Chapter 611

Mu Youyu lay there leisurely.

Jiang Liangjin was in charge of feeding; she had just taken a bite of a skewer when she heard Song Lujing and Mu Xi arguing about whether there were fish in the stream.

Song Lujing said no, Mu Xi said yes, they went back and forth four rounds.

Finally, Mu Xin interjected leisurely, "Yes, I just saw one."

Mu Xi raised an eyebrow, and Song Lujing said nothing more.

Not a minute later, Song Lujing came over again, "Brother Xi, I'm so bored, want to play Fight the Landlord?"

Mu Xi didn't even lift her head, "No."

Song Lujing, undeterred, "How about mahjong?"

Mu Xi: "No."

After being refused twice by Mu Xi, Song Lujing wasn't discouraged, turned his head and saw Mu Xianqi lying there looking at his phone, and immediately went over, "Brother Qi, Brother Qi, want to play cards?"

Mu Xianqi lifted his eyelids to glance at him, then returned his gaze to the screen, "Not playing, is your phone still not fully charged?"

"No." Song Lujing then looked toward Mu Xin, but before he could speak, Mu Xin jerked his chin toward Jiang Liangjin nearby.

Song Lujing, still not giving up, "Why don't you go?"

Jiang Liangjin, who had been watching the commotion, understood the meaning, lightly rested her head on Mu Youyu's shoulder, "I want to stay with my baby."

Mu Youyu probed, "Is that how it is?"

Song Lujing: "……"

The brothers couldn't bear to watch.

Song Huaiyu and Song Huaixian obviously would pair up; Song Lujing didn't want to bore himself, but felt he couldn't keep going like this, so he again pulled Jiang Liangjin along, saying they should go look for fish.

Jiang Liangjin was still peeling grapes for his fiancée, instinctively refusing, he repeated, "Brother Lujing, I want to stay with my baby."

Being stared at by so many brothers was also pressure; Mu Youyu gave him a push from the side, "Go on, go on, see if you can scoop one up, and let the kitchen add an extra dish tonight."

Only then did Jiang Liangjin willingly stand up; Song Lujing tugged him hard toward the stream.

Song Huaiyu sat on the lounge chair under the corridor, watching the two bend over at the water's edge, clumsily stirring with tree branches to look for fish, and inexplicably found the scene somewhat comical.

Song Huaixian beside them curled his lips, "Where are your fishing rods? Catching fish with bare hands?"

Song Lujing swapped for a longer tree branch, "No."

Song Huaixian laughed and raised his phone to take a photo.

After the two had been scooping for a while, Song Lujing suddenly exclaimed "Holy shit," stepped back a bit from the stream, "Ugh, there are earthworms."

Mu Xianqi, who had enjoyed traveling and mountain climbing since childhood vacations, didn't understand why he was making such a fuss, "It's normal."

Song Lujing pulled Jiang Liangjin back and retorted, "Want me to roast it for you to eat? High protein."

Mu Xianqi: "... Get lost."

Mu Youyu hated these soft worms the most, let out an "eh," and instinctively moved her chair back a bit.

Jiang Liangjin raised an eyebrow, washed his hands, returned to sit beside his fiancée, and picked up the laptop from his bag to look at documents.

Suddenly, a noisy clatter of footsteps came from outside the courtyard gate.

Several half-grown children poked their heads from the courtyard gate to look inside; the older ones were about eleven or twelve, the younger seven or eight, dressed very neatly, their clothes all brand new.

But their expressions weren't particularly spirited; a few clutched thick books in their hands, the covers printed with the large characters "Summer Homework."

They tiptoed to peek at the liveliness in the courtyard, their eyes flashing with light, yet they dared not enter.

"Wow, are celebrities coming?"

A gray-clothed old man passing by, carrying something, noticed them and casually said, "Come in and play, why just stand there? We're all our own people; you'll get familiar after a while, call us brothers and sisters."

The children glanced at each other, then cautiously stepped into the courtyard, shouting in a jumble of voices, "Hello, brothers and sisters!"

Mu Youyu hadn't expected there to be other people's children here, and casually asked, "Hello, are you on vacation?"

Seeing so many little brats come up, Song Huaixian and Song Huaiyu returned to their sister's side.

The leading little girl, seeing the pretty sister talk to her, became quite shy, "Yeah, sister, we were let off last week, and our family let us come play in the mountains."

"Like that," Mu Youyu saw in her expression a sense of having everything arranged by family yet not really willing.

After the gray-clothed old man left, another little boy dared to step forward and say, "Yeah, my parents took away my phone, making me read and write every day, I'm about to vomit from reading."

Song Huaixian, who had drawn near, somewhat wanted to laugh, "Good kid, you've suffered."

The little boy didn't quite grasp his tone, but his intuition told him this person understood him, so he glanced at him a few more times.

Then several more children stepped forward to complain.

"So boring, every day just reading, reading, playing with water."

"My great-uncle said we have to stay here for a month, a month without games, how am I supposed to live?"

"We're here to recuperate our bodies, not to play."

"But it's really boring, I can only read novels……"

"You still have extracurricular books to read; my parents won't let me bring any, I only have school textbooks!"

"Next semester I won't be getting single-digit scores again, this place is really boring."

"……"

Those few children chattered away with their complaints.

The leading little girl suddenly stopped talking, her eyes sweeping past the crowd to land on the laptop in Jiang Liangjin's hands.

To them, that possessed a deadly attraction, meaning the internet, meaning games, meaning freedom!

Song Lujing keenly noticed the children's eager gazes, immediately played the good guy, "Yeah, his computer can run a ten-player mini-game; go ask him, he has the best temper."

Jiang Liangjin:?

Song Huaixian, watching the bustle without minding a big deal, added, "Yeah, he's the one with the best temper among us."

Jiang Liangjin closed his laptop, turned his head sideways, and gave him a bland glance.

Song Huaixian spread their hands.

Mu Xi, with their back to the children, twitched their eyelids, afraid the fire would burn them, and hid their laptop.

Those few kids obviously understood what Song Lujing and Song Huaixian said, and in unison turned toward Jiang Liangjin, a flame lighting up in their eyes.

The leading girl stepped forward half a step, her tone softening considerably: "Big brother, can you really play a ten‑person mini‑game on your computer? That's so high‑level."

Seeing that, Jiang Liangjin had no choice: "You guys ask this older sister."

The girl hurriedly acted cute: "Older sister~"

Mu Youyu sensed her fiancé's distress signal, suppressing a laugh to smooth things over: "This big brother still wants to play with the older sister; after you finish your homework, the older sister will let you use her computer."