I became beautiful by eating melons

The spring breeze was blowing gently as Jiang Chen and Wang Guoping played chess. Ye Rou moved a round stone stool and sat behind Jiang Chen. She followed Jiang Chen in playing chess with her right hand and could only use her left hand to flip through her notes, and her movements were a little clumsy.

Zhou Yuqing was wandering around the yard with a pen and a notebook. Xiao Huihui seemed to find it interesting and followed him around the yard.

Liu Yutang was looking through the dried herbs and felt dizzy from his wandering around, so he called out to him, "What are you busy with?"

"I want to build a pavilion in this yard."

Zhou Yuqing did not come up with this idea suddenly.

He lived in Suzhou for a period of time when he was young, and he particularly liked Suzhou's garden architecture. Through clever layout, the landscape became a part of the building, and nature and architecture were integrated into a harmonious, natural, compact and exquisite design.

The scenery of this courtyard was arranged by him after he came to Beijing. In the small pond, there are fat frogs that he bought from Xiao Huihui's mouth in exchange for a chicken leg, as well as several round and delicate red-tailed carps.

But these are still too monotonous. The yard itself is not small, but with so many people living here, the space needed is naturally not small either.

Liu Yutang wanted to dry the medicinal herbs, Wang Guoping needed a place to dry his dried fish, and Zheng Zhiyuan's stone table for playing chess also took up a large area. Naturally, there was not much space left for the scenery in the yard, and naturally there was no room for him to perform.

But it's fine now.

The yard next door was taken back. Jiang Xiaozi said that there were many people living in their yard, so they would open up this wall to expand over there.

As the yard becomes bigger, it naturally needs to be designed carefully.

Liu Yutang saw Zhou Yuqing jumping up and down and shaking his head.

He couldn't understand Zhou Yuqing's thoughts. In his opinion, it was just a waste of time.

It would be nice if the yard was clean and bright, but you had to dig a pond to raise fish.

The fish in this pond are harder to take care of than people. They die easily. I bought twenty fish, and now only four are dead.

Zhou Yuqing asked him to treat his fish, but he was a Chinese medicine doctor, not a veterinarian, and didn't know how to treat fish at all. Zhou Yuqing even looked down on him in front of him. He got angry when he thought about it.

Liu Yutang made up his mind that once the yard next door was cleaned up, he would live in a separate yard and let Zhou Yuqing do whatever he wanted.

Seeing Liu Yutang shaking his head with a look of disapproval, Zhou Yuqing became anxious.

The two old men started arguing with each other.

Ye Rou leaned against Jiang Chen, feeling drowsy in the sun, when the two old men suddenly started quarreling, waking her up.

She yawned lazily, did not try to stop the fight, and lay on Jiang Chen's shoulders, hugged his neck, and watched him play chess with Grandpa Wang.

Jiang Chen's back was bent due to the pressure, and his left hand naturally supported Ye Rou, allowing her to press on him.

On the rosewood chess table, black and white chess pieces are fighting against each other.

"Who wins and who loses?"

Ye Rou poked her chin on Jiang Chen's shoulder and whispered in Jiang Chen's ear.

Jiang Chen tilted his head to look at her.

Ye Rou's hair was messy after sleeping, and there were some red marks on her face. Her little face was pink and pale. She lay softly on Jiang Chen, with a faint fragrance that was alluring.

Jiang Chen's narrow eyes showed some smiles, and he teased her: "Guess?"

Ye Rou was not troubled by him, and her already soft voice was lowered, making it even sweeter.

"I guess you're going to win, am I right?"

She raised her little face, with an expression as if asking her how she guessed it.

Jiang Chen happily cooperated with her, "How did you guess that?"

Ye Rou thought his reaction was exaggerated, but she still explained it to Jiang Chen. She covered her mouth and whispered, "Grandpa Wang's face turned black."

She knew nothing about Go, so she naturally couldn't tell who was winning or losing from the chess pieces, but analyzing facial expressions was her strong point.

Grandpa Wang held the chess piece in his hand, his face full of bitterness and hatred, this expression did not look like he intended to win.

"Congratulations, you guessed it right." Jiang Chen smiled softly and handed the warm white chess piece in his hand to Ye Rou, "Your trophy."

Ye Rou narrowed her eyes, took the chess piece with a smile, and was about to give a "acceptance speech".

The mute woman came in and gestured to her: Someone wants to see you.

Ye Rou's "highlight moment" was interrupted. She wrinkled her nose and stood up reluctantly.

Seeing Jiang Chen was about to leave, Wang Guoping became anxious and no longer hesitated, and made the black move.

"The game isn't over yet, Jiang boy, don't even think about running away."

Jiang Chen placed the white chess piece down and said calmly, "I won."

He stood up and took Ye Rou away.

Wang Guoping stared at the last white chess piece he placed, and said in annoyance, "I shouldn't have moved here."

Zhou Yuqing laughed at him, "You lost, but you're still being stubborn."

Wang Guoping refused to admit defeat and said, "Today I persisted for almost half an hour before I lost."

Liu Yutang followed up and said, "That's because Xiaorou fell asleep leaning against Jiang kid, so he showed mercy to you."

Wang Guoping had to admit that they were right.

"The disciple is better than the master."

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Seeing that the person coming was Jiang Weiguo, Ye Rou said excitedly: "Brother Jiang, you have worked hard and made such a trip."

"Small things."

Jiang Weiguo glanced at the two people's handcuffed hands and looked at Jiang Chen with a strange expression.

Seeing that Jiang Chen's expression showed no joy and seemed to be unwelcome to him, Jiang Weiguo snorted, not wanting to let Jiang Chen get his wish.

He pulled out his keys and took the handcuffs.

Ye Rou lightened her wrist, her joyful expression showing no sign of subsiding.

Jiang Chen looked even more unhappy, and took his anger out on Jiang Weiguo, "The key has been delivered, you can leave now."

Jiang Weiguo was shocked by his attitude of getting rid of him after he had done his job.

He rolled his eyes and sat down on the nearest chair.

If you want him to leave, he won't leave.

"Someone wants to see Ye Rou."

Ye Rou looked confused: "Who is it?"

Jiang Weiguo went out and brought the person in.

Seeing the person following Jiang Weiguo, Ye Rou said with some surprise: "Uncle Gu, we meet again."

Gu Xue smiled and nodded.

When Jiang Chen saw the person, his expression softened a little.

Thanks to his report, Jiang Chen was able to find Ye Rou. He did not shout to drive her away, and even asked the mute woman to serve her tea.

Gu Xue glanced at the vicious-looking old woman, then looked at the tall, handsome, sinister man, and felt strange.

He spoke more cautiously again and did not directly explain the purpose of his trip. He first showed concern for Ye Rou's health.