I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 289. The Eve of My Birthday
Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, the World Cup was still in full swing, and his favorite theme song, Shalatchi's "Waka Waka," was playing on repeat in the streets and alleys.

Whenever Xu Qingfan hears the melody of the song's intro, he feels as if he has transformed into a wild man from an African tribe, wearing only a simple grass skirt, dancing around a campfire.

The final group stage match ended on the 26th, and unsurprisingly, the qualifying list matched Xu Qingfan's predictions on Weibo.

In fact, as early as the 24th, the results of many groups' qualification were already decided, and unsurprisingly, he became a hot topic again.

Xu Qingfan went from a small-time blogger with over 400,000 followers to a top-tier internet celebrity with tens of millions of fans in just over two weeks.

There's no way around it, buying things from Brother Shenqing really does make you rich!

Many people listened to Xu Qingfan's words, followed his predictions in the group stage, and made money that they couldn't earn in a year of hard work;

Some people hesitated and only bought two pieces, only to regret it later when the results came out.

These people unanimously posted their winning lottery tickets online and manually tagged "Hong Kong's First Affection," which added fuel to the already high level of interest. This summer of 2010 was destined to be a carnival for gambling addicts.

Xu Qingfan stopped browsing Weibo, edited his prediction for tomorrow's match between Bala Gui and Xiao Rizi on the 29th, and then stretched in his seat.

After idly reading a few more news articles from marketing accounts, he got up and decided to go for a walk.

Xu Qingfan took his wallet and keys and went out. The door to Xia Xiaoxiao's house next door was locked. He stretched and muttered to himself, "Where did Xia Xiaoxiao run off to this time?"

The girl had already left home before he got out of bed this morning, and it's almost four o'clock in the afternoon now, and she still hasn't returned.

Xu Qingfan took out his phone and dialed Xia Xiaoxiao's number. It wasn't that he was lonely; he was simply concerned about her!

"Hey, where have you been? Aren't you going home?" he said as soon as the call was answered.

"Don't call me, I'm busy. Cook my dinner tonight, that's all, bye!"

Sure enough, just as Xu Qingfan was about to say something more, the phone screen had already returned to the page for making a call.

"This Xia Xiaoxiao"

"This stupid dog, doesn't it remember that it's its birthday tomorrow?" Xia Xiaoxiao dried her hands on her apron and put her phone back in her pocket.

"But Brother Qingfan remembers everyone's birthday!" Lin Wanning placed the cut fruit on the work surface, waiting for the final step of decorating the cake.

"It seems like Fan Ge doesn't really like celebrating his own birthday, I don't know why." Xiao Ruanwen picked up a scrap of cake and put it in her mouth, saying this as she ate it secretly.

"Brother Fan said it's because the day I was born was also the day my aunt suffered, and he doesn't want to celebrate my birthday when he thinks about that," said Wu Lingyu, the young cook, as she stopped stirring the egg whites.

This was the casual, perfunctory answer Xu Qingfan gave when Wu Lingyu asked him once, and the girl believed it to be true, because that's just the kind of person Brother Fan is!

"Brother is so nice!" Zhang Yiyi clearly thought this was the reason and nodded in agreement.

"Wow~ After hearing what Brother Fan said, I feel a little guilty for having such a happy birthday before." Xiao Ruanwen said, taking advantage of the others not paying attention, she secretly ate another piece of cake.

"It's alright, that's why you should be even happier on your birthday. Mom will be happy to see us happy!" the adorable Lin Wanning comforted her warmly.

"Wan Ning is right!"

"That means Xu Qingfan's logic is flawed. Birthdays should be celebrated with joy!"

"Brother is wrong, Wan Ning is right!"

Yes! Hahaha

While the five girls were busy in the kitchen of the secret base, Xu Qingfan had already ridden his beloved motorcycle around.

There wasn't much rain around the Qingming Festival this year, and the lychee trees were growing very well. He drove to a lychee grove and saw that there were more red lychees than green ones, but there weren't many people picking lychees.

The lychee market is bad this year. The wholesale price has dropped to a few cents per kilogram, but there are still no merchants coming to buy them. He just bought a big bag of Guiwei lychees from the roadside, which only cost him less than three yuan.

The money from selling lychees isn't even enough to cover the cost of hiring workers to pick them, so many fruit farmers simply let the lychees rot on the trees.

The first thing that came to Xu Qingfan's mind was e-commerce fruit farmers, followed by the annoying "cut-a-knife" from his previous life.

If this project succeeds, it will help countless small and medium-sized fruit farmers open up sales channels, and it will also be a huge political achievement for local big bosses.

However, the 4G era hasn't arrived yet, so there's no need to rush. She thinks it's not too late to start the next step of the plan after Zhang Chunxue has completely captured the national food delivery market.

Xu Qingfan took out his phone and glanced at it. It was already 4:58 PM, and the date displayed below was June 28th.

He got back on the electric scooter; the seat was a bit too hot for his bottom after being in the sun for so long. "Going to buy groceries."

The five girls worked hard all afternoon and finally finished making the 10-inch super-sized cake.

Finally, after drawing their six headshots on top with jam, everything was done!
"Brother Qingfan will definitely like it!" Lin Wanning smiled with satisfaction, holding up the selfie stick to take a picture of the five of them together with the background of making the cake.

"If he dares not like it, we'll beat him up!" Xia Xiaoxiao clenched her little pink fist.

"Hehehe~ I think it's Little Xiao who got spanked by Brother Fan!"

"You stinky Ruan Wen~"

"Haha, don't tickle my armpits, they're itchy, hahaha!"

Zhang Yiyi and Lin Wanning exchanged a glance and nodded in tacit agreement.

"Ah~ Wanning and Yiyi, what happened to you? Xiaoyu, come help me!"

"Be careful not to drop the cake." Wu Lingyu ignored the four bored people, packed the cake in a box, and carefully put it back in the refrigerator.

"Why does it seem to have gotten bigger again?"

"Hey~ Little you, you little hooligan!"

Wu Lingyu smiled faintly, watched for a while, then rolled up her sleeves and began cleaning the kitchen.

The four girls quickly joined the cleaning team, blushing. Apart from getting themselves and the ground wet from the splashing water, it was quite a harmonious and friendly scene.

After cleaning the kitchen, the five of them went to take a bath in the bathroom bathtub.

Looking from left to right, it resembles a jumbled, disorganized cloze test answer sheet, BBCBD.

Do you think Fan Ge will be moved to tears tomorrow?

"Of course we will, we've put so much effort into it!"

"Brother is crying!"

"But it seems like I've never seen Brother Fan cry."

"If he dares not to cry, we'll beat him until he cries!"

"Hahaha"

(End of this chapter)