Ten diligent days: the fields are still

After listening to Qi Rong babble for a long time, Yuan Lai suddenly had an idea and covered Qi Rong's mouth directly. Then he felt that something was wrong and quickly put his hand down.

"It seems like you've been hostile to them since the first day you met them. Are you afraid they'll steal your artists' resources in the future?"

Otherwise, where does this hostility come from?

Qi Rong didn't expect Yuan Lai to come up with such a reasonable and logical reason. He was happy to accept it, so he didn't refute it. "Yes, they will enter the entertainment industry sooner or later. They will come out as a group of ten people, and my company has less than ten artists in total. As a senior executive of the company, I have to make plans."

Yuan Lai rubbed his hands, put the book on the bookshelf, and replied with only one word, "Oh."

Perhaps not knowing what to say, Qi Rong slowly retreated to the door, leaving behind one last sentence before going downstairs and leaving, "Wait a few days, I'll take you somewhere."

When Yuan Lai chased him downstairs, Qi Rong was nowhere to be seen. He really did appear and disappear every time.

Hearing the noise, Yuan Sheng came out of the game room wearing headphones and gave Yuan Lai a thumbs up.

Yuan Lai had no choice but to return to the house and study the book. The bookshelf was filled with various books. Yuan Lai's finger slid to the place where the book was just placed, and found that the book had turned into a pocket-sized book again.

She took it out carefully and restored it to its normal size according to the method Qi Rong taught her.

The book looked like any other, but when opened, it looked like it was carved into tree bark. On the title page were three large, very faint characters: "Zongheng Shu."

Yuan Lai was immediately captivated and spent the entire day studying in her room. She didn't pull herself away from the book until her parents came home, Yuan Sheng had finished cooking, and called her from downstairs.

"Lailai works too hard. Your mother and I went up there twice and you didn't even notice. Eat more fish, it's good for your eyes." Yuan Lai's father picked up a piece of fish and put it in Yuan Lai's bowl.

Yuan Sheng put down his chopsticks and said indignantly, "Dad, I worked so hard to cook so many dishes, why are you only picking food for me?"

"Stinky boy, I'll give it to you."

Yuan Lai's mother sipped her soup, looking left and right. She waited until Yuan Sheng swallowed before announcing their travel plans. "The National Day holiday is only a few days away. Old Yuan and I plan to take Lai Lai to stay with a distant cousin for a while. We'll also visit his farmhouse."

Yuan Sheng felt something was wrong the more he listened. He pointed at himself and asked, "Why didn't you take me with you?" Then he said what he had been thinking, "High school students are not worthy."

"That's good to know. When you get admitted to university, your mother and I will definitely take you on a trip during the holiday. For now, you should stay at home and study instead of just playing games."

The next day, Yuan Sheng stood at the door with the little husky, looking at the other three people leaving in the car with a sad look on his face. "Yuanbao, you are still the best. You are worthy of the fact that I fell in love with you at the pet store at first sight."

"Woof woof woof!" Yuanbao wagged his tail wildly.

Along the way, the once lush forests have turned yellow and withered, and the endless corn fields are in the harvest season.

Yuan Lai couldn't help but say, "This ditch is really straight, straighter than Li Gengyun's."

Yuan Lai's mother, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and asked, "Who is Li Gengyun? When did you become interested in wheat fields?"

"No one, I just watch variety shows."

"When you were little, you hated working in the fields. Back then, at your grandparents' house, you would cry even if you were asked to wrap corn husks."

Yuan Lai was shocked. "When did this happen? Why don't I remember it?"

"When you were twelve or thirteen in elementary school, asking you to go to the fields was harder than climbing to the sky. It's normal that you don't remember. Since you fell into a coma in March, your memory has obviously declined a lot. I wonder what side effects you will have after waking up from this coma."

Yuan Lai leaned back in her chair, feeling a little amused. She was unwilling to work in the fields, but was very active in watching farming variety shows. If her parents knew about this, they would probably scold her.

"Mom and Dad, why did you move from the north to the south?"

"Because we don't want to work in the fields. We have so little land that even machinery can't reach it. We rely entirely on manual labor. Not only is the income low, but it's also very tiring. So I persuaded my grandparents to lease out all the land, but they didn't want to. They said they are all farmers, and losing their land is like losing their roots."

"But things have gotten better in the past two years. The village now has assistance programs and resident consultants. It's much better than before. Forget it, why am I telling you all this? Get ready to get off the bus, we're here."

The car turned several corners and drove into an alley. The so-called distant cousin was already waiting at the door with her entire family.

Yuan Lai's parents opened the trunk and took out the gifts they brought.

"Hey, if you said you were coming, then just come. Why would you bring anything?"

The cousin patted the little girl's back with a smile on her face and said, "Call someone."

"Uncle, aunt, and aunt." The little girl was a little introverted, hiding behind her aunt with only her eyes showing.

"This is Xiaohan, she's four years old. Her father is busy working in the fields. Come in, come in."

"Sister, do you have any empty rooms in your house? We want to stay here until the end of the holiday." Yuan Lai's parents walked into the house carrying large and small bags.

"Then you should live on the west side. It's been uninhabited for a while, so it needs some cleaning."

Yuan Lai's phone was grabbed by someone, and when she turned around, she saw it was Xiao Han. She squatted down and began to praise her, "Xiao Han is so cute."

"Come." Xiao Han pulled her to the alley and found a tabby cat rolling in a pile of corn at the door.

"Xiao Han, do you want a kitten? Kittens have claws, and it hurts if they scratch you, so you can't do that. Let's just stand here and watch, okay?"

My cousin's family lives in the far suburbs, at the junction of the city and the countryside. There are quite a lot of vehicles coming and going. Yuan Lai holds Xiaohan tightly to prevent her from running around.

"It's the busy farming season now, so there aren't many people in the village and there are a lot of cars. Be careful when you go out!" My cousin brought out a watermelon and placed it on the round table in the middle of the yard. "Come and eat some watermelon. I just bought it this morning. It's so sweet."

Yuan Lai pulled Xiao Han into the yard, held Xiao Han and sat her on her lap. She took the smallest piece of watermelon, cut it into small pieces with a knife and fed it to Xiao Han.

"Oh, this kid really likes Lailai. Usually, this kid is silent at home. He is so timid."

"You are timid but obedient, so you don't have to worry about me." Yuan Lai's mother quietly took out two hundred yuan from her bag and stuffed it into Xiaohan's pocket.

"Oh, that's right." My cousin leaned over and looked outside again and again. "I wonder how the corn harvest is going. They haven't come back for dinner so late. Why don't I take it to them?"

Yuan Lai's father volunteered, "Sister, I'll go. I haven't met Xiaozhi yet. This kid is so ambitious. He got married right after graduating from college."

"That's fine." The cousin went into the house and packed some food into an insulated box. She then found a bag to pack it up and handed it to Yuan Lai's father.