The Secret to Picking Up Girls

Zhang Yuze was extremely happy to hear this. He took out a candy from his pocket and handed it to the little girl, smiling as he said, "Little sister, if you take big brother to Sister Guo Yan's house, this candy is yours, okay?" The little girl was very happy and immediately took the candy Zhang Yuze gave her, then ran ahead. Zhang Yuze and Wu Xinyu exchanged a glance, smiled, and followed behind the girl. However, along the way, Zhang Yuze was extremely puzzled by the fact that there were so many white streamers hanging in the village. Did so many people die? Although both Zhang Yuze and Wu Xinyu were filled with doubts, neither of them asked much, and they silently followed behind the little girl. Soon, the little girl pointed to a dilapidated-looking earthen house and said to the two of them, "Big brother, big sister, this is Sister Guo Yan's house." As she spoke, the little girl ran off and quickly disappeared without a trace. Zhang Yuze nodded to Wu Xinyu and walked towards the earthen house.

However, before the two of them could even get close, the door of the earthen house suddenly opened, and a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old opened the door, holding a medicine pot in his hand and dumping the dregs into a basket on the side. The young man's face was full of sorrow, as if he was burdened with worries. When he saw Zhang Yuze and Wu Xinyu, his expression faltered, and he looked at Zhang Yuze and Wu Xinyu with some suspicion, wondering why they had come.

"Who are you?" the young man asked, looking at Zhang Yuze and Wu Xinyu, his expression filled with doubt. Zhang Yuze smiled slightly, took a step forward, and said to the young man with a smile, "I am your sister's classmate, here to visit her family. You must be her younger brother, Guo Qing, right?" When the young man heard Zhang Yuze say that he was his sister's classmate and even knew his name right away, his doubts about Zhang Yuze completely disappeared. He nodded to Zhang Yuze and said, "Please come in!"

Zhang Yuze nodded to Wu Xinyu beside him and walked into the earthen house. As soon as the two of them entered the room, a sour smell hit them in the face. Zhang Yuze didn't feel anything, having grown up in the countryside as a child, he didn't find it offensive, but rather felt a kind of familiarity. However, Wu Xinyu beside Zhang Yuze was a little unaccustomed to it, and frowned, saying, "What's this smell?"

"Hehe, this is how the countryside is. This young lady must be from the big city!" the young man said, looking at Wu Xinyu with a faint smile. Zhang Yuze heard Guo Yan crying in his sea of consciousness, knowing that she was touched by the scene, and couldn't help but comfort her with a few words.

"Are you really my sister's classmates?" Guo Qing put two chairs in front of the two of them and asked them faintly.

"Hehe, it doesn't seem like we need to lie to you, does it?" Zhang Yuze saw that Guo Qing's expression still carried suspicion and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

"What you said is true." Guo Qing heard Zhang Yuze's words, thought about it, and felt that it was indeed as Zhang Yuze said, it seemed that the other party didn't need to lie to him at all.

"By the way, where are uncle and aunt? I don't seem to have seen them yet!" Zhang Yuze asked, feeling a little puzzled that he hadn't seen Guo Yan's family after being here for so long.

(End of this chapter)