Song Zhi was welcomed into the house.
The Bai family had finished dinner. Bai Zhenggan was sitting on the kang bed with a wooden board tied behind his back, listening to the radio on a semiconductor radio; Hongdou and Huangdou were sitting at a corner of the kang table, doing their homework.
Seeing Song Zhi, Bai Zhenggan was startled and asked quickly, "Xiao Song is here, have you eaten yet?"
Song Zhi nodded.
However, my stomach growled.
Huang Dou was young, so he shouted out, "Big brother, I'm hungry! My stomach is growling!"
Song Zhi's face flushed immediately, "I, I..."
Tan Fenghui went to discipline the children.
Bai Zhenggan shouted calmly, "Mom Taozi, make a bowl of lei cha for Xiao Song!"
Tang Liren responded from the inner room and soon brought out a bowl of steaming hot lei cha.
——Lei Cha is a food unique to the south. It is made by frying tea leaves, peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts and many other dried fruits together, seasoning with salt, and then crushing them with a pestle and mortar. Then, seal them for storage and rinse with boiling water when eating.
Tang Liren smiled and said to Song Zhi, "Xiao Song, this is what Taotao's aunt brought back when she went to visit relatives in the south. It tastes very different. You should try it now!"
Song Zhi, "Aunt, I..."
"Eat it while it's hot!" After saying that, Tang Liren went back to work.
Song Zhi had no choice but to look at Bai Zhenggan, "Uncle, I..."
“You eat first!”
Song Zhi took a deep breath and said, "Thank you, Uncle Bai, thank you, Auntie!" Then he ate the bowl of Lei Cha.
The roasted dried fruits are high in calories, and mixed with tea spiked with salt... they taste great and are very filling. After drinking a bowl of lei cha, Song Zhi's hunger was finally relieved.
During this process, someone was gently stroking his back.
Song Zhi knew without looking back that it must be Bai Taotao.
Turning his head, he saw that it was indeed the little beauty. She was kneeling behind him, holding a wilted plant in one hand and pressing the other hand on his vest?
She even smiled sweetly at him.
Song Zhi blushed for some reason.
Bai Zhenggan said with a straight face: "Taotao, Xiao Song and I are talking about serious matters, stop making trouble!"
"I'm not making a fuss!"
Of course Bai Taotao understood the hidden meaning of her father's words - he just wanted her to leave here, but she refused! She had to do an experiment to see if she could transfer the spiritual energy absorbed from Song Zhi to these seedlings!
The sweet and coquettish voice of the girl made Song Zhi blush slightly. He turned his head back and whispered, "No, it's okay, just let her be, Uncle Bai."
Bai Zhenggan had never been able to deal with his silly daughter. Now that Song Zhi didn't mind, that was even better. He asked in a friendly manner, "Xiao Song, what do you want to talk to me about? This is your first day in the village. Is there something you can't solve? Don't be shy and talk to Uncle Bai!"
Song Zhi took a deep breath, "It's like this, Uncle Bai..."
When Song Zhi and Bai Zhenggan were talking, Bai Taotao was holding a pot of grape vines and sitting obediently behind Song Zhi. The flowerpot was a small enamel cup with a broken bottom. There was a tiny wilted grape seedling planted in it.
Bai Taotao pressed one hand against Song Zhi's back, and immediately felt abundant spiritual energy emanating from his body, making her feel warm and comfortable.
To be honest, Bai Taotao was a little reluctant to pass on her spiritual energy to the grape vines...reluctant!
But when I think of the delicious meat buns at noon...
Bai Taotao knew that her family was not rich, and if she wanted to eat well every day, she had to get rich first. So she stroked Song Zhi's back with one hand without moving, and picked up a leaf on the grape vine with the other hand, trying to transfer spiritual energy to the vine.
[It smells so good!] 】A faint voice sounded.
Bai Taotao was a little surprised.
This is--
She looked around, and no one noticed the sound!
Looking down again, the grape seedlings planted there seemed to stretch their curled vines slightly?
Bai Taotao widened her eyes.
After thinking about it, she let go of his hand.
——The leaves and vines that had just stretched out began to wilt listlessly.
Bai Taotao smiled and picked up the leaves on the vine again.
[Oh, it feels so comfortable!] 】The faint voice sounded again.
Bai Taotao asked in her heart: [Grape, can you hear me? 】
[Hey, who are you?] 】
[I am Peach.] 】
【peach? Are you pulling my leaves with your hands? 】
【yes. 】
[But you are a human being?] ? ? 】
[I am a human being.] 】
How can humans hear us? ? ? 】
[Because I am a peach.] 】
Grapevine was confused, [But you said you are a human...]
[I am a human being!] I am... no, I used to be a peach, and now I am a human. 】Bai Taotao explained.
Grapevine: @What the hell did you say!
At this time, Song Zhi had finished his Lei Cha and told Bai Zhenggan everything that had happened to him: Jiang Hongzhi, the person in charge of the Youth League Station, was very unwelcome to Song Zhi's arrival and did not arrange any accommodation or meals for him.
——As for where to live, Jiang Hongzhi insisted that there were no more beds for male educated youth in the dormitory. If Song Zhi didn't mind sleeping in the dormitory of the female educated youth, he would have no objection. It depends on whether the female educated youth have any objection.
——Eating, Jiang Hongzhi said that the Youth League Station now implements the work point sharing system. But today is May 6th, and six days have already passed in this month, so it is difficult to count. He asked Song Zhi to find a way to solve his own food problem for this month, and then join the Youth League in June and share the work points so that they could eat from the same pot.
When Bai Zhenggan heard this, he was so angry that he tapped the table with his knuckles, "This Jiang Hongzhi!" Then he shouted, "Dongsheng, get my crutches ready, I'm going to the Youth Station to find Jiang Hongzhi!"
After hearing this, Tang Liren came out from the inner room and said, "It's getting dark now. If your waist is not in good condition, don't go out!"
"It's okay! Dongsheng, help me walk slowly..."
Tang Liren frowned, "What if Dongsheng also fell?"
Song Zhi, "Uncle, why don't you tell me where I can stay for one night? I can deal with this first, and it won't be too late to deal with this matter tomorrow. A firewood shed, a straw shed, or a cowshed will do. I can handle it."
Bai Zhenggan, "How can this be possible!"
Tang Liren, "Listen to me, Xiao Song, you can stay at our house tonight! Let your uncle help you solve this problem tomorrow!"
Song Zhi was a little uneasy, "Aunt, this is inappropriate, isn't it?"
"If I say yes, then it's OK!" Tang Liren said, "There are four rooms in our house. Your uncle and I have one, Dongsheng and his wife and children have one, the three sisters have one, and the other one... was originally occupied by Nansheng and his wife, but now Nansheng has joined the army and his wife has returned to her parents' home, so it's just vacant. You can stay here tonight and we can talk tomorrow if there's anything else!"
The brother and sister Hongdou and Huangdou started whispering to each other.
Tang Liren knew without thinking that the two little elves were discussing eating scallion pancakes in the evening, so she coughed heavily twice.
Red beans and yellow beans immediately fell silent.
Song Zhi felt that he owed the Bai family too many favors, so he stood up and said, "Thank you, Auntie. I still..."
He just stood up, and Bai Taotao, who was sitting behind him and supporting his back with her hands, lost her support and fell down!
Song Zhi was startled, and subconsciously helped Bai Taotao up, and asked, "Is it serious?"
Bai Taotao was fine at first, but suddenly realized that he was leaving?
She nodded quickly, "...It's important!" Then she immediately lied on the bed and refused to get up, "Brother Song Zhi, don't leave!"
——She still has more than a dozen pots of seedlings waiting to absorb his spiritual energy!
Song Zhi: ...
Hongdou and Huangdou followed suit and hurriedly tried to persuade him to stay, "Brother, don't go out. There are mountain ghosts at night!", "When it gets dark, there are mountain spirits and ghosts who specialize in catching children! Brother, don't leave!"
Tan Fenghui glared at the children and said, "Those are all the Four Olds! Don't say them anymore!"
Hongdou and Huangdou quickly shut up.
Huang Dou was still young and didn't know much, so he whispered, "...We're going to have scallion pancakes tonight, big brother, don't leave!"
Song Zhi: ...
Tan Fenghui suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Bai Taotao, "Give Brother Song Zhi a scallion pancake too!"
Hongdou, "Give big brother a scallion pancake too!"
Huang Dou, "Give big brother a scallion pancake too!"
…
Song Zhi couldn't refuse the kindness and agreed to stay at Bai's house tonight.
The Bai family no longer hid the secret.
Bai Lili brought the small stove with a burning fire to the front of the kang bed, put a small wok on it, and then stared at the firewood.
Tang Liren washed her hands, tore the dough, which had already been let rise and kneaded with chopped green onions and oil, into small pieces, pressed them into round, thin pancakes, and spread them into a small pot.
Tan Fenghui carefully flipped the scallion pancake with chopsticks.
Bai Zhenggan, Bai Dongsheng and Song Zhi watched the women work and chatted at the same time.
As they were chatting, Song Zhi felt that there was something wrong with Bai Taotao behind him?
He turned his head and saw——
The little beauty was holding a seedling planted in a broken enamel cup and pushing it hard against his back? ? ?
Bai Dongsheng felt the most sorry for this girl, especially today when she was almost harmed by Yan Naqian in front of him. He felt particularly guilty. Seeing his sister being naughty, he asked softly, "Taotao, what are you doing?"
Bai Taotao originally wanted to do something, but she didn't expect everyone's attention to be focused on her?
She smiled awkwardly and simply said to Song Zhi, "Brother Song Zhi, can you, can you shake hands with it?" As she spoke, she raised the pot of grape vines high and almost hit Song Zhi in the face.
Song Zhi: ...
Tang Liren scolded, "Taotao, this child! She looked like a normal child in the afternoon, why is she now... Hey, Xiaosong, don't be angry with Taotao, she is just a child, you should comfort her, she doesn't have any bad intentions."
Song Zhi didn't hate Bai Taotao at all, he just didn't know how to get along with her.
Bai Dongsheng came to his sister's rescue first. He stretched out his hand and gently picked up the leaves on the grape vine, then let go. "Okay, I have already 'shaken hands' with Taotao's friends."
Bai Zhenggan followed suit and shook hands with Grapevine, then Red Bean and Yellow Bean, and finally even Tang Liren and the others came over and shook hands with Grapevine...
Song Zhi then followed the crowd's example and picked up the poor little leaf from the vine.
Bai Taotao's eyes suddenly lit up. She held the grape vine carefully and asked attentively: "Grape, did you feel the spiritual energy just now? 】
The vines did not respond.
——Why is there no response?
Bai Taotao fell into deep thought, and when she picked up the grapes with her hands——
The thin, sharp voice once again entered Bai Taotao's ears, [...I still can't understand, you are obviously a human, why can you hear me talking? I have never met anyone as strange as you...】
Bai Taotao, [Grape, did you feel any special spiritual energy just now? 】
Grapevine, [What is Reiki? By the way, Taotao, were you the one who let so many people touch my leaves just now? I don’t like others touching me, I only like you, Taotao, you smell so good! 】
Bai Taotao smiled, but also felt helpless: It seems that even Song Zhi, who has spiritual power, cannot communicate directly with plants. Moreover, the plants in this world are unaware of the existence of spiritual energy.
The family members and Song Zhi were all observing Bai Taotao. Seeing her fiddling with the plant in a childish way with great interest, they all sighed slightly in their hearts and then continued to do their own jobs.
As the men chatted, they started talking about Song Zhi's family situation.
Song Zhi's family situation is simple and complicated at the same time.
——To put it simply, he and his father are the only ones left in his family, and his mother died shortly after giving birth to him.
——The reason why it’s complicated is that his father is a soldier and doesn’t know how to take care of children, so he has always sent him to live with his good friend Guan Qingbai. Song Zhi grew up in the Guan family and is not close to his father Song Xi.
To make matters more complicated, during a mission, the guard next to Song Xi died in order to protect him. Soon, the wife of the diligent guard also died of depression, leaving behind a boy who was two years younger than Song Zhi, who was six years old at the time. In order to repay his gratitude, Song Xi adopted the child and named him Song Sui.
In this way, Song Xi's biological son Song Zhi lived in the Guan family for more than ten years; Song Xi, on the other hand, lived in the military area with his adopted son.
Later, Song Zhi was admitted to university, graduated, and went to the countryside again, and then he came to Ruyi Village...
When Song Zhi said this, his tone was particularly cold, as if he was talking about someone else's business.
Bai Xingxing sat aside and listened, thinking about how to contact Song Sui in advance...
Soon, the women finished baking the cakes, stacked them one by one, and placed them on a clean white cloth. Then they cleaned up the stove, pots, and other things, and closed the windows and doors tightly. Then the whole family sat together and began to share the cakes.
Each scallion pancake is about the size of an adult man's palm and is not very thick, so the surface is very crispy. The dough contains eggs, oil, salt and chopped shallots. The strong egg aroma mixed with the special aroma of wild onions and the slightly spicy taste is so delicious!
Each person was given three cakes.
The pancake was too thin and not filling. Even if Bai Taotao ate slowly and carefully, she still couldn't feel so full that she couldn't move...
She finished eating the last piece of cake, and suddenly half a cake appeared in front of her? ? ?
Bai Taotao looked up and saw her father smilingly breaking a pancake into two halves, handing one half to her and the other half to Tang Liren.
"You guys eat, I'm feeling sick of it and don't want to eat anymore." Bai Zhenggan said.
Bai Taotao hasn't spoken yet——
Tang Liren scolded: "If I hadn't stopped you, you could have eaten more than ten bowls of rice in one meal, but today you can't even finish two pancakes?"
Bai Zhenggan said, "Things are different now. In the past, if you wanted to forge iron, you couldn't swing the hammer if you didn't have enough to eat! Now I sit at home every day and can't eat!"
Without saying a word, Tang Liren took the half cake handed to her by her husband and stuffed it into his mouth.
Bai Zhenggan bit it subconsciously.
Tang Liren said with a smile: "Now this half of the cake is all stained with your saliva. If you don't eat it, who will?"
Bai Zhenggan couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had no choice but to continue eating half of the cake, and urged Bai Taotao, "Dear boy, eat quickly!"
Bai Taotao took the half cake handed over by her father and thought for a while, then handed it to Tan Fenghui, "Sister-in-law, keep it. Give it to big brother tomorrow morning. Break it into pieces and mix it with porridge. Big brother has to go to work and can't go hungry."
Bai Dongsheng was stunned.
Tan Fenghui was also very touched, "Hey, just eat yours! Just leave mine for him."
"This is not given to my brother by me, but by my father." Bai Taotao said.
Bai Dongsheng gestured to his wife, "Just take Taotao if you give it to me. It's hard for her, she still thinks about me in her heart."
Red beans and yellow beans, "Dad, I'll leave you a piece of cake too", "Dad, I've already taken a bite of this cake, can I still leave it for you?"
Tang Liren quickly coaxed her grandchildren, "Eat yours!"
But red bean and yellow bean still left half a cake each, and white pear and white apricot also tore off half a cake each, saying that they would save them for the next day.
Song Zhi remained silent for a long time.
He clearly has relatives, but he has always lived in someone else's home. But the atmosphere in the Guan family was not necessarily very good. Song Zhi had never experienced such a harmonious, warm and loving family atmosphere as the Bai family, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.
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