Yang Mei was very happy to see Song Lili and ran over to pull her along, saying, "Lili, we just happened to run into each other."
Song Lili immediately looked at Yang Mei with a mischievous look and said, "So you're on a date..." Her voice was drawn out, making Yang Mei's face turn red involuntarily.
Yang Mei shyly slapped Song Lili, "What nonsense are you talking about? Qinghua and I, the two of us..."
"You don't need to tell me what you two are doing. I don't want to hear about your sweet nothings," Song Lili jokingly interrupted Yang Mei.
"Lili..." Yang Mei slapped Song Lili again in anger, but with very little force, almost like tickling her.
Zhang Qinghua and Li Qinghua followed behind, saying, "You brat, what are you doing here?"
“Daqing…” Song Lili shouted in retaliation.
"Don't call me Daqing, my name is Li Qinghua." Li Qinghua pointed angrily at Song Lili.
“I’ll call you that, I’ll call you that, and you still call me a brat, we’re even,” Song Lili said, not wanting to be taken advantage of.
"Then...then I won't call you 'stinky girl,' and you won't call me 'Daqing,' how about that?" Li Qinghua asked in a negotiating tone.
"It's not that great. I think Daqing is really nice, it would suit you perfectly..."
After saying that, he walked over and stood behind Zhang Qinghua to prevent Li Qinghua from becoming enraged and hitting him.
Li Qinghua was indeed angry, but he only glared at Song Lili and had no intention of hitting her.
After a few rounds of banter, Song Lili said, "You three keep playing. I'm going upstairs to see if there's anything I can burn, so I can get some to take home."
The requirements for heating the kang (a heated brick bed) are not that high. No matter how tall the grass is, as long as it can be lit, it will do.
Yang Mei immediately said, "Let's go with you." Yang Mei was extremely worried about Song Lili's thin and frail body.
Song Lili immediately refused, "No need, no need, I can go by myself."
Yang Mei was about to say something when Zhang Qinghua interrupted her, saying, "You guys continue, I'll go with her." With that, he took the basket from Song Lili's back.
Li Qinghua immediately looked at them with an ambiguous gaze, "Oh, so it's you guys..."
Song Lili couldn't stand Li Qinghua's obsequious manner and interrupted him, "Daqing, don't you know this is to make room for you? How ungrateful are you?"
Li Qinghua's face immediately turned red, whether from anger or embarrassment, it was hard to tell. In any case, Yang Mei's face turned red because of embarrassment.
Seeing that both of them were blushing, Song Lili pulled Zhang Qinghua away immediately.
Well, she's not one to suffer a loss, and she won't let Li Qinghua make fun of her.
Once the two people were out of sight, Song Lili said to Zhang Qinghua, "If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. I'll just wander around by myself; I don't need you to come with me."
Zhang Qinghua didn't move, but simply said, "It's nothing."
Song Lili didn't know whether his "I'm fine" meant he had nothing to do, or that he was just keeping her company.
Regardless of which one it is, Zhang Qinghua has already said it's fine, so Song Lili shrugged and said, "Then let's go along with it."
The two of them wandered around for a while, and soon their baskets were full.
Song Lili thought that since she was strong, she might as well find more since she was already up here.
While brushing the dirt off his clothes, he suddenly bumped into something hard and remembered that he still had two pieces of candy in his pocket, which Song Yongren had bought for him.
But it's been more than ten days already, and I don't know if it's safe to eat now?
When I took it out, I saw that the candy was covered with small particles of some unknown substance, and there was a black layer on top of it.
Song Lili chuckled and offered Zhang Qinghua a piece of candy, saying, "Here's some candy for you!" She wondered if he would find it offensive.
To be honest, even Song Lili herself dislikes it!
Zhang Qinghua glanced at Song Lili's obviously malicious smile, took the food, blew on it, and put it directly into his mouth.
Song Lili stared at Zhang Qinghua with her mouth agape. "This... doesn't it seem dirty? Aren't you afraid of getting sick from eating it?"
But Zhang Qinghua ate it anyway.
Song Lili, having made a fool of herself, smiled, blew on the candy, and ate the other piece.
Zhang Qinghua ate it all, so what is she afraid of? Besides, it's not like she hasn't eaten candy with added ingredients when she was a child.
After her mouth was filled with a sweet taste, Song Lili realized that this was still candy and didn't have any other flavor.
Once again, she unwittingly gave Zhang Qinghua food that everyone considered valuable, without ever realizing it herself.
Zhang Qinghua helped Song Lili find a tall basket and carried it to the foot of the mountain in the Fifth Brigade, where there were more people, before handing it to Song Lili.
If others see this, they'll gossip about Song Lili.
Watching Song Lili leave, Zhang Qinghua turned back to the brigade, but he seemed to smack his lips.
Is it because it's savoring the taste of the candy?
After that, things were fine, and Song Lili didn't go out again.
She went to the back plot of land and found that the cabbages had already grown, about five or six centimeters tall, growing close together, a lush green patch.
The leaves look a bit wilted and not very vibrant!
After dark, Song Lili sprinkled the wood ash she had taken out of the stove and let it cool overnight onto the bok choy, and then watered it.
She said to Song Fang, who was following her, "In a few days, we'll be able to eat fresh bok choy." Just thinking about the fresh and tender taste of bok choy made her mouth water.
Song Fang was also very happy and thought it was amazing!
While other families are still eating the old cabbages they picked earlier, her family can eat fresh baby cabbages. How could she not be happy?
As for Song Yongren and Song Jianshe, they were even happier. Seeing that the cabbage had actually grown, they felt at ease and even more joyful.
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