Chapter 158: The Three-Year Wedding Anniversary
In the wooden basin was nothing else but a bunch of flowers made by hand from ginkgo and red maple leaves, nine in total, full and dazzling, wrapped in two sheets of newspaper.
What’s more important is that in the center of the flower there is a golden ring inlaid with a red agate gem.
"Like it, right? I didn't buy you a ring when we got married, so I have to buy one for you now." Lin Heng walked over and said with a smile.
Today is their third wedding anniversary. On October 29, 1980, Xiulan came to Hongfeng Village from Lushui County and married him.
He had bought the ring a long time ago, three grams of gold plus an agate gem for a total of 150 yuan, but he had never taken it out.
"I like it!" Xiulan nodded with sobs, and was so moved that tears flowed down her face.
"What are you crying about? Come and let me put it on for you."
Lin Heng wiped her tears with a smile, took her left hand and put the ring on her ring finger.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng with her autumn-water eyes and said in a tender voice, "I also prepared a gift for you, but I thought if you can't remember what day it is today, then I won't give it to you."
As she spoke, she took out a small cloth bag from her pocket. When she opened it, there was a handkerchief inside. When she opened the handkerchief, she revealed a shiny silver ring.
This was something she had custom-made with the money she earned when she went to the Baisha Township market last time, and she never told Lin Heng about it.
If Lin Heng couldn't remember this day, she would wait until the next time when she was in a better mood and then give it to him. If he remembered, she would give it to him immediately.
Xiulan grabbed Lin Heng's hand and put the ring on him fiercely: "Now it seems that you have remembered it a long time ago. You have been pretending not to remember it all day. You are so mean."
"Thank you, my wife." Lin Heng pushed his wife against the wall and kissed her fiercely.
"Hmm~"
Xiulan's eyes widened unexpectedly, her cheeks flushed, she looked at Lin Heng, then quickly closed her eyes pretending that she knew nothing, and her body honestly cooperated with Lin Heng.
"call!"
Three minutes later, Xiulan felt that she would suffocate if she continued any longer, and pushed Lin Heng away with a red face.
"That's enough. No more."
Seeing that Lin Heng still wanted to come, she quickly put her hand against his chest. She was afraid that she would lose control of herself if she continued.
Lin Heng grinned: "You want to continue so much? I just want to wipe your tears."
He reached out and wiped the tears from her little face.
Xiulan blushed and said angrily, "If you bully me again, you will sleep on the floor tonight."
"Can you bear with that?" Lin Heng chuckled. Today, he didn't believe that his wife would have the heart to let him sleep on the floor.
"Just smile." Xiulan glared at Lin Heng.
"ah!"
Before she could even go out, Lin Heng pulled her back and bumped into her. Fortunately, there was a soft and huge shock absorber.
"What are you doing?"
Xiulan glared at him fiercely.
"Nothing, just feel the real feeling."
Lin Heng hugged her tightly in his arms, making her feel a little suffocated, but she couldn't help but be intoxicated by Lin Heng's broad and warm chest.
Lin Heng also felt the pulse of his wife's heartbeat and her truly attractive figure.
“Mom and Dad!!”
Xiaoxia walked into the room with a bunch of maple leaf drills and looked at the two people strangely, not understanding what they were doing.
Xiulan's face turned red immediately and she struggled out of Lin Heng's arms in panic.
Lin Heng smiled and said slowly: "Dad is hugging Mom and expressing his love."
"I love Daddy too!" Xiaoxia stretched out her little hand, not understanding the difference between the two kinds of love.
"Daddy loves you too." Lin Heng kissed his daughter. His daughter's little face was also very kissable, second only to his wife's little mouth.
Seeing Lin Heng so calm, Xiulan also regained her composure and glared at him blamingly.
"It's okay. Let her see it. They will come into contact sooner or later." Lin Heng said with a smile. It didn't matter.
I gradually understood these things since I was young, and now that I know the consequences, I won't act recklessly.
If we keep it a secret from her, she will probably study and try it out of curiosity. The education in this area in China has always been too repressive, which is not the right approach.
"I love you too, mom!" Xiaoxia was about to kiss her mother again. She didn't care at all what they were doing just now.
Xiulan had no choice but to let Xiaoxia kiss her. It was really shameful that her mouth was filled with Lin Heng's saliva, and her face was also stained with her daughter's saliva.
But she was really happy. She picked up the flowers in the pot and looked at them again and again, and couldn't let go of the ring on her hand.
"These leaves are already half dry. If they are exposed to the sun they can be preserved permanently. It took me a whole morning to make them." Lin Heng said with a smile. It took him a lot of effort to make this thing.
"So you bought beef in the morning and came over to cook it?" Xiulan blinked her eyes. She was really under the control of this man.
Lin Heng chuckled, everything was self-explanatory.
"It's so abominable. I was sad this morning and thought some people would forget even this." Xiulan glared at him, then looked at her ring and flowers, reluctant to let go.
"I also secretly took some beef. Let's grill it and try it first." Lin Heng said as he walked out holding his baby daughter.
His daughter and wife are so cute, he loves them so much.
He and Xiulan got married in November 1980. In March of the following year, Xiulan became pregnant with Xiaoxia. She gave birth to the baby on the Lantern Festival in 1982. By the Lantern Festival of the next year, Xiaoxia would be two years old.
Bringing his daughter to the yellow mud stove outside the wooden house, Lin Heng took the firewood piled nearby and started to make a fire.
Xiaoxia watched curiously, and when Lin Heng lit the fire, her eyes showed an expression as if she had seen a miracle, and she clapped her hands and jumped up and down, saying, "Great!!"
After jumping twice, she took some firewood and leaves and threw them in, finding it very fun.
"Don't play with fire. It's easy to hurt yourself. If you get burned, it will hurt more than if your mother hit you." Lin Heng looked at her and said.
Hearing this, Xiaoxia immediately covered her buttocks, stepped back a little, and immediately understood the danger of fire.
Lin Heng pulled her further away, then threw some charcoal in, and when the open flame was extinguished, the charcoal had already ignited. He sealed the side of the stove with a stone slab, put a wire mesh on it, and then he could start grilling.
When he entered the house, Xiulan had already cut the beef he had secretly prepared. Seeing him come in, she looked up and asked, "Can I use these bamboo sticks on the table directly?"
"Okay, those are the barbecue skewers we prepared, and they have been washed with water." Lin Heng nodded and came over to help thread the meat.
"You took two or three pounds of beef. Can you finish it?" Xiulan looked at him and asked.
"It's all cut up, we can definitely finish it. If not, I'll go downstairs and ask Li Shiwei and others to come up and help." Lin Heng said with a smile.
I only took lettuce and cilantro as vegetables and didn’t take anything else. There are three people in my family, so we only had meat.
Lin Heng put three pounds of meat into ten skewers and roasted them in the stove all at once.
Xiulan washed her hands and took Xiaoxia to watch. Soon the roast beef was sizzling with oil and giving off an enticing burnt aroma.
"It smells so good!" Xiaoxia sniffed and was about to drool.
"It will be fine in a while." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Don't turn the meat over frequently at the beginning. Wait until one side is set, then brush it with oil and turn the other side.
Because Xiaoxia also wanted to eat it, Lin Heng grilled it for ten minutes before grilling the coriander and lettuce.
"Okay, you can eat now." Lin Heng took out three skewers of grilled meat, two of which were sprinkled with homemade barbecue condiments.
Xiaoxia couldn't eat much, so Lin Heng used a dagger to cut it into small pieces for her, sprinkled some pepper and salt, and fed it to her little by little.
"How is it? My cooking skills are pretty good, right?" Lin Heng asked with a smile as he looked at Xiulan.
"Hmm, it's delicious, fragrant and spicy. The more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes." Xiulan nodded repeatedly, puffing out her cheeks and unable to stop eating.
"Delicious!" Xiaoxia also nodded and praised.
Lin Heng said happily: "The lettuce and coriander are also roasted."
He himself couldn't stop eating. The cattle grazing in the rural mountains had never been fed with feed, and the meat was calf meat. The texture and taste were really great.
It's chewy in the mouth, but not like old pig skin that's hard to chew. Coupled with the taste of homemade barbecue condiments, you can't stop eating it.
The family of three just sat in the maple forest, eating barbecue and looking at the scenery. The scene was like a paradise.
In his previous life, Lin Heng had fantasized about this countless times in his dreams.
"I thought we wouldn't be able to finish it, but we could finish it just by two people." Xiulan said with emotion as she ate a piece of lettuce raw.
"It looks like a lot, but actually there's not much." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Dad, you eat it." Xiaoxia imitated her mother and took a bite of the lettuce. When she found it tasted bad, she stuffed it into Lin Heng's mouth.
"You are really my good baby." Lin Heng pinched her face. Not daring to give it to her mother, she let him eat the leftovers.
But there was nothing he could do, because she was his precious daughter. Not only did he have to eat the lettuce, he also had to hold her.
Lin Heng processed the coriander, and Xiulan processed the remaining leftovers.
The cabin was lit for the first time, and the barbecue, which lasted more than an hour, was over. Apart from Xiaoxia's laughter, there were only the sounds of birds singing and the flowing mountain stream in the distance.
Lin Heng took his wife to the fence to take a look. There were beautiful scenery on both sides of the river.
The clusters of cotinus coggygria on the mountain on the opposite bank emit bright red color, as if they are clusters of flowers dotted among the yellow leaves of various shades all over the mountain, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
On the ridges and slopes of the fields, you can see villagers working, and the water of the Shiban River meanders down from the southwest like a long jade belt.
Xiulan leaned on Lin Heng's shoulder and stared at the scenery in a daze, enjoying the tranquility and beauty. Xiaoxia played with maple leaves in Lin Heng's arms, babbling to herself.
Lin Heng was thinking of building a dam on the Shiban River at the entrance of the village to raise the water level by one or two meters, and the scenery would become more beautiful.
After watching for a while, the wind suddenly became stronger, so the three of them returned to the cabin. The wind in the forest was much weaker.
Xiulan sat on the swing with great interest. When she saw Lin Heng coming over, she quickly said, "Don't push too hard."
"Hold on tight." Lin Heng grinned and pushed hard, causing the swing to swing violently.
But it only swings about 70 or 80 degrees, not as scary as what the men do.
"Too fast, too fast, slow down!!" Xiulan grabbed the rope and was a little scared.
"It's fun, right?" Lin Heng said with a smile.
"You did it on purpose. You're dead. Stop now." Xiulan said fiercely.
However, Lin Heng's swing speed became faster, and Xiulan gradually turned to begging: "Slow down, please."
"Call me brother! And be sweeter." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan glared at Lin Heng and gave in: "Brother, good brother~"
"Good sister!" Lin Heng was satisfied. Xiulan's soft voice really made his heart melt.
"Dad, I want to play too!" Xiaoxia danced with joy as she watched, thinking it was so interesting.
"Okay, okay, I'll take you to play."
Lin Heng held her, sat on another swing next to them, and slowly rocked.
Xiulan didn't get off the swing to deal with Lin Heng, but sat on it and rocked slowly.
The quiet cabin in the woods does have a different atmosphere.
"How about it? Do you want to stay here for a few days? When it snows in winter, the scenery will be very beautiful." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then let's find some time and come and stay here." Xiulan nodded. She also fell in love with this place.
After playing for a while, the three of them went downstairs into the house, packed up their things, locked the door and went back.
Just when I was halfway there, I heard someone at the foot of the mountain say, "I said I couldn't find you guys. Turns out you guys went to play in the mountains."
The person who spoke was Li Shiwei, with a smile on his face.
"What's wrong?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"It's nothing. It's just that it's almost time to get off work and I couldn't find you, so your dad asked me to come and look for you." Li Shiwei said with a smile.
"I'll send my daughter back and come over soon." Lin Heng said.
"I'll go with you." Li Shiwei nodded.
After sending their daughter home and saying something to Xiulan, Lin Heng and Li Shiwei came to the Hongfengshan construction site.
The first row of retaining stones has been built, the land has been leveled, and the mountain road left in the middle has also been dug out.
Now everyone is digging the foundation for the second row of fish pond retaining walls.
Lin Heng and his men spread the lines of the remaining five fish ponds in the first row and marked them with wooden stakes.
We worked for a while and it was almost six o'clock.
"Everyone doesn't need to come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Take a rest for two days and gather again early the day after tomorrow."
Lin Heng announced the news when he took out the work book and asked everyone to sign.
Naturally, no one had any objection to this. It was also nice to have two days to go back and take care of housework.
After the group dispersed, Lin Heng asked Lin Hai if he wanted to go fish frying with them tomorrow.
He came over and smiled, "I don't have time tomorrow, Brother Lin, Tian Yan will look for me."
"Okay, kid." Lin Heng shook his head. This guy was immersed in love and couldn't extricate himself.
Then Lin Hai said shyly: "There is one more thing. I want to take her to a barbecue the day after tomorrow. Do you think it's okay, Brother Lin?"
"No problem, as long as you can call people over, it's your ability." Lin Heng patted him on the shoulder, naturally he had no objection.
"Thank you, brother." Lin Hai nodded gratefully, then slipped away impatiently.
Lin Heng turned around and went back home with his father and others. They all couldn't wait to prepare the equipment needed for frying fish tomorrow.
"Make a few more scoop nets, and also bring ground traps, fishing rods and so on." Li Shiwei said with a smile.
"Of course." Lin Heng nodded. He was going to have a big catch this time. It wouldn't be considered a success if he didn't bring back one or two hundred kilograms of fish.
* * * ps: I had a fever today and wanted to take a leave, but I felt so sorry for everyone’s monthly votes, so I got up and wrote 4,000 words.
I will update 6,000 words during the New Year period. I will make up for the 2,000 words I missed today. After the New Year, I will start updating 10,000 words a day again.
(End of this chapter)
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