Gu Muchen stood in the yard with a dark face, his eyes were cold.

"The assistant called me four times, and the representatives of the two companies are waiting for my meeting in the afternoon," he opened his mouth slowly, and raised a pair of bright red agricultural scissors, "You just let me pick mulberries and dates?"

"Pick it or not," Ji Yunqing said with a small bamboo basket on his arm, "you choose."

Gu Muchen said expressionlessly, "I'm going to the company."

Gu Hongjuan, who was watering the small tomatoes in the vegetable field, didn't even look back: "Then you won't have anything to eat when you come back tonight."

Gu Muchen: "Oh."

The driver was waiting outside the door. The moment he turned around and left, Gu Hongjuan's words came faintly from behind.

"I'll also tell Xiaoyun why you fought."

Gu Muchen: "..."

After a while, he turned around with gritted teeth, took off his suit jacket and threw it to Wang Ma, and shouted at the driver: "Tell the office, I'll go back to the company in the afternoon!"

Ji Yunqing looked at him curiously: "Why did you fight with someone?"

He knew his cousin well. Although he acted rough and outspoken, he was actually a very gentle and tolerant person. He had never heard of such a trouble with others, and he even got a lot of color on his head.

This kind of thing is obviously what he would do.

"It's okay," Gu Hongjuan smiled, "Xiaochen is shy."

Gu Muchen roughly unbuttoned two of his shirt buttons, and then rolled up his cuffs: "I'll just do it... By the way, why is he a cloud in the sky, I'm going to be called dust!"

"I'm good-looking." Ji Yunqing brazenly handed him a basket, "Unlike you, you only know how to fight with others."

"You still have the face to criticize me?" Gu Muchen looked at the other party incredulously, "Have you been playing well since childhood!"

Ji Yunqing answered quickly: "But I've never lost before, and I won't fight with children and get hurt."

Gu Muchen left angrily, lost his temper at the tree full of green dates, picked up the scissors and prepared to go up the ladder to pick them.

These two townhouses are well-maintained by Gu Hongjuan, and there are also special personnel who come to help take care of these flowers, plants and fruit trees on time. The front yard is full of green vegetables, cucumbers and small tomatoes grow according to the season, and pumpkins will bloom in another month.Small yellow fluffy flowers and tender-colored loofah vines have climbed up the shelves.

The backyard is full of fruit trees, the most of which are pomegranate and persimmon trees. This year, the mulberries matured early, and the wind in April made the fruits purple. The peach trees have begun to bear fruit, and the pear blossoms are almost in bloom. The small and white petals are blowing with the wind.down, reflected in Ji Yunqing's amber eyes.

"Pack more when you leave, the staff in your dance studio must love it."

Ji Yunqing smiled, and didn't tell his aunt that he gave his employees a long vacation. He never told his family about such trivial matters in life, so he nodded slightly.

Gu Hongjuan took a washed strawberry and handed it to him: "Last time you didn't bring many strawberries, so bring more today, and you can make jam if you can't finish them."

Ji Yunqing bit the sweetness in his mouth, thought hard for a while, and then said: "I don't know how to do this..."

"Didn't you invite an aunt?" Gu Hongjuan asked.

"I hired a part-time worker to clean it twice a week."

"Let's find a partner earlier," Gu Hongjuan looked at him distressedly, "You don't want to live at home either, I leave such a big house to grow vegetables, and there is no one who serves tea..."

She continued: "Whether you like boys or girls, at least you have a partner, so you can have a home."

Ji Yunqing smiled helplessly, he never concealed his sexuality, and his family quickly accepted it after being shocked. At that time, Gu Hongjuan was about to cry, saying that as long as he was happy, everything would be fine.

"I'm very happy now," Ji Yunqing pulled down a mulberry branch close to the ground, and with the other hand, he cut the purple mulberry lightly, "I can live wherever I want, and I can do whatever I want, sayMaybe someday, on a whim, it is possible to go abroad and study again.”

Gu Hongjuan stared immediately: "I'm not allowed to go abroad, I'm worried."

"Find you a foreign man back," Ji Yunqing teased her, "blue eyes, yellow hair, a full body—"

"No, no," Gu Hongjuan shook her head like a rattle, "You have to find someone who can cook and take care of you..."

"Partners are not meant to take care of each other. If you feel it, everything is easy to talk about. Otherwise, I might as well be with smart home appliances."

Ji Yunqing let go of his hand with a smile, and the branch immediately bounced back to the sky, shaking the leaves rustlingly.

"I'm taking good care of myself now," he said softly, "don't worry."

Zhou Ming is cooking strawberry jam in the kitchen.

A few days ago, Ji Yunqing gave him a big bag of strawberries, and he couldn't finish it, so he planned to make some jam and store it while he was free today.

Both the gym and the studio are as peaceful as the countless days that have passed.

He decided not to go anywhere these days and just stay at home with peace of mind.

In a long and pleasant afternoon, it is perfect to boil a can of strawberry jam.

Although Zhou Ming doesn't like sweets, but the daughter of Jin Xiaoshan's family loves them, he will make some of this kind of snacks as well.Be relaxed and happy.

Cake rolls, mousse, and cookies can all be used for this, and Zhou Ming has already begun to think about which one is better.

Bubbles are bubbling in the non-stick pan, and the bright red strawberry color is gradually darkening. He has added sugar and lemon juice in advance, and he will use a strainer to remove the foam, and wait quietly for the jam to become thickerthick.

On a weekday afternoon, the air is full of sweet smells.

Lin Mengmeng's phone call came, wailing that her parents urged her to get married so badly that she was kicked out of the house and lived on the streets, pitiful...

"Come on," Zhou Ming leaned against the cupboard, "You don't want to invite me to play games?"

"Hey," Lin Mengmeng laughed dryly, "Aren't I fine this afternoon? What are you doing?"

He loves games, and knows that Zhou Ming is good, but this kid rarely rides across the canyon with him. Not only does he not let himself into the house, he is rarely willing to go to e-sports hotels. Playing online is not fun at all, Lin MengmengThis will be full of desire to fool Zhou Ming out, and have a good fight.

"I'm cooking strawberry jam," Zhou Ming replied honestly, "and I don't want to go out these two days."

Lin Mengmeng felt wronged: "I want to eat strawberries too."

"Come over at night, I'll go downstairs and give you a can."

Lin Mengmeng continued to be wronged: "You bought so many strawberries, and I didn't tell you that you didn't mention it."

Zhou Ming didn't even think about it: "I didn't buy it, Ji Yunqing gave it to me."

As soon as the voice fell, there was a melodious ringing of the doorbell.

"Wait a minute," Zhou Ming thought it was the housekeeper who came to deliver something, and walked out quickly, "It's probably the property..."

Lin Mengmeng was still sneering and sarcastic: "That's right, no one else would knock on the door of your precious house except the property management and cleaning. I can only wait for you downstairs. My baby is suffering."

Zhou Ming ignored him and opened the door casually.

Then, he met a pair of glass bead-like eyes.

Ji Yunqing's appearance and demeanor always give people a clear and cold feeling, just like his light-colored eyes, which seem a little ethereal.

Even though he was wearing a soft beige sweater at the moment, with the corners of his mouth turned up, it seemed like the wind blowing through the pine forest.

It's impossible to catch.

Zhou Ming blinked and put down the phone involuntarily.

"It's okay," Ji Yunqing smiled, "I brought some jujubes and mulberries from my aunt. They are all grown by myself. I'll give you a taste."

As he spoke, he handed over the bag in his hand, waved his hand and said, "I'm leaving, bye."

Zhou Ming took it with a heavy bag.

It wasn't until Ji Yunqing entered the room that he closed the door as if reacting, cleared his throat and picked up the phone.

"Zhou Ming," Lin Mengmeng's voice was a little weird, "Who gave you something just now?"

Zhou Ming put the things back into the kitchen, inexplicably feeling guilty: "Ji Yunqing..."

"I heard why he gave it to you, green dates and mulberries!"

"Neighbors," Zhou Ming said seriously, "It's not right to help each other."

"Hey," Lin Mengmeng's voice dragged on for a long time, "First I gave you strawberries, and then I gave you fruits grown at home. Why don't I have such good neighbors? I'm so angry."

The strawberry jam in the pot was already cooked, and the small and dense bubbles kept gurgling. Zhou Ming turned on his mobile phone and put it outside, poured the viscous jelly sauce into a glass bottle, and said, "Okay, don't gossip, folks.Ji Yunqing is enthusiastic."

Lin Mengmeng snorted: "But I don't feel right."

"What's wrong?" Zhou Ming took out a green jujube and washed the plump fruit with clean water, thinking whether he should give Ji Yunqing a bottle of jam in return.

"He's crooked, have you forgotten?" Lin Mengmeng plausibly said, "You treat him to chicken soup, he brings you fruit, and he lives door to door..."

Zhou Ming frowned: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Lin Mengmeng: "Tsk."

The green jujube is put in the mouth, it is sweet and slightly sour, it is the breath of spring.

Zhou Ming: "Say something quickly."

Lin Mengmeng pondered for a while: "I think, this Ji Yunqing probably has a crush on you."

"Ahem..." Zhou Ming almost swallowed the date pit, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"I'm not talking nonsense," Lin Mengmeng said seriously. "Think about it for yourself. Where can a big man give you something every now and then? Don't talk about me, my mother asked me to give you something.".”

Zhou Ming grabbed the phone and put it to his ear: "So."

"So he must like you and want to chase you!" Lin Mengmeng came to the conclusion decisively. He felt that he was extremely smart, and his eyes were shining with wisdom and excitement.

Zhou Ming hurriedly pressed the phone screen, as if he wanted to cover the other person's mouth, so as to stop the nonsense, but his hands trembled slightly, and a strange feeling made his fingertips tremble.

"Then you're not safe at home. If he thinks anything, our family's Da Mingming will lose his innocence...Hurry up and play games with me, and I'll call the two of you..."

Zhou Ming hung up the phone directly and was stunned.

Could it be... Could it be that what Lin Mengmeng said was true, that Ji Yunqing actually liked her?

Impossible, Zhou Ming retorted instinctively, he always felt that Ji Yunqing was a bit out of this world, as if he had no emotions or desires.

It's not that he hasn't been pursued before. When he was in middle school, there were little girls with red cheeks who passed notes, and he would also receive favors from the opposite sex when he was an adult, but he never thought that he would have any emotional entanglements with men.

He leaned against the cupboard quietly, thinking for a while, unable to say anything, the strawberry jam in the glass jar cooled down, Zhou Ming picked up the lid and sealed it, and scraped off the sticky residue on the wall..

Put it in your mouth and taste it, it is sour and sweet.

He remembered the peach-flavored hard candy that Ji Yunqing gave him that night, and it tasted the same way. The sweetness may be acceptable to others, but he really seldom eats sweets, so a little bit of sweetness can be infinitely magnified on the tip of his tongue, extended to his chest cavity, and even his heart seemed to be stained with the gelatinous jam, which felt awkward and uncomfortable.

If Ji Yunqing really likes herself...

Zhou Ming shook his head vigorously, his back straightened.

"That can't be done," he said to himself, "I'm not crooked."

So Zhou Ming put the packed strawberry cans into the refrigerator, and went back to the living room to add food to Huahua. The kitten's soft fur rubbed against his exposed ankle, scratching it a bit, but the corners of his mouth raised involuntarily.Woke up, a little happy for no reason.

This pleasure lasted until ten o'clock in the evening, and it was over.

Because Zhou Ming suffered from insomnia.

He rolled around on the bed wrapped in a quilt, and every time he was about to fall asleep, Lin Mengmeng's voice began to play repeatedly in his mind.

Ji Yunqing probably has his eyes on you.

He must be chasing you.

"Master." Zhou Ming buried his face on the pillow, and began to think about some embarrassing things he had done. Now he didn't care if he would curl up his toes in embarrassment, as long as he could cover Lin Mengmeng's voice.

When was young, went to the farmhouse to play and was chased all over the yard by a goose. It was so embarrassing... Ji Yunqing fell in love with you.

After a while, Zhou Ming sat up straight in the dark bedroom, picked up the phone expressionlessly, and prepared to scold Lin Mengmeng for his bad mouth.

But he still hesitated, and after thinking for a while, he decided to seek help from the little gardener of Deyi Shuangxin.

Not sure if the other party was asleep, Zhou Ming thought about it and sent a message.

"Ms. Xiaoshan, did you sleep? A friend of mine is a little distressed recently. Would you like to give me some advice?"

Jin Xiaoshan's message came back almost instantly: "I haven't slept yet, tell me, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Ming was silent for a while, and continued to reply: "It's not me, it's a friend, so what, he seems to be being pursued by someone of the same sex, I don't know what to do."

After sending the message, Zhou Ming threw the phone far away as if his hands were scalded. He felt guilty that he was too thick-skinned and a bit self-righteous. Ji Yunqing probably didn't mean that at all, so he immediately went to touch the phone to withdraw it, butSaw the video request from Jin Xiaoshan.

Bite the bullet and connected to the video, Jin Xiaoshan's expression instantly made Zhou Ming feel a little regretful.

It was exactly the same as the expression of Mr. Jin when he took out the cheat sheet from the student's pocket when he invigilated the exam. He was full of energy and high spirits.

"Zhou Ming!" Jin Xiaoshan grinned excitedly, "Is there a man chasing you?"