Chapter 033
The two of them chatted as they walked to school, and then dropped the topic.
At the appointed time, ring the bell for the morning reading class and enter the working state of the new day.
Although being a teacher is much easier than going to work, every day is not always smooth.
There were always minor frictions and major conflicts among the twelve people in their youth training center, not to mention that there were now sixty children sitting in one classroom.
The more people there are, the more conflicts there are.
These sixty children, either he has lost his pencil today, or she has lost her eraser tomorrow, either he steps on his foot today, or she touches her arm tomorrow.
Whenever a conflict occurs, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan will naturally step in to resolve it.
Fortunately, they are all small things and are relatively easy to solve.
During this long period of time since the school started, among these sixty children, the only one who had never had a conflict with anyone was Li Xisheng.
It’s not because he is old and sensible, but because he is used to walking around with his head down and not speaking, not making eye contact with anyone, let alone verbal contact.
He was afraid of conflicts and offending others, so he didn't have any contact with anyone.
He sat in the corner at the back of the classroom, as silent as a ball of air.
In addition to teaching and correcting homework, and dealing with minor frictions and conflicts between children every day, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan also raise chickens and grow vegetables to do side businesses in their spare time. They are indeed very busy.
Under such circumstances, there was naturally no time to think about moving out of the educated youth site.
Especially since this is a big deal, it can't be solved casually.
So Chuxia just put the matter aside and didn't think about it anymore.
If we don't mention this matter, life will go on as usual.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan traveled back and forth between the educated youth site and the school every day. When necessary, they would also go to their private plots to fertilize or water the land. They were busy with work, side jobs and life.
Because this was the first time they were using their land to grow vegetables, it wasn’t as fertile as other people’s land, so the vegetables grew more slowly.
But they are not in a hurry and wait patiently for them to bloom and bear fruit.
It was mid-May.
When other villagers had been eating fresh vegetables for half a month, the vegetables in Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan's fields had just produced the first batch of ripe fruits.
At noon, the school gate was locked.
When leaving the school, Chu Xia walked beside Lin Xiaohan and said to him, "I think the eggplants and green peppers in my field can be picked and eaten. I plan to go to the field. Do you want to go?"
Lin Xiaohan said in an idle tone: "Go ahead."
Chuxia has been following Lin Xiaohan for nearly two months, and now she and Lin Xiaohan are quite familiar with each other.
However, the relationship between them did not change much as they became more familiar with each other.
No matter what they did, it was always Chu Xia who took the initiative to ask Lin Xiaohan if he wanted to join in.
And because of Lin Xiaohan's arrogant and overbearing personality, Chu Xia still had to strike a balance when getting along with him, always reminding herself not to arouse his negative emotions.
When the two of them were looking for topics to chat about, it was usually Chuxia who took the initiative.
She then said to Lin Xiaohan: "I plan to go back and make braised eggplant, what about you?"
In order to be able to pick the vegetables in the fields and cook them immediately when they were ripe, Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan had prepared all the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in advance.
The oil was pressed from the soybeans distributed by the brigade in the oil mill.
For other ingredients, we bought them from the supply and marketing cooperative with the coupons distributed by the brigade.
Lin Xiaohan said indifferently: "Let's go there and eat whatever is available."
Chu Xia looked at him and suggested, "How about we have a meal together to celebrate finally having food to eat?"
Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and smiled, "I have no objection."
Anyway, it’s not a disadvantage for him, and there is a high probability that he can make Han Ting very angry, so why not do it?
Chuxia didn't think about anything else, she just wanted to celebrate.
The vegetables I planted finally bore fruit. I tasted the joy of harvest for the first time. Plus, I can eat fresh vegetables in the future, so it’s really worth being happy.
And the only one who could understand her happiness was Lin Xiaohan.
When he arrived at the private plot, Chuxia looked left and right.
Although the vegetables in their fields did not grow as well as those in her fellow villagers' fields, she was still very happy.
There are fruits hanging on the tomato and cucumber vines, but they have not yet grown big and ripened, so they cannot be eaten now.
In early summer, I picked a few peppers and two tender eggplants and put them in my schoolbag. I also picked a few onions and a handful of tender green vegetables.
Lin Xiaohan picked two loofahs and cut a handful of leeks.
After finishing picking, the two men carried their things to the river bank and walked back along the river bank to the educated youth point.
On the way back, we didn't talk about anything else but how to make these things.
Lin Xiaohan is not as proficient as Chuxia in this area, so naturally he listens to Chuxia.
After returning to the educated youth point, Chuxia started washing and cutting vegetables while Lin Xiaohan went out for a while.
When Lin Xiaohan went out, Han Ting and the others came back.
Since we live together, it is inevitable that we will bump into each other at mealtime.
Chuxia didn't look at them much and just went about her own business.
Because Lin Xiaohan did not report what happened between Han Ting and Su Yun in the grove to the team leaders, there was no change in Han Ting and the others' lives these days, and every day was the same.
Perhaps because Lin Xiaohan had the leverage over them, they had not expressed any dissatisfaction with the chickens raised in the yard these days, and naturally had not taken any revenge.
With the careful care of Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan, the six chicks have now grown much bigger in size and have bigger wings.
Of course, it takes a relatively long time for the chicks to grow, and they cannot lay eggs yet.
When Han Ting and the others entered the kitchen and saw the vegetables in front of Chu Xia, they were all stunned for a moment in confusion.
But after that, he said nothing and went about his own business.
Those who cook cook, and those who rest rest.
In early summer, wash the green peppers, eggplants and loofah and cut them into pieces.
Put the chives on the chopping board and cut them into very small cubes one by one.
After cutting the chives, put them in a bowl and add some corn flour.
Just at this time Lin Xiaohan came back, holding three eggs in his hand when he entered the kitchen.
It's hot now, and the door curtain in the kitchen has been taken down long ago.
When Lin Xiaohan entered the kitchen, he automatically ignored everyone else and walked straight to Chu Xia and said, "I went to Aunt Liu's house to borrow three eggs. Two eggs are for stir-frying the loofah, and one is for making chive corn pancakes."
After a brief exchange with Chuxia, he started working with Chuxia.
In early summer, I beat an egg into a basin and slowly added water. I mixed the leeks, cornmeal and eggs into dough and then made them into several palm-sized round cakes.
Lin Xiaohan beat two more eggs and went to the stove to light a fire.
Wait for the pan to heat up, pour some oil into the pan in early summer and make braised eggplant first.
After the eggplant is stir-fried until fragrant, add green pepper and chopped garlic, pour in the sauce prepared in advance and continue to stir-fry until only a little soup is left.
After making the braised eggplant, Chuxia made scrambled loofah with eggs and stir-fried green vegetables.
Finally, brush a thin layer of oil in the pan and fry the leek and egg tortillas.
The dishes she cooked were served one by one, filling the kitchen with a rich, salty aroma.
Especially the aroma of the leek and egg tortilla, wafting out from the hot pot and going straight into people's nostrils, making it impossible not to smell it.
Han Ting and his friends once again felt the torture from food.
Although I wanted to pretend that I didn't care, I couldn't help but glance at the fragrant dishes.
Either we all live a hard life together and no one needs to envy anyone else.
It is the most torturous thing to watch your roommates improve their meals while you can only eat coarse grain steamed buns.
Han Ting sat at the empty table, lowered his brows, took a deep breath, and finally did not turn away.
The last time he and Chuxia had a fight over noodles with soybean paste, Chuxia once again drew a line between them. Of course, he had no reason to get angry and show her annoyance over such a thing again.
He had no right to be rude again, and only by staying calm could he maintain his dignity.
Chu Xia didn't pay attention to Han Ting and the others' reactions from beginning to end.
After frying the leek and egg tortillas, she washed the pan. Then she and Lin Xiaohan washed their hands together, took chopsticks and sat down to eat.
Chuxia still remembers what Lin Xiaohan said about not sharing a bowl of food with a woman.
So before officially starting to eat, Chu Xia used her chopsticks to divide each dish in the middle. After dividing it, she smiled and said to Lin Xiaohan, "Okay, half for each of us."
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
I don't know whether to praise her for her good memory or for her ability to calculate clearly.
Since she had already divided it, Lin Xiaohan naturally didn't say anything.
He picked up the chopsticks and ate the cakes and vegetables, and talked to her about school matters on the topic of early summer.
Han Ting and the other ten people were also talking, but their voices were not loud today.
After they heated up the steamed buns, they did not eat immediately. Instead, they waited until Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan finished eating, cleaned up and left before they took out their steamed buns to eat.
After Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan left, they spoke without restraint.
Guo Gai took the steamed bun in his hand and said speechlessly: "Fuck, what kind of conditions are these? Two people eat four dishes for a meal, and there are three eggs in it. After this meal, they can't afford the next meal?"
No one responded to Guo Gai's words, as they sounded too much like jealousy.
Chaozi took a bite of the steamed bun and said, "No, I borrowed the eggs from my fellow villagers. Where did they get all the vegetables? Green vegetables, loofah, eggplant, green pepper, leek, and many other kinds."
Everyone thought about this topic.
Su Yun, who usually doesn't like to talk in a crowd, opened her mouth and asked, "Did you grow it yourself?"
After this was said, everyone else also remembered - they seemed to have land.
Guo Gai thought for a moment and said, "Impossible? How can anything be grown on that barren riverbank? Did the brigade secretly allocate new land to them?"
Chaozi suggested: "Let's go and have a look after dinner."
So after they finished their meal, they immediately went to the river beach together.
As they walked along the river bank to the private plots, they saw two small plots of land full of fruits and vegetables. All ten of them blinked hard, with expressions of disbelief and reluctance to believe on their faces.
Guogai said with a complicated expression: "Fuck, this is really weird. They actually grew something on this kind of land, and it grew so much?"
As he spoke, he went down to the riverbank and walked around the fields of Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan, shouting at the top of his voice, "Tomatoes, cucumbers, loofahs, leeks... we have everything!"
Walking to the cucumber rack, he saw the small tender cucumbers with yellow flowers hanging among the green leaves, and reached out to pinch them.
But before his fingers touched the cucumber vine, he suddenly heard Han Ting yell, "Don't fucking move!"
The pot lid was startled by him and quickly retracted his hand.
Han Ting didn't let him touch it, so he went ashore awkwardly, saying, "Although it's still small, it's edible. The more tender the cucumber is, the better it tastes..."
Han Ting said with a dark face, "Have you never eaten a cucumber in your life?"
Guo Gai scratched his head again and explained in a low voice: "Hasn't it been a long time since I've eaten this?"
Han Ting scolded the pot lid, and no one else dared to move.
They all looked at Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan's land with expressions of incomprehension, wondering how they could grow so many things on such a piece of wasteland on the riverbank.
When all ten people were silent, they suddenly heard a whistle behind them.
The ten people turned around together and saw Lin Xiaohan walking towards them slowly.
Lin Xiaohan had a teasing and provocative smile on his face. He stared at Han Ting and walked closer. After he stopped, he looked at Han Ting and said, "Brother Ting, what are you doing? Are you planning to... steal vegetables together? There's no need to be so troublesome. If you want to eat, tell me and I'll send some to you."
Han Ting looked at Lin Xiaohan with a gloomy face and said, "Don't worry, even if I am begging for food, I will not come to your door!"
That would be best.
Lin Xiaohan looked at Han Ting and said, "Count Tang Chuxia in as well. I'll take care of her affairs from now on."
Hearing this, Han Ting frowned and his eyes became angry.
Everyone else was stunned for a moment, especially Li Qiao, whose face was filled with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
Did Lin Xiaohan really say these words? ?
Is he supporting Tang Chuxia? ?
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