However, before Hua Kai could speak, Ye Yifan spoke first: "I admire Hua Kai for being a person who clearly distinguishes between gratitude and resentment and always seeks revenge."
Hua Lin nearly choked on her own spit: "Captain Ye, you don't know the relationship between Hua Kai and me. We are cousins, share the same grandfather, and are both members of the Hua family. If it were someone else, it would be one thing, but I am her own cousin. She can't even help but watch someone fall into a fire pit?"
Ye Yifan frowned: "Why didn't you think of yourself as her cousin when you hurt her? Is this karma?"
Hua Kai realized that Ye Yifan was too protective of his own, so good to his friends, but really ruthless to his enemies. However, she also admired this trait of his. She looked at Ye Yifan and smiled.
Ye Yifan received Hua Kai's smile, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up. After dinner, he would think of Hua Kai whenever he had free time, and he was indeed moved.
Hua Lin was so angry that her hands were trembling. She couldn't hold back any longer and said to Hua Kai, "Hua Kai, don't be too smug. Captain Ye is just playing with you. Once he leaves the village, will he even remember who you are?"
Hua Kai laughed and said, "Why are your thoughts so filthy? You don't need to worry about my affairs. You should go home and prepare for your wedding. I will definitely come back to attend your wedding. I won't be a bridesmaid. After all, I'm pretty, and it wouldn't be good for me to steal your thunder, right?"
Hua Lin's face was pale as she looked at Ye Yifan: "Captain Ye, you saw how vicious Hua Kai is. She hopes I marry someone bad. Do you really think she's a good person?"
Ye Yifan nodded: "I saw her, but she's not as ruthless as me. Would you like to see that?"
Hua Lin was speechless. After holding it in for a long time, she finally turned around and ran away without saying anything.
Hua Qingyang stood at the door, laughing uncontrollably: "Sister, Hua Lin ran away in anger."
Hua Kai looked at her grinning younger brother and said, "From now on, when I'm not home, if they come looking for trouble, you have to be just as tough, understand?"
Hua Qingyang nodded: "Understood."
Hua Kai looked at Ye Yifan: "Want to come inside and sit for a while?"
Ye Yifan glanced at his watch: "No, Grandpa just called me and asked me to go back to the provincial capital before noon to accompany him to an appointment."
Hua Kai heard that Ye Yifan had something to do, so she didn't want to delay him: "Then you should set off early. You don't need to rush on the road. I should thank you today."
Ye Yifan smiled and said, "Are you being polite with me again? We're going back to the city next week and will be staying at the bureau for a while. I wrote my phone number on a piece of paper in the box. Call me if you need anything."
Hua Kai nodded: "Yeah, I submitted another set of drawings, and the income was pretty good. Next time we eat out, you must let me treat you."
Ye Yifan said, "We'll talk about it later. I'm leaving now."
Hua Kai and Hua Qingyang saw Ye Yifan off out of the courtyard. Only after watching Ye Yifan walk away did the siblings return to their house.
Hua Qingyang looked curiously at the box Ye Yifan had brought: "Sister, is all this paper? It's so heavy."
Hua Kai carefully put away the phone number on it and said, "Well, there are paper and pens here. Take what you need, but don't waste them."
Hua Qingyang happily flipped through the pages: "Isn't that too much? Sister, Captain Ye is such a nice guy."
Hua Kai also looked through the papers and pens: "Captain Ye is a very loyal person and is especially good to his friends. His friend is the same. Before, when my second uncle went to the school to make things difficult for me, it was his friend who helped me. So you should remember this: in the future, you must make friends with good character. Bad company is useless."
Hua Qingyang nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. Erqiangzi and I are good friends. He stood up for me when someone bullied me before."
Hua Kai often heard her younger brother mention this name, and she also knew that Er Qiangzi's parents were honest farmers, so she said, "Then you two should get along well, and you should also encourage him to study hard, so that you can go to school together in the future."
Hua Qingyang replied, "Yes, sister, I understand."
The siblings placed the papers on the cabinet, as they feared they would become damp if left on the floor or burn if placed on the kang (heated brick bed).
Before long, Gu Lanyan returned. Hua Qingyang quickly reported what had just happened to his mother, speaking with great enthusiasm, and even pulled Gu Lanyan to look at the paper and pens that Ye Yifan had given him.
Gu Lanyan listened to Hua Qingyang's report and said, "Look at you, Captain Ye is coming and you didn't even call me. There are only two of you kids in the family. This is so impolite."
Hua Kai scratched her head: "Mom, I'm not really a child."
Gu Lanyan said, "You're still in school, aren't you a child? Captain Ye is such a good person, so kind-hearted, so incredibly kind. He's helped us so many times. We really don't know how to repay this kindness."
Hua Kai smiled at Gu Lanyan: "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely pay it back."
Gu Lanyan sighed and said to Hua Kai and her brother, "I really don't know how to repay it. You can repay it slowly when you grow up."
"Okay, Mom, let's make lunch. My dad and older brother will be back soon." Hua Kai quickly changed the subject.
“Cooking isn’t much work, I can do it myself. You two go and buy the meat for tomorrow’s pancakes for the village.” Gu Lanyan took out some money and gave it to Hua Kai.
Hua Kai and Hua Qingyang agreed and rode their bicycles to the countryside.
Hua Qingyang insisted on supporting Hua Kai no matter what. Hua Kai sat in the back seat of her younger brother's car, reaching out to feel the wind and smell the fragrance of the rice fields on both sides of the road.
The two walked and played as they went. When they got home, Hua Wanjiang and Hua Qingyi had already returned, and it was lunchtime at home.
After lunch, Huakai asked her older brother to pack her things again, then said goodbye to her parents and went to Li Jing's house.
Li Jing was the person the original owner was most grateful to in her diary. Although she didn't have much interaction with Li Jing after Hua Kai came here, she understood the original owner's feelings, that sense of reliance in loneliness. So every time she came back, she would visit Li Jing and always told Li Jing not to rush into marriage, and that she would definitely help this best friend of the original owner when she had the ability in the future.
Unexpectedly, she met Li Jing, who was looking for her, halfway there.
Li Jing ran over happily: "Hua Kai, where are you going?"
Hua Kai smiled and said, "I'll go find you. We really are on the same wavelength."
Li Jing linked arms with Hua Kai and said, "Let's go for a walk around the school."
Hua Kai nodded in agreement, and the two went to the school. Their village school was small and didn't have much sports equipment, just a horizontal bar and a parallel bar.
However, many children were playing on the playground, some jumping rope, some throwing beanbags, it was very lively.
Hua Kai suddenly felt like playing jump rope. She hadn't played jump rope in so many years. She asked Li Jing, "If we play jump rope with them, can they teach us?"
Li Jing laughed as she looked at the blooming flowers: "How come you're getting more and more childish? Are you really going to play this game?"
Hua Kai smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be great to get younger as we get older? Life can't be relived, and the time we can play jump rope will become fewer and fewer. Do you want to give it a try?"
Li Jing nodded: "Okay, let's go ask."
The two went over and struck up a conversation with a few girls who were jumping rope, and soon joined in.
Soon, the laughter of two children, one big and one small, echoed across the playground.
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