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When they returned to Youfeng Courtyard, they saw Ma Qiushan meditating. Xu Hongdou said something to Zhou Chen and went back to the room. Zhou Chen also returned to the room from the other side.

After Xu Hongdou returned to her room, she did not clean up because she had almost finished cleaning it in the morning.

She sat on the edge of the bed, picked up the photo of herself and Chen Nanxing, and took out the treasured double painting.

"Chen Nanxing, did you know that I actually met Zhou Chen, who painted our portraits last time, today? It's really incredible. China is such a big place, but he and I actually met in this small Yunmiao Village and became neighbors."

"I didn't believe in fate before, but this time, I have to believe it, otherwise I really can't explain it."

Looking at Chen Nanxing in the photo, her eyes became blurred.

"You advised me to contact him before, but I didn't listen to you. Now he appears in front of me. I wonder if your mouth is blessed?"

Her eyes fell on the well-protected double portrait. It was just an ordinary portrait, but she had kept it until now and cherished it very much, because she and Chen Nanxing had many double photos, but there was only this one double portrait.

"Zhou Chen still remembers me, so he must also remember you, Chen Nanxing. It turns out that here, besides me, there is another person who knows you. Although Zhou Chen may not know anything, I feel inexplicably happy as long as I know that he knows you. Do you know how happy I am?"

The reason why she traveled with Zhou Chen today was not only because Zhou Chen knew her, but also because Zhou Chen also knew Chen Nanxing. This feeling made her feel inexplicably close and at ease.

"Chen Nanxing, let me tell you, this handsome guy in your eyes was actually a programmer. Haha, luckily he's not bald and not greasy."

As she was talking, she felt a little sleepy. She put away the painting, hugged the photo of herself and Chen Nanxing, and slowly fell asleep.

After Zhou Chen returned to the room, he had nothing to do, so he picked up the wood and knife and started carving.

He has developed a habit of learning wood carving these days and will do it whenever he has free time. He understands the principle of perseverance better than most people.

Time passed slowly with the sound of knife carving, and soon the sky outside became dark.

Zhou Chen stopped the work in his hands, looked at the unfinished wood carving, and shook his head in disappointment.

He originally wanted to carve a group of ponies. The images had already been formed, but he still felt unsatisfied, so he threw them aside, put away his tools, stood up and stretched.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 1186: Everyone in the Courtyard, Depressed Hu Youyu

Zhou Chen came to the kitchen downstairs and prepared to cook noodles.

Xu Hongdou was in a daze when she heard someone knocking on her door, and then she heard Zhou Chen's voice.

"Xu Hongdou, it's time for dinner. I cooked some noodles. Do you want to come down and eat with me?"

"Is it evening yet?"

Xu Hongdou looked at the dim room with sleepy eyes, and then she realized that she had slept for several hours.

Because I walked too much in the afternoon and slept for so long, I was really hungry.

"Thank you, you eat first, I still need to clean up."

"It's okay. I haven't started yet. You can come down after you clean up. I have to eat dinner anyway, so it won't be a problem for one more person."

"Okay then, wait for me for a moment."

She was indeed a little hungry, and her wariness towards Zhou Chen had been reduced a lot after spending an afternoon together, so she did not refuse Zhou Chen's invitation.

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the kitchen downstairs."

Although Zhou Chen seldom cooks, he has no problem cooking some simple meals, not to mention cooking noodles which requires less technical skills.

Xu Hongdou sat up from the bed, looked at the photo in her arms, and said gently, "Chen Nanxing, I have to get up and eat."

Ma Qiushan was no longer meditating. He was sitting in the tea room making tea. He was very surprised to see Zhou Chen walking down from the new guest's room and waved to Zhou Chen.

"Zhou Chen, this new tenant just arrived, and you already know her?"

He was meditating when Xu Hongdou came this morning. Although he didn't say hello, he knew that the visitor was a female tenant.

Zhou Chen smiled and replied, "We already know each other, Master Ma, I'm going to cook noodles now, would you like me to make some for you as well?"

Ma Qiushan waved his hand: "No need, you know me, I don't eat after noon."

"Yes, but I saw you in the kitchen a few times at night, Master Ma, and I don't know what you were doing."

"Cough, cough, cough."

Ma Qiushan was choked by Zhou Chen's words and coughed repeatedly. He was about to refute and save his image, but he saw Zhou Chen going to the kitchen without looking back.

Looking at the teacup in his hand again, his stomach growled for no reason, so he put the cup down and walked out of the tea room.

When I came to the kitchen, I saw Zhou Chen boiling water.

"Since you took the initiative to invite me, I'll give you this face and just give me less."

Zhou Chen laughed and said, "No problem, it's just simple vegetable and egg noodles."

"It's better to be vegetarian. It's better to be vegetarian."

As he spoke, he walked to the dining room inside the house and sat down. He had lived here for a long time and usually cooked and ate for himself.

Before Zhou Chen came to this courtyard, the four tenants could hardly get together for meals.

Needless to say, Nana has to go out to work during the day and basically doesn't do anything in the yard; Damai is a night owl, sleeping during the day and only coming out to look for food at night and in the early morning.

Another person, Hu Youyu, is also a night owl. He works in a bar and basically stays in his room during the day, only going out to work in the bar in the afternoon.

So during the day, Machushan basically cooks and eats by himself.

After Zhou Chen came, although he ate out in restaurants most of the time, he also cooked for himself, so Zhou Chen spent the most time in contact with Ma Qiushan.

Xu Hongdou tidied herself up and came downstairs. At this time, Zhou Chen had just finished cooking the noodles.

"Come down, go sit in the restaurant first, the noodles are ready."

"Thank you, Zhou Chen. I am so sorry to trouble you."

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "That's nothing. We are friends now, so it's only natural for us to help each other."

Xu Hongdou smiled sweetly. She was actually not used to men being passionate towards her, but for some reason, Zhou Chen gave her a different feeling.

When she arrived at the restaurant, she saw Machushan already sitting at the table, and she immediately took the initiative to introduce herself.

"Hello, I'm the new tenant, Xu Hongdou."

Machushan nodded, smoothed his hair with his hand, and then threw it back, looking very showy.

"Hello, I'm Machushan from room two."

Zhou Chen came over with a bowl in his hand: "Xu Hongdou, you can just call him Master Ma. That's what we usually call him."

Xu Hongdou smiled slightly and called out openly, "Master Ma."

Ma Qiushan smiled and asked curiously, "I heard from Zhou Chen that you and him are old acquaintances? Did you make an appointment to come here together?"

"No, Master Ma, you misunderstood. I knew him before, but we were not very familiar with each other. We didn't make an appointment to come here. It can only be said to be a coincidence, a coincidence." Xu Hongdou explained.

Master Ma blinked twice: "I see, I see, it's just a coincidence."

Xu Hongdou looked helpless, but did not explain further. She didn't care what others thought.

Zhou Chen brought the pot over, served noodles to Xu Hongdou and Ma Qiushan, and then served a bowl for himself.

"It's just the simplest vegetable fried egg noodles. I asked Aunt Gui to bring the vegetables this morning. They are all fresh."

"Thank you, Zhou Chen."

Xu Hongdou picked up the chopsticks and prepared to eat.

Just then, footsteps were heard suddenly, and then a young and beautiful girl walked in.

"Zhou Chen, Master Ma, we are having dinner. Hey, is this the new tenant of our courtyard?"

Nana was very surprised to see Xu Hongdou. She worked with Xie Xiaochun and naturally knew that Room 6 had been rented out. So when she saw the unfamiliar Xu Hongdou, she immediately guessed Xu Hongdou's identity.

Xu Hongdou put down her chopsticks and took the initiative to say, "Hello, my name is Xu Hongdou, nice to meet you."

Nana also smiled brightly, walked towards Xu Hongdou and shook hands with her.

"Hello, I'm Nana."

"So you are the Nana who lives in Room 1 that Xie Xiaochun told me about. Nana, you are so pretty."

"No, you are the prettiest one."

The two women's first meeting was obviously very harmonious and they had already started praising each other.

Zhou Chen asked: "Nana, I cooked some noodles, would you like some too?"

Nana looked at Zhou Chen and the other two who were about to eat, so she nodded and said, "Okay."

As she said that, she went to the kitchen to get bowls and chopsticks, served herself some noodles, and sat down in an empty seat next to Machushan.

"Master Ma, don't you not eat after noon? Why did you eat today?"

Ma Qiushan said with an unchanged expression: "We have a new tenant, let's celebrate."

"We're just eating noodles to celebrate, and you didn't make them?"

Nana was just joking.

Ma Qiushan changed the subject and said, "Nana, you don't know yet, Zhou Chen and Xu Hongdou knew each other before."

"Ah? Is there still such a thing?"

Nana was very surprised. Looking at Zhou Chen, her woman's intuition suddenly emerged and she couldn't help but think of what Zhou Chen said that night.

Zhou Chen said that he came here to wait for someone, a destined person.

Could it be?

She couldn't help but look at Xu Hongdou again. Could this be the case?

When Xu Hongdou saw Nana's eyes, she didn't think much about it and thought that Nana was also curious, so she started to explain.

"I met Zhou Chen once before in the capital. At that time, he was painting in the park, and then he drew a picture for me and my friend. But we only met that one time. I was also surprised to meet him here."

Zhou Chen also said: "Xu Hongdou is right, we only met once, and it is indeed fate that we met here."

Seeing that they didn't seem to be lying, Nana suddenly said, "So that's how it is. Then you two are really destined to be together. But Zhou Chen, aren't you from Shanghai? How did you meet Hongdou in the capital?"

Xu Hongdou was also surprised when she heard this: "Zhou Chen, don't you work in the capital?"

Zhou Chen said: "No, I'm from Shanghai. I went to the capital last year on a business trip."

"Oh, I thought you were from the capital."

Now Nana and Ma Qiushan both understood that Xu Hongdou was indeed not very familiar with Zhou Chen, otherwise she would not have known that Zhou Chen was from Modu.

"Eat noodles, eat noodles."

The four of them quickly finished the whole pot of noodles. Of course, Zhou Chen and Ma Qiushan were the main contributors, while Xu Hongdou and Nana each ate a bowl.

"Hey, hey, what's going on? Are you in a meeting?"

Hu Youyu suddenly walked in with a guitar on his back.

Nana asked in confusion: "Teacher Hu, why did you come back so early today?"

Hu Youyu said depressedly: "Something happened at the bar today, so it closed early. I just came back. What are you doing? Hey, who is this beautiful lady I don't know? Is she a new tenant?"

Having said that, without waiting for the others to introduce themselves, he rushed to Xu Hongdou and extended his hand.

"Hello, beautiful lady. My name is Hu Youyu and I'm a musician."

Nana coughed several times and said, "Teacher Hu, could you please stop bragging about yourself? You're a musician, right?"

Hu Youyu shouted in dissatisfaction: "What's wrong? Why am I not a musician? I write my own songs and sing them, and I am also a resident singer. Why can't I be considered a musician?"

"Okay, okay, Mr. Hu, I was wrong. You are a musician, okay."

"That's pretty much it."

After saying that, Hu Youyu looked at Xu Hongdou again.

Xu Hongdou smiled politely but did not shake hands with him. She just said, "Hello, Mr. Hu. My name is Xu Hongdou."

"Xu Hongdou, what a nice name."

Hu Youyu was about to say a few more words, but Xu Hongdou had already turned her head away from him, which prevented him from saying the next words.

"have to."

Hu Youyu was asking for trouble and put the two barbecues and beer in his hands on the table.

"I just baked it when I came back. It just so happens that everyone in our courtyard is here. Let's call Da Mai down and have a drink together."