"Make sure to come by often! It's getting harder and harder to see each other lately."
"Got it, Brother. We'll definitely come when we have time."
After Li Ye finished discussing imported raw materials with Jin Peng, Pei Wenhui, Yang Suwen, and the others on Wen Leyu's side also took their children and said goodbye.
Li Ye saw them to the door and waved them off, then watched the direction in which they left and sighed wistfully.
Wen Leyu tilted her head at Li Ye and asked in confusion, "What are you sighing about? Isn't what Jin Peng ran into perfectly normal? If there's a problem, just solve it, right?"
Li Ye pulled Wen Leyu back into the house, then said with a long face, "I'm not sighing because what Brother Peng ran into was irritating. I'm sighing because this happened so long ago, and I didn't even know about it.
"Look at Li Dayong, Wang Jianqiang, even Yang Suwen—they all knew, yet I was the only one left out. What does that mean? They're trying to distance themselves from me, aren't they?"
"Heh. You still can't figure that out? They cherish the bond they have with you."
Wen Leyu could not help laughing. "When I was chatting with Yang Suwen, Liu Qiaorong, and the others just now, their reverence for you as their big brother had practically reached the level of worshipping a god. You're a big shot now. Even our family's threshold has become too high—they feel embarrassed to come knocking over such a minor matter."
"Embarrassed to come knocking?"
Li Ye froze for a moment, then suddenly understood.
In his previous life, he had known that friendship was not inexhaustible. No matter how close the brothers or how deep the affection, there would always come a day