Xu Qingzhi agreed to all of them and said, "Okay, I'll call you when the fruit is ripe."

A few people did not finish eating all the prickly ash and left some for others.

After packing up the bamboo baskets, several people went to the back mountain to pick vegetables.

Huo Ying didn't want to go at first, but she really wanted to stay with them. It felt so comfortable. But she couldn't persuade them not to go pick vegetables. She was struggling with herself, but she finally followed them.

She was wearing high heels, and it was fine walking on the cement road, but once she stepped on the ground, the soil wasn't very dry, and her heels always sank in. She struggled with the ground with her high heels and picked a few peppers.

The next second, he almost had a close contact with the earth.

Fortunately, Xu Qingzhi, who was next to her, was quick to grab her waist and prevented her from falling.

She raised her head, met Qingzhi's eyes, patted her panicked chest, and said in a low voice with an embarrassed look: "It's inconvenient to work in high heels. I won't wear them next time."

Xu Qingzhi smiled and helped her to the hard ridge beside him. "Do you want to go back or stay here?"

Huo Ying said, "Stay here."

Xu Qingzhi went to find a slightly cleaner bamboo basket, wiped the bottom of it, and turned it upside down on the ridge. "It's a little dirty. If you're tired and don't mind the dirt, sit on it for a while."

Huo Ying felt a sudden warmth in his heart. He felt even more ashamed when he recalled that he had come to eat for free every day and had not helped. He whispered, "Qingzhi, do you have work to do tomorrow? I want to help, too."

"Yes, there are a lot of tasks. But if you want to do it, you can do it. If you don't want to do it, you don't have to do it. It doesn't matter." Xu Qingzhi reached out and caught a small bug on Huo Ying's head and put it in front of her. "There was a bug on your head just now, I got it off."

Huo Ying shrank back in fear, "Ahh, I'm afraid of bugs."

Xu Qingzhi flung the bug away, smiled, and felt that he was a bad person, just like when he was a kid and always loved to catch "longhorn beetles" to scare the boy next door who was afraid of bugs.

She whispered, "Okay, I won't scare you anymore. I'll throw it farther away."

Huo Ying felt warm in his heart just a second ago, but now he loves and hates Xu Qingzhi. Damn it, why is it like being in love, with his mood going up and down all the time.

Huo Ying scolded, "Qingzhi, you are going too far."

Xu Qingzhi had no bad intentions, he just saw that Shanshan had been ignoring her for the past two days and she was not in a good mood, and he thought that she was a little girl after all, so he used this method to break the ice.

Xu Qingzhi curled his lips and changed the subject: "You are so well protected."

With the bodyguard around, it can be seen that Huo Ying has never been bullied since he was a child.

She envied these well-protected children. Unlike her, when she was bullied by children in the village as a child, she complained to her parents, but her parents only said: Just don't mess with others.

She didn't blame her parents, but she felt a little disappointed because the scene in her mind where she had imagined her parents would stand up like heroes to protect her didn't happen.

There's nothing she can do about it because her parents are busy making money.

Huo Ying said: "No, I was kidnapped when I was a child."

While picking peppers, Xia Weiwei gossiped, "What? Kidnapping? Is it true?"

"Yes, it's true." Huo Ying nodded in response, "It happened when I was very young, I almost forgot about it. Brother Jin... that's my bodyguard. He grew up in our family. He is very strong and willing to train hard, so my grandfather later made him my personal bodyguard."

"Your bodyguard looks very powerful. I feel oppressed just being with him." Xia Weiwei said directly.

When girls start chatting, they talk nonstop.

Wen Shanshan didn't want to pay any attention to Huo Ying. Ever since the last time they had a complete falling out, Wen Shanshan swore that she would never forgive Huo Ying again. But now she couldn't resist the urge to share.

Wen Shanshan blurted out, "Besides being handsome, her bodyguard really makes me uncomfortable in every way. You know, one time I bumped into Huo Ying just for fun, and I didn't pay enough attention, and she almost fell. Her bodyguard pushed me to the ground in public, with my hands clasped behind my back. I almost passed out from the pain on the spot."

Xia Weiwei laughed out loud.

Huo Ying clenched her hands tightly and hurriedly defended Huo Jin: "You rushed out from behind and bumped into me that day, but Brother Jin didn't see clearly that it was you, so he didn't mean to do it. Afterwards, I told him off, and he never hit you again."

"The lesson from that day alone is enough. I try to stay away from your bodyguard whenever I see him." Wen Shanshan said jokingly, "Sometimes when I quarrel with you, I feel scared, for fear that Huo Jin will come up and beat me up."

Wen Shanshan was originally in a good mood, but after hearing this, she became unhappy, "Who asked you to come and coax me? Just say that this time, you knew I was here, but you deliberately came over to disturb me."

"I came here with Brother Yan. It has nothing to do with you. Don't be so self-indulgent." Huo Ying said angrily.

The two people quarreled more and more fiercely.

Xia Weiwei, who was eating melons, quickly looked at Xu Qingzhi for help, only to see Qingzhi picking peppers calmly. His movements were clean and neat, and he was not affected at all.

"I'm being sentimental? Who was it that went to my house and asked my parents where I had been? You said that I was always angry and you came to comfort me, but the problem is that you always make me angry. Huo Ying, if I didn't have a good temper, I would have ignored you long ago." Wen Shanshan counted on her fingers angrily, "When you were a child, the little boy you liked took a fancy to my notebooks and only wanted mine, and he was willing to buy the same model as mine, but you insisted on giving him my notebooks. I didn't agree, and you stole my notebooks and gave them to him. You also took the initiative to buy me a hundred of the same model. Who cares? Those were the ones my brother gave me as a gift for my kindergarten entrance examination. You don't understand gifts at all. In high school, you insisted that I accompany you to watch the concert of your favorite idol, but I had an exam the next day and I didn't want to go, but you insisted that I go. As a result, the return flight the next day was delayed, so I missed the exam. It was the first time in my life that I failed an exam with zero. Let's not talk about these distant things. Let's talk about the last time. I said that the man was unreliable and was greedy for your money. You didn't believe it and insisted that the man didn't want your money but really liked you. I said a few unpleasant words, and you broke up with me because of him! Huo Ying, you are a hopeless love-brained person. "

Wen Shanshan became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and she felt as if a rage several meters high was rising to her head.

Huo Ying said nothing. After a few seconds, he stood up and ran away quickly.

Wen Shanshan continued picking peppers angrily.

Xu Qingzhi now understood why the two people were having a conflict.

Wen Shanshan calmed down and asked, "Was what I said just now too much?"

Xia Weiwei frowned and said, "It's okay. If what you said is true, you are indeed quite in love."

"Qingzhi, you guys take them off first." Wen Shanshan took off her gloves. "She has never suffered any grievances since she was a child, and she has a temper like a young lady. I'm afraid that if I say something to her, she will be upset, so I'd better go with her to take a look."

"Well, go ahead." Xu Qingzhi took the gloves she took off and put them in the basket beside her.

Wen Shanshan was wearing flat shoes, which made it easy for her to walk. She walked quickly in the direction Huo Ying had left.

Xia Weiwei looked at Qing Zhi who remained calm throughout the whole process and asked, "Aren't you worried at all?"

"What are you worried about?" Xu Qingzhi asked.

"They were arguing so fiercely just now. I'm not familiar with them, so I was embarrassed to try to persuade them."

"Don't try to persuade them when they're quarreling. The more you persuade them, the more angry they'll get." Xu Qingzhi said, "They're all adults. They should solve their own problems themselves. There's no need for bystanders to interfere."

"Besides..." After picking the peppers, Xu Qingzhi looked up and met Xia Weiwei's gaze. "Many people come and go in life. People who are meant to be friends will remain friends no matter what happens."

Just like her and Xia Weiwei.

If they start their lives over again, the two of them can still become good friends who can talk about anything.

"Like us?" Xia Weiwei curled her pink lips, "Qingzhi, I always feel like we have known each other for a long time and have been friends for many years."

Xu Qingzhi's eyebrows curved, "What a coincidence, I feel the same way."

"Look, the sunset!" Xia Weiwei stood up, pointed to the sky, and said with surprise in her eyes.

Xu Qingzhi looked in the direction she pointed, and a warm summer breeze brushed across her face. She raised her hand to slightly block the glaring light, and the light filtered through the gaps between her fingers, and she saw the warm yellow sun.

“Like the salted egg yolk in mooncakes.”

"Well, now that you mentioned that, I suddenly want to eat egg yolk mooncakes." Xia Weiwei swallowed.

Xu Qingzhi thought of the jar of salted duck eggs she made in the space, "Mid-Autumn Festival is next month, I will make some mooncakes and send them to you then."

Xia Weiwei: "Okay, I should be in Kyoto by then, I will send you some Kyoto specialties then."

"good."

(End of this chapter)