Chapter Twenty-Six: Gifts for Qingming Festival
Hu Shanshan rode a battery car and drove me to a resident in the town.
"This is a faculty dormitory, originally two people lived, and another teacher was transferred. So for the time being, I'll be alone, you wait here in the afternoon for me to get off work, and I'll be back at about four o'clock. ”
After saying that, Hu Shanshan beckoned me to go upstairs, and through a narrow alley, there was a staircase welded with iron frames. Walking up, six turns is the third floor, and Hu Shanshan's dormitory is the first room at the staircase.
"You don't need to be restrained, I'm really no one else here." Hu Shanshan said and unlocked the door and beckoned to me.
A 60-square-meter suite, with a kitchen and bathroom on both sides of the door, and a spacious living room with only one room and two beds inside. I saw Hu Shanshan's household belongings on the other bed, apparently no one had slept in a long time.
I walked around and went to the balcony to take a look. Outside the window is an endless field full of rape flowers in spring.
"The environment is very good!" I say.
"It's okay, it's just too close to the stairs, and there are always people running around at night, which is weird."
Hu Shanshan cleaned up the house briefly, took out a Coke from the refrigerator and handed it to me, glanced at the time, and looked ashamed:
"I don't have time to cook for you, there are some snacks here, and yogurt, you can make a mat first. I'll be back at about four o'clock, and if you're hungry, there's still rice and ham in the fridge. ”
"I don't care, you go to work, don't delay class"
Hu Shanshan still wanted to explain something, but seeing that time was no longer rich, she had to give up: "I can't accompany you today, go to school in the afternoon to adjust the class, and take you to Lingshan Scenic Area tomorrow to climb the mountain." ”
"Is that okay?" I was a little surprised. I thought that I could only see her once here, and at most we would have a meal together, but I didn't think about anything else.
"Absolutely." Hu Shanshan smiled and said: "This can only be the case, the hospitality is not good, don't mind the blame!" ”
After saying that, Hu Shanshan snatched the door away, but soon poked her head in from outside the door and said to me, "Also, don't come out and wander around, and don't open the door." A lot of my colleagues live here, so don't let them see you. ”
I gestured to her with an OK gesture: "Understood! ”
In the afternoon, I made up for sleep in Hu Shanshan's bed, and when I woke up, it was already past three o'clock, I stretched my waist, and my bones were about to melt.
But then I realized that I hadn't eaten all day, and I was hungry. When I opened the refrigerator, I saw vegetables and meat, so I tried to cook, picked the vegetables, washed them, and boiled the rice. It was already five o'clock when these things were done, and Hu Shanshan rushed back.
"What are you doing?" Hu Shanshan stood in front of the kitchen door and asked in surprise, looking incredulous.
I chuckled, "Just wait for you to come back and stir-fry, I can only do it here." ”
"I believe in your wickedness!" Hu Shanshan sighed, put on an apron and walked to the kitchen to take over:
"I'm going to ask you to take me out to dinner?"
"Cook your own food to eat healthy." I dried my hands and laughed.
Hu Shanshan picked up my cut celery and looked at it, shook her head in disgust and asked, "Lu Xia, you live alone, how do you solve three meals a meal?" ”
"There is a canteen in the unit," I replied casually, "but I sometimes cook my own food."
"What are you cooking? Frozen dumplings. Hu Shanshan said, pointing to my masterpiece for a long time: "The knife work is really bad!" ”
I really rarely cook for myself, which is a hassle. Fast food restaurants can solve things that can be solved for more than a dozen yuan, and they have to toss in the kitchen for half a day, but the cost is higher, not to mention, there is no good taste of others.
Hu Shanshan re-knifed the vegetables I had cut and punished me for peeling garlic cloves.
She was very neat, and in a few moments, a table of decent dishes was ready. On the contrary, the rice I cooked was a failure, and I put too much water in it, and it became porridge. Hu Shanshan looked at the sticky rice and cried and laughed, and then suddenly thought of something, took a bag, and unfolded it in front of me.
"You kid is blessed, my colleague brought me a lot of rice dumplings in the afternoon."
Hu Shanshan said and brought the steaming tray and put the glutinous rice cake on it piece by piece. I saw that the glutinous rice cakes were full and round, and each piece was red. Later, Hu Shanshan told me that this kind of traditional craftsmanship of beating glutinous rice dumplings can not be bought, only some elderly people will make it, and Dian Hong is also a traditional custom in the south of the Yangtze River, and the glutinous rice cakes bought are machine-processed, and there will be no red spots.
Hu Shanshan put the steaming tray and took it to the kitchen, and I looked at the remaining glutinous rice cakes in the bag, inexplicably uncomfortable. These are all brought to his grandson by the old lady, and I didn't expect them to be served to my table by chance. And why did that person give more than half of the glutinous rice to Hu Shanshan? Doesn't he like to eat? Or is it for some other reason?
I started to think cranky. Secretly sigh that everyone has their own world, and there is no one who is the only one in the world.
"Your colleague is so good, give you so much!" I say.
Hu Shanshan paused with her hand tied to the bag, and then explained: "Oh, his relatives are very good at doing this, and they often send it to school. Knowing that I like to eat, give me a little. ”
"He's so good to you"
"It's okay! Colleagues, take care of each other. When Hu Shanshan said this, she pushed the bundled glutinous rice cake to me: "You can take these home and give them to your aunt and uncle to taste." ”
"No need!" I waved my hand and put the bag back in the cabinet: "I go out with my arms and my arms are too heavy, don't hurt me." ”
Hu Shanshan looked at me strangely and asked, "Don't you have a backpack?" ”
"Oh, I almost forgot." Only then did I remember what I had brought, pointed to it and said to Hu Shanshan, "It's all a gift for you." ”
"Mine?" Hu Shanshan put down her chopsticks and turned around, suddenly turned her face to look at me with a sneer and asked, "Qingming Festival gift?" ”
"Hmm," I nodded.
Hu Shanshan slapped me on the shoulder and said, "Phew! The ghost will receive your Qingming Festival gifts. ”
"Don't you really take it? Then I'll carry it back. ”
"Then I'll have to see what it is." Hu Shanshan pressed her chopsticks against her lower lip and began to conjecture aimlessly: "Hefei specialty? ”
"It's not!" I shook my head and said, "What are the specialties in Hefei?" The best specialty is me."
Hu Shanshan raised her face and thought about it again, humming and thinking.
"Ahhh~ I can't stand it, I want to take a look!" Hu Shanshan shouted and dropped the chopsticks, opened the backpack, lifted the bottom and poured it out.
"Oh my!" Looking at everything on the table, Hu Shanshan was surprised and her cheeks were filled with bright spring light.
"Lu Xia, you are the invisible rich second generation!" Hu Shanshan picked up a white bag and looked at it, her fingers brushing over the trademark Hermes. Crowded together with the kua bag are large and small chocolate boxes and several sets of skin care products.
"This April Fool's Day is ......" Hu Shanshan swallowed her throat and took a deep breath: "Dreamy! ”
"The chocolate is bought in the supermarket, and it's really expensive!" I frowned and sighed. "But the bags and cosmetics were taken from my sister-in-law, who was the agent."
Hu Shanshan nodded: "I'll eat the chocolate, you can take the bag and skin care products back, it's too expensive." ”
"I didn't plan to bring it back when I brought it," I said.
"Lu Xia, I really don't dare to ask for it." Hu Shanshan calmed down and walked to the dining table to pick up chopsticks. "I know what you want to say, but our relationship is ......, and it's really not appropriate to ask you for such a valuable gift."
I knew Hu Shanshan's concerns, and when she emphasized our relationship, I understood! Although she can still meet me calmly and honestly and entertain me warmly, we still have a gap after all, as she said, there is a wall between us, she can't tear it down, I can't let go.
"Da Shanshan, the bag is with you." I explained. "Don't think about it. When I decided to come yesterday, I gave myself a reason that I had been thinking about for a long time. Later, I found it, and I just paid you a bag! When I was in Wu City, I decided to pay you compensation. ”
"But this one is too expensive, and I only have a few dozen dollars." Hu Shanshan said.
"I don't even need to give dozens of dollars for this." I smirked and leaned into Hu Shanshan's ear, "I'll tell you secretly, it's actually stolen from my sister-in-law's shop." ”
I knew that Hu Shanshan would not believe this statement, but she didn't insist anymore, glanced at it and said: "One will pit your mother's money, and the other will steal your sister-in-law's things, you have a lot of drama." ”
"I'm just missing a criminal partner, otherwise I would have been well-off soon!"
After saying that, the two of them giggled, the water in the steamer in the kitchen was boiled dry, and the sweet fragrance of glutinous rice filled the whole room. A breeze blew outside the house, and the rape flowers rose and fell in the moonlight.
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