I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 258. Nothing has changed.
In Xu Qingfan's home, the work of patching the pot in the toilet is nearing completion.

He helped secure the sink, while a technician used a caulking gun to seal it.

Xu Qingfan watched as the craftsman replenished glue from a small red plastic bucket, and it seemed incredibly unreliable to him.

"Won't it get moldy in the humid season?" he asked.

"Young man, you can rest assured. This glue formula was passed down from my grandfather. You can stick it for a hundred years and it won't come unglued!" The renovation worker felt his professionalism was being questioned and gave Xu Qingfan a dissatisfied look.

"Fine, fine, you can continue." He pursed his lips speechlessly and continued to hold the sink firmly in place.

Anyway, you can run away but you can't hide. If it really comes apart, then we'll write a long essay to fight it!

"Alright, if you have any problems within two years, you can come to me and I'll fix them for you," the renovation worker said, picking up the bucket after the adhesive had completely hardened.

"Wasn't it supposed to be a hundred years? How come it's become two years now?"

"Who knows if I'll still be doing this in two years?" His master gave him a look as if he were an idiot.

Xu Qingfan:
He went back and forth twice to throw the original sink downstairs and then cleaned the dusty floor.

Looking at his newly renovated home, Xu Qingfan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He took a can of Coke from the refrigerator, opened it, and sprawled out on the sofa in a relaxed, reclining pose.

He habitually opened QQ to check messages, but no one spoke in the group. It seemed like the five girls had made a pact to ignore him today.

"Hiccup~ What are these people doing?" After scanning the group messages for a while, he got up and went back to his bedroom.

Today is June 9th, and the World Cup group stage starts on the 11th. If Xu Qingfan wants to create momentum, he needs to do some pre-event hype.

Sina Weibo has been around for a while now, and Xu Qingfan, as one of the earliest users, and whose surfing pseudonym "Gangcheng First Deep Affection" already had considerable influence on the internet, now has a following of several hundred thousand.

After opening the Sina Weibo webpage, Xu Qingfan opened a blank page to search for the World Cup group stage draw.

He remembered the wins and losses of all the matches after the quarterfinals, but he really had no recollection of the group stage matches. Relying on his memories from his previous life and his deductions and analyses, Xu Qingfan wrote down match analyses in the editing bar.

Soon, he concocted a post titled "Come and debate if you disagree, the universe's number one football expert makes a powerful prediction!"

Xu Qingfan didn't remember the specific wins, losses, and scores of each match in the group stage, but he had a general idea of ​​which countries advanced.

Group A: Uruguay and Mexico; Group B: Argentina and South Korea; and finally, Group H: Spain and Chile.

After Xu Qingfan finished writing, he revised the typos and sentences, and then carefully recalled in his mind whether he had made any mistakes. After confirming that there were no errors, he clicked send.

[Grab the first comment! Guess the wrong comment and win a 10,000 RMB cash prize, no upper limit!!] After grabbing the first comment in his own comment section, Xu Qingfan shut down his computer. The rest of the story would depend on how the buzz spread.

"Then it's settled! We'll definitely give Brother Qingfan a big surprise on the 29th!" Lin Wanning said happily as she closed her notebook.

"Translate for Brother Fan, what does 'his favorite surprise' mean!" Seeing the gazes directed at her, Xiao Ruanwen quickly changed the wording.

"That stinky dog ​​got off easy. He's probably still sleeping at home right now." Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh when she thought about how Xu Qingfan looked so stupid after they showed off on his birthday.

"Brother Fan spoke in the group chat," Wu Lingyu reminded her as she checked her phone while using the restroom.

"what did he say?"

"What did Brother Xiaoyu Qingfan say?"

"What did my brother say?"

As they asked, the group checked their phones. Wu Lingyu replied, "He's asking where the person is."

The girls opened the group messages and sure enough, two simple messages saying "Where are you?" came into view.

"Hahahaha!" The five of them couldn't help but burst into laughter when they thought of Xu Qingfan's expression while typing.

"Should we go back to Brother Fan?" Wu Lingyu's typing hand had stopped on the screen, but she still looked up and asked the others.

"Why bother talking to him? Today is a secret gathering of the five of us, so let's ignore him." Xia Xiaoxiao stirred her milk tea with a straw in her right hand, a smile always on her face.

"Yes! Today is our joyous gathering of the five sisters, let's drink!"

"cheers!"

The five plastic cups clinked together overhead. Although they didn't make a crisp sound like glass cups, the five girls' silvery laughter made up for it.

The friendship among the five of them could be maintained perfectly well without that stinky man Xu Qingfan, but then again, every time they left Xu Qingfan behind to get together, it was to discuss that stinky dog.

The tradition of the five of them getting together to discuss the first love letter Xu Qingfan received has been going on for almost six years.

Whenever a girl in the school waits on Xu Qingfan's usual route to deliver a love letter, she will inevitably encounter one of the five girls first, who will then claim to be helping to pass it on and take it away.

It was almost noon, and the milk tea in the cups was already empty, so the gathering of the five people was coming to an end.

"Then let's meet here again on the morning of the 28th and get everything ready for my birthday the next day," Xiao Ruanwen added at the end.

"it is good!"

"see you then!"

"I can't wait for that day to come, haha!"

After paying, the five people left the milk tea shop. After a brief escape from the air-conditioned room, the sudden heat made their chests feel stuffy.

Fortunately, Zhang Chunxue's car was already parked at the door. After the five of them jogged into the car, they felt like fish that had been out of water returning to a stream, catching their breath.

After Zhang Chunxue and the others were seated, they restarted the vehicle. Not seeing Xu Qingfan, they asked curiously, "Why didn't Xiaofan come along?"

[No wonder you had time to call me; turns out you didn't have to spend time with a few girls.] She tapped her index finger on the steering wheel, and couldn't help but smile as she recalled the phone call from that morning.

"The 29th is Qingfan's birthday, and we're here today to discuss birthday plans." Lin Wanning and Zhang Chunxue were the most familiar with each other among the five, so she was the one to answer.

Zhang Chunxue was taken aback, and couldn't help but recall the scene when Xu Qingfan brought five girls to the company to celebrate her birthday.

She's almost forty, yet there are still eighteen candles on the cake, as if to say that aunties and sisters are forever eighteen.

Recalling Xu Qingfan's shrewd actions, Zhang Chunxue's eyes welled up with tears as she laughed. She shook her head and asked, "Oh, I see. What good ideas did you come up with? Can you tell Auntie beforehand?"

"Of course you can!"

The five girls immediately started sharing their plans, one after another, and they were quite confident in the birthday challenge they had set out that morning.

"I'll definitely move Brother Fan to tears!"

"I don't know if your brother Fan cried or not, but I almost cried from being moved. It's so good that Xiao Fan has you guys as his friends!" Zhang Chunxue said, her eyes narrowed to slits.

"That's because Brother Qingfan is super, super, super nice! Brother Qingfan always treats us like this!" Lin Wanning said proudly.

"My brother is so nice!"

"In Fan Ge's own words, he deserves it!" "Yeah!"

Although Wu Lingyu and Xia Xiaoxiao did not speak, they were both recalling what Xu Qingfan had done for them over the years.

[I'm willing to do anything for Brother Fan!] Wu Lingyu thought to herself.

Xia Xiaoxiao recalled the changes that happened in her family when she was in first grade. If it weren't for the sense of security that Xu Qingfan gave her, would she really have had the courage to support her mother's divorce?

[If it weren't for him, I probably would have been terrified.]
Zhang Chunxue was touched by the pure friendship among the six people. She smiled and said, "Hehe~ Xiao Fan isn't here. You should save these words for his birthday and tell him in person."

"Hee hee~"

The atmosphere in the car was very pleasant when Xu Qingfan was mentioned. The six people in the car, including Zhang Chunxue, always had endless topics to talk about him.

Unfortunately, the journey was short, and before we could finish chatting, the car arrived at the Lotus Compound.

"Goodbye Auntie, goodbye Wan Ning and Ruan Wen!"

"Goodbye everyone!"

"By the way, when are you going on your trip?" Zhang Chunxue suddenly asked as Xia Xiaoxiao was about to open the door and get out of the car.

"Is Mom coming too?" Zhang Yiyi looked at her mother with bright eyes.

"Mom still has to work. I'm just looking to see when you're going on your trip because I'll be away on a business trip during that time." Zhang Chunxue usually works in Gangcheng and only stays in Licheng when her daughter is on vacation, taking the time to spend with Yi Yi.

"Okay~ Brother hasn't said yet." Zhang Yiyi's face immediately fell.

"Auntie, I'll ask Qingfan for you later!"

"Okay, thank you, Wanning." Zhang Chunxue reached out and patted her daughter's head to comfort her.

After a brief incident, Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu got out of the car and walked home hand in hand.

Xu Qingfan was cooking in the kitchen when he heard a noise in the living room. He dried his hands and went out to check. When he saw the two of them return, he asked, "Where have you been? Why haven't you been here all morning? You didn't even help me buy groceries."

"Brother Fan!"

"Don't pry into our private conversations. Have you seen my mom?" Xia Xiaoxiao bent down, picked up her little brother who was rubbing against her legs, and stroked his head as she replied.

"My mom called me away because we were one short for the mahjong game." Xu Qingfan shrugged and went back to the kitchen to cook. Wu Lingyu quickly followed him in.

Xia Xiaoxiao watched Xu Qingfan's departing figure, a smug little expression appearing in the corner of her eye.

She raised her hand and smelled herself; although she was sweating, she didn't smell of sweat.

After confirming there was no sweat smell, she sneaked into Xu Qingfan's bedroom, turned on the air conditioner, and lazily lay down on the bed.

Xia Xiaoxiao stared blankly at the ceiling for a while, recalling the scenes that happened in this bedroom when the two of them were children.

There are videos of her spanking Xu Qingfan while pinning him down, and videos of her being spanked by a stinky dog ​​while pinned down.
Thinking back to how she later repeatedly crushed him in games like Warcraft III and Bubble Fighter, and then drew pig heads on his face and arms, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but giggle.

She was terrible at first too, okay? If she hadn't secretly looked up strategies and tips at night to train so she could beat him, how could she have become the gaming genius this stinky pig talks about?

When I was little, my idea was simple: I wanted to see that stinky pig's incredulous look after losing the game. For that reason, Xia Xiaoxiao was motivated to practice a map ten or a hundred times.

The girl's thoughts remained simple even after she grew up. Unfortunately, their lives had become much more complicated with games, and the stinky pig could no longer spend all day playing games with her like he did when they were kids.

Xia Xiaoxiao turned to look at the photo of the two of them from kindergarten on the computer desk, and suddenly felt nostalgic for her childhood.

I wish I could have another day like I did when I was a child.
"You mean you all went to the library to read books this morning?" In the kitchen, Wu Lingyu was being shyly pinned against the double-door refrigerator by Xu Qingfan, who asked the girl.

"Yes, that's right. Brother Fan, we really did go to read books." Wu Lingyu avoided eye contact with him.

"What does it smell like?" He suddenly sniffed.

"The vegetables are going to burn!" The girl hurriedly crouched down and crawled out to turn down the fire on the stove.

"It's alright, let my dad eat the slightly burnt one." Xu Qingfan habitually said that he would feed it to the dog downstairs, but then he remembered that Da Huang had been gone for a long time, so he changed his mind.

"Just tear off the burnt part." Wu Lingyu didn't want Uncle Xu to eat the burnt food, but she didn't dare to contradict Xu Qingfan, so she could only say this.

"Hmm, Xiaoyu, do you still remember when you were little?" Xu Qingfan nodded, washed the pot, and continued to add oil to stir-fry the second dish.

"What?" The girl blinked and looked up at him.

"That time when I tutored you and you helped me with my winter break homework." He recalled the first time he pinned Wu Lingyu against the wall. From a little girl to a young woman, her expression had never changed.

Wu Lingyu was slightly taken aback, clearly remembering the time Fan Ge pinned her against the wall, and those strange words, "Xiaoyu, you don't want to be at the bottom of the math Olympiad, do you?"

"I remember," she said, a blush rising on her face.

“I’ve noticed that you haven’t changed at all from childhood to adulthood,” Xu Qingfan said.

The two fell silent, with only the sizzling sound of oil in the pan echoing in the kitchen.

After a long while, Wu Lingyu finally spoke, "Brother Fan hasn't changed either."

"Huh~ really?"

"Yes!" Wu Lingyu nodded very seriously.

"pretty good."

"Ok!"

The two exchanged a smile and continued cooking in perfect harmony.

At 12:30 pm, the three adults returned home one after another, and Xu Qingfan and Wu Lingyu put the last dish on the table.

As soon as Yao Jinping returned, she went to the bathroom to use the toilet. She felt that something was off but she couldn't quite put her finger on it until she bent down to wash her hands and then she realized the reason.

"Hey kid, why did you change the sink in the toilet?"

[Here it comes!]
Xu Qingfan held his breath and said casually, "Oh~ you mean the toilet? My little brother accompanied me to the toilet this morning and jumped on the sink, almost hitting me. I've already taught him a lesson."

"Meow~" The little brother, who was eating with his head up, raised his cat head, his face showing an expression of shock at the cat for a hundred years.

"You still dare to blame it, little brother? Why don't you say it was a mosquito sitting on the bed!"

"You knew all this? Mom, you really have a keen eye! Hey, Mom, what are you doing? Let's talk this out, Mom! Auntie, help me!"

"Hahaha"

(End of this chapter)