To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 207 A Person Like a Daughter

After June, we moved towards summer vacation.

The exam season arrived quickly, and Gu Juncheng rarely came back. Lin Qingping was also busy with her exams. The busy days passed by exceptionally quickly, and with each exam completed, summer vacation began.

How to spend summer vacation?

The second sister doesn't plan to go back. You could say there's no one left in her hometown worth returning to. She plans to stay in the capital and see what odd jobs she can do, as a form of social practice.

Lin Qingping didn't really want to go back, but she was worried about Gu Juncheng. As a result, she overlooked one point: Gu Juncheng was a soldier who spent most of his time in the army and rarely came home.

So she pouted and decided to spend the summer vacation in the capital. She and he had never spent so much time together before...

Gu Juncheng agreed without hesitation.

In the end, only Gu Youlian left the capital with Xiaomai. Because the dessert shop was much quieter during the summer vacation, Gu Youlian could take a break, go home to visit her family, first to see Du Gen, and then go home to see her parents.

Lin Qingping then devoted herself wholeheartedly to the second dessert shop in Wu Tianjiao's shopping mall.

Gu Juncheng, along with Zhiyuan, took on various roles at home, including bricklayer, gardener, vegetable farmer, electrician, and so on.

The house Lin Qingping lives in now truly belongs to them. She wants to renovate the yard according to her plan. Originally, she could have hired workers to do this work, but Lin Qingping was always busy with school and couldn't take care of it. Now that Gu Juncheng is at home, what job can't he do? He'll take care of it all!

So, under Lin Qingping's direction, Gu Juncheng divided the yard into four main sections: a flower bed, a vegetable garden, a leisure area, and a barbecue area. It took him and Zhiyuan a whole month to work on the paperwork and bricklaying, and finally, after a month, they had created the basic structure.

Lin Qingping took some time to go to the flower and bird market and bought flowers and vegetable seeds. Of course, Gu Juncheng was in charge of "planting" them.

After everything was completed, Lin Qingping set out the dinner table in the courtyard, and the family of three lit candles and enjoyed a candlelight dinner on a summer night.

Lin Qingping was quite proud of herself. She pointed at the candles and said, "Gu Juncheng, this is what a candlelight dinner should be like. What kind of candles did you buy?"

That night on the mountaintop, when he lit the candle he bought, it felt like setting up a funeral parlor...

Gu Juncheng took a look and thought it was a really strange thing; even candles were made in the shape of flowers.

Lin Qingping nodded smugly; she had snatched this from Wu Tianjiao!

Lin Qingping poured Gu Juncheng a glass of red wine. "Come on! Let's officially begin our candlelight dinner. Zhiyuan, that's your Uncle Gu's wine, you drink Beibingyang!"

Zhiyuan, who had already taken a big gulp of red wine, said, "Oh..."

Looking at the surroundings, surrounded by flowers and plants, with candles lit in the middle for their meal, Gu Juncheng couldn't see any difference between this and his previous "meticulous" plan.

"Gu Juncheng, are you allergic to romance?" Lin Qingping couldn't help but blurt out the next phrase.

Gu Juncheng: ...Indeed beautiful, not bad, worth having a couple more drinks.

"That's more like it!" Lin Qingping smiled, then suddenly her face froze, and she slapped her leg.

"What's wrong?" Gu Juncheng asked her. "Mosquitoes?"

"No...no way!" Lin Qingping stammered.

Gu Juncheng laughed, "I thought such a fancy candlelight dinner wouldn't have any mosquitoes."

"Of course not!" Lin Qingping had barely finished speaking when there was another "smack".

Gu Juncheng: ...

"Shall we go inside and eat?" Gu Juncheng asked her.

"No!" The candlelight dinner she prepared was meant to set an example for Gu Juncheng! How could it end so hastily?

After that, before she could even get a couple of bites of meat, Lin Qingping kept slapping her feet.

Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and asked them, "Aren't you two bitten by mosquitoes?"

Zhiyuan shook his head and added, "Mom, you smell good, so mosquitoes will bite you. Me and Uncle Gu smell bad, so mosquitoes won't like us."

To match the candlelight dinner, Lin Qingping wore an off-shoulder dress. After patting her shoulder, she looked down and saw several red bumps on her shoulder.

Extending my legs further, they're already so densely packed, it's enough to trigger trypophobia!

"Lin Qingping, stop being stubborn and come inside!" Gu Juncheng said sternly. "Have you forgotten how you were sick for days after being bitten by mosquitoes last time?"

Lin Qingping didn't want the candlelight dinner to end like this, but she also didn't want to suffer any longer...

She could only let Gu Juncheng bring the dishes and her inside.

He also took out mosquito repellent and carefully applied it to her skin, which was covered in welts.

"Don't be upset." Gu Juncheng patted her face after applying the medicine. "Let's do it in winter. I'll have a barbecue with you in the garden in winter. That would be romantic."

He even learned the word "romance".

Is this all there is to it? What else can be done? Lin Qingping sighed, looking at her half-eaten steak. "Then tomorrow, can you tidy up the backyard too?"

“Okay! No problem!” Gu Juncheng always readily agreed to her requests.

However, the following evening, after spending the whole day looking after the courtyard, Gu Juncheng received a telegram from his hometown: Mother is ill, return home immediately.

The telegram was sent by Gu Youlian.

Liu Fen is sick.

Lin Qingping went home immediately afterward, and the two of them discussed it and decided to go home right away!

The telegram was short, and Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng only saw the words "mother is ill." They didn't know what illness it was or how serious it was, but since the telegram was sent to inform them, the illness must be very serious!

The two dared not delay and bought the earliest train tickets they could get to go home, then went straight to the county hospital.

But when I met Liu Fen, I found that although she was sick, it was not serious enough to be critical.

The two chatted with Liu Fen for a while, and then Gu Juncheng went to see the doctor twice more. He then took Zhiyuan out to buy food for Lin Qingping, while Gu Youlian brought food to Liu Fen.

Lin Qingping then sat down and peeled an apple for her mother-in-law.

The person in the next bed looked at it, became curious, and asked who it was.

Liu Fen then explained that it was her daughter-in-law, and the person who had just gone out was her son.

The patient next to him exclaimed in admiration, "You are so lucky to have such filial daughters-in-law."

Lin Qingping: Every daughter-in-law? Could it be that Liu Fen has another daughter-in-law?

Liu Fen said, "That's my daughter."

Oh... you mean Gu Youlian!

Lin Qingping continued peeling the apple.

Before I could finish peeling an apple, someone arrived with a thermos.

The patient in the next bed immediately laughed and said, "I was talking about her, the one I love even more than my own daughter!"

Lin Qingping: ? ? ? ?

The person who came was Chen Xia!