Chapter 85: Farewell to the old and welcome to the new Hello 1977.
At the party that day, Ye Tan was sharpened by a man who was still as sharp as a knife. He spent most of the night sharpening a knife on her body. The sharp blade made Ye Tan tremble all over and almost tore the bed sheets.
The next day, she was too embarrassed to face Lin Qiuyun after waking up. Last night, Gu Zhao had forced her to scream several times. What if Lin Qiuyun heard her...
Ye Tan’s face turned hot just thinking about it.
Gu Zhao, on the other hand, looked as if nothing had happened and was doing what he was doing. Lin Qiuyun also seemed to know nothing and went to work after dinner.
Their sugar factory still had to wait two days for the Spring Festival holiday. Without Lin Qiuyun around, Ye Tan finally felt much more at ease.
She was just too sore to move, and after hesitating for a while she went back to her room and took another nap. When she woke up, the sunlight was just pouring in through the curtains. She didn't want to get up, so she leaned against the head of the bed and took out a book to read for a while.
No one knew where Gu Zhao had gone, but when he came back he brought a lot of things into the house.
Ye Tan heard the noise and went over to take a look, and found that they were all New Year's goods.
"Did you go to the supply and marketing cooperative?" Ye Tan asked.
Gu Zhao came in carrying a box of red dates and said to Ye Tan, "No, these are the New Year gifts from the sugar factory for our mother. I went to bring them back. Take a look and keep any you like. If you don't like them, you can use them when visiting relatives after the New Year."
After saying that, Gu Zhao went out again, this time bringing in a barrel of oil.
Ye Tan counted them and found three full boxes of dry goods, three large bags of brown sugar, rock sugar and candy, a bag of local eggs, a bucket of oil, and fruits and cakes. I heard there were also various coupons. The sugar factory’s benefits were really good. In this way, the family didn’t have to buy New Year’s goods at all.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were fewer things to do during the few days before the New Year, Gu Zhao took Ye Tan to meet some close friends and also met the person who helped Ye Yanlin.
The other person was about the same age as Gu Zhao, with a slightly dark complexion and obvious laugh lines at the corners of his eyes. He was a sunny man who loved to smile. The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and when they met, they punched each other on the shoulders to show their enthusiasm.
After the two exchanged greetings, Gu Zhao took Ye Tan's hand and introduced: "This is my wife Ye Tan, as you know, and this is Li Fan, my good brother."
After listening to Gu Zhao's introduction, Ye Tan smiled at Li Fan and said, "Hello, I've heard Gu Zhao mention you a long time ago, but I never had the chance to meet you. I really appreciate your help with my brother's matter last time. Now I finally have the chance to say thank you."
Li Fan immediately said that this was a trivial matter: "Gu Zhao and I are brothers for life and death. I don't need your thanks for this small favor. If there is anything I can help with in the future, please feel free to ask. Don't hesitate."
After Li Fan finished speaking, a tall woman came over from outside. When she came up and saw Li Fan holding her hand, Ye Tan knew that this late-coming beauty should be Li Fan's wife.
Sure enough, the next moment Li Fan introduced this person as his lover, Ji Fanni.
Ji Fanni is a few years older than Ye Tan. She is tall and looks to be over 1.7 meters tall.
Later, when the two were chatting, Ye Tan heard that she was a police officer. Ye Tan immediately showed respect. Looking at the person in front of him with neat ear-length hair, he felt a sense of royal sister due to her profession.
For the rest of the time, Ye Tan was staring at other people's wives with starry eyes, but ignored her own husband next to her.
On the way back, Ye Tan was still saying that Ji Fanni would look even more handsome in uniform.
When it was time to rest at night, no one knew what bad tricks Gu Zhao had come up with. Ye Tan made the bed and turned around to see the man who went in in a vest and shorts coming out in a military uniform.
The military cap on his head was worn neatly, the collar was buttoned tightly, and his long legs were slender and strong under his black trousers. Facing his wife who was in dishevel on the bed, he still had a stern expression.
Ye Tan swallowed, lowered his head, and couldn't help but raise his hand to button his collar. He always felt that this was a bit offensive.
Just as I buttoned it up, I heard the man's clear voice say, "You didn't want to see me wearing the uniform, so I'll put it on for you to see. Why are you hiding?"
Ye Tan took a glance. It was not that she wanted to hide, but she was afraid that if she looked at her any longer she would break the rules, which would be too embarrassing.
She was used to eating the coarse grains that Gu Zhao gave her, so she couldn't bear the sudden change of fine grains. Her body and mind were honest. She wanted to push the man in military uniform down and see his out-of-control body under the uniform.
The first time after marriage, she was moved before Gu Zhao even touched her.
Gu Zhao looked at the little woman who was still lowering her head, walked to the bed, bent down and reached out to lift her chin, and his dark eyes met the woman's charming face with rippling spring waves.
Gu Zhao's breath hitched, and after a while he suddenly pursed his lips and laughed hoarsely: "Do you like it that much?"
Ye Tan's long eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, and her little thoughts were seen through. She wanted to avoid the sight, but the fingers on her chin were so strong that she couldn't avoid them. She simply gave up struggling, and her charming eyes filled with spring looked straight into his dark eyes, and found that this man was not much better than herself.
Ye Tan's heart moved, and her slender white fingers climbed up his rough big hand. Under Gu Zhao's gaze, she tilted her head and licked the back of his hand with her tongue.
Gu Zhao's steady breathing became disordered, and a fierce electric current instantly slid from the back of his hand throughout his body. His dark eyes ignited with flames, carrying a burning heat that wanted to burn the seductive demon to ashes.
Gu Zhao is a man of action, which can be seen from every time the two of them get along. But this time, he was wearing tightly wrapped clothes, without even unbuttoning the collar button. He held Ye Tan under him and teased her all over. Ye Tan felt that she was almost dehydrated, so he began to take off his clothes slowly, and then there was another round of pleasant torture.
When everything finally calmed down, Ye Tan's throat was dry and hoarse, and he drank three glasses of water before he felt better.
In the second half of the night, Ye Tan dreamed that a long thorn pierced her body, tormenting her to death. When she woke up, she found that she was really being stabbed.
Seeing her wake up, Gu Zhao instantly exerted force, and all the air in Ye Tan's chest, who had not yet recovered from her dream, was knocked away by him.
Her delicate fingertips pinched the muscular arm, her misty eyes overflowed with tears, and she said aggrievedly: "You, you don't get tired?"
Gu Zhao immersed himself in plundering the soft and sweet fragrance, and took the time to answer her: "You don't have to train, why are you tired?"
So you're taking out all your energy on her?
Having a husband with extraordinary physical strength is an extreme enjoyment, but sometimes I feel like crying, like now.
Unbearable happiness is also a kind of pain: "I can't do it anymore... I'm so tired."
Gu Zhao took her hands and pressed them on her head, kissed her on the lips, and soothed her softly: "Anyway, there is nothing to do at home recently, you can sleep as much as you want during the day."
And then he drags you to exercise hard at night?
"Asshole, are you trying to tire me to death?"
Gu Zhao chuckled and said mischievously, "I will only hurt you to death."
The Spring Festival holiday allowed Gu Zhao to liberate some aspects of his nature. If he had not been concerned about Ms. Lin Qiuyun still being at home, he would have tormented Ye Tan day and night. Fortunately, men still have some dignity and dare not go too far during the day.
The couple played and quarreled without any shame, and before they knew it, the Spring Festival was just around the corner.
From time to time outside, there could be heard the crackling sound of children setting off firecrackers and the laughter of playing and laughing. Ye Tan felt the New Year atmosphere that is almost disappearing in today's society here.
"Do you want to set off fireworks?" Gu Zhao came over and asked.
Ye Tan turned his gaze from the teenagers playing with firecrackers at the gate and saw that Gu Zhao was also holding a string of small firecrackers in his hand.
Ye Tan had never played this before, nor did he have the courage, but Gu Zhao looked like a veteran and must have played it many times before.
"Don't be afraid, I'll take you with me." Gu Zhao hugged Ye Tan from behind, holding her hand with one hand and lighting the cigarette wick with the cigarette butt in his hand.
Ye Tan was a little nervous and missed the target several times.
Gu Zhao whispered, "Last night it was quite accurate. It hit the bottom right away."
Ye Tan, who was concentrating on her studies, was frightened by the dirty talk and her hand trembled, accidentally lighting a fire. She didn't care about Gu Zhao's shameless words, her heart was in her throat, and the next moment Gu Zhao hugged her and ran five or six meters away in the blink of an eye.
Then there was a "bang!" and the cannon exploded.
Gu Zhao smiled: "Xiao Tan is awesome."
Ye Tan suddenly remembered that Gu Zhao had praised her like this last night and told her to hold tight... Her face immediately turned red and she turned around and glared at Gu Zhao: "Shameless."
Gu Zhao pretended to be confused and said with a smile, "Why are you still cursing?"
Ye Tan: "You are shameless and have no shame."
Gu Zhao hugged her tightly, teased her with his fingertips, and said in a low voice: "Besides, I really want to do something shameless."
Ye Tan's face flushed red with shame, and she held down his naughty hand: "Stop messing around, aren't we setting off fireworks? Do you still want to play?"
The little fish didn't bite the hook, Gu Zhao sighed in disappointment, holding the firecracker: "Play and kiss."
Ye Tan gave her a kiss.
With the sound of "bang bang bang", when Lin Qiuyun came back, the two had already finished playing with a string of firecrackers in the yard.
Lin Qiuyun took off the scarf from her neck and saw the two adults imitating the children playing with firecrackers. She smiled and said, "You two are alive and well, but you're still playing with this. Gu Zhao, don't hurt Xiao Tan."
Gu Zhao: "Don't worry, Mom. Even if I get hurt, I won't hurt your daughter-in-law." As he spoke, the last firecracker was lit, and Gu Zhao pulled Ye Tan to run outside of Lin Qiuyun.
After hearing the sound of "bang", Ye Tan released his hands that were covering his ears.
Ye Tan rubbed his hands, looked at Lin Qiuyun and said with an embarrassed smile: "Mom, is it cold outside?"
Lin Qiuyun: "It's okay, but the river is frozen. I saw some people skating on it." Thinking of Gu Zhao taking Ye Tan everywhere recently, she reminded him: "Don't take Xiao Tan there. A child fell into an ice hole last year."
Ye Tan heard this and said, "I know, Mom. We won't go."
Just as they finished talking, they heard in the afternoon that someone was breaking ice in the river to catch fish. The two people who had nothing to do sneaked over to take a look and saw Ye Yanlin there, squatting by the ice hole and sticking his head into the water.
Ye Tan frowned as he watched, wondering what would happen if he fell down standing so close to him. So he waved and called out to him, "Brother, brother, come up."
Ye Yanlin was seeing a fish bubbling and was about to roll up his sleeves in excitement when he heard his little sister's voice. He looked around and soon saw his little sister wrapped up tightly on the shore. It was only when he saw Gu Zhao next to her that Ye Yanlin realized it was Ye Tan.
Seeing him hesitate, Ye Tan urged him, "Come up quickly, or I'll tell Dad when we get home and have him beat you up."
Ye Yanlin immediately stopped envying the fish in front of him. He stood up and carefully stepped onto the ice to get ashore. When he came in front of the two people, he smiled and said, "I'm just taking a look."
Ye Tan: "Look, why are you standing so close? Who will pull you out if you fall in?"
Ye Yanlin said confidently: "How could I fall? I was very careful."
Ye Tan rolled his eyes at him: "Most people who drown are as confident as you at the beginning."
Ye Yanlin stopped talking. Seeing that he had calmed down, Ye Tan turned to look at the river.
"Will the fish jump out on its own?"
Gu Zhao: "Not necessarily. The river has only been frozen for a short time, so the fish haven't had enough time to swim yet, but maybe they are anxious."
Just as he said this, a fish with its tail swung jumped out of the hole in the ice and fell onto the ice next to it.
Ye Tan exclaimed: "He's really in a hurry to reincarnate."
The fish that jumped out was caught by the people waiting on the side and put into the bucket. After the first one, another one jumped out after a while, seeking death.
After filling half a bucket continuously, the man carried the bucket home with a smile on his face. Then Bingyan was surrounded by people, and everyone took a fish home.
Ye Yanlin was jealous and said to Ye Tan, "The fish are in a hurry this year. Little sister, since everyone is fine, I will also pick up two and go home to make soup for your sister-in-law."
Ye Tan disagreed. He just wanted to take a look and there was no need to put himself in danger for a fish.
But Ye Yanlin wanted to go. Looking at the fish that he missed, he felt so heartbroken.
Gu Zhao moved at this time: "I'll go take a look."
Ye Tan didn't want Ye Yanlin to go, and of course didn't want Gu Zhao to go either, so he turned around and grabbed him: "Don't go, let's go home. If you want to eat fish, go buy one."
Gu Zhao: "I went to see how thick the ice was. If it reached a certain thickness, people would be fine if they walked on it."
Ye Tan thought that Gu Zhao knew what was going on, unlike Ye Yanlin who was a bit reckless, so he let go of his hand: "Then be careful."
Gu Zhao responded, turned around and walked down the stairs. When he reached the river, he squatted down and estimated the thickness of the ice. After a while, Gu Zhao came back and asked Ye Tan to wait for a moment while he went to borrow something.
Ye Tan didn't know what he was planning to do. When the person came back and saw the shovel and hammer in his hand, he realized that he was planning to dig a new hole not far from the shore, and the location he chose was a bit far from the previous hole.
The ice at the location chosen by Gu Zhao was relatively thick. He was very strong and it took him a long time to chisel it. During this time, Ye Yanlin also went to help. After a lot of hard work, the two of them finally made the hole in the ice. I don’t know how Gu Zhao chose the location, but after he chiseled it, fish jumped out one after another soon after.
Ye Tan was curious, so Gu Zhao explained, "The water is deep here, so there are usually more fish."
Ye Yanlin smiled broadly as he watched the fish being delivered to his door. He didn't feel any pain at having missed the fish just now. He looked at Gu Zhao with satisfaction. This brother-in-law was not bad.
But they had the fish but no bucket, so Gu Zhao went to the nearby houses and borrowed two buckets in exchange for a fish. He gave one to Ye Yanlin to take home and carried the other himself.
They didn't want to wait any longer, as they saw that the bucket was almost full.
At home, Lin Qiuyun was cutting bacon to prepare dinner. She saw the two men go out empty-handed and come back with a bucket of fish. What could she not understand? They had just promised this in the morning and went to the river in the afternoon.
But the people had returned with the fish, and seeing that their clothes were not wet, they thought there should be no accident, so they didn't know what to say. Besides, their daughter-in-law smiled so sweetly, so in the end Lin Qiuyun didn't care and told Gu Zhao to go to the well to kill the fish and make fish soup in the evening.
In the cold winter, after drinking a bowl of hot and fragrant fish soup with chopped green onions, Ye Tan closed his eyes comfortably. The fish soup was so delicious.
After going to bed at night, Ye Tan still felt warm in his stomach.
Gu Zhao came over and held her feet between his legs. Ye Tan's hands and feet were cold in winter, so Gu Zhao developed the habit of warming her feet before going to bed.
Ye Tan sighed comfortably: "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, we have to stay up all night, let's have a good rest tonight and get enough sleep, and you are not allowed to bother me anymore."
Gu Zhao didn't object. After making too much noise before, it would be better to take a break tonight.
The next day, New Year's Eve, Lin Qiuyun started mixing the stuffing and making dumplings in the morning. Ye Tan was very dexterous at hand-knitting sweaters and could make dumplings quickly. Before, when they were on the island, Gu Zhao would always make dumplings for her before going out to sea. Ye Tan learned how to do it after watching a few times. From then on, Gu Zhao only needed to prepare the stuffing, and she would make the dumplings herself.
Lin Qiuyun rolled the dough, while Gu Zhao and Ye Tan sat together to wrap it. After each round of wrapping, they would compare whose wrapper looked better.
The dumplings made by Gu Zhao were neat and regular, but those made by Ye Tan were full of variety, including crescent-shaped, ingot-shaped, wheat-ear-shaped, and triangular-shaped flowers, which made Lin Qiuyun smile.
"Xiao Tan's dumplings are so beautiful, where did you learn this?"
Ye Tan did not take any credit for the work and said that he learned it from a sister-in-law on the island.
Gu Zhao thought his wife was being modest, because after thinking about it, he couldn't remember which sister-in-law was so good at making dumplings.
If there really was one, he would have been poached by the cafeteria long ago.
We had hot pork and cabbage dumplings for lunch, and in the afternoon, we helped Lin Qiuyun clean yesterday's fish, apply salt on it and marinate it. Ye Tan was responsible for adding salt.
It was cold, and the fish froze to death if left outside overnight.
After cleaning up, the family went to the kitchen together to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.
Gu Zhao went into the kitchen and stewed a pot of pickled fish, spicy chicken, braised pork, pork slices with mushrooms, and cabbage with chicken sauce.
Ye Tan, who was full of snacks, was not hungry anymore, but he became greedy when he smelled the food.
The local New Year’s Eve dinner starts after the New Year’s firecrackers are set off. Ye Tan stayed up until the early morning and was awakened by the rumbling sound of firecrackers outside.
I saw Gu Zhao also took out firecrackers and started setting them off in the yard.
After a burst of crackling sounds, Lin Qiuyun called Ye Tan to go to the kitchen to serve the meal. At this time, feudal superstitions were being combated and no one had the procedure of worshipping gods. After Lin Qiuyun sat down, he muttered something in a low voice.
Then Ye Tan saw him put a set of empty bowls and chopsticks on the table. Ye Tan didn't understand at first, but looking at Gu Zhao's expression, he felt that he was used to it. After a while, he realized that this set of bowls and chopsticks should be for his father.
Lin Qiuyun also took out a bottle of rice wine. Gu Zhao opened it and poured some into the bowl, and then poured some for everyone.
Lin Qiuyun said, "This year, Xiao Tan is celebrating Chinese New Year with us for the first time. It's a happy occasion to have a new baby. I hope our family will live in harmony, health and safety in the future."
Lin Qiuyun simply said a few words of New Year's greetings, and they drank a glass of rice wine together, and signaled everyone to pick up their chopsticks and eat.
Gu Zhao picked up a piece of fish for Lin Qiuyun and a chicken wing for Ye Tan, both of which were their favorites.
Ye Tan smiled at him and also picked up a piece of cabbage with chicken sauce for him: "Eat more vegetables."
Gu Zhao knew this would happen. Ye Tan's favorite thing to do was to force him, a carnivore, to eat vegetables. Gu Zhao ate what Ye Tan picked up, and then picked up another piece of food with chopsticks and continued eating under Ye Tan's gaze.
Lin Qiuyun, who was sitting opposite him, saw this and said with surprise, "Not bad, he's starting to eat vegetables now. He really has become more sensible after getting married."
Gu Zhao...
The three of them had dinner. It was still dark outside. Ye Tan stretched and didn't feel sleepy. Gu Zhao sat down and pinched his eyebrows to refresh himself.
Lin Qiuyun couldn't stand it anymore, so she simply waved her hand and told them to go back to their rooms and sleep. She stood up and said, "Go back to sleep, I'm tired too. No one will come to our house to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow, so there's no need to get up early."
Upon hearing this, Ye Tan stood up, greeted her mother-in-law, and walked towards the room.
Gu Zhao followed him in.
Really sleepy, Ye Tan climbed onto the bed, said Happy New Year to Gu Zhao, and closed his eyes.
Gu Zhao went over and lay down next to her, and whispered, "Happy New Year, my wife."
Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hello 1977.
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