Chapter 22: Rumors
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao sat next to the two of them. The pheasants on the fire were already emitting a fragrant smell, and the hares were also beginning to drip oil.
Deng Minghao also took out the pheasant in his hand and said, "Let's kill this one and eat it. The pheasant is so small, it may not be enough for the four of us to eat."
Pheasants are generally smaller in size, and cannot be compared to domestic chickens. Plus, after being roasted, they are basically not that big anymore.
Four people could share half of the two pheasants, but it probably still wasn't enough. Fortunately, there was still a wild rabbit.
Deng Minghao took over Lu Yunxiao's job and started roasting pheasants and rabbits. Lu Yunxiao worked hard again and started to process the pheasants while Deng Minghao watched him while roasting.
Lu Yunxiao must have handled these things often, as he was very quick. Deng Minghao watched and thought it was quite simple, so he decided to give it a try himself next time.
He had killed many chickens, ducks and geese, but this was his first time dealing with a pheasant in the wild, after all, the chicken feathers were difficult to pluck.
Soon, the roasted pheasant was ready to be eaten. Qin Wan and Li Ruolan each had half. Only some salt was added to the roasted pheasant. However, even so, for Qin Wan, who had not eaten meat for a long time, it was no different from a feast.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao had a space in which they stored a lot of meat. They would cook a little meal from time to time, but they were not as greedy as Qin Wan.
However, pheasant meat is indeed somewhat different from domestic chicken, and it tastes quite good.
Each of them ate half a roasted chicken, a rabbit leg, and two skewers of roasted mushrooms. Qin Wan and Li Ruolan were almost full.
The remaining rabbits, pheasants, and grilled mushrooms were all dealt with by Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao.
"I rarely see people who can eat as much as Deng Minghao. Today I met another one." Li Ruolan said to Lu Yunxiao.
Lu Yunxiao and Deng Minghao looked at each other and smiled.
After having a meal on the mountain, Li Ruolan and the others did not go down the mountain, but continued to wander around the mountain. Lu Yunxiao did not leave either, and took Deng Minghao and the others to find some wild yams and chestnut forests.
"These chestnuts are not ripe yet. They will be ripe in half a month or so. When the busy farming season is over, you can come and pick some and eat them as food." Lu Yunxiao said.
Li Ruolan and the other two memorized the route they had taken and were preparing for the busy farming season. After moving, they came here to pick chestnuts.
After wandering around on the mountain for most of the day and seeing that it was getting dark, Li Ruolan and the other three said goodbye to Lu Yunxiao and went down the mountain back to the Youth League Institute.
All three of them returned with a full load, one of them carrying half a basket full of mushrooms and black fungus. When they came back, Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer were making dinner.
Li Ruolan and the others took the backpack back to the room, ready to take out the mushrooms and dry them in the sun after the weather cleared up in two days and the mud on the ground dried up.
As soon as the three of them came out of the room, they noticed that the atmosphere in the educated youth center was a little strange. Many people were looking at them furtively.
As soon as Deng Minghao found out, he went back to the house to find Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun, because these two people were veterans, and Deng Minghao usually had a good relationship with them.
"What's going on? When we came back from a day out, we felt like everyone at the educated youth site was staring at us?" Deng Minghao asked directly.
Shen Yi frowned: "During lunch, when the three of you didn't come back, Wang Zhiqing, Zhang Zhiqing, and Li Zhiqing said some dirty words."
Deng Minghao's face darkened: "What did you say?"
Ji Hongjun interrupted, "What else can you say? You, a male educated youth, took two female educated youths into the mountains. Who knows what they were doing?
He also said a lot of nasty things, like having an affair with a man or a woman, being a whore, etc. ”
Deng Minghao said nothing. He went to his box, unlocked it, reached in and fumbled around a few times. He took something out and went out with a gloomy face.
Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun hurriedly followed him out, Liu Kunming and Xu Tao looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and followed him out.
Deng Minghao is a man of few bad intentions. He speaks and behaves in an orderly manner, making people feel very comfortable to get along with. Therefore, the five people who live together all have a good relationship with Deng Minghao.
Deng Minghao came out with a gloomy face, and the first person he saw was Li Li Yingying at the kitchen door.
When Li Ruolan saw Deng Minghao's sullen face, she knew that he must be angry, so she hurriedly followed him. Then she saw Deng Minghao reach out and grab Li Yingying's collar and pull her over.
Li Yingying was startled and screamed, then turned around and saw Deng Minghao with an angry face.
"Ah!...You, what are you doing?" Li Yingying looked like she wanted to be angry but didn't dare to. Under Deng Minghao's glare, her voice became smaller and smaller.
Deng Minghao ignored him, kicked open the kitchen door, looked at Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer, and said coldly: "Come out!"
Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer both trembled for a moment, but soon regained their composure: "Deng Zhiqing, what are you going to do? Are you going to beat us up?
You are a male educated youth, but you want to beat us two female educated youth. Aren't you afraid that we will report to the police?"
Li Ruolan knew that Deng Minghao must have heard something unpleasant, so she pushed Deng Minghao away, squeezed into the kitchen, grabbed Wang Mingzhu's hair with one hand and Zhang Baoer's hair with the other, and pulled them both out of the kitchen.
"Ah! Li Ruolan! Let me go!"
"What are you going to do?"
Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer grinned and reached out to grab Li Ruolan.
Li Ruolan exerted force and threw the two men to the ground.
The noise here finally alarmed all the educated youth in the Youth House.
Li Baoguo, the head of the educated youth site, walked over quickly and asked, "What are you doing? What are you doing?"
Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer immediately covered their hair and cried, "We didn't know either! We were cooking when Deng Zhiqing kicked the door open, and then Li Zhiqing came over and pulled our hair."
Li Baoguo immediately looked at Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan. He also heard what Wang Mingzhu, Zhang Baoer and Li Yingying said during lunch today.
It was just that the three of them had gone out and had not come back, which was indeed a bit bad. Li Baoguo saw that the three of them were just talking, so he did not ask any questions.
Judging from the current situation, the gossip between the three of them must have been known.
Deng Minghao said: "The three of us just went up the mountain to pick mushrooms for a day, but we were rumored to be having an affair.
At this time, saying this, are they trying to spread rumors about us, or are they trying to send us for reform?"
After Deng Minghao finished speaking, he opened the thing in his hand and said, "Did you see it? This is the marriage certificate that my wife and I got. We got it the day after we came to Shengli Brigade.
The new house next door was built by us. I went up the mountain with my wife to step on mushrooms. How did that become an adultery or promiscuous relationship?"
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