Chapter 138: Sister Lan Xiang, give us a basket of your little greens to taste!
Since the educated youth changed their big nose to cook, Zhou Lanxiang has had no contact with them.
After the fifteenth day of the first month, Ji Yuan and Zhang Liming came back from visiting relatives at home, and came to see Zhou Lanxiang once with the family's specialties, and also vaguely expressed their position, they had already gone home when they were replaced to cook, and they didn't know, but they couldn't pretend not to know if they changed people, so they had to come over to say hello.
After all, when Sister Lan Xiang went to cook, she patiently and meticulously taught them to use an earthen stove to make rural stews, and also taught them a lot of common sense about living in the countryside, and also told the captain that she had good things to say to them, asking for some potatoes and radishes, and even her younger brother Han Jin helped them go up the mountain to collect firewood.
Zhou Lanxiang also has a very good impression of Ji Yuan and Zhang Liming, the two educated youths, they are both young men who know how to respect others and have self-esteem, they can endure hardships when they work, they also know how to be motivated, and the most important thing is to be able to distinguish right from wrong, they came to see her, she generously accepted the hometown shortbread and a bag of flower tea they brought, and gave back the fried Lantern Festival and pork jerky she made.
She also filled them with a schoolbag full of fried hazelnuts and pine nuts, these mountain goods are nothing to their own family, they are good things for these educated youth, and she is willing to try to treat these children who are away from home as much as possible.
But with other educated youths, she doesn't have any dealings, and she doesn't want to have dealings. She just wants to spend the past ten years with her two younger brothers, An An, and she doesn't want to cause any trouble.
But although she doesn't communicate, she knows the news from the educated youth clearly.
After the four educated youths came back for the Chinese New Year, the old captain only assigned Big Nose to cook, but he didn't care about rations and firewood at all. The educated youths went back with big noses, only to find that the food relationship was in the commune, and there was only a little firewood left, and then went to the old captain to cry, and the old captain only asked them to go to the commune to handle the food relationship by themselves, and also borrowed the carriage in the team to them, and let them go up the mountain to cut firewood by themselves.
It's all a young girl in her twenties, so can't you let people serve hot water and hot rice on the kang?
But the commune was angry that they brought a bad atmosphere on the construction site, stuck in the grain relationship, and had to wait for the spring and spring ploughing to do it, they could only beg the old captain, and finally borrowed a few sacks of frozen corn cobs, and a few people sat on the cold soil kang to pick the corn kernels one by one, and had to go to the mill to grind the cornmeal by themselves, and they were tired until the middle of the night before they could barely drink a mouthful of cornmeal porridge full of corn husks.
There is nothing in the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home, and the only few baskets of potatoes and cabbage are frozen like ice cubes, and the firewood is immediately burned.
The young people had no choice but to drive the carriage into the mountains to collect firewood in the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the old captain didn't really care about them, he told them which road was easy to walk, which hill bag had good firewood, and lent them the big carriage in the team, which was also considered to be benevolent and righteous, but unfortunately, the four people went for a few days in a row, and the firewood pulled back was not even enough to fill a cart!
That's it, those female dolls still cry with the old captain every day, and the old captain cries so much that he is angry during the New Year, and finally ruthlessly, he sets a deadline for them, and he won't borrow the carriage after three days, and if you don't have enough firewood, you will go up the mountain by yourself in the future!
The old captain's ruthlessness is really useful! Seeing the firewood stack behind the educated youth's house, it got up!
Of course, he didn't really ask for the carriage back, as long as they were willing to work hard, the convenience that the team should give should still be given.
Finally, they were able to eat hot rice and sleep on the hot kang, but the educated youths found that the chef they had worked so hard to invite back was completely different from what they thought!
Not to mention stir-frying, there are no ordinary stews! Boiled cabbage and hard corn tortillas every day, and don't even cut them with pickle strips, want to eat pickles? Big Nose scooped up a few mustard gnocchi directly from the jar, put them on the table and let them nibble one by one!
As for Zhou Lanxiang's clean and tidy kitchenware, soft and sweet tortillas, finely soaked to remove the bitter and astringent taste, and shredded pickles mixed with chili peppers, there was no at all!
It's that they think it should be normal and ordinary, and every rural woman should be able to make potato stewed cabbage, radish potato soup, and sauerkraut soup, which are dishes that rural people eat every day, and their big noses are also made to make people want to vomit when they smell it!
Big nose also has a big opinion! Doesn't it mean that Zhiqing Yueyue has a state subsidy, and I don't know how good it is to eat? Why nothing? I don't even let the firewood burn!
What delicious food does this allow her to make? You complain? I regret coming!
The relationship between the two sides quickly dropped to the freezing point, and it is said that because of the big nose cooking and deducting food, the educated youth said that the big nose stole their food, the big nose patted his thigh and cried and shouted that he was wronged, so that half of the people in the tunzi went to see the excitement, although Zhou Lanxiang didn't go, I don't know how many people came to tell her.
So now when she meets the educated youth, she still feels quite embarrassed and embarrassed for them.
Especially when Zhao Jing and Han Mei's stomachs rang like this, Zhou Lanxiang was embarrassed to replace them.
Zhao Jing struggled to look away from the dining table, but Han Mei reluctantly looked at it several times. She hadn't smelled a normal meal in a long time, not to mention it was still so fragrant!
Zhiqing is now frozen cabbage and radishes, only two baskets of wilted potatoes that are about to sprout given by the team, and she is reluctant to eat more, and she eats pickle gnocchi, and she hides in the quilt and cries every day.
Today she followed Zhao Jing over, just to see if she could order vegetables, they hadn't eaten vitamins for too long, and the corners of everyone's mouths were inflamed, and even the corners of their eyes were red.
The spring in the Northeast is the saddest, although the ice and snow have melted, and the weather has warmed up a lot, but the days when there are vegetables to eat are still growing, and the grass in the wild has just emerged, and you can see a little greenery, but people can only boil it so dryly, it is too uncomfortable!
Zhou Lanxiang let the two of them sit on the chairs, and Han Jinnian made two chairs and a bench to put here, and the place here is small, so you can only put these few. Zhou Lanxiang used the leftover cloth corners to make clothes to piece together a few harmonious and beautiful cushions, stuffed goose feathers, which looked fat and soft, and many people didn't sit on the kang when they came, and they were willing to sit on the chairs.
Zhao Jing and Han Mei sat on the chairs and kept praising Zhou Lanxiang's ingenuity, she can do everything better than others!
Of course, Zhou Lanxiang could hear such a vague gesture of goodwill, but she didn't answer the stubble, and asked them directly about their intentions, Zhao Jing had to take out the letter and give it to her, "It's been a few days since I put it in the Zhiqing Point, today I went to look through the letter and found that there was a letter from Sister Lanxiang, you open it and take a look, don't delay anything!" ”
Zhou Lanxiang knew as soon as she looked at the envelope that it was sent by Zhao Jianguo, it was an envelope uniformly printed by the army, and there was no sender written on it, just a troop code, and there was no stamp on it, and a military postmark was printed.
Now military personnel do not need to affix stamps to send letters, but only stamped with a military postmark.
Since he sent the letter as promised, it means that it is okay, and Zhou Lanxiang's heart that was hanging for him has finally been put down!
She pretended not to see the curiosity on the faces of the two female intellectuals, did not explain who sent the letter, did not open it, and thanked them with a smile: "Please send it to me here, we are close, and the postman will have a letter delivered to you in the future, and I will go over if you shout at home." ”
The educated youth point and the team site are next to the threshing floor, a distance of dozens of meters, how much trouble can it be? She said this only politely.
The two didn't find out who sent the letter to Zhou Lanxiang, the key is that it was a military postmark, and she still has a relationship in the army? It is said that her grandfather used to be a revolutionary old-timer, and it was normal to have a relationship with the troops, but I didn't know if I could help them find a way back to the city, but it didn't work, and it was okay to get a military uniform or something!
Han Jin and Xiaoshan both have military uniforms, and it seems that their family really has a deep relationship with the army!
The educated youths have been here for a short time, and under the influence of the people in Tunzili, they have always thought that Zhou Lanxiang is a relative of Han Jin's family, and Grandpa Han is also a relative of her grandfather's generation.
Anyway, this is that aunt's cousin in the tunzi, and that is that aunt's cousin, it seems that the two families can be related to each other when they put them together, and they can't figure it out for a while.
Zhou Lanxiang didn't want to say more to them, "You are planing the land on the western slope today, right?" The plough cane over there can't be turned, and it has to be turned by people every year, but it's tiring! I still have to work in the next morning, so go back and have a good rest! ”
Speaking of this, Han Mei looked at her calloused hands and her eyes turned red, it has only been more than a month, and her hands have become like this! I don't know how many years I'll have to endure in the future! In a few years, she will become a rural woman!
Thinking of the corn tortilla that she couldn't eat enough, she begged Zhou Lanxiang with red eyes: "Sister Lanxiang, you go to the team to testify against us, let Aunt Chen return the food to us, she can't bully people like this......"
It is said that the big nose receives the food of the educated youth every month, but the result is a lot of deductions, the female educated youth eat a corn tortilla the size of half a palm, and the male educated youth one and a half, for this matter The two sides quarreled so far There is no result, the big nose does not cook for them, and the food of the educated youth does not come back.
It's not that Zhou Lanxiang doesn't want to help them, but she can't help them at all, she doesn't have any evidence, what to say to the team? Except for arguing with Big Nose, it didn't help, "I used to cook as much as you gave me, and I really didn't know about your food, and I didn't know what to say when I went to the team." ”
Zhao Jing didn't expect Zhou Lanxiang to speak for them at all, they were a tunzi, and they had a better relationship than with them.
And Zhou Lanxiang asked them to take it down, how could she help them? She retreated: "Sister Lanxiang, your little greens are planted so well, we have never seen such a fresh one when we go to the vegetable station when we are at home, I will not be polite to you, you can bring us back a basket to try it!" ”