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She declined tactfully, "I won't trouble you –"
Li Dali interrupted her, "In the entire brigade, except for this family,
Everything else can be discussed. Otherwise, you won't recognize me as the captain. "
There was a stubborn sternness on his dark face,
He probably lectured too many people,
He was a bit like Zhao Lanxiang's grandfather. At that moment, Zhao Lanxiang actually felt like she was choking.
Li Dali didn't understand how this female educated youth, who had just arrived, was related to He Songbai.
Who was He Songbai? Wasn't that old second He?
His name was given by a master invited by the landlord's great-grandfather,
On the day of the full moon, he invited the entire village to a banquet for several days, and they ate until their mouths were full of oil. Everyone's compliments were endless.
They said that this child would definitely have great achievements, great prospects, and would definitely bring glory to their ancestors..
However, things didn't go as planned. The revolution came, and the He family was wiped out. Old second He had never gone to school or read a day since he was young. He idled around all day and didn't do his job. He fought from the beginning of the village to the end of the village,
He was a famous troublemaker in this area. He had a proud and ruthless aura all over his body. It wasn't that the He family hadn't suffered when there was a lot of fighting. The He family was in trouble one day,
The next day, old second He smashed the heads of the troublemakers with a stone,
That kind of ruthlessness that didn't care for one's life was frightening.
From then on, no one in the entire brigade dared to provoke He Songbai.
The most important thing was that old second He had been arrested last year for committing a crime of hooliganism and was reformed through labor for a period of time,
This was the main reason why Li Dali was against Zhao Lanxiang.
She had such a soft personality..,
And even sent a beautiful female educated youth to live in second liuzi's house. Wasn't this sending a sheep to the tiger's mouth? She wouldn't even struggle if swallowed in one gulp.
Li Dali made a gesture, "How about this … pack your luggage tonight and stay at my house. I'll clean up a room for you alone – "My family members are very easy to get along with.
He didn't finish his sentence.
The educated girl shook her head and refused with a smile.
Zhao Lanxiang said, "The He family is related to me.
My parents will feel more at ease if I live there. "
She was very eloquent.
Her voice was as clear as pearls falling on a jade plate, "He Songbai.
57 years. He had an elder sister and a younger sister. His grandmother, Madam Li, had lived for 24 years and had one son and two daughters. My mom is the daughter of Granny Li's cousin, which is He Er's aunt. "
Zhao Lanxiang lied through her teeth with a straight face.
I'm sorry, Mom, for letting you have a nephew for no reason. I'll help you find an excellent son-in-law someday.
Li Dali suddenly felt a headache coming on. He wanted to see if she was lying from her face, but her eyes, which were as clear as a clear spring, were so bright that they dazzled him. But now, her eyebrows were slightly raised and there was a smile in her eyes. It was as if she could see through people's thoughts.
Li Dali withdrew his scrutinizing gaze in embarrassment.
"That's, that's good."
She had already said that she was a relative, so Li Dali couldn't say anything more. Could it be that he would criticize her relative's quality of mind in front of others?
As a result, Zhao Lanxiang successfully tricked her into staying there.
In the afternoon, the educated youths gathered to play cards and chat. Zhao Lanxiang took out a basket of uneaten meat buns from the woodshed and put them in a cloth bag. Three taels of oil was enough to make twenty meat buns and a bowl of noodle soup. She, Zhou Jiazhen, and a few other educated youths who were familiar with each other only ate ten meat buns.
She took the meat buns and went around to the other side of Ox-Horn Mountain. She walked to the edge of the field and found a place to sit down. She opened the cloth bag with the meat buns.
The meat buns that had just been heated in the steamer emitted a tempting fragrance. Soon, a pair of feet in straw sandals appeared in front of Zhao Lanxiang. She raised her head, and a drooling face appeared in front of her. She looked from afar, not daring to approach, but also not wanting to leave.
The woman was around twenty years old, but her face was full of wrinkles. Her knuckles were swollen because she was used to hard work.
She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything. She simply silently stared at Zhao Lanxiang eating the meat buns. Zhao Lanxiang finished a steamed bun in front of her. She tore open the white and tender skin of the steamed bun and bit into the tender and lean meat core. She swallowed the steamed bun with a happy and satisfied expression.
The envy in the woman's eyes deepened, but she only watched from afar. From time to time, she would take a glance and then lower her head to cut her ox-grass. The large basket was as big as her. It was too heavy for her to bear on her thin shoulders.
Zhao Lanxiang's autumn water like almond eyes easily revealed a smile. She pushed the meat bun forward and put it in front of the woman.
This was He Songbai's eldest sister, He Songye. Zhao Lanxiang didn't say anything. Instead, she made a few gestures at her.
Come over, eat together.
Meat buns, there are too many. I can't finish it alone.
When she made the gestures, her back was straight and the corners of her mouth were curled up to reveal a smile. Her posture was correct and bright.
After Zhao Lanxiang finished making the gestures, He Songzhi's face was full of undisguised surprise, but there was also a hint of hesitation.
Zhao Lanxiang continued, "I'm full."
"Meat buns, fragrant, delicious. Give it a try. "
He Songye had a high fever when she was young. It affected her auditory nerves and she couldn't hear anything. Gradually, she didn't know how to speak. Her parents passed away one after another. She was the one who raised her younger brother and sister. It could be said that she was the person He Songbai respected the most.
Zhao Lanxiang and He Songye had been together for many years. Daily communication was no problem at all. After marriage, she discovered that her eldest sister-in-law He Songye was actually a foodie. Her life in the past was too hard. She had almost never eaten anything good. When she grew old, she especially liked to eat meat buns.
Zhao Lanxiang smiled and said patiently, "Why don't you try it?"
She stuffed the meat bun into He Songye's mouth. He Songye's body trembled. She used her tongue to push against the soft skin of the bun. Her eyes suddenly moistened.
She bent her waist and used her rough hand to touch the bun in her mouth. The stabbing hunger in her stomach caused her to mechanically chew her cheeks.
The smooth and soft pork overflowed with delicious juices and flowed into her mouth. A sweet and rich taste seized all of her senses. He Songye unknowingly finished eating the bun and felt a sense of satisfaction that she had never felt before in her life. But she wasn't full yet.
In order to save on rations at home, she only brought one black steamed bun today. She had done too much work in the morning, so she ate all of the steamed buns. She could only drink some water in the afternoon to fill her stomach.
He Songye unknowingly ate one bun after another. When she finished the bun in her hand, Zhao Lanxiang handed her another one.
In the end, Zhao Lanxiang's cloth bag deflated. She smiled and gestured, "Older sister He, can you do me a favor?"
"I want to live in your house."
… …
In the evening, when He Songbai was carrying chicken manure to fertilize the private plot of land at home, he saw his eldest sister come back with a big bag of things. She walked to the front of the house that had been empty for many years and put the things down. Without saying a word, she took out a broom and swept it inside and out. She threw out the chicken coop that was covered in dust, then she threw out a dustpan, a hoe, and a plow … …
He Songbai didn't ask his older sister what she was doing. It wasn't until she smiled and carried out the new bedsheets and quilt that He Songbai finally looked at her seriously. His rebellious eyes darkened.
That quilt was a dowry that she had saved for a long time to buy for herself. She had never been willing to use it.
No matter what, it wasn't good to let these delicate girls out. What if something happened to them?
Li Dali said, "Come with me. The brigade's farm tool house is still empty. It's still possible to let you rest during the day."
Zhao Lanxiang and the others temporarily left their luggage and belongings in the brigade's public property house. They looked at each other in dismay.
The male educated youths had it the hardest. Their faces were covered in mud and dust. When they wiped their faces, they looked as black as Bao Gong Bao. The female educated youths, who were frowning, laughed. Jiang Li came back happily in the afternoon and found that the things she confiscated in the box were all smashed. Her face was gloomy and she didn't like anyone. After the brigade leader left, she sneered, "What kind of broken place is this?"
Zhao Lanxiang silently rolled her eyes in her heart. She clearly knew that this was a broken place, but she still came. Zhao Lanxiang couldn't understand.
However, she was so hungry that her chest was sticking to her stomach. She didn't have time to speculate about the eldest miss's thoughts. She borrowed a firewood shed from the people around her and made meat buns and vegetables noodles with Zhou Jiazhen. Zhao Lanxiang was especially willing to use the oil. She used all the oil she had. After an hour, her buns were ready. The buns were made with the best quality flour and half fat lean pork. They were oily, tender, and fluffy. While everyone was starving in the farm tool shed, she and Zhou Jiazhen were slurping noodles in the farm house next door.
The fragrance wafted in the house, attracting the other educated youths to look over. Seeing Zhou Jiazhen's expression of enjoyment as he ate, they became even hungrier. Zhao Lanxiang saw this and didn't hide anything. She called everyone to eat together. She took out some leftover dough from the noodles and gave it to the educated youths who were hungry. Although it wasn't much, it could fill their stomachs with the hot soup.
Zhao Lanxiang's behavior made the educated youths who didn't have a house to stay in feel better. Their good impression of this cold and taciturn educated youth rose to another level. Although Zhao Lanxiang didn't call them to eat buns, it was delicious to eat the dough mixed with bean sauce. After all, flour was a fine grain and pork was a rare thing. Freeloading a meal of fine grain from someone else was already a huge advantage.
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