"Don't touch me, I can have another one. I'm so sweet..."
Ye Qingyan leaned unsteadily against Zhen Tian's chest, while Zhen Tian used her legs to support the drunken Ye Qingyan.
"You two, please help me up!"
After Tian Tian finished calling out, Shao Junli and Yang Feiguang seemed to wake up from a dream, and one on the left and one on the right lifted Ye Qingyan up and placed her on a bench to the side.
"Didn't you say I could drink?" Zhen Tian exhaled, her face flushed from the summer heat and the alcohol, her eyes more watery than usual.
"I can drink, why can't I drink!" Ye Qingyan still knew how to argue back.
Looking at the two bottles of red wine, half a bottle of sake, and several bottles of fruit wine lying on one side, Shao Junli said gently, "You can drink, you can drink."
After appeasing Ye Qingyan, he said, "Qingyan should have a good alcohol tolerance. Maybe it's because mixing different kinds of alcohol makes her drunk too easily."
“The three of us didn’t drink as much as she did.” Yang Feiguang wiped Ye Qingyan’s face with a wet wipe, which was covered in charcoal ash. He threw away the used wipe with disgust.
"I'm in a good mood, so what's wrong with drinking more!" Ye Qingyan stood up abruptly. "I'm in a good mood! Is that not allowed!"
"Okay, okay." Yang Feiguang pressed it back down for her.
"Sweetie, where's my Sweetie!" Ye Qingyan searched around with dazed eyes.
"I'm here!" Zhen Tian grasped her hand.
"Sweetie, let's eat cake. Isn't my little cake your favorite?" Ye Qingyan looked around again and pulled over the trolley full of pastries. "Your favorite tiramisu... and this is Yuanyuan's favorite cherry cake..."
As soon as Ye Qingyan spoke, the three of them stopped what they were doing, their expressions freezing on their faces.
"Sigh, look at me." Ye Qingyan threw the cake back into the car: "That heartless girl abandoned us and left, why should I still care about her?"
"Qingyan..." Zhen Tian couldn't eat another bite of cake. She stared at the cake in a daze, just like Ye Qingyan.
Yuanyuan, where is she?
A bittersweet feeling welled up in all four of them, but Ye Qingyan was the first to speak: "Tian Tian, you can't be like her. We'll be best friends for life, never to be apart..."
Ye Qingyan's eyes slowly reddened: "I've never had many friends since I was little. They were either not sincere, had ulterior motives, or were afraid of my family. Only you are willing to be with me..."
Zhen Tian's eyes also reddened from her teasing: "You were also my first friend."
The two little girls started crying in each other's arms after talking for a while.
Shao Junli and Yang Feiguang didn't even know whether to cry along with them or to offer comfort.
The two big boys stood there dumbfounded, not daring to utter a sound.
Ye Qingyan cried herself to sleep. Zhen Tian sobbed for a while, then wiped away her tears and said, "You should move Qingyan back inside. It's too hot outside."
It took them quite a bit of effort to get back to the house.
The mess in the yard doesn't need anyone to clean up.
They escorted Qingyan back to her room and stayed in the living room, but the good mood they had during their picnic was gone.
Ye Qingyan slept until dinner time.
When she woke up, she was still drunk. She came out with a headache and saw her father and three of her friends chatting happily.
She unconsciously curled the corners of her mouth into a smile.
"You're still here!"
"You're awake, Qingyan!" Zhen Tian, still smiling from being amused by Ye's father, came over and took Ye Qingyan's hand: "Uncle is telling us what you looked like when you were little, it's so funny."
"My dad tells everyone about that dark history." Ye Qingyan was immune to it.
Zhen Tian glanced at her: "Do you remember what happened after you drank too much?"
"I'm drunk? Impossible!" Ye Qingyan scoffed.
Zhen Tian nodded, seemingly not remembering. That's for the best.
The Ye family was surrounded by laughter and joy for the first time in a long time, and dinner lasted until eight o'clock.
Looking at his daughter's smile, Mr. Ye's eyes crinkled with a smile of satisfaction.
"We're off then! You should get some sleep and take a nice bath." Zhen Tian waved to Ye Qingyan, "Let's get our ears pierced tomorrow when you're sober!"
"Okay, okay! I'll call you as soon as I wake up tomorrow!" Ye Qingyan nodded vigorously. "It's been so long since I've gone shopping! I'm so excited just thinking about it. You guys go ahead, I'm going back to take a bath."
Ye Qingyan regained her vitality.
"Goodbye, goodnight." Yang Feiguang and Shao Junli both hugged her, leaving Ye Qingyan confused.
Only the three of them know the reason.
The sadness that they wouldn't normally express could only be voiced under the influence of alcohol. They had thought Qingyan was the most carefree and easygoing person among them, but they never expected that Ye Qingyan simply kept quiet.
The name Yuanyuan will probably be a lifelong regret for everyone.
...
Because Zhen Tian stayed up too late the night before, she didn't get up until almost noon the next day.
She yawned and drew back the curtains, first going to the balcony to check on the strawberries she had planted. They had recently started bearing fruit, the bright red ones looking adorable and sweet.
Zhen Tian picked a few of the reddest ones from the stem and put them in her small basket. When she looked up, she saw Ji Yuzhi leaning against the balcony next door, watching her and smiling.
"Zhizhi, good morning." She smiled at Ji Yuzhi, revealing her small white teeth.
"It's noon, you lazybones." Ji Yuzhi casually took a long stride and climbed over from his own balcony to the Zhen family's house.
"Zhizhi, look at my strawberries." Zhen Tian held onto his hand tightly, showing them to him with great interest: "We don't know how they taste yet, let's go wash them."
"Go take a shower first, then come out for dinner. I'll wash the strawberries for you." Ji Yuzhi naturally took the strawberries and led Zhen Tian back to the room.
Lu Ti didn't seem to notice Ji Yuzhi coming out of Zhen Tian's room.
"Xiaoyu has arrived. Wash your hands and eat."
"good."
Ji Yu first rinsed Zhen Tian's strawberries under the tap. Lu Ti laughed when she saw him: "Tian Tian was showing off her strawberries to you, wasn't she? She keeps showing me and her dad her little strawberries, and we're both annoyed by it."
"Mm." Ji Yuzhi smiled indulgently.
Are you going out in a bit?
"Hmm?" Ji Yuzhi raised his eyelids, wondering why Aunt Lu asked that.
Seeing that Ji Yuzhi seemed unaware, Lu Ti teased him with a mischievous smile: "Tian Tian said she was going to get her ears pierced, I thought she was going with you."
"Ah..." He looked away, staring at the few bright red strawberries in his hand, lost in thought.
"I think I can smell braised pork." Zhen Tian came out after smelling the aroma.
"Come here quickly, you're still up." Lu Ti glared at her daughter reproachfully.
"Zhizhi, are you busy this afternoon?" Zhen Tian asked, tugging at his sleeve as soon as she sat down and took a bite of the meat Ji Yuzhi had picked up for her.
"What are you doing?" He turned his head and glanced at her.
Zhen Tian fidgeted with her fingers a little shyly: "I want you to come with me to get my ears pierced."
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