The day after Erhua got married, Qiuhua went to school with a bag of wedding candy.

The classmates gave one to each of them, and the rest were given to Wu Xin.

Junior high school lasts for two years. There are only two classes in each grade, with only about twenty students in each class. Some people attend the class one year but not the next.

Qiuhua and Wu Xin were already in their second year of junior high, about to graduate. The class was always noisy, and almost everyone's mind was not on studying.

Zhao Meiying went to high school, which was even farther away, and Zhou Hehua worked in a brick factory. Heigou disappeared from school before finishing fifth grade.

"Are you two dating?"

Being friends is what we call falling in love. Zheng Qiaomei blinked with a smile, hooked her finger at Qiuhua, and raised her eyebrows at Wu Xin.

"What do you mean by making friends? That's nonsense!"

Qiuhua blushed deeply. Zheng Qiaomei giggled and said, "Otherwise, you two are so close. Look, we each got one candy, and the rest is his. And you still say we're not just friends."

"Really? We studied together before, so we're pretty familiar with each other."

"Well, who would believe that?" Zheng Qiaomei glanced at Wu Xin, who was sitting by the window, and said, "You know what, Wu Xin is really good-looking."

This year, Qiuhua was seventeen and Wu Xin was sixteen.

Wu Xin was no longer the skinny, pale boy he once was. His skin was still as white as ever, but he had grown taller and taller, so much so that Qiu Hua could only reach his shoulders. He was also much stronger, and his hair was longer, but always washed clean and fresh.

Qiuhua felt very uncomfortable when she heard Zheng Qiaomei say this, but she just laughed even more happily and said, "Oh, you're upset now, aren't you? You said you didn't have a boyfriend. Don't worry, I don't like your Wu Xin.

I have a date!"

A smug expression appeared on her face, and Qiuhua was shocked and curious when she heard it.

She never knew that dating could be announced so openly. She only knew that everything had to be arranged by her family and that they could only get along after getting engaged.

But deep down in her heart she felt very curious. What kind of feeling was this? Why was Zheng Qiaomei so brave?

Despite being curious, Qiuhua only dared to think about it in his mind.

"Do you want to know who I'm crushing?"

She has a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, and she always habitually turns her face to the side and winks at people mischievously.

Qiuhua couldn't help but nodded.

"Come here."

She beckoned to Qiuhua, and Qiuhua leaned closer to her ear. She said, "He's a soldier!"

As she spoke, a sweet girlish fragrance wafted over, tickling Qiuhua's ears. She shrank her neck, covered her ears with her hands, and giggled.

“It’s so itchy…”

Zheng Qiaomei also smiled, her smile was proud and a little charming. She was born beautiful and had a generous personality, which made her very likable.

"How's it going? Are you scared?"

Qiuhua smiled and nodded, becoming even more curious about Zheng Qiaomei's friends.

"How do you know a soldier?"

"Why, you want to meet a soldier too? Can I introduce you to one?"

Qiuhua blushed and quickly waved her hands to say no. Zheng Qiaomei laughed.

"Haha, yes, you have Wu Xin!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm not talking nonsense!"

This junior high school is located halfway up the mountain. There is a troop stationed behind the mountain. They would cross the mountain for training from time to time. Whenever this happened, the young girls in the school would stretch their necks to look outside.

Somehow Zheng Qiaomei got in touch with a soldier, and they often wrote letters to each other.

"Oh, I don't want to study anymore." She squinted her eyes and looked out the window, wishing she could stare a hole in the mountain to see what the person behind the mountain was doing.

"Why? We're graduating soon."

"I can't understand it anyway, and here's this." She picked up the English book and threw it down again, saying, "We're not going abroad. The students are talking in English, and it's so babble-blah that I can't understand them."

The two little mermaids started laughing again.

"But what are you doing if you're not in school?"

"Get married!" Zheng Qiaomei said, her face full of longing, "I want to marry my partner."

"But he hasn't been discharged yet."

Qiuhua reminded her, and Zheng Qiaomei lowered her head as if her dream had been shattered.

"It's okay. Once we graduate and your partner retires, you can get married."

Zheng Qiaomei raised her head happily again, and her eyes regained their spirit. She was really an easy-to-please little mermaid.

"I'm going to write him a letter and tell him I'm thinking of him!"

The girl, full of love and passion, was riding on the light white clouds, floating over the top of the mountain and reaching the other side of the mountain.

After school, Wu Xin took Qiuhua home on his bike.

"What were you guys giggling about at noon?"

Wu Xin had strong legs and rode very steadily. In the evening, the sky was full of clouds and the wind blew past his ears, making his heart itchy.

"Weren't you concentrating on reading? How did you know we were laughing?"

Qiuhua playfully pinched Wu Xin's waist, and he cried out "ouch" and shook the steering wheel violently. Qiuhua was thrown twice by the rear end of the car, and she screamed and grabbed his clothes.

"See if you can behave yourself in the car!"

"Who's being dishonest? Someone's clearly pretending to be studying hard, but they're eavesdropping on us!"

Wu Xin had no choice but to admit it: "Okay, okay, I'm not honest, okay."

Qiuhua swung her legs proudly and said, "Zheng Qiaomei told me about her affair with a soldier. She's really brave!"

As she spoke, a tone of envy inadvertently appeared in her voice.

Wu Xin frowned and said, "I can sense some envy in your voice. Why, do you want it too?"

"Me? What am I thinking?" Qiu Hua patted his back gently and said, "Stop talking nonsense!"

The boy laughed again, stood up and stared at the bicycle with all his strength against the wind. The rapeseed in the field was ripe, the stalks had turned from green to yellow, and each stalk was full of heavy rapeseed seeds.

"Dad! Mom! Brother!"

On their way back, they would pass by Qiuhua's farmland. At this moment, Liang Genfa, Qiu Zhen and Dahua were harvesting rapeseed in the field.

Wu Xin consciously slowed down the car. Qiuhua gently exerted force on her waist, stuck out her butt, and jumped out of the back seat like a lively little rabbit.

"See you tomorrow!" Qiuhua waved at him.

He didn't stop, but rode forward slowly, raised one hand and waved at her, his mouth almost grinning from ear to ear!

The rapeseed stalks were placed on a huge oilcloth. Qiuhua put down her schoolbag and stepped on it. Wherever she stepped, there was a crackling sound, and tiny round rapeseed seeds rolled out from inside.

After trampling the rapeseed, they would burn the rapeseed stalks on the spot. The flames shot up into the sky. Qiuhua laughed and everyone was very happy. Dad said, "Qiuhua, doesn't it feel like watching an open-air movie?"

"picture!"

Before long, they will be turned into barrels of rapeseed oil, adding fragrance to the ordinary days of every family.