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Ye Fan sat in the passenger seat.
Zhou Lin was driving.
"Thanks for what you did back there."
How could Ye Fan not know that Zhou Lin was helping him out of a jam?
Zhou Lin had one hand on the steering wheel and the other resting on the car window, looking very adept. "Thanking me? There's no sincerity in that. Don't just pay me lip service."
"Then what do you want to eat?"
Ye Fan knew that Zhou Lin was quite the foodie.
She could eat a lot, but she was the type who never gained weight.
Zhou Lin had been staying at the Farm Stay for a while now, and sometimes Ye Fan would invite her to eat with him.
Zhou Lin was quite satisfied with Ye Fan's cooking skills.
"I heard you have a type of wild vegetable here called fiddlehead fern, right?"
Ye Fan gave a faint smile. "You want to eat fiddleheads? Alright, I'll go up the mountain tomorrow and pick some. Stir-fried fiddleheads with pork is my specialty."
"By the way, Zhou Lin, where were you the night before last? I was going to ask you out for a late-night snack. I knocked on your door, but you weren't there."
Hearing this, a hint of panic flashed across Zhou Lin's face, but she quickly composed herself.
"The night before last? Oh, I went into the city and didn't get back until after midnight."
Ye Fan found it strange.
He had clearly seen the Land Rover parked by the road at the Farm Stay that night.
Did she walk to the city?
Impossible.
It was a dozen or so kilometers away. Not too far, but definitely not a distance anyone would be foolish enough to walk.
So she was lying?
But why would she lie?
Ye Fan had always felt that Zhou Lin was mysterious. Sometimes she would leave early in the morning and return late at night, and other times she would go out late in the evening.
She almost always headed for the Back Mountain.
Ye Fan guessed she was probably looking for something on the Back Mountain. Otherwise, why go there every day?
But what on earth was she looking for?
Zhou Lin was obviously lying, but Ye Fan didn't expose her. A little over ten minutes later, the Land Rover drove into the County City.
Zhou Lin specifically dropped Ye Fan off at the entrance of No. 1 High School.
Ye Fan said goodbye to her.
"Ge, what are you doing here?"
Dressed in her school uniform, Ye Xiaoxiao came jogging out of the school. She had come out during the break between classes and only had ten minutes.
Ye Fan patted her head. "Someone must not miss her big brother. It's been weeks since you came home to visit, so I had no choice but to come to you."
Ye Xiaoxiao stuck her tongue out playfully. "Ge, it's just that the College Entrance Examination is coming up, and my studies are intense. After it's over, I'll stay home and keep you company every day."
Ye Fan pinched her cute, upturned nose. "Studying or not doesn't matter. Your health is the most important thing. Don't ruin your body for the sake of your studies."
Ye Xiaoxiao stared at Ye Fan in astonishment.
He was never like this before.
Before, he was always talking about studying, telling her that if she couldn't endure the hardship of studying now, she would have to endure even more hardships in life later.
For the sake of her studies, a little hardship and exhaustion now was nothing.
But now, he was actually saying things like 'studying or not doesn't matter'?
Ye Xiaoxiao placed one hand on her own forehead and the other on Ye Fan's.
No fever.
Why was he talking nonsense if he didn't have a fever?
"You don't have much time, class is about to start again. Take this money and hurry back to your classroom."
Ye Fan pulled a wad of cash from his pocket.
This was all the cash he had, a thousand yuan in total. He gave seven hundred to Ye Xiaoxiao.
The remaining three hundred would be enough to buy some fish and shrimp fry.
"Ge, if you give me all this, you'll have so little left for yourself."
"Three hundred is enough for me, I don't need this much."
Ye Fan patted her head. "Your brother has money. There's plenty more in my bank card. It's enough. You take this. Buy whatever you want, eat whatever you want."
In reality, there was no money in his card at all.
"It doesn't matter if you get into university or not. All your brother wants is for you to be happy and healthy."
Ye Fan was speaking from the heart.
If you were to ask who Ye Fan cared about most in this world, it would undoubtedly be his sister, Ye Xiaoxiao.
As a poor person with no background and no resources, the College Entrance Examination was the only opportunity to compete fairly with those from privileged backgrounds and cross class boundaries to get ahead in life.
Therefore, the old Ye Fan had naturally hoped that Ye Xiaoxiao would pass with flying colors and get into a good university, so that her future wouldn't be as miserable as his.
But things were different now.
He had stepped onto the path of cultivation, and in the future, he would bring Ye Xiaoxiao along with him.
Whether she studied or not truly didn't matter anymore.
"Ge, are you sure you're not sick?" Ye Xiaoxiao still couldn't quite believe her ears.
How could her brother say something like that?
"I'm not sick."
"Class is about to start, go on in!"
Ye Xiaoxiao nodded. "Alright, Ge. Since I'm not around, you have to take good care of yourself. I'm going to class now."
As she left, Ye Xiaoxiao shoved a handful of the money back into Ye Fan's hand and then turned and ran.
Ye Fan looked at the five hundred yuan in his hand, his heart filled with a mix of emotions.
"That little girl only left two hundred for herself..."
"It won't be long before your brother can give you a life free from worry."
Half an hour later, Ye Fan appeared at the aquatic products market.
He bought three hundred grass carp fry, three hundred common carp fry, and three hundred crucian carp fry.
The fry weren't expensive.
A single grass carp fry was only thirty cents.
And that was because Ye Fan was buying a small quantity; if he bought more, the price would be even lower.
The price was so low mainly because the fry he bought were extremely small.
The crucian carp fry were slightly more expensive.
Because he was buying golden crucian carp, the price was fifty cents each.
Adding in the common carp, the total came to just over five hundred yuan.
Ye Fan found a deserted corner, and with a single thought, he moved all the fish fry into his Portable Space.
Afterward, he returned to the aquatic products market.
The fish fry were taken care of.
Now he had to buy some shrimp and crab fry to take back.
Shrimp and crabs were where the real money was!
Better quality hairy crabs could sell for several hundred yuan per jin. For example, Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crabs could range in price from over a hundred to several thousand yuan.
The bigger the size, the more expensive they were.
Unfortunately, after walking a large loop around the market, he found that while there were plenty of vendors selling shrimp and crabs, he didn't see anyone selling their fry.
He asked a stall owner and learned that none of the vendors in the market sold shrimp or crab fry.
Because the little things died easily, any ordinary vendor who dealt in them would lose money.
However, the man also told Ye Fan that a nearby aquatic products company would have them for sale.
It was about a ten-minute walk away.
He took a shortcut and walked over.
"Yo, big sis, dressed so sexy, which nightclub do you work at? Tell your young master here, and I'll come support your business every day."
As Ye Fan was passing a small alley, he heard a commotion from within.
He turned his head to look.
He saw three young punks cornering a sexy woman against a wall.
The woman had large, wavy hair and was wearing colorful, exquisite makeup. She looked to be in her thirties, possibly even forty.
She was wearing a short, one-piece dress.
The dress was rather tight, not only making her already full "headlights" appear even more ample, but also accentuating her perky rear.
The hem of the dress didn't even reach her knees.
Below that, she wore the black stockings of every man's dreams.
A mature woman!
A mature, sexy woman.
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