Upon hearing this, Paige glanced over at Rafael. His blue shirt with a rainbow and coconut tree painted on it was too colorful, and it really did look like a rooster that had been dyed.
She couldn’t hold back anymore, and turned her head to suppress a smile.
Rafael looked rather embarrassed by what she had said, and turned to look at Jaden, patting him on the shoulder and saying, “Go for it, and try to turn the conglomerate into your own while they’re away! I have confidence in you!”
“…”
Jaden was silent.
Did he look like someone with such big ambitions?
“Okay, I’ll put these fruit teas away and we can go.”
Carrie, who had come over, saw this and quickly changed the subject.
Paige walked over and stood under the sun umbrella to help pack the frozen fruit tea on the tray into her backpack. She whispered, “Are they going to make a move today as well?”
Hearing this, Carrie snickered, “I told President Rafael about your concerns, but he said he knows how to gauge the situation well, and that he can make it happen when neither we nor the Davis family can.”
Thinking that Paige really did want her brother-in-law to propose and get married, she didn’t stop her forcefully.
“To be honest, I’m now wondering who can make Enrico react.”
Enrico seemed to have completely ignored all the hints and signals from everyone, and he never even mentioned the word “wedding”.
Carrie looked at her while packing, “Paige, are you a little disappointed?”
“No,”
Paige said firmly, “I know exactly what Enrico feels for me. It’s not a matter of whether or not we have a wedding that will easily change his position in my heart… No, it’s not.”
After packing, Paige zipped up her backpack, picked it up, and turned around.
“…”
Carrie silently watched her back, and despite her decisive words, it was clear that she still cared a little.
I hope Rafael and Jaden will be more helpful today and won’t return from their errands empty-handed.
The five of them rode in a sightseeing cart to the back of the farm to the river. The scenery was beautiful along the way.
The sun was strong, and a fairly wide river ran quietly through the farm. The water was clear, and trees were planted at random along the shore, with lush foliage blocking the sunlight.
Several folding deck chairs were pulled out and placed in the shade.
Jaden came over to help assemble the small folding table, and Paige and Carrie took out the fruit tea and refreshments and set them on the table.
Enrico and Rafael stood there assembling fishing gear, when Carrie suddenly asked, “Have you ever fished before, Paige?”
“Not really,”
Paige said lightly as she opened a box of biscuits and arranged them on the table. “Back on Wind Island, everyone found fishing too slow, so they just went into the sea to catch fish, or made simple fishing nets to catch fish.”
It was impossible to prepare tables and chairs leisurely like this, or make fruit tea, biscuits and pastries.
This is leisure, that is survival.
As soon as she said this, the four of them stopped what they were doing and looked at her with various expressions.
In fact, not to mention Rafael, even Carrie and Jaden, who were born into ordinary people, had never really experienced the cruelty of Wind Island, and yet this was the answer to their casual question.
“Why are you all looking at me like that?” Paige smiled, “Have you forgotten? The slums no longer exist.”
In the future, Wind Island will be a particularly beautiful city.
Enrico looked at her with deep eyes for a long time. He took her hand, threw the backpack over to Carrie, and sat Paige on the deck chair. “You sit and let them work.”
“You’re ordering the First Lady around?”
Rafael was displeased and was about to go up and demand justice, but Carrie was already working diligently on the side, with a face of no complaints.
Fine.
Forget it.
Paige felt a little embarrassed as the four of them busied themselves while she did nothing.
She turned to look at them and saw Rafael and Enrico assembling fishing tackle with such neat and tidy movements that even the turning of the wheels was exactly the same.
She couldn’t help but ask, “Have you fished together before?”
“Yes,”
Rafael said while keeping busy, ‘Over the years, I’ve participated in all kinds of entertainment for social occasions, except fishing.”
“Why?’ Carrie asked.
She didn’t feel it until she mentioned it, but it seemed that Rafael never went fishing with other people, and it was always horse riding or golf.
“Fishing has a special meaning for me,”
said Rafael, as if remembering something, looking at Enrico and Jaden in the shade. “Enrico, Jaden, do you remember the first time we went fishing?”
It was rare to hear them talk about their childhood, so Paige sat sideways on the deck chair, leaning back and listening to them chat.
Jaden, who was crouching down to assemble the last small round table, looked up and said with a relaxed smile, “I remember. We were only about ten at the time, and the President had stolen three super-nice fishing rods from his own home, with seals and gemstones embedded, which had been his grandfather’s treasures.”
“And then?” Paige asked.
“Then he lost one of the emeralds,”
Enrico curled his lips in mockery as he finished assembling the fishing rod in his hands perfectly.
“What do you mean I lost it? I always suspected you of picking it off.”
Rafael immediately looked at him discontentedly, “You even asked me to sell the fishing rod, and the three of us ran away together, so you had the strongest motive.”
Upon hearing this, Enrico looked over indifferently, “I had a motive at the time, but I didn’t have enough intelligence, otherwise why would I want to run away with you two?”
“…”
Rafael and Jaden both choked.
“So did you find the gemstone later?” Paige asked curiously.
“No, the president was also scared at the time and was afraid to go home, so he let it be known that he would never go home until he had caught enough fish to buy a gemstone,” Jaden said.
On such a leisurely day, under the large green leaves, the river flowed quietly. There was no position or class here, just childhood friends who had come together back then.
He became extraordinarily relaxed and spoke louder.
Hearing this, Carrie couldn’t help but laugh. Fish for a gem, what a great dream.
She looked at Rafael with a smile, and Rafael’s expression was a little embarrassed. “You guys just said bad things about me? I mentioned this to remind you of how united the three of us were back then.”
“Are you sure it was unity?”
Enrico gave a cool look again, “Not that we pitied you?”
“…”
Rafael choked.
“What’s going on?” Carrie also became curious.
“The president was really afraid to go home at that time, and he was afraid to go to school. He just sat by the lake fishing day and night. When he got tired, he just sat there and slept. After two days, his clothes were all stinky,” Jaden said as he stood up after assembling the last table.
“Is it necessary to go into such detail?” Rafael’s face turned pale.
“What happened next?” Paige asked again.
“After that, I couldn’t bear to see him like that, so I snuck him some food from home and even brought him a mat to sleep on. But even so, for three days, he couldn’t catch even two buckets of fish,” Jaden sighed and shook his head.