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Shen Anxia noticed that the girl in Zhang Qing's arms kept glancing at her with her big eyes, so she smiled at the little girl.
Zhang Qing pushed the girl forward: "Daqian, call Anxia auntie."
The girl, secretly pleased yet slightly shy, bit her lower lip and called out sweetly, "Aunt Anxia."
Shen Anxia smiled and agreed.
"Huh?" Rong Yi asked, puzzled. "Qianqian, what's wrong with you? You were fine when I was playing with you just now?"
Zhang Qing gave Da Qianqian a doting look: "You've seen your idol, so you have to behave yourself now."
"Your idol is An Xia?" Rong Yi hugged Shen An Xia tightly. "Then we have the same idol."
"Aunt Rongyi, you like Aunt Anxia too?" Da Qianqian laughed.
"yes!"
Shen Anxia took Da Qianqian's hand and said to her, "After you finish eating, come to your aunt's tent. I have something to give you."
When Da Qianqian saw Shen Anxia holding her hand, her face immediately turned red. When Shen Anxia said that she would receive a gift later, she obediently nodded.
Just then, the men finished grilling the fresh seafood and brought it out plate by plate. Xi Yan waved to the ladies, and once everyone had gathered around, she whispered, "These waiters are just as good as the male models!"
“No,” Rong Yi whispered, “The male models don’t wear T-shirts, they all wear tank tops. We have to deliberately or unintentionally show off their pectoral muscles.”
Hahahaha—
The group of ladies burst into laughter at Rong Yi's antics, while the men, bewildered by the way the family members were looking at them with a hint of malice, even a touch of lewdness, asked, "What are you laughing at?"
This topic is really a private matter between women and is not suitable to be discussed in front of many men. However, Rongyi was not satisfied and added, "When everyone gets home, we must make them show off one."
Everyone laughed again, and Jiang Fanxing asked Rong Yi, "What are you showing off?"
"I said you're handsome," Rong Yi coaxed.
Jiang Fanxing was overjoyed. She filled her glass with beer and smiled so beautifully that she looked like a delicious meal. Just then, the men brought out all sorts of freshly grilled, braised, and seafood dishes. They sat down around the table and raised their glasses to drink together.
In early May, the sky was clear and the sun was gentle. Surrounded by mountains and babbling brooks, a group of people enjoyed drinking heartily in the green hills and clear waters, feeling relaxed and carefree.
Yang Zheng opened the foil package, took out a piece of roasted corn, forked it with chopsticks, and handed it to Shen Anxia. This scene was witnessed by Jiang Fanxing.
Jiang Fanxing feigned coquettishness: "Third Brother, I also want to eat roasted corn."
Shen Anxia nudged Rong Yi: "Fifth Brother wants to eat roasted corn."
Rong Yi immediately received the message, opened another bag of roasted corn from the plate with one hand, and picked up the chili oil with the other: "Hey? Jiang Fanxing, wait a minute, let me get it for you!"
When Jiang Fanxing saw Rong Yi's posture, he was terrified: "No need, wife, really no need. The taste of the wasabi mango you made for me a couple of days ago is still in my head. Um, I don't need Third Brother, I'll get it myself."
Rong Yi laughed triumphantly, "Fine, I thought I hadn't taken good care of you, and you even came to Third Brother."
"I'm not going to look for Third Brother anymore," Jiang Fanxing said timidly.
While everyone was laughing at Jiang Fanxing, they all got roasted corn and sweet potatoes for their wives. But there was an exception. Ge Chen said to Ding Fei, "Sit there, I'll get you a roasted sweet potato."
"Okay." Ding Fei sat steadily on the folding chair.
Seeing this scene, Xi Yan turned to Rong Yi and Shen Anxia and said in a voice only the three of them could hear, "Sure enough, there's a way to tie up a monkey for every monkey."
Shen Anxia and Rong Yi were amused.
They camped outdoors that night. Duan Lixing and Ge Chen could drink today, so the whole table could get quite drunk. Only Shen Anxia, Zhang Qing, and Xi Yan drank beverages. The meal lasted until sunset. What was even more interesting was that Jiang Fanxing and Rong Yi even brought mahjong and playing cards. Everyone played and ate and drank at the same time. Before they knew it, dusk had fallen.
The ambient lights make a grand entrance as dusk settles over the stream.
Warm yellow light hung from the eaves of the tent and the metal frame of the folding chair. Strings of star- and moon-shaped lights were reflected in the shimmering water, creating shimmering gold foil that, together with the slender crescent moon, shattered into flowing jade ribbons.
After a hearty meal and plenty of mahjong, a slightly tipsy Jiang Fanxing took out his guitar and started playing. He played familiar pop songs, and the group hummed along. The atmosphere gradually turned artistic, and they sang one song after another. When they got tired of singing, they danced, and when they got tired of playing, they took over playing. They played until the early hours of the morning.
During the performance, Da Qianqian performed a dance for everyone, which received unanimous praise. Shen Anxia asked Yang Zheng to take a box from the tent and secretly give it to Da Qianqian after she finished dancing. Da Qianqian raised her innocent smile and asked, "Aunt Anxia, can I open it and take a look?"
"Of course," Shen Anxia helped her open the box. "Take a look and see if you like it."
Da Qianqian's eyes lit up: "They're dance shoes!"
Shen Anxia said, "These dance shoes are the prize my aunt won when she won first place in the district-wide dance competition. Today, my aunt is giving them to you, wishing you, Da Qianqian, to become a dancer in the future!"
Da Qianqian's eyes crinkled into crescent moons as she smiled and said, "Thank you, Aunt Anxia! I love it!"
Just after midnight, Ge Chen took a cake out of the car, and everyone wished Shen Anxia a happy birthday. Shen Anxia was stunned and quickly thanked him.
Xi Yan put a birthday hat on Shen Anxia, Zhang Qing put candles on the cake, and Yang Zheng lit the candles as well. After singing the birthday song, Shen Anxia couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, when was this cake brought over?"
"I brought it over this morning and kept it in the car's mini-fridge, but it's still a little thawed," Ge Chen replied.
"Thank you everyone for celebrating my birthday." Shen Anxia was so touched that she didn't know what to say except thank you.
Zhang Jingyi smiled and urged, "Anxia, make a wish first."
Shen Anxia had already thought about her birthday wish for this year, and soon made her wish. Yang Zheng cut the cake in half and gave each person a piece. Finally, everyone cleaned up the area together and then returned to their respective tents to rest.
The men discussed it and decided that Yang Zheng and Qu Cheng would keep watch for the first half of the night, while Ding Fei and Duan Lixing would keep watch for the second half. Xu Qingjing, Tian Lei, and Jiang Fanxing gathered a lot of dry branches and tried to light two campfires. The flames were small, just enough to burn.
Shen Anxia slept in Yang Zheng's tent, where a thick moisture-proof mat and a fluffy soft blanket were laid on the ground. After playing all day, Shen Anxia was so tired that she fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
The first half of the night was tough. Yang Zheng and Qu Cheng chatted and the night passed quickly. Da Zizi woke up once in the middle of the night, and Xu Qingjing took the opportunity to hold Da Zizi to relieve herself, and then continued to coax her back to sleep. Shen Anxia also woke up briefly at the sound of Da Zizi crying, and then went back to sleep.
Around 3 a.m., just as they were getting sleepy, Ding Fei and Duan Lixing got up to relieve Yang Zheng and Qu Cheng. Yang Zheng carefully returned to the tent and saw Shen Anxia sleeping soundly in the middle of the double tent.
Lying beside Shen Anxia in a space barely half an arm's length, Yang Zheng gradually fell asleep.
At dawn, everything in Toyokawa Valley awakens in turn, with birdsong and insect chirps rising and falling. The light of dawn leaps up, casting thousands of golden threads from the opposite mountain peaks, falling into the stream, onto the tent roof, through the forest behind, and then dappling the leaves, grass, and petals.
But these things were not enough to wake up the group of people who were having a great time and were fast asleep.
Shen Anxia woke up according to her normal biological clock.
Realizing that she had taken up most of the tent, while Yang Zheng, with his broad frame, only occupied a small section when turned to the side, with only his right arm resting under his neck.
He was fast asleep at that moment.
Afraid of waking Yang Zheng, Shen Anxia didn't dare to move. She picked up her phone from beside her pillow and checked the time. It was past six o'clock. She figured Yang Zheng had only slept for two hours, and seeing that he was sleeping in an extremely uncomfortable position, she turned to her side, with her back to Yang Zheng, and slowly moved to the other side, hoping to make Yang Zheng more comfortable.
Unexpectedly, she had only moved two centimeters when the man behind her pulled her back and pressed his cheek against Shen Anxia's neck.
Shen Anxia: "...You're awake?"
"Sleep a little longer." Yang Zheng's voice was languid, and his warm breath swept across Shen Anxia's snow-white neck, tickling her. Shen Anxia reflexively shrank back.
“Then move over here a bit, I have plenty of space here,” Shen Anxia said as she moved.
Yang Zheng shifted slightly to follow Shen Anxia, still holding her tightly in his arms.
Apart from the last time Yang Zheng had a fever and slept for three hours next to Shen Anxia, this was the second time the two slept together, although Yang Zheng only slept for a little over two hours.
Since Shen Anxia returned, Yang Zheng has slept only two or three hours a day. He was so sleepy that he fell asleep almost immediately. Shen Anxia listened to the even breathing behind her, which was like a lullaby. After a while, she also fell asleep.
When Shen Anxia opened her eyes again, she was still being held tightly in Yang Zheng's arms, but she realized that she didn't know when she was facing Yang Zheng, and that she was now sleeping in Yang Zheng's arms in an extremely intimate position.
She nestled on Yang Zheng's chest, one hand on his abdomen, one leg straddling him, practically using him as a pillow.
Shen Anxia quickly sat up, and in doing so, Yang Zheng also woke up.
"Was I dreaming?" Yang Zheng opened his sleepy eyes and sat up with Shen Anxia.
Shen Anxia blushed slightly, but she was secretly glad that Yang Zheng hadn't noticed her rather provocative posture just now, and she wondered how she had managed to sleep like that.
"No, I just woke up. Are you still sleeping?" Shen Anxia looked at Yang Zheng, the fatigue between her brows lessened, and she seemed full of energy again.
"No, thank you," Yang Zheng picked up his phone and checked the time. It was 8:30. "Get up and eat something. We'll head back to the city in a bit."
"good."
One by one, everyone woke up. They washed up quickly, ate some snacks and fruit, packed up their tents and trash, and headed back together.
Yang Zheng first took Shen Anxia back to Peacock City, where they unloaded their camping gear, took a shower, and changed into a well-tailored black suit. This suit accentuated his broad shoulders and narrow hips, and even through the clothes, one could still notice the strong muscle lines of his upper body and his long legs, which made Shen Anxia's eyes light up.
Yang Zheng didn't miss the amazement in Shen Anxia's eyes. He walked up to Shen Anxia, put his arms around her waist, and asked, "So, are you tempted?"
Shen Anxia tilted her head and asked, "Do you dress like this when you work?"
"Hmm?" Yang Zheng didn't understand Shen Anxia's meaning, but still answered seriously, "We're going to your house today, so we need to be a bit formal. We can be more casual when we're at work."
Shen Anxia nodded and grabbed Yang Zheng's hand: "That's good, let's go!"
“Wait,” Yang Zheng pulled her back again, “Are you really not going to shower? I’ve prepared a bathrobe and an outer garment for you.”
“Let’s talk about it when we get home!” Shen Anxia explained. “My parents have already done their best to let me come camping with you this time. If they find out I’ve changed my clothes, I don’t know how they’ll interrogate me.”
Yang Zheng was speechless: "Changing clothes doesn't mean anything."
"Let's go!" Shen Anxia pulled Yang Zheng and started to walk out.
"Wait." Yang Zheng pulled Shen Anxia back and pressed his lips to hers.
After a brief, passionate kiss, Yang Zheng whispered into Shen Anxia's mouth, "You're going back to Xinfeng tomorrow." Then he continued his fiery kiss.
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