Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 48
Translated by Serena Love
When Zhao Lanxiang hurried back to the He family's home, it was almost lunchtime. However, He Songbai was not in the room, and the bed was empty. Zhao Lanxiang held the hot letters in her arms, and her heart was as hot as the rolling magma.
She wished to rush to the bullpen and win over Gu Huaijin. But she suppressed her anxiety, put down the letter, and patiently waited for He Songbai to return to the room.
She knew very well what she meant to please Gu Huaijin, and it was far less effective than He Songbai's "pleasing". The way to buy a horse is to look at the teeth, the way to make friends is to feel from the bottom of your heart.
He Songbai had no motive in dealing with him, so he acted straightforwardly, neither humble nor overbearing. But she has a motive. No matter how well she concealed it, she would inevitably fall behind in her behavior. Especially Gu Huaijin, who has a rich social experience, is even more sensitive when he encounters a sudden attack in his middle age. He is not as foolish as Jiang Li's kind of little girl who has not been involved in the world.
In the past, Zhao Lanxiang treated Gu Huaijin like a passerby who met each other, but after this she has to continue to maintain this attitude. Even if she changed, she should not turn too fast.
Zhao Lanxiang waited for a long time and did not see He Songbai return. Looking at the sun, it was gradually rising, and she simply started the fire to cook.
The man came back today with a rib. Zhao Lanxiang made a meal of pork ribs with soy sauce. The rice and ribs were steamed in a bamboo cage. They were topped with dried lotus leaves specially dried by Zhao Lanxiang in the summer and topped with a rich and delicious soy based sauce. The steam carries the aroma of lotus leaf rice.
She deliberately make more food than usual, and give a little bit of care. The window was slightly opened while cooking. After cooking, she served it up quickly, thinking about yelling everyone for lunch.
But before she thinks about it, she almost hit the man's hard chest.
He Songbai wiped the sweat between his foreheads and gasped.
"Have lunch so early?"
Zhao Lanxiang was relieved, "Are you hungry?"
"Let's eat, I steamed pork ribs rice today, it's delicious."
He Songbai can smell the rich meat aroma from far away. The fermented sauce from the soybeans that has been sun-dried for a whole month, its strong aroma after steaming can float far away, which if it is said to be mouth-watering, it is not an exaggeration.
He Songbai had just moved firewood back several times and was hungry.
He took the rice served by the object, and ate three large bowls. The thick soybeans is steamed into a mash and blended into the rice. The round beans are glutinous, crisp and salty, and each bite is salty. It is very appetizing with rice. Today's rice is unexpectedly better than usual.
The white rice is already a luxury fine grain for He Songbai, smooth and delicious, soft and fragrant. But today's rice seems to be fragrant enough to be absorbed into the bone marrow, and people can't eat enough.
He finished the rice with a big mouthful, and said vaguely, "It's delicious, the rice is delicious."
The steamed rice with lotus leaves is of course fragrant, Zhao Lanxiang looked at the man.
"Don't eat too much, be careful."
She watched her deliberate steaming a pot of rice decrease at a rate that was visible to the naked eye, and feels a little anxious. He Songbai's appetite is like a bottomless hole. Seeing that after eating three bowls and wanting to add rice, Zhao Lanxiang quickly stopped it.
"Eat more meat, how can you just eat rice."
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He Songbai said in a vague way, "It's only when you eat rice you can fill your stomach. It's not good to eat too much meat."
Then he carefully took the meat out of the bowl and put it in Zhao Lanxiang's bowl, and whispered,
"Silly woman."
"What else do you eat after I finish?"
Zhao Lanxiang listened, took out a clay pot and picked out the bacon, and steamed an extra ball of pork belly rice.
After doing all this, she gave the ribs to He Songbai. "You are the biggest labor force in the family now.
Feeling warmed by the girlfriend, He Songbai eats as if he has tasted the delicacies of the mountains and the sea.
Zhao Lanxiang mentioned the matter of Tiezhu.
"Tiezhu gave me a few letters and asked me to give them to you."
She put the letters on the table, and He Songbai thrust them into his arms without looking.
Zhao Lanxiang said, "I heard that he is a very smart intellectual. When I was cooking just now, I saw him...very pitiful." She paused for a moment.
He Songbai raised his head in surprise and asked, "He came to ask you for something to eat?"
The man's face is completely helpless.
Zhao Lanxiang said, "That's not true."
"He just took a look and didn't speak."
It's not the first time He Songbai ran into Gu Huaijin, who was stretched his neck and looked at the kitchen.
Even if the kitchen's window was closed, it could not escape his sensitive nose. But he was quite prideful, and he just smelled it, never mentioned that he wants to eat.
After He Songbai has finished eating, he filled half a spoonful of soybeans sauce and poured rice, and walked silently towards the cowshed.
Zhao Lanxiang quietly followed.
She saw the man pull out the letter in his arms and put it on the ground, pressing it with the rice bowl. After doing this, he returned without a word.
Zhao Lanxiang couldn't help but sigh for He Songbai.
What a piece of wood!
After He Songbai came back, he rubbed the girlfriend's head, "Let's go, what's so good about this?"
Zhao Lanxiang said seriously, "You go back and wash the dishes for me."
"I'm here to stare at the letters to see if anyone has found it."
Although He Songbai is a bad guy, Teacher Gu is a corrupter who is worse than He Songbai, a bad guy who can be transformed. He has to live in the bullpen and reflect on himself from time to time. If others saw him befriend Teacher Gu, the influence will not be good.
He Songbai nodded, "Okay."
The girlfriend is always thoughtful and careful.
However, He Songbai paused and said, "The bullpen is dirty and smelly. There are not many people who are willing to come. Just look and go back to eat. Your meal is not finished."
Zhao Lanxiang responded and drove the man back to wash the dishes.
She turned her head and stood on the edge of the house and looked far into the cowshed. The big bowl of rice that the man put down lay on the ground motionless with clean chopsticks.
After a long time, a whispering sound came from the haystack. A bewildered man squatted down, and picked up a letter.
He slowly stirred up the rice with chopsticks. The tears in his eyes flowed down before the meal was eaten. He looked at the letter while eating, crying and laughing.
Zhao Lanxiang stood under the eaves and stiffened before leaving quietly.
She sighed softly with the wind.
...
In the afternoon, she took a bag of mango rolls and went to the branch secretary. Unexpectedly, the brigade captain's mother, Li Cuihua, who received her with a smile. She took reading glasses and asked Zhao Lanxiang, "Student dear, can you help me see what is written here?"
Zhao Lanxiang took it and looked at it. Two lines of horoscopes were written side by side on the red paper. She picked the important ones and said.
"Men and women have high ambitions, and they will have a long life when married."
Li Cuihua was even happier after listening. She repeated this sentence several times. After asking Zhao Lanxiang, she took a note and grabbed Zhou Jiazhen to ask. Then Zhao Lanxiang realized that the captain's mother is originally wanting to show off.
Zhou Jiazhen glanced helplessly at Zhao Lanxiang, reading a note and saying, "Men and women have high ambitions, and they will have a long life when married."
Li Cuihua only let Zhou Jiazhen go.
Zhao Lanxiang went to Zhou Jiazhen's house. Li Cuihua picked up two pieces of oil pancakes and shared it with the two people. She smiled and said, "Eat, eat, and be happy."
A piece of oil pancake is rare. Anything that used oil is rare.
Zhou Jiazhen ate it in a hurry.
Zhou Jiazhen said, "The captain of the brigade is going to ask for a wife."
"It's the second daughter of branch secretary Li."
Zhao Lanxiang pursed her lips and remembered the appearance of the second daughter of the branch secretary. She looked ordinary, hardworking, and extremely motivated to work, but she was not very clever. She liked to talk to the elderly women in the village and her mouth is broken.
"Very good, he was delayed for too long."
Zhao Lanxiang revealed a pity in her voice.
Although Li Dali was in charge of the production team, his family was in a sluggish situation and owed a lot of debt. It was only last year that they paid off the famine, and he was too old to talk about marriage.
Zhou Jiazhen looked like the roundworm in Zhao Lanxiang's heart, and as if misunderstood her meaning, she pinched Zhao Lanxiang.
"What are you thinking about? Captain Li is only twenty-four years old this year.
Zhao Lanxiang didn't speak anymore, she just took a few pieces of mango rolls she brought and distributed them to Zhou Jiazhen.
Zhou Jiazhen took it by surprise. Looking at such a beautiful cake, she is not willing to talk. She bit softly and her mouth is full of sweetness.
She said, "It's delicious, you came just at the right time. I want to give you something."
After Zhou Jiazhen finished speaking, she took out a treasured book from her cabinet and it is carefully wrapped in paper.
In fact, looking at the appearance, it seems that there is no difference between the package and unpackaged.
Zhou Jiazhen said, "Remember to play its role, don't let it fall in the dust."
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Zhao Lanxiang asked Zhou Jiazhen for permission and opened the package. A notebook wrapped in cowhide caught her eyes. It has excellent workmanship and good texture. It is a thick one that could be used for many years.
"I like it very much, it costs you a lot."
She opened the book and asked Zhou Jiazhen to write a message for her.
Zhou Jiazhen wrote in a pencil, "Steel is tempered in the raging fire and rapid cooling, so it can be hard and not afraid of anything."
Zhao Lanxiang smiled when she saw this sentence. Zhou Jiazhen is really a fan of steel. She looked around and asked.
"Is Jiang Li not here?"
Zhou Jiazhen said. "She should have gone to the county to buy food and meat, and will be back soon."
Zhao Lanxiang sat on the bed of Zhou Jiazhen and chatted with her for a while. Under Zhou Jiazhen's pillow is the book sent by Zhao Lanxiang.
At this time, the cover of the book had been rolled out slightly. Not sure how many times it was turned over by Zhou Jiazhen in her free time.
A little bit of her own heart has been cherished and preserved, which made Zhao Lanxiang feel very warm.
She pulled out a piece of paper and wrote a paragraph of words to Zhou Jiazhen.
"Help me pass this on to Jiang Li."
Zhou Jiazhen responded.
Jiang Li didn't come back until the evening. She read Zhao Lanxiang's note, took a mango roll and ate it, wiped her mouth and started to work after she had enough.
She pulled a piece of letter paper and wrote: "Brother, I hope you are well. I will secretly tell you that the box of mango rolls was actually given to you by Zhao Lanxiang. She asked you to work hard in the army and work wholeheartedly. Strive for an early promotion. Also, at the end of the month, our supplies are scarce."
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