After Niu Xiaoqiang walked out of the office, he found Fang Dongping and told him that he was going out to do something, and asked Fang Dongping to take care of the factory.

Fang Dongping trusted Niu Xiaoqiang very much, and didn't ask Niu Xiaoqiang what he wanted to do outside, so he nodded and agreed.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Niu Xiaoqiang followed Yu Simei with a basket on his back and a medicine shovel in his hand, and walked towards the barren mountain north of Aoshan Town.

This direction is right opposite the Hope Farm, Niu Xiaoqiang can be said to be familiar with the road, he took Yu Simeiyang along the path and came to the mountain in the shortest distance. The two were laughing and chatting on the road, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"Sister Yu, can you describe to me what the medicinal herbs you are looking for look like? ”

Yu Simei showed an uneasy look when she heard this, and after hesitating for a moment, she finally told the truth: "Actually, this kind of medicinal material is not difficult to find, the reason why I called you is to give you a chance to relax and rest." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang was a little dumbfounded: "That...... Is the birthday event fake?"

Yu Simei shook her head: "This is true, today is indeed my birthday." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang was angry and funny, but at the same time felt very helpless. Even if he knew that Yu Simei had deceived him, he would not be able to lose his temper. Because Yu Simei's personality is very sensitive, if it is too heavy, Yu Simei will definitely find it difficult to accept.

Yu Simei knew that Niu Xiaoqiang was a little angry, and hurriedly explained: "Xiaoqiang, you have been working too hard these days, if you continue like this, your body will definitely have problems, don't believe you go and look in the mirror yourself, you have dark circles under your eyes." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang scratched his head, "So I have to thank you?"

Yu Simei shook her head very seriously: "Do you think I'm talking nonsense to you? What I tell you is the truth, you may not have noticed it, you have been smiling less and less during this time, often looking solemn, looking preoccupied, if you want me to say that you don't need to work so hard at all, you are just a secretary, and the factory is not yours, why are you so desperate for your master?"

Niu Xiaoqiang couldn't say that the factory was his own, so he could only smile bitterly and nodded: "Thank you for reminding me, I will pay attention to my body in the future, but I do have a lot of responsibilities during this time, and I don't have time to rest, so let's wait until I'm done." ”

Seeing that Niu Xiaoqiang was going back to work, Yu Simei reached out and grabbed his arm: "Since they have already come out, they are not in a hurry for a while, so let's go back after picking medicine with me." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang thought about it: "Okay, let's continue to collect medicine." ”

There is a fork in the road ahead, with the path to Hope Farm on the left and the road to Niujia Village on the right. Niu Xiaoqiang naturally did not lead Yu Simei down the mountain, and immediately took Yu Simei on the road to Hope Farm.

Unfortunately, the pit that Niu Xiaoqiang dug before catching wild boars was in front, and the two walked forward more than a hundred meters away, and Yu Simei saw this pit. She couldn't help but show a curious look, "Xiaoqiang, do you know what this is for?"

Niu Xiaoqiang explained with a smile, the more Yu Simei listened, the more she wanted to laugh, and in the end, she finally couldn't hold back, covering her small mouth and laughing.

Niu Xiaoqiang touched his nose: "Sister Yu, is this matter so funny?"

Yu Simei restrained her smile slightly: "I didn't expect you to pull out all your sows in order to eat pork, fortunately you didn't lose it, otherwise your father would not have killed you." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang looked embarrassed: "How could I think so much at that time? I only have the idea of eating pork in my heart, and I haven't thought about other things in depth, okay, let's go, don't rub around here." ”

Yu Simei nodded and followed Niu Xiaoqiang to continue walking.

The further up you go, the more desolate it becomes, and the weeds on the side of the road are all withered yellow, except for the pine trees. If an ordinary woman came to such a place, she would definitely feel uneasy and even frightened. But Yu Simei is different, she feels very down-to-earth and secure with Niu Xiaoqiang.

Looking at Niu Xiaoqiang's back struggling forward, Yu Simei hesitated for a moment and then raised the biggest question in her heart: "Xiaoqiang, ...... you Have you had an issue with me lately?"

Niu Xiaoqiang was slightly stunned, stopped and looked at Yu Simei: "Sister Yu, why do you think so?"

"This ...... I feel like you've been deliberately avoiding me lately, and you haven't even spoken to me, Xiaoqiang, did I do something wrong and make you unhappy?"

Niu Xiaoqiang has indeed deliberately distanced himself from Simei recently, and the reason is very simple: he doesn't want others to misunderstand the relationship between him and Yu Simei.

This incident troubled Niu Xiaoqiang for a long time, and almost everyone felt that his relationship with Yu Simei was abnormal. Niu Xiaoqiang felt aggrieved in his heart, and after thinking about it, he thought of a way to distance the relationship between the two.

At this moment, listening to Yu Simei's face-to-face inquiry, Niu Xiaoqiang felt a little guilty and a little empty: "Sister Yu, there is no such thing, I recently shifted my focus to the Asian Machinery Factory, because I am busy with work, I rarely have the opportunity to talk to you, but I don't mean to deliberately alienate you." ”

Yu Simei said in disbelief: "Really?"

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded against his will: "Of course it's true, if I deliberately alienate you, how could I come out with you to collect medicine?"

Yu Simei stared at Niu Xiaoqiang with glittering eyes for a while, and suddenly asked such a question: "Xiaoqiang, did someone gossip about the two of us?"

Niu Xiaoqiang looked at Yu Simei in a daze: "This ...... How do you know?"

Yu Simei turned her head to the side and whispered, "I'm not blind, can't I see it?"

"And what do you think about this?"

Yu Simei lowered her head and didn't speak, reaching out to fiddle with the corners of her clothes.

Niu Xiaoqiang said: What do you mean by this? Why don't you speak? Is this question difficult to answer?

"Sister Yu, there's no need to hide between the two of us, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, anyway, is there a third person here, what are you worried about?"

Yu Simei still didn't speak, which made Niu Xiaoqiang quite embarrassed. In desperation, he could only smile bitterly: "Okay, just because I didn't ask, let's go collect medicine." ”

Yu Simei lowered her head and followed behind Niu Xiaoqiang, and after walking for a short time, she suddenly spoke: "Xiaoqiang, my sister treats you as the only family member in the world." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded first, and soon noticed that something was wrong, and thought to himself: Why use the word family instead of relatives?

Is there a difference between family and loved ones? Absolutely. In terms of the relationship between relatives and relatives, family members go further than relatives.