Chapter 038
Chuxia followed Lin Xiaohan out of the fenced yard.
After walking two steps out of the hospital gate, she turned her head to look at the boys' dormitory, then looked at Lin Xiaohan and asked in a low voice: "Are you deliberately trying to piss them off? Are they saying behind your back that you're stingy?"
Lin Xiaohan turned his head and looked at Chu Xia: "You are really good at guessing."
Chu Xia smiled at him and said, "I'm still quite smart."
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
Seeing that Lin Xiaohan was silent, Chu Xia continued, "Did you notice the expressions on their faces just now? They were all stunned when they saw you giving me candy and putting things in my schoolbag. They didn't react until we walked out. I guess they still haven't reacted until now. They can't believe that you would give me so many expensive snacks."
When Lin Xiaohan heard Chu Xia say this, he was stunned.
He glanced at Chuxia, and his reaction was a little delayed.
Yes, how could he be so generous to give her so many expensive snacks.
He has never been so generous to anyone since he was a child.
This time and again, I am willing to give it to her.
He really doesn't have a sweet tooth.
But it is impossible to just wait for these things to expire before feeding them to pigs or dogs.
There are some good things that city dwellers may not be able to eat, but if you take some out, you can easily exchange them for many other things from others.
Not to mention Han Ting and the others were surprised.
Even he himself feels quite surprised now.
This kind of thing really shouldn't have happened to Lin Xiaohan.
Lin Xiaohan didn't say anything. Chu Xia looked at him for a long time but couldn't figure out what he was thinking.
So she continued, "I know you were just acting for them. I ate a lot of your snacks last night. I will return them to you when we get to school."
Lin Xiaohan spoke up at this time, saying, "You should pay me back by cooking."
***
The boys’ dormitory of the educated youth center.
Han Ting and the other ten people were indeed still standing there in a daze, not moving.
The male educated youth Hu Yang reacted first and said, "If I remember correctly, Lin Xiaohan is a person who doesn't even want to let others drink his saliva, right? If I saw correctly, he just stuffed peanut nougat, crispy rice crackers, biscuits, and...what's that thing called..." into Tang Chuxia's schoolbag.
"Chocolate." Wang Xiangqian continued, "A piece costs 70 or 80 cents, almost the price of a pound of pork."
Hu Yang glanced at the others and said, "So it seems like they are really in love..."
"Hurry up and heat up the steamed buns and eat. After dinner, go and tidy up the private plot."
Hu Yang didn't finish his next words because he was interrupted by Han Ting who suddenly stood up.
Seeing Han Ting like this, Hu Yang naturally stopped talking.
No one else spoke. Those who needed to rest rested, those who needed to cook cooked. After lunch, those who needed to rest rested, and those who needed to till the ground went to till the ground.
After that, no one mentioned Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan again.
My face hurts a little if I don't mention it. If I mention it, isn't it just like slapping myself in the face?
***
Cooking is not a difficult task for Chuxia. She doesn’t think it’s a big deal to cook one more dish every time she has a meal. Besides, she likes cooking, and her cooking skills are what she is most proud of among all her skills.
Chu Xia was naturally willing to exchange cooking for so many delicious snacks and more time with Lin Xiaohan, so she readily accepted Lin Xiaohan's exchange proposal again.
Of course, when Lin Xiaohan told her in the boys' dormitory to eat whatever she wanted and not to save, and to ask him for more after she finished, she didn't take it seriously.
She wouldn't take this kind of thing seriously if it happened to anyone else, and she would take it even less seriously if it happened to Lin Xiaohan.
She carried snacks to school, took out all the snacks and put them all in the drawer.
The most reasonable way to eat these things is to take out a little bit when you feel hungry and taste the different sweetness. This will make the feeling of happiness last longer.
It's such a waste to fill your stomach with these things.
***
Because he had picked up another great bargain, Chuxia was naturally in a much better mood than in the morning.
After finishing half a day's class in the afternoon and sending all the students away, she and Lin Xiaohan stayed in the office as usual to correct homework and deal with some work that had not been completed during the day before dark.
Chuxia will first finish correcting the homework collected today.
While sitting and waiting for Lin Xiaohan, she thought about what to eat in the evening.
I didn’t pay much attention to eating alone before, but now that there’s one more person, I can’t help but think about it.
I figured that Lin Xiaohan had finished his work.
Chuxia put her schoolbag on her back and asked him, "How about going back to make sweet potato noodles?"
After Lin Xiaohan packed up his things, he looked at Chu Xia and asked, "Can sweet potato flour be made into noodles?"
Chu Xia looked at him and said, "It's really difficult to make. It would be easier if we used white flour, but we don't have white flour. If you don't cook pure sweet potato flour well, you won't be able to knead it into dough that can be rolled into skin. Even if you roll it into skin successfully, it may break when you cut it, so it really tests your skills."
Lin Xiaohan: "Then let me admire your craftsmanship."
Chu Xia smiled at him and said, "As usual, let's go to the vegetable garden and pick vegetables first."
Because the vegetables in their gardens are not fully mature, most of them are just barely edible and still need to absorb sunlight, rain, and nutrients from the earth to grow longer, so when they went to the vegetable gardens these two days, they did not pick a lot of vegetables at one time to store.
The two of them locked the door and left the school, still going to the vegetable garden first.
Walking on the last rays of sunset, I went to the vegetable garden and happened to meet Han Ting, Guo Gai and six other boys who were working in their private plots, loosening the soil with shovels and occasionally laughing and playing.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan didn't say hello to them. They just picked vegetables from the fields and left.
After returning to the educated youth center, Lin Xiaohan took a bowl and filled it with half of the sweet potato noodles for Chuxia. Chuxia rolled up her sleeves and began to show off her cooking skills.
Li Qiao and the other four girls did not go to work in their private plots, but they had already had dinner, so Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan were the only ones in the kitchen. It was quiet and relaxing for the two of them to stay in the kitchen and cook.
It is difficult to knead sweet potato flour into dough to make noodles directly.
In early summer, put the sweet potato noodles in a pot and boil them in water. After cooking, knead them into dough, then roll them out on a panel into a dough of appropriate thickness, and finally fold them and cut them into noodles about the width of a finger.
Cut along the edge of the knife and cut out two noodles.
Chu Xia picked up the noodles with her fingers and shook them open, showing them to Lin Xiaohan. She smiled and said, "How is it? It doesn't break when I pick it up like this. Am I a good cook?"
Lin Xiaohan sat across the table and gave a thumbs up expressionlessly.
After showing off, Chuxia continued to cut noodles, cutting all the remaining dough one by one.
Cut the noodles and stir-fry some green vegetables, then boil water to cook the noodles.
After the noodles are cooked, scoop them into two bowls, add some noodle soup, then divide the green vegetables that were fried in advance into two portions and add them to the two bowls of noodles respectively. The sweet potato noodles are ready.
Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan sat face to face at the table, with a bowl of noodles in front of each.
Chu Xia didn't pick up her chopsticks first, but watched Lin Xiaohan take the first bite.
After Lin Xiaohan finished the first bite, she immediately asked, "How is it?"
After swallowing the noodles, Lin Xiaohan nodded and said, "It's worth it to exchange my snacks for your cooking skills."
It's rare to hear serious and affirmative words from him.
Chu Xia smiled and said, "I said I won't let you suffer any loss."
After saying that, she immediately lowered her head to eat the noodles, taking big bites of the vegetables and noodles together.
Being very hungry, Lin Xiaohan ate without saying anything else.
After finishing the noodle soup in the bowl, he put down his bowl and chopsticks, and after a while he spoke again: "I have always wanted to say that with your cooking skills, it is not a problem to set up a noodle stall or open a noodle restaurant."
I finished the last bite of noodles in the bowl in early summer.
After she was full and put down her chopsticks, she looked at Lin Xiaohan and continued, "I would like to, but in today's social environment, even if you are caught secretly selling vegetables, you will be labeled as speculation. How can I open a noodle shop?"
Indeed, not.
Lin Xiaohan looked at Chu Xia and thought, "Where did those stalls in the commune market come from?"
Hearing this, Chu Xia also thought about it and said, "Those should all be state-owned."
Lin Xiaohan: "Let's go and ask around together on Sunday?"
Usually she was the one who shamelessly pestered him, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to ask her to do things together.
Chu Xia didn't think about it for a second, as if she was afraid that he would regret it, and immediately responded, "Okay."
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