A Midnight Escape Story for Farmers

"Boss, are you back?!" Fang Shiqing jumped up all of a sudden, surprised and delighted.

It was Xiao Fengdi himself who walked in from the door of the lounge.

The moment Fang Shiqing saw him, the uneasiness in Fang Shiqing's heart finally fell to the ground with a bang.He looked tired, his eyes were bloodshot, and his jacket was quite stained, but not traumatized.

He looked at Fang Shiqing fixedly, and asked after a while, "Are you all right these few days?"

"I'm fine, you..."

Fang Shiqing originally wanted to ask "Why did it take so long to come back", but seeing the other party's state, he swallowed the question back.

Although I don't know what he has been doing these days, it seems that he hasn't had much rest.It would be inconsiderate to ask such questions to someone who is so tired.

Besides, the answers to those questions didn't really matter at all, the fact that he came back was the most important thing.

"It's good that you are safe and sound, go and have a rest."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Fengdi shook his head.

"I'll be leaving right now."

"……Hey?"

Xiao Fengdi walked to the other end of the lounge, opened the safe in the corner, and put something in.

"I haven't finished my business," he said straight up, "I have to finish it."

"..."

Fang Shiqing opened his mouth, but was unable to speak.

——Why are you still leaving?And leave so soon?

People seem to just pass by and come back to put something, and they don't stop at all.If he didn't happen to be here, wouldn't it be impossible to touch this side at all?

His expression must be so depressed that Xiao Fengdi paused his movements and looked at him: "Is there anything else?"

"...No." He said dejectedly.What else can I say, he has no position at all to interfere with other people's work.

Seeing this, Xiao Fengdi showed a faint smile.

"It won't take long this time, and I'll be back in a day or two." He said, "Actually, it didn't take long at all, but I just encountered a little trouble."

"Oh……"

However, Fang Shiqing couldn't simply be happy, "You look very tired now, is it really okay to just go out like this?"

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about me."

Fang Shiqing also felt that his worries were unnecessary.The big guy has his own way of doing things, and he can't help at all. He can only talk nonsense here, and he thinks he is annoying.

"By the way," Xiao Fengdi said suddenly, "Since you happen to be here, why don't you come and help me?"

"...what's the matter?"

Xiao Fengdi pulled him out, walked through the corridor, until he came to the door of the library, then pointed out the door wordlessly: "Look."

Fang Shiqing probed out without knowing why, only to see a figure hovering at the door.

——Looking at the back, it's either Zhang Yu or Zhang Yu.

Seeing that person turned his head to look at the door, he quickly shrank back: "Why is he here?"

Xiao Fengdi paused, showing a hint of irritability: "It's very troublesome to explain. Anyway, if I hadn't met this NPC this time, I wouldn't have delayed my return for so long."

"..." It sounded a bit serious, "Then, what can I do for you?"

"Just help me attract her attention for a while, I don't want to be entangled with her again when I go out."

Fang Shiqing figured it out, and asked him to talk to the NPC and turn her attention to him, so Xiao Fengdi could take the opportunity to leave.

"Uh, does it need to be so exaggerated?"

He felt a little strange.Leaving Zhang Yu alone, Zhang Yu has been pestering the boss for a day or two. Xiao Fengdi has always ignored her completely, treating her as if she didn't exist when he didn't need it, and treating her as her when he needed it. It's an ordinary npc, and it's never been so close to a big enemy.

"I just want to avoid uncertainty as much as possible."

Since everyone said so, "attracting attention" shouldn't be a difficult task, Fang Shiqing nodded in a daze, went out and walked towards the figure.

The man turned around following the sound.After seeing that it was him, he was obviously disappointed, but he still pulled himself together and showed a sweet smile: "What a coincidence, Brother Shiqing, are you also here to find Xiao...?"

——Well, this style of painting is Zhang Yu's right.

"No, I'm just here to pet a cat. Boss, he's not here for a few days."

Fang Shiqing pretended to shift his position inadvertently, guiding Zhang Yu, who was talking to him, to slightly turn his back to the door.

"Ah, I know that." Zhang Yu didn't know what to think of, and suddenly his face was sweet, "Because I have been with him for the past few days! We are in the mountains to the east, which is usually deserted. No one else, just me and him."

"..." Fang Shiqing suddenly didn't want to speak.He felt a subtle sourness.

Did the boss go to the mountains to the east?Unexpectedly, he found out about it from an NPC in the end.

...It's better not to know.

"However, I couldn't find him once I got back to town," Zhang Yu said with regret, "I think he must have come back first? So I came to look for him. Brother Shiqing, tell me the truth. Has he come back yet?"

Fang Shiqing looked over her shoulder, watched Xiao Fengdi come out of the door, and then left directly to the southeast, so he shook his head with peace of mind and said:

"No, he's really not in the library right now."

"Ah? No, then where will he go?" Zhang Yu didn't quite believe it, "Brother Shiqing, can you take me in to have a look? Maybe he has already returned, but you didn't see it."

"I'm sorry, this really won't work." Fang Shiqing shook his head resolutely.Although the library is a public place, but now that Xiao Fengdi is not in the library, he really dare not bring this kind of NPC in casually, "You should go back first."

"Oh……"

Because his attitude was firm enough, Zhang Yu was a little disappointed, but he didn't bother him much.It's just that she didn't intend to leave, instead she sat down on the steps of the door, as if she was going to wait until the end of time.

Fang Shiqing had a headache, and he began to understand why Xiao Fengdi avoided her.

"Why do you have to find him?" He knelt down next to Zhang Yu, trying to reason with her, "Is there something important that you have to find him?"

"Of course it's because I like him!" Zhang Yu said without hesitation, "I like him, so I want to see him every moment. If I don't see him for a while, I miss him. The so-called not seeing him is like every other day." Sanqiu."

At the end, she added: "Brother Shiqing, can't you understand this feeling? You must have never liked anyone before."

"..." Damn, hit the nail on the head.

Fang Shiqing held his breath and said: "But if you pursue too closely, people may feel uncomfortable, but in the end they will hate you instead, isn't the gain outweigh the loss?"

"Your idea is too hypocritical," Zhang Yu disagreed, "If I don't try to express my love in every way, how can he feel it? Even if he hates me, the worst ending is just ignoring me That’s all, it’s no different from now.”

... You also know that people don't care about you now? !

Fang Shiqing was speechless.Speaking of it, he didn't need to gossip so much with an NPC, but during the conversation, he discovered that she actually has her own ideas, is very confident, and does things very purposefully.

This made him feel a little envious.Even the vague sourness from before dissipated a lot, and he even felt that if she was not an NPC but a real girl, maybe she could really get what she wanted.

Happiness should belong to such confident and brave people.

"Let me tell you, Brother Shiqing," Zhang Yu put on a face of an emotional expert, "If one day you want to chase someone, you must learn to be thick-skinned. Until you receive a clear rejection, you can't give up. , because some people are born dull, he may not like you, he just doesn't know that you like him."

"En." Fang Shi said with a clear heart, I probably won't have that day. Such things as "chasing someone" and "being chased" are too far away from him.

After returning to the farm, Fang Shiqing worked as usual.

The quality of the newly harvested corn varies. The lower quality corn can be dried and used as fodder, while the higher quality corn can be sold or kept for self-eating.Just one crop of corn made him earn thousands of yuan. After expanding the planting scale, he will definitely earn more next time.

The next day he went to the library to feed the cat as usual, but Xiao Fengdi didn't come back, and Zhang Yu was still perseveringly squatting at the door, looking as if he would never give up until he could wait for someone.

And on this day, he also received a summer festival notice——

Valentine's Day.

Compared with the serious tree planting and Dragon Boat Festival in spring, this summer festival has a subtle taste no matter how you look at it.

The traditional Valentine's Day, of course, refers to the Qixi Festival - according to myths and legends, this is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet once a year.In traditional culture, girls will prepare fresh fruits on this night and throw needles into the water to "beg for cleverness".However, it is impossible to go out at night in the game, and it is impossible to reproduce this romantic tradition, so we have to settle for the next best thing, and put various melons and fruits on the square in broad daylight for the townspeople to use for free.

Mayor Li made a special visit to his farm once and asked him if there were any seasonal fresh fruits that could be used on the festival day. The town government funded them and bought them at a price slightly higher than the retail price.

Of course, there is no reason to refuse such a good thing. Just as the watermelons and grapes on the farm were ripe, he took advantage of the situation and sold all the finished products, earning more than 8000 yuan in one go.

He felt regretful, it was a pity that the few peach trees were not ripe yet, otherwise he could have sold many more peaches together.

As for the messy activities on the day of the festival, such as the random exchange of gifts between men and women of the right age, the marriage of thousands of miles... and so on, it has nothing to do with him.

Not only he thought so, but none of the other players signed up to participate in the event: from the player's point of view, NPCs and them are not creatures of the same dimension at all, and it is unimaginable to fall in love with NPCs.

On the 13th of the "Xia" month, that is, the morning of "Valentine's Day", Fang Shiqing came to the central square.

The square is already crowded with people, even more lively than on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.There are several long tables in the middle, which are full of all kinds of cut fruits. From time to time, an NPC will take one of the plates, but it won't be long before there will be another one that is exactly the same. Inexhaustible.

Only the corner where the bulletin board was located was relatively clean, and he squeezed through with great difficulty, only to see that most of the other players had already arrived, and they were huddling together to eat watermelons.

"Brother Fang, come and eat melons together!" He Xiangwu greeted him vaguely, these people did not know how many plates of watermelon they brought over, it looked as if they wanted to eat all the fruits of the whole year.

Everyone ecstatically ate, Zeng Xin was still wearing a professional skirt and high heels, and now she squatted on the ground like everyone else, happily eating a corner of watermelon.

Fang Shiqing didn't want to eat fruit urgently, probably because he could produce melons in his field, and he always felt that there were still many opportunities to eat them in the future.

He looked around: "Where's Zhao Jun? Didn't come?"

"He didn't come," You Qingyu threw the cleaned watermelon rind into the trash can, and took the time to say, "I didn't see him at all. Shi Qing, Brother Xiao didn't come, why didn't you ask Brother Xiao?"

"...Because I probably know why Brother Xiao is not here."

Having said that, counting the days, the boss should be back today, right?

Fang Shiqing looked in the direction of the library from a distance, and planned to go there later to have a look.

"Do you not like watermelon?"

Gu Jinhong handed him a plate of peaches, and he thanked him and took it.However, the other party did not return immediately to continue eating the fruit, but stood beside him, as if he wanted to say something.

"Uh, what's the matter?"

"That's right." Gu Jinhong was silent for a moment, "There is a situation that should have been explained to the player guide, but it's almost the same as telling you. You should pass it on to him."

He reached into the inventory and pulled out something—

A palm-sized wooden doll.

"It's been a week, and in the bar where I work, I've seen this stuff every day," he said.