In July in Tanzhou, it gets hotter day by day. The sun is bright every day, and the asphalt road is smoking and emitting a bad smell. The road is soft when you step on it, and your sandals may be burned.
It was so hot that my mom didn't want to go out. Even when she lay under the shade of a tree, she was so hot that she kept sticking out her tongue.
Ruan Qiqi was afraid of the heat and didn't want to go out. She was not in a hurry to go out and test the remaining suspects. She would wait until the weather was cooler before going out. Lu Ye no longer went on missions and stayed at home with her every day.
During the day, Ruan Qiqi basically stayed at home. After closing the doors and windows, she went into the space to enjoy the cool air.
The temperature in this space is constant all year round, neither too cold nor too hot, which is much more comfortable than outside.
At night, she and Lu Ye also slept in the space, which was very cool.
One day, Ruan Qiqi was eating a watermelon in the space. Someone knocked on the door. She came out holding the watermelon and turned on the fan. Then she went to open the door. It was Wang Cuihua.
"I thought you weren't home and was about to leave!"
Wang Cuihua had a smile on her face and was holding a basin with a lid on it, so it was impossible to see what was inside.
"Come in and sit down!"
Ruan Qiqi let her in and cut a piece of watermelon for her.
"Thank you. I haven't had watermelon this year."
Wang Cuihua was flattered and took the watermelon. She took a bite and put it down without eating any more.
"Why don't you eat?" Ruan Qiqi asked.
"I'll just try it and take it back for the kids."
Wang Cuihua explained embarrassedly.
"Eat it, and take the rest back for your children."
Ruan Qiqi pointed to the remaining half of the watermelon and generously offered it as a gift to her.
Wang Cuihua, who has changed her petty habit of stealing, is still somewhat lovable. At least the food she cooks makes her very satisfied.
"Thank you. I was just saying that you are the most beautiful and lucky girl in our building. Even all the other women in the building combined are not as lucky as you."
Wang Cuihua flattered the emperor earnestly, and her nice words seemed to be free of charge.
"Don't say such hateful words. I'm afraid of getting beaten."
Ruan Qiqi said with a smile that she couldn't stand such flattery.
"Who can beat you?"
Wang Cuihua muttered softly, raised her head and smiled awkwardly, then ate the watermelon in two or three bites. She was reluctant to throw away the watermelon rind and took it home to make a dish.
"I haven't dried the orange peel yet, but I have the pickled grapefruit peel ready. It's delicious. How about you try it?"
She took the initiative to open the lid, and inside was pickled pomelo peel, which looked delicious.
“Can grapefruit peels be pickled?”
It was the first time that Ruan Qiqi saw pickled pomelo peel. She had only had honey pomelo tea before.
"You can also use grapefruit peel to cook dishes, it's delicious."
Wang Cuihua talked about the method of stir-frying pomelo peel, which is a bit troublesome. You have to soak away the bitterness in the pomelo peel first, which is time-consuming and laborious. Ruan Qiqi plans to do it when she has time.
She picked up some pickled grapefruit peel with chopsticks and ate it. It tasted really good and could be eaten as a side dish. Pickled grapefruit peel, the method can be found on Baidu, the author does not know how to make it "It's delicious, thank you!"
Ruan Qiqi accepted it.
"What are you thanking me for? We are all family members living in the same building."
Wang Cuihua spoke very generously, but Ruan Qiqi knew that this woman would not do anything without profit. However, she understood that no one wanted to work for nothing!
Finally, Wang Cuihua went home satisfied, holding half a watermelon.
During dinner, Ruan Qiqi and Lu Ye were very satisfied with the pickled pomelo peel and prepared to ask Wang Cuihua to pickle some more.
Time flies, and it is late July in a blink of an eye. There was a heavy rain yesterday, and the next day it was cloudy and windy, and it was not so hot.
Ruan Qiqi was about to go out to look for the Japanese when Wang Cuihua called out from the door: "Sister Ruan, do you want to buy some watermelons? They're very cheap, only one cent a pound!"
“So cheap?”
Ruan Qiqi was not interested at first because she couldn't finish all the watermelons in her space, but when she heard such a cheap price, she couldn't help but ask.
Watermelons outside cost two or three cents per pound, but she had never seen watermelons that cost one cent per pound before.
"You have to go to the farm to pick the watermelons yourself, and then you have to find a truck to bring them back. Let's bring back two trucks and share them together when the time comes!"
Wang Cuihua explained with great enthusiasm that every summer, the women in the residential building would go to the farm together to buy watermelons. Each family could get about ten, and the price was much cheaper than buying them at the fruit store.
"Sure!"
Ruan Qiqi agreed. She had never been to a farm to pick watermelons before, and it should be fun.
Five or six women gathered downstairs, including Wang Shuhua, Liu Dani, Sang Qingfeng, Liu Sanmei, Zhang Guihua, and Shang Lehua, all waiting for Wang Cuihua.
"Wang Cuihua, did you go pee or give birth?"
Liu Dani yelled impatiently, Wang Cuihua said she was going to pee, but she didn't come downstairs after a long time.
"Come on, come on, Sister Ruan, come with us!"
Wang Cuihua responded by shouting, and tried enthusiastically to pull Ruan Qiqi.
Ruan Qiqi took a step back and said disdainfully: "You just went to the toilet!"
Don't get close to her!
"I washed my hands!"
Wang Cuihua quickly explained that she was a person who paid particular attention to hygiene.
"Then don't touch me!"
Ruan Qiqi walked to the front and it would take at least an hour for the smell to dissipate.
Wang Cuihua curled her lips in dismay, complaining in her heart -
"You don't go to the toilet? Can you survive by starving? Humph, who are you looking down on?"
"Sister Ruan is here too, let's go quickly, if you're late the big watermelon will be picked by someone else!"
Liu Dani was an impatient person. When she saw them coming downstairs, she got on her tricycle and left.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't even gotten on the bus yet!"
Wang Cuihua grabbed the car and climbed up.
Everyone else climbed into the car, leaving Ruan Qiqi the only one standing. Shang Lehua mustered up the courage to ask her to get in, looking a little embarrassed.
“I ride a bike!”
Ruan Qiqi pushed out the bicycle and followed behind.
The group rode towards the farm in a mighty manner. Three women set the scene, and now there are eight women. Even if you exclude the taciturn Ruan Qiqi, there are still seven talkative ones. They gossiped all the way, and with the accompaniment of Liu Dani's laughter, it was very lively.
Ruan Qiqi listened with a smile. As expected, it was from the old times. The gossips about each sister-in-law's hometown were so explosive that even the screenwriters of later generations could not write them.
"What you guys are saying is nothing. In my hometown, there was a girl who got married. Her father-in-law visited her every few days, and her son-in-law didn't think much of it. But one day, he got in bed with her and we found out that they had been having an affair before they got married. Her mother-in-law turned a blind eye to it. What a mess this family is!"
Liu Sanmei said something even more exciting.
The others were not willing to be outdone and started talking about similar things that had happened to them, which made Ruan Qiqi very confused.
This... is too wild and too disruptive to one's worldview!
The farm is in the suburbs. The closer to the suburbs, the fewer pedestrians and vehicles there are on the road. Liu Dani is riding in the front. She is strong and rides very fast. The tricycle behind is ridden by Wang Shuhua.
"Hey, what's going on over there?"
Wang Cuihua shouted, pointing forward.
Ruan Qiqi heard the sound and looked over. He saw a military green truck parked there and two soldiers repairing the car.
"Go see if I can help!"
When everyone saw that they were soldiers, they stopped the car and walked over enthusiastically. Liu Dani asked loudly if they needed help and said that they were from the Tanzhou Military Region.
"Thank you, sisters-in-law. We came from Hengzhou. The car will be repaired soon."
The standing soldier answered enthusiastically, and the one squatting was older, probably around 30 years old.
There are troops stationed in Hengzhou, and this vehicle should be a troop transport vehicle.
Liu Dani chatted with them for a while and then decided to continue going to the farm.
Ruan Qiqi raised her feet and heard the conversation between the two people.
"Why do you always turn the screw three times? Turn it back half a turn. How slow!" said the standing soldier.
“I’m used to it.”
The squatting soldier smiled.
[The third update is done. Regarding tightening screws, the author has encountered this before at work. German and Japanese engineers are very strict. They must tighten the screws three times and then return them half a turn. At that time, this operation did not exist in China, and it was even considered redundant. But in fact, tightening the screws in this way can indeed make them tighter.]