Chapter 16 Too Salty
Afterwards, Jiang Panyu accompanied Tan Yanlu to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy labor protection gloves.
There was nothing to buy after that. Jiang Panyu had plenty of money now, but tickets were required. If you didn't have a ticket, you could only watch helplessly.
Then the two of them walked around the town and found the state-owned restaurant, the purchasing station, and the town government's office building. It was called an office building, but it was actually just a two-story building.
Then, seeing that the time was almost up, the two of them returned to the gathering intersection and returned to Lianshan Village with the other educated youth.
When we were almost at the educated youth site, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. In half an hour, it would be dark and the people working in the fields would have gone home.
A small incident occurred when Jiang Panyu and his friends were at the gate of the educated youth site.
A chicken that came from nowhere passed by them and pooped at Tan Yanlu's feet.
Tan Yanlu almost stepped on it, and she quickly moved her raised foot to the side, but ended up stepping on a small round stone, and fell backwards.
Lian Xiuran happened to be behind her, and he reached out and supported her, preventing Tan Yanlu from falling.
"Comrade Tan, are you okay?" Lian Xiuran helped the man up and asked with concern.
Tan Yanlu naturally shook her head to indicate that it was okay. In Jiang Panyu's view, this was a very ordinary thing. If you were about to fall, I would just help you up. It was no big deal!
But in the eyes of some people, this is not the case. Zhao Xiuzhu, who just came back from work, is one of them.
She looked at Tan Yanlu's back, wondering if Tan Yanlu also had a crush on Lian Xiuran. Otherwise, why didn't she fall into someone else's arms, but fell on him?
When Zhao Xiuzhu saw Lian Xiuran today, she was attracted by his outstanding appearance and began to have feelings for him.
While having lunch at noon, she took a special look at Lian Xiuran's hands. They were a pair of hands that had never had to do heavy labor or farm work since childhood.
All ten fingernails were round and clean, and the skin color of his palms, neck, and face was the same.
Unlike some people who have tanned necks and hands because of working outside.
The important thing is that among the eight new educated youth, only his clothes were made of Dacron, and he was not the only one.
On the bamboo poles in the yard, the new educated youth’s morning clothes are hung to dry!
The clothes that Lian Xiuran hung out to dry were also made of Dacron, and they were all about 80% to 90% new, which shows how well-off Lian Xiuran's family was.
Zhao Xiuzhu had been in the countryside for so long, and it was rare for her to meet someone with such good conditions, so she was immediately attracted to him.
Subconsciously, Zhao Xiuzhu has already regarded Lian Xiuran as her own property, and any girl who gets close to him will be treated with hostility by her.
At this moment, she was particularly displeased with Tan Yanlu.
Zhao Xiu brought his personal emotions into his work because of what he was thinking about.
When dinner was served, everyone sat around the table and looked at the food, feeling a little at a loss as to where to start.
For dinner, we had cornmeal porridge, spicy stir-fried cabbage, and two small plates of pickles.
It’s just that there are too many chili peppers in the dish. The taste is so pungent.
Li Gaoyang glanced at Zhao Xiuzhu and Li Yunying with some disapproval in his eyes. Not everyone can eat such spicy food.
Li Yunying shrugged: "Don't look at me, I didn't cook this dish, and I didn't know Xiuzhu fried so many peppers into it.
By the time I realized it, it had already been put into the pot, and it was still possible to pour it out. It was such a waste. ”
"I have no appetite and want to eat something spicy. Since I cooked this dish, it must be to my taste.
I don’t make it this spicy every time, but it’s not too much to do it once in a while.
Besides, aren’t there pickles here? If you can’t eat it because it’s too spicy, then eat pickles. Aren’t they all vegetables? ”
Zhao Xiuzhu spoke in a sarcastic and impolite tone.
Li Gaoyang frowned. He didn't know what happened to Zhao Xiuzhu.
Thinking that the new educated youth had just arrived, he should give some face to Zhao Xiuzhu, the old educated youth, so he said nothing, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
As soon as Li Gaoyang moved, everyone else also started to move, and almost no one touched the pot of spicy fried cabbage.
Tan Yanlu was not afraid of spicy food. She took a bite and put it in her mouth, but she choked unexpectedly.
It wasn't because it was too spicy, but because there was undissolved salt in the dish. The dish tasted salty and bitter. Tan Yanlu turned her head and spit it out on the ground as if it were the dish.
Lian Xiuran, who was sitting by the door, picked up Tan Yanlu's enamel cup and poured her a glass of water.
Tan Yanlu drank the water hurriedly and felt much better.
"What's the matter? This is too spicy. If you can't handle it, then eat some pickles. This is newly made this year and tastes pretty good. Have some."
Li Gaoyang thought that Tan Yanlu was suffering from the spiciness of the food, so he recommended that she eat some side dishes.
Tan Yanlu shook her head: "It's not too spicy, it's too salty. The salt in the dish hasn't even dissolved yet. It's salty and bitter. Try it for yourself."
Li Gaoyang picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, then spit it out: "Comrade Xiuzhu, how much salt did you put in it? It's so salty, how can you ask us to eat it?"
Zhao Xiuzhu put down her chopsticks and said, "Don't you think about it? There are so many people, and there is only one pot of food. If you don't add a little more salt, it will not be enough for so many people.
Comrade Tan Yanlu, if you like salty food too much, then eat more rice and less vegetables! Of course you think the vegetables are salty if you eat them as meals! ”
This statement aroused the disgust of many people, and Tan Yanlu also frowned: "Comrade Zhao, we paid for the food, why do you take the money but don't want to give us the food?
So you deliberately added so much salt, thinking that you want us to back down. You are quite smart, but you also have to ask me whether I can bear this loss! ”
Li Gaoyang became anxious when he heard this and hurriedly explained that they definitely did not mean that.
Jiang Panyu received a system task at this time:
[Ding, Zhao Xiuzhu is hostile to Tan Yanlu in pursuit of love. As a civil servant who likes to watch the show, please reveal Zhao Xiuzhu's little thoughts to everyone and encourage her to express her love!
Mission reward: one serving of high-nutrition compressed biscuits and one pound of brown sugar. 】
In fact, everyone knew that since Li Gaoyang and his team had taken the money, it was impossible for them not to provide vegetables. After all, vegetables were not that rare in the countryside these days, and every household grew a lot of them. There was really no need to be stingy with them.
But Zhao Xiuzhu's words were so annoying. Tan Yanlu felt that she couldn't take this loss today. Otherwise, wouldn't she be treated as a soft persimmon that could be bullied in the future?
She opened her mouth and was about to say something, but Jiang Panyu, who had been silent the whole time, spoke first, speaking slowly but clearly:
"Comrade Zhao Xiuzhu, I know why you cook your food so salty.
Isn't it because you like Comrade Lian Xiu Ran?
When we came back tonight, Comrade Lian Xiuran helped Tan Yanlu.
You saw it, you were jealous, you were envious, so today you cooked the dishes so spicy and salty, you did it on purpose.
You are here just for us new educated youth. You want to give Tan Yanlu a warning, right? ”
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