Xu Ning was sitting on the kang reading a high school textbook when she heard Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei calling her from outside.
She quickly put on her shoes and went out to open the door. Both of them had needles and thread in their hands, and they were prepared to sit here for a long time.
She asked them to sit on the kang, brought a plate of pine nuts, and said, "Why did you two have the heart to go out today?"
Wei Lanlan threw her needle and thread aside and said as she peeled pine nuts, "Since you didn't come to play with us, we had no choice but to come to you."
Yang Xiaomei also sighed, "The winter here is too long. It's really boring to sit in the house."
Xu Ning smiled and said, "Just be content. It's not good to be idle at home every day. I heard that the educated youth who went to the south have to work in winter."
"Yes, compared to other places, we only grow one crop here, which is really good. We get a lot of food, and we can eat enough even if we mix it with coarse grains."
Xu Ning asked, "I heard you guys arguing yesterday, who was doing what?"
Wei Lanlan put the pine nuts in her mouth and said, "It's Gu Wenping and Lin Miao again. I don't know why they quarreled again yesterday.
Before, Yang Wenli was there to persuade them, but now he didn't care anymore. The two of them were arguing more and more fiercely. In the end, it was Sun Hao and Chen Xiangdong who persuaded them to go back to the house. ”
Yang Xiaomei also said, "It's really annoying. I see them flirting with each other every day. If they want to break up, they should just do it cleanly or just date each other properly. They act like they're in a big show every day. I don't know what they want to do.
That Wang Juanjuan is not a person who needs to be taken care of. She knew that the other person was dating, so as a girl you should just stay away from him. But she has to get close to him for everything. I have never seen such a person. ”
Xu Ning thought, it won’t be long, the two of them should be able to achieve their goal in the spring.
Xu Ning spent the whole afternoon listening to the two of them talking about trivial matters in the Youth League Institute.
Wei Lanlan said, "A family in the next village has taken a fancy to Chunhua. They think she is tall and capable, and they want her to be their son's daughter-in-law.
Chunhua said she would think about it and had not given a reply yet, but she thought it should work out. The family was well off and the three sons were very capable. The eldest and the second son were already married. The one she was talking about was the third son in the family and was also very strong at work. ”
Yang Xiaomei also nodded in agreement, "It's indeed possible. Chunhua is not young anymore, and there are many brothers and sisters at home. There is no way to arrange for her to return to the city. It's better for her to find a good family to marry here."
Xu Ning thought that 21 was not that old. If he could wait until the college entrance examination was resumed, his life might be different.
But she was just thinking about it. Not to mention that the two of them have no contact now, even when they got along well in the past, she would not interfere in other people's affairs.
When Xu An came back on Saturday, he said to her, "Sister, two of my classmates want to come to our house and play for a day next week, is that okay?"
Xu Ning smiled and said, "Of course, do you want to come back for lunch? I'll be waiting for you."
"Sister, we're back from lunch at school. They're from the county town and may have to stay here for one night. Come with me on Saturday and go back on Sunday."
"Okay, I got it! I'll go get some tofu when you guys come back and make tofu balls for dinner."
Xu An's two male classmates were named Versace and Jin Dapeng. Judging from their conversation, they should come from well-off families. They came with food and two bags of snacks.
Xu Ning exchanged some tofu in the village and prepared to fry tofu balls for them in the evening.
Xu An led the two to talk in the yard. Versace looked around the yard and said with a smile, "Xu An, your home is a nice place, very quiet, and the small yard is very cozy."
Xu An also laughed and said, "Farmhouses are all like this, they can't compare to your city."
Jin Dapeng said, "What's so good about the city? The whole family is crowded together, and everything is inconvenient."
Xu An smiled, invited the two into the house, and said, "I'll show you my cooking skills tonight and make you a special dish of mine."
The two of them smiled and said, "Xu An, I didn't realize you can cook."
Xu An glanced at the two of them and said proudly, "That's right. The dishes I cook are recognized by many people. The educated youth in front of me even invited me to cook for their wedding."
Xu Ning glanced at the boasting Xu An. When Wei Lanlan and Chen Xiangdong got married, he went to help out and said that he was invited to prepare the banquet.
What's the point of a feast with just one meat dish and a plate of pig offal? Alas, this kid is getting more and more unstable as he grows older, and he's almost as boastful as Xu Mo.
Dinner consisted of fried tofu balls, pork and sauerkraut stewed with vermicelli, stir-fried shredded radish with oil residue, some spicy cabbage, and a pot of millet porridge.
Versace and Jin Dapeng praised the food highly, and only then did they believe that Xu An’s cooking was really delicious and he was not just bragging.
During the meal, Versace and Jin Dapeng said they wanted to go to the mountains tomorrow, and Xu An looked at Xu Ning.
Xu Ning thought for a moment and said, "If we want to go up the mountain, we should call Sun Hao and Chen Xiangdong to go with us."
The three of them were very happy to hear this. After dinner, Xu An took them to the Youth League Home.
When Liu Shaojie and Zhang Hairong said they were going up the mountain tomorrow, they both excitedly said they wanted to go together.
Sun Hao and Chen Xiangdong also agreed. Gu Wenping and Yang Wenli heard it and said they would go too.
After breakfast the next morning, the six people from the Youth League College, Xu An and his two classmates, Jianmin and Dalin, went into the mountains in a mighty group.
Xu Ning prepared lunch, but it was past one o'clock and no one had come down the mountain yet.
When Wang Liang came to find the few people to go back to school, he heard Xu Ning say that the few people had gone up the mountain and had not returned yet.
Wang Liang was surprised and asked, "When did they go up the mountain? They haven't come back yet. What time is it now?"
"I'll go after breakfast."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open. Xu An walked in front with a backpack on his back, followed by Fansizhe and Jin Dapeng.
When Xu Ning saw them coming back, he quickly went to the kitchen to heat up the food and invited them to eat.
The three young men were very hungry, so they didn't hesitate to sit at the table and start eating.
Xu Ning saw Wang Liang sitting next to him and gave him a salt and pepper pancake, saying, "You should have one too. We still have a long way to go."
Wang Liang quickly waved his hand and said, "Sister, I'm not hungry. I just had dinner when I came here."
Xu Ning didn't listen to his refusal and directly stuffed it into his hand.
She went to see Xu An's backpack again, which contained two rabbits. She went into the house to get some old newspapers to wrap them up, and later asked Fansizhe and Jin Dapeng to take one back each.
After the three of them finished their meal, they packed up and prepared to go back to school. Xu Ning handed the two rabbits to Xu An and said, "These two rabbits, one for Versace and one for Jin Dapeng. Don't tell them now. Give them to them in the city, so that they don't have to be polite here again."
Xu An held two rabbits and said to Xu Ning, "Sister, don't go hunting in the mountains. Brother Lu wrote to me a few days ago and asked me if I had been to the mountains. He said that if you don't listen, let me write to him and he will come back."
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