Chapter 83
◎ Vinegar blood duck, beer fish, Lipu taro braised pork, perilla snails, eighteen stuffed vegetables, and eight treasures of beef.
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Vinegar blood duck, beer fish, Lipu taro braised pork, perilla snails, eighteen stuffed animals, and eight treasures of beef.
The night light reflected the blurry faces of Bei Bitang and Gu Wangxi.
They did not have dinner with the main group. Before the meal, Gu Wangxi borrowed someone from Zhou Qiuguang.
Gu Wangxi served the rice and handed it to Bei Bitang.
Bei Bitang took it, thanked him, and then said, "I'm not sure if you can handle spicy food. I've told the kitchen to use less chili. If you can handle spicy food, you can make it with a normal level of spiciness tomorrow."
Bei Bitang didn't know when Gu Wangxi would leave, and Gu Wangxi didn't say it on his own initiative. Anyway, he would not leave tomorrow.
Gu Wangxi smiled, glanced at Bei Bitang, picked up the chopsticks, and was very curious about the Eighteen Brews. He stretched out his chopsticks towards the plate of Eighteen Brews.
Bei Bitang quickly said, "Hey, this dish contains leeks, which you don't like."
In Shanghai, there was no chance to eat spicy food, so she didn’t know whether Gu Wangxi could eat spicy food, but she knew that Gu Wangxi hated the taste of leeks.
Gu Wangxi withdrew his chopsticks with a look of regret, and looked at Bei Bitang with a full gaze.
Bei Bitang suddenly panicked and didn't know what to do.
The door of the private room was opened and the hotel owner walked in with a bamboo tube in his hand.
She looked at the untouched food on the table and asked in confusion, "Eat, why aren't you eating?"
Putting the bamboo tube upright on the table, she continued, "Is the food not to Comrade Gu's taste? How about making Comrade Bei scrambled eggs with tomatoes?"
This is how she solves the problem for foreigners who are not used to local specialties: scrambled eggs with tomatoes, which is sour and sweet and a versatile dish.
After saying that, the boss turned his gaze to Bei Bitang, obviously asking her to take the initiative against Gu Wangxi.
Bei Bitang blushed slightly and said, "No need, he's used to it. We just haven't started eating yet."
The boss breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought you didn't like Guilin cuisine. Inside the bamboo tube is homemade rice wine, not too strong. You can have a drink. I'm leaving now so I won't disturb you two. You two can eat quickly."
Bei Bitang responded, and Gu Wangxi cleared his throat with a fist, nodded, and said, "Let's eat now."
The door closed again. Bei Bitang stopped looking at Wang Xi and picked up the chopsticks. She picked up a piece of stuffed pomelo peel and put it in her bowl.
He took out the filling and scraped the chives off the pomelo peel. Finally, he handed it to Gu Wangxi and said, "Just eat it like this. I think the most unique thing is this stuffed pomelo peel."
Gu Wangxi immediately put the pomelo peel into his mouth.
It's soft and fluffy, with the natural fragrance of grapefruit and the flavor of the sauce, just right.
Gu Wangxi narrowed his eyes, nodded and said vaguely: "Mm, delicious."
Bei Bitang picked up the filling and said, "Yes, it's good. I like it too. There's also a recipe for pomelo peel. If I want to eat it when I go back to Shanghai, I can make it myself."
Gu Wangxi finished a piece of grapefruit peel in a few bites, looked up at Bei Bitang, and said, "I want to eat another piece."
Bei Bitang's eyes widened. "If you want to eat, why don't you make it yourself? Why are you looking at me?"
Gu Wangxi said frankly: "I want to eat what you make for me."
Bei Bitang was defeated by Gu Wangxi's sincere words. She said nothing, picked up another piece of pomelo peel stuffing, removed the filling, and put it into Gu Wangxi's bowl.
Putting back the chopsticks, Bei Bitang thought for a moment, and reluctantly wanted to ask Gu Wangxi what he meant by that sentence just now.
She looked across, but Gu Wangxi had already lowered his head. He casually said, "I heard the rice noodles here are very good. Tomorrow morning, take me to have a bowl."
The words were on the tip of my tongue, but finally rolled back to my heart.
Sleeping on the floor? That doesn't exist.
After taking a shower and drying his hair, Gu Wangxi pushed open the door and saw Bei Bitang take out a spare pillow from the cabinet, patted it and put it on the bamboo bed.
She heard the door open and said without turning around, "The bed here is like this. Do you want to get a quilt and spread it for you?"
Before Gu Wangxi could answer, she continued, "No, there's no air conditioning, not even a fan. I'll just have to make do with it for a few days."
Gu Wangxi smiled silently with pride.
The night was quiet. A glass-covered kerosene lamp was placed beside the bed. The thick mosquito net was drawn and the faint smell of mosquito coils lingered in the room.
They closed their eyes, lying flat on the bed, enjoying the summer night. With two crackling sounds, the kerosene lamp exploded, and the room was filled with darkness.
Gu Wangxi opened his eyes and said, "I'll go turn on the light."
Bei Bitang said softly: "No need to go, there is no electricity here at night."
Gu Wangxi suddenly realized and lay back down. No wonder Bei Bitang lit the kerosene lamp. He thought she wanted to experience the lifestyle here.
Outside the bamboo window, the moonlight is clear, shattering a lake of silver light.
After a long while, Gu Wangxi said softly: "I'm going to sleep, good night."
Bei Bitang, who had originally turned her back to Gu Wangxi and was looking at the moonlight outside the window, turned over and looked at Gu Wangxi's chin in the dim light, saying: "I don't sleep early."
After a moment of silence, Gu Wangxi lowered his voice and said, "I didn't bring any condoms, and there are no condoms here."
If he came to see Bei Bitang wearing a condom, what would Bei Bitang think of him? The hotel was in the middle of nowhere, and there was no place to go. He wanted to find a clinic to get family planning supplies, but he couldn't find one.
Bei Bitang reached into her pajama pants pocket and pulled out two condoms. She placed them in Gu Wangxi's hand in the dark and explained, "Mary gave them to me."
Mary came to Guilin for her honeymoon with her newlywed husband. She and her husband have been together since their student days, so they naturally have a strong relationship.
Gu Wangxi kissed Bei Bitang's hair and said softly, "Can we go to the ground? We sleep by the bamboo window."
A delicate hand lifted the mosquito net.
The moonlight flowed on Bei Bitang's snow-white skin, adding a touch of jade color. The pomelo on the high stool rolled away to who knows where.
Bei Bitang leaned her hands on the window sill, her hair kept moving, and she had no intention of appreciating the moonlight outside the window.
Gu Wangxi turned around, pulled down the flyer and shook it onto the floor.
Bei Bitang finally caught her breath, looked at Gu Wangxi's lean chest, and said worriedly, "What should we do with the sheets? Hide them in the closet?"
They are leaving early tomorrow morning to see the terraced fields, so there will definitely be no time to wash them. If she skips breakfast and goes to wash flyers, she will be too embarrassed to face anyone and she wishes she could escape back to Shanghai right then and there.
Gu Wangxi lazily stroked Bei Bitang's hair and said calmly, "I'll get up early tomorrow to wash it."
Bei Bitang glanced at him and said doubtfully, "Can you wash it?"
But she knew that before going to college, Gu Wangxi attended a boarding school where each dormitory had an aunt who was responsible for tidying, washing and ironing their clothes.
Gu Wangxi said lazily, "Don't worry, I wash my own underwear by hand. How difficult is it to wash the sheets? The two of us have made the sheets almost as dirty as my underwear."
Gu Wangxi said the last sentence in Bei Bitang's ear.
Bei Bitang's face was so hot that it felt like it was burning. She said with great shame, "Stop talking."
Who did this? What does it have to do with her? Gu Wangxi was the one who directed and controlled the entire process. Bei Bitang thought shamelessly in her heart.
Gu Wangxi readily said, "Okay, I won't say anything."
He raised his eyebrows and continued, "Tomorrow, you'll watch me."
If you don’t know, you might think he is going to do something big tomorrow.
After thinking for a moment, Bei Bitang instructed, "There's a water outlet over there in the bamboo forest. Tomorrow morning, take the sheets with you and wash them over there. Pour the dirty water onto the ground."
Gu Wangxi deliberately didn't respond. Bei Bitang kicked him and asked angrily, "Did you hear that?"
Gu Wangxi stopped teasing her and said yes repeatedly.
Bei Bitang was still worried and said, "After washing, take the sheets back to your room and hang them up to dry in the air."
Gu Wangxi put his arms around Bei Bitang, pressed her face against his chest, and whispered, "Go to sleep peacefully, worrying Miss Bei. I won't let you embarrass yourself tomorrow."
Bei Bitang also felt that she was being too nagging, so she closed her eyes, stopped thinking, and went to sleep.
Early the next morning, Gu Wangxi glanced at Bei Bitang who was still sleeping, quietly got out of bed, changed clothes and washed up, borrowed a wooden basin for washing clothes, went back to the room to pick up the sheets on the floor, avoided those who got up early to make breakfast, and went to the bamboo forest.
Holding the bed sheet in one hand, he used the wooden basin to splash water on it a few last times. Gu Wangxi smiled, raised his eyebrows, looked at the dripping bed sheet, and thought, Bei Bitang should be satisfied now.
Gu Wangxi hummed a song as he walked down the mountain. When he returned to the room, Bei Bitang was combing her hair.
When she saw Gu Wangxi coming back, she quickly stood up, took the bed sheet, and said, "You go return the wooden basin, I'll dry it."
Gu Wangxi followed Bei Bitang's instructions. The two of them packed themselves up and went downstairs to eat a bowl of Guilin rice noodles. It was still early.
Bei Bitang took the initiative to tell Zhou Qiuguang that she wanted to take Gu Wangxi up the mountain to watch the sunrise.
Zhou Qiuguang waved his hand, letting the young couple move freely, pay attention to snakes, and come back before leaving.
Passing by the small courtyard in front of the door, Mary's husband was rubbing the sheets with a grunt. Gu Wangxi signaled Bei Bitang with his eyes to look.
Bei Bitang took a look and then looked away calmly. She felt that Gu Wangxi's behavior was a bit childish.
At this moment, Mary's husband raised his head and looked Gu Wangxi up and down several times.
After leaving the courtyard, Gu Wangxi thought more and more that something was wrong. He frowned and asked, "What was that look in that American's eyes just now?"
Bei Bitang remained silent and ignored him.
Early in the morning, Gu Wangxi was overly active, like a peacock spreading its tail tail.
Green hills of varying heights are spaced apart in an orderly manner, and each mountain is visible, along with white-walled houses with ink-blue roofs, a winding river, vegetable fields surrounded by fences, and an old farmer wearing a straw hat.
The rosy glow was bright, and arrow-like rays of light were projected from the center of the clouds, and the air was extremely clear.
Gu Wangxi stood half a step behind Bei Bitang, looking at the scene, and then looking at Bei Bitang who was standing there silently. He felt it was extremely beautiful to have the person he loved by his side, and to see the beautiful scenery together. He even had the absurd idea of taking Bei Bitang to live in seclusion here.
But at this moment, Bei Bitang was thinking, standing on the mountain, with a panoramic view between heaven and earth, the mountains and rivers right under his feet, and the sky seemed to be within reach. Ascension must be just like this.
Bei Bitang had great ambitions in her heart. The world was so big and there were so many beautiful sights. She made up her mind to see the wider world, not just the city of Shanghai and the country of China.
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