Xu Yanfeng did not refuse. After they were out of their sight, he took Xia Xi's hand and walked slowly down the mountain with her.

Cheng Manyi looked in the direction the two had left. There was no sign of them anymore, but she was reluctant to look away. She clenched her fingers on the armrest of the chair, her nails scraping against the stiff Oxford cloth, making a slight scratching sound.

Zhou Xiaoyu glanced at her, a sarcastic smile on the corner of her lips, tilted her head slightly, and whispered, "Why, are you feeling unbalanced?"

Cheng Manyi came back to her senses, frowned slightly, and looked at her for a while: "I don't understand what you are saying."

"Don't you like Xu Yanfeng?" Zhou Xiaoyu was still smiling, but her words were not so friendly, and they hit her right to the point.

Cheng Manyi looked uncomfortable, holding her chin with her fingers covering the lower half of her face: "Don't talk nonsense."

Her words indirectly confirmed Zhou Xiaoyu's guess. It turned out that she knew that Xu Yanfeng and Xia Xi were a couple.

Zhou Xiaoyu provoked her with words: "You can't snatch Xia Xi's hand, don't waste your energy, her methods are not comparable to ordinary people. How do you think she pursued Xu Yanfeng? She pestered him relentlessly. Xu Yanfeng was so annoyed that he agreed. He is the heir to the group, how could he be serious with Xia Xilai? Just play around."

Cheng Manyi: "Don't tell me this."

Zhou Xiaoyu played with a piece of wild grass and stopped boring herself. She believed that as long as Cheng Manyi was more active, she would listen to her.

*

Xu Yanfeng borrowed the B&B owner's car, drove down the mountain from another road, and went to a large supermarket to buy barbecue utensils and freshly skewered ingredients.

The shopping cart was pushed by Xu Yanfeng, and Xia Xi followed beside him, holding his mobile phone and asking everyone in the group if they wanted to buy anything, and he would help them bring it.

A group of greedy people asked for more snacks, such as cola, shrimp chips, seaweed, squid strips, and spicy strips, because the snacks they brought were not enough for them to eat. It was like a convenience store was opened in the group.

Xia Xi wrote down everything, took a bag of shrimp chips from the shelf and threw it into the shopping cart. Suddenly, a rumbling sound exploded in her ears. She was about to ask if it was thunder when she heard other noises outside.

Xu Yanfeng said, "It seems to be raining."

As they left the supermarket, it began to pour down, the sound of rain hitting the concrete floor startling. They had just been in the supermarket, the sound was blocked, and it didn't sound that loud, so they thought it was just a light rain.

Someone in the group was complaining.

"I was completely defenseless and it poured all over my head and face."

"The forecast has been updated. Heavy rain. Holy crap? There was no rain before."

"Ahhh what should I do!"

"What bad luck."

Xia Xi looked at Xu Yanfeng and reported the news in the group to him. Without hesitation, he bent down to put down his things and called the head of the secretariat.

It took several tries before the call got through. There was a lot of noise on the other end, like raindrops hitting plastic sheeting.

Xu Yanfeng calmly arranged, "Take everyone back to the B&B. Look after each other on the way down the mountain and be careful. Forget about the tents for now, just take your personal belongings."

"Okay, okay." The minister took shelter in the tent and wiped the raindrops from his face. "What about you guys?"

"It depends."

Xu Yanfeng stared at the cascading rain, which seemed to be rolling for a while. The mountain road was rugged and difficult to drive down, but now it was pouring rain, the roads were slippery, and the sky was as dark as seven or eight o'clock in the evening. The danger level was skyrocketing, making it unsuitable for climbing the mountain.

After exchanging a glance with Xia Xi, he suggested, "How about we get a room at a nearby hotel?"

Xia Xi was stunned for a moment, the corners of her lips pursed, a faint smile barely noticeable, her voice faint, drowned out by the heavy rain: "You said that."

Xu Yanfeng had good hearing and heard her mumbling. He smiled slightly and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"No, I'm not thinking about anything." Xia Xi looked up, her eyes clear and bright, without a trace of distracting thoughts in them, pretending to be innocent and naive, "Let's go quickly, it's hard to book a room if we're late. It's bound to be packed during the National Day holiday."