Chapter 98 Expressing Feelings
Although Zheng Jing looked pitiful, Yun Qiao couldn't help but laugh: "How about you pick it up and wash it somewhere? It should still be edible."
"No." Zheng Jing said with a sad face: "I can't eat it."
"Let's buy another one." A male voice with a smile suddenly came from the side.
Yun Qiao turned around and saw Lu Xun and Lin Tao walking towards him together.
It was Lin Tao who spoke. He smiled and said to Zheng Yujing, "Yujing Yuzhi, I'll treat you to a meal this time."
Zheng Jing was still a little depressed: "Forget it, I won't eat it. I guess I have a bad relationship with candied haws these days."
Lin Tao didn't listen and walked straight to the old man where Yun Qiao and the others had just bought candied haws. He spent ten cents to buy three strings of candied haws.
The old man also witnessed the scene of Zheng Jing's candied haws falling to the ground. Seeing that they knew each other, he directly quoted Lin Tao the price of three strings for one cent.
"㫧静䀲志, this is for you."
Lin Tao picked out the reddest and best-looking of the three candied haws and handed it to Zheng Jing. He kept one of the remaining two for himself and gave one to Lu Xun.
The candied haws had already been bought and handed to her. Zheng Jing could only take it and say, "Thank you, Lin Taozhi."
"No thanks, my dear. I like to treat you to food." Lin Tao said with a smile, showing his intentions very obviously.
Zheng Jing noticed it and was a little flustered, so she didn't respond. Instead, she lowered her eyes to avoid his burning gaze.
Lin Tao's eyes dimmed for a moment, but a bright smile soon broke out on his face again: "Let's find a place to finish eating the candied haws before we go shopping. Otherwise, it would be quite dangerous to eat them on bamboo sticks while walking on the road."
Everyone nodded, walked forward half a block, saw the supply and marketing cooperative, and went in.
The supply and marketing cooperative was crowded, so luckily they were just looking for a place to eat. After entering, they found a corner with few people and stood there, not wanting to squeeze with others.
The temperature indoors is much warmer than outside, and I can slowly chew the candied haws.
Lin Tao frequently approached Zheng Yujing to talk, but Zheng Yujing seemed distracted and only responded incoherently.
Yun Qiao has always been very quiet and doesn't take the initiative to talk.
Wang Ru was very interested in Lin Tao because Lin Tao was from the company's transport team, could ride a horse very well, and could even do somersaults on horseback.
Wang Ru loves horses and wants to learn how to ride but has never found an opportunity.
In the end, the two of them had the most lively conversation.
Wang Ru asked Lin Tao, "Lin Qizhi, why didn't your father go home to visit his family?"
Lin Tao smiled and said, "You just arrived, so you don't know. I don't go home during the Spring Festival. I usually go home to visit my relatives in the spring or autumn."
"Is that so?" Wang Ru asked curiously, "Is there any reason?"
Lin Tao said, "My father is a seaman. He often sails out to sea, only coming home once every half an hour. If I choose to go home for Spring Festival, we won't see each other for a whole hour."
"Oh." Wang Ru nodded: "So that's how it is."
While talking, Lin Tao kept glancing at Zheng Jing secretly. Seeing that Zheng Jing was still concentrating on chewing the candied haws and didn't react at all, he felt a little disappointed.
Wang Ru also noticed Lin Tao's look and felt a little strange, so she asked Zheng Jing, "Jing, why are you so quiet all day? It's a bit unlike you."
Zheng Jing shook her head. "Nothing. My cheeks are sore from chewing the candied haws. I don't feel like talking."
Wang Ru didn't think much about it. Her mind and eyes were full of "horses". She also wanted to get close to Lin Tao and let her touch the reins when they went back.
However, Lin Tao could see that Zheng Jing was not telling the truth.
He was also sensible and knew that he had just been too reckless and that Zheng Jing had discovered his true intentions. Zheng Jing currently had no feelings for him between men and women, so she suddenly began to distance herself from him.
Staying at this time would only cause resistance from Zheng Jing, which would do more harm than good, so she just found an excuse and took Lu Xun away.
As soon as Lin Tao left, Zheng Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She has been beautiful since she was a child, and has been surrounded by men who courted her many times. But to be honest, although men tried to please her, few of them actually came to her and expressed their feelings.
She can accept men's attentions, playing around a bit, and everyone knows their limits. But when faced with this kind of expression of affection and wanting a response from her, she really doesn't know what to do and can only hide and act like an ostrich.
Yun Qiao naturally noticed the flirting between Lin Tao and Zheng Jing, but matters concerning the relationship between a man and a woman were not something an outsider could interfere with. She acted as if nothing had happened and pretended not to see it.
After eating the candied haws, Yun Qiao and the others rushed into the store and started shopping.
Yun Qiao had prepared a ten-yuan budget for Gao Xiaoping's return gift. With the purchasing power of a late 1960s generation, she could buy a lot of things. The only limitation was that buying things required various coupons, which she rarely had on hand.
Therefore, Yun Qiao gave up the supply and marketing cooperative that required various tickets and chose to buy mountain products picked by the common people on the street.
From the beginning, Yun Qiao had no intention of giving Gao Xiaoping the common gifts given to relatives. After all, Shanghai is a big city, and there are all kinds of rare things in big cities. Instead of giving her some common gifts in Shanghai, she might as well give her some local specialties unique to the Northeast, such as mountain products.
These things are produced in small quantities and are not rare in the Northeast, but they are not found outside Shanhaiguan. Even if they are available, the price is extremely expensive and ordinary people can't afford them at all.
Yun Qiao bought some things like dried black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, and slippery mushrooms. In addition, he also bought some dried hawthorn slices and fried pine nuts.
Originally, Yun Qiao wanted to buy two special sausages from the grocery store and stuff them into the package, but he was afraid that the sausages would not be kept well and would go bad on the way, making the package smell bad, so he gave up.
After buying these things, the ten yuan was almost gone. Yun Qiao took them directly to the post office and divided them into a large and a small portion. The large portion was given to Gao Xiaoping and the small portion was given to Qin Lili. They each wrote a note and put it in the box to avoid any mistakes.
After filling in the information, the package was sent out along with the reply letter Yun Qiao had written in advance.
Leaving the crowded post office hall, Yun Qiao wrapped her scarf tightly and was about to leave, but when she turned around, she found a pile of black, bumpy, lumpy things like dirt on the stall next to her.
She was stunned for a moment, and it took her a long time to react.
"Is this... black truffle?"
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