In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 265 Seeing the truth, still loving beauty

Diane's little plan was immediately shattered.

Because the forest road in the back mountain, which seems so quiet that it has a horror movie effect, passes through the empty dormitory area and is brightly lit as soon as it turns a corner!

Still under construction!

Dai Anni was not alert at first when hearing the roar of the excavator and pile driver, and Zi Xiaowei even breathed a sigh of relief and rode faster.

It's already past 8 o'clock in the evening, and there's still construction noise. Isn't it affecting the rest of the residents on the other side? The Lantern Festival hasn't even arrived yet. What should we do if they complain?

Unexpectedly, as soon as we reached the shore along the construction road, we saw the large spray-painted picture of the riverside wetland park that Maizi had asked someone to make.

I saw a lot of people here!
And most of them are on the other side, filled with various barbecue grills and barbecue tables!

Across the seven or eight meter wide stream, the banks are covered with baby's breath from one end to the other, creating a scene that looks like a carnival or a farm stay.

Two machines were working slowly on the river. A large group of children were either squatting on the shore where construction lighting headlights were hung to watch the machines, or playing on the grass on the shore.

On this side of the bank, there were seven or eight tables for people to boil tea around the stove, all of which were full of people. At this moment, they all turned around to look over.

There is a table in the middle. Aren’t those Chang Yueling, Gao Tingting and Maizi?
He smiled and raised his glass to this side.

Who told Dai Anni to sit face to face on Zi Xiaowei's waist? She happened to have her back to this side and didn't notice. When she turned around and saw these enemies, the tricycle had already gone downhill.

He was so angry that he kept shouting: "Go back, go back, go back quickly!"

Those who have construction vehicles coming in and out on a daily basis know that the ground is slippery with mud. The reverse gear of this small three-wheeled vehicle cannot be used to reverse, and it is even afraid to turn around for fear of overturning.

I could only obediently go down to the bottom of the slope. Zhizhi had already come over happily to help me park the car: "What fun!"

It seems that she really likes this job.

It is fun. After more than a month of construction, the construction area has been pushed to a place one or two hundred meters upstream. The water here is clear and the rocks are clean. There are large areas of cleaned and decorated land on both sides.

The rocky beaches and lawn green belts that have been slightly trimmed according to the garden planning have a distinct landscape flavor.

Before the winter vacation, it was said that it was already a good place for many students to review their studies and prepare for exams.

Is this Spring Festival upgraded again?

Zi Xiaowei had always liked this kind of environment of brewing tea, chatting and reading around the fire, so there was no way he could be persuaded to go back, so he jumped out of the car and hurried over.

He just greeted Huang Yongjian and the others at the table first: "Back to school? Starting work? Are there any inconveniences in your life?"

Everyone stood up and greeted him with a smile: "Haha, everyone said Wei Ge would come over tonight. He couldn't sleep if he didn't check out the construction progress here. Tomorrow we want to go to the clothing park. Xiaopeng said it's more beautiful."

Huang Yongjian has already opened the blueprints and tablet computer and started explaining the current progress.

Zi Xiaowei sat down comfortably on the chair by the fire, took the teacup, and the fruit tea smelled so good.

Diane stomped her feet in anger and went over: "Did he make an appointment with you guys!?"

Gao Tingting held the teacup in her hand and said happily, "No, everyone likes to come here to drink tea and chat. Look, the air here is so good, it's like a big oxygen bar. It's beautiful for taking photos and taking walks during the day."

Chang Yueling was the one dancing with joy. "It's still a little chilly, but sitting by the fire, smelling the aroma of roasted oranges and dried fruits, doesn't it make me feel like a scholar? Xiaowei is such a romantic person, can't you be more refined?"

Maizi didn't say anything, but jumped up to help put the chairs and other things in place.

Dai Anni looked at the several tables filled with employees from the media company and calmed down. She sat down and thanked Maizi, but then she leaned over to the table and whispered, "He has a vixen outside. Of course I have to keep an eye on her. Humph, I'll wait and see when she gets caught."

The vixen almost froze before she even sat down.

Especially when Diane spoke with powerful grabbing movements, she immediately felt the risk of being an undercover agent with swords and sabers.

Gao Tingting immediately started laughing.

Chang Yueling loved this kind of gossip the most, and she immediately leaned in and gestured, "I think there must be one too. Pay attention to the collar of his shirt underneath. Sometimes it's messy, probably because he just slapped it on in the dormitory. Sometimes it's obviously clean and tidy, so he must have washed and dried it outside, and maybe even ironed it."

Diane's surprised little O-shaped mouth and her rosy and plump lips reflected in the firelight gave her an indescribable vitality and beauty.

But the truly energetic one was now feigning quietness, stealing glances at the vixen, as if to say, "I've always seen you acting so eccentric, so dashing, so handsome, and so androgynous, but you're actually so virtuous." Maizi tried not to say anything, so as not to expose herself.

Diane was indeed not very elegant. After sitting for a while, she looked around and said, "What are you talking about? You can't get old enough!"

Chang Yueling couldn't help but say, "A man should have a career, especially in a place with so many people. Why is he always hanging around women? Do you think eating around women is nice?"

She grew up in an environment dominated by men, so her temperament must be different.

And he was used to being bossy: "You don't even realize this, no wonder he doesn't want to marry you."

Diane wasn't a bad-tempered person. She was calculating, but she was very protective of her own interests. "Whether you marry me or not is none of your business."

Chang Yueling said generously: "Hehe, some things require your own efforts, you can't do it by pretending."

She might have meant to say that you were being pretentious, but her northern accent with a slight rolled tongue added a touch of sarcasm.

Diane, who had just done it twice at noon, immediately felt implicated and pretended to quarrel.

Gao Tingting, who had been cracking melon seeds, quickly interrupted, "Okay, okay, there are so many people watching, and some are taking pictures with their phones... How come they have a barbecue, and we can only roast some peanuts and fruits?"

Maizi continued, "They definitely don't allow businesses on campus, let alone barbecues that create a smoky mess. But across the way, families can have their own business and no one's in charge. We designed the platform, so the construction team keeps pretending to do it. They park the excavator in the middle of the water and then go to the other side to barbecue."

Zi Xiaowei also learned about it after listening to everyone's explanation, and even took the excavator "ferry" to the other side to observe carefully.

Very satisfied: "Yes, it is this kind of robatayaki table. It is more original than the iron mesh rotatable table and easier to keep clean..."

College students have much broader knowledge, and the main force is still Maizi and his group of art students. Eastern Guangdong also likes hot pot.

So cement circles are made on both sides, placed flat on the riverbank and filled with sand and gravel. A pile of charcoal is burned in the middle, and food can be pierced around it with iron skewers, bamboo strips, and wooden sticks and grilled diagonally over the fire.

There is no need for cleaning and tidying up with things like barbed wire, which makes it particularly suitable for such charity events, where anyone can bring some food to play.

Just turn over the sand, gravel and carbon slag afterwards.

When the construction just started, the Security Department also reminded the public welfare construction party that the stream is the boundary here, and not to build a bridge to connect the two sides, which would add loopholes to campus management.

In the past, I didn't want to dredge this stream that was full of silt and overgrown with weeds, and I also didn't want to bother with its management.

Now that it's beautiful, people are coming and going, and there's no wall, so anyone can enter the campus from the back. Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?

But Zi Xiaowei only thinks about how to make people around him enjoy a better life, whether inside or outside the school.

He also instructed: "For every few barbecue pits, build a cement washing station, one that looks antique and looks like a stone sink. Find the residential complex or sanitation system above to connect the water pipe. We'll just pay the water fee. It's all donated to the construction anyway. Who else around here should benefit from it?"

The friends all took notes and said, "Would you like some chicken wings, Wei Ge? And some fish? I'll grill them later and you can bring some to Ting Baobao and the others to thank them for their live stream."

Indeed, all the accounts were recorded under the name of Tingbao Media. The workers also took advantage of the evening break to set up two tables here to barbecue and drink to relieve fatigue. More residents from the surrounding communities came to the shore to gather and play.

In the past, it was overgrown with weeds and full of mosquitoes, so no one wanted to come here.

Now the Agricultural College has developed some mosquito repellent formulas and is spraying them all over the environment. Everyone says that once this area is completed in the summer, it will definitely be a great place to cool off in the summer.

But some people say that there are already some smart residents who want to occupy this place and start a barbecue stall business.

The college students are still a little angry. We worked hard to build this for public welfare, not for anyone to make money from it.

Zi Xiaowei even taught everyone how to handle this normal conflict of interest: "Didn't the higher-ups build a wetland park? I think it should be managed by the sanitation department. You should send someone to contact the relevant departments about water supply, and hand it over to them after it's completed."

Some people with good sense speculated: "Wouldn't the sanitation department be better off with less trouble? Just having more places to clean would be a lot more troublesome."

Zi Xiaowei chuckled, "If this public welfare donor wanted to maintain a good cross-strait environmental order, and only provided, say, 120,000 yuan in public welfare environmental protection funds each year, would you accept it?"

Everyone suddenly realized that such a small thing could teach them a lot of social experience.

Teacher Zi simply explained, "Perhaps the relevant departments will ignore the insufficient amount of 120,000 yuan. What about 240,000 yuan? Adding a little bit more will always impress the people. But will greedy people appear again when we go to work, trying to get some kickbacks or benefits? From school to society, we will inevitably go through this process of ignorance and then become cunning. Should we think that these courtesy exchanges are natural and right, that this is how society works, so we should also do the same? Or should we stick to the bottom line in our hearts and always understand what we are doing?"

The college students who were sitting around the fire making tea felt that they had learned something.

(End of this chapter)