When he returned to the door of his house, he saw Mu Feng coming out of the fairy-tale courtyard. The two of them were competitors. Usually, Mu Feng's attitude towards him could be described as ignoring him with a bit of wariness. When he saw him, he didn't even raise his eyelids.

But today, Mu Feng actually took the initiative to greet him after seeing him.

"Zhou Rongsheng, come here."

Zhou Rongsheng followed his instructions and approached: "Senior Mu, what's going on?"

Mu Feng's brows twitched. He always felt that this kid calling him like that was a provocation to him, but when he thought about what he was going to do next, he suppressed the urge to find fault.

He said rather coldly: "Tonghua's birthday is coming soon. I want to give her a surprise and I need your help."

Zhou Rongsheng opened his mouth in shock. "Tonghua is about to have its birthday? When?"

It's not Zhou Rongsheng's fault for not caring about Tonghua. It's just that Tonghua never mentioned this matter. In fact, Tonghua rarely mentioned what happened to her in the past, and even Grandma Zhang didn't know much about it.

All we know is that Tonghua is from Hangcheng, grew up by the sea, can cook, has good cooking skills, and is very efficient at doing housework. Tonghua is unwilling to talk about her past, so Grandma Zhang can only guess that she must have suffered some kind of hurt in the past, and she feels even more sorry for her.

"As long as you agree to help me, I will tell you when it is."

Seeing his surprised look, Mu Feng felt a little proud in his heart. See, I am still closer to fairy tales. You kid don’t even know that the person you like is having a birthday. But he did not show any pride on his face.

"good."

Zhou Rongsheng agreed without hesitation, which made Mu Feng look at him with a new perspective. He asked suspiciously, "Why don't you ask me what I want you to do first?"

Zhou Rongsheng said calmly, "There's no need. It's all for the fairy tale anyway."

"Okay, then I'll tell you, Fairy Tale's birthday is December 27th."

Zhou Rongsheng calculated the days: "Isn't that just a few days away?"

If Mu Feng hadn't told him that Tonghua's birthday was coming up, he would have definitely missed it.

"That's why I need your help. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to let you off easily!"

Zhou Rongsheng calmed down and asked, "What do you need me to do?"

Mu Feng waved his hand, motioning him to come closer.

“You just have to do this…”

"Okay, I understand."

......

On December 27th.

Early in the morning, Zhou Rongsheng shouted outside the small courtyard:

"Fairy Tale, get up and eat!"

After Tonghua got herself ready with sleepy eyes, she went to Grandma Zhang's house for dinner. Now that their two families were getting more and more familiar with each other, they basically either ate together at Grandma Zhang's house or at Tonghua's house. Even the closest neighbors couldn't compare to them.

When Tonghua arrived at the dining table, she saw that today's breakfast was different from the previous ones. It was a bowl of vegetarian noodles.

Grandma Zhang smiled and said, "Come and try this bowl of noodles. How does it taste?"

After Tonghua sat down and was about to pick up her chopsticks to eat, she saw Grandma Zhang and Zhou Rongsheng looking at her with smiles on their faces.

Tonghua then realized that there was only her bowl of noodles on the table, and no breakfast for them. Tonghua looked puzzled and said, "Grandma, aren't you going to eat?"

Zhou Rongsheng hurriedly explained: "We have already eaten, this breakfast is specially prepared for you."

"oh."

Tonghua was ready to eat. When she put the first mouthful of noodles into her mouth and was about to bite it off, Zhou Rongsheng and Grandma Zhang spoke nervously at the same time:

"etc!"

"Girl, you must not chew these noodles too much. You have to eat the whole bowl smoothly."

"Your Excellency?"

Tonghua had noodles in his mouth and his words were not very clear.

Grandma Zhang looked at Tonghua with a kind face and said, "That's right, grandma won't hurt you, so eat it without worry."

Zhou Rongsheng also nodded heavily.

Although Tonghua felt it was a little strange, he still did as Grandma Zhang said.

It is not easy to finish a bowl of noodles in one go, but fortunately the portion is not too large, probably because it is just according to Fairy Tale's appetite.

After Tonghua finished eating the noodles, she finally had the chance to ask, "Grandma, why did you eat that bowl of noodles in one go?"

“This is a custom here.”

Tonghua wanted to ask what the custom was, but Grandma Zhang and Zhou Rongsheng just smiled and said nothing.

How strange!

After Tonghua finished her meal and packed up her things, she sat in her yard waiting for Zhou Rongsheng to come. They had agreed to go out together today.

A few days ago, Zhou Rongsheng saw that Tonghua stayed at home all day and didn't go out after she quit her job. Wanting to help her change her mood, he suggested that Tonghua help sell red ropes on the street.

Fairy Tale was bored, so he agreed.

Now they just have to wait for Zhou Rongsheng to prepare everything, and then they can go out together.

It didn't take long for him to be ready.

Zhou Rongsheng, carrying a backpack, walked to the gate of Tonghua's courtyard and called out to her, "Tonghua, let's go."

Seeing his expression, Tonghua asked in confusion: "You're not going to drive today?"

In the past, Zhou Rongsheng always drove when he went out, and was even teased by Grandma Zhang, who said that even though he was so tall and drove every day, his physical strength was not as good as that of an old woman in her seventies or eighties. Even so, this did not make Zhou Rongsheng give up walking.

"Yeah, we'll just walk down the street, just like you and grandma."

"All right."

Tonghua walked to the door outside the courtyard and was about to lock it when Zhou Rongsheng stopped her: "Grandma is watching over the house, so there's no need to lock the door. Don't worry."

Tonghua thought so too. As an outsider, she had no relatives visiting her on weekdays, so there was really no need to lock the door.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, Zhou Rongsheng kept telling Tonghua jokes along the way, telling her about the embarrassing things he had encountered, making her happy and making her laugh.

Seeing Tonghua, whose face had been full of sadness for days, finally smile, Zhou Rongsheng couldn't help but smile happily.

Time passed quickly, and next it was Tonghua's turn to go to the main stage. Since Zhou Rongsheng had never set up a stall before, he was not sure what to do, so he just helped Tonghua behind the scenes.

Tonghua took him to the place where she and Mufeng had set up a stall last time. Tonghua took a look at the red ropes to be sold today and was surprised by the quantity.

"Why are there so many today?"

In the past, there were only dozens or hundreds of them at most, but I didn’t expect that the number today would be at least thousands.

Zhou Rongsheng scratched his head embarrassedly: "I've been idle lately and have nothing to do, so I helped edit some of them."

Tonghua looked at the red ropes tied into bunches and shook his head. There were more than just a few of them. Most of them were probably made by Zhou Rongsheng.

Putting aside the idle chatter, Fairy Tale started today's work.