The sunlight slanted across the tops of the sycamore trees, casting swaying shadows on the white exterior walls.

Groups of people sat on folding chairs at the campsite, enjoying the fresh scent of grass carried by the gentle breeze – it was incredibly pleasant.

However, human joys and sorrows are not shared.

A woman crouched in a secluded corner, holding a hose in one hand and a brush in the other, saying, "I'm so sorry... Mr. Shen, I'm so sorry... I—"

Zhou Panpan is brushing the dog's teeth.

Looking at the scratches on her boss's face and the big-eared, smelly dog ​​that splashed water all over her, she thought that this was just how life was.

Destroy it.

Why isn't she dead yet?

Shen Yan's voice was calm, "You're not getting your bonus this month."

Zhou Panpan: No!

He hissed as soon as he finished speaking, and Xie Yan paused in her movements. "What's wrong? Does it hurt?"

They are currently at a campsite near the park, where the owner provided a hose and alcohol for washing the dog. Xie Yan is disinfecting Shen Yan.

He just tripped and fell on the grass. Luckily, his leg was fine, but he had a small abrasion on the side of his face, which wasn't serious.

Xie Yan bent down and gently blew on it, revealing a pair of focused and concerned eyes behind her cool-tinted glasses. "There's no iodine here, and the alcohol will definitely sting a bit. Tilt your head up a little."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yan looked up, and Xie Yan could clearly see a hint of resentment and grievance in his eyes.

She wanted to laugh whenever she thought about what had just happened; her morality and sense of humor were fighting each other, but in the end she managed to hold it in.

"I didn't expect it to be so strong..." The cotton swab gently landed on the young man's cheek. "Does it still hurt?"

"...It hurts." The alcohol stung his wound, and Shen Yan frowned. "It still hurts."

Even though it's just a minor scrape, don't worry about it; if he says it hurts, it hurts.

"..." Xie Yan knew perfectly well that this person was subtly trying to charm her.

Her soft lips lightly brushed against the young man's lips, like a dragonfly skimming the water. Xie Yan cleared her throat, her face serious, and asked, "Does it still hurt?"

Shen Yan pursed his lips, his eyes involuntarily curving into a smile, even the end of his voice rising in a tone, "Much better, Dr. Xie, you truly have miraculous healing skills."

The afternoon sun was gentle and not glaring, warming people and creating a harmonious atmosphere between the two.

Zhou Panpan, who was still brushing her dog's teeth, watched her boss's incredible change of expression with a numb look in her eyes.

Go ahead and show off, don't worry about whether I live or die.

The dog got annoyed by being brushed, broke free from its restraints, shook off the water, and howled at the top of its lungs: "Awoo erWer————" The howl was mesmerizing and extremely penetrating, drawing sidelong glances and laughter from those around it.

Zhou Panpan smiled too.

Shout, shout, don't worry about whether I live or die.

Seeing that Zhou Panpan's mental state was worrying, Xie Yan comforted Shen Yan and then ran over to help Zhou Panpan pat the dog, saying, "Manager Zhou, let me help you."

Zhou Panpan looked up and saw Xie Yan descend like a goddess, feeling incredibly moved, her eyes almost filled with love.

"Don't call me manager when we're out. It sounds too formal. We're friends now, so just call me by my name."

friend.

Xie Yan paused, then suddenly burst into a smile for no apparent reason, smoothly changing her address to "Panpan."

Her aloof eyes shimmered with a brownish light under the sunlight, like translucent glass beads. When she smiled, it was as if she had crushed and melted her gentle brilliance into her eyes, making the viewer's face burn.

Zhou Panpan's ears turned red. She hadn't expected Xie Yan to greet her so sweetly right away, and her heart started racing. "Oh, um, okay."

I don't know what's so great about it.

With their combined efforts, the two of them finally washed the droopy-eared donkey clean from head to toe, and its fur smelled of the minty fragrance of the camp owner's shampoo.

The campsite provided tables, chairs, tents, and meals. To thank the campsite owner, Zhou Panpan generously ordered a large table of dishes.

The proprietress, a woman in her thirties with an exotic appearance, thick eyebrows, and large eyes, had been laughing uncontrollably at the two men's dog-washing antics. Seeing Zhou Panpan come to order, she smiled and said, "You two seem to be having quite a bit of fun. We're having a new customer promotion right now, would you like to participate?"

"what activity?"

Xie Yan was grooming her dog when she heard Zhou Panpan's excited voice behind her, "Xie Yan! Let's go catch chickens!"

Xie Yan turned around abruptly, "What?"

"Let's go catch some chickens!"

"..."

"..."

The surroundings were completely silent. Upon closer inspection, Zhou Panpan noticed a few young people who were trying not to laugh, their faces flushed. She then realized that it was better not to talk about chickens, as it was a matter of civility for everyone. Her face immediately turned bright red.

Let's stop here for now.

The campsite owner also owns a farm nearby, which has a chicken farm where guests can catch chickens with their bare hands. As long as they can catch a few, they can eat them for free, and if they can't eat them all, they can even take them home.

Xie Yan immediately became interested. She had played the game a lot when she was a child in the countryside, and she hadn't been this happy in a long time. Her eyes were also shining with excitement, and she was eager to try.

But... she turned her gaze to the calm young man beside her. The chicken farm was some distance away, and she was a little worried about it, but someone still had to be here to look after the dogs.

"It's alright, you guys go ahead." Shen Yan squeezed Xie Yan's hand. "I'll wait for you to come back here."

Xie Yan nodded deeply, "I will definitely come back soon."

Zhou Panpan couldn't stand it anymore. "Seriously? It's only 800 meters, is it really necessary for you two to make such a fuss?"

The young man gave her a cold glance. "You've lost your year-end bonus."

Zhou Panpan nearly fainted from eyelid swelling. She complained to Xie Yan, "Do something about this! Do something about this! Is there no law anymore?!"

Xie Yan laughed heartily, "It's nothing, he's just joking with you."

"That's pretty much it."

Girls' friendships are like a gust of wind. Not long ago, Xie Yan was still politely calling him "Manager Zhou," but now the two of them can go chicken-catching hand in hand, chatting animatedly as if they were old friends.

As the two figures walked further and further away, Shen Yan lowered his head and looked through the old camera he had bought for 50,000 yuan.

The chicken farm's rule was that each person had ten minutes. As Xie Yan said, the two of them returned quickly, empty-handed, clearly having failed to catch anything.

"Oh, what a pity! Just a little bit short!" Zhou Panpan slapped her thigh, her mouth agape in heartache, and turned to Xie Yan, asking, "Is your hand alright? Does it hurt?"

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt."

The battle just now was truly intense.

Zhou Panpan grew up in the city and had never been to the countryside, let alone caught chickens. Those chickens were so agile that their flapping wings almost gave her a cold.

But Xie Yan seemed to handle it very well as soon as she entered. She caught a rooster within the allotted time, but she didn't expect that the rooster to be so fierce. It kicked several red marks on Xie Yan's hands before escaping.

Having failed to catch the chicken and even injured herself, Zhou Panpan immediately went to the landlady to borrow alcohol as soon as she returned.

Under the tree, the dog was tied up and lay down to sleep obediently. Shen Yan sat quietly in his wheelchair waiting. When Xie Yan returned, he went to greet her and instinctively reached out to take her hand, but she subtly avoided him.

Shen Yan frowned slightly and grabbed Xie Yan's wrist without saying a word.

Her skin was pale and cold, and even the slightest red mark was extremely noticeable and impossible to hide.

Several dark red scratches were on the back of my hand and forearm, and they were all a little swollen, with one of them even oozing a small bead of blood.

Seeing that Shen Yan's expression was off, Xie Yan quickly said, "I'm prone to swelling, it'll go down in about ten minutes, it'll be fine."

The young man's thin lips pressed into a line, his dark eyes churning with a turbulent storm, his suppressed emotions hidden behind his drooping eyelids. "Scratched by a chicken?"

“…Hmm.” Xie Yan felt a little embarrassed. She prided herself on her experience, but she was still rusty.

"The alcohol is here! The alcohol is here!" Zhou Panpan reappeared with alcohol and cotton swabs, carefully applying it to Xie Yan's scratches.

The smell of alcohol disinfectant was indeed unpleasant. Xie Yan frowned as she saw Shen Yan heading towards the proprietress. She cried out anxiously, "Don't cause trouble for her! It was my own carelessness!"

Shen Yan nodded calmly, "I understand, I'll go buy a bottle of water."

Watching his sleek back, Zhou Panpan muttered under her breath, "Racing in a wheelchair, huh?"

Xie Yan was somewhat helpless. Her small scratch was the kind that would heal on its own if she didn't go to the hospital soon, but Shen Yan looked terrible, a terrible look that hadn't been seen in a long time.

Fortunately, he returned in less than two minutes, carrying several bottles of purified water. He said he wanted to rinse Xie Yan's wound to prevent infection, so Xie Yan had no choice but to let him do it.

After the little incident, Zhou Panpan still ordered a table of dishes to treat her guests. However, some meat dishes that she hadn't ordered were also served with the dinner, so she asked if they were the wrong ones.

Not only their table, but every table at the campsite where people were eating had several chicken dishes added to their menus, such as spicy chicken, poached chicken, braised chicken, stewed chicken, shredded chicken, and Sichuan peppercorn chicken, making it a veritable chicken feast...

Upon hearing this, the proprietress glanced at Shen Yan in the corner, her smile noticeably more reserved than before. "No mistake, this is the owner's treat."

Under the pressure of money, the camp slaughtered all two hundred roosters in the chicken farm, and the faster they were killed, the higher the price was offered, so the entire chicken farm was quickly wiped out.

Zhou Panpan was stunned when she heard that he had ordered all two hundred chickens to be killed. "No, Mr. Shen, even if all the guests at the camp's dozen or so tables were served, they still couldn't finish all two hundred chickens."

Shen Yan put food into Xie Yan's bowl without even lifting his eyelids. "If you can't finish it, feed it to the dog. Don't you have an animal shelter?"

"But that's too reckless..." She suddenly realized halfway through her sentence that Shen Yan might be acting this way because Xie Yan had been scratched by a chicken.

Zhou Panpan suddenly felt a little cold.

Xie Yan sighed, silently mourned for the two hundred chickens for a second, and then started gnawing on a chicken leg.

Not to mention, it's quite delicious.

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