Gu Bai sometimes misses the old days, but as everyone gets older, even though they live in the same city, they have much less time to get together.
Gu Bai is a sentimental person who relies heavily on his friends. He values ​​relationships, which is why he chose to ignore Xu Zezhan's actions, even though they seemed to have crossed the line, for fear that if he confronted him, he and Xu Zezhan would no longer be able to remain friends.
Gu Bai didn't want to lose Xu Zezhan as a friend, so as long as his bottom line wasn't crossed, he could pretend he didn't see anything and nothing happened.
"No," Xu Zezhan said.
"What?" Gu Bai thought he meant he wouldn't be like Fu Wenzhou, but he didn't expect Xu Zezhan's next sentence to be:
"I will not have a wife."
Gu Bai choked for a moment, then said irritably, "Husband, is that all? Would you become like this if you had a husband?"
He seemed eager for Xu Zezhan to give him a promise, a promise that no matter what happens in the future, they will remain the same as they are now, without any changes.
Xu Zezhan knew what he was thinking and tossed him the tools he was using to secure the tent: "It's hard to say."
Gu Bai grew anxious: "What do you mean by 'not sure'?"
Xu Zezhan said calmly, "What if my future boyfriend is jealous? Or what if he doesn't like me going to drinking parties and fooling around with you guys all the time? Or what if I just want to be with my boyfriend like Fu Wenzhou, so I naturally won't go out?"
Gu Bai was furious after hearing this: "Xu Zezhan, you're really something! I never knew you were such a womanizer who would put your friends aside! We've been friends since we were kids, practically inseparable, for over twenty years. And you're planning to dump me for a boyfriend you've never even met?!"
Gu Bai pointed at Xu Zezhan and accused him: "Are you even human?!"
Xu Zezhan listened to him scolding him expressionlessly, without saying a word. He rolled his tongue, as if to say: "Idiot, if you become my boyfriend, we will never break up."
In the end, he didn't say those words out loud.
Gu Bai was still making accusations with righteous indignation when Xu Zezhan finally couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed the finger that Gu Bai was pointing at him, saying, "Are you ever going to stop? Go find Fu Wenzhou and Song Qingyou. Do you even want to eat dinner tonight?"
"Do you know where they are?" Gu Bai asked suspiciously.
Xu Zezhan rubbed his temples: "In the future, when you listen to people, can you focus on the key points?"
"ah?"
"...They're by the cherry tree."
"Oh, you're so smart."
"You're just too stupid."
"...Fuck your grandpa."
"I don't have a master, so you might as well fuck me."
"...!!!"
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Gu Bai saw Fu Wenzhou in the tree from afar, while Song Qingyou kept telling him to be careful.
Upon seeing Fu Wenzhou climbing the tree, Gu Bai immediately became interested: "Damn! It's been ten years since we last climbed a tree, and this tree has grown so big over the years."
As he spoke, he called out, "Song Qingyou, I'll pluck all the cherries off the tree for you."
Gu Bai struck a very confident pose and climbed up in no time, but he was still some distance from Fu Wenzhou.
Xu Zezhan walked over to Song Qingyou and said, "When they were little, they loved climbing trees. They destroyed several trees that my grandfather planted in his yard."
Song Qingyou's gaze remained fixed on Fu Wenzhou in the tree, and she wasn't surprised: "Was he this naughty when he was a child?"
"Hmm." Xu Zezhan glanced at her, his eyes unreadable: "Didn't he stay at your house for a while?"
Song Qingyou pursed her lips and remained silent.
Xu Zezhan wasn't fixated on the answer to this question. In his view, whether it was genuine forgetting, feigning forgetting, or some other reason, Song Qingyou had her reasons.
He didn't want to pursue the truth, and besides, it had nothing to do with him; it was Fu Wenzhou's business.
Gu Bai wasn't as nimble as Fu Wenzhou. He couldn't climb up halfway and was stuck in the middle, unsure whether to go up or down. He called out to Fu Wenzhou, "How many did you pick?"
Fu Wenzhou's pockets were already full, and there were only a few cherries left on the tree. The cherries that Gu Bai had been standing on had long been picked by Fu Wenzhou.
Gu Bai couldn't help but complain, "We're the young master of the Fu family, one of us is the young CEO of the Fu Corporation, and the other is the young master of the Gu family. If people see us climbing trees here, we'll probably be on the front page tomorrow."
Fu Wenzhou came down from the high place and lightly kicked him: "You're thinking too much. Hurry up and get down, don't block the way."
Gu Bai cursed, "If you kick me off again and I fall to my death, you'll lose a childhood sweetheart."
Fu Wenzhou kicked him again and laughed, "Is this how you use your childhood sweetheart?"
Gu Bai grumbled as he climbed down: "You're just bullying me, you're all bullying me, but one day I'll get my revenge."
Xu Zezhan reached out and pulled Gu Bai down with his help.
Fu Wenzhou jumped down nimbly, dusted off his hands, and proudly showed his spoils to Song Qingyou: "Youyou, I picked them all, they're all yours."
Xu Zezhan laughed and scolded, "Aren't you going to share some with your brothers?"
Fu Wenzhou clicked his tongue: "If you want to eat them, pick them yourself."
Gu Bai rolled her eyes at him: "Did you keep any for yourself?"
Song Qingyou reached into Fu Wenzhou's pocket and took out all the cherries. She counted them and gave ten to Xu Zezhan and Gu Bai, leaving more than twenty for Fu Wenzhou and herself.
When Fu Wenzhou saw that the cherries he had worked so hard to climb the tree to pick were given to them so cheaply, he stood there with a dark face, his whole body as cold as ice.
Gu Bai happily took the cherries, and couldn't help but smugly say to Fu Wenzhou, "Oh, my sister-in-law is so nice. Fruit that doesn't require any labor is so delicious."
Xu Zezhan suppressed a laugh, ignoring Fu Wenzhou's murderous glare, and patted him on the shoulder: "You've worked hard, laborer."
Fu Wenzhou: "Get lost."
Song Qingyou first wiped the cherries in her hand clean with a handkerchief, then picked one up with her fingertips and put it into Fu Wenzhou's mouth. Just as her index finger was about to withdraw, it was enveloped by a warm, moist sensation.
Song Qingyou's heart skipped a beat, her ears turned red instantly, and she glared at Fu Wenzhou: "Let go."
Fu Wenzhou curled his lips and obediently released his tongue from her finger.
Gu Bai couldn't bear to watch the interaction between the two. He turned his face away in disgust and happily started eating cherries. He ate them quickly; ten cherries wouldn't even be enough to fill a gap between his teeth. He finished them in no time and then set his sights on the ones in Xu Zezhan's hand, staring longingly at his palm.
Xu Zezhan raised an eyebrow slightly: "Want to eat?"
"Yes, yes!" Gu Bai nodded vigorously.
Xu Zezhan smiled gently: "Call me brother."
Gu Bai: "?"
A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!
"Brother, Brother Xu, Brother Zezhan," Gu Bai called out shamelessly, his eyes never leaving the tempting cherries in Xu Zezhan's hand.
Xu Zezhan handed him the cherry: "Eat it."
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