Leng Shuyue also felt she should go say hello to Leng Yuan.

So, she led Liu Xinxin over.

Her primary goal was to introduce Liu Xinxin to Leng Yuan.

「In the room.」

Gu Jiaojiao watched the arrivals through the window. She didn’t recognize many people from the educated youth point.

To be more precise, the original owner of her body didn’t remember many of their names.

In the past, most of the original owner’s memories from the educated youth point consisted of her painstakingly trying to win over Yun Hao. She paid little attention to any of the other young men.

As for the young women, she had barely spoken to anyone besides Chen Ruoyu and Li Hongmei.

After coming to the countryside, the original owner had been incredibly arrogant, with her nose in the air.

Everyone else was a normal person; with a personality like hers, no one wanted to try and cozy up to someone who would just give them the cold shoulder. The only reason Li Hongmei had latched on was, naturally, to gain some benefits from her.

Gu Jiaojiao watched the group of educated youths walk in. At first, she only recognized Li Fenggu at the front, but the longer she looked, the more she felt that something wasn’t right.

’Why are Yun Hao and Hu Ziqiang here? And Li Hongmei, too.’

’What is wrong with those three!’

But it was a happy occasion, so she couldn’t be bothered to deal with them. Still, they had better not try to stir up any trouble.

It wasn’t just Gu Jiaojiao who didn’t understand; Chen Ruoyu was dumbfounded, too.

She had no idea Yun Hao and Hu Ziqiang would be coming either.

But a moment’s thought made it clear. They were here to thank Leng Yuan. It would have been awkward if they hadn’t come, but showing up was, in fact, even more awkward.

’Can’t they see the subtle glances being exchanged around the courtyard, all landing on Yun Hao and Leng Yuan? Everyone wants to see if they’re going to start a fight.’

As the educated youths entered, Leng Yuan naturally spotted Yun Hao trailing behind the group.

In fact, he had seen him a while ago.

Yun Hao was very tall and stood out among the other youths. There was no way Leng Yuan could have missed him.

When Yun Hao and Hu Ziqiang walked over, the three men stood in a silent confrontation.

The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly dropped to a freezing point.

Everyone held their breath, wondering if Leng Yuan was about to beat Yun Hao to a pulp.

Yun Hao, however, acted perfectly natural. He managed a smile and offered his thank-you gift.

Leng Yuan didn’t accept it, merely telling him to go inside and register.

Yun Hao paused for a second before walking inside with perfect composure.

The crowd: ...

Thankfully, a fight didn’t break out.

Seeing Yun Hao walk away, Hu Ziqiang quickly followed. He didn’t really understand why Yun Hao had insisted on coming. If you asked him, they shouldn’t have shown up at all today.

Leng Yuan, calm and composed, continued to greet the other educated youths. Li Fenggu, who had been standing to the side, waited for the others to move on before stepping forward to apologize.

He said, "Sorry about that. This is my fault."

"But Yun Hao insisted on coming, and I couldn’t exactly turn him away."

Leng Yuan, however, seemed unconcerned. "It has nothing to do with you. Go on in and find a seat."

’After all, people have their own two feet to stand on. Whether they show up or not is their own business.’ 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

’Besides, it’s better to nip certain romantic notions in the bud completely.’

Leng Yuan glanced at the group of educated youths, then beckoned Chen JianShe over. He whispered a few instructions, and Chen JianShe immediately went to arrange the seating.

The seating was arranged with men and women at separate tables. However, the men from the educated youth point filled one table with six or seven people left over, while there was also an odd number of women.

Chen JianShe made a suggestion.

"You can sit with some of the villagers."

"Same for the women—you can sit with the village wives."

Li Hongmei’s eyes darted, and she quickly interjected, "It’s fine, we educated youths can just sit at one table together. The men can drink as they please, and we women will just focus on the food."

After all, they all ate together at the educated youth point every day, so sitting together at a banquet wasn’t a big deal. It was perfectly normal.

The numbers for a banquet rarely worked out perfectly, so it wasn’t strange for men and women who knew each other to share a table.