Chapter 109 Chapter 109 Maybe, this is love! …
Liang Xin glanced at the driver's seat and said, "Why are you pretending?"
Lu Chongfeng tapped the steering wheel with his fingers, "Who are you pretending to be?"
"Luvian snail, right?"
"...Who is Lu Hualuo?"
"Lu Meiren, right?"
Lu Chongfeng immediately stepped on the accelerator of the military vehicle to the bottom. The military vehicle bumped up and down on the dirt road. He finally reacted, released his foot from the accelerator, and suppressed the upward smile of his mouth, "Who is Lu Miren?"
Liang Xin saw that the military vehicle had stabilized, took his hand off the handle, and leaned against the window. "How much did you say it would cost per month?"
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
"oh!"
Lu Chongfeng exclaimed in surprise, "So you're talking about me!"
Liang Xin glanced at him and said nothing.
However, Lu Chongfeng grabbed her hand, put it to his lips and kissed it.
Liang Xin wanted to pull back, but he not only refused, but also continued to kiss her twice, "........I didn't wash my hands after get off work."
"It's okay. I've eaten everything from snakes, rats, insects and ants during field training before."
Liang Xin paused, then raised her hand and gently touched his face.
Lu Chongfeng turned to look at Liang Xin in surprise.
Liang Xin also looked at him, "What's that expression on your face?"
"My comrade Liang Xin is really different from ordinary people."
Lu Chongfeng held Liang Xin's hand tightly. "Even the soldiers would be terrified and get goose bumps when they heard us eating these things in the wild. Not to mention the female comrades. No one dared to tell their family members or fiancées that they had eaten these things in the wild, and eaten them raw. Otherwise, they would be despised and unable to find a wife. This is what my former company commander said."
"You can eat rice, pork and steamed buns in the military compound, but you train hard in the wild to eat snakes, rats, insects and ants raw in order to defend national defense." Liang Xin touched his earlobe, "As a protected citizen, why should I despise you?"
"Mom and Lu Yueji both dislike me."
Lu Chongfeng rubbed Liang Xin's hand and said, "Maybe, this is love!"
"...You understand love again."
"Of course!"
Liang Xin leaned against the backrest and said, "Actually, what you said is not that disgusting. During the years of famine, people were so hungry that they dared to eat anything that flew in the sky or crawled on the ground. I heard that there were people in the next village who ate toads alive."
Lu Chongfeng's happy expression, immersed in love, suddenly became slightly stiff, "What's a toad? I've eaten it before..."
Liang Xin suddenly covered his mouth, interrupting what he was about to say, "For this kind of thing, there's no need to be so eager to win or lose. You don't have to see who wins or loses."
Lu Chongfeng uttered a few “hmm” words.
Liang Xin continued, "If you don't want to kiss me anymore, I'll let go of my hand and you can continue."
Liang Xin let go of her hand.
Lu Chongfeng immediately shut his mouth.
The car was silent for about a minute.
Liang Xin smiled and said, "I told you not to talk about eating anything stronger, not that I told you not to say anything."
"Am I really that attractive to you?"
"........Um."
The corners of Lu Chongfeng's lips slowly curled up, "You are more attractive to me."
Liang Xin said casually, "I didn't notice it."
Liang Xin's chin was suddenly clamped and pulled towards the driver's seat, and then she was asked to look down.
Liang Xin looked at his military pants, slapped his hands away, and looked at him with an indescribable expression.
"What's that expression on your face!"
Lu Chongfeng looked wronged, "It's not my fault, you were the one who provoked me first!"
Liang Xin: "......When did I tease you?"
Lu Chongfeng: "You touched my ear!"
Liang Xin: “….”
"Is it not okay to touch your ears?"
"Why not? Isn't this too good?"
Lu Chongfeng said seriously, "So you are more attractive to me. Let me tell you, before we got married, I didn't have this thought in my mind. I never thought about these things every day. After we got married, this thought seemed to have grown out, really!"
Liang Xin said, "That's because where you used to live, you couldn't see a lesbian for a year or two."
"nonsense!"
Lu Chongfeng said, "There were no female comrades in the barracks before, but that doesn't mean there weren't any in the garrison. Besides, the military region would also arrange for cultural troupes to give consolation performances. Now that I think about it, there were really a lot of female comrades, but seeing them was no different from seeing birch trees."
"It's not like you've never flown before."
"........It's a natural physiological reaction that occurs naturally according to physiological development. It's not something you do just because you see someone!"
Lu Chongfeng: "Comrade Liang Xin, you really don't have any romantic cells!"
Liang Xin laughed out loud. After chatting all the way back, all the fatigue of her body and mind almost disappeared with her laughter. "The weather is getting hotter and hotter."
“I bought a watermelon.”
Lu Chongfeng turned the steering wheel to the right intersection, "You don't like watermelons in the refrigerator, I went to get well water, and the watermelons are already chilled in the well water."
Liang Xin looked at the lights of the guards on duty ahead and sat up straight, "We're home."
Lu Chongfeng also controlled his expression. In response to the guard's salute, he honked the horn in return and drove the car into the staff quarters.
When Liang Xin got off the car and arrived home, she saw Dudu crawling and playing on the cool bed in the yard, and Xiaobai was wagging its tail and walking around the bed.
Dudu had just sat down and picked up the rattle. When he heard his mother coming back, he excitedly waved his fists twice, threw away the rattle, lay on the mat, and crawled towards the door with his butt arched. His chubby little arms and legs were as white and tender as lotus roots.
Liang Xin squatted down and kissed her daughter's soft cheek, "Mom will wash her hands before hugging you."
Dudu saw Liangxin walking towards the garden, and then he turned his butt to chase his mother. Lu Chongfeng came in from behind and picked him up. "You put on some powder. Let me smell it. There's also the scent of floral water. Have you taken a bath?"
"I have washed it."
Sister Ji took Dudu and said, "I just finished taking a shower. I guess I knew you guys weren't back yet, so I'm waiting for you. I'm very energetic and don't want to sleep."
Liang Xin washed her hands and face carefully with soap, took the towel off the drying line to dry them, and reached out her arms to hug her dancing daughter. Holding her soft little body, Liang Xin felt that her heart had finally settled down. "Do you miss your mother?"
Dudu made two "wa-woo" sounds and pinched his mother's face.
Liang Xin let her daughter pinch her face. Seeing that her mother did not hide, Dudu lay on her mother's face and kissed her a few times. She kissed herself until she smiled, and then started to nibble.
Knowing her daughter's habits, she washed her face as soon as she entered the door, and walked to the cool bed with her chubby little butt in her arms, "The evening breeze is cool, let's eat in the yard."
"I'll go in and move the table and get the food."
Lu Chongfeng would run home to see his daughter at noon or in the evening after get off work or when he passed by the staff quarters.
Liang Xin is on the farm. The factory is busy introducing production lines, arranging new employees to join, technical training, bidding for factory buildings and employee housing, developing new products, and marketing products. There are countless meetings of all sizes every day. There is no need to waste time running back and forth to eat at noon. As long as he can come back in the evening and play with his daughter for a while, he basically won't let Liang Xin do anything.
Even if it's just something as small as picking up a bowl.
Liang Xin put Dudu on the cool bed, held her two little hands and put them on her eyes, and occasionally took them away and meowed, which made the whole yard filled with Dudu's giggles.
Hearing Liang Xin's repeated "meow", Xiaoju thought she was calling her, so he jumped down from the persimmon tree and walked towards the cool bed with a proud cat step.
Lu Chongfeng and Sister Ji brought dinner to the table.
Sister Ji didn’t know what time Liang Xin would be back, and was afraid that Dudu would fall asleep, so she had already eaten at mealtime.
Liang Xin held Dudu and sat at the table. She watched Sister Ji bolt the door and unbutton her clothes. Dudu ate his dinner as usual and fell asleep while eating.
Sister Ji helped put Dudu in the crib to sleep.
Liang Xin then started to eat dinner with Lu Chongfeng.
Dinner consisted of rice porridge and steamed buns cooked by Sister Ji, scrambled eggs with loofah grown on the yard wall, and braised pork with cowpea that was left over from the pot at lunch.
For Sister Ji, having meat at every meal is a great dish.
If it were her, a dish of fried loofah and eggs in the evening would be an improvement in her food standard.
Seeing Liang Xin eating slowly, Lu Chongfeng knew it was not because the food was bad, but because it was light. "There are ribs in the refrigerator. I'll go fry some of the five-spice ribs you made for you."
Liang Xin took a bite of the bun and put it down, "Let's go."
Lu Chongfeng laughed out loud, put down his chopsticks, took Liang Xin's hand and walked towards the kitchen.
Liang Xin struggled for a moment, "Big sister isn't asleep yet."
"Big sister has taken Dudu into the house. He will definitely not come out."
Lu Chongfeng took Liang Xin's hand and hugged her shoulders, "Besides, my elder sister is used to it. We just have a good relationship."
Liang Xin smiled, "Do you remember the steps?"
"What a good memory I have, of course I remember!"
Lu Chongfeng picked up the knife and chopped the ribs into four-inch thick chunks. He was about to put them into the enamel bowl, but when he heard Liang Xin snort, he also snorted, put the ribs down, turned the kitchen knife over, and used the back of the knife to loosen the ribs.
"Just teasing you."
Lu Chongfeng pounded his ribs, looked up at Liang Xin, and smiled smugly, "Do you really think that I'll let you catch me by the hair right after I boasted about myself?"
"You're awesome."
Liang Xin leaned against the cupboard and watched him chop the meat.
"Awesome?" Lu Chongfeng's eyes showed genuine confusion. "What do you mean by 'awesome'? Am I like an ox? Am I strong? Do I have a good memory? Do oxen have good memories? This is the first time I've heard of this. Did you hear about it in the countryside? Or did you read it in a book?"
Liang Xin: “….”
"I'm going out to eat first."
“Don’t.”
Lu Chongfeng stopped Liang Xin and said, "Since you are here, finish your work before leaving."
Liang Xin subconsciously glanced at his pants, then thought that she had misheard him, so she leaned back into the cupboard and changed the subject, "I've been busy with work lately, and I haven't heard about the progress of the division's reform for a long time."
"Although there have been minor incidents, overall things are moving in a positive direction."
Lu Chongfeng chopped the loosened ribs into three small pieces, put them in an enamel bowl, added soy sauce and rice wine and mixed well.
"By the way, Zhang Zhibing, the son of the farm director Zhang, has done very well in his new position after being demoted. All the cadres and soldiers in the company took the initiative to ask their superiors for a promotion. Through a new round of anonymous public opinion polls, he has been promoted twice and is now a battalion instructor. Cadres like him should have been transferred from military cadres to political cadres long ago."
Liang Xin was also very happy to hear this, "I remember there was another cadre who was confused. How is he doing?"
"He's still trying to figure it out."
Lu Chongfeng poured soybean oil into the small double-handled pot and said, "It is difficult to change the inertia that has been developed over a long period of time unless people make up their minds."
Liang Xin nodded, "Indeed."
"Don't worry about me." Lu Chongfeng said, "Everything is difficult at the beginning. I have already made a good start in my work, but you have just started here, so I can't help you much."
"You've helped."
Liang Xin looked at the ribs sizzling in the pot and said, "Without you, the instant noodle factory would not be able to develop new flavors so quickly."
Lu Chongfeng reached out and held Liang Xin's head, then pressed it and kissed her forehead.
"It's out."
Liang Xin pointed at the spareribs and smelled the crispy aroma. "Fry them again to make them more colorful. I'm hungry."
Lu Chongfeng took out the fried golden and crispy ribs and drained the oil, took a wok, poured some of the oil used to fry the ribs into it, and after the oil boiled, poured the ribs into the wok, tossed them a few times, sprinkled with chopped green onions and five-spice powder, drizzled with sesame oil, tossed them a few more times, and served them into an enamel plate.
Liang Xin took a deep breath while holding the tender and crispy five-spice spareribs. "Smells good! This is dinner!"
Lu Chongfeng looked back at Liang Xin, smiled, took the wok under the faucet, squeezed out two drops of detergent, and cleaned it with a loofah.
Liang Xin waited until he came out before she picked up the chopsticks to eat the ribs. The crispy skin, tender meat, and the spicy, sweet flavor of the five-spice powder stimulated her taste buds. It was so delicious that she was speechless. She then took a bite of the white flour bun, and a sense of satisfaction immediately filled her heart, and the fatigue hidden in her internal organs disappeared completely.
Seeing that Liang Xin was no longer eating so slowly, Lu Chongfeng's expression was happy. Just watching him eat made the food more delicious. He couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, "Do I have a good memory?"
Liang Xin nodded, "Okay, you're the best, no one is better than you."
Lu Chongfeng put the original bathtub in the bathroom on the first floor. When Liang Xin was strolling in the yard after dinner, he cleaned the bathtub inside and out and filled it with hot water.
Then he went to the pergola in the garden and picked the rose petals that he had planted for Liang Xin. He washed them with water and checked for insects before putting them in the bathtub.
When the water was full, Liang Xin's stomach felt better after digestion.
Looking at the pink rose petals floating on the water in the tub, Liang Xin smiled, "It's quite romantic."
“Romantic people take baths this way.”
Lu Chongfeng had already brought down the bath towel and change of clothes from upstairs, "I'll hold them for you, you soak."
"Just put it on the chair."
Liang Xin took off her clothes and soaked in the tub before continuing, "However, the crackdown this year was so severe that bell-bottom pants were cut off, speakers were smashed, and there were also local meetings criticizing romance novels and love songs. We have to be careful in our daily lives. As you said just now, once a habit is formed, it is difficult to change it."
Lu Chongfeng put his clothes on the chair next to him, squatted beside the bathtub, and looked at the milky white skin under the rose petals in the water. "I charge when I should, and I usually take detours when I can."
Liang Xin patted his hands and said, "You don't need to water me. You treat me like a flower."
Lu Chongfeng continued to stir the water, "Flowers are not as beautiful as you."
Liang Xin looked at him, "Do you want to take a shower together?"
"I took the cadres out for training this afternoon, and I took a shower before picking you up."
Lu Chongfeng said: "Besides, you are so tired today, I won't wash with you, I will only help you wash."
"It's like a tongue twister."
Lu Chongfeng helped Liang Xin wipe the water droplets off her body, put on her pajamas, packed up the bathtub, then carried her upstairs and tucked her into bed.
Liang Xin patted his face and said, "Xiao Lu's service is good."
"The leader is satisfied and will come again next time."
Lu Chongfeng turned the floor fan to the second gear and said, "Leader, is this enough?"
Liang Xin glanced at him and said, "Now that you have taken a shower, come over here."
"Is it really possible, leader?"
Lu Chongfeng asked as he quickly unbuttoned a row of buttons on his white shirt. "I didn't mean that. I really didn't mean that today."
Liang Xin uncovered his quilt and said, "I misunderstood. Go to sleep."
Lu Chongfeng pressed on Liang Xin and unbuttoned her floral pajamas one by one. "There is no misunderstanding. I am just worried that the leader will be tired."
Liang Xin pinched his handsome face and said, "Think of a way that doesn't require me to do anything."
Lu Chongfeng pressed his hard muscle against the softness first, then picked up Liang Xin, sat her on him, and bit her earlobe from behind, "I promise you won't have to use even a finger."
When Liang Xin was shaking so much that she had to grab something to relieve herself, as soon as she grabbed his steel-like arms, Lu Chongfeng immediately pried her hands apart one by one, pinching her armpits from behind like he was pinching Jududu, "Leaders can't exert their strength."
Liang Xin: “….”
Liang Xin could only support herself using the only part of her body that could hold her strength.
Lu Chongfeng tensed his arm muscles instantly, gritted his teeth, and used his strong abdominal core strength to make Liang Xin fall limply on his chest, "... Never let the leader do anything!"
".......Shut up!"
Lu Chongfeng held Liang Xin's face from behind, pressed his mouth against hers, and gently penetrated her teeth. She obeyed and became silent.
After the technical department meeting, Liang Xin didn't have to rush to the factory so early in the morning and could focus on the next marketing schedule.
After sorting out my thoughts, I heard a familiar voice outside the door.
Liang Xin screwed the cap on the pen, stood up and walked out of the study, and saw Xia Xia and Yang Tao walking in the door.
"Liang Xin!" "Auntie Liang!"
"Sister-in-law, Yang Tao, you're here so soon."
"Dad was waiting on the train this morning and picked us up as soon as we got off the train."
As soon as Yang Tao entered the room, she looked around and saw Dudu sleeping in the crib. She walked over quietly. When she saw Dudu wearing a pink flowered jumpsuit, showing her chubby arms and legs, her heart softened immediately. "As expected of Aunt Liang and Uncle Lu's child, she will be a school beauty in the future just by looking at the way she is sleeping!"
"Yes, this is the first time I see such a beautiful child." Xia Xia also saw Dudu for the first time, and said lovingly, "She is prettier than the dolls in the New Year pictures!"
Liang Xin was not polite.
She also recognized how pretty Dudu was.
"Everything has been arranged in Beijing."
Xia Xia sat on the sofa in the living room. "I assisted Caixia as the store manager for a while. After such a long time together, I can see that she can handle things on her own. The courtyard where we live has been returned to a private person. Didn't you inform me to use the public account to buy a house when I have one? I bought two private houses in the alley behind. The three-room one is 760 yuan. I gave it to Han Caixia to live in. She has four children. The three boys can live here, and the daughter also has a room. The others are all in the alley. There is no need to worry about safety, and they don't have to squeeze together like in a slum."
Liang Xin cut the watermelon and shared it with Xia Xia and Yang Tao. "It saves you the trouble of buying it. You don't have to delay your work by moving around for a place to live."
“That’s the truth.”
Xia Xia took a bite of the watermelon and said, "I don't know what's wrong with Old Yang. He has to urge me to come back. I don't want to come back at all. The bakery is very busy. Many old customers know me, and I'm used to seeing them every day."
Liang Xin smiled, "Isn't this what you wanted before?"
"I wanted it before, but now I want a bakery." Xia Xia spat the watermelon seeds on her hands. "If I wasn't afraid that Lao Yang would always bother you, I would never have come back. Beijing Bakery was founded by you and me. After you came back, they were all newbies, and I was the only one holding up the shop. The bakery has gone through so many ups and downs until today, and I feel like I have lived it all over again. I really don't want to come back at all."
Yang Tao ate the watermelon silently, and suddenly said: "I won't go back, but I can't leave."
Xia Xia sighed, "Yeah, I'm already this age. Besides, if I get divorced, I won't be a military dependent anymore. Why would I still work in the army bakery?"
Liang Xin laughed out loud as she looked at the mother and daughter who looked truly refreshed.
Xia Xia looked at Liang Xin, "What's wrong? What are you laughing at?"
Liang Xin looked at Xia Xia's hairstyle and said, "Your hair looks fashionable and nice."
Xia Xia stroked her curly hair and said, "This is a popular hairstyle in Beijing. Everyone goes to the barber shop to get this perm, so I went too. After getting a perm, it makes me look neater when I wear a hat. It also makes me look more fashionable."
"Western style."
Liang Xin looked at Xia Xia's face and said, "Your face has turned pale. You are standing next to Commander Yang now. He and you look like two generations apart."
Xia Xia suddenly laughed exceptionally loudly.
Liang Xin had never heard her smile so confidently and brightly before.
"I heard from the crew that Director Xia of Conscience Bakery was very beautiful. It was a pity that I didn't go to film the movie at that time."
Yang Tao finished eating a slice of watermelon and took another one. "It's a pity that I still look more like my dad."
"It still balances your parents' looks."
Liang Xin chatted for a while and asked, "Yang Tao, do you know anyone at CCTV?"
Yang Tao nodded, "Yes, I have a classmate who was assigned to the station. Usually, the station often commissions our studio to shoot materials. This year, there are two TV series that are co-produced. We often deal with each other. Aunt Liang, what are you going to do?"
"I heard that CCTV is preparing for the first Spring Festival Gala."
Liang Xin said, "We want to supplement some of the funds for the Spring Festival Gala by soft-implanting our Conscience Instant Noodles advertisements. I heard that this is an administrative allocation, and state-owned large factories are given priority, but in fact it depends on the internal people who are familiar with it. Do you know what's going on?"
"advertise?"
Yang Tao was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up, "Auntie Liang, that's awesome."
Liang Xin saw Yang Tao's reaction and knew that she knew the inside story, so she waited for her to continue.
"The Spring Festival Gala has just entered the preparation stage, and the specific distribution method and price are not yet clear."
Yang Tao put down the watermelon. "But I know the advertising methods and costs before and after the news broadcast. One is a 15-second banner video ad, which costs a few hundred yuan during normal time periods. The closer to the prime time before and after the news broadcast, the price may double to thousands. The other is subtitle ads, which are static subtitles scrolling up and down the TV screen. The price is not expensive. I guess the Spring Festival Gala costs the same, but it is unlikely that the video will be put for 15 seconds. It may be inserted with subtitle ads and credits at the end of the film. As for the soft placement you mentioned... I have to go back and ask."
Xia Xia immediately said, "Don't wait until you get back. There's a phone number ready. You can call and ask now."
Liang Xin knew it, but couldn't tell her what was going on since the Spring Festival Gala was still being prepared. "Yang Tao, if you have a connection, please ask the factory. It doesn't matter if it's more money. We want to go on the commercials and end credits during the breaks between programs. If there are interactive sessions like announcers and audience requests, and if the scene can feature Conscience instant noodles, we're willing to help with some of the expenses or sponsor them with products. In addition to the Spring Festival Gala, we'd also like to spend some money on advertising during prime time before and after the news broadcast. I've seen those 15-second billboard advertising videos on TV. I'm planning to hire you to help shoot them after the new flavors are developed."
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