The bag contained more than a dozen packages of various sizes, including fresh fruit, homemade sausages, and even free-range eggs.
Aunt Li, who was standing nearby, was stunned. "How come there are so many things? They're so heavy. I don't think that young man drove. It seems like he carried them all by himself."
There were quite a few things inside, and it was extremely heavy; Aunt Li couldn't lift the bag herself.
Wen Yixing first called her father, but the signal was not good in her hometown, so she could only hear her father's voice intermittently.
However, Wen Yixing heard one sentence very clearly. Her father's voice was filled with laughter: "Isn't it almost your birthday? We don't have anything special to give you, so Chenchen's mother made some local specialties that you used to like. Don't mind them."
"How could I possibly find it unpleasant?"
Looking at the food piled high on the ground, all carefully wrapped, Wen Yixing felt her eyes well up with tears, becoming blurry. "Thank you, Dad."
After chatting with her father for a while, Wen Yixing picked up her phone and dialed a new phone number she had just gotten from her father.
Her younger brother, Wen Yichen, is only eighteen years old this year. He didn't have a cell phone before, but because of this trip, his elders bought him a cell phone and got him a new SIM card.
Wen Yixing called, and the other end answered almost instantly.
"Wen Yichen, where are you?"
Perhaps not expecting it to be her, she was clearly stunned for half a second before obediently calling out, "Sister."
After the boy went through puberty, his voice changed a lot.
Wen Yixing lost her mother when she was young. When she was nine years old, her father remarried, and Wen Yichen was her stepmother's son.
She wasn't particularly close to her half-brother before, and since starting high school, she'd only see him a few times a year or two.
Moreover, a few years ago, Wen Yichen and Fang Shiyan had a conflict. Wen Yichen hit Fang Shiyan, and the beating was quite serious.
This angered Li Qingyun so much that she went directly to their door to cause trouble, and because of this, the relationship between the two families became increasingly strained.
Perhaps realizing that he had caused trouble for his sister again, Wen Yichen would make an excuse to go out and avoid her every time Wen Yixing came home.
Wen Yixing asked, "Where are you now?"
There was no response from the other end.
"Are you free?" Wen Yixing asked gently. "Would you like to come over and have dinner together?"
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Wen Yichen ran back to the workers' dormitory.
The sun was scorching, and Wen Yichen's clothes were soaked with sweat when he returned to his dormitory, but he didn't care.
After returning to the dormitory, I changed out of my dirty clothes and quickly took a shower with cold water from the tap outside.
The workers here are all rough men, not very particular about their appearance, and many of them just take cold showers directly using the water pipes on the ground.
After rinsing himself clean, Wen Yichen squatted down to get clean clothes from his suitcase.
Hearing the noise, the friend on the upper bunk got up curiously and looked over. "Xiao Chen, what are you doing? Picking out clothes? Do you have a boyfriend?"
Wen Yichen didn't answer his teasing question. Instead, she quickly changed her clothes and looked up to ask her friend, "How do I look in this outfit?"
"Not bad, pretty handsome." My friend gave him a thumbs up.
After receiving confirmation, Wen Yichen carefully took out a small box from the very back of his suitcase. It was a birthday gift he had bought for his sister a few days ago with the money he had earned from his part-time job that month.
He didn't know much about girls, nor did he know what his sister would like. The birthday gift he bought this time was based on suggestions from his coworkers.
The coworkers said with absolute certainty: "Giving a girl jewelry is definitely a safe bet! Or it could be cosmetics! Like lipstick!"
Wen Yichen spent a long time choosing before finally finding a star necklace in the mall.
The necklace was studded with small diamonds that sparkled under the light, and he fell in love with it at first sight.
Although the necklace was very expensive for him, and he would have to spend almost all the money he had on him to buy it, he bought it without hesitation.
My friend, still leaning on the headboard, asked curiously, "So where are you going?"
Wen Yichen straightened his clothes carefully. "I'm going to see my sister."
When Wen Yichen stepped out of the dormitory, it was still very hot outside, but he was in a very cheerful mood.
He realized he didn't have much money left.
However, I should still be able to buy my sister a bouquet of flowers.
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