After the final exams, Lu Fen planned to visit her cousin in the oil city before packing up to return to Beijing. However, just as she was about to go home, her cousin Lu Yuan came looking for her.
When Lu Yuan saw Qian Duoduo walking with Lu Fen, his eyes lit up. Wasn't that his power bank?
He stepped forward and said to Qian Duoduo, "Hello, baby!"
Qian Duoduo was a bit dumbfounded. Was this PLA uncle crazy? Were they being so intimate right after meeting? Was this guy mentally unstable?
Lu Fen was also a little dumbfounded. She looked at Lu Yuan and then at Qian Duoduo. She felt like her brain had short-circuited. Did the two of them know each other?
Lu Yuan snapped out of his daze when he saw Qian Duoduo looking at him like a scoundrel: "Qian Duoduo, long time no see!"
Qian Duoduo snorted: "What do you mean, 'see what'? Uncle!"
One sentence made Lu Fen cough incessantly. His younger brother was only 4 or 5 years older than Qian Duoduo, right? And he was already considered an "uncle"? Wow, wasn't this a bit shocking? Had he discovered something?
Lu Yuan looked at Qian Duoduo with some frustration. Although he had known this girl for quite some time, several years ago, his failure to stand up for her back then greatly damaged her impression of him. Later, he had even acted as her messenger, helping Qian Yu deliver letters home, but the girl seemed to treat him with complete indifference.
Every time I meet her, she's either a People's Liberation Army uncle or a middle-aged man. I'm only in my early twenties, not old at all! But then I think about how the girl is only 18, and well, it's not so hard to accept! But wouldn't it be even better if she could be my older brother?
Seeing the gloom in Lu Yuan's eyes, Lu Fen was secretly overjoyed. She looked at Lu Yuan and said, "Why did you come here to find me?"
Lu Yuan glanced at Qian Duoduo with a wronged expression, then turned to Lu Fen and said, "I'm studying at university in Harbin, and my exams just finished, so I came over to ask you when you're going home?"
Lu Fen said with a smile, "Duo Duo invited me to her house to play, so I plan to stay at Duo Duo's house for a while, have some fun, and then go see Sister Qing."
Lu Yuan nodded and said, "Then I'll go with you, okay?"
Lu Fen glanced at Qian Duoduo, who was counting pebbles with her head down, and said, "This isn't up to me; you have to ask Duoduo!"
Lu Yuan looked at Qian Duoduo and asked, "Qian Duoduo, would you welcome my sister and me to your home?"
When Qian Duoduo heard Lu Yuan's question, she looked up, a hint of confusion in her eyes: "What are you going to my house for?"
Lu Yuan felt stabbed again, especially after Lu Fen's unscrupulous laughter, he felt the stab go even deeper.
Just as Lu Yuan was about to speak, he saw Lu Jiang appear not far away with his chief secretary, Qian Mao. He immediately obediently called out, "Big Brother."
Lu Jiang nodded, looked at Lu Fen and Qian Duoduo, and said with a smile, "You two are quite destined for each other!"
Lu Fen looked at Lu Jiang and asked curiously, "Big brother, do you know Duo Duo?"
Lu said with a smile, "Of course I know her. When I was the county party secretary of Shangzhi County, I even spent the Spring Festival at her home."
Lu Fen immediately said, "Weren't you going to your secretary's house for the New Year?" Her gaze shifted to Qian Mao behind him, and she said, "You wouldn't happen to be Qian Duoduo's brother, would you?"
Qian Mao smiled and said, "I am her third brother."
Lu Fen nodded: "You two look quite alike, you can tell you're from the same family!"
Qian Duoduo smiled and said, "My third brother and I look the most alike, much like my mother. My eldest brother, second brother, and fourth brother look like my father."
Lu Fen smiled and said, "That's good now, everyone's an acquaintance."
Qian Duoduo said, "Third Brother, Lu Fen is coming home with me for a while. Is there anything you want to take back with you?"
Qian Mao smiled and said, "Then you'd better take good care of your classmate."
Qian Duoduo said, "She didn't come to our house for my sake. It was because you brought me Mom's mushroom sauce when you came to visit last time that she remembered it."
Lu Fen smiled and said, "I wasn't thinking about Aunt Qian's cooking at first, but now that you've mentioned it, I want to eat it."
Qian Mao smiled. This girl seemed easygoing, which was good; at least Duo Duo didn't dislike her.
Lu Yuan said from the side, "Big brother, I'm on vacation too. I want to go to the Qian family's house with my second sister for a few days."
Lu Jiang looked at Lu Yuan, then at Qian Mao, and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Lu Yuan glanced at Qian Duoduo and said, "My dad and the others are in Beian Village. They received help from Uncle Qian and the others. I'm going to go see them and express my gratitude!"
Lu Jiang naturally noticed Lu Yuan glancing at Qian Duoduo, and he said, "You should go home first. My dad and the others are waiting for you!"
Lu Yuan: ...
Qian Duoduo couldn't help but laugh when she saw Lu Yuan's embarrassed look!
Seeing Qian Duoduo's expression, Lu Yuan gritted his teeth inwardly. This girl, she really is...
Qian Duoduo ignored Lu Yuan's frustration; at that moment, she was eager to go home.
It's been a long time since I've seen Ms. Jin Jinxiu and my old man. I'm suddenly feeling a bit eager to go home!
After returning to the dormitory, everyone started packing their things. Guo Ni saw Qian Duoduo come in carrying a half-full bag of various seeds and asked, "Duoduo, what's this?"
Qian Duoduo said with a smile, "I asked the teacher for these. The vegetable garden at our school is too small, so I asked for some to take home and let my dad and the others try planting some!"
Guo Ni nodded and said, "That's true, but our little garden can't possibly grow that many!"
Qian Duoduo: "But we still have our own plot of land, right? The weather is warming up late this year, so we can still plant a late-maturing crop now."
Guo Ni nodded and asked, "What kinds of seeds do you have here?"
Qian Duoduo: "There are cabbage, radish, chives, cilantro, celery, eggplant, and many other kinds. Professor Zhao is so generous; as soon as I asked, he gave me some! I grabbed a little of everything."
Upon hearing Qian Duoduo's words, Jiang Sisi asked incredulously, "Is the person you're talking about the same stingy old man I know?"
Qian Duoduo nodded: "Our department only has one Professor Zhao, so it should be one person!"
Jiang Sisi immediately came over: "Would that old man be so generous? He's the kind of person who would scold someone until they cried if a single seedling was broken, and who would write a 300-word self-criticism. How could he give you so many seeds?"
Lu Fen said quietly, "Who told him to be an outstanding student in Professor Zhao's eyes, the kind who gets scholarships!"
Jiang Sisi fell silent, and a hint of resentment flashed in her eyes as she looked at Qian Duoduo. They were studying the same books and learning the same things, so how come he could get first place in the exam?
Lu Fen looked at the half-sack of seeds on the ground and sighed, "I'm starting to regret it. Why did I even open this school? Meeting such a young girl makes me feel utterly worthless!"
Qian Duoduo smiled and said, "To be honest, I'm also very curious. How did someone as skilled in martial arts as you end up attending this school?"
Lu Fen sighed, looking helplessly at the wooden plank of the upper bunk: "Back then, I just spiteed my old man and said I would accept any assignment, so I came to this school!"
Qian Duoduo: Serves you right!
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