I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 172. Parents Visit the Set

I slept in until I naturally woke up on Friday as usual.

Around noon, amidst the impatient barking of the dog downstairs, the six people gradually woke up from their beds.

The truth or dare game continued until after 2 a.m., and Lin Wanning, who was drowsy, had to be carried upstairs by Xu Qingfan before he fell asleep.

Empty snack wrappers left over from last night's meal, crushed beverage cans, and dishes left unwashed after the late-night snack were scattered haphazardly in the living room.

Xu Qingfan put one hand on his hip, took out his "tool" to urinate, [It's a bit yellowish, looks like I've been staying up late and getting a sore throat.]
"Xu Qingfan, are you done yet? I'm in a hurry!" He was still relieving himself when Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly knocked on the bathroom door.

He shuddered in fright, and after stammering through his words, he said irritably, "Isn't there another bathroom upstairs? Wait a minute!"

After shaking off the last drop, Xu Qingfan flushed the toilet, washed his hands, and opened the door.

Xia Xiaoxiao seemed to be telling the truth. When he opened the door to go out, the girl was already squatting on the ground in a panic. After Xu Qingfan opened the door, she rushed in and closed the door again.

Immediately, a smooth sound like "a silver bottle breaking and water gushing out" came from the toilet. Xu Qingfan covered his mouth and chuckled, "You don't even lock the toilet door when you go in? Don't you know any shame!"

"Xu Qingfan, you pervert!" The sound of the silver bottle shattering immediately disappeared, replaced by Xia Xiaoxiao's sharp roar.

The girl thought Xu Qingfan had already left, which is why she dared to vent so recklessly. Little did she know that this person was actually hiding behind the door eavesdropping!

"Haha~ I'm leaving, you continue!" Xu Qingfan laughed and whistled as he left.

"You pervert!" Xia Xiaoxiao muttered under her breath, her face flushed.

Wu Lingyu had come downstairs in the living room sometime earlier and was tidying up. Seeing Xu Qingfan come out, the girl smiled sweetly and said, "Good morning, Brother Fan."

Only then did she realize it was almost one o'clock, and Wu Lingyu's words caught in her throat.

"Are you hungry? I won't be cooking lunch at home." Xu Qingfan had just come out of the bathroom with a smile on his face, and his smile widened when he saw Wu Lingyu's embarrassed expression.

"Not hungry yet," Wu Lingyu said, sticking out her tongue.

"Even if I'm not hungry, I still need to eat. I'll go across the street and buy some McDonald's." Xu Qingfan said to himself, taking the banknotes from the living room drawer and leaving.

"Brother Qingfan, please have some strawberry jam!" Lin Wanning said to Xu Qingfan, holding up her toothbrush covered in strawberry-flavored toothpaste.

"Brother, good morning!"

Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi were sitting in a row on the blue brick steps in the courtyard, brushing their teeth. It seemed that Xiao Ruanwen had taken over the bathroom on the second floor, so the two girls had to come to the washbasin in the courtyard to brush their teeth.

Xu Qingfan stepped forward, extended his index finger to wipe the toothpaste foam from the corner of Lin Wanning's mouth, turned his head and tapped it on the girl's nose, saying, "I'm going to buy McDonald's. Do you want a spicy chicken burger or a grilled chicken burger?"

"Brother Qingfan, I want to go with you! I want a strawberry ice cream cone!" Lin Wanning's eyes lit up the moment he heard they were going to McDonald's, and he brushed his teeth faster, speaking indistinctly.

"Strawberry ice cream cone, right? You better brush your teeth properly, I'll go buy you one," Xu Qingfan said, patting Lin Wanning's head.

"It's strawberry flavored!"

"Okay, okay." He ignored Xiaobai's pleading eyes, waved his hand, and left.

McDonald's cone originally came in four flavors: mocha, strawberry, green apple, and grape. Jam was evenly spread on the cone by rotating it along the ice cream's texture. It was priced two yuan more than the regular version, and by 08, it was already selling for five yuan a cone.

However, compared to a cone, Xu Qingfan still prefers McDonald's McFlurry. He never gets tired of either the strawberry or original flavor. It's a pity that this thing only started to be available when he was in junior high or high school.

Xu Qingfan suddenly had a flash of inspiration: [Could the newly opened milk tea shop replicate this hit product?]
He kept this idea in mind, thinking, "I should take advantage of this week's holiday to talk to Aunt Zhang about it."

McDonald's was just across the street from their residential area, and Xu Qingfan pushed open the door and went inside in less than two minutes.

Since it wasn't a holiday, there weren't many people eating at McDonald's at midday, so he didn't have to wait in line and quickly finished ordering.

How do you prove someone is rich and powerful? By buying a single item at McDonald's!

After reluctantly paying two hundred yuan, Xu Qingfan suddenly missed the days in his previous life when he could use coupons on Taobao to eat hamburgers and fries.

Sometimes when there's a big sale, a small fries can add a spicy chicken burger for only 11.5 yuan.

With both hands full of disposable bags, he returned home to find the five women tidying up the living room. Upon seeing Xu Qingfan return, they all stopped what they were doing.

"Ice cream!" Lin Wanning saw the ice cream cone that was about to melt and drip onto Xu Qingfan's fingers, so he quickly ran over and stuck out his tongue to lick the melted part clean.

"Ouch~ Why are you licking my hand?" Xu Qingfan gave her a reproachful look, put down the McDonald's and said to everyone, "Eat lunch first, then continue working."

"I'm coming!"

Xia Xiaoxiao was clearly still upset about Xu Qingfan eavesdropping on her while she was in the bathroom. After sitting down, she secretly nudged him with her elbow.

"This is so great, going to school like this!" Xiao Ruanwen said happily after taking a big bite of her spicy chicken burger.

"Tomorrow is the start of the holiday, Brother Fan, are we going back to school this afternoon?" Wu Lingyu was still a little guilty about skipping two days of class. She put down the taro pie in her hand and looked at Xu Qingfan.

"We still need to go back this afternoon, it's the school sports meet after all, and the teachers will definitely assign homework for the weekend, unless you don't want to hand it in," Xu Qingfan replied without much thought.

"The junior high school sports meet was boring. All the class committee members signed up on their own without even notifying us!" Xiao Ruanwen complained, pouting.

"That's right, Brother Qingfan will definitely win a place in the sprint, he didn't even give us the registration forms!" Lin Wanning chimed in.

"A bunch of people who only know how to talk nonsense." Xia Xiaoxiao said disdainfully, recalling the lewd jokes that had been circulating in the class about them.

Although Zhang Yiyi and Wu Lingyu did not speak, they both nodded in agreement.

The girls were clearly unhappy with their new social circle in junior high, but that was to be expected, since their neat hairstyles stood out so much among a group of girls with thick bangs and bowl cuts.

The only topic I can still talk about with my classmates is probably QQ Speed. However, the various annual membership icons they have on QQ are considered by my classmates to be showing off, so there's really nothing to talk about.

However, studying at Licheng Middle School isn't entirely without its advantages. At least they can live together like they do now. If they were in an unfamiliar place, parents wouldn't feel comfortable letting their children stay at school.

As the group sat in the living room eating McDonald's and watching TV, they suddenly heard the sound of a door opening in the yard, followed by the "tap-tap" of high heels.

The six of them were horrified. They looked at the McDonald's spread all over the table, and then at the pajamas they were still wearing. They were doomed!
Even though they moved here, the adults from several families still come to visit them from time to time. Now they're going to get caught red-handed skipping school to eat junk food!
All six of them looked toward the entrance in horror, their hearts leaping into their throats.

"Xiao Fan, Mommy's here to see you!"

When they saw that it was Zhang Chunxue who had pushed the door open, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Mom!" Zhang Yiyi put down her hamburger and rushed towards Zhang Chunxue with joy.

"Auntie!" Several people stood up as well.

"Do you miss Mommy?" Zhang Chunxue pressed her head against her daughter's forehead and rubbed it affectionately.

"Yes!" Zhang Yiyi said sweetly, taking out slippers from the shoe cabinet and putting them on Zhang Chunxue.

"Huh? Why are you having McDonald's for lunch? Xiao Fan, aren't you the cook? You didn't promise me this!" Zhang Chunxue said reproachfully after seeing that they were eating McDonald's.

“Just this once,” Xu Qingfan pleaded, holding up a finger. “The school sports meet is on Thursday and Friday, so we don’t have to go to class. We stayed home and played. We ate McDonald’s because we got up too late this morning.”

Xu Qingfan spoke the truth to Zhang Chunxue.

"Really, just this once! Yesterday, Brother Qingfan even cooked claypot rice for us!" Seeing this, Lin Wanning also ran up and took Zhang Chunxue's other arm.

"And lotus root and pork rib soup!" Xiao Ruanwen added, raising her hand.

"Mom, just once!"

"Alright, alright, stop trying to fool me. I brought you two braised goose heads. Xiao Fan, didn't you say you liked them last time?" Zhang Chunxue smiled and handed the packaging box to Xu Qingfan.

Upon hearing that it was a lion-head goose, Xu Qingfan swallowed hard. He happily reached out and took it, saying, "Thank you, Auntie!"

"Thank you, aunt!"

"thanks Mom!"

The five girls also chimed in upon seeing this.

When Xu Qingfan opened it, he found that the goose head this time was much bigger than the one he had last time. He asked curiously, "Auntie, why does the goose head seem bigger than the one last time?"

Zhang Chunxue had introduced him to a lot of things, and he had eaten lion's head goose head a few times before.

“We used to feed them 36 months old, but this one has been raised for more than five years.”

"No wonder it's so big." Xu Qingfan picked up a goose head and held it to Zhang Chunxue's mouth. "Auntie, you eat first."

"I've already eaten, you guys eat." Zhang Chunxue smiled and shook her head in refusal. Seeing that Xu Qingfan was still holding up his hand and the five girls were staring at her without touching their chopsticks, Zhang Chunxue had no choice but to lower her head and take a bite of the fleshy growth under the goose's comb. "Alright, Auntie has already eaten."

"Hee hee~"

McDonald's suddenly lost its appeal, and the girls, all smiles, put on gloves and devoured the lion and goose heads in front of them.

The best part of the lion goose head is the fleshy growth under the head. There are only a dozen grams of this neck meat on a single goose head, and a single bite of it is more expensive than the equivalent of gold.

The meat is both bouncy and firm, somewhat like meat jelly, and leaves a lingering fragrance in your mouth.

However, in terms of being worth the price of gold, it's actually not worth it. If Xu Qingfan still had the standard of living from his previous life, he certainly wouldn't have spent money to buy it.

Normal domestic geese typically live for no more than a year, and even breeding geese rarely live past three years. This is why they are so rare and valuable. As for a five-year-old Lion Goose, one of them could probably be exchanged for a kidney, and it's the kind that's priceless.

After lunch, they showed Zhang Chunxue around the house, showing her the traces of daily life inside.

The kitchen was clean and tidy, the toilet was clean and odorless, the bucket for dirty clothes was clean, and there were no unwashed or un-dried clothes in the washing machine.

The balcony and bedroom were equally impeccable. Wu Lingyu even helped fold the blankets that Xu Qingfan hadn't made after waking up.

"Meow~" Zhang Chunxue picked up her little brother again and smelled him. He smelled nice and didn't have any bad smell. "Not bad, it seems you two are living a pretty good life."

"Of course! We have someone clean the house every day!" Lin Wanning boasted, hands on his hips.

"That's good. I was originally thinking of finding you a housekeeper, but since you're all so capable, we can save the money on a housekeeper." Zhang Chunxue smiled and patted Lin Wanning's head.

"Let's skip the housekeeping nanny; it'll be a hassle if she loses something. We usually just leave our money downstairs; anyone who needs it can just take it from there," Xu Qingfan shook his head, rejecting Zhang Chunxue's suggestion.

"You, you've been spending all your energy taking care of them, and you only got sixth place in the midterm exams." Zhang Chunxue affectionately pinched Xu Qingfan's little face, but it was a pity that it didn't feel as chubby as it did when he was a child. "It felt better when he was little."

"No, it's just that the junior high questions were too easy, that's why Brother Qingfan didn't get first place!" Lin Wanning said, speaking up for Xu Qingfan.

"Alright, you'll all be going to school soon, right? Auntie has to go back to work, so I can't chat with you anymore." Zhang Chunxue patted each of their heads, feeling much better after coming here.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that all six of them like Zhang Chunxue very much. The fact that neither side puts pressure on the other makes their interactions very comfortable.

Besides, if you feel very comfortable getting along with someone, it can only mean that that person's emotional intelligence is a level higher than yours.

After watching Zhang Chunxue leave from the doorway, the six of them exchanged smiles.

"Luckily it was Aunt Zhang, otherwise I would have been subjected to another public criticism session," Xiao Ruanwen said with a smile, patting her chest.

"Is there a goose head left that we haven't eaten? I'll take it!" Xu Qingfan suddenly ran back and said.

"I want to eat too!"

"That one's mine!"

"Brother Qingfan, can I have a bite?"

The six of them chased each other back to the living room, and the last goose head tasted even better in the ensuing scramble.

At 2 p.m., they changed back into their Licheng Middle School uniforms and returned to school.

There was no one in the class, so they went downstairs again to the sports field.

The final 4x100 relay race was in full swing. When they arrived at Class 7-6's base camp, the students in the class didn't react much, and everyone was still busy with their own things.

After the relay race, the total scores of each class were quickly tallied. Because the athletes from their class were selected because they had good relationships with the class committee, Class 76's final score was unsurprisingly the lowest among the sixteen classes in the grade.

The classmates didn't react much to this; the cohesion they had in Class 16 back then is hard to find again.

The school sports meet came to a successful close with the principal's thank-you speech, and the six of them also came to a successful close for their two-day special holiday.

(End of this chapter)