The courtyard was filled with the fragrance of flowers and teeming with life.
Fruit trees and flowers are planted on one side, while melons, fruits and tender vegetables are planted on the other.
Xu Nuo, who was originally going to water the plants, suddenly changed her mind. She walked to the patch of bitter white chrysanthemums that were growing well because they had been watered with herbal water and said to Li Xian, "Let's make herbal tea."
Li Xian listened to her and nodded, "Okay."
Making herbal tea is actually very simple. Just dilute the herbal water with water, soak the petals, and then take them out to dry. The effects of the herbal water will then be fully absorbed into the petals.
The two squatted down by the flower field and began picking bitter white chrysanthemums.
The white chrysanthemum is small, with white petals and a touch of yellow in the middle, making it very cute.
"Does it look good?" Xu Nuo pressed the flower branch to her hair and turned to ask him.
Li Xian's eyes reflected the rosy clouds on the horizon and a smiling face as beautiful as a flower, with a delicate white flower by his ear.
He said softly, "It looks good."
"Then I'll give you one." Xu Nuo leaned over, trying to brush the flower near his ear, but she lost her footing and fell to the side.
"Ah." Even though she knew she wouldn't get hurt, she still let out a small gasp. Instead of hitting the cold, hard ground she expected, she fell into a warm and firm embrace.
Li Xian rested his head on her arm.
The flower branches were bent over by the weight of the flowers, and the people lying in the flower field looked at each other and laughed.
With Li Xian's help, Xu Nuo only needed to add some herbal water to the flowers, and Li Xian took care of soaking and drying them.
After drying the flowers, the two went to water them in the small courtyard before the sun had completely set.
The trellis has produced quite a few pumpkins, not particularly large, about the size of a ball, which are heavy and pulling on the vines.
Xu Nuo acted like a leader inspecting the vegetable garden, directing her little assistant to water the plants.
"Here." A slender white finger pointed, and immediately a pair of large hands came out, holding a water ladle and pouring it onto the ground.
After watering two or three times, the water ladle will be empty.
Li Xian: "I'll go back and fetch some water."
Xu Nuo followed like a little tail: "I want to go too."
"Okay." He took the ladle in one hand and pulled her with the other, and went back to fetch water again.
Xu Nuo reached out to add the herbal water, but Li Xian frowned and grabbed her hand: "No."
"Um?"
Li Xian's tone was very serious: "We've used too much; we can't use any more today."
"Ah." Xu Nuo leaned against him, shook his arm, and said regretfully, "But I wanted to water them all so they would grow quickly."
Li Xian glanced at the vegetable seedlings that were practically growing to be sentient, and shook his head: "This is fine."
It took about twenty minutes to water all the land.
Li Xian picked a pumpkin from the melon vine.
"Would you like me to cook it?"
"Mm." Li Xian nodded and tried to pull her inside.
Seeing that the pumpkin was round and cute, Xu Nuo reached out her hand: "Let me hug it."
Li Xian didn't give it to her: "It's too heavy for you to carry."
"I can carry it." Xu Nuo really wanted to carry it, so she reached out and snatched it into her arms, finding it cuter and cuter the more she looked at it: "Our pumpkin is so cute."
Li Xian glanced at her and couldn't help but reach out and pat her head.
There are two rice containers in the kitchen, with refined grains and coarse grains stored separately. The container for refined grains has never even had its lid opened before, but now it's half full of fine white rice.
Li Xian grabbed a handful of rice from the grain jar, then remembered that there were no wild vegetable buns at home today, so he grabbed some more and put them in, washed them, and put them on the stove to steam.
Peel and cut the pumpkin into chunks. Fry the fatty pork in a pan to render some oil, then add the pumpkin and stir-fry.
Fortunately, Li Xian lived far away, with no other houses around. Otherwise, who could stand such a feast of meat every day?
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Dormitory for educated youth.
Li Hong, carrying Xu Yan on her back, had just reached the entrance of the educated youth dormitory when she saw a slender figure standing in the afterglow of the sunset, looking very beautiful.
"Nuonuo," Xu Yan called out.
Xu Nuo walked over and helped Li Hong support Xu Yan, whispering, "Sister, the captain's window is fixed, and he wants me to move in tonight."
Xu Yan asked in surprise, "Really? Didn't we say we'd wait until Comrade Zigeng came back tomorrow before we started repairing it?"
"I don't know, but it's fixed anyway."
Xu Yan breathed a sigh of relief. That's great, Nuonuo won't have to live in the educated youth dormitory with her anymore.
The hygiene conditions in the dormitory for educated youth were poor, and even she took a long time to adapt. Nuonuo, who had been pampered since childhood and lived in the city, was definitely not used to it.
Xu Yan's foot was still not healed, and Li Hong carried her to work at the canteen and back. So she couldn't go to the brigade leader's house with Xu Nuo. She said, "Nuonuo, you should hurry over, or it won't be safe if it gets late."
Xu Nuo nodded, handed a bag of things from her arms to Xu Yan, and whispered, "You must eat what I gave you on time, and drink the water in the thermos later, okay? I'll come see you again tomorrow."
Looking at the two of them, Li Hong felt a little envious. She patted Xu Nuo's shoulder and said, "Nuonuo, don't worry, I'll take good care of your sister."
"Thank you, Sister Li Hong." Xu Nuo turned around, smiled, and gave Li Hong a hug. Li Hong was flattered and replied with a smile, "You're welcome."
"This is for you, remember to eat it." Xu Nuo took something out of the small cloth bag and quietly stuffed it into Li Hong's hand.
This scene was witnessed by Wang Ting, who was working at the shop across the street.
She washed her hair today, but for some reason, she still looked greasy and sat silently in the corner, like a cockroach lurking in the dark.
Xu Nuo didn't see her and walked straight out.
She had barely stepped out of the educated youth dormitory when a tall figure followed her from a distance.
The country lanes were quiet, with the occasional chirping of insects, and you would occasionally run into villagers.
Xu Nuo would greet those she knew, but she would pretend not to see those she didn't.
"Teacher Xu, where are you going at this time?" Aunt Changhua asked warmly.
"We're going to the brigade leader's house."
"Okay, then go ahead, goodbye."
Xu Nuo strained her ears but heard no sound behind her. She sighed. It seemed that Li Xian was truly a loner in the village; he hadn't greeted a single person she'd met along the way.
Li Xian stopped a short distance away, pretending to look at the tree. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xu Nuo enter the Chang family's house. He stood outside and waited for a while before turning around and leaving.
Chang Xiaohong was the first to notice Xu Nuo's arrival and excitedly called out, "Teacher Xu!"
"Comrade Xu Nuo." Chang Zicheng came out of the room and saw Xu Nuo, who was smiling gently and beautifully. His ears turned a little red.
"You've finally arrived! I thought you hadn't run into Li Xian."
Pan Yinhua had been waiting all afternoon, fearing that Li Xian hadn't delivered the message, otherwise why hadn't he come yet?
I was still wondering whether I should go to the educated youth dormitory to look for them when they arrived.
Xu Nuo said, "Auntie, Comrade Li Xian told me, but I was studying in the classroom this afternoon, so I'm only coming now."
Pan Yinhua asked, "Have you eaten? Auntie will make you something to eat."
Upon hearing this, Shen Cuiping immediately pushed open the door and said with a smile, "Teacher Xu is here. You must have eaten by now, right?"
A pair of small, slanted eyes stared at Xu Nuo, as if afraid she would say she hadn't eaten.
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