After Lu Rankong finished taking a shower, the two returned to the cell, put away their toiletries, and went to the cafeteria to eat with other roommates who were waiting.
It was already very late, and all the prisoners were locked up in their cells. When they saw them walking out of the cell through the iron bars, they all greeted them.
"Boss, Boss, I heard that your mine caved in today. You were almost buried in it, right?"
"Of course it's true. I was asked to dig them out. Boss, I'll go save you too."
"Damn it, it was clearly dug out by a wolfhound driving a construction truck, and you locked it up and slept in it for the whole afternoon, and now you're claiming credit for nothing."
"It must have been the wolfhound that collapsed that hole."
"Why?"
"No reason, anyway, the accident must have been caused by the wolfhound."
Lu Rankong raised his hands, smiled and gestured to the prisoners on both sides, and the prisoners began to curse the prison guards again.
"Shut up, all of you. Get in there and don't lie on the iron bars." Officer Wang, the electric baton user, walked over with an electric baton in his hand.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! The wolfhound is going to bite people again. Tsk, tsk, tsk!" The prisoners began to knock on the iron bars, making sounds to call the dogs.
Sizzle!
Officer Wang placed the electric baton on the iron bars, and all the prisoners left the bars cursing.
The canteen really saved some food for them, and even gave each of them an extra chicken leg. After they had a delicious meal, they returned to their cell and went to sleep contentedly.
Lan Yu was very tired today and didn't want to put on a facial mask. She just washed her face casually and went out of the bathroom. At a glance, she saw Lu Rankong climbing up to her upper bunk again, with his hands under his head and his legs crossed, swinging leisurely.
He didn't bother to care and went straight to the bed, stepped over Lu Rankong and got into the quilt. Almost the moment my head touched the pillow, I fell into a deep sleep.
In the middle of the night, he was drowsy and felt his hands and feet being tangled again, and the person next to him was holding him tightly. He struggled twice but failed to get free, so he adjusted himself to a comfortable position and continued to sleep.
It seems like once you get used to it, it doesn't matter anymore.
The next day after breakfast, they were left in cell No. 11 as they waited in the playground outside the cafeteria to set off for the mine.
"Your mine collapsed yesterday and everyone suffered. The warden specifically ordered that you don't have to go mining for the next few days. Today you should go to the vegetable market behind the prison to help." Officer Wang said to them.
"Ha!" Liu Junjie and others couldn't help but cheer in a low voice.
It can be seen that Officer Wang is in a good mood. After all, he can go into the room to rest when he stays in the vegetable market, and he doesn't have to wait outside the mine like he did in the mine.
A canteen helper came out, still wearing an apron and sleeves, and said kindly: "Everyone, follow me to the back mountain."
"Let's go, let's go to the back mountain."
The few people did not form a line, but followed Officer Wang in twos and threes, and walked to the back of the prison under the guidance of the helper.
The worker did not treat these people as prisoners and introduced them enthusiastically along the way: "The starship comes once every two weeks. If there is an interstellar storm, sometimes no ship comes for two or three months. So, we can open up the open space at the foot of the mountain to raise some ducks and grow some fresh vegetables. Don't worry if the starship can't keep up with the supply. We can always get you something delicious."
Several people nodded in agreement, looking extremely happy. Officer Wang also had a smile on his face, and he didn't seem to have his usual irritability at all.
After crossing several large and small squares and bypassing several prison cells, they arrived at the foot of the back mountain after more than ten minutes.
From a distance, you can see the vegetable field surrounded by a transparent greenhouse, which is as big as a football field. On the left is a whole row of bungalows, which should be the duck coop.
"That's it..." The helper stopped and turned to the others and said, "Then I'll trouble you to clean up the duck house and tidy up the vegetable patch."
"No trouble, no trouble."
Officer Wang said, "Okay, then you go back, I'll just watch them."
After the workers left, he hung the electric baton behind his waist, stretched his body and said, "Did you hear what he just said? You don't need me to arrange anything for you. Go find a job on your own. It's rare to have so much free time. Be well behaved and don't cause trouble. Go ahead."
After saying that, he walked towards a small building next to him, obviously going to rest there.
After he went up to the second floor and disappeared into one of the rooms, Liu Junjie said with a smile, "I've worked here for a day before. It's easier than any other job. Just treat today as a day off."
"Then you have to finish the work first before you rest." Lu Rankong patted his shoulder and said, "Let's clean out the duck house in the morning. Then Qiu Dao and I will go clean the duck house, and the rest of you can go to the vegetable garden."
The work in the duck house was obviously heavier and smelled stronger, so Wang Jin quickly said, "I'll go clean the duck house, too."
Qiu Dao wanted to say something, but was stopped by him, "If I am such a big guy and I don't do the heavy work, should I let Lin Lin and Qiao Fei, these two chickens, do it?"
The work was quickly divided. Lu Rankong and Qiu Daowang went in to clean the duck house, and the rest of the people went to the vegetable garden.
Lan Yu saw Lu Rankong and the other two walking straight towards the duck house, so she quickly stopped them and asked with a serious face, "Are you planning to go in like this?"
"What else can we do?" The three looked at each other.
Lan Yu walked to the small building where Officer Wang was resting and looked inside through the window on the ground floor. He pushed open the door of one of the rooms, went in, and quickly came out with several large plastic bags.
"There are clearly disposable protective gowns, shoe covers, hoods, masks and the like here, but you don't even know how to look for them. When we return to the cell later, you'll smoke our cell into a breeding farm," said Lan Yu.
Lu Rankong and the other two quickly took it, opened a bag each, and started putting it on over their prison uniforms.
"Brother Qiao, I didn't realize you were so thoughtful." Liu Junjie said to Lu Rankong flatteringly: "Brother Leopard, you are so lucky."
"It's okay, it's OK." Lu Rankong put his arm around Lan Yu's shoulders and patted her, but he pushed her arm away.
After they got dressed, they went to the duck coop and the vegetable garden respectively. Lu Rankong had just taken two steps when he was stopped by Lan Yu again.
"Wait a minute..."
Lu Rankong turned around and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Lan Yu walked forward, zipped up his back tightly, then walked around to his front and raised her hand to adjust the collar that was exposed outside the disposable shirt.
"This needs to be put in to avoid any smell." Lan Yu said as she sorted them out.
Lu Rankong lowered his eyes and looked at him.
The light from the artificial sun fell from above and sprinkled on Lan Yu's face. His long eyelashes cast two rows of shadows on his lower eyelids. His fair skin was slightly reddish and covered with a layer of fine hairs that were clearly visible in the sunlight.
He straightened Lu Rankong's collar and said, "That's all right. Go ahead."
Lu Rankong stood there without moving, still looking at him.
He raised his eyes doubtfully, with a questioning look.
For some unknown reason, Lu Rankong suddenly said, "Your face is covered with hair, like a hairy peach."
I regretted it as soon as I finished speaking and wished I could bite off my tongue.
Sure enough, when Lan Yu heard this, she was shocked at first, then she became angry. "You are covered in hair, like a hairy monkey."
Lu Rankong wanted to explain. He really felt that Lan Yu was like a peach, white with a hint of pink, with soft fuzz and tiny blood vessels. Before I even took a bite, I could feel that there must be sweet and refreshing juice under the thin skin.
But these words could not be said no matter what.
Lan Yu turned around with a gloomy face and walked towards the vegetable garden, thinking angrily in her heart: My face is so smooth, I just didn't use a facial mask last night, and you actually said that my face is full of hair. He didn't even look at the hair on his calves, like a monkey, and it scared people when it rubbed against them in the middle of the night.
This vegetable garden is very large and is divided into several areas, where some common vegetables are planted, such as cowpea, lettuce, eggplant, etc.
There is also an area where the vegetables Lan Yu has never seen before. They are probably some strange kinds of vegetables from other planets.
Seeing that everyone else was pulling weeds with a small bamboo basket, he also went to the door of the greenhouse, picked up a bamboo basket, and walked to the empty vegetable field and squatted down.
This vegetable looks very bright. The stem is red, as thick as a little finger, more than a foot tall, and has blue oval leaves on it.
He seemed to have eaten it somewhere before, but he forgot where it was exactly. He only remembered that it tasted very good and could be eaten raw.
There were some weeds in the field. He squatted and moved forward step by step along the ditches, pulling out the weeds and throwing them into the bamboo basket.
Several people were scattered in different places, far away from each other, and the surroundings were quiet.
He didn't know how long it had been, but he suddenly heard a chirping sound.
Looking towards the source of the sound, I saw a group of tender yellow ducklings coming in from a gap under the plastic shed and starting to peck at a large vegetable leaf that stretched out over the ridge of the field as if they were familiar with the place.
Lan Yu put down the bamboo basket and squatted there watching.
A little duck was smaller than its brothers and sisters. It was accidentally pushed off the ridge of the field. After rolling over, it flapped its little wings and tried to jump up, chirping anxiously.
After the other ducklings finished eating that piece of leaf, they moved forward along the ridge of the field. Not far away, there were some leaves sticking out, so they could continue eating.
The one that fell off the ridge of the field stumbled and chased after it in the ditch, somersaulting from time to time.
Lan Yu stood up, walked to the duckling and picked it up carefully. Place it in the palm of your left hand and gently stroke the delicate little wings with your right hand.
This little duck was not afraid of people. After being picked up, it stopped quacking and just raised its little flat beak and pecked his fingers curiously.
Lan Yu felt a tingling sensation on her fingers from being pecked, and her heart was filled with tenderness, and she couldn't help but smile.
"If you like it, when you go back, raise a flock of ducks on the balcony." Lu Rankong's voice suddenly came from behind.
"Why raise a bunch of ducks?" Lan Yu still had a smile on her face as she handed her finger to the duckling, letting it peck at it.
Lu Rankong stepped forward and said, "Just play with the small ones, and kill and eat them when they grow up. The meat of this kind of duck is very tender."
Lan Yu frowned, put the duck in his hand on the edge of the field, pushed it gently, and watched it flap its little wings to chase the flock of ducks in front.
"Have you cleaned out the duck house?" He turned and asked Lu Rankong.
Lu Rankong replied: "It has been cleaned up. It has been cleaned up thoroughly."
"Have you washed your hands?"
"Washed..."
Lan Yu came close to him and smelled it, frowning and saying, "It seems to have a little smell."
"I washed it several times and it was very clean." Lu Rankong complained, "The duck house is pretty clean, and prisoners often clean it. Besides, I'm wrapped up tightly, so how can there be a smell?"
Lan Yu sniffed him a few more times. Lu Rankong remained motionless and tense until he didn't smell anything, then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you finished pulling out the weeds?" Lu Rankong asked.
Lan Yu glanced behind her and replied, "They are all pulled out..."
It seemed that Liu Junjie and his friends had finished pulling the weeds, and they were sitting on the edge of the field smoking.
"Then sit down and rest for a while. It's still early."
Lu Rankong walked to the edge of the field and sat down, with his feet in the field.
Lan Yu walked behind him and sat on a relatively clean stone.
The sunlight shines through the plastic greenhouse, making people feel warm. Lan Yu sees Lu Rankong pulling off a blue leaf, and she also reaches out to pull off the one in front of her.
He took the blue leaf and removed the roots without any instruction. He then folded the bottom edge of the leaf upwards, overlapped the left and right sides to form a triangle, broke off a small piece of the red stem, squeezed two drops of juice onto the leaf, and put it into his mouth.
A fresh fragrance filled his taste buds, and as he chewed, a light spicy taste seeped out and filled his entire mouth.
He looked at Lu Rankong in front of him, just in time to see him dripping the juice from the red vegetable stems onto the leaves.
The leaves were also folded up left and right and bottom to form a triangle.
"Try it..." Lu Rankong turned around and handed him the leaf.
Lan Yu said: "I'm eating..."
"Do you know you can eat it raw? But my method is original, and the Zikang vegetable made this way tastes delicious." Lu Rankong insisted on handing it to him, "You must have never tasted this."
What an original method! Lan Yu laughed secretly in her heart, but seeing Lu Rankong's eager face, she still took it and put it into her mouth.
Lu Rankong looked at him and asked, "How is it? Is it delicious? This vegetable stem is very old and hard to chew, so no one will eat it. I found that the juice inside dripped onto the Zikang leaves, and it tasted different when eaten raw, so I created this way of eating it, and no one else knows about it."
"Are you sure this is your method?" he asked.
Lu Rankong said with a bit of pride: "Of course..."
"No one else knows?"
Lu Rankong said confidently: "No one else knows."
Lan Yu was thinking about how to make fun of him when she saw that he seemed to suddenly remember something. The smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he lowered his eyes, showing a bit of melancholy.
"What's wrong? Why are you suddenly unhappy?" he couldn't help but ask.
Lu Rankong tore off another piece of Zikang leaf and started making the second one.
After a long while, he lowered his head and said calmly: "Nothing, I just thought of someone."
"Who?"
Lu Rankong was silent for a while, then replied, "Someone who was once very close to me."
"The person who ate this Zikang dish with you?" Lan Yu asked sharply.
Lu Rankong did not answer, which was considered as his agreement.
After a few seconds, Lan Yu asked tentatively: "Is he your relative?"
"No, a friend." Lu Rankong said and then closed his mouth, as if he didn't want to mention it again.
A friend.
A friend...
What kind of friend could make him look so hurt just by eating a dish?
Lan Yu suddenly felt a little bitter in her mouth, and her heart was vaguely uncomfortable, as if it was blocked by a ball of cotton.
Lu Ran rolled up the second one, turned around and handed it to him, "Here..."
"No, it's not tasty, I don't like it." Lan Yu said no three times in a row.
Lu Rankong turned around, put the Zikang vegetable roll into his mouth and chewed it slowly.
Both of them fell silent and stopped talking until Officer Wang came down from the small building and called them to assemble.
"Let's go, let's stop doing it and go back to have lunch." After saying that, he walked away in front of us.
On the way, Lu Rankong turned his head to look at Lan Yu several times, but before he could open his mouth, Lan Yu quickly turned her head away, either looking to the side or making small talk with Qiao Fei, who was closest to him.
He usually acted indifferent and cold to others, but now he was asking a lot of questions, which made Qiao Fei feel uneasy, not knowing what went wrong.
"How many people are there in your family?" Lan Yu asked expressionlessly.
Qiao Fei answered carefully, "Four. My alpha father, beta father, and a younger sister."
After answering, he added, "We are an ordinary family. Both fathers have ordinary jobs, and my sister is still studying. We don't have much money."
After saying that, he looked at Lan Yu and smiled.
Lan Yu frowned and said, "Why are you so nervous? I'm just asking."
"Yes, yes, yes..." Qiao Fei smiled awkwardly.
Liu Junjie stepped forward and punched Qiao Fei, then laughed and said, "We were buried together in the mine yesterday, so we are friends who have experienced life and death together. What are you afraid of? Do you think Brother Qiao will be interested in your family background? If they want to do it, they will be at the level of Interstellar Bank. Right, Brother Qiao?"
Lan Yu closed her mouth and stopped talking. She subconsciously looked at Lu Rankong beside her and found that he was looking at her with a smile in his eyes. She quickly turned her head away.
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