Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 414 - 304. Old house

After grabbing their packaged milk tea and fried skewers, the six of them continued on their way with mango smoothies in hand.

At six in the evening, the sky was still a brilliant blue, with a few clouds covering the westward-tilting sun, tinting it an orange-yellow hue.

The concrete floor radiated the residual heat it had absorbed throughout the day, and even the breeze carried a hint of warmth; the city’s temperatures had yet to cool.

But none of this could diminish the good spirits of the six friends, their mouths filled with the sweet chill of the smoothies, laughter, and cheerful voices ringing in their ears.

"Is this the place?" Xiao Ruawen looked at the somber building in front of her; she definitely wouldn’t dare come here alone at night.

"Yeah, on the eighth floor," Wu Lingyu pointed and said, looking up.

"Let’s go, we’re heading up to the eighth floor," Xu Qingfan said, leading the way inside first.

No sooner had they stepped inside than a cool breeze greeted them, quickly drying the sweat from their skin.

Wu Lingyu introduced to everyone: "When I was a kid, I used to sit in the hallway, it was so cool that we didn’t even need to turn on a fan."

"That’s really nice, my house gets so hot without a fan, it’s like you could die."

"Yeah."

The six climbed the stairs all the way up, soon arriving at the eighth floor.

"There..." Wu Lingyu pointed in the direction of the old house, about to speak, but when her eyes fully registered the scene before her, the words she meant to say seemed to get stuck in her throat, unable to come out.

"Did they renovate it?" Xu Qingfan, observing the wide-open door of room 803 and the building materials piled inside, asked in confusion.

The few young women, being there for the first time, naturally shook their heads like clueless chickens.

Xu Qingfan took Wu Lingyu by the hand, ready to go over and ask about the situation.

The peeling paint by the door had been repainted, so the graffiti the young girl had drawn on the wall was naturally covered over too.

Even though it was no longer her home, Wu Lingyu couldn’t help but feel sad to see the traces that proved she had lived there simply vanish.

Just then, a neighbor from next door came out to take out the trash, and Xu Qingfan quickly stepped forward to ask, "Auntie, hello, why is this place being renovated? I came to see a classmate."

"Oh, you mean Lao Yu? He struck it rich and moved to a new house, this place has been sold to someone else," the woman rambled a bit more before taking her leave, somewhat disgruntled, with her trash.

The five of them fell silent for a moment, pausing beside Wu Lingyu without a word.

A short while later, she laughed and shook her head, comforting herself, "It’s not like it’s anything. This hasn’t been my home for a long time; my home is where Qingfan... where everyone is."

"Heehee~ Yu is right, we are one family!" Xiao Ruawen wrapped her arms around the young woman’s slender waist from behind, nuzzling her vigorously.

"Haha... Ruan Wen, that tickles..."

"You little pervert, stay away from our Yu," Xia Xiaoxiao pulled Wu Lingyu to her side, escaping the fate of being mauled by Ruan Wen.

"We are already family, come on, let’s go up to the rooftop to watch the sunset!" Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi, hand in hand, said to Xu Qingfan with a smile.

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"Yeah!"

Xu Qingfan turned back for a glance at the house being renovated, a different idea suddenly taking root in his mind.

When the six of them made it to the rooftop of the eighth floor, it was nearing half past six in the evening, the time when the twilight sky was at its most beautiful.

The sky gradually took on an orange-red tint, the sunset blazing like flames, reflecting on their faces.

If they weren’t afraid of dying, sitting on the railing to enjoy the sunset would have been more poetic, but they were obviously not risk-takers, preferring to lean against the wall and look up instead.

"This is the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen!"

"Sunset, you are so beautiful!" Xiao Ruawen suddenly shouted out loud, her hands cupped around her mouth like a megaphone.

"Pfft~" Xu Qingfan suddenly thought of a person he once knew; thankfully, Ruan Wen just shouted about the beauty of the sunset, otherwise, he would have been in stitches laughing.

"Brother Fan, what are you laughing at!" Xiao Ruawen glared at him with feigned resentment.

"It’s nothing... cough cough... I just didn’t expect you to suddenly shout out loud," Xu Qingfan said with a laugh as he patted her shoulder.

"It’s naturally beautiful; this is the most gorgeous sunset I’ve ever seen, don’t you think?"

"Mhm," the four young girls nodded gently but none of them thought this was the most beautiful.

In Zhang Yiyi’s heart, the most beautiful sunset was left at that orange-colored coast.

For Xia Xiaoxiao, the most beautiful sunset was the sky she saw while walking out of the village with the stinky dog during this year’s New Year.

As far as Lin Wanning was concerned, no sunset could match the one she saw while sitting on the back seat of Brother Qing Fan’s bicycle.

And for Wu Lingyu, there was no particularly beautiful sunset in her memory, because the limited attention of the young girl was all on a certain youth.

Xiao Ruawen, who was currently only concerned with eating her bun, obviously couldn’t guess what the four girls were thinking at this moment. She took out her phone to take a group photo, "Everyone, look over here!"

All five instantly cooperated by holding up peace signs, even Little White stood up on its hind legs, wanting to be in the frame.

"Yay!!!"

After the photo was taken, Xu Qingfan patted his school uniform wrinkled by Little White and said, "We should probably head back now."

"Let’s go; we’ll come back next time!"

"We’ll come back!"

When they left, they passed by building 803, which was under renovation again, but now there wasn’t a trace of sadness or loss on Wu Lingyu’s face.

For the her of the past, the memories invested in the old house were the only rays of light in a muddy life.

But now Wu Lingyu had everyone, she had a lot, a lot; her life was filled with light, and she no longer needed to rely on a faint glow for illumination.

[The old house is just the past, Brother Fan and everyone are the future, we must move toward the future!]

They first dropped Xiao Ruawen off at home, and when it was time to drop off Wanning and Yiyi, Xu Qingfan suddenly said, "Xiao Xiao and Yu, you go back first. I can drop off these two, you must be tired after walking all day."

Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at Xu Qingfan, and indeed she was quite tired from walking; if there had been a WeChat step count, she would have at least walked twenty thousand steps that day.

"Oh, whatever you say," she replied indifferently.

"Brother Fan, then be careful on your way," Wu Lingyu naturally listened to Xu Qingfan.

"Brother Qing Fan, if you’re tired, we can go back by ourselves too!" Lin Wanning, the protective little cotton jacket, immediately spoke up.

Although she really wanted Brother Qing Fan to drop her off, Wanning was also the sister who cared for her brother the most.

"Wanning and I will take a car, Brother, you rest!"

"Are you kidding me, tired?" Xu Qingfan ruffled their heads and continued pushing them to walk.

"Humph~ Who was it that rode a tricycle when they were young and said they couldn’t make it up a hill?" Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him with disdain.

"Who, you?"

"You!" Xia Xiaoxiao wrinkled her nose, pointing at him.

Xu Qingfan twisted her pointing finger, "You’re talking about Little White, when did you teach it to ride a tricycle."

"You’re the one who taught Little White to ride a tricycle!"

Seeing the two of them about to start arguing again, Lin Wanning, Zhang Yiyi, and Wu Lingyu all stood aside, snickering and watching the spectacle.

"Xu Qingfan you’re a dog!"

"Can’t win an argument, so you resort to name-calling~"

"You!"

"Hahaha..."