yun Chenyi was too young and she was afraid he would blurt it out to show off.