(New book started, and so far, almost every week has been around 15 chapters, without a single day of rest. This update volume is somewhat overburdened for me, from next week on, the update volume may be reduced to about 12 chapters! Please forgive me, brothers.)

  "Shen Huai, what do you think of the dress Kou Xuan gave me? Does it look good?"

  As soon as Shen Huai walked into the backyard, Xiao Li jumped over, eagerly fiddling with the dress Kou Xuan had given her.

  The skirt is white with big red dots, the material is top-notch. The hem of the skirt just reaches her knees, not too short or too long, revealing her slender white legs. Xiao Li's figure is slender and tall, wearing this dress, paired with a pair of light blue flat shoes, perfectly showcasing her youthful vitality.

  "Alright, alright." Shen Huai smiled and patted Xiao Li's head, glancing at Kou Xuan who was standing quietly beside them.

  Kou Xuan wore a one-piece dress in early summer, the same style as Xiao Li's, but with a white base and green stripes. Standing together with Xiao Li, they looked like twin beautiful girls, but if you looked closely, Xiao Li was so innocent and lively, while Kou Xuan had a rare calmness and coldness that few 16-year-old girls possessed.

  Seeing Kou Xuan, Shen Huai thought to himself: "This girl is really deep-hearted." He said to Xiao Li, "Kou Xuan works hard too, do you have the nerve to accept her gift?" Then he asked Kou Xuan, "Xiao Li has accepted your kind intentions, but you two can't waste money buying gifts randomly. How much did this dress cost? I'll give you the money."

  "There wasn't much money, I saw someone selling stalls, it looked good to me, so I bought two pieces, one for myself and one as a gift for Little Li..." Kou Xuan said.

  "Girls' friendship, you don't understand," said Xiaolong, who obviously didn't want to listen to Shen Hua's nagging. "I also gave Kou Xuan a gift..." She felt that her friendship with Kou Xuan was being made complicated by Shen Hua's words, and she didn't think it was a big deal to exchange gifts with Kou Xuan. On the contrary, she thought Shen Hua was too sensitive about refusing gifts as an official.

  Shen Huai watched as Xiao Li pulled Luoxuan away, and he couldn't help but laugh dryly. It turned out that neither of them were easy to deal with, and he really couldn't just blindly intervene in the young girl's affairs.

  "What's wrong with this dress?" Chen Dan also thought Shen Hui was too sensitive, a few dozen yuan for a dress, next time she would find an opportunity to buy a gift and return it, no need to make it so awkward, if you really want to refund the money, do you still want Xiao Li and Kou Xuan to be friends?

  "The rivers and lakes have produced talented people, I'm really old," Sun Yalin yawned, ruthlessly exposing the truth. "A dress worth two or three thousand yuan, a little girl with her eyes wide open actually said it was a street stall product. If Shen Huai hadn't confirmed it, I would have almost believed it too..."

  "Ah, really?" Chen Dan couldn't believe that Kou Xian's gift of a dress to Xiao Li could be worth two or three thousand yuan. "No way, where would she have the money to buy these two sets of clothes?"

  Shen Huai let out a soft sigh in his heart, Kou Xuan's move was so bold, he suspected that she had already made her move on Ying Huang, if that was the case, then he absolutely couldn't let Little Li continue to have contact with Kou Xuan.

  Seeing Chen Dan's disbelief, Sun Ya Lin said: "I brought a few clothes for you this time I went to the provincial city, come and take a look, then you'll know whether my words are true or false..." Dragging Chen Dan to her room to see the clothes.

  Shen Huai saw Xiao Li and Kou Xuan enter the storage room and didn't come out again. For a while, he couldn't go in and forcibly open it, so he followed Sun Ya Lin and Chen Dan into the house to look at clothes.

  Xun Yalin had just gotten someone to move all her luggage over and was planning on officially moving in.

  Sun Yalin opened a half-person-high suitcase, inside which were neatly stacked new clothes that had not been unpacked.

  Chen Dan was startled and laughed, asking: "You went back to the provincial city for a trip and bought so many clothes. Are you planning to open a fashion store when you return?"

  "…", Sun Ya Lin patted her forehead and said, "I'm a person who spends tens of thousands in minutes, how can I have the mood to slowly try on clothes in a mall? If it looks good, just buy it, so every time I go shopping, I inevitably end up buying a lot of stuff. I really should restrain myself."

  "Ordinary people go shopping to buy things, but some people's spending habits are naturally different from ours. They call it 'sweeping the streets.' Shen Hua knew that Sun Ya Lin had always been extravagant in her spending, and after returning home, she should have been more restrained. Mainly because high-end goods were still scarce domestically, and Donghua's large shopping malls only had one department store, with an outdated management style, and not many clothes that Sun Ya Lin would look at."

  Sun Ya Lin gave Shen Huai a sideways glance, implying "You think you used to be better than me?"

  Sun Yalin picked out two pieces of clothing and handed them to Chen Dan, saying: "These two pieces of clothing suit you well, I'll give them to you..."

  Chen Dan took the clothes and looked at the price tag, saying to Shen Huan: "The same brand as Xiao Li's...". Then she saw the price on the tag and was shocked, even if the styles were different, but the prices of the same brand of clothes were always similar. She asked Shen Huan in confusion, "Where did Kou Xian get so much money to buy such expensive clothes?"

  "Maybe she found some money?" Shen Huan said, still wanting to leave some face for the little girl, not telling her the whole story. Sometimes it's better not to let Little Li know the truth.

  Chen Dan was about to put the clothes in her hand back, Sun Ya Lin said: "Really give it to you, can't live in your house for nothing."

  "Then thank you." Chen Dan and Sun Ya Lin didn't bother to be polite, but Kou Xuan sending Xiao Li such an expensive dress was just too weird. She asked Shen Huai, "What do you think I should say?"

  Shen Huai said, "Let's not mention this to Xiao Li, she's at that rebellious stage of youth, and if we say too much, it'll be counterproductive. Later, when I send Kou Xuan back, returning the money will be enough..."

  Chen Dan nodded, thinking of what had happened at school last time. Although it couldn't be blamed on Kou Xuan, after all, there was still some connection with this girl Kou Xuan.

  Sun Yalin was about to clean up the room, Shen Huai and Chen Dan went to the storage room in the back to find Xiao Li and Kou Xuan. As soon as they walked into the backyard, they heard a faint sound of flute coming from afar.

  Listening to the flute sound, Shen Huai's heart seemed to have been heavily struck, standing there.

  Chen Dan saw Shen Huan's abnormality and said, "Just now when cleaning the room, Xiao Li saw her brother leaving a long flute and was trying to blow it. I didn't know her brother could play the flute before..."

  "Ah..." Shen Huai let out a long sigh, previously when he was still Sun Haiwen, he didn't tell anyone the secret of why he stopped playing the flute, and now he's even less likely to bring up that past again.

  Shen Huai put the past aside and pushed open the door to enter. He saw Xiao Li sitting on a bamboo couch piled with miscellaneous items, her legs crossed and stretched out in front of the couch, long and white. She was holding a greenish-yellow flute horizontally across her lips, trying to blow it, but it sounded awkward and disjointed, unable to produce a clear melody.

  "I'm blowing too badly; when my brother taught me, I didn't learn well either, but now I can no longer hear my brother play the flute." Little Li said with a sigh as he saw Shen Huai and Chen Dan walk in.

  Looking around the house full of old things, Shen Hua knew that Xiao Li had come with Chen Dan today to sort out her belongings, and it was inevitable that she would feel sad. Seeing the long flute in her hand, he reached out and took it over, saying: "I used to learn how to play the flute, but I haven't played it for a long time..."

  Shen Huai brought the bamboo flute to his lips, trying to play a segment of "Jiangnan Melody". The broad and mellow music flowed out like water, but he stopped after playing for a while and said, "I'm rusty, I've forgotten the score. Is there a score here? I'll play it again according to the score..."

  Xiao Li unexpectedly snatched the bamboo flute from Shen Hui's hand and ran out directly.

  Shen Huai saw that Xiao Li ran out with tears in her eyes, and was startled; Chen Dan and Kou Xuan also didn't know what happened, and chased after her.

  Shen Hua looked at the old objects and books that might no longer belong to him after tonight, and he felt a sense of melancholy.

  "Was it you who just played the flute?"

  Shen Huai turned his head and saw Sun Ya Lin leaning against the door frame staring at him.

  Shen Hua spread out his hands.

  "I didn't know you could play the flute!"

  "You've known me for less than ten years, right? You like women's affairs, if I didn't occasionally hear it, I really wouldn't know," Shen Hua shrugged nonchalantly. Sun Ya Lin was suspicious again, what else could she suspect? She couldn't help but tease her about her sexual orientation, laughing and saying "Don't always try to see through everything, there are too many things in this world that we can't see through..."

  "Who wants to see through you?" Sun Yalin said disdainfully, "I just didn't expect that the two brushes you hid were quite a lot. I'm saying this, don't be proud of it. I'm just curious, with these two brushes, why didn't you use them to flirt with girls back then?"

  "A person should have some inner qualities," Shen Huan said, bantering with Sun Ya Lin. Seeing Chen Dan walking back with a long flute, he asked her, "Is Little Li all right?"

  "It's all because you played the flute so well, Little Li suddenly thought of her brother and cried miserably," Chen Dan said, handing the bamboo flute to Shen Huai. "Little Li asked me to give this long flute to you; why haven't I ever heard you play it before?"

  "It's been a long time since I last played, and I've forgotten the scores. Does Xiao Li's brother have any sheet music left?" Shen Huan turned back to look at the pile of old things, which had been sorted by Chen Dan and Xiao Li, but he didn't know where the scores that hadn't been touched for many years were.

  "There are a few scores, but Xiao Li has put them away. She said she wanted to learn how to play the flute. But for now, I'll give you the flute, and when her mood improves, I'll help you ask her for it." Chen Dan said.

  Bamboo flute tail has a knife carved with two words, he didn't go to see, just use his fingers to touch the two words, not wanting Sun Yalun and Chen Dan to see the turmoil in his heart, his face only smiled and said: "Forget it, I'll go to the bookstore another day," and asked Sun Yalun, "Are you staying here today?"

  "Oh," Yun Yalin responded, "you come over to disturb me, nothing has been sorted out yet, how can you sleep? I'll drive Chen Dan and Xiao Li back to town later; that little girl, you deal with it first. However, I still suspect that you're hiding something from us..."

  Shen Huai smiled helplessly and said, "You think hard with your brain..." Then he took out the car key and went to find Kou Xuan.

  Kou Xuan and Xiao Li sat under the grape arbor by the shallow pool in the front yard, seeing Shen Huai walking over. With a red face from crying, Xiao Li felt somewhat embarrassed and said: "You play very well, I wasn't stopping you from playing just now..."

  Shen Huai reluctantly stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao Li's head, restraining the urge to pull her into his arms. He said to Kou Xuan, "Xiao Li still needs to pack up here, but it's getting late. If you don't go back, your grandfather will worry; I'll send you back first..."