After awkwardly uttering those two words, Xie Zhuo turned around and prepared to leave.
Before she could even step out of the kitchen, Xu Yan called out to her from behind.
"Um..." Xu Yan didn't know how to address Xie Zhuo. Seeing that he had stopped, she stopped worrying about how to address him and quickly took out a box of White Rabbit milk candy and a pack of peach shortbread wrapped in oil paper from her bag and handed them to him. "No matter what, if it weren't for you today, we wouldn't have been able to get these things back."
Xie Zhuo looked down at the thing in her hand; her eyelashes were too long to see into his eyes.
Xu Yan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered what the brigade leader had said earlier. Fearing that he might misunderstand, she quickly added, "Give it to the children. There's not much, just something sweet to sweeten their mouths."
Not much stuff?
Xie Zhuo was inwardly complaining about how his image in Qingshan Brigade had deteriorated to this extent when the female educated youth's words pulled him back to his senses.
In rural areas, unless it's for a wedding or the New Year, no one would casually spend money to buy these expensive things to eat.
She actually said there wasn't much food.
No wonder Han Xiaoyu and his gang bullied me so much before.
Xu Yan had no idea that Xie Zhuo had thought so much in just a few seconds, and still thought she was an overly kind and easily bullied... fool.
Seeing that the person in front of him hadn't moved, Xu Yan pushed the things forward again.
Xie Zhuo shifted his gaze from the food to her face, not looking into Xu Yan's eyes, but staring at the small mole on the side of her nose, and said, "No need, keep the food for yourself from now on, don't just share it with others."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Xu Yan wanted to call him again, but Xie Zhuo walked too fast, taking only a few steps to cross the gate of the educated youth settlement, as if he were being chased by a dog.
Xu Yan, who accidentally compared himself to a dog: "..."
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