"The basic sprinklers should be placed diagonally..."
"Make as many sprinklers as there are seeds."
"Ah, yes, yes, that's right, that's right, a promising child. With Sun'er being so intelligent, it's only a matter of time before our family becomes rich."
Lu Yibei is guiding the farm to achieve comprehensive poverty alleviation and move towards a moderately prosperous society.
His phone vibrated.
—How dare someone try to disrupt my efforts to revitalize the new countryside!
—What are their intentions!
—It's dead!
As the head of the family, Lu Yibei had just finished assigning jobs to his daughter and son-in-law—
But after glancing at the caller ID...
Lu Yibei then changed his mind.
Because she is his daughter's mother.
Lu Yibei quickly answered a phone call.
"Hello."
As soon as Lu Yibei spoke, a clear and cool voice came from the other end:
"Abei, I've arrived."
The two walked side by side during the first half of the day.
In the latter half of the day, however, they were already thousands of miles apart.
Such distance and disparity made Lu Yibei instinctively purse her lips.
He put down the mouse, unsure of what to say for a moment.
The only images swirling in my mind were the girl's face on the other end of the phone and the search bar I had seen earlier.
But for some reason, his girlfriend's tone was a little strange when she asked the question:
"...What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
"Yeah?"
Even though they were on the phone, Lu Yibei could almost see the girl saying those words.
His eyes were slightly narrowed, and his cool face showed a hint of suspicion towards him.
"Playing video games."
Lu Yibei answered truthfully, "With Sun'er and Xiao Ma. I'm not bragging, but they're progressing way too slowly, and they keep dragging me along—"
He was halfway through his sentence.
I heard Sun'er's calm voice coming from the earphones hanging around my neck:
"These days, even dogs can talk?"
Lu Yibei immediately muted the voice channel.
Then, with a straight face, he said:
"They insisted on dragging me along to play, and I was bored, so I just kept them company."
As he spoke, he typed a line of text into Zhao Sun's phone.
[With Dad in trouble, you'll have to rely on your own hard work to get rich.]
Zhao Xun sent a middle finger emoji.
Lu Yibei then exited the game, along with the voice chat channel.
Ji Qingqian responded with an understanding "Oh".
She didn't believe it; she was very clever.
Judging from Jiao Jiao's "SOS" message, one could guess that her boyfriend was going crazy because she wasn't around, which is why he joined that little group.
Ji Qingqian pursed her lips, almost letting out a soft laugh.
She thought she knew Ah Bei well enough.
I thought that even if Ah Bei felt lonely, he would deal with it on his own, given his boyish personality.
I never expected it to turn out like this.
It seems she underestimated her importance in her boyfriend's heart.
"Have you missed me?" Ji Qingqian asked.
When she said those words.
Lu Yibei then suddenly noticed the girl tilting her head back, a slightly smug expression on her face.
"A tiny bit," Lu Yibei whispered.
"That's good~"
Because there was a hint of laughter in the girl's light tone.
So a slight smile appeared on the boy's lips.
They were truly a young couple whose fate was full of twists and turns.
We've been separated for over three hours now!
My God, it's not just miserable, it's downright miserable.
"...Oh, right."
"Um?"
When this topic came up, Lu Yibei hesitated for a moment, unsure of how to begin.
He didn't want to make the atmosphere too emotional or heavy.
—That's the significance of meeting.
If they were face-to-face, he could hold the girl tightly. He wouldn't say a word, yet that would be enough to express his feelings.
—But the phone wouldn't work; he could only convey his feelings through dry, broken words.
"Um... I just used your computer..."
"Um."
"I accidentally saw your Baidu search history." Lu Yibei chuckled.
“…”
Ji Qingqian did not speak.
Lu Yibei felt that she wasn't unwilling to speak, but rather that after opening her mouth, she didn't know what to say.
Lu Yibei continued in a cheerful tone:
"What I'm saying is... we can use Bing from now on, Baidu is still not very reliable."
"Hmm... those search records are like they inexplicably filled in some settings for me."
"I could guess how hard you worked, but I didn't expect you to work this hard..."
"Thank you... I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said 'thank you,' it's too formal, right? But... thank you..."
As he spoke, Lu Yibei could feel the stickiness in his throat.
Fearing he might lose his composure, he stopped there.
Ji Qingqian fell into a long silence.
For a moment, Lu Yibei thought it was the Apple phone's signal system kicking in again.
Lu Yibei adjusted his tone and asked:
"Hello, hello? Can you hear me?"
Ji Qingqian answered in a completely emotionless tone: "Yes."
Then she continued:
"I use Baidu because you use Baidu more often."
"I didn't forget to delete the search history; I deliberately didn't delete it."
"I just wanted to show it to you."
"Won't some poor little boys be so moved that they shed little pearls?"
Lu Yibei: ...
Ji Qingqian: ...
The couple fell into an eerie silence.
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