I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 195. Missing My Brother
"I arrived a little before 1 a.m., don't rush me!" After visiting all the relatives on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Qingfan was on the phone with Xia Xiaoxiao in the car on his way home.

"Tch~ I don't care what time you arrive, it's my little brother who told me he missed you!" Xia Xiaoxiao said on the other end of the phone.

He laughed out loud: "You even understand cat language, huh!"

"Meow~" Xia Xiaoxiao turned on the speakerphone and held the phone to her little brother's ear. A pitiful meow instantly came from the microphone.

"Did you hear that?"

"Don't tell me you're abusing your little brother, bro! Can you hear me? I've packed you some prawns!"

"Hmph~ Only you would be so shameless!"

"Oh right, I'm not talking to you anymore. We've arrived at Huali College. It sounds like someone's calling." Xu Qingfan glanced at one of the four prestigious colleges in Licheng outside the window and said to Xia Xiao.

"Oh!" The girl hung up the phone and mentally calculated the distance from Huali to Lianhua Courtyard. She would be home before two o'clock, and if she didn't take a nap, they could go out and play together!

Since starting junior high school, Xia Xiaoxiao hadn't had the experience of going out alone with Xu Qingfan for a long time. Being proud and aloof, she naturally wouldn't say what she was thinking, but today was obviously a good opportunity!
Xia Xiaoxiao put the cat down from her arms, put on her slippers, and ran back to her room.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she struck various poses that she thought were cute, and finally even raised her right fist to her ear, imitating the signature move of a catgirl in anime. Unfortunately, there was no audience at all for this contrastingly adorable scene.

After changing into her beautiful clothes, Xia Xiaoxiao took out a lip gloss lipstick, a birthday gift that Xu Qingfan had given her this year, from her makeup cabinet.

"Pop~" After applying a light coat of makeup in front of the mirror, the girl gently pursed her lips.

Xia Xiaoxiao put her hands behind her head and tied her loose hair up. Looking at her youthful and invincible self in the mirror, she smiled happily.

After taking off the hair tie from her wrist and tying her hair up, she carefully put the lipstick back in its place.

The lipstick shade suited her very well, and Xia Xiaoxiao liked it a lot, but since other girls had the same shade, she wasn't very satisfied with that.

Last year, Xu Qingfan gave each of the five girls a lipstick as a birthday gift. His original words were to celebrate their first lipstick after growing up, but in reality, it was just that Xu Qingfan, being lazy, was too lazy to pick out a gift.

A teenage girl looks her best simply by washing her face with water, so Xia Xiaoxiao had plenty of time to prepare everything she needed to do before going out.

She tilted her head and thought for a moment, then opened another drawer of the dressing table and took out her diary.

After turning the password to '9260', the locked diary was opened with a gentle flip.

Xia Xiaoxiao flipped to the most recent page, where it read:

January 27, 2009, Tuesday, cloudy.

I'm so bored being home alone on the second day of the Lunar New Year. The square in Guagreen is so lively during the holiday. I'm craving the food my dog ​​makes.
Xia Xiaoxiao picked up her pen, glanced at the bright sunshine outside the window, and began to write:

January 28, 2009, Wednesday, sunny.

My stinky pig's almost home, we're going out to play later! (＾v＾)
After recording her day, Xia Xiaoxiao's mood was as bright and sunny as the weather outside the window.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll definitely have time. Even if I don't have time to visit my aunt for the New Year, I'll make time!" Xu Qingfan grinned as he chatted with Zhang Chunxue on the other end of the phone.

"You don't need to stay with Wan Ning and Xiao Xiao anymore!"

Xu Qingfan kept spouting witty remarks: "Hey~ A bunch of little girls are nothing compared to you, Auntie. Your place in my heart is unparalleled. The boundless leaves fall rustling down, the endless Yangtze River rolls on. Cough cough~ The weather is so nice today, Auntie, is the weather nice where you are!"

Meeting his mother's murderous glare, Xu Qingfan immediately changed the subject. "Hehehe~ Auntie is in Hong Kong, isn't the sky above us the same one you live under?"

"Haha, oh yes, oh yes, Auntie, there's a company in Pengcheng that makes drones. I saw on the forum that they seem to be short of money lately. I was thinking, could these things be used for food delivery?" Xu Qingfan changed the subject and said.

Are drones reliable?

“It’s definitely unreliable at this stage, but I think it’s the future trend. Auntie, didn’t you teach me to diversify my investments? You can’t put all your eggs in one basket!” Xu Qingfan thought to himself, “That’s the famous DJI, how could it be unreliable?”

Their current investments are mainly in three areas: one is real businesses such as Haowei Duck Neck and Haowei Milk Tea, which are also their core businesses; another is shops purchased with loans and mortgages, which can be considered real estate investments; and the last is Haowei Takeaway, an internet company that has just started.

Zhang Chunxue was sitting in a wicker chair in the villa's courtyard. The sunlight filtered through the trees was just the right temperature. She smiled and shook her head: "You're lecturing me now. Send the information to my email later, and I'll take a look."

"Email is too troublesome, Auntie, I'll just send it to your QQ. The file is transferred offline, you can open it and see it. Auntie, and that touchscreen phone I mentioned before, Samsung said at their recent press conference that it will be launched this June."

This can be seen as a generation gap between those born in the 70s and those born in the 90s. Xu Qingfan and his friends are more used to using QQ than email.

"Okay, okay, Mom will talk for a little while longer, and then you can tell your brother," Zhang Chunxue said to her daughter in a slightly coquettish tone.

Zhang Yiyi sat quietly beside her, recalling a line from the movie "Infernal Affairs 3": "Three years after three years!"
[Mom, you're lying!]
I talked with Zhang Chunxue for another ten minutes about the company's next business plan. There was only one traffic light left before I got home.

Zhang Yiyi took the phone from her mother and said enthusiastically, "Brother, Happy New Year!"

Happy New Year, Yi Yi! Did you miss me?

"miss you!"

"I miss you all too. Let's go out and have fun together when Wan Ning gets home."

"it is good!"

"You've received so many red envelopes this year! You'll have to treat me to something to eat when you go out."

"please!"

Xu Qingfan smiled helplessly, because when he chatted with Zhang Yiyi, he was always the one doing all the talking, and the girl would simply reply with a single word.

He said, "Is there anything you want to say to me, Yi Yi?"

Zhang Yi held the phone with both hands, pressing the earpiece tightly against her ear canal due to a habit she developed as a child.

She looked at the tall sycamore tree in front of the courtyard gate, blinked, and then blinked again.

Just when Xu Qingfan thought she wouldn't speak, Zhang Yiyi's voice suddenly came through the microphone.

"I miss you!" A second later, she added, "I miss my brother!"

The two sentences, totaling no more than ten words, seemed to have exhausted all of the girl's strength. She slumped in the wicker chair, holding her breath and waiting for a reply from the other end of the phone.

Xu Qingfan smiled, a very happy smile, and said, "I missed you too, I missed Yiyi!"

"Mmm!" The girl's mood was like a fountain, overflowing with colorful water droplets under the sunlight.

(End of this chapter)