Chapter 249: Red and Hot 249 is quite good for cooling down
"Hmm?" Gu Qingqing didn't stop her work. She chopped the green onions into small pieces, bent down and took out two eggs from the cabinet, cracked them on the edge of the bowl, and mixed them with chopsticks: "How does it look?"
"You only care about his appearance?" Xiao Xiao put the washed spinach in a small basket beside him, "He's quite handsome, and he's a perfect match for Bai Rong."
"Then her family is quite worried." Gu Qingqing said casually.
From personal ability to family background and appearance, it is clear that the Bai family has taken great pains in selecting.
"Yes, after all, I only have one daughter, so I have to keep a close eye on her." Xiao Xiao said, "My parents and I are going to the wedding tomorrow, are you going?"
"No." The water in the pot was already boiling. Gu Qingqing took the triangular steaming rack hanging on the wall and placed it in the pot. She then poured the egg liquid in the large bowl into two small white porcelain bowls on the stove and placed them on the triangular steaming rack.
Xiao Xiao casually handed her the pot lid beside him and said, "Brother Chu isn't going either?"
After covering the pot, Gu Qingqing prepared to cut the peppers: "I just asked him, and he said he didn't want to go." The peppers were not that big, they were long string peppers, and they would be just right to pick in half a month.
She couldn't help it and just wanted to taste the spicy peppers for once.
Everything is good in Nanyang. There is plenty of seafood, vegetables and fruits, but the peppers don't have any peppery flavor.
I really miss the fried eggs with chili peppers and shredded pork with green peppers at home, which are my mother’s specialties.
Now that conditions are better, we can often eat meat and eggs at home.
"Then Bai Rong must be very disappointed." Xiao Xiao finished washing the vegetables and sat on the small stool next to the stove. "She may even think that Old Chu is heartless and doesn't care about the friendship we had when we were kids."
"I can't control that." Gu Qingqing saw that she was sitting there bored, so she handed her a handful of lychees and said, "Maybe something she did made Chu Dai feel cold, so he wanted to draw a clear line between them."
Taking the lychee, Xiao Xiao stretched one leg straight and bent the other, put the lychee on his leg, pulled one and peeled it: "She is actually a smart person, she knows what is the best choice at the moment. My mother said that Bai Rong may not have given up on Lao Chu before, maybe she just saw that you guys were living too well and wanted to stir up trouble."
Her mother was just like her. When others thought Bai Rong was a good girl, they had a very average impression of her.
When Xiao Xiao was a child, he was too naughty and was often scolded. He was always compared with the gentle Bai Rong by the aunties in the compound.
Naturally, she was a little displeased with her, and the Bai Rong described by the aunts was too perfect and obedient, which made her feel that it was not quite real.
Because of their natural incompatible auras, her relationship with Bai Rong was not very close.
"Is that so?" Gu Qingqing seemed to be thinking about something.
When I first met Bai Rong in the Corps, my impression of her was that she was a very beautiful girl with a good temperament.
Moreover, I didn't detect any malice in her tone during the previous conversation. Maybe it was because she and Chu Dai were not dating at that time.
They rarely saw each other after that, except for the few days when she returned to the military area. When she went out to buy groceries, she always felt that someone was watching her secretly, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
Seeing Xiao Xiao putting lychee after lychee into his mouth, with a pile of lychee shells and pits at his feet, she reminded him, "Chu Dai said that eating too much of this will cause internal heat, so you should be careful."
"It's okay. No matter how angry you are, it will disappear when you see your brother." The short-haired girl said incoherently.
Gu Qingqing couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"My brother's face looks pretty cool." As cold as ice, Tuantuan loved to stay close to him every year.
Xiao Xiao waved his hands and said nothing more.
Gu Canyang is a difficult person to deal with. All you can do is keep pestering him and get closer to him to see if it works. The only good thing is that he has no other suitors around him at the moment.
There are many female soldiers in the Southern Military Region, including many civilian personnel and artistic soldiers, all of whom are very beautiful, and the female soldiers in the combat units are even more heroic.
Fortunately, Gu Canyang is in the Air Force and there are not many female soldiers, otherwise someone would definitely be brave enough to jump in.
It is now 5:13 pm. Old Qin has returned, but Chu Yuan is not yet.
Shen Sui was watching TV with his two little nephews in the living room, and he had to answer all kinds of strange questions from the little guys from time to time.
Gu Canyang, Gu Qinglie and Chu Dai had been discussing something in the study upstairs. Seeing that Xiao Xiao was a little restless, Gu Qingqing cut two mangoes, washed some grapes and packed some lychees.
"Will you take me upstairs?" she asked the bored girl who was sitting on a small stool.
"Okay." Xiao Xiao was worried about having nothing to do. She couldn't sit still or be idle, and only Gu Qingqing could let her butt sit comfortably on the bench for a while.
"It should be in the study on the second floor or the third floor." Seeing her stand up and carry the fruit plate, Gu Qingqing reminded her: "Don't eat lychees anymore, eat something else."
"I know, I know." Xiao Xiao didn't care much. After leaving the kitchen door, he twisted a lychee with one hand, squeezed the shell open and put it in his mouth.
When Shen Sui saw her going upstairs, he just glanced at her casually and didn't say much.
However, two young guys wanted to follow him, but he grabbed their ankles and dragged them over, pinning them to his lap: "We'll have dinner soon, don't run around."
Xiao Tuantuan struggled for a bit but couldn't get away. She pouted and said, "Jiujiu, bad boy~"
"Are you bad?" Shen Sui leaned over and took the canned fruit on the coffee table, scooped some sugar water with a spoon, and handed it to him: "Do you want to eat it?"
"The best!" Xiao Tuantuan smiled happily and swallowed the sugar water with a satisfied look on her face: "Jiujiu, the best~"
Shen Sui said nothing about this.
Xiao Xiao first looked around the second floor, seeing no one there, and then went to the third floor with the fruit plate, during which he ate a lychee and three grapes.
The third floor was quiet. She looked around and finally stood outside the study and knocked on the door.
Chu Dai was originally half-sitting on the desk, listening to Gu Qinglie talking about the last war. When he heard a knock on the door, he stood up and opened it.
"Your room is well soundproofed. I couldn't hear any sound from outside. I thought there was no one inside." Xiao Xiao stood at the door and handed him the fruit plate: "Qingqing asked me to bring it up. You can finish eating and go downstairs to prepare for dinner."
"Commander Chu's work is quite reliable." Chu Dai took the fruit plate and saw her looking straight at the man with his back to the door. He snorted and laughed, "Got it. Go downstairs and wait."
Xiao Xiao curled his lips: "Why didn't you let me come in and sit for a while?"
Chu Dai leaned over, raised his eyebrows and said, "Then come in and sit for a while?"
"Forget it, I'll go serve the food to Qingqing. You two brothers can chat slowly." Xiao Xiao went downstairs without even turning his head.
Hearing the clatter of footsteps on the wooden planks gradually fade away, Chu Dai smiled and shook his head, then closed the door casually and picked up a piece of mango with a bamboo stick to eat.
Gu Qinglie touched a grape and threw it into his mouth, chewing it without even peeling it: "Brother, I think this girl is pretty good, aren't you a little tempted?"
Gu Canyang was sitting at the desk. He glanced at him with his cold eyes, and Gu Qinglie fell silent immediately.
"If you have time to worry about your elder brother's affairs, take care of yourself." Chu Dai put the fruit plate in front of the desk, half leaned on the table, and said jokingly: "You said before that there were no girls in the corps, but there must be a lot of girls in the military region now, right? If it's really not possible, you can apply to the organization and ask the field artillery regiment and the civil service department to make a contact and take a good look to see if there is anyone you like."
"Is it still possible?" Gu Qinglie couldn't help shaking his head: "We'll talk about it later. I went to the regiment headquarters this afternoon and just got acquainted with the regiment commander and political commissar. It's not a good idea to bring this up now."
"There's nothing wrong with that. Or you can do what Xiao Xiao did and submit an application to the organization and let your superiors solve your life-long affairs."
"Didn't she get refuted?" Gu Qinglie subconsciously glanced at Gousheng who didn't react.
"You should also be prepared to be refuted," Chu Dai took another grape and peeled it slowly, "A blind cat will always meet a dead mouse, right?"
"Hmm?" Gu Qinglie's mind was quick this time, and he squinted at him: "Am I a blind cat or a dead mouse?"
The man laughed and cursed: "You are a pig-brained person."
Gu Qinglie couldn't say anything, so he just started pushing him, mumbling something.
Gu Canyang watched the two people making noise without saying a word, his slender fingers slowly peeling the dark red lychee shells.
At 5:45, all the dishes were served. Gu Qingqing washed the large bowl she had used to crack the eggs, and took another one to pour the stewed soup into the bowls.
Seeing Xiao Xiao coming to serve, she asked, "Is Chu Dai coming down? Let him and my brother serve. It's too hot and I'm afraid you can't handle it."
"Old Chu?!" Xiao Xiao didn't try to be brave. He stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked up and shouted, "Come down to eat."
“I am here.”
The clear footsteps gradually approached. Xiao Xiao saw the man who came down first and couldn't take his eyes away: "Qingqing asked you to go to the kitchen to bring down the soup."
Gu Canyang glanced at her calmly and nodded.
The man had long legs and big steps. After Xiao Xiao came to his senses, he quickly followed him, then stood at the door and looked at the two siblings talking inside.
"How about wrapping it with a cloth? It won't be so hot if you keep it out of the heat." Gu Qingqing said, her eyes scanning everywhere, and finally she found a rag, wet it, and put it around the bowl.
"Yeah." Gu Canyang watched her actions and did not refuse.
Soon Chu Dai also came. Seeing Gu Canyang coming out with the soup, he slightly stepped aside to make way for him, then went into the kitchen.
"Anything else you want to serve?" he asked.
"There's also a bowl of soup. I made more, so everyone can have two bowls." Gu Qingqing lifted the lid of another pot: "And there's egg custard for your two kids."
The tall man leaned over from her back and took a look at the pot: "There are shrimps in it." He smiled.
"Children from Nanyang love to eat shrimps. Just like their father." Gu Qingqing added some soy sauce to two porcelain bowls and sprinkled chopped green onions on them. "Let the eldest brother serve the bowl of soup. You take these two bowls out. The little ones must be hungry."
"They're not hungry. They've got all the fruits, cakes and canned food." Despite saying this, the man still took two spoons from the cupboard and placed them in the bowls.
"That's just how you get used to it. You never get full. From now on, don't give them snacks during meals." The woman also went out with the dishes and chopsticks.
Chu Dai followed her and said, "You have to tell those two people this. Take them to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cakes while you are taking a walk to digest your food."
He nodded at the two elders who were talking and laughing on the sofa.
Glancing at her father and godfather on the sofa, she sighed, "How can I explain this?" Her father was too used to the little guys, and once he started to pamper them, all his principles were gone.
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