The smile on Qin Anning's face faded a little, and he said with a hint of alienation, "Qi Zhiqing, what's the matter?"

Qi Shuyue seemed oblivious to Qin An Ning's aloofness. She squeezed in, her face full of concern, "An Ning, why haven't you come back these past two days? Did something happen?"

"No, why do you think so?" Qin An Ning's attitude was lukewarm.

Meng Yu and Wu Yanli didn't come over when they saw her with Lu Cheng. Why was Qi Shuyue so eager to come over?

Do they have such a deep friendship?

Qi Shuyue seemed oblivious to Qin Anning's distance and remained very warm. "That day you said you were going to the county, but you didn't say you wouldn't come back. I was so worried about you these past two days, thinking something had happened to you."

"No, you see, I'm fine."

At this time, Lu Cheng came back with firewood, and Qin An Ning helped him hold the door. After Lu Cheng came in, he glanced at Qi Shuyue and didn't ask anything else. He squatted in front of the stove and started to light the kang.

After putting some firewood in, I found that there was too much ash inside. "Ningning, there is too much ash in your kang hole. I'll clean it out for you. You can go sit in their room for a while."

Lu Cheng pointed to the house of Meng Yu and Wu Yanli next door.

Qin Anning glanced at Qi Shuyue, who had been standing next to him, and asked politely, "Do you want to go together?"

It would be bad if she left and left Qi Shuyue and Lu Cheng alone in the house.

"Okay!" Qi Shuyue agreed happily. She smiled, and her round face had cute dimples, and her almond-shaped eyes were pure and innocent.

Qin An Ning couldn't help but wonder if she was too defensive. Qi Shuyue simply wanted to be friends with her. After all, people need to get along with each other to understand each other.

Just like Wu Yanli, she initially gave her the impression of being a simple-minded and silly girl, but now they get along pretty well.

Time will tell, just wait and see!

Meng Yu and Wu Yanli didn't buy coal, so the stove burned wood. When Qin An Ning came over, Meng Yu was adding wood to the stove.

"Hey, why are you here so late?" Meng Yu thought something had happened, so he quickly covered the stove ring and put down the stove hook.

"It's okay, Lu Cheng is cleaning the ashes, let me come over and stay for a while." Qin An Ning came to their room without any courtesy and sat directly on the edge of the kang.

This house is as big as hers, but it is for two people to live in, so it has more supplies than hers and seems more homely.

"Qi Zhiqing, please sit down too."

Meng Yu stepped aside and, seeing that nothing was wrong, stayed by the stove.

"Please keep an eye on my roasted potatoes and make sure they don't smoke." Wu Yanli was sitting on the kang knitting a sweater, but she still remembered her food.

Meng Yu rolled his eyes, squatted down resignedly, and turned over the roasted potatoes under the grate.

Qin Anning wanted to laugh when she saw this, "Don't knit anymore, I'm not in a hurry to wear it. The lights are dim at night and it hurts my eyes."

"No, I'm still thinking about my three meals of rabbit meat."

As Wu Yanli spoke, her eyes did not fall on the knitting needles, but her hands kept moving without making any mistakes.

This skill is truly admirable; she even misses a stitch when she stares at the knitting needles.

"Does An Ning know how to hunt?" Qi Shuyue, who had been silent since entering the house, spoke up at the right moment. "I want to see rabbit hunting, too. Let's go up the mountain together!"

Qin An Ning complained in her heart, how could she hunt? She was just catching rabbits in a net.

You can play freely when there is no one around, but if there are people around, you will be exposed!

“I don’t know how to hunt, but my boyfriend does, but he doesn’t take a break these days.

Besides, hunting depends on luck; just because you know how to hunt doesn’t mean you’ll get what you want.”

Qi Shuyue's face was full of curiosity, with a hint of mischief in her eyes, "It doesn't matter. I have nothing to do right now anyway. It's really uncomfortable to stay here all day.

Hunting and the like are not available in the city, so I'll call my brother over and let him experience it."

Having said that, Qin An Ning couldn't stop them from following her. Her legs were on her body, so she could go if she wanted to.

"Ningning!" Lu Cheng called her from outside the door.

Qin Anning came out quickly and asked, "Is it done?"

"Well, the kang is done, and I cleaned the room. The lighting is bad, so there may be some places that are not cleaned very cleanly. You can clean it up tomorrow."

"I see. You've been busy all day. You should go back and rest."

After Lu Cheng left, Qin An Ning also returned to the house. This time Qi Shuyue did not follow him.

However, in the next two days, Qi Shuyue would always come to Qin An Ning to chat. The key point was that she never came empty-handed. She always brought some snacks with her. If Qin An Ning didn't want to eat them, she would force them on you.

People won't feel awkward if you don't speak, and they will be happy just as long as you speak. Being too familiar with others is a bit unbearable.

Qin An Ning really didn't want to deal with it anymore, so she went to find Meng Yu, "Didn't I say before that I would take you to pick mistletoe? Do you want to go?"

"Go," Meng Yu said straightforwardly, then realized, "But I can't climb the tree. How can I pick them?"

Qin Anning thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the village and ask if anyone has bamboo poles. Bamboo poles are light and easy to connect. We can tie a sickle on them and we don't have to climb trees.

Let’s try this first and see if it works. If it doesn’t work, we can think of other ways.”

"Then I'll go to Aunt Chunfang and Aunt Cuihua's house to ask." Meng Yu is also a man of action. As soon as he finished speaking, he put on a hat and scarf and went out.

Wu Yanli sat on the kang and shook her head. "It's freezing cold, you guys really don't mind the cold."

Anyway, she never goes out. Except when she has to go to the fields, she basically stays on the kang.

The weather in Northeast China is really cold, especially when going to the toilet, her butt is frozen. She wishes she could run there every time until she is about to burst, and then run back again after she is done.

Qin An Ning gave Wu Yanli a cold look. How could she not feel cold? She was not a fool.

But she and Qi Shuyue really had nothing to say to each other. She really couldn't accept that kind of excessive enthusiasm. Besides, she couldn't stand staying in the house for several months during the winter.

Going out to pick herbs is just like taking a stroll.

Meng Yu hadn't returned yet, but Qi Shuyue came over first and stood at the door, her almond-shaped eyes twinkling. "An Ning, are you going up the mountain to catch rabbits? Take me with you."

Qin An Ning shook his head slightly, "We're not trying to catch rabbits, we want to see if we can gather any medicinal herbs."

"Gathering herbs? It's freezing cold right now, and the ground is covered in snow. How can herbs grow there?"

Qi Shuyue was very interested, "I want to go, I want to go too, I have never seen any medicinal herbs that can grow in the middle of winter.

An Ning, wait for me for a moment, I'll call my brother to come along."

After saying that, without waiting for Qin An Ning to respond, he ran away like a happy little bird, chirping "Brother, brother".

Wu Yanli tsks, "Like an old hen, clucking."

Qin Anning couldn't help laughing at her, "Do you want to go with us? What's the point of staying at home all day?"

Wu Yanli shook her head like a rattle, "No, I won't go even if you kill me."

"Then if you can't kill him, just go ahead?"

Qin An Ning joked with Wu Yanli for a few words, and Meng Yu just happened to come back with Wang Daqing and Lin Erbao.

Qi Shuyue winked at Xu Jiacheng, then came over with a smile, holding Qin Anning's arm. "Sister Anning, who are these two?"