How to Save a Failed Farm

The first snow this winter comes on the first Tuesday in December.The snow gently covers the peaceful field, the rolling hills in the distance and the sloping roofs of every house.The empty space was filled with dreamy pure white, a layer of hexagonal hoarfrost formed on the window panes, and the stone path in front of the door was also buried under thick snow.

Ye Qun was wearing a thin sweater and cotton gray trousers, slumped in the soft seat back by the window, with a thick woolen blanket on his lap, and a sandwich lying quietly on his lap.

He put his five fingers apart on the cold glass, intently observing the low-slanting sunlight changing angles over the distant fields. The cloudless sky was pure blue, which was so dazzling under the reflection of the snow that it was difficult to look directly at it. .

There were soft footsteps outside the room, and Lance opened the door with two cups of hot milk and walked in. Ye Qun turned his head and smiled faintly: "How are Sally and Serra?" He sighed and said, "It's so big." snow."

"They are very good. The straw pile I strengthened in advance this year has worked." Lance handed the hot milk to his hand, and when it touched Ye Qun's cold fingertips, he asked with concern: "Are you cold? Turn up the heat?"

"No need, the window is too cold." Ye Qun removed his hand from the glass nonchalantly, and Lance put down the milk and held his hand in his palm to warm it up.

"If you do this, I will lose the fun of winter." Ye Qun said dissatisfiedly, but Lance's high body temperature made him stretch his brows comfortably.

"What fun?"

Ye Qun withdrew his hand swiftly, and slapped it into Lance's gray sweater. He waited for a second or two, but the expected screams and dodges did not appear.

"...Don't you feel it?"

"Feeling?" Lance smiled foolishly, "It's cool?"

Ye Qun curled his lips boredly, took a sip of the milk, and couldn't help frowning: "It's so sweet, how much honey did you put in?"

"Is it sweet?" Lance didn't drink his own glass, but kissed his lips with a circle of white milk stains from his mouth. "I feel okay?"

"To be honest, your diet has too many sweets." Ye Qun rolled his eyes, adding sugar to milk, sugar to coffee, sugar to porridge, and syrup, candy and chocolate.

Ye · Contemporary Health Department Post-90s · Qun sees Lance adding sugar or honey condensed milk by the spoonful, wondering whether they will develop diabetes in a few years due to excessive sugar intake.

"Sweets help keep you happy." Lance said with a simple smile on his face.

Is this the culprit that makes you giggle all day long?Ye Qun complained in his heart.

"By the way, talking about honey." Ye Qun said seriously, "Have you contacted Brand's family?"

"...emmmm I contacted them before I went hunting and delayed the time." And you forgot to reply?Under Ye Qun's questioning eyes, Lance grabbed the phone in a hurry, and promised guiltily, "I'll call now."

Are you really not here to play tickets?Ye Qun watched weakly as Lance found Brand's name in the address book and typed. Now he really doubted whether the farm would go bankrupt.

It took a long time to get through the phone.Lance first greeted the person on the other end of the line in his usual warm voice, and then apologized for taking a few days to reply.But soon his smile seemed to froze, Ye Qun looked worriedly, and then Lance actually walked away from him.

After a while, Lance reappeared in the bedroom, and before he could speak, Ye Qun asked, "What happened?"

It seems that Lance's reaction has changed a lot. After all, he is always heartless no matter how bad the situation is. Could it be that Brand died suddenly?

"Nothing." Lance said with a twinkle in his eyes, "They found someone else to cooperate."

"You are not suitable for lying." Ye Qun crossed his arms and looked at him, unceremoniously said, "If this is the case, you won't have such a reaction."

"That's it, they don't plan to cooperate with us anymore." Lance spread his hands helplessly, as if to prove his innocence.

"This is the result, so what's the reason? Did they scold you?" Ye Qun's eyes showed displeasure. Lance is an overly gentle and stupid guy. He treats everyone friendly and sincere. Most of them do as well.This doesn't mean that he can be accused at will, he is the only one who can bully Lance.

"The reason is..." Lance gave up his defense after looking at Ye Qun's cold eyes.

"Well, they're Catholics." Lance slumped his shoulders grimly. He's really not good at lying.

"So what?" Ye Qun didn't turn the corner for a moment.

"They don't want to work with gay people." Lance added with a careful glance at him, "Don't take it to heart, I promise other people don't know this, people in this town are very friendly, we won't be discriminated against. "

"This is really absurd." Ye Qun didn't know what to say for a moment, and he let out a breath after a while, feeling powerless and depressed in his heart. "How did you reply?"

"I told him your words were offensive, and then I hung up the phone." Seeing Ye Qun's expression turn gloomy, he added, "easy, there will always be some people who have prejudice against... homosexuality. It's normal, we just Just ignore it..." Lance held his shoulder with his warm palm, showing a comforting smile.

Ye Qun interrupted him: "I didn't mean that."

Lance's sluggish expression made Ye Qun even more angry: "They shouldn't use this to accuse you. They can refuse to cooperate, but they have no right to accuse you. What the hell does it have to do with them?" He couldn't bear it. He swears a bad word, looks weakly at Lance Chunliang's face and says, "Are you always like this? You've never been angry when you've been bullied? Don't you fight back?"

"It's really nothing," Lance said softly, "I just don't think there's any need to be angry about this kind of thing. And, how do you think someone would bully me?" He shrugged nonchalantly, " I weigh two hundred pounds."

"You're an overly honest and nice gentleman, you can bully you with a sandwich, thank you." Ye Qun rolled his eyes, he was really glad that Lance grew up in such a pure environment, protecting his overly upright and kind heart. It didn't hurt to be polluted.

"But how would they know this? We shouldn't have publicly appeared in the town." Lance frowned and thought.

"The only ones who know about this are the Joseph couple, Lily, and Brother Jesse Allie." Ye Qun reminded.

"Lily doesn't live in the town, and she only comes back during the holidays...those two brats." Lance said with a headache, "It's really unreliable."

Sandwich, who had been dozing off all the time, suddenly jumped up from Ye Qun's lap and ran downstairs. Ye Qun stood up in shock, and the sound of the doorbell came from the loudspeaker at the same time.

"Who will come in this kind of snowy day?" Lance muttered wonderingly, and ran downstairs while responding, "Coming!"

Ye Qun followed him downstairs, and Jesse and Eli appeared behind the door. The two brothers were wearing thick down jackets and identical black hats.Their cheeks were flushed with cold, and they rubbed their hands and breathed as soon as they entered the door.

"What are you two doing here?" Lance folded his arms and looked at them. "We were talking about you."

"Aha, what?" Ai Li almost took a step back, he looked at Ye Qun and Lance nervously, and asked carefully, "You already know?"

Lance was a head taller than Brother Richard, and the angle of looking down gave him a sense of oppression: "Then maybe you can explain what's going on? Anyway, come in first." He stepped aside a location.

"I still don't... just here is fine..." Jessie gave him a slight push, and Ali had to walk in.

"Uh...the thing is..." Ali sat on the sofa, pinching the hem of his clothes nervously, and Jessie kicked him: "Hey, act like a man."

"Okay, I'm really sorry." Ali looked at them guiltily, "Just yesterday... Mom asked me to buy honey at Bland's house, and Jesse was practicing football in the yard, so I asked him to accompany me Let's go together, he told me to go away..."

"Can you get to the point..." Jesse held his forehead weakly.

"Okay," Ali swallowed nervously, "Anyway, Jesse went with me in the end. We came to Bland's house. We wanted to buy honey and leave, but Mrs. Bland was very enthusiastic. He asked us to come in and have a chat...we started chatting, Mrs. Bland asked me if you haven't come back from hunting, and then I accidentally slipped my mouth and told her that Obido is your boyfriend..."

"I really didn't do it on purpose." Ai Li said with a sad face, "Can you forgive me?"

Ai Li has a baby face and looks like a child. His sincere expression and tense tone made it impossible for Ye Qun to criticize him.Although Ai Li is a bit reckless, he is not a bear, at least he will make a special trip to apologize after doing something wrong.

He shrugged tolerantly. "Okay, it's not a big deal. As long as we live in this town, sooner or later everyone will find out that you guys just moved the process forward."

"So you really forgive me?" Eli wrung his fingers and asked uncertainly, "You are a good person."

"It's okay." Lance put a hand on his thin shoulder, comforting, "Speaking of which, you also helped us avoid some embarrassment."

"I didn't know they were such devout believers," Lance said. "It would be even more embarrassing if they didn't find out until after we'd talked about working together."

"My family is also a Catholic, but we will not have any prejudice against you, I promise." Ali assured, "This is personal freedom, and it is not a crime."

"Me too." Jesse followed suit.

Ye Qun was a little dumbfounded: "Thank you."

"We have to go home for dinner. If we are late, we will be scolded again. Come over to my house in two days to play? My mother baked delicious pies, Lance knows." The two brothers walked to the door, and Eric turned The head showed a sincere smile to them: "Bless you, goodbye."