Chapter 75 Chapter 75 There is no misunderstanding in my dictionary...
Liang Xin said nothing more. She placed the bread, snacks and preserved fruits she brought on the desk and reminded Lu Wei to eat the bread and return to the military compound within three days.
Hearing that Lu Chongfeng had not returned from the military district's operations department, and thinking that he had been away for half a month, Liang Xin started cooking a few dishes.
After the implementation of the household contract responsibility system in rural areas, oil is no longer as scarce as before, and common fish such as grass carp, silver carp and crucian carp are on the tables of every household.
Liang Xin went to the military district service center and bought two silver carp heads. She scraped off the scales, dug out the gills, put them in an enamel basin, rinsed them with tap water, cut two cuts on the fish neck, and spread soy sauce on both sides to marinate.
"Why is Liang Xin cooking?"
Hu Fenglian woke up from her nap and walked to the kitchen door. "I finally got back, why don't you take a good rest? Xiaoshi is a good cook, let him cook."
"Mom, I do it occasionally."
Liang Xin took out the rice noodle skin and cut it into six pieces, then poured warm water into it to wash off the sour taste. "I just touched the fish, so I won't make tea for you."
"You don't need to soak me. I'm not old yet."
Hu Fenglian did not sit on the sofa, but walked to the dining table and sat down, "Liang Xin, Chong Feng is back, why don't you invite your father to come home for a gathering this time?"
"No, Mom."
Liang Xin rinsed her powder skin with cold water again, "Didn't my elder and second brothers from my mother's family come to Jiangjing to buy suona and erhu before? I really want to go back and see how their suona band is doing."
Hu Fenglian suddenly realized, "Yes, the commune is much busier than us now. We have to work in the fields and do side jobs."
"What side job?"
Lu Chongfeng came back with a cleaned chicken, "Why are you cooking? I just bought this chicken."
Liang Xin looked back at the plump, tender chicken in his hand and said, "Give it to me."
"Did you kill all the fish?"
Lu Chongfeng was surprised and asked, "Don't you dislike killing fish?"
"Don't you want to eat?"
Liang Xin took the chicken from his hand and rinsed it under the tap. She heard Lu Chongfeng say to his mother, "Thank you, Mom."
"Why are you thanking me for nothing?"
"Thank you for finding me a wife who is unique in the world."
Liang Xin's lips curled up slightly. When she was about to chop the chicken, Lu Chongfeng took off his military jacket and walked in. He covered her hand with his big hand and stayed for two seconds before pulling out the knife handle. "How do you chop it?"
"A rectangle."
Liang Xin waited until the temperature on the back of her hands faded away before turning on the faucet to wash her hands. She walked to the stove and turned on the fire. She poured the cold oil out of the pot and put a piece of lard into the pot. The snow-white lard gave off an enticing aroma when heated.
“So fragrant?”
Lu Heping, who was assigned to the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department for internship and moved back home from the dormitory, rode his bicycle back from get off work and asked, "Liang Xin and Chong Feng are back?"
Liang Xin walked out of the kitchen with a spatula, "Brother Heping."
"Brother Heping, I'm chopping chicken and I won't go out!"
"you busy."
Lu Heping rolled up his white shirt sleeves and went to the bathroom. "I saw you guys in the newspaper. Liang Xin cooked for us. We are in for a treat today."
"What kind of good fortune?"
Lu Yueji followed behind and said, "I told you to wait for me, but you didn't wait for me and walked in."
"Heping, are you going around to the crew to pick up Yueji again?"
Hu Fenglian put down the teacup and said, "It's such a long way. It's so tiring to ride a bicycle. Let Yueji take the bus back by herself next time."
"Mom, you don't understand. I'm doing this for Brother Heping's own good. Look at those local officials. They get fat and have big bellies in just a few years. Brother Heping sits in the office all day and doesn't move. Riding a bicycle is considered exercise!"
When Liang Xin heard Lu Yueji's words, she chuckled and put the fish head along the edge of the pot to fry until both sides were golden brown. She then added rice wine and covered the pot to simmer for a while.
“It smells really good.”
Lu Chongfeng put down the kitchen knife and said, "The chicken is already chopped, how do we cook it?"
"Let's cook it with fermented black beans."
Liang Xin scooped a spoonful of dried black beans and said, "I'll prepare the side dishes."
Lu Chongfeng closed the kitchen door and hugged Liang Xin from behind. "Why is it that after I went abroad, my treatment became better when I came back? I'm not used to this. I still want you to command and I will do the work."
Liang Xin: “….”
"Then you do it."
"Okay!"
Lu Chongfeng picked up the onion and asked, "Any other side dishes?"
"Wash and chop the ginger, garlic and tangerine peel."
Liang Xin opened the lid of the fish head pot, added soy sauce, sugar, scallion segments, ginger slices, and then poured in clean water. She picked up the fire tongs and moved the firewood in the stove, bringing it to a boil over high heat, and chatted with Lu Chongfeng about Lu Wei.
Lu Chongfeng was holding an onion, his eyes red as he stared at Liang Xin.
Liang Xin was mesmerized by his appearance for a few seconds, "If it's spicy, just put it down. Why are you still holding it in your hand?"
"She made my gift worthless in an instant!"
Lu Chongfeng took a long time to utter a word, and wiped the corners of his eyes with the sleeves of his white shirt, "Compared to others, I feel I am still very vulgar!"
Liang Xin walked over with a handkerchief, but the smell of onions pierced her eyes and she couldn't help but close them. "Hurry up and throw away the half-cut onion in your hand."
“How can we throw away the side dishes?”
Lu Chongfeng closed his eyes tightly, but he could still see that his upper and lower eyelids were bright red. He cut the onion into pieces based on his feeling, "My wife is so charming."
Liang Xin was so upset that she cried. She didn't move forward. When she saw the pot was boiling and the lid was banging, she returned to the stove, opened the lid and turned it over a few times with a spatula. Then she squatted in front of the stove and turned the heat to low.
"Lu Wei knows that I work for the army, and the employees are all relatives of martyrs. This is also her gift, which is different from what you gave."
"Huaihua Village is truly a place where outstanding people and talented people come from."
Lu Chongfeng finally finished chopping the onions and turned on the tap to wash his face. "Once the chicken farm is up and running, will we transfer some money from the 11th Division's logistics department to Lu Wei's account?"
"I think so."
Liang Xin put down the tongs and said, "You watch the fire while I roast the chicken."
Lu Chongfeng sat in front of the stove, watching Liang Xin slide lard into the big pot, then add onions, garlic, tangerine peel, fermented black beans, and perilla to stir-fry until fragrant, and took two deep breaths.
"It's this fragrance that makes me dream. Some new technologies and knowledge abroad are indeed worth learning, but foreign food is really not suitable for our Chinese stomach. Growing up in China, going abroad is just asking for trouble."
Liang Xin chuckled, poured in the chicken and other ingredients, stir-fried them thoroughly, cooked rice wine, added broth, salt, soy sauce, and sugar, and mixed them well. Seeing that Lu Chongfeng was already drooling with greed, she said, "I've never seen you eat like this before. You really look like you've been living a hard life."
"If Xiaoshi had cooked today, I wouldn't have done this. It's because you cooked and I know how delicious it is, so I did this."
Lu Chongfeng stood up and opened the lid of the cauldron, looking at the fish head bubbling in the thick sauce, "Should we add the vermicelli?"
Liang Xin put the vermicelli into the soup, scooped two spoons of pepper and one spoon of MSG, covered the pot and brought it to a boil again, then sprinkled a handful of green garlic leaves and said, "It's done."
Lu Chongfeng placed the enamel basin directly on the dining table, then took the wok on the honeycomb coal stove to fill it with fish head and vermicelli, brought it out and placed it on the enamel basin.
Lu Yueji exclaimed, "Wow!" as she looked at the fish head with tender and fragrant meat. "It's so appetizing when served like this! I finally get to eat my second sister-in-law's cooking again!"
"Your second sister-in-law can do everything. She can do it when she wants to, and not do it when she doesn't want to."
Hu Fenglian said: "You can't use your second sister-in-law as an excuse anymore."
"Mom, why are you talking about me again?"
Lu Yueji walked towards the door and changed the subject: "Why hasn't Dad gotten off work yet? Is he not coming back for dinner today?"
"I just made a phone call. I won't be back for dinner."
Hu Fenglian wiped the table with a rag, "Commander Zhao, please have dinner."
"They must be talking about the second brother. I've heard many cadres in the compound talk about the second brother's ability to rise and fall."
Lu Yueji opened the kitchen door and looked at Liang Xin in front of the stove. "Second sister-in-law, how can I help?"
"Why don't you wait until you're done eating before asking?"
Lu Chongfeng pushed Lu Yueji aside and said, "I'll stir-fry another vegetable. You go and eat first."
Lu Yueji said "Oh", "Then I'll go."
"Is it you?"
Lu Chongfeng pointed at the stove and said, "Go light a fire."
"I'll do it." Lu Heping leaned into the kitchen. "I just received a call from the agency, so it took a while."
"Everything is fine."
Liang Xin thickened the water starch in the pot, added sesame oil and mixed well, put the dish into a bowl, and sprinkled the remaining basil on it. "Big stars need to take good care of their hands. Don't listen to your second brother. Let's go eat."
"Okay, sister-in-law!"
It was a rare occasion for everyone to get together for a meal, and even though Chief Lu was not at home, Hu Fenglian enjoyed the meal very much.
The fish head and vermicelli were cooked deliciously and tasty, and Lu Chongfeng almost ate the whole fish head by himself.
Liang Xin scooped up some fish head soup and poured it on the rice. She was eating with satisfaction when she suddenly realized that there was no sound from next door. She turned around and saw Lu Chongfeng frowning and staring at Lu Yueji and Lu Heping from time to time.
Go back upstairs.
Lu Chongfeng still went to the living room on the second floor from time to time.
When he heard someone entering the bathroom, he immediately ran out again.
Liang Xin heard Lu Yueji's voice coming from the bathroom, "Second brother, why are you so elusive? You scared me again!"
"You are so timid!"
After Lu Chongfeng's voice was heard, he returned to the room, his brows still furrowed, closed the door and put the bolt on.
The next second, the latch was opened again, leaving a gap in the door.
Liang Xin sat on the bed and read the newspaper. "If you have nothing to do, just help me peel an apple."
Lu Chongfeng sat back on the bed with a fruit knife and an apple. He held up the apple and looked at it for a second. Suddenly, he used his teeth to bite off a piece of apple skin from top to bottom.
Liang Xin: “…” “I asked you to peel it.”
Lu Chongfeng glanced at Liang Xin's reaction, moved his lips, and suddenly stood up. He closed the gap in the door like a thief, strode back, raised the apple and handed it to Liang Xin.
Liang Xin frowned as she looked at the apple that had been bitten into pieces.
Lu Chongfeng slammed the table.
Liang Xin raised her eyelids and looked at him.
"We have been married for several years, and you are not willing to eat the apples that I have chewed the skin on. It is really wrong for them to do that!"
Liang Xin slowly flipped through the newspaper again, "What are you talking about?"
Lu Chongfeng picked up the apple and nibbled a few more grooves. "Just now, Brother Heping bit off the skin of the chicken leg with his teeth just like I did, and Yueji took it and ate it. That's how she ate it!"
Liang Xin asked, "So what?"
"What's wrong?" Lu Chongfeng handed the half-eaten apple to Liang Xin's mouth. After being rejected by Liang Xin, he said, "Look, you didn't even want to eat it, but she ate it anyway! Isn't this a big problem?"
"You can't use a knife to cut the chicken skin. Besides, Brother Heping didn't chew it like you did. He chewed it very politely and didn't touch the chicken meat under the skin."
Liang Xin looked up at the apple in front of her and said, "Your saliva is all over it."
Lu Chongfeng said: "What's wrong with saliva? If you bite it off and give it to me like this, I won't be willing to eat it. I have to offer it up!"
Liang Xin yawned, folded the newspaper, handed it to Lu Chongfeng, and slid into the bed.
Lu Chongfeng put the newspaper away, only to find that the topic had been diverted by Liang Xin. He dug Liang Xin out of the quilt and held her in his arms, "If eating chicken skin doesn't count, I went into the bathroom just now and saw Brother Heping washing Yueji's face!"
Lu Chongfeng held the back of Liang Xin's head, pretended to hold a towel in his right hand, and virtually performed helping Liang Xin wash her face. "Just like that, very close, even a three-year-old child doesn't need his face washed like this!"
Liang Xin fell into his shoulder and pulled him onto the pillow. "What do you want to say?"
"You really don't have a talent for love."
Lu Chongfeng groaned, lying down next to Liang Xin and covering her with the quilt. "They haven't been dating in four years of college. I don't think they can go on like this. It's not right."
Liang Xin opened her eyes slightly, "Why can't we continue like this?"
"How can this go on? They are brother and sister!"
"What happened to the brothers and sisters?"
"How can brothers and sisters fall in love?"
"There is no blood relationship."
Lu Chongfeng stopped suddenly.
No words spoken for a long time.
Liang Xin leaned on his chest and yawned, "You ignore this point because you treat Brother Heping as your own brother."
"Even if they are not related by blood, they are still brother and sister." Lu Chongfeng frowned, "They are all in the same household registration book!"
"Aren't we both in the same household registration book?"
"We are husband and wife, and they are brother and sister. How can they get married with the same household registration?"
Liang Xin raised her hand and touched his shaved stubble. "You're not even thinking about love, and you're thinking about getting married. Maybe you've misunderstood."
"Misunderstand......"
Lu Chongfeng said: "There is no word misunderstanding in my dictionary!"
Liang Xin looked at the single sofa in the corner of the curtain and thought of her wedding night and the time just after her marriage.
And even now, there are times when I am speechless.
Then look at Lu Chongfeng's confident face.
"...Go to sleep."
"I can't sleep."
Lu Chongfeng got into the quilt, put his arms around Liang Xin's waist from behind, and pulled her into his arms. "You have a good brain. What should I do if I misunderstood this matter?"
Liang Xin thought of the ending in the original book where Lu Yueji committed suicide. "Brother Heping has a calm personality and won't say anything unless he's sure. I think... they probably haven't brought it up yet. Some love comes and goes quickly, and you never know if it will change again after a while."
"should?"
Lu Chongfeng tilted his head and looked at Liang Xin in surprise, "So you felt it too?"
Liang Xin was silent for a while, then rolled the quilt over her shoulders and said, "The key to this matter lies in my parents' attitude. Even though they are fictitious blood relatives and cannot get married according to the law, as long as my parents have no objection, they will meet the conditions for marriage after the adoption is dissolved. Don't be alarmed and affect my parents. Mom is old now, and her reaction is much slower than before."
Lu Chongfeng's agitated mood was calmed down by Liang Xin's words. He put his chin on Liang Xin's shoulder and said, "Listen to my wife."
Liang Xin raised her hand and touched his face, "Be good."
Lu Chongfeng put his hand under Liang Xin's skirt and said, "You seduced me."
Liang Xin: “….”
Liang Xin held down his hand and said, "Brother Heping and Yueji are both at home."
"They didn't wash us on their backs either."
"...How can it be the same?"
"They also have bathrooms on the west side. I don't think they'll suddenly come to our side."
"How do you feel?"
Liang Xin thought to herself, you are the one who is in danger.
"They are all college graduates and state officials. They don't know anything."
Lu Chongfeng moved Liang Xin's hand together, and Liang Xin blushed and let go of her hand.
Lu Chongfeng succeeded.
After the first time, Lu Chongfeng whispered in Liang Xin's ear: "Since we can't go to the bathroom to take a shower freely like before, we'd better finish it all at once."
Liang Xin's cheeks flushed, and she squinted her eyes and said "hmm".
Suddenly, the long eyelashes lifted.
Feeling a swelling in her lower abdomen, Liang Xin frowned, "Not just once?"
"I mean take a shower...all in one go."
“.......”
Liang Xin returned to school. The class of 1977 was supposed to graduate this year, but universities across the country had arranged for the classes of 1977 and 1978 to graduate in the spring of 1982.
"Liang Xin, the school has organized a ballroom dance training class."
Propaganda Committee member Dong Pimei found Liang Xin who had just returned to school and said, "Can you dance? If not, I'll sign you up. You can take some time to learn so that you can attend the graduation dance after you finish learning."
"I can, no need to sign me up."
After Liang Xin finished speaking, she paused, turned to look at Dong Pimei, and asked about the details of the school's graduation dance arrangements.
"The location is in the school auditorium."
Dong Pimei looked at Liang Xin and asked a question, "What's wrong?"
Liang Xin said slowly, "I'm tired of dancing, will you prepare something to eat?"
"Where is the money?"
Dong Pimei shook her head. "The students in our class are considered to have good conditions in the whole school. You and several other class leaders were cadres in your unit before you went to college. Your salary never stopped even after you went to college. Most of the other students were sent-down youths and poor and lower-middle peasants. Their families had to squeeze out national food coupons from their teeth to support them. We don't even know if we have money to prepare dance skirts, so how can we have spare money to save for food?"
"Sister Dong."
Liang Xin said, "If you can make Jiangjing University's graduation dance party famous, I will provide bread, snacks, and even small cakes for the dance party. How about that?"
Dong Pimei's eyes lit up, "What do you mean by becoming famous?"
"No matter what we graduate from college, our work will be reported in the newspapers. We are all assigned to news education institutions such as Xinhua News Agency, major daily newspapers, People's Broadcasting Station, and government administrative agencies at all levels." Liang Xin said, "You have been working in publicity for another four years. My requirements are not high. Just mention how delicious the bread of Liangxin Bakery is when you appear in the news."
"Is it that simple?"
“It’s that simple.”
Dong Pimei took Liang Xin's hand and high-fived her. "Little sister, you've brought honor to our class! This is something we've been dreaming of. Deal!"
Lu Chongfeng did not see the opening of Beijing Bakery in person. The opening time of Jiangjing Bakery was set the day before he returned to the 11th Division.
Because there were previous reports about the opening of the Beijing Bakery, as soon as the Jiangjing Bakery opening coupons appeared in the newspapers, the door was once again crowded with people and a long queue formed as soon as it opened in the morning.
Liang Xin was used to it. Wang Daya and the other three were originally very nervous, but under the influence of Liang Xin's aura, they slowly calmed down.
Unlike Beijing, the 11th Division's logistics department specially arranged for Director Wu to come and hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The people who cut the ribbon were Liang Xin, Director Wu, Director Xu of the Jiangjing Military-Civilian Integration Office, leaders of the Market Supervision and Administration Office and leaders of the Municipal Party Committee.
The sound of firecrackers rang out. Liang Xin stood in the middle cutting the red silk. When she looked up, she saw Lu Chongfeng standing on the sycamore tree across the street, holding up a camera and taking pictures of her.
Liang Xin couldn't help but smile at the camera.
The flash went off again.
After the news of Liang Xin sponsoring the graduation dance spread, the salaried class leaders also came to show their support on the opening day.
Lu Wei also arrived late and bought the signature airplane package.
Lu Yueji brought her friends from the unit and the military compound, intending to show their support, but after queuing at the door for a long time she still couldn't buy any bread. In the end she had to find Liang Xin to open the back door and snatch a few airplane breads.
Zheng Xiaojun couldn't stop eating the butter buns, so he took the initiative to pick up the camera and took pictures of the bread. He promised to write a report and publish it in the military newspaper for publicity.
The sales of Jiangjing Bakery on the opening day were almost the same as those in Beijing.
Director Wu couldn't stop smiling. If things continued to develop like this, the combined annual profits of the two bakeries in Beijing and Jiangjing would be more than 500,000!
Apart from the 200,000 yuan funding from Liang Xin that he provided for the compressed biscuit formula and the base logistics, the 11th Division did not invest a penny. However, it has now become the largest source of income for the 11th Division, earning several times more than the pharmaceutical factory that is losing money!
"Comrade Liang Xin, the country and the army are in need of talents like you!"
Director Wu held Liang Xin's hands tightly with both hands, and was extremely excited. "The national economy has been adjusted, and the military product tasks have been drastically reduced. Under the circumstances that the military-to-civilian conversion of major military factories has not made any splash and they are almost unable to make ends meet, our 11th Division has actually completed half of the output value target assigned by the superiors with just a small bakery. It is really unexpected!"
Liang Xin reminded him, "Director Wu, the output value target issued by the superiors to the 11th Division was issued to the pharmaceutical factory. The bakery has nothing to do with the pharmaceutical factory."
Director Wu paused.
Liang Xin continued, "Besides, Director Wu just said that he wanted to borrow the bakery's turnover in advance. This is just the beginning, and we don't know whether it can develop in the way Director Wu borrowed. Even if it really develops as Director Wu wants, I have other uses for the bakery's turnover. Of course, it will be used for the development of the bakery, not for myself."
“Does the bakery still need to develop?”
Director Wu thought of the other branches and smiled again, "Don't worry, whatever Comrade Liang Xin does, the 11th Division will fully support you. I really understand now. If time goes back five years, the division will definitely give the money invested in the pharmaceutical factory to Comrade Liang Xin to do the work, and will not give it to anyone else."
Lu Chongfeng came over and frowned when he heard this: "What happened to the newly developed Weichangning drug from the pharmaceutical factory?"
"No."
Director Wu waved his hand and said, "The pharmaceutical company did not continue to develop new drugs. They used the remaining money to develop desktop electric fans. The progress is quite good. When the hot summer comes, the electric fans will be able to make back all the money lost by the pharmaceutical company after they are launched on the market!"
Liang Xin asked: "Who gave this advice? Why did the pharmaceutical factory suddenly switch to electrical appliance production?"
"Now everyone is working hard to transfer military products to civilian use and seize the market. Military factories that manufacture aircraft have already started developing refrigerators." Director Wu smiled and said, "The electric fan was suggested by Director Wei, who has a good business sense in logistics, after he went to the market. It happened that Minister Zou was considering several directions, including electric fans, so he turned to the direction of electrical appliance manufacturing. The current plan is to produce 10,000 units, and half of the progress has been made."
Liang Xin frowned and said, "Electric fans are a good direction, but the Bat-brand electric fans of Jiangjing 720 Machinery Manufacturing Plant have already planned to switch from mass production of table fans to mass production of floor fans this summer. Haven't you heard about it?"
Director Wu's face changed drastically.
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