Chapter 94 Sense of Distance

Ji Yunzhou has a very special woody fragrance on his body, and even the Buddhist beads are tainted with his scent.

I don’t know if it’s because of the Buddhist beads or something else, but Xia Wu is indeed not as scared anymore.

With so many people around, what is she afraid of?

Thinking of this, Xia Wu straightened her back, full of confidence. She picked up the bucket and continued to pick up snails.

This place is indeed a holy place for catching snails. In less than an hour, Xia Wu caught half a bucket, which is more than what they gave her yesterday.

It was getting late and the stream water was getting colder. She was afraid that the humidity here was too high and would make Ji Yunzhou uncomfortable, so she planned to stop here tonight and come back later.

"I'm almost done, how are you guys doing?"

"It's almost time, shall we go back?"

"Okay, go back. We need to go back to bed."

Yang Hongwen didn't come tonight. He was reading medical books with his grandfather. He preferred staying at home with his grandfather to catching snails.

There were many rocks by the river, making it difficult for Xia Wu to push the wheelchair. Xia Zhi reached out to hold onto the wheelchair, "Let me help you."

"Can you?"

"Why not? I haven't thanked Mr. Ji for taking us in yet. It's just a small favor."

Ji Yunzhou turned his head slightly and nodded to Xia Wu, "Let him come."

Xia Wu let go of her hand and walked side by side with Xia Zhi.

We came in a huge group, but left in a scattered manner. The night sky was clear, the insects were chirping, and taking a deep breath made me feel much more relaxed.

"No wonder you stay here and don't want to go back. If I were you, I probably wouldn't want to leave either."

Xia Wu snorted softly, "Even if you're not me, you can still stay with us. Look at Zhao Jing, Yang Shuhua, and the others, aren't they all back? Of course, you have to be able to endure loneliness and can't always think about making a lot of money. If you want to make a lot of money, you won't be able to stay here."

Xia Zhi touched his chin, thinking, "That seems to make sense. How about I buy a house here?"

"...I'm kidding. You're an ambitious young man with a bright financial future. Why would you buy a house here? It's not worth it. It's not cost-effective. Don't buy it."

Xia Wu quickly took back her words. She didn't want to see Xia Zhi every day.

"That's not what you said just now. I didn't have a place to stay after returning to China, and I originally wanted to buy a house in Shenzhen. Now it seems that spending a little money to buy a house here seems to be more attractive than buying a house in Shenzhen."

Xia Zhi became more and more serious as he spoke.

Xia Wu complained: "If you buy a house here, it will be difficult for you to find a wife. It's better to buy a house in Shenzhen."

Yang Shuhua, who was walking behind them, heard their conversation and quickly stepped forward to interject, "If you can buy a house in Shenzhen, you must buy one. Buying a house in the village is a lost cause. Just look at how many bachelors there are in our village. Wanting to get married without a house in the city? It's as difficult as climbing to the sky."

Zhao Jing complained, "Even if you have a house in the city, it's not as easy as Mr. Xia getting married, right?"

"...Jing, we're childhood sweethearts after all. Don't you know the truth hurts the most?" Yang Shuhua cried bitterly, and I thought he had been wronged. "If there was a beauty ranking list in the village, I'd at least be in the top three!"

"Top three? Are you serious?" Zhao Jing said with a smile, "Any of the men here are more handsome than you, right?"

Yang Shuhua opened his mouth to refute, looked at Ji Yunzhou, then at Xia Zhi, and even looked at Ma Fangzhou.

Ma Fangzhou narcissistically tossed his hair and touched his fairly strong biceps. "It's not in vain that I used to go to the gym even though I was so tired from work. Fitness is the best beauty treatment for us men."

His company has a gym, which Yang Shuhua can't compare to.

He could only look at Qi Wei with a dejected look.

Qi Wei was heartbroken: "Please be a human being. I'm a patient and I'm swollen. Do you think you can compare your conscience with mine?"

Yang Shuhua: “…”

Forget it, he admitted that his appearance was slightly inferior to everyone here.

"But besides you guys, you're the most beautiful in the village, Jing, you have to agree with that."

"Oh?" Zhao Jing said expressionlessly, teasing him deliberately. "Are you saying that since there aren't many young people in the village, I should compete with a bunch of uncles and grandfathers in terms of looks?"

Qi Wei also followed suit and pricked Yang Shuhua's heart: "That doesn't necessarily mean we can win. I think Secretary Yang is quite handsome, a mature uncle, a man."

Yang Shuhua clutched his chest, heartbroken and indignant: "You are such inhuman beings!"

The group was like a crosstalk performer, their way back filled with laughter and joy. At the roadside intersection, some villagers sat chatting. When they saw someone coming back from collecting snails, some asked about their catch, while others sighed, "It's good to have so many young people. It's so lively!"

This sentence expresses the inner thoughts of many villagers. In the past, the village was filled with either middle-aged and elderly people or children. Except for the lively time when the children came back, the village was like a stagnant pool of water at other times.

It’s better now, the village is alive again.

Soak the snails in a basin to spit out the dirt, and then you can fry and eat them the next day.

Yang Shuhua wanted to give the snails he caught to Xia Wu. He now ate two of his three meals a day at Xia Wu's place. They didn't even cook at home, so there was no use in bringing the snails back home.

When he saw Zhao Jing standing next to him, he said he would give half to each of the two girls.

Zhao Jing shook her head and said no, "My mom doesn't like making this kind of thing. She will definitely ask me to clean it up again. I might as well eat here. Give it all to Xia Xia."

After distributing the things, everyone was about to leave. Yang Shuhua looked at the time and saw that it was just after nine o'clock. He hadn't played enough yet.

Suddenly, an idea came to mind: "How about we do something fancy tomorrow and have a barbecue tonight?"

He did this a lot when he was a child. He caught fish and grilled them by the river. He took the iron spoon at home, stole some white sugar, roasted syrup, and ate it with bamboo branches.

Now that we have touched the snails, we might as well reminisce about other interesting childhood memories.

Zhao Jing was the first to respond: "I have no objection."

Xia Wu asked Ji Yunzhou, "We're having a barbecue tomorrow, do you want to come?"

Ji Yunzhou nodded: "Okay."

"What about you?"

"Come, come, you must come!" Ma Fangzhou was very enthusiastic. It turned out to be better to quit your job and work on your own. Otherwise, how could you enjoy such a life?

"Okay, then let's make it bigger tomorrow. I'll prepare the vegetables, fruits, and desserts," Xia Wu counted on his fingers what was needed for the BBQ. There were many of them, so there would definitely be more than just these few young people. It wouldn't be possible for people to stare at them if the villagers came to join in the fun.

Zhao Jing volunteered: "I'll prepare with you. Do we still need a barbecue grill?"

"Let me prepare the barbecue grill," Ji Yunzhou offered.

"Then we can't come here empty-handed, let's buy some wine and drinks."

"You don't need wine, right? I made some green plum wine earlier, so it should be drinkable."

"Green plum wine is good, then let's go buy some meat, buy more meat," Ma Fangzhou felt really embarrassed to eat for free.

"Then I'm going to go fishing for some crayfish tomorrow. I know where to fish nearby. Snails alone aren't enough, so I'll try some spicy crayfish."

Even though Yang Shuhua hasn't been back for a long time, he is still the most familiar with the area.

Ji Yunzhou's driver had been waiting, but couldn't resist Liu Guizhen's enthusiasm, so he moved out of the car and went to Yang's house, drank a few cups of tea, and asked old man Yang Hongen to take his pulse.

Seeing Xia Wu and the others come back, Mr. Yang called Qi Wei into the house to take his pulse.

Xia Wu walked Ji Yunzhou to the car, helped him fasten his seat belt, and took the opportunity to take off the Buddhist beads to return them to Ji Yunzhou: "Thank you very much for today, you should have a good rest when you go back."

Ji Yunzhou held her hand and said, "Leave it here and return it to me in a few days."

Xia Wu blinked. They were quite close, so close that she could feel Ji Yunzhou's gentle breathing. For some reason, she leaned over and kissed Ji Yunzhou on the lips.

Ji Yunzhou was dumbfounded.

Xia Wu chuckled and said, "Goodnight kiss."

She immediately pulled away, closed the car door, and took two steps back. "Okay, go back early."

Xia Zhi and Ma Fangzhou then got in the car and sat in the back seat.

For some reason, the atmosphere in the car was a little weird. Xia Zhi looked at Xia Wu for some reason, then looked at Ji Yunzhou through the rearview mirror, but didn't notice anything.

The driver looked at his nose and looked at his eyes without saying a word.

After a few minutes' drive, Ji Yunzhou was in a trance and only came to his senses when he got off the car. He touched his lips and they were cold.

Xia Wu's lips were soft and warm. When she approached him, a cool fragrance was perceived before her softness.

The contrast with his coolness is stark.

"Mr. Ji, do you still want to take a bath tonight?"

Ji Yunzhou's mind was in a mess, so messed up that he seemed not to hear Anna's questions and just got into the elevator and went upstairs.

Anna whispered to the driver, "What happened, Mr. Ji? Did something unpleasant happen?"

The driver shook his head and nodded to his lips.

This action happened to be seen by Xia Zhi, and he frowned.

It's been a while since I've posted a long video. Xia Wu has been busy lately and a bit lazy. After taking a shower and drying her hair, Xia Wu hung it over the bed to air dry while playing with her phone.

The Buddhist beads were half hanging down, loosely hanging on the wrist. Xia Wu shook his hand, and the beads swayed.

Xia Wu thought of the kiss she had given Ji Yunzhou on the face just now, and smiled like a cat stealing some fish.

"Why doesn't this guy react at all? Is he scared by me?"

"He doesn't dislike me, does he? That's impossible, right?"

Xia Wu is not a novice in love. Since she was a child, the number of people pursuing her can reach all the way to France. Even a cold man like Fu Shilin is quite attracted by her.

However, there is no comparison between Fu Shilin and Ji Yunzhou. That guy is a fake person with nothing but good looks. Xia Wu and Qi Miaomiao have analyzed that Fu Shilin may not have liked her at all, or this guy's XP is a marriage partner.

He accepts whoever is his marriage partner, and he can't even say that he likes them.

Even though Xia Wu had known him since childhood, after knowing that Xia Wu was not the real daughter of the Xia family, Fu Shilin passed her over in his heart.

How could there be such people in the world? For example, if you buy a cat from a cattery and raise it for five or six years, and suddenly one day you find out that this cat is not the one you originally reserved and has been replaced by someone else, would there really be someone who would immediately dislike the cat that they raised with great effort?

If it were Xia Wu, she would never do that, but Fu Shilin could do it.

At first, when Xia Wu was sad, she would look for problems in herself, thinking that she had deceived Fu Shilin and that she was a fake daughter, which was why Fu Shilin hated her so much.

Now, haha, Xia Wu would slap himself in the face at that time, and if he blamed himself again, he would slap himself twice.

It’s clearly Fu Shilin’s problem!

When encountering problems, don't waste your time on yourself, but look for the reasons from others.

Hey, Xia Wu rolled over on the bed, her long hair covering her eyes. Through the gaps in her black hair, she saw the screen light up, and she suddenly lay down and unlocked the screen.

Ji Yunzhou: "I'm home. I'm taking a shower. Are you asleep?"

Xia Wu quickly replied: "I just took a shower too, my hair isn't dry yet."

"Do it before you go to sleep, or you'll get a headache."

Xia Wu nodded, "Yeah, I know, you too, take care of yourself."

Ji Yunzhou did not mention the kiss and continued chatting with her as usual. Most of the time, Xia Wu would find topics to talk about and Ji Yunzhou would follow her. No matter what Xia Wu said, Ji Yunzhou would be able to keep up.

"I was thinking about having a barbecue tomorrow and whether I should shoot a long video while doing it. It's been a while since I've done a long video, but the thought of editing makes me feel so tired. It would be great if someone could edit the video for me."

"Do you want me to help you?"

"Can you edit videos?"

"I will learn."

"Haha, is it too late?"

"I'll try."

"Will it be too tiring for you?"

"No, I don't sleep well."

"That's great, Ji Yunzhou, you're so kind. How can I repay you?"

The cute emoticons sent by Xia Wu danced on the screen, and Ji Yunzhou's lips seemed to feel that touch of warmth again.

He pursed his lips, a sad smile in his warm eyes.

"We are partners, there's no need to talk about repayment."

They can only be partners, nothing more.

Xia Wu didn't understand the hidden meaning in his words and continued to laugh foolishly.

"Then tomorrow I will cook for you lots of delicious food. Are you happy?"

"Okay, everyone will be happy."

The time spent chatting with Ji Yunzhou always passed quickly. Xia Wu's hair was dry. She looked at the time and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock. She hurriedly said good night to Ji Yunzhou and prepared to go to sleep.

After finishing the chat, Ji Yunzhou took out his computer and searched for how to edit videos. The night had just begun.

Early the next morning, Xia Wu was full of energy. He woke up his sleepy brother and told him that he wanted to shoot a long video today.

"We're going to have a barbecue today and prepare the ingredients ourselves. There will definitely be a lot of people from the village coming, so I want to make the photo a little unique. Let's use the summer bonfire party as the theme. What do you think?"

Yang Hongwen remained silent, as if thinking. After a while, he replied, "Okay."

"Brother, do you understand what I mean?"

Yang Hongwen looked at her quietly, as if she were a fool.

He shot so many videos, and Xia Wu was very satisfied with every one of them.

But this was the first time Xia Wu told him in advance what subject she wanted to shoot.

Being treated like a fool by his brother, Xia Wu walked away dejectedly, "By the way, has my brother become a little smarter?"

Although he still doesn't like to talk to people and is immersed in his own world most of the time, there is definitely no problem with his IQ!

After dinner, the workers came one after another and sent out all the express delivery orders in the morning. Xia Wu told the employees that they would hold a barbecue party today, and went to the courtyard by the well to notify everyone.

When there are more people, there is more to prepare. Fortunately, there are vegetables grown on our own mountain, so we just need to prepare bamboo skewers and string them together.