Chapter 18: Passers-by in the Seventies 10

Ke Xiaoxia took a bite of the bun silently, but secretly she was still a little biased towards Zhu Minghua.

After all, she eats a lot of Zhu Minghua's food, and her textbooks are also found by Zhu Minghua, who will take the initiative to teach her.

No matter how you look at it, Zhu Minghua is better value for money than Zhou Yang.

Ke Xiaoxia compared the two people in her mind, then silently said "shame" and put the matter aside.

After eating the buns, the two walked forward for a while and came across a chestnut tree where the chestnuts had not been picked.

There are many chestnut trees on the mountain, but most of them have been picked with fruits. If you want to pick more, you can only find other trees.

Now that I have encountered it, of course I have to pick it.

Zhu Minghua definitely couldn't let Ke Xiaoxia climb the tree to pick the fruits, so he volunteered to climb the tree himself.

Climbing the tree was smooth, but when picking the chestnuts, I would always accidentally get pricked by the chestnut balls.

"How about I do it?"

Zhu Minghua refused: "No, I can do it. The chestnut ball hurts so much, and it will hurt even more for a little girl like you. You should be careful down there."

Although Zhu Minghua is not as good as Zhou Yang in work ability, Zhu Minghua is eloquent.

On the way back after picking chestnuts, Zhu Minghua's shoulders hurt from the heavy backpack, but he didn't complain.

Instead, he began to feel sorry for Ke Xiaoxia: "No wonder you look so thin and small, you must be tired from working so hard. You are so small, but you can actually carry such a heavy backpack up and down the mountain."

"You do so much work every day, and the food you eat is not nutritious, how can you grow taller? Don't worry, Xiaoxia, I will definitely not let you work so hard in the future."

"Let's not go up the mountain tomorrow. Let's go to the commune and have something good to eat."

Ke Xiaoxia quickly refused: "There's no need to go to the commune. I'm eating well now. There's really no need to go to that trouble."

Zhu Minghua rubbed Ke Xiaoxia's head and said nothing.

But in her heart, she was secretly thinking that it was really inconvenient to live with Li Chaoyang. She wanted to invite Xiaoxia to her home for dinner, but there was still an eyesore here.

Although he couldn't invite her, he could make it and send it to Xiaoxia. He had a lunch box anyway.

After figuring it out, Zhu Minghua felt much better.

After going down the mountain, the two first went to where Zhu Minghua lived and poured out some chestnuts from the basket.

Li Chaoyang is at home.

Zhu Minghua did not stop Ke Xiaoxia from entering. Instead, he ordered Li Chaoyang naturally, "Li Chaoyang, hurry up and make a cup of malted milk for Xiaoxia."

"Thank you for your hard work, Xiaoxia. Please sit down. I will take you back later."

Li Chaoyang glanced at Zhu Minghua coldly, but still had to lower his head to make the malted milk.

After all, this is for Ke Xiaoxia to drink.

Li Chaoyang not only made malted milk, but also took out various foods.

Ke Xiaoxia thanked him politely, but only took the malted milk and did not eat what Li Chaoyang took out.

Li Chaoyang frowned slightly. He really wanted to imitate Zhu Minghua and stuff the thing directly into Ke Xiaoxia's pocket, but he really couldn't do something as shameless as Zhu Minghua.

"Eat something. You're welcome."

"No need. Brother Minghua gave me a big bun when we were on the mountain. I just need to drink some malted milk. I really can't eat anything else."

Ke Xiaoxia was extremely polite when she spoke, with a smile on her face, which made Li Chaoyang feel uncomfortable.

Because Ke Xiaoxia's smile was for Zhu Minghua.

Zhu Minghua had already poured the chestnuts and stuffed some food into the backpack.

Seeing Zhu Minghua coming, Ke Xiaoxia quickly drank all the malted milk and stood up.

Zhu Minghua said with a smile: "Why are you in such a hurry? It's okay to drink slowly. But since you have finished drinking, let's go."

As for Li Chaoyang, he was naturally ignored by him.

The food that Li Chaoyang took was his own. Zhu Minghua could snatch Li Chaoyang's food behind his back and give it to Ke Xiaoxia, but he would definitely not do that in front of Ke Xiaoxia.

After all, he took the things behind the scenes and gave money to Li Chaoyang, but in front of Ke Xiaoxia, didn't all the favors fall on Li Chaoyang?

It's different with the malted milk, because that was ordered by him, not Li Chaoyang's own insight.

Before leaving, Ke Xiaoxia politely greeted Li Chaoyang: "Goodbye, Li Zhiqing."

Li Chaoyang watched the two leave with a gloomy expression.

He turned and looked at the cup that Ke Xiaoxia had used.

After looking at it for a long time, he finally poured some tea into it and drank all the tea from the place where Ke Xiaoxia had just drunk.

Ke Xiaoxia didn't know about Li Chaoyang's perverted behavior.

I just know that today was probably really embarrassing.

After leaving the place where Zhu Minghua and his friends lived, I met Zhou Yang not long after walking.

Zhou Yang looked at Ke Xiaoxia, then at the backpack Zhu Minghua was carrying and the chestnuts in the basket, without saying anything.

Ke Xiaoxia almost opened her mouth to explain because she felt guilty.

Fortunately, she managed to hold it together and just greeted him, "Brother Zhou Yang."

Zhou Yang said "hmm" and asked casually, "Going up the mountain?"

"Uh-huh."

"We can do it together next time."

As he spoke, Zhou Yang looked at Zhu Minghua.

Although he quickly looked away, Zhu Minghua still narrowed his eyes sharply.

Zhu Minghua interrupted Ke Xiaoxia and said, "Indeed, we can go together. I heard that Comrade Zhou is very good at hunting. I wonder if he can teach me?"

"Heard? Who told you that?"

Zhou Yang did not play by the rules. While speaking, he did not forget to glance at Ke Xiaoxia. The meaning was self-evident.

Ke Xiaoxia felt that the atmosphere was not right.

Zhu Minghua still smiled and said, "Of course I heard it from other people in the team, but I don't know if it's true."

"It's true. If you want to learn, I can teach you. But hunting is not that simple."

"That's okay. I'm the most patient person."

"Since Zhu Zhiqing said so, let's start tomorrow."

"Okay." Zhu Minghua agreed, then turned to Ke Xiaoxia and said, "Sister Xiaoxia, I'll treat you to meat when I learn how to hunt."

Ke Xiaoxia looked at Zhou Yang, then at Zhu Minghua.

She had always been biased towards Zhu Minghua, and although she felt a little guilty and embarrassed in front of Zhou Yang, she still smiled and nodded, "Yeah, good luck, Brother Minghua."

Zhou Yang was so angry that he laughed.

"Why don't Xiao Xia come along too? We can roast whatever we catch and eat it directly."

This proposal won Ke Xiaoxia's heart.

Just as she was about to nod, she heard Zhu Minghua say, "Isn't this a bad idea? Hunting doesn't mean you have to go inside. What if you run into danger?"

"There will be no danger."

Zhou Yang's tone was firm. He looked at Ke Xiaoxia and said with a meaning that both of them understood: "Even if there is any danger, I can protect Xiaoxia and will never let anything happen to her."

Ke Xiaoxia thought about the time when they encountered the wild boar, and Zhou Yang did react very quickly.

Ke Xiaoxia looked at Zhu Minghua.

Zhu Minghua chuckled: "Since Comrade Zhou has said so, then Sister Xia should come along."

"But let me make it clear first, this is my first time hunting. If anything embarrassing happens, Xiao Xia sister can't laugh at me."

Ke Xiaoxia smiled: "How could that be?"

It was settled that we were going to go up the mountain.