Su Xinyi sighed, put down her chopsticks, picked up Ye Beiping's bowl, and walked out of the restaurant.
Peng Tian, standing behind her, stared at Su Xinyi's back for a long time, unable to look away.
"Peng Tian, are you full?" Qiu Mingyue suddenly asked from the side.
"Huh?" Slow-witted Peng Tian glanced at his empty bowl and forced a smile: "I'm full."
Qiu Mingyue's eyes darted around where no one could see, and she suggested, "Why don't we go see who brought Xinyi the food and see what they're saying?"
How can you accept something without seeing it for yourself?
"This...isn't that a bit inappropriate?" Peng Tian already had a suspicion in his mind; going to see it would only bring him humiliation.
Qiu Mingyue pouted and said, "If you're not going, I'll go by myself."
He got up and left the restaurant.
Su Xinyi was handing the bowl to Ye Beiping, biting her lip and twisting her fingers as she said, "Ye Beiping, you don't need to bring me food anymore. Your family isn't well-off, so you should save it for your sister and mother."
"Right? I was talking about my sister too. I don't know why she suddenly wanted to bring you food today. It startled me." Ye Beiping lied without batting an eye to avoid embarrassment.
"Did your sister really send you to deliver this?"
Su Xinyi stared intently into Ye Beiping's eyes, as if trying to see through his thoughts.
"Yeah." Ye Beiping scratched his head sheepishly, then turned and ran off: "I'm going back now. I'll continue helping you with your work this afternoon."
"Ai!"
Seeing that she couldn't stop Ye Beiping, Su Xinyi puffed out her cheeks and sighed.
However, she did not rush back to the restaurant. Instead, she walked out of the courtyard of the educated youth settlement, sat on the stone where Ye Beiping had sat the night before, and looked at the blue sky.
"Why be so persistent when we're clearly from different worlds?"
She had no idea that Qiu Mingyue, standing at the restaurant entrance, was covering her mouth and going back to embellish the story, spreading rumors about how the two of them were chatting intimately outside in the courtyard and even holding hands.
Upon hearing this, Peng Tian's face darkened instantly, and he stormed out of the restaurant.
Ye Beiping, holding the empty bowl with great joy, happened to meet Wu Di and Hou Baolin on the road.
"Fatty, monkeys, what are you doing here?"
Because he was in a good mood, Ye Beiping recognized Hou Baolin without even thinking.
Hou Yongping, the militia company commander, had a son named Hou Baolin. Because his surname was Hou, Ye Beiping gave him the nickname "Monkey".
They also look very similar, tall and thin, with a lot of skin and bones.
Perhaps Ye Beiping is getting more and more used to life after his rebirth, and now he can recognize almost anyone he sees.
"Beiping, I heard you're dating Su Xinyi?" Hou Baolin glanced at Ye Beiping, nudged his shoulder, and asked.
Wu Di, belatedly realizing what was happening, nodded repeatedly: "That's for sure, Beiping himself said so."
"When did I tell you that?" Ye Beiping frowned at Wu Di: "Fatty, don't cause me any trouble, or I'll beat you up."
"Beiping, how could you do this? It's clearly..." Wu Di felt wronged but shut up under Ye Beiping's intimidating gaze.
Hou Baolin figured it out and said to Wu Di with a smile, "Fatty, you know, Beiping likes her, but she hasn't even won her over yet, and you're already spreading it around. That's not a good thing."
"I..." Wu Di stared wide-eyed at Hou Baolin, truly unable to express his bitterness: "My buddies, you two are a bunch of buddies, are you trying to make me take the blame?"
"Alright, alright."
Ye Beiping wasn't in the mood to joke with the two of them. He tossed the bowl in his hand and said, "I still need to take the bowl back."
"At three o'clock in the afternoon, each of you take two fishing rods and wait for me on the other side of the lake. We'll go fishing this afternoon."
Before Hou Baolin and Wu Di could react to what Ye Beiping was about to do, they found that he had already skipped and hopped away.
"Monkey, do you think Beiping has changed completely ever since he got drunk the night before last?"
"I don't know. Didn't he say he was going fishing at 3 p.m.? We'll find out when we get there."
"Um."
The two hit it off immediately and went home to prepare their fishing rods, agreeing to meet at the lake at three o'clock.
As soon as Ye Beiping got home and put the bowl in the kitchen, he found Ye Xiaoxin lying on a chair fanning herself with nothing to do.
"Sis, aren't you going to work this afternoon?"
"Haven't you heard?" Ye Xiaoxin glanced at Ye Beiping and said, "It seems the brigade leader came down this afternoon. Ding Hama invited the brigade leader for drinks, so he wasn't here this afternoon."
"Oh." Ye Beiping nodded thoughtfully.
That's how it is these days; as long as the agricultural progress isn't delayed, no one will think about exceeding their targets.
Since the production team leader was away, everyone could relax a bit.
Ye Xiaoxin sat up at this moment, looked at Ye Beiping and asked, "Why don't you go to work this afternoon? You should think about how to make some money."
"If you want to give a young girl something nice, meat is the best choice right now. Even in the city, I've heard that they can't afford to eat meat every few days."
Ye Beiping certainly knew that meat was a precious commodity in this era, but the question was, where could he get meat?
I don't have any weapons. I can't exactly go into the mountains to fight a tiger empty-handed, can I?
Seeing that Ye Beiping wasn't interested, Ye Xiaoxin gave her younger brother a nudge: "Didn't you hear that? You're the one who's supposed to pursue this girl, so why aren't you being proactive at all?"
"Sister, how could I not be enthusiastic? I'm just trying to think of a way. I heard she likes to eat fish eyes, so how about I go catch a few fish this afternoon when I have nothing to do? Anyway, Ding Hama isn't here, and I guess there won't be any work to do at the educated youth settlement this afternoon."
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