Chapter 86: Tang Xiaosheng's Secret

  It's finally time to go home for Chinese New Year.

  On the evening of December 26th, Tang Xiaosheng brought a package of luggage and came to Beijing Railway Station with Little Dragon Girl and Guo Xiang. They will take the D815 train together to go home.

  Tang Xiaosheng's hometown is located in a remote mountain village in Hongxing Town, Nanming City. Since there is no direct train from Jinghua City to Nanming City, they can only take the train to another city first and then take a bus to Nanming City.

  The train departed at 21:30 and would arrive at the final destination at 9:15 the next morning. Xiao Longnu and Guo Xiang seemed a bit tired, and soon fell asleep after boarding the train, leaving only Tang Xiaosheng still awake.

  Actually, he didn't sleep all night.

  Because in his heart, a secret had been hidden for six years, and this year after returning home, the secret was about to be revealed.

  As for this secret, it must be said from the time he was seven years old. In that year, when Tang Xiaosheng saw a TV set in his neighbor's home for the first time at the age of seven, he was deeply attracted to it and felt that the world inside the TV was too magical, and he couldn't help but feel nostalgic.

  It wasn't long before he discovered that there was a profession that could take him into the wonderful world inside the TV, and this profession was called acting.

  From then on, he silently made a vow in his heart that he would become an actor when he grew up, and this vow accompanied him throughout his growth.

  Just six years ago, he was sixteen and in his third year of high school, facing the college entrance exam. Tang Xiaosheng's family situation was not good, his father was a carpenter, and his mother was a genuine farmer. His parents had always hoped that he could get into university and find a stable job in the future. For rural children, going to university may be the easiest way out.

  Tang Xiaosheng's academic performance was not bad, but he was not interested in going to college because his dream was to become an actor, a dream that had been buried in his heart for nine years. However, his acting dreams were strongly opposed by his parents, who thought it was too fanciful and unrealistic for a child from a rural area to want to be a star.

  Despite this, Tang Xiaosheng was still unwilling to give up easily. To realize his dream of becoming an actor, he secretly signed up for art school without telling his parents and passed the province's unified arts examination with high scores.

  Unfortunately, he failed in the audition for art school. The teachers at the art school thought that Tang Xiaosheng was rustic and unrefined, lacking a good temperament and image, and also lacked acting talent, with no potential to become an actor.

  The failure of the art school entrance examination was a huge blow to Tang Xiaosheng, as it directly shattered his dream of so many years.

  His dream of enrolling in an art school has become a bubble, and the college entrance examination has become his only choice. A few months later, he took part in the national college entrance examination in June that year and achieved good results, and was admitted to a key university in the province, but his major was adjusted to medical science.

  Tang Xiaosheng was really not interested in the medical profession, and when he received his university admission notice, he didn't feel particularly excited, still thinking about his acting dreams.

  Whether to attend college or stick to his ideals, these are the two choices in front of him.

  After two or three months of repeated consideration, Tang Xiaosheng finally chose his ideal over university. Although he knew that the road to university would be easier to walk, he didn't want his life to be filled with regrets and didn't want to give up on his dream of being an actor.

  On the day of university opening, Tang Xiaosheng took the university admission notice and 10,000 yuan saved by his parents from frugal living, leaving his hometown. His parents thought he was going to university, but in fact, he did not report to the university, but went alone to Jinghua City more than a thousand kilometers away, then rented a house in the suburbs and started his six-year career as an extra.

  For the past six years, his parents have mistakenly believed that Tang Xiaosheng was attending university to study medicine and had graduated two years ago, now working as a doctor in a hospital. To this day, they are still unaware of Tang Xiaosheng's acting career. Every year when he returns home, Tang Xiaosheng vividly recounts his life at the university to his parents, who believe everything he says.

  Tang Xiaosheng didn't want to tell his parents about his struggles as an extra, mainly because he didn't want them to worry. He was very clear that being an extra was a very hard and uncertain job, if it wasn't for his dreams, maybe he wouldn't have been able to hold on until now.

  But all that is in the past now, and things are very different. Tang Xiaosheng has successfully signed with an agency, securing a five-year contract worth 80 million, guaranteeing at least two films per year, which may not be a huge success but at least provides some financial security. For an ordinary rural family, this is already enough.

  For this reason, Tang Xiaosheng decided that after returning home this year, he would confess to his parents about being an actor. After all, this matter had to be explained to them sooner or later and couldn't be hidden forever.

  It's been six years since the parents were kept in the dark, and they all thought Tang Xiaosheng was now a doctor in the city. If they suddenly found out that Tang Xiaosheng didn't go to college and became an actor instead, it's hard to imagine how the two elderly people would react. Especially Tang Xiaosheng's mother, she had always hoped that he could go to college, which was almost her greatest wish in life, because she understood the hardships of being uncultured.

  Thinking of this, Tang Xiaosheng's heart was somewhat apprehensive, and he could only silently pray that his parents would understand what he had done back then.

  The next morning, the train arrived at the terminal station on time. After getting off the train, Tang Xiaosheng took Xiao Longnv and Guo Xiang to a nearby bus station and boarded a bus heading to Nanming City.

  In the afternoon, they finally arrived at Hongxing Town, Nanming City, which is only over ten kilometers away from Tang Xiaosheng's hometown of Baiyang Village. However, Baiyang Village is a remote mountain village, and there is no road from Hongxing Town to Baiyang Village, all are winding mountain roads with potholes, and there is no car that can be taken, the only means of transportation is motorcycles.

  When they arrived at Hong Xing Town, Tang Xiao Sheng hailed two motorcycles and had the two drivers share one motorcycle while he rode the other with Little Dragon Maiden and Guo Xiang. He didn't want to let Little Dragon Maiden and Guo Xiang ride on the back of a motorcycle driver.

  After driving on the mountain road for more than two hours, they finally arrived at their destination - Baiyang Village at 4 pm.

  Returning home again, Tang Xiaosheng felt a deep sense of closeness in his heart. Although it had been two years since he last returned home, the changes in his hometown were not great, and everything seemed to be still the same as before.

  Then he took Xiao Long Nu and Guo Xiang back home on foot together.

  All the way, they met many villagers, but since Tang Xiaosheng hadn't been back home for several years, many people couldn't recognize him and didn't even greet him, just stopping to watch.

  The villagers' clothing was relatively simple, and although Tang Xiaosheng, Little Dragon Girl, and Guo Xiang's clothes were not luxurious, they were still a few grades higher than the villagers. Therefore, when the villagers saw them, they knew that these people came from the city and couldn't help but feel curious.

  What's more, the little dragon girl was dressed in a spotless white dress, with an absolutely beautiful face and skin as white as ice, plus her extraordinary temperament that was out of this world. To the villagers, she looked just like a fairy who had descended to earth, and everyone couldn't help but take a second glance at her, secretly guessing her identity.

  "Whose daughter is she? She's really pretty, just like a celestial being!"

  "I haven't seen her either, but the young man beside her looks a bit familiar."

  ……

  After walking for several minutes, Tang Xiaosheng saw a dilapidated earth house under a large locust tree about two hundred meters in front of him. The yellow earth wall and gray tiles looked so familiar.

  And this earthen house was his home.

  "Dragon son, we're almost home." Tang Xiaosheng pointed to the earthen house in front of him and said.

  Xiaolongnv's eyebrows furrowed slightly as she replied in a soft voice, "Brother, I'm feeling a bit nervous."

  Tang Xiaosheng smiled and comforted him, "Don't worry, Long'er, my parents aren't tigers, they won't eat people."

  Xiao Long Nu was still a bit nervous, after all it was her first time meeting Tang Xiao Sheng's parents and she didn't know how things would turn out. She carefully asked: "Guo Er, what should I say later?"

  "Say whatever you want to say, don't be too restrained." Tang Xiaosheng saw that she was still tense, so he gently held her small hand and said softly, "Long'er, don't worry too much, I'll always be by your side, nothing will happen."

  "Mm." The little dragon girl lightly bit her thin lips and nodded slightly.

  Xiaolongnv's return home this time is to see her father-in-law and mother-in-law, so the pressure on her is naturally not small. In comparison, Guo Xiang is much more relaxed, for her, this is simply a rural trip. As she walks along the village path, she sees many beautiful wildflowers by the roadside, and can't help but squat down to pick a few, inserting them into her hair.

  "Xiang Er, have you finished picking flowers? We're almost home."

  "Ah, here it comes."

  Then the three of them came to the door together, creaking, Tang Xiaosheng gently pushed open an old wooden door and walked in.

  "Dad, Mom, I'm back."

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  PS: Long'er is going to meet her grandparents, let's cast a recommendation vote for her and wish everything goes smoothly. (*^__^*)