Chapter 54 Rice Cake
Back in the dormitory, Tao Nanfeng's mouth corners unconsciously raised.
The room was still the same room, the curtains were still the same curtains, and there were three sets of bedding on the long bunk bed. It was exactly the same as when I left.
But in her eyes, everything was different.
Everything seems to be inlaid with a golden edge, dazzlingly beautiful. Even the familiar green mountains and trees outside the window become so beautiful that people really want to sing a song.
Tao Nanfeng actually sang it.
"White clouds float in the blue sky, and horses gallop under the white clouds..."
She couldn't find the tune when singing, but she hummed a tune, and her right hand fingers brushed across the table, and her slender white fingertips seemed to be dancing.
Tao Nanfeng like this made Li Huilan, who had just returned from get off work, feel something was wrong.
She pulled Ye Qin aside, pointed at Tao Nanfeng who was immersed in sweetness and said, "Look at this girl Nanfeng, isn't there something wrong with her? I wonder if she has fallen in love with someone since she returned to Jiangcheng?"
Ye Qin nodded and agreed: "It's possible! When I went to the provincial capital for a meeting before the New Year, it was quite normal, but it was different when I came back."
The two girls looked at each other, and jumped in front of Tao Nanfeng, one on the left and one on the right: "Hey - tell the truth!"
Tao Nanfeng's singing was interrupted, she stopped and looked at her two roommates in confusion.
Li Huilan blinked at her and said, "Are you in love? We are good sisters, you are not allowed to hide it."
Ye Qin also squeezed over: "Yes, don't hide anything, tell us everything."
Tao Nanfeng tilted his head and his face turned red.
Ye Qin's eyes widened, and he pointed at Tao Nanfeng: "It's over, you're blushing! You must have talked about it!"
It was the first time that Li Huilan saw Tao Nanfeng in such a little girl's state, and she was also very surprised: "Who is it? Tell us quickly, do we know him?"
Which boy dares to confess to Tao Nanfeng? Everyone is familiar with these educated youth in Jiangcheng, and Tao Nanfeng has never shown any special care to anyone. Looking around, the farm workers found almost no one who was worthy of Tao Nanfeng.
The more they thought about it, the more curious they became. Li Huilan and Ye Qin came up to Tao Nanfeng and asked, "Who is it?"
Tao Nanfeng shook his head. Xiangbei's name was rolling on the tip of his tongue, but he just couldn't say it. Xiangbei... He is an authoritative leader in the eyes of the educated youth in Jiangcheng. Who would think of him?
Li Huilan stamped her feet: "You didn't even tell us, you bad Nanfeng."
Ye Qin rolled his eyes and said, "Don't we know each other? Is he your classmate in Jiangcheng, or childhood friend? Or is he the one your dad introduced to you when you went back this time?"
Tao Nanfeng still smiled without saying anything.
Li Huilan and Ye Qin were so angry that they walked around in circles in the room, but Tao Nanfeng kept her mouth shut. If she refused to speak, no matter who tried to coax her, it would be useless.
The name was on the tip of his tongue, with a hint of sweetness, but Tao Nanfeng didn't want to share this happiness with others.
On the other hand, I walked north, one step deep and one step shallow, and returned home in a daze, feeling a little absent-minded.
Liang Yinzhen saw that her son's eyes were wide open, his face was slightly red, but he was smiling. She was confused and walked up to her son, stroked his forehead, and said in confusion: "You don't have a fever."
Xiang Yongfu squatted under the eaves and smoked his pipe, enjoying the sound very much.
He squinted his eyes without even looking at Xiangbei, and only said one sentence: "Grown up~"
Liang Yinzhen understood immediately and asked Xiangbei in surprise: "Which girl is it?"
Xiangbei did not answer his mother's words. He dragged a bamboo chair with a backrest from the house and placed it behind his father: "Dad, sit down."
Xiang Yongfu shook his head: "It's better to squat. I'm used to it."
Seeing that his father didn't sit down, Xiangbei sat down himself. A smell of cigarette smoke wafted over, and the familiar scent gradually calmed him down.
"She's a good girl."
When Liang Yinzhen heard her son's words, she felt relieved and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
My son is almost 27 years old. It’s too late if he doesn’t get married now. Now that he has someone in his heart, it seems that he is not too eager to do anything. That's good.
Liang Yinzhen asked him tentatively: "Years ago, you asked me to make cloth shoes. Was the size I brought back made for that girl?"
Xiangbei nodded and said, "Yes." He walked with Tao Nanfeng all the way. When he heard her complain that leather shoes would be a bit painful after walking for a long time, he thought of giving her a pair of cotton shoes. He didn't know how to do it, so he had to ask his mother for help.
He secretly measured Tao Nanfeng's shoe size and asked his mother to help make a pair for him.
Liang Yinzhen said happily, "I have the shoe size, I will make two pairs of cloth shoes for her later. Why don't you give me her body measurements, I will make some clothes for her. Girls, what girl doesn't like new clothes?"
In Liang Yinzhen's opinion, since this is the girl her son likes, he must love her well.
Xiangbei smiled slightly: "No hurry, she is shy and dare not give too many things."
There are few people in the family, and Liang Yinzhen has always hoped that Xiangbei would get married early and have more children to make this lonely home more lively.
Liang Yinzhen, who had been waiting for so many years to find her daughter-in-law, could no longer sit still. She walked into the kitchen and started to get busy: "I'm going to steam a pot of red date and walnut rice cakes. You can bring them to me. Girls need to eat more nutrition. These cakes are good for them."
Xiangbei responded, leaned back in his chair, looked up at the strings of red peppers under the eaves, and smelled the aroma of firewood from the farm. He thought to himself, "I wonder if Nanfeng will like my home."
At night, the night was dark.
Xiangbei went to the educated youth point with a bowl of steamed cake in his arms.
It was cold and I met no one on the road. The road is dark at night, but my heart is burning hot towards the north.
When he saw the tiled roof of the educated youth site from afar, Xiangbei's mouth corners curled up.
Walking to the center of the floor, looking at the closed door of the girls' dormitory, Xiangbei stopped, took out the bowl of red date and walnut rice cake that was kept with body temperature, and took a deep breath.
"Knock knock knock." There was a polite knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Li Huilan came over and opened the door, smiling broadly, "Director Xiang, why are you here? Is there any urgent notice?"
Tao Nanfeng leaned over from the table, saw Xiang Bei's shining eyes, and smiled.
Xiangbei looked over Li Huilan's shoulder with a fiery gaze at Tao Nanfeng who was slowly walking towards him, and handed over the large coarse porcelain bowl in his hand.
"This is steamed rice cake. I'll give it to you to try."
Li Huilan took it and was somewhat flattered: "How can I be so embarrassed?"
Tao Nanfeng approached with a smile on her face, which looked even more beautiful under the dim light. Xiangbei tried to calm down and said, "It's nothing, just a snack made by the country folk."
After saying that, he turned and left.
After taking a few steps, he couldn't help it after all, so he stopped and turned around to take a look. Tao Nanfeng was standing next to Li Huilan and mouthed to him, "Thank you."
Xiangbei lowered his head and smiled, and his rapidly beating heart finally calmed down.
After walking far to the north, Li Huilan put the glutinous rice cake on the table and asked everyone to come and eat. Tao Nanfeng picked up a small square cake and it felt warm and soft to the touch.
Ye Qin ate the cake in one gulp, squinting his eyes and praising it: "Wow, the rice cake is freshly steamed, soft and fragrant, with red dates and walnuts, so delicious!"
Li Huilan asked: "What do we want the director to do? Why did he suddenly come to give me a bowl of rice cake? I feel a little uneasy..."
Ye Qin was a little nervous after hearing what she said: "Well, it's not that we did something wrong, so we should appease them first and then criticize them harshly tomorrow?"
Tao Nanfeng knew it very well, but she just didn't say it.
She put the rice cake into her mouth. The aroma of red dates and walnuts mixed into a sweet flavor, which made her seem to be surrounded by sweet pink bubbles.
Xiangbei said he loved her and would always be with her, which was great.
Ye Qin's crisp voice rang out from the side: "Never mind, let's eat first! I haven't had such delicious rice cakes in a long time."
Li Huilan also started eating the rice cakes. While eating, she asked in confusion: "Where did Director Xiang get these rice cakes from? From the canteen at the headquarters? It's so cold, and they're not even cold yet."
Ye Qin was a heartless man, with rice cake still in his mouth, speaking incoherently: "No matter where it came from, since it was given to us, we will eat it.
Hehe, the line I am standing in is so accurate, it’s great that Xiangbei is the leader on the spot. Ever since Director Xiang took office, you can see that our farm is becoming more and more prosperous, the mining department is getting rich, and Chen Zhilu doesn't even dare to tell others how much money he made last year.
Think about how difficult our lives were in the past when those two bad guys Jiao Liang and Luo Xuan were leaders. It's only been less than three years? Why does it feel like I’ve been on the farm for so long? ”
Li Huilan nodded in agreement, the past events coming to her mind vividly.
"Isn't it? We just arrived at the farm and didn't even have hot meals or hot water. We were hungry all night. When we reported in the morning, Luo Xuan used some intimidating tactics to assign us to the pig farm and Tao Nanfeng and the others to the road construction team. Wei Min even wanted to fight with them, but was stopped by Qiao Yadong.
I have never raised pigs before. When I first arrived at the pig farm, I almost fainted from the smell of pig manure. Later, heavy rain washed away the thatched house, and we slept on the desks in the office...Those days were worse than death. ”
After recalling the bitter past, Li Huilan changed the subject and thought that she should at least say a few good words about Xiangbei.
"I remember the first hot meal I had after arriving at the farm. It was cooked in an iron pot sent from Xiangbei. It was so delicious. Wow, I still remember it to this day.
Later, Nanfeng helped us build a brick and tile house, and Xiangbei helped us defeat Jiao Liang and Luo Xuan. Now we live comfortably, eat well, and our lives are getting better and better. ”
Li Huilan and Ye Qin shouted at the same time: "So, thank you Xiangbei, thank you Nanfeng!"
After saying that, the two girls hugged Tao Nanfeng, started tickling her, and laughed.
"No matter how good Xiangbei is, he is not as lovely as our Nanfeng. Nanfeng, tell us honestly, who are you dating? How old are you? What education have you received? Is he good-looking? What do his parents do? Are they sincere to you?"
Tao Nanfeng was hugged by his good friend and started giggling because of the tickle.
Laughing and hiding, the three of them chased and played in the house, their laughter making this winter no longer cold.
When things quieted down, Tao Nanfeng smiled and said softly, "He, he is a little older than me, he was a soldier, his parents are farmers, he looks quite majestic, and he is very good to me... to me."
Li Huilan and Ye Qin looked at each other when they heard this.
Li Huilan suddenly looked at the empty bowl on the table: "Oh my god! This rice cake is for you!"
Ye Qin screamed and hugged Tao Nanfeng tightly again: "The south wind blows north, I know it! I know it!"
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