Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Come wash quickly, I'll wait for you.
Liang Xin looked at the big brown horse and stretched out her hand to test it.
The horse stood obediently, blinked its big eyes, and lowered its head, as if it understood what she wanted to do and nodded in agreement.
Liang Xin touched the horse's head in amazement and said, "It's very spiritual."
"I'll send it to the 3rd Company Horse Farm first."
Lu Chongfeng held the reins and said, "It's close to you. If you need to make a delivery, just pull the cart over and put on the reins. When you're done, send it back to the company. You can go outside the playground and cut some grass to feed it."
“Yo!”
Li Mao suddenly came out of the bakery and shouted when he saw the big brown horse, "Where did the horse come from?"
Liang Xin said, "Keep it for us to deliver the goods."
Li Mao was surprised and asked, "Really?"
"How could it be false?"
Liang Xin looked at Lu Chongfeng, "Can you deliver the goods now?"
"I'll take your cart away and go to the barracks to find the harness, horse harness and rope. I'll bring them back to you after they're ready."
Lu Chongfeng walked away, holding the horse with one hand and the handle of the cart with the other.
Li Mao and the three people who came out later looked at Lu Chongfeng's back with envy on their faces and nodded continuously.
"A man should be like Section Chief Lu!" Li Mao patted Wang Daya's shoulder, "Do you see clearly?"
Wang Daya: “…”
"I'm not looking for a man anymore."
Zhong Xuelian said, "If there was someone who could treat Liang Xin like Section Chief Lu did, would you not want him?"
"If there is someone like Director Liang who is kind to me."
Wang Daya looked at Liang Xin and said, "I want it."
Liang Xin chuckled.
"That's right." Xia Xia raised her hand and placed it on Liang Xin's shoulder, looking at Lu Chongfeng who was walking away, "Liang Xin is more worthy of marrying than Section Chief Lu!"
Li Mao patted Wang Daya's hand again, "Don't worry, you are still young, only in your thirties, there will definitely be someone as good as Liang Xin who will marry you home."
Wang Daya was not interested and pushed the door open to go back to work.
"Why is it so hot all of a sudden?"
The bakery has two large ovens that keep you warm in the winter and keep away the chill. Everyone wants to stay inside all the time.
Once midsummer comes, the kitchen becomes a steamer.
If you stay close to the oven for a while, your breathing will feel like you are swallowing fire.
Just relying on a palm-leaf fan and washing your face with cold water can no longer relieve the summer heat.
"I'll go and apply to the logistics department to buy an electric fan."
As soon as the oven was turned on, Liang Xin could no longer drink her hot tea. She fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan and took a sip of mung bean soup.
"Electric fan?"
Zhong Xuelian was surprised, "This is a rare thing, can you buy it for us?"
"We already have more than 3,000 yuan in our account." Liang Xin fanned herself with a palm-leaf fan. "We don't want them to pay. If the 1st Company of the 22nd Regiment hadn't set up an ice cream workshop, I would have bought a freezer to make ice cream."
Li Mao was holding the mung bean cake that had just come out of the steamer. After a short while, she was already sweating profusely. She picked up a wet towel and wiped her face. "It's time to think of a solution. It's August now, and I don't think we can guarantee hygiene."
Liang Xin asked Zhong Xuelian for paper and pen, "I will write the report now."
Before leaving get off work, Xia Xia said to Liang Xin, "Old Yang asked me to tell you that I would like to invite you and Section Chief Lu to dinner at my home tonight."
Liang Xin raised her eyebrows, "Why?"
Xia Xia shook her head and suddenly blushed, which was obviously not caused by the heat. "He, he came to my room to sleep last night."
Liang Xin looked around and asked in a low voice: "Just sleeping, or..."
Xia Xia's face turned even redder. "You are so old, you just want to sleep."
"You're not even forty yet." Liang Xin thought for a moment, "Commander Yang is only in his early forties? He's still in his prime."
Xia Xia couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to escape, "It's settled, you don't have to cook tonight, and I'll call Daya too." Liang Xin looked back at Li Mao and Zhong Xuelian who took off their aprons and hats, and said nothing.
Although it was Commander Yang who treated them to dinner in the evening, Liang Xin still prepared to make something to bring over.
Wash the black plums, put them in an aluminum pot, add water, and put it on a honeycomb coal stove. After boiling, turn to low heat and simmer for half an hour.
"What tastes so sour?"
When Lu Chongfeng came back from taking a shower, Liang Xin turned around and looked at him, "What are you so happy about?"
"You can see all this?"
Lu Chongfeng unbuttoned his military jacket, revealing a white shirt that clung to his muscular body. "The 22nd Regiment selected a team to participate in the military competition. Among the grassroots cadres, Deputy Battalion Commander Lei next door won first place, and several others won second and third place. This is a major military competition. The 11th Division didn't have a single medal of honor before, but this time it can at least win three third-class medals!"
Liang Xin smiled, "Great."
"It's amazing..."
"I mean you're awesome."
Lu Chongfeng was stunned and shook his head. "I just gave them methods and guidance. It was they who soaked in blood, salt water, and alkaline water over and over again. It was also because they had strong psychological qualities that they were able to stand firm in the competition and win back the medal of honor."
Liang Xin looked at Lu Chongfeng seriously, her smile deepened, and she filtered the sour plum soup, removing the residue and taking the juice. "We can go to Commander Yang's house tonight and celebrate."
Lu Chongfeng took out a clean aluminum pot and handed it to Liang Xin. "The division leaders discussed this matter at the meeting this afternoon. They kept smiling during the meeting. In addition to mentioning the military competition, they also mentioned you."
"The matter of the model city for supporting both the army and the people?"
"right."
Liang Xin poured the sour plum juice into the aluminum pot that Lu Chongfeng handed over, added sugar and osmanthus, stirred well, and put it back on the fire. "Commander Yang suddenly invited me to dinner, isn't it just for this matter?"
"The news just came in the afternoon."
Seeing that Liang Xin had finished her work, Lu Chongfeng pulled her over and sat her on the chair.
Liang Xin suddenly fell on him, "...What do you want to do?"
"Happy."
Lu Chongfeng put his arm around Liang Xin's waist and hugged her tightly. "My reform plan has achieved good initial results. I'm happy."
Liang Xin looked at the scattered light in his eyes, moved to the small mole under his left eye, and twisted it with her index finger, "I'm happy too."
Lu Chongfeng held her fingers and kissed them, "Because Song...I shouldn't say he is his family member, because of Comrade Wang Daya?"
Liang Xin was amused by his address, "Yes, but not entirely."
Lu Chongfeng was curious, "Then what's the reason?"
"Didn't you give me a present again?"
"Horse?" Lu Chongfeng said, "That's not a gift. It's just to help you solve a practical problem."
Liang Xin looked at Lu Chongfeng, who was always in love without knowing it, and bent down to kiss his perfectly curved lips.
Lu Chongfeng immediately responded by hugging Liang Xin tightly.
The aluminum pot lid was clanging loudly due to the heat, and the heat in the kitchen continued to rise.
Lu Chongfeng held the back of Liang Xin's head in his hands, preventing her from leaving.
Liang Xin bit the tip of his tongue and found a gap to speak, "The sour plum soup is going to dry up."
Lu Chongfeng reluctantly let go, looking at Liang Xin's thin white neck, which was only exposed at the collar of her yellow shirt, her slender waist, and her plump buttocks that were raised as she bent over to lift the lid of the pot. He took a deep breath and said, "I'm not going to eat."
"Don't mess around."
"Then just fool around once more before going again."
Lu Chongfeng picked up Liang Xin, turned her body over, and was about to lower her head, but Liang Xin grabbed her hair and forced her to look up.
Liang Xin saw that the corners of his eyes had begun to turn red, and he was filled with desire. His heart trembled slightly, "... Let's talk about it tonight."
Carrying the cooled sour plum soup, I came to Teacher Yang's house.
The living room table was filled with dishes.
Cold cut pig ears and pig intestines, fried peanuts, shredded radish and tofu balls, stir-fried bacon and pig blood sausage with millet peppers, stir-fried shredded green peppers, braised pork, stewed pig's trotters with soybeans...
“Sister-in-law, you cooked so many dishes after get off work.”
"Not much, not much. It's rare for me to have dinner with my family."
Xia Xia came out with a bowl of roasted rooster with edamame in her hand. She saw Liang Xin put the thermos on the table and asked, "Why did you take the thermos?"
"I invited you to dinner, why did you bring anything?"
Xia Xia pulled out a chair and turned back to the kitchen and called out, "Daya, the fire is out, come and eat. Liang Xin and Section Chief Lu are already here."
Then, he called upstairs again, "Yang Tao, bring Xiaoya down to wash her hands and eat."
Liang Xin subconsciously looked at Lu Chongfeng, and Lu Chongfeng also looked at her.
Both of them understood what was in each other's eyes.
Looking back, when I first arrived at the 11th Division, I was also invited to have dinner at Commander Yang’s home.
The atmosphere then was completely different from now.
Even if the table is filled with food, it cannot cover up the coldness and lifelessness of the people in the room.
Yang Tao walked down from the second floor holding Xiao Ya's hand. When she saw Liang Xin, she immediately smiled, with bright eyes, white teeth, and full of energy.
"Aunt, you are here."
Liang Xin took out two White Rabbit candies from her pocket and gave one to each of the two girls.
"Aunt, I'm an adult now." Yang Tao put the candy into her pocket and wanted to put her arm around Liang Xin's arm. When she saw Lu Chongfeng, she retracted her hand and pulled out a chair instead. "Aunt, please sit down. I'll take Xiaoya to wash her hands first."
Liang Xin looked up and saw Lu Chongfeng's face, which looked serious on the surface but actually showed dissatisfaction. She lowered her head and smiled, then sat down at the table.
Lu Chongfeng sat next to Liang Xin.
As soon as he sat down, Commander Yang opened the door and came back. Lu Chongfeng immediately stood up and saluted.
"Sit down." Commander Yang raised his hand, signaling Liang Xin not to stand up, and raised the Moutai and a dozen orange sodas in his hand, "I'm going to the service center to buy sodas."
Everyone gathered at the table.
Commander Yang poured a glass of wine, raised it up, and toasted to Xia Xia first.
Everyone at the table was stunned.
Xia Xia herself was even more shocked. Looking at the wine glass in front of her, she was a little at a loss and subconsciously looked at Liang Xin.
Liang Xin: "...Sister-in-law, bring the wine."
Xia Xia picked up the sour plum soup in front of her.
Commander Yang said nothing, but tilted his head back and drank the white wine in the glass in one gulp.
"Drink slowly." Xia Xia put down the sour plum soup and hurriedly picked up a piece of dried green pepper in front of her with chopsticks and put it into Commander Yang's bowl.
After drinking a glass of white wine, Master Yang immediately became drunk. He seemed to be unable to bear the spiciness in his mouth. He picked up the dried green pepper from the bowl and ate it. After swallowing it, he spoke: "I was wrong before."
Xia Xia was stunned again.
Teacher Yang put down his chopsticks, rested his hands on his knees, and looked at Liang Xin. "Since Section Chief Lu and Comrade Liang Xin came to the division, a lot of things have happened. Fortunately, it was your arrival that solved many potential problems in time. Through these problems, I found that my attitude towards marriage and the negative emotions in my relationship with my spouse had a certain impact on many families in the division. I never realized this before."
Without waiting for Liang Xin to reply, Commander Yang looked at Lu Chongfeng again, "Section Chief Lu once said that in training, if a soldier is incompetent, the generals will be incompetent as well. This principle can also be applied to personal conduct."
Liang Xin thought for a moment and raised the orange soda in front of her. "Commander Yang, do you mean to make a self-criticism?"
"Yes, I am reflecting on myself."
Teacher Yang picked up the Maotai and refilled the glass, then raised it up and said, "From now on, I will learn from you two."
Liang Xin saw Yang Tao and Xiao Ya out of the corner of her eye, swallowed the words in her mouth, picked up the orange soda in front of her, and said, "Sister-in-law, drink."
Xia Xia was suddenly called out and woke up, "I, I don't know how to drink."
Yang Tao suddenly stood up, picked up the Moutai and poured a glass for Xia Xia.
"This kid." Xia Xia smiled, raised her glass, and toasted to Liang Xin, "Liang Xin, I have to toast you, not for Yang Tao, but for myself. Now when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, sometimes I can't recognize myself. I have completely changed!"
Liang Xin looked at Wang Daya and said, "Sister Daya, let's toast together. After that, we can stop with the sentimental talk."
Everyone at the table stood up.
The little girl also slid down the chair and stood up following the adults, holding the orange soda. After sliding down, her head was submerged under the table, with only two little hands holding a bottle of orange soda.
Loud laughter was heard from Commander Yang's house.
The family members who passed by the door on their way to Deputy Commander Zhu's house looked at Commander Yang's small building in surprise.
"That's strange."
"Is this Commander Yang's home? We must have come to the wrong place."
"We went to the wrong place. This should be Zheng Zheng's house."
"Nonsense, this is Commander Yang's home!"
"I've lived long enough to hear everything."
Commander Yang and Lu Chongfeng were chatting about the military competition.
Liang Xin asked Yang Tao about his future plans for studying.
Yang Tao said: "After I finished my speech at the Great Hall of the People, I was interviewed by many reporters. I also went to the creative studios of the Military Region Art Troupe and the Municipal Drama Troupe, and to the screenwriting and directing departments of the Jiefang Film Studio. I deeply felt that reading is very useful, very useful. At the same time, I felt that I was really incompetent and I wanted to finish high school first."
Liang Xin looked at the longing in Yang Tao's eyes and asked, "Do you want to be involved in the arts in the future?"
Yang Tao nodded vigorously, "Yes, if possible, I would like to do work related to creation, screenwriting and directing."
"It's right to finish high school first, and study hard."
After Liang Xin finished speaking, she saw Xiaoya tilting her head and looking at her, "Xiaoya, study hard too."
Xiaoya: “Yeah!”
Xia Xia and Wang Daya looked at their daughter and smiled with relief.
Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng finished their meal and took a watermelon home.
Lu Chongfeng boiled two pots of water, helped Liang Xin prepare the bath water, then took a bucket to the well outside and fetched some cold water to bring home.
Take the watermelon and wash it under the tap, then put it in well water to chill.
Liang Xin took a shower with the door locked. When she came out, she met Lu Chongfeng's resentful eyes, "The water is not poured out, you go ahead and take a shower."
Lu Chongfeng leaned closer to smell the soap on Liang Xin's body, but Liang Xin pushed his face away.
"Hurry up and wash. I'll wait for you."
These words made Lu Chongfeng's blood boil. He quickly unbuttoned a row of buttons on his white shirt, rolled up his vest and took it off, then took a shower with the bath water that Liang Xin had used.
The battle was over in a few minutes, and I walked into the living room. There was a candle lit on the low cabinet, and the candlelight was swaying in the lotus breeze outside the window. There was a mat on the ground near the long window, and on it was a watermelon cut in half.
I heard footsteps behind me.
Lu Chongfeng turned around and paused.
Liang Xin was wearing a suspender nightgown with a white background and small yellow floral patterns. The hem of the skirt barely covered her thighs. Her legs were long, straight, white and delicate. As she walked, the lotus breeze blew, and the nightgown wrapped around her front body, highlighting the curves under the skirt and attracting Lu Chongfeng's attention.
Liang Xin took a white porcelain spoon in her hand, took off her slippers, sat on the mat with bent legs, picked up the watermelon, scooped a spoonful, and handed it to the person who was standing there stupidly.
Lu Chongfeng was indeed very hot. He slowly squatted down, supported himself on both sides of Liang Xin's waistline, enveloped her whole body, opened his mouth and bit the watermelon, staring at her while chewing.
Liang Xin raised her slender arm and scooped another spoonful of watermelon, "This spoon doesn't work well."
"I'll do it."
Lu Chongfeng sat on the mat, held Liang Xin in his arms from behind, took the spoon, easily scooped out the sweetest part in the middle of the watermelon, and fed it into Liang Xin's mouth.
Liang Xin took a bite of the watermelon, leaned against his chest, pressed against his brick-like muscles, used her arms as armrests on his thighs, faced the long window through which the evening breeze blew, and enjoyed the rare coolness.
“Don’t eat too much.”
Lu Chongfeng scooped up the watermelon juice from the concave part in the middle of the watermelon and said, "If you eat too much at night, you will catch a cold easily."
"Isn't this right next to you?"
Liang Xin moved the irritating part, pressed down his arm, and drank the cold watermelon juice. "It won't get cold."
Lu Chongfeng's chest kept rising and falling due to the movement of the mat. Just as he was about to lower his head, Liang Xin suddenly raised her hand and patted him.
“There were mosquitoes, but I didn’t take any pictures.”
Liang Xin looked up to find the mosquito and said, "I forgot to light the mosquito coil."
After saying that, he stood up, took the watermelon, and picked up the spoon to scoop out the watermelon.
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
He raised his head and glared angrily at the buzzing mosquitoes flying around, then stood up and raised his hand to slap them, but thinking that he would have to touch Liang Xin later, he put his hand down, opened the drawer under the TV, found the mosquito coils, and lit a match.
Along with a faint fragrance, a wisp of smoke rises.
Lu Chongfeng returned to his original position, but not as honest as before. He put his hands under the straps on both sides of the nightgown.
Liang Xin was eating watermelon when he bumped into her hand, and the watermelon juice spilled onto the collar of her nightgown, soaking through the white cotton cloth.
A drop of watermelon juice also spilled onto the fair skin and slowly slid down.
Lu Chongfeng picked up the watermelon and threw it aside. He then crawled under Liang Xin's armpit and followed the red trail of the watermelon juice.
Halfway through the chase, he did not chase the drop of watermelon juice again, but instead changed his mind and said, "I'll help you lick it clean."
Liang Xin: "...Where are you licking?"
"rest assured."
Lu Chongfeng said vaguely: "I will definitely lick it all for you."
Lu Chongfeng kept his word and carefully cleaned the stains left by the watermelon juice over and over again.
Liang Xin was lying on the mat, her nightgown half-pulled off and folded like a towel, biting Lu Chongfeng's finger in her mouth. Her cheeks were more beautiful than the lotus flowers outside the window, but her body exuded the sweet scent of watermelon.
Lu Chongfeng leaned close to Liang Xin's ear and said, "I've licked it clean. Does the leader want to check?"
Liang Xin glared at Lu Chongfeng, "Shameless."
Lu Chongfeng buried his face in Liang Xin's face, and his big hands, which had become thicker and harder with calluses from gunshot wounds, grasped her white and slender legs.
Liang Xin frowned and dug her fingers into his shoulders.
The scattered breath penetrated into Lu Chongfeng's muscles like fine needles, densely packed and difficult to remove. He was controlled, sticking to Liang Xin's face, trying to please her.
In midsummer, frogs croak continuously, the fragrance of lotus sways in the wind, a watermelon leans on the bluestone brick, the watermelon juice slowly flows down, an iron stand supports a plate of mosquito coils, fiery red stars flicker and extinguish, and wisps of thin smoke smoke the moonlight.
The incense ash fell all over the ground.
Only one lap left.
It rained in the second half of the night, and the raindrops hit the lotus pond, causing ripples.
The mat was moved. It was originally laid flat on the ground next to the long window, but when the sound of rain started, it tilted to the middle of the living room.
Liang Xin could no longer find a dry place on the mat. Her arms, elbows, back, knees, cheeks... were all covered with red woven patterns.
That's the indentation from the mat.
Lu Chongfeng had already made plans for the evening. He would first boil water in a large pot and then use hot water from several thermoses.
After preparing the hot water, he wrapped Liang Xin in a towel and carried her to the bathroom.
The tub can indeed accommodate two people.
Lu Chongfeng finally experienced it completely.
He carefully used hot water to massage the marks of the cool mat on Liang Xin's body.
Liang Xin lazily lifted her eyelids, looked at his distressed hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "Isn't it too late?"
"It's a little late."
Lu Chongfeng picked up the towel floating in the water and said, "Let's wash quickly and go to bed after washing. Fortunately, you have a day off tomorrow, so you can sleep a little longer."
Liang Xin: “…”
Liang Xin was too lazy to speak anymore.
In the hot summer, the model story of the military-civilian friendship of the 11th Division of the Jiangkou Base, "The Close Relationship between the Army and the People in Jiangkou", was brought to the stage of the art troupe's dance, drama, and movie screens.
The person who played Liang Xin was Lu Yueji.
This was after she went through layers of screening and finally had to use her trump card. Liang Xin was her sister-in-law, so she got the role of the water-saving hero in dance, drama, and movie.
The first stop of the military region art troupe’s tour was the 11th Division of Jiangkou Base, which was reviewed by the hero himself.
Knowing that Lu Yueji was coming, Liang Xin picked some fresh lotus leaves and brought them to the bakery.
"It's so lively in the division today."
Li Mao was riding in a horse-drawn carriage, returning from delivering the first batch of goods. "I saw everyone was so happy along the way. What happened?"
"The division headquarters and the parent committee are all welcoming the performance of the art troupe."
Xia Xia moved the new electric fan sent by the logistics department from the kitchen to the outside. "I heard that reporters from major newspapers and radio stations will come to interview us. The base and the division attach great importance to it."
Even though it would be very busy, Liang Xin did not prepare lunch as soon as she arrived at the bakery. She used a small mill to grind the boiled mung beans into fine powder, put it in an enamel basin, added sugar, sesame oil, honey, and maltose, and stirred evenly to make oily mung bean flour.
"Put it in a mold, press it down, and steam it."
Wang Daya and Zhong Xuelian respectively picked up the enamel tray and mold and worked together.
After Liang Xin checked that the freshly baked bread was fine, she opened the door of the bakery and started selling it. She watched the bread being sold out, and then saw that several people in the bakery had gone from being surprised and excited at the beginning to getting used to it.
The wind from the electric fan blows on my body, bringing a cool feeling.
Liang Xin pulled out a chair and sat down, looking at the bakery that had already been fully formed and was bustling with activity.
Xia Xia came out and saw Liang Xin was lost in thought. "What are you thinking about?"
Liang Xin said, "I was wondering if you guys would be uncomfortable with the idea if the bakery closes down someday because it can't sell well."
With a "bang".
The enamel tray in Wang Daya's hand fell on the table.
Li Mao's face suddenly turned into horror and he looked at Liang Xin.
Zhong Xuelian was also surprised for a moment, then laughed and said, "What are you talking about? There are so many people in the division, and it's impossible for us to open a second bakery. The craftsmanship you taught us is not worse than those outside, and may even be better. How can it not sell well?"
"that is!"
Li Mao patted his chest and said, "I got scared, and Daya got scared too."
Xia Xia comforted Daya and said, "It's okay. You see, every day when we open the store, the tickets are sold out in a short time. As Lao Yang said, the camp is permanent, but the soldiers are transient. The camp is here, and there won't be a day when we can't sell any tickets. Don't worry."
Liang Xin watched the scorching sun scorching the earth. Soon the sun would become milder, and the national college entrance examination would be resumed.......
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