I have two packs of cigarettes left from the one I bought at the commune today, enough for the wedding banquet.

You also need to buy some wine, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc.

He Ting brought some food from the educated youth camp, which was enough for the time being. Lu Baiwei planned to go up the mountain to collect herbs after the busy farming season, and then buy some food from the team after she saved some money.

When we were eating just now, there was still a little dim light coming into the room.

It was completely dark now, and the room was pitch black.

He Ting lit the candles, took out a pen and paper, and discussed with Lu Baiwei what to buy for the wedding tomorrow.

The couple discussed and finished writing the list, then sat in the main room with their eyes wide open.

Outside the house, crickets chirped in the bamboo forest and frogs croaked in the rice fields in the distance. The night wind blew in through the open window, brushing Lu Baiwei's face. The atmosphere in the room was filled with an indescribable ambiguity.

Whether you stick your head out or hide it, you will get a knife.

There is no need to be pretentious after living two lifetimes. Married couples should live in the same house.

Just when Lu Baiwei thought that she was the one who got the upper hand in her relationship with He Ting, He Ting broke the awkwardness of their being alone together.

"I'll make a bed here in the main room tonight."

He Ting stood up and said, "It's getting late. I'm going to take a bath by the stream."

Lu Baiwei breathed a sigh of relief.

She also married He Ting in one go.

It's really that fast, but it feels too fast.

But when He Ting draped a towel over his body and walked out of the house, she felt a little lost. What was going on?

Lu Baiwei felt that the weather was really hot, and her face felt hot from her wild thoughts.

Just as Lu Baiwei was about to stand up, He Ting picked up the bucket and cleared his throat: "Don't follow me, I'll bring you some water."

Will she follow?

Did she want to follow?

Why am I so angry?

She didn't mean to eat him alive.

Lu Baiwei was too lazy to pay attention to He Ting and went back to her room to make the bed.

By the time she had made the bed, He Ting came back with a bucket of water after washing at the stream.

When we first moved here, we didn't have firewood, so we couldn't boil water for a bath. Fortunately, the weather was hot, so we could just take a bath.

When Lu Baiwei carried the water to the small compartment next to the kitchen and poured the water on herself with a towel, He Ting had already made the bed in the spacious living room.

The main hall of the clinic is very spacious. When Lu Baiwei lived with her grandfather in the clinic, there was a bed here, and there was a ready-made wooden bed.

The room was very quiet.

He Ting quickly made the bed and lay down. He heard a faint sound of water pouring outside through the wall.

This sound of water splashing can give people endless beautiful imaginations, especially since He Ting is a young man who just got married and is full of vigor and vitality. It is inevitable that some images will appear in his mind.

He Ting felt that he was really a rogue.

He tried hard to drive away distracting thoughts, but it seemed that nothing was going according to his will.

Lu Baiwei had clearly finished washing and returned to the inner room, but he still heard the noise. The sound of water splashing seemed to still linger in his mind, making him continue to have wild thoughts.

After reciting the Heart Cleansing Mantra that he had learned from miscellaneous books several times, the sound of dripping water finally seemed to fade away. He Ting didn't know when he fell asleep. Anyway, he didn't sleep well that night. He opened his eyes at dawn the next day.

Hearing no movement in the inner room, he went up the mountain without waking Lu Baiwei.

When he came down from the mountain, Lu Baiwei had already gotten up and was fetching water from the stream with a bucket.

He Ting took the firewood off his shoulders, took the bucket of water from her hand and poured it into the water tank.

"I'll fetch some water, and you cook."

He Ting carried a few buckets of water to fill the water tank. Lu Baiwei boiled water and started the stove to cook porridge in the pot.

The rice porridge mixed with crushed corn kernels had a light fragrance. Lu Baiwei heated up the corn cakes left over from last night in the pot, and the two of them made do with the meal.

Lu Baiwei went out to ask her aunt to buy fish, and also notified her two uncles to come home for dinner.

He Ting took the purchase order written by Lu Baiwei and rode his bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative.

When Lu Baiwei followed her aunt to the next brigade to get the fish back, He Ting also came back from the supply and marketing cooperative in the town. He Ting not only bought several pounds of meat, but also brought back two large bones and about twenty eggs.

The egg was buried in the rice bran and didn't break at all.

Lu Baiwei was overjoyed: "Can I still buy eggs at the supply and marketing cooperative?"

"Well, I'm lucky. I ran into someone selling eggs."

These days there are limits on the number of poultry that can be raised. If you have chickens at home, you can keep the eggs they lay to add to your daily meals.

Where can I get eggs from the supply and marketing cooperatives in the countryside?

He Ting went to the black market in the county and got the meat and eggs.

But he didn't plan to tell Lu Baiwei about this.

The meat supply and marketing cooperative also has limited supply. If you go too late, there will be no meat at all.

Since she couldn't eat meat often, Lu Baiwei thought about raising chickens. She discussed with He Ting: "After the team finishes planting rice seedlings, I'll ask my aunt to ask where there are chicks to exchange, and we can also raise two chickens to lay eggs."

"There are two stalk bones. Don't stew the fish. Kill it and boil it."

Lu Baiwei planned to host three tables of wine to invite people from her two uncles' families and the educated youth group.

The fish bought from the next-door brigade were still kept in the water tank. She sharpened the knife to catch and kill the fish, but He Ting took over the job.

"I'll kill the fish."

Seeing how greedily Zhou Yanfeng ate the fish yesterday, Lu Baiwei could foresee that he and He Ting, the two young masters from the capital, could not cook.

He Ting said he could kill fish, and Lu Baiwei was surprised.

"Don't you know how to cook?"

"I'm not good at cooking, but I'm okay with knife skills. I've practiced knife skills."

He Ting was going to take the fish to the stream to clean it.

Lu Baiwei hurriedly followed: "I'll go with you. Don't waste the fish offal from killing the fish. You can make a dish out of it after cleaning it."

Lu Baiwei's two aunts were still worried that the two newly married young people would not be able to prepare a few tables of dishes, especially He Ting, who left home to come here as an educated youth to suffer.

How can a young master from Beijing cook?

So Lu Baiwei's two aunts finished their housework early and rushed to the brigade clinic in advance.

From a distance, I could smell the aroma of stewing meat.

"Weiwei, what did you make that smells so good?"

There was braised pork in the pot, and Lu Baiwei came out from the kitchen: "Aunt, I'm stewing braised pork!"

Lu Baiwei's grandfather has two sons, one is Tang Jingshan and the other is Tang Jingchuan. Tang Jingshan is an honest man and is good at farm work. Tang Jingchuan is a soldier in the army and is a battalion commander.

His grandfather had a younger brother, and his cousins ​​Tang Jinghe and Tang Jinghai were their sons.

Tang Jinghe is the captain of Xiangyang Brigade, and Tang Jinghai works in a factory in the county town, in charge of purchasing.

Lu Baiwei and He Ting got married very suddenly, and they didn't have time to inform their second uncle Tang Jingchuan and Tang Jinghai who worked in the county town. The two families they wanted to invite today were his eldest uncle Tang Jingshan's family, and his third uncle Tang Jinghe's family.

Tang Jingshan and Tang Jinghe's wives followed them to the kitchen, where He Ting was cutting fish fillets according to Lu Baiwei's request.

The fragrant braised pork was stewing in the pot, and two thick slices of fish were cut along the back and then cut into evenly thin slices.

The two aunts kept praising him: "Weiwei, you two are great. You have been living a decent life since you got married."