Xiang Huan couldn't stay in the hotel any longer, so he quickly turned around and went out, leaving only Xiao Wu to accompany Cheng Ye.
Back under the tree at the door, Xiang Huan contacted Xu Jiayi and asked her how her day was.
Xu Jiayi was still in a low mood and said she would take leave today to clean up at home.
I broke out in a stinking sweat, and my mood improved a lot.
Xiang Huan curled up his lips as he listened. It was good news that his only friend was in a better mood.
But it was not enough to dispel the gloom in her heart, and she still stood on the edge of the cliff.
While chatting, Xiang Huan glanced at the door of the hotel.
After she and Xu Jiayi chatted for almost half an hour, they saw Cheng Ye and Xiao Wu walking out of the hotel.
Xiang Huan hung up the phone and walked towards them.
When Xiao Wu saw Xiang Huan coming over, his eyes were not very good, and he asked Chengye if he wanted to take a taxi directly back to the hotel.
Chengye said he wanted to take a walk to digest, and turned to ask Xiang Huan if he should go back with him or go back first.
"Then let's go for a walk. I have something to tell you." When Xiang Huan said that, he glanced at Xiao Wu.
She hoped that Xiao Wu would understand what she meant and not follow him.
Xiao Wu reluctantly left alone. Before leaving, he reminded Cheng Ye not to go to places he shouldn't have gone.
Narino nodded.
The two walked in the opposite direction to Xiao Wu, walking very slowly.
After passing an intersection, Xiang Huan asked Cheng Ye if he wanted to open a coffee shop in the town after what happened in the hotel.
"Why not?" Narino must have adjusted his mood and answered in a calm tone.
Xiang Huan was choked.
"Don't think too much. After all this time, it's still what I said to you before... That fire has nothing to do with you."
Xiang Huan's eyes suddenly turned red.
"Don't cry, I don't want to see Xiang Huan crying."
Xiang Huan tried his best to hold back his tears and raised his face to look at the sky.
The sky, which was originally filled with bright sunshine in the afternoon, was filled with dark clouds at some point.
Narino turned to look at her trying to hold back tears and laughed softly.
"You're laughing your ass off." Xiang Huan heard this and cursed weakly.
But after scolding him, he started laughing along with him.
The two of them almost thought at the same time that this curse was the first sentence Xiang Huan learned to say.
It was the young man named Xiao Ye who taught her this.
Not long after walking further, it started to rain lightly, and people on the road took shelter from the rain.
Chengye also pulled Xiang Huan into a small shop selling spicy hotpot on the roadside.
There were not many customers in the store, but the boss greeted them warmly even though he knew they came in to take shelter from the rain.
Although he had just finished his meal, Xiang Huan still ordered a spicy hotpot and two bottles of iced Coke.
Narino watched her scan the QR code to pay, and said that he really wanted to do this, especially in the first few years after joining.
"Don't keep mentioning what went in and out. I'm afraid of hearing this." Xiang Huan sat down and his expression began to worsen again.
Malatang is served quickly.
Both of them smelled the familiar but long-lost smell, which was a delicious treat for them when they were teenagers.
But Xiang Huan only took a small bite and then stopped, looking at Chengye opposite who was eating with gusto.
The shop owner and a regular customer were chatting nearby. Xiang Huan listened distractedly for a while, and his face quickly darkened.
She heard someone talking about the fire ten years ago, and the store owner said that he went to listen to the subsequent court hearing.
This sentence made Xiang Huan tremble.
She also went to the court hearing and sat down to hear the judge's final verdict.
"Let's go, don't eat, it's not raining outside." Xiang Huan stood up and urged Cheng Ye, who was still eating, to leave quickly.
Chengye looked up at her and was sucking a vermicelli wrapped in red spicy soup into his mouth.
Xiang Huan suddenly became angry and left Cheng Ye alone and walked out of the store.
The boss and regular customers didn't know what was going on. They looked at Xiang Huan and Cheng Ye, thinking they were a couple having an argument.
They all smiled kindly and continued chatting about them.
Cheng Ye was still not in a hurry and took two more bites before getting up, wiping his mouth and walking out.
Before leaving, I said hello and goodbye to the boss.
After he left for a while, the boss, who was cooking vegetables in the back kitchen, suddenly thought of something.
The boss thought that the handsome young man with short hair just now looked familiar, but he couldn't remember when he had seen him before.
The light rain in the town actually didn’t stop.
Xiang Huan walked forward quite a bit before Chengye trotted up from behind and put his arm around Xiang Huan's shoulders.
"I won't go back to the hotel tonight." Chengye said in Xiang Huan's ear.
Xiang Huan didn't look at her, and stared at the road under his feet dully, without asking why or where he was going.
Chengye had no choice but to force her to stop, stood on the opposite side, pinched Xiang Huan's chin and asked her to raise her head.
His tone was a little irritable, "Are you done yet?"
Xiang Huan turned around and tried to get rid of him, but was unable to match Cheng Ye's strength. In the end, he was semi-forced into a taxi.
Chengye told the driver where he wanted to go. Xiang Huan only knew where he was going and immediately said no.
The driver looked back with an embarrassed smile.
"Listen to me, let's go." After Chengye told the driver, he turned to Xiang Huan and asked her to call Xu Jiandong and say that they were going there.
Xiang Huan did not comply, saying that Xu Jiandong must have gone to work in the tower when he returned and could not be contacted.
"Then I'll figure it out myself." Narino said, picking up his phone and flipping through his address book.
After a while, he actually made a call. On the other end of the phone was someone who also worked in a forest farm.
Xiang Huan was listening and couldn't figure out what Chengye wanted to do at the forest farm.
He said he wasn't going back to the hotel tonight, so he didn't want to take him to the mountains to stay overnight. There were no resort hotels or B&Bs there.
The taxi could only drive as far as the foot of the mountain, and the two of them got out of the car.
From here onwards, apart from riding a motorcycle, you can only walk.
Xiang Huan had been here before and knew that there was still a long way to go, so he told Chengye that there was no place to live here and it was still a long way just by walking.
"What on earth do you want to do?" After Xiang Huan asked, he was ready to contact Xu Jiandong.
Narino looked at the mountain road and large woods in front of him and said it was okay. Someone would come to pick them up later.
Just wait.
The rain really stopped now, and the mountain air smelled of earth.
Xiang Huan asked him who he was looking for and when he met the people from the forest farm.
"A leader of the forest farm is friends with Cheng Tianyu." Cheng Ye didn't say much, but stood aside and looked down at his phone.
After waiting for less than ten minutes, two motorcycles parked in front of them.
The first rider came down to talk to Narino and soon led them to continue walking up the mountain.
When Xiang Huangang and Xu Jiandong got married, they also rode a motorcycle up the mountain. Xu Jiandong was the one carrying her.
She wanted to contact Xu Jiandong, but there was no way she could do it while sitting on a motorcycle, so she had to wait until she stopped.
I thought I would be sent to an office somewhere in the forest farm, but when I finally parked the car, I looked up and saw Xu Jiandong's bungalow staff dormitory.
He actually came directly to the door.
