Qiu Yuling finally paid attention to the person beside her, "Comrade Li Xingyao?"
Li Xingyao pulled down his scarf, and the hot air he exhaled formed small icicles on the strands of hair on his forehead. "Yuling~"
"You know him? That's great. Come up to the house and warm up a little, young man. You must have had a hard time on the journey."
Li Xingyao dodged Qiu Yuling's hand that was about to take the bag and said with a smile, "It's okay, you hold grandma and I'll carry the things."
Qiu Yuling paused for a moment, said nothing, withdrew her hand, and supported her grandmother. "Grandma, you take a break for a while. I'll go out and call the team to return the call. I don't want my fourth uncle to get angry."
"Well, me and..., my name is Xingyao, right? Xingyao and I will go upstairs and wait for you. My baby will be back after he finishes talking."
Qiu Yuling glanced at Li Xingyao again without leaving any trace. It had only been a short while, and yet her grandma had opened her heart to her like this.
"Well, please watch your step and go up the stairs carefully. Grandma, you really can't leave this time. You must stay with me!"
Grandma smiled and glanced at Li Xingyao, her face full of helplessness, as if verifying what she said on the way about her granddaughter who never grew up.
The corners of Li Xingyao's mouth were raised and never straightened.
After entering the door, he changed into the spare slippers that Qiu Yuling had placed next to the shoe cabinet. Qiu Yuling took another look at them and felt something was strange.
After settling her grandma down, she trotted out to the reception room of the Farm Reclamation Bureau to make a phone call.
"Hello, this is the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau. My name is Qiu Yuling. Could you please tell Comrade Li Qingtong from the team that the old man has been found and is at Qiu Yuling's house? Tell him to come back after he's done. Thank you!"
An accountant from the same office bumped into Qiu Yuling when they passed by. He stopped to exchange a few pleasantries and said, "Is anyone from Qiu's family coming? I haven't seen you in a while..."
Female comrades always talk a lot, so Qiu Yuling found an opportunity to interrupt them and get out of the situation.
After thinking about it, I went to the grocery store, bought a grass carp, and weighed a piece of tofu. I also had a chicken that had just been plucked at home. With chicken and fish, I had a meal for lunch.
When I got home, Li Xingyao was still chatting with her old lady in the living room. I couldn't hear clearly what they were saying, but they both had smiles on their faces.
"Grandma, I'm back. My fourth uncle isn't with the team. I called them and left a message. He'll be here when he's done.
We'll have steamed chicken and pickled fish for lunch today..."
Seeing Qiu Yuling coming back, Li Xingyao stood up and said goodbye to the old lady, "Grandma, now that Yuling is back, I'll go back first.
I've reserved two tickets for you. You can ask Yuling to take you there this afternoon. It's quite interesting. If you like it, I'll send you other tickets later."
"Ah? It's already dinner time. Why don't you stay and have dinner before you leave? I don't like watching that movie you mentioned. You and Yuling can go watch it this afternoon, ok, Lingling?"
Qiu Yuling changed into slippers and said, "Please stay for lunch. Thank you for helping me take my grandma back on the way."
Li Xingyao didn't hesitate at all and replied with a smile, "Okay." "Grandma, you take a break. I'll go help Yuling cook."
"Well, that's fine. I'll go inside and lie down for a while. Linglingwa has someone to help her, so I don't have to worry about anything."
After saying that, grandma went into the bedroom in the living room. The room was filled with sunlight and had a warm radiator. Soon, she began to breathe evenly.
Qiu Yuling brought out a small quilt, put it on her grandmother, and quietly closed the door. Only then did she free up her mind to greet the guests.
Ever since he forbade her to call him Second Brother Xingyao, Qiu Yuling had always called him Comrade Li Xingyao. Just as she started calling him that, she received a new request from him.
"Just call me by my name. It's a bit strange to always bring comrades with you. You take a rest first. I'll go and scrape the fish scales."
He had just heard Qiu Yuling's arrangement to make pickled fish and steamed chicken. Although this was his first time using this kitchen, he was very quick with his knife and his hands were very decisive.
Qiu Yuling leaned against the door frame and watched for a while. She saw that he was chopping chicken, slicing fish, and removing bones with ease. The fish fillets were very even, with consistent size, thickness, and texture.
"Do you want steamed chicken with or without dough?" After preparing the basic ingredients, he turned around and asked Qiu Yuling.
"Huh? What?"
Li Xingyao said it again softly.
"Oh, all right."
"Then wrap it in flour, so you don't have to steam the buns."
After he finished speaking, he started to work in an orderly manner. Qiu Yuling didn't leave and watched from the side. At first, she thought he was here to cause trouble.
Later, seeing that they had their own methods, I thought of at least giving them a hand, but then I found out that I didn't even have the chance to help.
Li Xingyao smiled and comforted her, "Just tell me where the seasonings are. You don't need to help with the rest. Girls' hands get old easily when doing rough work. I'm used to it."
She wasn't lying about this. When they went on missions, they often had to survive in the wilderness, so they really had to know a hundred million things.
Qiu Yuling was so confused that she let someone take over the show. It was not until she retreated to the living room and made some tea that she realized how smoothly he had entered her house.
It seems like something was omitted in the middle, so we just go straight to this step.
But it was beyond my expectation that he was so capable.
After all, she still remembered that the old man asked her for the secret recipe of Dapanji, and he even criticized his eldest brother for it, saying that the other's cooking skills were hard to describe.
The temperature in the room was high. After drinking hot tea, Qiu Yuling felt even hotter. She went back to the room and changed into her home cotton shirt. When she came out again, she glanced around and saw that the person in the kitchen was already wearing a vest.
She felt a strange flush on her face, and wanted to remind him not to catch a cold, but she also felt that their current situation made everything seem strange, so she retreated to the study, took the medical book she had been reading, and lay down in the rocking chair...
I don't know when she fell asleep.
It was grandma who came in and woke her up. "Yuling, why aren't you sleeping in bed? You don't even have clothes to cover yourself. What if you catch a cold?"
Qiu Yuling looked at the old lady with sleepy eyes, "Grandma~"
"You kid!"
He took the small fur vest draped over the back of a chair and put it on his granddaughter. "The meal is ready. Let's not wait for your fourth uncle. It's not good to let the guests go hungry. They've been looking at you for a long time."
Qiu Yuling was stunned. She followed her grandmother to the living room and realized that her grandmother thought she had made the whole table by herself and she just showed her the fire for a while.
Li Xingyao, who was dressed warmly, winked at Qiu Yuling and smiled brightly.
Grandma was still mumbling, "Don't blame Xingyao, Lingling is tired too. Her work is busy and tiring. It's also my fault that I took a long nap and asked the first guest to watch the fire..."
If you know that even the table was set up by the guests, her grandmother must feel even more guilty. Qiu Yuling tacitly did not point it out and let the misunderstanding continue.
When she went to the kitchen to get dishes and chopsticks, Qiu Yuling also found two small basins placed separately on the steamer, one containing steamed chicken and the other containing pickled fish. She guessed that this person had heard that her fourth uncle was coming to dinner and had left them out specially.
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