I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 94. Low-level underhanded tactics
"Put away the cards and get ready to wash your hands and eat!" Mom's voice came from the kitchen.

"Hurry up, hurry up, we can play one last round. My mom said we need to prepare for at least 20 minutes!" Xu Qingfan said, dealing the cards and calling out to the group.

The kids wouldn't dare to be willful at someone else's house. Xia Xiaoxiao snatched the cards from Xu Qingfan's hand, tidied up the cards on the table, and said to the others, "We'll listen to Auntie, we'll play after we finish eating, and ignore Xu Qingfan!"

"Hehe, listen to Xiaoxiao!"

“Ningning, listen to Xiaoxiao too. Teacher Guan said that children who don’t listen to their parents are bad children. Brother Qingfan, you’re not allowed to be a bad child!” Lin Wanning put her hands on her hips, pointed at Xu Qingfan, and earnestly lectured him.

"Pfft~ Didn't Teacher Guan say that parents aren't always right? We kids should have our own opinions." Xu Qingfan chuckled and pinched Lin Wanning's cheek.

Lin Wanning thought about it and felt it made sense, then tilted her head in confusion: "So should we listen to Mom and Dad or should we have our own opinions?"

"Wanning, don't listen to his nonsense. Teacher Guan said that we should listen to our parents in life and have our own opinions in our studies. Let's ignore him!" Xiao Ruanwen pulled Lin Wanning away from Xu Qingfan, muttering to herself.

Lin Wanning opened his mouth wide and nodded, looking as if he had just realized something. "Brother Qingfan, you're trying to fool me again!"

“Xu Qingfan is the worst. When I was in kindergarten, he lied to me and said that the dog downstairs was sick and that I needed to give him two yuan to go to the hospital to buy medicine!” Victim No. 1, Xia Xiaoxiao, came out to recount her experience of being deceived.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's not fair! Tell me, didn't Da Huang and the others get back together later?" Xu Qingfan felt his face burning as he was confronted with his shortcomings and faced the scrutinizing gazes of the little ones.

"That's because you poured out the water from their bowls! And you lied to me, saying you had a strange illness, when you were just thirsty!"

"Hahahaha!" Several people inside the room burst into laughter.

This happened just a few days after he was reborn. He was broke and wanted to mess with Xia Xiaoxiao, to make her feel bad for how she had bullied him in his previous life!

However, after trying it a few times, he got bored. Playing mind games with a five-year-old girl, Xu Qingfan said he could just rob her. Sure enough, he tricked the little girl into spending all her money on snacks.

"The snow lotus was also shared with them, and you got some too. I saw you were enjoying it quite a bit!" Xu Qingfan was too embarrassed to look Xia Xiaoxiao in the eye and subconsciously turned his head away.

"Snow lotus is only 50 cents a pack, but you want two dollars from me!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, I never thought Brother Fan was this kind of person!" Xiao Ruanwen chimed in from the side.

"Brother Qingfan, if you need money next time, you can ask Ningning for a duck. Don't lie to Xiaoxiao again!" Lin Wanning picked up her schoolbag from the stool, took out her pink wallet, handed it to him, and said seriously.

"Pfft~" Xu Aiguo, who had just come out to serve the dishes, felt both sad and envious when he saw the scene in front of him.

Then he saw an even more unbelievable scene: Zhang Yiyi turned around, took out her wallet from her schoolbag, and handed it to her son, saying, "Yiyi, here you go too!"

Xu Qingfan caught a glimpse of his father standing at the kitchen door. "What do you mean by giving money? We're all good friends. Your money is my money, and my money is your money!"

"What are you doing talking about money, you little kid? Go wash your hands and get your food in the kitchen!" Xu Aiguo muttered enviously and unhappily.

[This isn't Xu Zhimo at all, it's clearly Duan Zhengchun, but unfortunately, one more is missing.]
The TV series "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils," in which the actress played Wang Yuyan, is currently airing and is very popular. Xu Aiguo thought of the scumbag Duan Zhengchun in the series and had this thought in his mind.

"Okay, Uncle!"

Just as Xu Qingfan had expected, when he entered the kitchen, Yao Jinping was cooking the second dish. She had probably just finished cooking the first one, so she called them to eat.

"Drink the soup first, it's corn and pork rib stew. Wash your hands and sit outside, it's very hot, Grandma will bring it out for you," Lai Manyao said, pointing to the bowls of soup that had been prepared on the stove.

"Yes, thank you, Grandma!"

"Auntie, what kind of duck are you cooking? It smells so good!" Lin Wanning stood on tiptoe to look, but the pot was covered with a lid.

"The braised duck with winter melon and perilla will be ready soon. Please sit outside first."

"Let's eat duck!"

"Yes, let's eat duck!"

"Ahem. Let's go out first, so as not to disturb my mom and the others while they're cooking!" Xu Qingfan quickly pushed Lin Wanning away.

If she were to ask any further and find out that the duck in the pot was the same one she had just called her brother, Xiao Wanning would probably be shedding sad tears.

During meals, the five children sat at one table, while the five adults sat at another.

"Brother Fan, where should we go this afternoon?" Xiao Ruanwen asked Xu Qingfan while shoveling food into her mouth. "This afternoon I'll take you to pick lychees, longans, and wampee, and also pick sugarcane. You two didn't even know the riddle we had for Children's Day last time!" Xu Qingfan reached out and tapped Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi on the head.

"Is sugarcane delicious? What is yellow peel?" Lin Wanning asked, looking up in confusion after finishing the baby bok choy in his bowl.

“I know what yellow skin is, it’s yellow and sour!” Xiao Ruanwen raised her hand to speak after swallowing the food in her mouth.

"Yellowish? Sour?"

"Correct!"

"Isn't that a lemon?!"

"No, no, it's not that big. The yellow-skinned fruit is only the size of a longan!" Xu Qingfan said.

"Okay, then Brother Qingfan will pick some for us to eat later!" Lin Wanning smiled sweetly and nodded obediently.

"Fanfan, do you recognize which trees belong to us? Don't pick the wrong ones." Grandma had been listening to the children's conversation and asked.

“Grandma, I remember. Go up the Chuxi River, go in the second path, and count from the sixth lychee tree onwards, they all belong to our family!” Xu Qingfan said, reciting the names as if they were his own.

"Hehehe~ Fanfan has such a good memory, no wonder he always gets full marks on his exams, unlike your mother, who was scolded by someone for picking the wrong lychee when she was little!"

Yao Jinping:
"Mom, just eat your food, why are you bringing up my childhood memories!"

"Hehehe~ Hehehe, everyone's here?" Just as Lai Manyao was about to speak, a voice from outside the door interrupted the conversation inside.

Yao Jiankun appeared at the door at some point, carrying a white plastic bag, acting like a relative who comes to give gifts during a holiday.

"What are you doing here! You're not welcome here!!" Yao Shulun frowned in displeasure, but because Xiao Fan's classmates were present, he refrained from using foul language.

"Tsk tsk tsk~ Shulun, I'm not trying to be mean, but we've known each other for so many years, why are you so angry? I'm giving up on the election this afternoon, you can be the village chief, no one will have a problem with that!" Jianren Kun gave Yao Shulun a thumbs up.

"What are you doing here!" Yao Shulun looked at the scoundrel Kun suspiciously, wondering if he had any truth in his words.

"Isn't this just to congratulate you on being elected village chief in advance? Here's some roast chicken from Yao's, still hot!" He chuckled as he placed the plastic bag on Xu Qingfan's table and patted Xu Qingfan's head in a very familiar manner.

"Keep your hands away from my grandson. Forget about the roast chicken, he's not cut out for it. You'd better watch yourself!" Grandpa slammed his hand on the table and stood up.

"Alright, alright, I'm leaving, I'm leaving now. Take your time eating, you all take your time eating!" After leaving the roast chicken behind, the scoundrel Kun jogged away.

"How inexplicable!" Yao Jinping muttered.

[Eat, eat, eat until you die, and see how you run for village chief with me at noon!] After running a distance, Yao Jiankun turned back and spat on the ground, cursing inwardly.

Xu Qingfan casually threw the lunchbox on the ground and said to everyone, "Grandpa, just throw this roast chicken away. We don't even know if he poisoned it. How could he be so kind as to give us roast chicken!"

"Okay, I'll listen to Xiaofan!"

None of the four children knew who the person had just been, and they were all filled with surprise and doubt. They all looked at Xu Qingfan.

"Never mind that person, let's continue eating, and then we'll go pick some fruit!"

"Great!!!"

As Xu Qingfan predicted, the roast chicken had been spiked with a strong laxative by that scoundrel Kun, with the aim of preventing Yao Shulun from attending the afternoon's election and thus forfeiting her chance to compete against him.

Unfortunately, he had no idea that Xu Qingfan and the others would throw away the roast chicken he bought. After all, people who came from that era would not waste food, especially a fragrant roast chicken!
Who could resist the temptation of a roast chicken?

Thank you Lin Zhongshu for the 100 book coins.

Thank you to Feng Diao Jiang Xue for the 100 Qidian coins.

Thank you to user 20634186513 for the 200 Qidian coins.

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