Cheng Jingmo didn't understand what a picnic was, so Yu Xiangnian explained it to him.
Cheng Jingmo thought to himself that no one would want to go with us, but he still went to Dong Minghao's house to ask with a try-it attitude.
He and Dong Minghao joined the army in the same year and have always been in the same regiment. They get along pretty well.
Dong Minghao has two sons who are about the same age as Xiaojie and they often play together.
Cheng Jingmo came to Dong Minghao's house and asked Dong Minghao and his family to go for a picnic in the mountains, and explained the meaning of a picnic.
Dong Minghao frowned and glared at him, "There are goblins in the mountains? Are you addicted?"
Cheng Jingmo said honestly, "Yu Xiangnian is unhappy because she didn't get to eat rabbit meat. I'm going to catch rabbits tomorrow. She also wants to go play in the mountains."
"And your rabbit?"
"I met Comrade Wu at the gate of the family compound and gave it to her."
Dong Minghao scolded her, "Why don't you give her a chicken? Don't you know that when your daughter gets angry, the whole family compound trembles!"
"I didn't know she wanted to eat rabbit."
Dong Minghao said, "Let me ask my wife if they want to go. I guess they don't. Who would want to play with your guy?"
After a while, Dong Minghao came out and told Cheng Jingmo, "My wife and the others want to go too. When are they leaving?"
Cheng Jingmo thought for a moment and said, "Nine o'clock."
After Cheng Jingmo left, Dong Minghao asked his wife Wang Hongxiang, "Why did you agree to this? What if that evil woman makes trouble again tomorrow and you get wronged again?"
Wang Hongxiang was mending the child's pants. "Deputy Commander Cheng has come to our house to meet us. Shouldn't we give him some face? Besides, I see Yu Xiangnian has been very nice to Xiaojie these days. He cooks and washes for Xiaojie every day. It's not like before."
"But why did his family want to go to the mountains to play?" she asked again.
Dong Minghao explained the reason.
Wang Hongxiang laughed, "Yu Xiangnian doesn't want to eat the rabbit, she's jealous!"
Dong Minghao didn't believe it at all. "You said it's more reliable for her to eat people than to be jealous!"
Wang Hongxiang said, "What do you know, you old fool? Think about it, Cheng Jingmo and Dr. Wu had a previous relationship. He gave her the rabbit. Yu Xiangnian must be unhappy!"
Dong Minghao said, "She's still not happy? Doctor Wu is better than her in every way!"
Wang Hongxiang asked back, "Can Doctor Wu be as pretty as her?"
Dong Minghao couldn't deny that Yu Xiangnian was indeed very good-looking. "What's the point of finding someone good-looking when it comes to living life?"
When Cheng Jingmo returned to his doorstep, he remembered Captain Xiao's house next door and knocked on the door to ask, just to give it a try.
Captain Xiao has two girls and a boy in his family, all of whom are about the same age as Xiaojie.
Unexpectedly, Captain Xiao's family also agreed.
Cheng Jingmo never sleeps in, and he gets up at the usual time the next day.
After steaming the rice, he packed it into two large lunch boxes, fried ten poached eggs, and made a cold cucumber salad.
There was nothing else at home, and he had already tried his best to make this much.
Then, he started to cook noodles for breakfast, and only then went to call Yu Xiangnian and Xiaojie to get up.
He mixed the leftover braised chicken from yesterday into the noodles. Xiaojie had eaten a chicken leg yesterday and there was one left, so he put it into Yu Xiangnian's bowl.
Yu Xiangnian picked out the leg and gave it to Xiaojie to eat, and ate a bowl of noodles himself.
Cheng Jingmo thought she was still angry, but in fact Yu Xiangnian was no longer angry and simply didn't want to eat.
Cheng Jingmo put the prepared things into the backpack and poured a full military kettle of cold boiled water into it. Yu Xiangnian also put all the remaining candies at home into it and found a clean white cloth to put inside.
In this way, three families, six adults and six children, each carrying the things they had prepared, went on a picnic on foot.
Except Yu Xiangnian, no one had ever had a picnic.
Liu Zhen asked Xiao Tuanjie, "Old Xiao, do you think this picnic is like when we do farm work in the countryside and bring our own food with us?"
Xiao Tuanjie said, "It should be about the same."
The children were very excited and played and laughed all the way.
After walking for more than an hour, we found a flat area and decided to have a picnic there.
Yu Xiangnian took out the cloth and spread it on the ground, asking everyone to put their things on the cloth.
Liu Zhen said distressedly, "Comrade Yu, it's such a waste to use such fine cloth as a cushion."
Yu Xiangnian didn't care about a piece of cloth at all. He smiled and said, "As long as it's useful, it's not a waste."
The children had already run away to play, the adults drank some water and took a rest, and the three men went to catch game.
The children of Captain Xiao heard yesterday that Cheng Jingmo and Dong Minghao had wild game at home, and they also clamored to eat it.
Cheng Jingmo saw that he didn't catch several rabbits, while Dong Minghao and Xiao Tuanjie were already holding two rabbits each.
Dong Minghao scolded him, "You caught a rabbit and you picked it?"
Cheng Jingmo said, "I have to catch the same rabbit as yesterday."
At this point, Dong Minghao remembered what Wang Hongxiang said yesterday. He said, "My wife said that Yu Xiangnian didn't want to eat the rabbit, he was jealous."
Cheng Jingmo was stunned for a moment, "Don't talk nonsense."
Dong Minghao sneered, "You must be secretly happy! I remember you were stunned the first time you saw Yu Xiangnian!"
That happened almost two years ago.
They had just gotten off work that day when they ran into Yu Xiangnian, who was getting off work at the same time as Xiangyang, at the army gate.
They often heard Yu Xiangyang talk about his sister, how beautiful she was, and everyone laughed at him for bragging.
But when I saw her in person, I realized that Yu Xiangyang was not bragging. His sister is really beautiful, like a fairy!
That day she was wearing a red dress, her hair was braided into two small braids and tied in front of her chest. Her oval face was white and delicate, her lips were red and her teeth were white. Her eyes were the most beautiful, full of affection and coquettishness, and they seemed to be able to capture people's souls with just one look.
Everyone present at the time was stunned, especially Cheng Jingmo, who never looked at any girl and was stunned.
Yu Xiangyang proudly introduced her to them, "This is my sister, Yu Xiangnian."
Everyone greeted Yu Xiangnian, but Yu Xiangnian glanced at everyone arrogantly and said perfunctorily, "Hello." Then he took Yu Xiangyang away.
Cheng Jingmo still said in the same tone, "Don't talk nonsense, that's because I've seen her before."
He waited for a long time and finally saw a rabbit. He was very agile and caught the rabbit quickly.
After thinking about it, he went to catch another chicken.
Yu Xiangnian didn't eat a single bite of the chicken yesterday.
The three of them returned to the picnic site carrying the game.
Yu Xiangnian was lying on the grass under the tree, with his hands behind his head, one leg stretched out and the other bent, a piece of grass hanging from his mouth, humming a song that Cheng Jingmo had never heard before.
Cheng Jingmo brought the rabbit to Yu Xiangnian and said, "It's the same rabbit as yesterday."
Yu Xiangnian didn't expect Cheng Jingmo to be so serious and actually catch the exact same rabbit.
She hadn't seen the rabbit from yesterday, so just catch one and trick her.
Seeing Cheng Jingmo's serious look, Yu Xiangnian wanted to tease him again.
Still lying on the ground, she asked lazily, "Didn't you say you wanted to catch the twin brothers of yesterday's rabbit?"
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