Su Qingmeng went to find Lin Xiuyao, but the door of his house was closed. Su Qingmeng knocked on the door several times before Lin Xiuyao came to open the door. He was sleepy and had obviously just gotten out of bed.
"It's past nine o'clock, why aren't you awake yet?" Su Qingmeng asked.
"I got up at around three o'clock this morning to deliver public grain, and then I came back to sleep." Lin Xiuyao said vaguely.
Su Qingmeng had forgotten about this, "Then I won't go in, you take a rest." "What brought you here?" Lin Xiuyao rubbed his face and became a little more sober.
"I want to go up the mountain with you. Many people have gone there. If you go too late, the mountain products will be gone. You can continue to sleep, and I will go by myself." Su Qingmeng wanted to leave, but was stopped.
Lin Xiuyao said, "I know a chestnut forest that has never been discovered. I'll take you there this afternoon. You can only find so much on your own in the mountains. What if you get lost again?"
Su Qingmeng thought about it and realized that the mountain products in the front mountain were probably all gone, and she was not very familiar with the back mountain. "Okay, then I'll go back to the educated youth site and come see you this afternoon."
Lin Xiuyao didn't let go, "Now that you're here, let's eat lunch here later." He took off Su Qingmeng's backpack and pulled her into the house.
Lin Xiuyao's quilt was lying on the kang. Compared to the last time he came, the room was obviously much messier, and several pieces of clothing were thrown casually at the end of the kang.
"I was too busy with the autumn harvest and didn't have time to clean up, so it's a bit messy." Lin Xiuyao rolled up his clothes and threw them into the box, then found a few books for her. "You can read. I'll go back to sleep."
Su Qingmeng picked up a book she hadn't read before and began to read it attentively. She was very focused while reading. Lin Xiuyao looked at her beautiful profile and slowly fell asleep.
It was already eleven o'clock when Su Qingmeng finished reading the book. She looked at Lin Xiuyao who was still sleeping. His face was like delicate porcelain, and he was not tanned even after the autumn harvest. His long eyelashes were like two elegant fans, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. She didn't know what kind of sweet dream he had.
She was a little jealous that a boy was so good-looking and had such good skin.
Su Qingmeng closed the door and went out to cook in the kitchen. The kitchen was well stocked with seasonings. She fried some spicy and sour potato shreds and some roasted eggplant, and the staple food was cabbage pie.
After finishing, she went into the room and woke up Lin Xiuyao. When he woke up and saw her, he smiled. After laughing for a while, he said, "Su Zhiqing, I will call you Qingmeng from now on." "Whatever you want" was a name that Su Qingmeng didn't care.
"Qingmeng, when are we getting married?" Su Qingmeng was a little confused. Why did the topic come to this?
"Well... well, let's talk about this later." Su Qingmeng wanted to get married after graduating from college. She would be 24 by then, the perfect age, but she didn't know how to say it.
Lin Xiuyao came closer and said, "Qingmeng, you don't want to marry me, do you? Are you trying to be a hooligan?"
Su Qingmeng pushed him away and said, "Of course not. Let's talk about it when I'm 20."
"Then it's a deal, we'll get married at 20," Lin Xiuyao said happily. Su Qingmeng nodded perfunctorily, saying that they would go to college by then and postpone it until they graduated.
The two of them were eating, and Lin Xiuyao praised her, "Qingmeng, your cooking is really delicious. The shredded potatoes are delicious, spicy and sour, and the roasted eggplant is also delicious." After taking a bite of the pie, he said, "This pie is also baked well."
Su Qingmeng was alert. "Your cooking skills are pretty good. I'll be very happy if I can always eat the meals you cook in the future." She said teasingly.
She doesn't want to be a virtuous woman who can be both a housewife and a housewife. What's the use of a man for that?
Lin Xiuyao was fooled. "Then marry me and I will cook for you every day."
It would be great if there was no such premise. Su Qingmeng said, "Is it only your wife who can enjoy your cooking? Can't your partner too?" She blinked.
Lin Xiuyao touched her head and said, "Little fox, it's okay to have a partner occasionally. If you want me to cook all the time, then marry me."
Ah, her little thoughts were discovered. Su Qingmeng laughed awkwardly. Lin Xiuyao shook his head helplessly: "Eat. If it tastes good, eat more."
After dinner, Lin Xiuyao washed the dishes while Su Qingmeng strolled through the courtyard. Dried mushrooms hung from the eaves of the house, strung together with string, covering the entire eaves. They were the fruits of their labor.
Lin Xiuyao came out and said, "The mushrooms are all dried. I was busy with the autumn harvest and didn't have time to send them to you." He took a bag and filled it with mushrooms. "You can take them now."
Seeing that he had packed everything, Su Qingmeng stopped him and said, "Please leave some for me. I can't eat so much." She took out two skewers and hung them under the eaves again.
After delivering the mushrooms to the educated youth camp, the two of them headed up the mountain. The autumn forest was a golden color. Lin Xiuyao led her along a small path, passing a stream with small fish in it. Su Qingmeng longed to eat fried fish, so she stopped and looked at Lin Xiuyao eagerly.
Lin Xiuyao was helpless. "I didn't bring a net or a fish basket. I'll catch it for you tomorrow."
Su Qingmeng blushed. Her mental age was older than Lin Xiuyao, but she always wanted to act like a spoiled child around him. Lin Xiuyao doted on her too much and gave her a full sense of security.
Su Qingmeng looked at the tall back of the young man in front of her, and suddenly felt a sense of certainty. Perhaps they could hold hands like this until the end of their lives.
This chestnut forest is indeed remote. Su Qingmeng didn't see anyone along the way. She felt like a little squirrel, about to start preparing food for winter. She squatted on the ground excitedly and started picking up chestnuts, one after another. She really enjoyed this act of picking up chestnuts for free.
Lin Xiuyao was picking chestnuts from a tree a little further away. After knocking the chestnuts down, he came over to help pick them up. The two of them were busy for about two hours and picked up all the chestnuts, filling two backpacks and a sack.
After descending the mountain, they went to Lin Xiuyao's house. Su Qingmeng dumped the chestnuts on the ground. There were thorns on the outside of the chestnuts, so she put on gloves and carefully peeled the chestnuts out of the thorny shells.
Lin Xiuyao said, "I'm going to cook for my girlfriend." Su Qingmeng chased him away, "Your girlfriend will be your wife in the future, you should cook for her."
Lin Xiuyao rubbed her head and went into the house to cook. When the meal was ready, Su Qingmeng peeled a small bowl of chestnuts.
It was already getting dark. The two of them ate dinner under the dim light of a kerosene lamp. Su Qingmeng felt like they were living together.
After dinner, it was already dark. Lin Xiuyao used a flashlight to send Su Qingmeng back to the educated youth point.
Lying on the kang at night, Su Qingmeng took inventory of the warehouse's supplies. She had saved over a thousand kilograms of cotton and two hundred kilograms of wool yarn. Next, she would plant hemp in the fields to produce cotton cloth. She clicked on the "Creation" page for her daily draw, but it was a useless advertisement.
Before going to bed, she thought about making a set of thick cotton clothes and pants, and knitting a sweater before winter came.
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