Grandma Xiaojun's voice, barely suppressing a laugh, came from the kitchen: "With so much firewood stuffed in, it's completely blocked. How can it possibly catch fire?"
Luo Shimiao took out her phone and pointed the camera at Gu Nian: "Smile."
"Miaomiao, stop fooling around." Gu Nian reached out to block the camera.
She jumped aside and snapped several photos in quick succession.
Yao Bin stroked his chin and remarked, "Even with his face so dirty, it doesn't affect his handsomeness at all."
Lai Meiqi chimed in, "If he entered the entertainment industry, he'd be a sensation just with that face."
Luo Shimiao put away her phone with satisfaction, then pulled the man to the tap and gently wiped the grime off his handsome face with her wet hands.
"Luo Luo, please get some tissues for your aunt."
"Okay." Luo Luo turned around to find tissues.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jun, who was standing by the door, ran back into the house and picked up the tissues from the table.
"Here you go, little sister." He helped Luo Luo up as she climbed the stairs.
"Thank you, Brother Xiaojun."
She ran back excitedly, clutching the tissues, saying, "Auntie, the tissues are here!" Her eyes crinkled with a smile as she held the tissues.
Luo Shimiao tapped her forehead and pulled out several tissues: "Good girl, the best and biggest chicken leg is for you."
"Okay."
Gu Nian lowered his eyes, his long, thick eyelashes casting a shadow beneath them, his eyes reflecting the girl's gentle gesture of wiping his face.
"Miaomiao, you are so beautiful."
She raised an eyebrow in surprise, a slight smile playing on her lips: "So this is why you're haunting me like a ghost?"
The man lazily draped his hand over her shoulder, his eyes filled with deep emotion: "She's beautiful and has a fascinating soul; she's successfully caught my attention."
"It's clean." Luo Shimiao tiptoed and gently kissed her rosy lips.
Luo Luo covered her eyes with one hand, her large eyes peeking out from between her fingers with a smile: "Shy."
Lai Meiqi and Yao Bin looked at each other and smiled, then turned their backs.
"I shouldn't have come here. This single dog of mine has been tortured from all sides," Zheng Xiaopeng said, clutching his chest.
"Huh?" Luo Shimiao looked at him in surprise: "Director Zheng, you're not married yet?"
"I'm only 40 years old, no rush."
She gave him a deep look; he was a man with a story.
It would take a little while for the water to boil, so the group took hoes and burlap sacks to dig up clods of earth.
When I returned, Grandma Xiaojun had already slaughtered the chicken and was sitting on a small stool plucking its feathers.
Everyone put down what they were doing and gathered together to pluck chicken feathers.
Grandma Xiaojun called into the house, "Xiaojun, bring out a stool for your older brothers and sisters to sit on."
"Okay, Grandma."
Xiao Jun placed the small red stool behind them.
Luo Shimiao looked at the little hand that was joining in the fun, tugging at the feathers on the chicken's rear end, and sighed: "Luo Luo, go play with Brother Xiao Jun."
"No, I want to pluck the hairs."
Grandma Xiaojun smiled and said, "If the child likes to play, just let her play for a while."
"By the way, how's the land deal for Grandma going?"
“I called him last night and he agreed without any objection. But this price… no one in our village has ever sold land before, so I don’t know how to set it. I’m afraid you’ll lose out if I quote too high a price.”
"We can discuss it with the village chief."
"No need. You saved my Xiaojun. I've discussed it with my son, and we're planning to give you the land behind it. Given our family's financial situation, we'll probably have to rely on Xiaojun to build the house."
Luo Shimiao shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, if I accept it, I won't feel at ease living in the house after it's built. You should talk to the village chief about it."
“If you find it troublesome,” she said with a smile, her eyes sparkling, “give me your bank account number and I’ll transfer a million to you to buy that piece of land.”
Grandma Xiaojun said in a panic, "No trouble at all, I'll go find him later. You little brat, asking for a million right off the bat, you scared this old woman to death."
Luo Luo asked in her childish voice, "Grandma, is one million a lot?"
“Wow, that’s a lot! Grandma has never seen so much money in her life.”
"Oh, oh." She tilted her head and said, "My mommy said I have many millionaires."
Lai Meiqi reached out her hand, her eyes sincere: "Luo Luo, do you need a friend?"
Short little hands grasped slender, fair palms.
"I need a friend as pretty as my older sister."
Her words made everyone laugh.
......
After asking where Cactus Mountain was, Luo Shimiao carried the prepared chicken back to the guesthouse.
On the way back, I asked several households and managed to borrow some tin foil.
In the yard, Sasa chased after Little Green, who was flying in the air.
After preparing the ingredients, Li Man and Luo Jianxing returned to the hanging chair.
Yao Bin put down the snakeskin bag he was carrying and beckoned to the golden retriever: "Sasa, come here and I have a task for you."
"Woof woof woof..." Sasa saw him return and happily rushed over.
Lai Meiqi placed the firewood she had brought from Xiao Jun's grandmother's house on the floor: "You don't want it to carry this bag of dirt for you, do you?"
"Hehe, I actually kind of want to."
Luo Shimiao recalled the day it refused to leave the mountain and he had to carry it down the mountain in the end, and said, "I think we should skip it. You'll be carrying it halfway down anyway."
"It's okay, my little Wangwang should have had enough sleep."
"Whoosh." Zheng Xiaopeng gestured for them to look towards the door.
A slender figure crept out like a thief.
Yao Bin put his hands on his hips and looked at the furtive figure, saying, "Zhou Wang, where are you going?"
Upon being discovered, Zhou Wang froze, slowly turned around, and revealed a smile that was more like a grimace.
"Hehe, I didn't go anywhere, just stretching my legs." He spread his arms up and down.
Waaah, I know he won't come down!
......
After marinating the chicken, everyone took their things and headed to Cactus Mountain.
Sunlight shone on Luo Shimiao's fair and delicate face, causing her to squint: "Director Zheng, aren't the other staff members coming to join us?"
"Most people went home early this morning because it's a holiday today."
"No wonder not many people came down for breakfast this morning." She noticed the sweet potato seedlings in the field below the roadside, and her dark eyes lit up: "Would you like some roasted sweet potatoes?"
Lai Meiqi's eyes lit up: "I want to eat it." After saying that, she turned around and looked in the direction of the village. Her two delicate eyebrows were furrowed together: "Xiao Jun's family has sweet potatoes. Why didn't I think of that back then? Now we've gone far away. It's too troublesome to take so much stuff back with me."
"No need to go back, it's ready right here."
"where?"
Her slender fingers pointed downwards towards the ground.
Lai Meiqi covered her mouth, nervously looking around, and whispered, "You want to steal...?"
"Hey, let's not use such vulgar words. You guys wait here for me, I'll be right back." She walked to the roadside and jumped off the sweet potato field.
"I'm going too." A figure jumped down right after him.
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