I heard a knock on the door and rushed out with my things. I threw everything to Goudan and locked the door myself. I got in the car and saw him eating chocolate!
"Look at your lack of ability, Comrade Goudan, drive quickly." After saying that, he was hit on the head. "My name is Zhao Yibei, so don't call me Goudan anymore, or I'll call you Doubao every day."
I forgot the original owner had such a name. Everyone in the compound called her that. Later, when I went to Uncle Li’s compound, I hadn’t heard it for several years. She forgot it after she came here.
"I'm going to tell Aunt Liu that you're bullying me!" She rolled her eyes at him, puffing up. Zhao Yibei (from now on, Goudan'er was called by his real name) drove the car, humming an off-key song, and the two of them returned to the compound laughing.
The small building before her looked incredibly familiar; it was the original owner's former home. She'd brought her here specifically to take a closer look. In her memory, the door had been painted with smiling faces, all painted together. There was a hawthorn tree in the yard. When she was little, in the winter, her mother would boil a large pot of hawthorn water, adding sugar for a sweet and sour taste.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhao Yibei thought she was sad, and quickly explained, "I just wanted to bring you over to see it. Don't cry, or Comrade Liu will beat me."
Jiang Cha smiled and said to him, "I just want to drink hawthorn water. Drive back quickly, or we'll have to eat soon."
The Jiang family's old house is behind the Zhao family's, so you have to go around a bit to get back. Just as you arrived at the door, a middle-aged woman came out.
She was wearing an apron and a bun with her hair in a very fashionable style. She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and black pants. Such simple clothes looked so good on her.
You two are really slow, let me see Doubao, my dear, you are getting more and more beautiful. Holding Jiangcha's hand, he went straight into the house without caring that his older son was still outside.
"I haven't seen you for years. Sigh! I shouldn't have let you go with them. They insist it's good for you to leave here. Pah!
In the past few years, when we went to see you, we were always turned away by Guo, who also said that you were easily irritated by always seeing people like us.
We can only ask your brother Goudan and the others to go to the school to check on you. We went to the school to find your teacher, and they said your situation is not good. We don't know what to do.
Fortunately, you recovered and are fine now. You will get better and better in the future. If it weren't for the fact that Lao Li was too hard at the border, no one would dare to distract him and would have given him a few words.
As soon as they met, Aunt Liu took her hand and started talking non-stop, trying to catch up on all the things they had said during their separation. "Old Comrade Liu, you want to starve your daughter, don't you? It's already late, hurry up and cook for me!"
Zhao Yibei howled, and Aunt Liu hurriedly went to cook. Uncle Zhao came back at dinner time and was very happy to see Jiang Cha. "You girl, you finally came. I have been waiting for your tea for several days. The old guy surnamed Liu shows off every day."
"I thought you and Brother Yibei had returned to the army, but who knew you hadn't finished your work yet! Uncle Liu didn't tell me!" The man next to him was as excited as a monkey. He just called him Brother Yibei, but look at what he had accomplished.
"Doubao, eat more of your favorite dumplings stuffed with fennel. This crispy crucian carp is the fish made by Aunt Liu that you loved most when you were a child." The love from Aunt Liu was a bit heavy, and the bowl was almost full.
"When I was a child, whenever my mother stewed fish, you would come over with your bowl and you wouldn't leave until you were full." He grinned, looking like he deserved a beating.
"Aunt Liu, my brother didn't let me call him Gou'er and even hit me on the head, so I call him Brother Yibei." Everyone knows how to complain, and it makes you show off and laugh like a monkey.
Turning around, I slapped him in the face. Look how good my mother is! I ate two more dumplings to show off, and I was so full that I strolled around the yard, even Aunt Liu was bent over with laughter.
I opened the things I brought and gave them to Aunt Liu. "I'll give everyone in your family a cashmere sweater, some biscuits and chocolates, and these are cigarettes and tea for Uncle Zhao. I'm going to Siping tomorrow, and if there's anything delicious there, I'll bring it back for you."
Patting Goudan'er's head, it felt like a big puppy's. "Another business trip, isn't your work too hard?" Aunt Liu held her hand, feeling extremely distressed, completely forgetting that she had just returned from a business trip.
Fortunately, she didn't know she'd run into a spy, so she had dinner at Aunt Liu's before returning. On the way, Comrade Zhao Yibei strongly requested that he bring him a roast chicken. He kept talking about Goubangzi roast chicken all the way, nodding repeatedly. Jiang Cha was afraid that if he kept talking about it, he'd dream about Goubangzi.
At the door, he started nagging me again, saying, "Be careful, be safe, and practice your skills." He would check on me from time to time and told me not to slack off anymore.
Tang Sanzang finally left and went back to the room to work. Her pork was still in the pot! He could only wait for her to come back and smoke it slowly. Fortunately, it wouldn't go bad in the space.
I woke up this morning, washed up, packed my things, and ate a bowl of scallion oil noodles I'd packed from Shanghai. I headed to the train station with my backpack and bought a newspaper on the way.
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