Ziyi paid for her accommodation by bank transfer. At 4:30 in the afternoon, she came to invite Qin Yuhuan to go to the field to cut vegetables together. Seeing that Ziyi was about to go, Li Haizhen gave her a box of matches and asked her to light the fire here in advance.
One, two, all of them were used.
While Ziyi was still searching on Baidu on how to use matches to start a fire, Li Haizhen had already returned with Qin Yuhuan.
"Can't you light a fire?" Li Haizhen put down the basket on his back and swiftly took the matches from Ziyi. He quickly started a fire and boiled water. He turned to look at the two people and asked, "Can you wash and cut vegetables?"
Qin Yuhuan nodded, "Yes."
She is quite professional in helping out.
Li Haizhen boiled water, Qin Yuhuan washed and cut vegetables, and Liu Ziyi became a big idler, squatting beside and helping Qin Yuhuan.
"Xiaozi, we can eat the food outside." Qin Yuhuan picked up the good leaves that Ziyi had picked and put them back into the basin. He then stuffed a handful of green onions into Ziyi's hand and said, "Peel the green onions."
Ziyi was amused by his girlfriend's repetition of words. She peeled onions while laughing, and the wet mud on the onions got on her face. She wiped it with her fingers, making it covered with gray and black spots.
Seeing this, Qin Yuhuan also laughed. There was no tissue on hand, so she wet her hands to help Ziyi wipe off the dirt. "Xiaozi, you are so cute when you are ordered to do things."
"Your cuteness must be that you think I'm clumsy and naive. I'm so pissed off, Qin Yuhuan. Don't think I don't know." Seeing Qin Yuhuan's sullen smile, she understood, "He has a lot of bad intentions."
Qin Yuhuan smiled but didn't answer. He stood up and handed the packed vegetables to Li Haizhen. "Teacher, isn't this a bit too much for the three of us?"
Not only is the pot big, but there are also many dishes to be fried.
"Not just you, there are other people coming to eat together." Li Haizhen said as he went to the warehouse to take out the hanging meat. "Do you know how to cut the meat? It's smoked."
Qin Yuhuan nodded, took the meat to the side and started cutting it.
It was not until dinner time that she and Ziyi found out who Li Haizhen was talking about. They were a group of children who had just finished school.
"Do you mind?" Li Haizhen asked casually while serving food to the children in line. "There's nothing I can do about it. I wrote this down when I signed the agreement with your agent."
Qin Yuhuan: ...
"Teacher Li, who are these children...?" Ziyi took a quick look and saw more than a dozen kids of different ages, both boys and girls, the oldest of whom was only a little over ten years old.
"For those in the village, their parents are working outside, so I let them come to my house for dinner. Even if there's meat, I don't ask them to take it home." Li Haizhen's hands were not trembling as he pounded the meat for the children. "When they take it home, they give it to the elderly at home. The elderly are very frugal and would eat a block of fermented tofu for three days."
She wasn't talking about the best fish and meat, or delicacies from the mountains and the sea, but she could smell the meaty odor.
After the children and adults had eaten their fill, Li Haizhen handed the vegetables that had been packed in plastic bowls to the children as usual and asked them to take them back to their grandparents.
Qin Yuhuan and Ziyi didn't say anything, as if they quickly accepted Li Haizhen's behavior pattern.
"You two are quite interesting. People who came here before said that it's unhealthy for me to use plastic basins to serve hot dishes." Li Haizhen smiled, "They also said that I don't wear a mask when cooking."
“Sometimes you can’t be particular about these things. If you can be particular, then be particular. If you can’t, forget it. When we eat takeout, isn’t it still packed in plastic bags?” Ziyi wasn’t so particular about details.
"At first, I bought a lot of stainless steel bowls, but most of them were taken away and few were returned. My children were embarrassed and didn't want to eat at my place. Later, I changed them. Stainless steel bowls are also quite expensive, and I had to spend my money on other things."
Ziyi and Qin Yuhuan didn't know where Li Haizhen's "somewhere else" was. They had the sense of boundaries and propriety that modern people have when getting along with each other, and they would hardly take the initiative to ask about sensitive topics such as "where the money goes".
At night, Li Haizhen burned some dried orange peels and unknown hay in the yard, saying that it could repel mosquitoes. Although it was not yet March, there were already mosquitoes in the countryside.
Qin Yuhuan and Ziyi sat on the tires in the yard, head to head, looking at the stars.
"Don't say that. The smoke was choking at first, but now that I've smelled it more, it seems okay." Ziyi pointed at the stars in the sky, "Look, these are stars that have eaten dog food."
Qin Yuhuan's previous comment about Ziyi being childish at times wasn't false, especially when she met a little Qin who "didn't need her to mature." The 35-year-old soul was now no different from a 3 or 5-year-old. She had just finished showing off her affection to Xingxing when she tumbled into the middle of the tires with a groan, sprawling across the floor. She was trying to grab Qin Yuhuan to get up...
Qin Yuhuan wanted to tease her a bit more, but despite all her efforts, she was still trapped in the tiny tire. Tears were about to fall, "Sister, please be kind and save me quickly. If it's too late, I will become one with the tire and then I will be like a turtle."
At least the turtle has a beautiful shell, but she has a broken tire...
Help.
Qin Yuhuan turned her back to the stars and laughed heartily. Life with Ziyi was always full of various funny moments. She really had a talent for comedy.
Ziyi said a lot of nice things, and Xiao Qin finally stretched out a hand, trying to pull him up, but Ziyi exerted too much strength...
Qin Yuhuan was pulled directly into her arms.
"Sister, what's the point of sitting on a tire alone? There should always be two people sitting together. This is called sharing the hardship and carrying the tire together. Oh, not really. I'm carrying the tire, and you're carrying..."
Ziyi deliberately slowed down her speech, her words filled with endless teasing. Seeing that Qin Yuhuan, who was in her arms, was about to fall asleep, she quickly glanced around and tugged at Qin Yuhuan's earlobe with her teeth, "You seem to be carrying me, sister, am I soft?"
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