Lin Xuefeng and Zhou Qian quietly explored the pond for a long time.

But, nothing.

Zhou Qian asked: "Do you want Xiaoyu to come over and take a look?"

Her wood-based supernatural perception is much stronger than Lin Xuefeng's water-based perception.

Lin Xuefeng nodded: "I'll go call her."

He believed in his intuition, as he had indeed seen it twice just now.

Huaiyu was preparing dinner. The base of the spicy hotpot was indeed delicious, so they bought some extra. Now they took out the radish cubes, potato slices, elm yellow mushrooms, vegetables and meat slices from the basket and stir-fried them in the pot. If it weren't for the continuous rain, the food would have spread over ten miles.

Unfortunately, none of the kids in the family would eat this, which made Huaiyu feel regretful for a long time.

Just as she was cooking, Huaiyu saw Lin Xuefeng coming out of the rain again: "Xiaoyu, come and take a look at the pond."

Huaiyu was stunned: "Didn't you find out? Or did Hehua beat you?"

That shouldn’t be the case. She had seen it before and the mutated creature was very docile.

Lin Xuefeng lowered the fire in the stove to avoid cooking porridge when he came back late. Then he shook his head and said, "Well, no one is there. But it feels a bit strange."

Huaiyu became excited and rubbed his hands: "I will definitely investigate it thoroughly!"

There was no need to hide his wood-related abilities now. Huai Yu quickly came to the edge of the pond and touched the green lotus leaf directly.

After a moment, she withdrew her hand, her expression indescribable.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Qian was a little anxious.

Huaiyu sighed, "Nothing, it said it wanted to bloom, but the rain never stops, it's so annoying."

Zhou Qian: ??? "Rain doesn't affect flowering - oh, it will produce lotus seeds, right?"

"No," Huaiyu shook his head. "It's been raining all the time, so the water in this pond has always been murky and ugly, and it smells like mud. It doesn't match its beautiful flowers at all!"

Huai Yu was a little worried: "If it wants to grow longer, the whole stinky pond can be covered with its lotus leaves, so that we can buy more fertilizer from the silt, or let me give it some superpowers..."

But now she is busy purifying the land and selling vegetables, so her supernatural powers are a bit insufficient! Zhou Qian was completely speechless.

And Lin Xuefeng also asked: "Didn't you find anything unusual?"

Huaiyu was at a loss: "No, it says the same thing."

This answer did not reassure the two, but instead they were quietly alert. But Lin Xuefeng was not overly nervous. He patted Huai Yu on the shoulder:

"Then let's go back first. Zhou Qian and I will sleep on the floor in the room tonight, okay?"

Of course!

Huaiyu was even more delighted: "The three of us can have a tea party! I'll go roast some melon seeds after dinner. I still have some!"

"Would you like to drink osmanthus tea, plum blossom tea, or chrysanthemum tea tonight?"

"Oh! It's a pity that it's hard to catch animals during the breeding season. Otherwise, I could fry some meat floss and make some meat floss pancakes."

"Oh right! It's been raining recently, will the floor be a little damp? We still have a lot of hay rolls we bought earlier, remember to lay it thicker."

She happily went back to cook, while Zhou Qian and Lin Xuefeng looked at each other and felt a headache.

…

Huaiyu seemed quite looking forward to the tea party that evening.

It was hard for her not to look forward to it.

Because in her memory, except for the night when Lin Xuefeng came unexpectedly late at night, she had never had this kind of experience of having a deep conversation with someone at night.

Huai Yu doesn’t have it either.

At this moment, in the small house, a layer of frosted water curtain covered her bedroom area tightly. Lin Xuefeng and Zhou Qian took a simple camp bed and lay down directly - they had all lived in the wild, so this kind of environment was not picky at all.

But Huaiyu did not cooperate.

She picked up a small table lamp and sat directly on Lin Xuefeng's bed, then looked at the two of them with interest: "Are you going to go to sleep without talking? Didn't you chat when you lived in the dormitory before? I want to chat! I haven't chatted before!"

The camp bed had only one layer of fabric, which sank slightly when Huaiyu sat on it, so she naturally bumped into Lin Xuefeng! However, before she could fall over, she heard Zhou Qian humming on the other bed.

She straightened up again in an instant.

Then it fell straight into Lin Xuefeng's arms.

Huaiyu: ...You can’t blame her for this!

Lin Xuefeng supported her and couldn't help laughing: "Come, sit down, or your legs will be numb in a while - what do you want to talk about?"

He put Huaiyu aside. Huaiyu hummed twice and quickly changed the topic with Lin Xuefeng under Zhou Qian's gaze: "You can talk about anything. What did you talk about when you lived together?"

As far as she could remember, Huai Yu had never had this experience.

She was born in an orphanage and went to designated schools for elementary and middle school, where she attended day school. Her grades were good in high school at first, but she still had to attend day school because she had to pay for accommodation.

This way, she had no chance to chat with other girls at night.

After all, in order to ensure the safety of the children, the orphanage has strict requirements on access control.

When she became an adult at the age of 16, she was in high school. The orphanage's financial support was enough for her to continue her studies, so she did not go out to work like many others.

When I turned 18 and was able to take the college entrance examination, the orphanage lost a large amount of donations that had been going on for a long time, and the few new children admitted to the orphanage were all disabled...

So, she struggled for a long time, but finally gave up.

After all, Huaiyu's grades were only above average. He could go to college, but he certainly wouldn't get any bonuses from the city. Even if he got into college, it would be difficult to get a tuition loan and living expenses...

After graduating from university...

In fact, it is difficult to find a job nowadays.

The orphanage would give a basic living allowance to every child who was ready to strike out on their own when they reached adulthood. She used that money as capital and slowly started her own business.

From birth to adulthood, she did not have any particularly good girlfriends, nor did she have late-night chats with other girls - during those times that others thought were youthful and memorable, she was either studying or trying to make money.

Friendship is such a luxury.

Lin Xuefeng and Zhou Qian couldn't help but sigh silently when they thought of this. At this moment, they didn't stop her enthusiasm anymore, but racked their brains: "Most of the topics men talk about are boring...there's nothing to talk about."

After thinking about it carefully, there is really nothing to say.

Those dormitory night talks during peacetime seem so distant now as if they were a lifetime ago.

There is even less of Zhou Qian.

So the three of them remained silent, and only the small solar-powered desk lamp struggled to emit a dim light.

Huaiyu silently took out a handful of melon seeds, his shoulders slumped: "Alas..."

This sigh was so long and regretful that Zhou Qian couldn't help scratching his head: "It's not the same for you to hang out with us guys every day. There's nothing to talk about... I think we should just hurry up and build the house."

“After selling the house, please ask Chen Xing to come and live in my house. You can invite her to sleep with you and chat with you at night.”

Huai Yu's eyes widened with innocence: "I welcome Sister Chen Xing to come, but Brother Zhou Qian, why can you make arrangements so naturally? Did Sister Chen Xing mention it to you?"

“Do I need to mention this?” Zhou Qian blurted out, “She is alone and has no place to stay, so she just followed Zhao Feiyan’s team. Here—”

He said this and then closed his mouth slowly. In the middle of the night, the heat from somewhere burned all the way from his chest to his ears. Fortunately, the solar lamp had not been charged for a long time, and now the light was weak and could not be seen clearly.

Only Lin Xuefeng looked away with a half-smile, and changed the subject: "If it still rains tomorrow, Xiaoyu, I'll draw a picture for you."

"Okay, okay!"

Huaiyu looked forward to it: "Have you practiced well?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

They bought the paints on the first day. Although they were not complete, they were still usable. However, Lin Xuefeng said that he had not painted for a long time and needed some time to get used to it and regain his touch.

Hearing her say this tonight, Huaiyu immediately became excited: "Do you want to pose specially?"

Lin Xuefeng thought for a moment and said, "No, I'll try it first."

"Okay!" Huaiyu suggested: "Can the background be the Rose Corridor?"

Lin Xuefeng hesitated: "I'm not good at drawing roses."

He had never been able to draw this kind of large, warm, vibrant flowers well before, and his teacher always told him that they lacked vitality.

On the contrary, his writing has a kind of cold and indifferent tone that transcends emotions, which attracted the attention of some investors at the school at that time.

"It doesn't matter." Huaiyu didn't understand painting anyway, so the emotions in the paintings didn't matter to her: "Just paint large patches of flowers! It's lively and blooming brilliantly, that's all."

Lin Xuefeng laughed: "Okay."

Huai Yu was satisfied, and turned to look at Zhou Qian: "Brother Zhou Qian, what about you? Do you want Lin Xuefeng to draw a picture of Ningning?"

Zhou Qian was stunned.

During this joyful and cheerful late-night chat, Zhou Ning's name was mentioned unexpectedly, and Zhou Qian was unable to react for a moment.

"Hua Ningning?"

"yes."

Huaiyu said as a matter of course: "Although I don't know how Lin Xuefeng's painting is, or whether it looks like the real thing, but I can always get it right by practicing a few more times."

She knew that Zhou Qian no longer had any photos of Zhou Ning - the paper photos had long been buried and collapsed with the ruins of the house, and the electronic photos...

Under the circumstances at that time, electronic products had already broken down completely.

If he wants to get back his past memories, he has to remember them by himself or wait for several years until the data is restored and the previous programs or accounts are retrieved to find the photos that were not damaged and were fortunately preserved! But that hope is too slim.

When Huaiyu asked this question, he was stunned.

Lin Xuefeng thought about it and added, "I used to paint portraits for people on the streets, in parks, or in scenic spots. I used to do everything from sketches to watercolors. If you're willing to try, you can describe it to me a few more times and I'll try my best to reproduce it."

Late at night, Zhou Qian was unable to speak for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, until the small desk lamp that emitted a faint light completely dimmed, he nodded silently in the middle of the night and uttered a very soft response: "Yeah."

After a pause, he added: "Please."

Huaiyu sighed again: "The lights are off, and I haven't brushed my teeth yet...Brother Zhou Qian, you've been thinking too long!"

"When Lin Xuefeng becomes proficient, you can ask him to draw Ningning in many different ways. Don't be so nervous."

Zhou Qian paused, then said: "I just... I tried very hard to recall, and I had to try very hard to see what Ningning's facial features looked like, whether her eyebrows were thick or thin, whether her eyes were big or small, whether she had double eyelids, whether she had any moles on her face..."

He thought very hard, and guilt surged over him like a tide, because he always felt that he would always remember the other person.

But in fact, only a few years have passed and he can hardly see her face clearly.

"It's okay." Huaiyu tugged at Lin Xuefeng's clothes, so he also said, "It's okay."

"As for drawing, I just need to practice a little bit to get better. You can describe her appearance to me more. The more you think about it, the more accurate your drawing will be. Then you will be able to recognize which one is her."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "You don't have to feel guilty. It's hard for people to remember the details of a person's facial features. If you close your eyes now, you probably won't be able to describe Xiaoyu's facial features right away."

Zhou Qian exhaled slowly: "Okay, I'll think about it carefully."

Lin Xuefeng looked at Xiaoyu, who had unknowingly fallen into his arms, and rubbed her hair silently: "Are you sleepy?"

Although she kept talking about chatting and having a tea party tonight, she hadn't slept so late in a long time since there was no electricity.

Huaiyu opened his eyes with difficulty: "I haven't brushed my teeth yet..."

Lin Xuefeng chuckled: "Open your mouth."

Huaiyu opened her mouth groggily. The next moment, a hand pressed up along her cheek, and then a ball of warm water entered her mouth! The water ball seemed to be spinning flexibly inside. After spinning carefully, she was taken out of the room by Lin Xuefeng and said to the yard: "Come on, finish brushing your teeth and spit it out."

Huaiyu: ...

She spit out the ball of water, and now she was pleasantly surprised and pulled Lin Xuefeng's hand to hold hers, touching it over and over again: "Lin Xuefeng, you are really versatile!"

"Yes, Almighty." He pressed her head: "Go to bed early."

I can't stay up late, and I always fantasize about whispering in the middle of the night... I'm really a novice and a playful person.

And when he half-lifted up the drowsy Huaiyu and turned around, Lin Xuefeng quickly turned his head back and stared at her quietly for a long time.

That gaze appeared again.

But just like during the day, it flashed by so quickly that he couldn't even tell whether it was by the pond or further away.

If it is farther away, the opponent's ability must be very high.

But...what does it matter? Lin Xuefeng retracted his gaze and silently carried Huaiyu back to bed. The other party was very sleepy. Although he tried to open his eyes and wanted to say something, he finally just held his palm on his cheek and fell asleep.

And when he turned around and raised his hand to wave the water curtain, everything before his eyes seemed to overlap with the rainy night last year.

How amazing!

He looked at Zhou Qian's quiet silhouette lying in the night, thinking: Back then, he could never have imagined the happiness and peace he has now, right? So, he would never let anyone disturb him. (End of this chapter)