Chapter 72

In the pitch-dark night, Lily and the others were chatting about the upcoming Sunday market at the community center. They planned to take the day off to buy vegetable seeds and have some fun there.

Summer wasn't particularly interested in their plans, so she didn't pay much attention.

Lying in bed, she blinked a few times, then recalled the incident from the afternoon when Billy got beaten up.

Thinking about it now, she didn't feel as heavy-hearted and stifled as before, but there was still a sense of discomfort.

Summer took a deep breath and thought to herself that fortunately, the world wouldn't always be like this. In a few years, all this oppressive stuff would slowly fade away.

After these thoughts, Summer let out a long sigh.

Lily and the others were still chatting excitedly. Summer still didn't pay much attention, closing her eyes, turning on her side, and finding a comfortable position to sleep.

The next morning, she woke up with the same mood as usual.

After feeding the chickens and having breakfast, Summer left home with Logan, walking side by side to school.

Their figures, walking side by side with their backpacks, had become a familiar sight on the path from the community center to the school, like the daily sunrise and sunset.

At school, seeing Billy sitting at the back of the classroom, Summer couldn't help but feel a sense of guilt and suffocation. But she didn't show it, behaving as usual.

The incident passed just like that.

No one mentioned it at school again, and neither did Summer.

By noon, the students lined up skillfully under the now hot sun, leaving the school in orderly queues by production team to go home.

After ensuring all the students had left, Summer and Logan headed back to the office.

Summer packed her backpack and asked Logan, "What are you planning to eat for lunch today?"

Logan packed his backpack too and left school with Summer.

After locking the gate, Logan put away the key and said, "I don't have any plans. You can pick whatever you want from the garden. I'll eat whatever you cook."

Summer nodded, "Alright, then I'll cook whatever I feel like, and you eat it."

Then she asked, "So after we cook, are we eating together or separately?"

Logan turned to Summer, "You want to eat together?"

Summer smiled at him, "I just think it's more economical. If we cook different dishes, we can eat two kinds of dishes. What do you think?"

Logan said, "Let's go with what's economical."

Having settled that, they went to the garden to pick vegetables.

Walking along the riverbank to the garden, Summer was about to go down the slope when she noticed a plot of land next to them had been weeded.

She spoke in surprise, "They're really starting to plant vegetables..."

Logan didn't pay much attention to the other plot.

He went into their garden and started picking green peppers from under the leaves, saying, "Starting is one thing, but let's see if they can actually grow anything."

Hearing this, Summer went into the garden and moved closer to Logan, lowering her voice to ask curiously, "What do you mean? Are you planning to sabotage them?"

Logan glanced at Summer with disdain and said, "Those fools aren't even worth the effort."

Summer thought about it and agreed.

It wasn't that she thought Henry and the others were fools, but they really didn't know how to live frugally. They didn't like getting bogged down in the details of daily life, so they weren't willing to learn.

They weren't willing to put in the effort to manage daily life properly.

They only started because they envied how well Summer and Logan were living, forcing them to take action.

The first time they steamed buns themselves, the buns were full of grit.

Now they're trying to plant vegetables, who knows what weird problems will come up this time.