Chapter 461: Chapter 461

On Saturday morning, Huo Feng chatted with Pu Sangzhi over WeChat all morning.

Pu Sangzhi’s gentle guidance made Huo Feng feel much better...

Huo Feng was even brainwashed by her, planning to treat the elder Huo well and try to ease the father-son relationship in the future.

With this mindset, he looked for various opportunities to smile and show his friendly side to elder Huo during lunch.

However, Huo Mingshan had seen through his forced smiles several times and eventually said, "Drop that fake smile, I know what you’re thinking. You’re not allowed to go out this afternoon either!"

It turned out that his attempts to appease elder Huo were completely rejected!

Huo Mingshan even sternly ordered, "Spend the afternoon doing all the household chores."

Huo Feng frowned upon hearing this!

Huo Mingshan continued, "Your mom and I have been bearing the burden for you for half a year, you’ll take on your own responsibilities from now on!"

Huo Feng’s mouth fell open, dropping the meatball he had picked up with his chopsticks.

Huo Mingshan, ignoring his displeased expression, continued, "The floors, dishes, tables, chairs, bookshelves, windowsills—every visible place must be cleaned. I will stay home this afternoon just to watch you."

Unable to hold back, Huo Feng ’snap’, put down his chopsticks and glared fiercely, his expression wild!

Just when Shen Yu and Huo Mingshan thought that the lad had the audacity to lose his temper right in front of them!

Suddenly, Huo Feng softened his tone and looked at Shen Yu with pleading eyes, "Mom, help me out..."

Shen Yu nodded as usual, "Okay, I’ll help you a little."

After Shen Yu softened, Huo Mingshan’s stern face also softened in a chain reaction, "Then I’ll help you too..."

Shen Yu looked satisfied with Huo Mingshan, then turned to Huo Feng, "This is much better. A family should be together! You two, from now on, don’t hurt each other’s feelings over Pu Sangzhi. I’m saying this ugly up front, if you two fight over Pu Sangzhi again, I might start disliking Pu Sangzhi!"

Huo Feng immediately reassured, "That won’t happen! We definitely won’t fight!"

Huo Mingshan was also a bit flustered, "Look, what are you talking about! When I fight with the brat, it’s because he touched my watch! Sangzhi won’t let us fight, she won’t, really she won’t..."

In that moment, father and son were united in their stance, surprisingly cooperative.

Shen Yu then nodded her head, looking satisfied, "Mhm, that’s how it should be."

Thus, the meal was eventually enjoyed in peace.

And Huo Feng, during his rare weekend off, still couldn’t escape household chores...

At 7 a.m. on Sunday, Huo Feng skipped breakfast, dressed, brushed his teeth, and washed his face, then sneaked out of the house.

All of this was to avoid elder Huo...

At 7:30 a.m., Huo Feng arrived at Pu Sangzhi’s house, just in time to encounter her dressed in sportswear, ready to go out for a morning run.

This was exactly the scenario he had anticipated, and for this, Huo Feng also wore sportswear today.

"Hey beautiful, what a coincidence, meeting at the alley! How about we exercise together?" he joked with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his face.

Pu Sangzhi looked at him helplessly, "Coincidence... you obviously have ulterior motives!"

Though she said that, Pu Sangzhi still led Huo Feng along, and they started jogging together.

Their jog together took them to Jinhe Park, where they ran slowly in the busy morning park at roughly the same speed, making them a beautiful sight on the soft pebble path.

After jogging for about half an hour, the two stopped at a steamed bun shop to buy breakfast.

Pu Sangzhi ate steamed rolls with milk, Huo Feng had barbecue pork buns with milk, and they also packed vermicelli milk to take back for Chen Huifen.

However, before returning home, the two went to a small market near the park to buy some vegetables.

Pu Sangzhi often shopped alone, so having Huo Feng by her side occasionally drew curious glances from the stall owners.

In the past, when Huo Feng accompanied her to the market, if anyone teased "is he Pu Sangzhi’s boyfriend?", Pu Sangzhi would always retort and show her displeasure.

But today, when a stall owner teased Pu Sangzhi, "You haven’t brought your young boyfriend shopping in a while!",

Pu Sangzhi just smiled, didn’t explain, didn’t deny, didn’t object.

Huo Feng, seeing her tacit approval, was more than happy to pay.

Thus, the morning at Pu Sangzhi’s home passed very happily for Huo Feng.

After lunch, under Huo Feng’s strong suggestion, Pu Sangzhi accompanied him to Rui’an.

There were two goals. First, to go to the Rui’an Library to pick out books for her. Second, to accompany Huo Feng shopping for perfume for his father.

The two took a bus for over half an hour and arrived at Rui’an Library.

Rui’an Library is located at the southern end of the Cultural and Art Center, east of Rui’an Square. It is the largest library in Rui’an City and also a national first-class library.

The library holds 500,000 volumes and has up to 1,000 reading seats, with multiple reading rooms—it can certainly be called a sacred place akin to a "sea of books"!

Huo Feng led Pu Sangzhi into the library, and immediately spotted the often-quoted line of poetry on the wall of the library: "The road to knowledge through books takes diligence as the path; the sea of learning is boundless, hard work is the boat."

"Look, isn’t this kind of place suitable for a top student like you?" Huo Feng proudly said, gesturing toward the library.

Pu Sangzhi looked towards the neatly arranged bookshelves on the second floor and the clean, refreshing seats in the reading room on the first floor, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

She, who usually enjoyed reading, was very pleased with this place!

Fortunately, it was only noon when they came; if it had been in the morning, Pu Sangzhi thought, she probably could have spent the whole day here!

"What do you think? Any thoughts?"

Next to her, Huo Feng raised his eyebrows at her.

Pu Sangzhi simply said, "Next time, can we come to a place for a date?"

Pu Sanghzi quickly went up to the second floor, and following the signs and categories, began looking for books.

Huo Feng followed by her side, walking through rows of bookshelves together.

Since it was Sunday, there were quite a few students in the library, all wearing sports-style school uniforms of different colors.

Many were middle and elementary school students from schools in Rui’an City Center, and of course, there were also high school students.

Fortunately, this was in Rui’an, so Huo Feng was not worried about running into acquaintances to disturb him and Pu Sangzhi.

This way, all the time was theirs!

"Sangzhi, didn’t you want to read romance novels? I’ll take you to pick a few!" Huo Feng said.

Pu Sanghzi, driven by instinct, had already silently walked into the middle of the bookshelves categorized under ’Foreign Classics.’ Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦•𝘯𝘦𝘵

Reminded by Huo Feng, she then remembered that her original intention was to have Huo Feng recommend contemporary romance novels like "A Slight Smile is Very Charming."

Thus, she followed Huo Feng to the ’Contemporary Romance’ category to select books.

With her eyes dazzled by the array of books, Pu Sangzhi looked left and right, her excitement bubbling up, indicating she was interested in everything...

"This one, this one, this one..."

Huo Feng pulled out book after book that he had read from the shelves, and in no time, he had gathered a big stack and brought it over to Pu Sangzhi, "Sangzhi, look here!"

Pu Sangzhi turned around and seeing such a big stack in his arms, she exclaimed in surprise, "You’re recommending so many?"

Her tone was tinged with excitement; seeing so many books made her as thrilled as a fat person seeing a table full of food, a poor person seeing a stack of cash, or a child seeing a pile of toys!

Pu Sangzhi really enjoyed reading.

Seeing her so excited, Huo Feng laughed happily, "Yeah, these are all books I’ve read and found really good. They’ll keep you entertained for a while! Let’s go, let’s go downstairs to read!"

Pu Sangzhi nodded, "Alright."

Just as the two of them were carrying a stack of books and about to head to the reading room on the first floor, suddenly, someone tapped Pu Sangzhi on the shoulder!

From behind, an annoying yet familiar voice exclaimed, "Sangzhi! I knew it was you! I heard your voices just now!"

Hearing the voice, Huo Feng immediately recognized it!

He really hadn’t expected such good times to be interrupted by such an annoying girl... He felt his mood was about to be ruined!

Thinking this, Huo Feng turned around, a resigned expression on his face, to face the excited Ye Qingcao hugging Pu Sangzhi.

"I truly didn’t expect you guys to be here! Ah, I’m so happy~"

Ye Qingcao wrapped her arms around Pu Sangzhi’s neck, rubbing her head against Pu Sangzhi’s, showing off a row of braces with a laugh, "It must be fate! I was so worried, and then you guys appeared!"

"Ah? What were you worried about?"

Pu Sangzhi looked at her, confused, "You being here, could it be..."

Ye Qingcao nodded vigorously, "Yes! It’s because of him! He’s been such a worry for me!"

Huo Feng got a bit excited, "Yan Ji is here?"