Pei Ziqiu heard her younger brother calling her to answer the phone and walked down from upstairs with a casual look on her face.

However, when he heard a very familiar voice coming from the microphone: "Zi Qiu, how have you been in the past year and a half? I am Li Chuang..."

Her head exploded with a "buzz".

Is this real? I am hallucinating!

Her voice trembled slightly. "You, are you really Li Chuang? Prove it quickly... Um, last time I fried the pumpkin too salty, why did you pretend to like it and eat it all? They all vomited it out."

There was an immediate answer from the other end of the phone.

"Because you cooked it, I must have eaten it all. Oh my god, I went back to my room and secretly drank three big teacups of water. I went to the toilet six times in the middle of the night. I was so sleepy when I went to work the next day..."

Pei Ziqiu listened to the Northeastern dialect that had appeared in his dreams many times, and he burst into laughter. Then suddenly his eyes became hot and tears flowed.

"Brother Chuang, I'm so happy! How did you get here? Is it Xiaomin... I haven't heard that she's back?"

Xiaomin would definitely visit Cao Baojiang first thing she did when she came back, but her great-grandfather was sitting in his yard at that moment, chatting with grandpa, and didn't mention this matter.

"Don't mention it. It's hard to explain. It was indeed Master Lian who arranged for us to come here, but she didn't come. Something happened to us and we became wanted criminals. We had no choice but to escape."

"...Xiaomin didn't tell me that you were not dead until we were about to part! Do you know how long my heart was pounding after I heard that? Even until I escaped and boarded the train, I was still pounding, I..."

Pei Ziqiu listened to his nonsense and smiled: "Okay, stop the gun. When did you arrive in Hong Kong? Where are you now?"

"I came to seek refuge with Lawrence Lu. I arrived in Tsim Sha Tsui at 3:30 this morning. He arranged for us to stay in a villa in Kowloon Tong, which is Xiaomin's house, at 34 Cumberland Road."

Pei Ziqiu understood after hearing this.

"You keep talking about you guys, who else is it? Could it be that Lin Youshu, the big guy Lin is here too?"

"No! I have that guy, Shen Yuanchao and Zhong Min, you don't know them, they only came to join the team in August last year, at that time you were already... that thing!"

"...But you must have seen my childhood friend Xue Hongbing. He's the guy who looks very energetic, but not as energetic as me. He was almost as energetic as me. He was sent to work in Xinfeng Village. One time, he brought me ten sticky bean cakes, and I gave you six..."

Pei Ziqiu held the microphone with great interest, trying to recall the past, as if the scenes of the past were still vivid in his mind.

"Oh, I get it. Forget it. He looks better than you. At least he's taller than you."

"What? It must be because the soles of the shoes he wore that day were thick! We are both 1.78 meters tall."

Li Chuang felt a little guilty when he said this.

I am 1.77 meters tall and Xue Hongbing is 1.79 meters tall. If you add them together, wouldn't it be 1.78 meters tall?

We are such close friends, what's wrong with borrowing a centimeter?

Pei Ziqiu didn't continue to dwell on this matter. She tried to control Ji Ji's thinking so that he wouldn't be led astray by Li Chuang.

"Okay, it's not convenient to tell you what happened over the phone. Just wait, I'll drive to you now! 34 Jinbalun Road, right?"

It's seven o'clock in the evening now, but she has classes tomorrow.

She had studied in high school for one year before, and in September this year, she had successfully enrolled in the business administration major at Hong Kong University and is now a freshman.

Pei Ziqiu couldn't wait until the day after tomorrow, Sunday, to meet her. She couldn't wait even a moment.

Li Chuang was very surprised: "What the hell? It's so late, you, you can drive? Don't come out by yourself, or tomorrow..."

"It's okay, I'll ask my eldest brother to come with me. I have classes tomorrow and it's not too late tonight. I'll see you in about forty minutes! Let's not talk about it now."

"Click~" the phone hung up.

Li Chuang was dumbfounded.

He grinned at his brothers who were winking at him at the other end of the living room.

"Xiao Qiu...is coming now, and I haven't even finished what I'm saying."

He originally wanted to find an excuse to organize a gathering of educated youth from Sandaogou and invite Pei Ziqiu to dinner tomorrow.

I didn’t expect it to come now!

"Zhong Min, you have two things to do now. First, put the mask on Shen Hanchao as soon as possible. I don't care if he is from the Yuan Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, he must wear it!"

"...Second, Saleng'er, go find the blue shirt you bought today and lend it to me. I suddenly feel tired, and the black one I bought doesn't look good. It makes me look a bit old..."

Phew, everyone laughed.

Shen Hanchao was speechless: "Oh my god, my brother Chuang, you are really my brother! It's already this late, and you still remember to put on a mask for me?!"

"...Look at my face now. Is it necessary to wear a mask? I am really convinced."

Zhong Min was already holding his stomach and laughing so hard that he couldn't stop. Xue Zhisen quickly slapped him and said, "Hurry up and get the mask and shirt!"

By the time Zhong Min turned around and went back to the house to get the shirt and threw it on the sofa, Li Chuang had already put on his own black one.

"No, Brother Chuang, if you think black makes you look old, why did you buy black?"

Li Chuang looked up at him and said, "I saw that Brother Lu was wearing a black suit jacket, which looked very stylish!"

"…I think to myself, if I were a woman, I would only love him for the rest of my life! I was thinking I would wear all black, he would definitely look very cool."

Zhong Min shook his head regretfully: "Forget it, then you have to put on a black suit too? You just put on a shirt, that's not enough! Besides, he looks good in anything."

Everyone nodded.

Li Chuang said loudly: "Ladies, please step aside. I am going to take off my clothes and change my shirt. I will change here. You bald guys, help me find a good one."

Qi Yao and Tao Yuhong covered their mouths and laughed so hard. Oh, the educated youth who went to the Northeast to work in the countryside, their words are so funny. The Northeast is really good, why don’t they go there to work in the countryside?

If Dongguan people heard this, they would definitely be unhappy... I'm going to the Northeast, what does A Yao have to do with me? !

…

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening. Li Chuang was still wearing his black shirt and standing at the gate like he was on guard. Finally, he waited for a car to drive over from a distance.

The car lights flashed twice, and his heart skipped a beat, as if Pei Ziqiu was deliberately trying to amuse him.

Until the car stopped in the yard and the gate was closed.

Pei Ziqiu had already gotten out of the car and strode forward to say hello.

Pei Zixi smiled and slowly got down from the passenger seat.

"Hey, Brother Chuang, it's been a long time since we last met. I didn't expect that you have grown up and become more energetic!"

Li Chuang deliberately pulled away Xiaoqiu's hand that was pulling at his sleeve.

"What do you mean by grown up? I've always been so energetic! When did you feel that I haven't grown up..."

This guy mixed up Northeastern dialect and Shanghainese dialect, making Pei Ziqiu laugh.