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  Ke Xin was alone, with only a hundred yuan in her hand to get back home. Her body was covered in wounds, and there were threads of blood at the corner of her mouth. The right side of her face had several streaks of blood from being scraped, and her hair was disheveled as she leaned against the train window, seemingly staring blankly into the distance with a look of utter despair.

  On the train, there were only a few occasional passengers, each of whom sat on the train with an expressionless face. Some flipped through newspapers and some organized their luggage.

  Ke Xin's gaze shifted slightly, looking out the window at the scenery, gently wiping away the bloodstains from the corner of her mouth. However, she discovered that the blood had already coagulated. Her eyes welled up with tears again, and she wiped them away forcefully, so as not to worry Ya Hui when she got home. As she lowered her head to wipe away the bloodstains, she took out Su Zhi Rui's phone, opened the blue screen, and dialed Ya Hui's number.

  Ringing...

  "Hello......" Yahu didn't know that Ke Xin and Su Rui Qi had exchanged phones, so she took the phone with some confusion.

  "It's me..." Ke Xin replied weakly and listlessly.

  "Whose phone is this?" Yahu immediately worried and said: "Is something wrong? That aunt, did she hit you again? Where are you now?"

  "It's nothing." Ke Xin immediately smiled and said: "I'm on the train now, getting ready to come back."

  Yahui let out a deep breath and pondered for a while before asking in a low voice, "Does Auntie still hit you?"

  Ke Xin continued smiling and said: "No."

  Yahui was a bit skeptical of her words, but still said "Then hurry back, in previous years when you went, you didn't even eat breakfast, carrying such heavy things and running so far, when you came back, you couldn't even gnaw on bread, and just slept. This year you actually agreed to let Xiaorou come play today, aren't you asking for trouble?"

  Ke Xin held her phone, smiling as she watched the train start slowly, before saying: "Xiao Rou is my first friend at the Asian Hotel and she also cares about me a lot. She came over today to comfort me too, I know that. How could I refuse her kindness? Moreover, in previous years, on this day, it was always you accompanying me, I know your heart isn't feeling good either. This year, why not let one more person accompany you?"

  Yahui's eyes were red as she said: "Dead girl, compared to you, what am I? Whatever you want to do, just do it. She'll probably arrive at three o'clock, hurry back and get ready. Tonight... we'll have something delicious to eat."

  "Hmm." Ke Xin hung up the phone, turned her head, and gazed out at the endless mountains and forests outside the train window, which were about to disappear from her sight. Her eyes were filled with worry and uncertainty, knowing that she still had a long, long way to go on the journey of life.

  A bit windy.

  The magnolia trees on the small street swayed back and forth, blocking out the sun above, only allowing a few scattered rays to pass through. A few elderly people sat under the shade of the trees, playing mahjong on an old table. The owner of the noodle shop, as usual, squatted at the entrance, holding a large scallion and dipping it in sauce to eat. Cicadas perched on the trees, chirping loudly, growing lazier with each call.

  Time seems a bit boring at this moment.

  A green No. 7 bus slowly came from the front and stopped under a hundred-year-old banyan tree in front of a small park.

  Xiao Rou was wearing jeans overalls, with a high ponytail and cute bangs, carrying a large red, white, and blue plastic bag. She got off the bus in a daze, holding an address and looking around, finally spotting the baozi shop that Ke Xin had mentioned. Their home was on the second floor of the baozi shop. With a pleased smile, she immediately dragged the over 10-pound longan fruit, walking quickly towards the small attic across the street.

  Ke Xin and Ya Hui had just bought some food and drinks back, Ya Hui was washing vegetables while looking at Ke Xin who came back with injuries all over her body again. She let out a deep sigh, turned on the faucet, and rinsed the vegetables before saying: "Sometimes I really don't know what to say to you, when others hit you, can't you just block it with your hands? And now your face is all bruised...such a good face..."

  "Ah, never mind. It's all in the past." Ke Xin held a spatula and put scallions and coriander into the boiling oil, frying fragrant onion oil. As she stirred the scallion threads in the hot oil, she asked: "By the way, when did Xiaoyu say she would come over?"

  "She should be arriving soon, right? I asked if we should go pick her up, but she said no need, saying she can find it herself. Man Hong also mentioned to me that she's not good at anything except for being stubborn, so she's still okay with finding directions." Ya Hui couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  Tang Ke Xin listened and burst out laughing too.

  Just then, the doorbell rang.

  "It's probably here. I'll go open the door." Yahu quickly put down her work, walked out of the kitchen, through the living room, and opened the door. Indeed, she saw Xiaorou standing at the door with a thick blue-and-white striped bag by her feet, grinning foolishly and calling out: "Hello, Manager Liu."

  Liu Yahui leaned against the door frame, with a superior attitude, glanced at her first, then smiled and said: "You've come over, why bother bringing things?"

  Xiao Rou immediately smiled and said, "This is our family's own longan fruit. My mom and I said that Ke Xin has saved me several times and even gave me a raise. She was so happy that she immediately picked all the sweetest longans from our tree and sent them to Ke Xin to eat."

  "Then give it to Ke Xin to eat?" Liu Yahui couldn't help but tease her, smiling and asking.

  Xiao Rou immediately looked at Liu Yahui tensely and said: "Also give it to Manager Liu to eat. You live together, so you must be eating together too."

  "Tsk!" Yahui glared at her for a moment before smiling and stepping aside to say: "Come on in. You must be tired."

  "No hardship, no gain." Xiao Rou immediately dragged a large bag in, smiling.

  "Xiao Rou? You're here! I'm really sorry, I couldn't come pick you up." Ke Xin walked out of the kitchen with a big smile on her face, her hands still covered in flour as she was preparing to fry fish later.

  "No, your house is easy to find, I'm the best at recognizing roads." Little Rong said with a smile when she saw Ke Xin.

  Tang Ke Xin lowered her head, looking at Xiao Rou who was dragging a big bag of longans, and couldn't help but laugh: "Oh my god, so many longans!" Che Huo bit his lip.

  "Yes. My mom, my sister and I picked them together. They're big and sweet. Try one!" Xiaorou said as she enthusiastically bent down, opened the blue and white bag, grabbed a handful of longans, peeled one and handed it to Ke Xin saying "Here, have one."

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  Ke Xin also ate the longan without hesitation, and suddenly felt that the fruit was sweet and juicy. She immediately lit up her eyes, looked at Xiao Rou with surprise and smiled: "It's really sweet!"

  "Sweet?" Little Rong smiled with her eyes narrowed and said: "I knew you loved to eat. Pick some to put in the fridge, pick some to give to the neighbors, later take a basket and pick out the small ones, I'll dry them into longan dried fruit for you. From now on, when you have nothing to do, read books, watch TV, you can eat them."

  "Good" made Ke Xin smile immediately.

  Ya Hui looked at the two people, like a pair of sisters, born to the same mother, both smiling foolishly. She couldn't help but laugh and said: "Alright, look at you making Le Cheng like this. Xiao Rou, you rest for a while first, we'll take some longans down and give them to the elderly uncles and aunts on the street, they usually take care of us two girls."

  "I'll go with you," said Xiao Rou immediately with enthusiasm.

  "No need. You rest for a while, it's hot in the summer. I and Kexin will go down." Yahuai finished speaking, took out a small basket, picked up a few pounds of longan, and walked downstairs with Kexin.

  "Take a good rest, just like you're in your own home. If you get bored, turn on the TV and watch something. I'll come up later." Ke Xin said with big shining eyes and a small smile before she was about to walk out.

  "Uh-huh, uh-huh. I know." Xiaorou also smiled without any politeness.

  "Alright." Yahu stood by the door and said to Xiaoyu, "If you're thirsty, there's Coke and Sprite in the fridge. If you have time, open a bottle of red wine from the fridge, let it breathe, we'll be back soon, and we can start drinking before long."

  "Oh" Xiao Rou immediately laughed and responded, watching Ya Hui and Ke Xin carrying longans walking out. She said very unceremoniously: "Don't come back so soon, I can just treat this as my own home. Don't worry, no need to worry about me."

  She finished speaking and saw that Ke Xin had already closed the door. She smiled as she looked around the small pink apartment, and couldn't help but exclaim: "The manager is still the manager, living in this small apartment, although it's a bit small, it's so beautiful and dreamy, and there's air conditioning, it's so cool! Unlike our house, where they raise pigs downstairs." She let out a helpless sigh, then stood up, looked around the living room for a while, opened the curtains, ran into the bedroom, and saw that the manager and Ke Xin were in separate rooms. In front of the computer desk, there were many books on display. She exclaimed again: "So many books! No wonder Ke Xin and Manager Liu are not stupid at all."

  She walked out of the room again, feeling a bit thirsty, so she went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of Sprite, pulled open the ring and directly drank it against her mouth, then she remembered that the manager had instructed herself to say, to open a bottle of red wine in the refrigerator, so she hummed and looked left and right in the refrigerator, but didn't see any red wine?

  She looked around the kitchen in surprise, didn't see it, and ran out of the living room to search everywhere. Finally, she saw a bottle of red wine placed in front of a glass cabinet in the living room. Her eyes lit up, and she laughed, saying: "So you were here!"

  Xiao Rou didn't say a word, and ran over. She had wanted to push open the glass cabinet, but who knew the door was locked? She hummed, furrowed her brow, and looked around for the key. Her hand casually opened a small drawer, and she saw a small key inside. She let out a "wa" sound, laughed, and said: "So you were here."

  She giggled and took out the key, trying to insert it into the keyhole of the glass cabinet. With a soft turn, the small lock opened with a "click". Her eyes lit up as she reached in and pulled out the bottle of red wine. Only then did she discover that inside was a small temperature-controlled box used for storing at lower temperatures. Xiao Rou was truly impressed, holding the bottle of red wine and laughing loudly: "Ke Xin is really amazing! Even the glass cabinet has a temperature control device. So professional! This red wine..."

  She narrowed her eyes and looked at the year on the red wine, muttering: "17... 17..."

  Really can't see clearly anymore.

  She laughed and held the bottle of red wine, saying in disbelief: "No way? How could Ke Xin possibly have 17-year-old red wine? Maybe the number is worn off, I can't see it clearly. Hurry up and open it!"

  Xiao Rou didn't say a word, put the red wine on the coffee table, and rushed into the kitchen to find the bottle opener. She sat down on the sofa, hugged the bottle of red wine, turned the knife around, placed her thumb on the bottle cap, and cut it open with force!