Chapter 15 Huo Lan's Resignation
Two octagonal tables put together can seat fifteen people. Before the meal, Lu Guohua asked everyone to introduce themselves and get to know each other.
Among the male educated youth, in addition to Lu Guohua from Sichuan Province, there are also Zhou Nian from Northwest China, Zhong Yuliang, Ji Qing from Shanghai, and Zhang Tiesheng from Guangdong.
The female educated youth included Gao Qingmei from Shanghai, He Xiaoyuan from Harbin in Northeast China, and Wang Yuping from Shaozhou in Guangdong Province.
Yu Wanqing and several others also introduced themselves. Among the newly arrived educated youth, except for her who was from Shangyang City, the others were from Beijing.
Lu Guohua smiled and said, "There are two other male educated youth who moved out to live alone. One is Huo Lanci and the other is Li Wenzhou. They are both from Beijing."
"Comrade Li Wenzhou has asked for leave these two days and is not in the team."
When Guo Hongying heard Li Wenzhou's name, her eyes lit up. She stood up in surprise and said, "Brother Wenzhou is really in the Five-Star Team."
God knows how scared she was when she didn't see Brother Wenzhou among the old educated youth.
She went to the countryside just for Brother Wenzhou. If she couldn't find anyone, what was the point of her going there?
Guo Hongying was sitting next to Yu Wanqing, and she immediately felt the change in his mood.
It turns out that he went to the countryside for his childhood sweetheart.
Lu Guohua looked at Guo Hongying curiously: "Does Zhiqing Guo know Zhiqing Li?"
Guo Hongying smiled and nodded: "Brother Wenzhou and I are neighbors. Our two families have a good relationship and we grew up together."
She will marry Brother Wenzhou in the future.
The old educated youth saw Guo Hongying's face turn red when she talked about Li Wenzhou, and then thought about the fact that Li Wenzhou was dating the village scorer Ye Shulan, they smelled gossip.
Yu Wanqing and Zhang Hongqi both felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. Was there something wrong with Guo Hongying's childhood sweetheart?
Lu Guohua was worried that something might go wrong, so he quickly said with a smile, "Everyone, hurry up and eat the porridge." He smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "I have never cooked before. After going to the countryside, I learned for half a year. Now I can make porridge and stir-fry some vegetables. You can just eat it."
There was division of labor in his family. He was responsible for housework and manual labor, so he learned cooking only after going to the countryside. He never expected that he had a talent for cooking and learned to cook several dishes in just half a year.
The meal finally ended with everyone chatting and laughing.
Normally, the educated youths in the camp wash their own dishes. Whoever is responsible for cooking is responsible for cleaning the rice pot and vegetable plates.
In the evening, the three of them, led by Lu Guohua and Wang Yuping, went to the captain's home to discuss building a house.
The captain's house was also a mud house, but it was very big. In addition to the main hall, there were four rooms on each side. There were also two private plots outside the door, all surrounded by fences.
When they entered the main room, they saw the captain talking to a young man.
As soon as Lu Guohua entered the house, he shouted with a smile: "Captain, we brought Yu Zhiqing and the others here to discuss building a house."
The two people who were talking turned around and looked over. Yu Wanqing was attracted by the face of the man next to the captain.
He has fair skin and delicate features, sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, black hair, red lips, and a slight curl at the corners of his lips. He seems to be smiling, but in fact, his eyes hide three parts of coldness. His hands are slender and white, with distinct joints, like a perfect work of art carefully carved by the most powerful craftsman.
There was a voice in her heart shouting, what a beautiful pair of hands, if only I could touch them, if only I could hold them.
But his face, his eyes, his whole being met her aesthetic standards.
If there is any damage, she will feel sad for a long time.
Her biggest hobby in her previous life was looking at handsome men and beautiful women, and she had beautiful friends all over the world.
But the man in front of her was definitely the most perfect shell she had ever seen.
So perfect that she wanted to keep him.
"Huo Zhiqing, you are here too." Lu Guohua was a little surprised. He didn't expect to meet Huo Lanci here.
Huo Lanci nodded: "I came to talk to the captain about something."
After he finished speaking, his gaze fell on Yu Wanqing, whose almond-shaped eyes were bright, her skin was as white as porcelain, and her lips were red without any makeup.
At first glance, he was attracted by her eyes. They were really beautiful, black and bright, just like the two brightest stars in the sky.
I never thought that someone would send such a bright and beautiful daughter to the countryside.
There must be something wrong with your brain.
The captain's wife smiled and asked Yu Wanqing and others to sit down and talk.
The team leader asked Yu Wanqing: "There are two types of adobe houses in the team now. One type is like the educated youth camp, but it is shorter and has only one floor."
"There is another type, which is like my house. The walls are relatively high, and a small second floor is built in the room with wood. However, this type requires a lot of good wood, so it costs a little more money."
After saying this, he asked his wife to take Yu Wanqing and others to the room to take a look.
Yu Wanqing had seen this kind of small second floor of adobe house, which the locals actually called a "shed".
Guo Hongying looked at the wooden ladder nearby, then pointed to the second floor and asked, "Auntie, can we live up there?"
My aunt smiled and nodded: "It can be used for living and storing things."
Yu Wanqing stood aside and acted as a ruthless translation machine, talking to the captain's wife and Guo Hongying incessantly, without stopping.
Huo Lanci looked over from the main hall and happened to see this scene. Seeing Yu Wanqing's hopeless expression, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips. The coldness in his eyes seemed to melt in this smile.
Zhang Hongqi asked her quietly, "Can we also build a small second floor like this?"
Yu Wanqing shook her head: "A small second floor will cause the first floor to be much lower and the lighting will not be good." The most important reason why she built the house was that she needed an independent space to facilitate her entry and exit of the supermarket.
She would go into the space to rest at night.
"If you want to build a small second floor, that's fine."
The two of them looked at each other, and finally gave up on being the waitress.
When the captain heard that they didn't want to build a small second floor, he smiled and said to Huo Lanci, "You also rejected it after taking a look at it."
Huo Lanci smiled faintly: "For me, living alone doesn't need a small second floor."
"If you want to live in a more spacious place, you need a bigger plot of land and build a bigger house."
His Cantonese was very standard, and his voice was clear and cold yet somewhat magnetic, which made Yu Wanqing, a severe patient of face control, hand control, and voice control, want to knock this man out and take him back to hide him.
Let him sing to himself every day.
The captain looked at the three female comrades and said, "Huo and Li built a kitchen, a bedroom, a small bathroom and a toilet, a total of 35 square meters, with green bricks on the floor. It cost 50 yuan in total."
"This money is mainly used to buy tiles, purlins and bricks. The adobe bricks are all from the village."
Nowadays, we have to buy timber from the county timber company and then transport it back. It would cost a lot of money to do so.
Yu Wanqing said, "I will also build a house of the same specifications as Huo Zhiqing's. But I will have to ask the captain to buy the bricks and other things. Just tell me how much you need and I will give it to you."
"Huo Zhiqing's house was built two months ago. If you want to build a house like his, you can give him 50 yuan." The captain said, "If you two want to build the same house, you can give us the same amount of money."