"I'm going back to the army soon, come and talk to you." Zhao Jianguo said very plainly, as if they were still living in a tunzi, and he just said hello to Zhou Lanxiang casually before leaving.

He didn't show the hard work of driving three or four hundred miles, changing cars several times, and walking dozens of miles of rugged paths, he seemed to be deliberately ignoring this, trying to make Zhou Lanxiang not pay attention, "I heard that you also played the landlord's wife in the drama, but unfortunately I didn't see it." ”

Zhou Lanxiang felt that it was necessary for her to say what she said that day again, and she needed to say it more clearly, but Zhao Jianguo seemed to know what she wanted to say, so she spoke first, "It's not easy for me to go and come back this time, if there is no major event, it may take at least two years before I can have family leave." Don't worry, I won't have a chance to pester you anymore. ”

As he spoke, he took out an envelope and handed it to Zhou Lanxiang, "This is my mailing address and phone number in the army, I know you don't need it, but I still want you to keep a copy." ”

Zhou Lanxiang didn't answer, "Brother Zhao, I really don't need it." ”

Zhao Jianguo smiled, didn't insist any longer, put the envelope back, looked at the playground where the birds chirped in the early morning and asked her, "Are you going to say nothing to anyone?" I'm going to live alone in the future, right? ”

Zhou Lanxiang was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.

In fact, she shouldn't discuss this matter with Zhao Jianguo, but except for Zhao Jianguo, no one in this world can say that she is sick. Such a big blow, even if she forced herself to accept it, it was impossible not to be painful and depressed.

And Zhao Jianguo has nothing to do with her, she can talk to him without any burden in her heart, which no one can do except this person.

Zhao Jianguo commented on whether she was right or wrong to do this, but talked about her family, "My mother was discharged from the hospital the day before yesterday, and there is nothing major except for a broken calf that needs to be recuperated." However, she was frightened and often slept with nightmares, dreaming that she had fallen into a well several times a night. ”

"In the past few days, she scolded me every morning before dinner, scolded me after eating, and then went out to bask in the sun, and never mentioned a word about dying to show me."

Seeing that Zhou Lanxiang didn't understand, Zhao Jianguo smiled, usually looking at a particularly mature and stable person, and smiled a little cunningly, "In the past, if I didn't listen to my mother for something, my mother didn't eat and lay on the kang and hummed, a small thing and a big thing, I must be distressed, and quickly agreed to her." Later, when I grew up and joined the army, she couldn't control me a lot of things, so she began to commit suicide, jumping into a well, poking herself with scissors, hanging, and once touching herself. ”

"Our family is the most lively and watchable in the tunzi, and our brothers plus my father will have to force my mother to commit suicide every three or two months."

Zhou Lanxiang was dumbfounded, how could Zhao Jianguo say his mother in such a tone? It's not that he said it wrong, everyone in the tunzi around his mother knows it, the problem is that he is a famous dutiful son, how do you feel a little bit of watching his mother's excitement now?

Zhao Jianguo understood what Zhou Lanxiang meant, but he still smiled and continued, "Do you know why my mother didn't commit suicide?" ”

Zhou Lanxiang: "Were you scared when you jumped into a well last time and fell?" ”

Zhao Jianguo smiled and nodded, "She was frightened, she was afraid that it would come true, and now she can't have a pair of scissors on the kang, and she has to ask my father to light the lamp when she gets up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, so she is afraid of bumping into her." In the past, who dared to go to the toilet and cost lamp oil, she could scold for half a night. ”

Zhou Lanxiang burst out laughing, and then quickly held back. Zhao Jianguo not only didn't blame her for laughing at her mother, but also laughed.

The embarrassment between the two of them dissipated at once, and Zhao Jianguo looked at Zhou Lanxiang with a heartfelt heart, "Xiaoxiang, I know that you are uncomfortable now, and I didn't come to force you to make any decisions, but I didn't feel at ease before leaving, and I wanted to come and see." Don't think about it, people always have to encounter such and such difficulties in the world, I can't help you anything, but I can't see that you are uncomfortable alone, and you don't even have someone to talk to. ”

"Don't worry, I'm just a friend now, don't hold back if you have something to say, you have to find someone to talk to, my friend can't guarantee anything else, at least I can help you keep it secret."

He was so sincere, Zhou Lanxiang didn't refuse again, "Thank you, Brother Zhao." Although I still don't want your address, and I don't plan to say anything to you, I really feel a lot better to hear you say that. ”

Zhao Jianguo smiled again, "Who said you have a good temper?" Obviously a stubborn donkey! Every word is going to hurt people's hearts! I'll have to think about it, this friend has done a lot of loss! ”

Zhou Lanxiang also laughed, "Go to the tunzi to fetch water, leave you for breakfast, and then you can go back." If your mother didn't know that you were here, I would have to be scolded by her again when I went back. ”

Zhao Jianguo was no longer embarrassed by his mother's unreasonableness, "If she troubles you, you will run to the edge of the well, she will definitely not dare to chase her!" ”

There was already a bright morning light in the sky, the sun was about to come out, both of them had a relaxed smile on their faces, Zhao Jianguo put his hand on the envelope in his pocket and hesitated, Zhou Lanxiang looked at his pocket and shook his head, and then walked towards the stove room without looking back, "Go back after eating, don't upset your mother in the future, she is really for your good in this matter." ”

Zhao Jianguo didn't say anything more, he really went to pick up a full tank of water, and then Zhou Lanxiang washed the vegetables and he helped to cook the porridge. Gaizi also stayed up late yesterday, and Zhou Lanxiang didn't call her in the morning, and made breakfast quickly.

I cooked a pot of yellow and sweet millet pumpkin porridge, mixed a shredded mustard greens, and made a shallot mixed with tofu, and baked the extra corn tortillas made last night in the pot to make them crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

Only a few drops of sesame oil were used for a meal, but the smell was extremely sweet, and the team members who slept almost early in the morning got up after smelling the smell, and there was no need to call the team teacher.

Several of the boys ran to the kitchen without washing their faces, stood in the doorway to see what they had eaten this morning, smelled the scent and washed up, and then ran back like a foal.

There is no shortage of tables in the primary school, but in the past, they used to eat with a casual meal and find a casual squatting or sitting on the ground to deal with it, but after Sister Lan Xiang came, it was no longer like this. Everyone set up a few desks and a few benches into a long table, and a group of people chatted and laughed around the long table, and the daily meal time became the happiest time for the whole team.

Today, with Zhao Jianguo, a guest, Zhou Lanxiang greeted the team leader, and paid two taels of food stamps and two cents for him, Xiaoshan gave his lunch box to Brother Jianguo, Zhou Lanxiang found a small basin for him to serve porridge, and he sat next to Brother Jianguo and asked questions, very interested in his affairs in the army.

Zhao Jianguo has always liked Xiaoshan, not only love Wu and Wu, he really likes this smart, diligent and very talkative child.

After breakfast, Zhou Lanxiang went into Tunzi with the change to get vegetables, the vegetables they ate were provided by the production team wherever they went, and there were vegetables in every yard this season, although there were not many, but the production team was willing to take the work for a change, and many people were willing to let the performance team go to their homes to pick vegetables.

Zhou Lanxiang nodded to Zhao Jianguo from a distance before leaving, and left without saying anything, when she was about to make lunch, she and Gaizi came back with the washed vegetables, and Zhao Jianguo had already left.

Zhou Lanxiang took a deep breath, didn't say anything, and continued to work to make lunch. After lunch, she went to wash the dishes, Zhou Lanxiang went to her shoulder bag to find a handkerchief, and touched an envelope, but she knew what it was before she took it out.

Opening the envelope, she was stunned for a moment, there were a few dim sum coupons and two catties of sugar tickets, as well as two Zhenliang cloth tickets with a total of twenty feet, all of which were issued within the Beishan region and could be used in the supply and marketing buildings of nine counties and counties in the region.

And all tickets are closed within two months. This is very urgent, these are the benefits issued by the cadres of the internal organs of the region, and the internal prices used to buy things with these coupons are used, such as the honey chicken cake on the dim sum coupons, and the food stamps are bought with a pound of dim sum and charge eight cents for a catty of dim sum, and if you use this kind of internally issued dim sum tickets, as long as five cents, you don't need to spend food stamps.

So this kind of ticket is very sought-after, and no one can bear to waste it.

Not to mention the 20-foot really good cloth ticket, it is indeed good now in demand anywhere in the country, this 20-foot cloth ticket is issued by the office of the Beishan Administration, which belongs to the internal welfare of the agency, and is designated to go to the Beishan City Supply and Marketing Building where the Beishan Administration is located to redeem, it should be the welfare cloth that the supply and marketing building is specially designed for the staff of the Administration, and it is not sold to the public at all.

This is even more unwasted. And they will go to Beishan City in ten days to meet with several other performance teams in the countryside to report and perform, and they will stay in Beishan City for three days, and they don't need her to make a special trip to Beishan.

So Zhao Jianguo calculated that she would go to Beishan, and she also calculated that she would not bear to waste these tickets.

The most helpless thing is that he only put these tickets, but did not give her his mailing address, and he couldn't return them to him.

In addition to the tickets, there was a note in the envelope.

Xiaoxiang:

I'll write to you in two months, and if you don't want to reply, you don't have to, and rest assured, I won't make it difficult for you. Let's be friends first, I'll be a good friend, you try first.

You must use the ticket, it's a pity that it expires and is invalid, don't be burdened, it's really not okay to wait for me to come back from my next visit to relatives and invite me to a meal. The first time I ate the food you cooked, I was reluctant to leave after eating, this group of students is really blessed.

I'll still call you Xiaoxiang, the whole Tunzi folks call it that, not more than me, right?

Zhou Lanxiang pinched the short letter and sighed, Zhao Jianguo really didn't write his address in the envelope, but the phone number was written, but she didn't say his address until she called, just waiting for the ticket to expire and she had to use it.

When she ran out of letters, he wrote back, but she didn't go back, and with his kindness, it was not good to send him the letter back as it was.

Zhou Lanxiang put the note in the compartment of her satchel, and was not in a hurry, anyway, there were still two months, and it would be too late to solve this matter when she arranged her own affairs.

In order not to delay the work of the members, the performances of the performance team in each team start two hours before the sun sets in the afternoon.

So the dinner at night is eaten after the performance, seeing that the sky is getting dark, the team members are leading the members to sing "Dongfang Hong" on the improvised stage in front of them, Zhou Lanxiang asked the change to go into Tunzi to wash the small green vegetables to eat at night, she just steamed the big steamed buns of Sanhe noodles, and felt that the light of the kerosene lamp in the stove room was suddenly blocked by something, and then the person was hugged.

She was startled, and was about to pick up the pumpkin peeling knife to greet the other party, when she felt a familiar aura, and then the person was carried into a hot and powerful embrace.

The knife in Zhou Lanxiang's hand fell off at once, and she was kissed heavily on the face.

Han Jin's voice sounded in his ears with joy and urgency, "Xiangxiang, you miss me to death!" ”

The sound of the accordion accompaniment on the stage outside and the uneven but unusually loud chorus of the members came in a little unreally, and there was only a kerosene lamp the size of a bean in the stove room, Zhou Lanxiang was tightly hugged by Han Jin, listening to his anxious and chaotic heartbeat, and suddenly had a particularly unreal feeling.

These days, she is thinking about him almost all the time, probably thinking too much about the future, and she has a kind of trance strangeness to this passionate and real Han Jin in reality.

Han Jin took the opportunity to kiss Xiangxiang on the face several times, and hugged her for a turn before reluctantly putting the person down, "I'll bring you something delicious, you must like it!" ”

As he spoke, he quickly took out an aluminum lunch box from the big bag he was carrying, and inside it turned out to be a red cherry in the lunch box.

Before and after the wheat harvest is the best season to eat cherries in the Northeast, but the cherry trees are difficult to live, and occupy space, and the fruits are still few and squeamish, so there are not many people who plant cherry trees, the old house of the Han family has been planted before, and they have planted five in one go, because they love to eat.

Later, when the old mansion came into the hands of Han Youde, the first thing he did was to cut down the cherry trees that occupied the place. This spring, Han Jin went to the forest farm to ask Uncle Li to help find good cherry saplings grafted by the forest farm technician, and planted eight in one go, but he still had to wait for the year after next to eat the fruit.

Han Jin's lunch box cherries are big and red, Northeast cherries are more like small berries, the small ones are the size of corn kernels, and the big ones are only the size of adult fingernails, with a thin layer of transparent skin, which is sweet and sour juice, so it is very difficult to preserve, and many cherries have been broken when they are picked from the tree, and they can't be taken away at all.

Han Jin didn't know how to get it, he actually got such a big and neat lunch box full of cherries, and they were full and complete after bringing them so far away, and there was a smell of ripe fruits, which made people's mouths flutter at a glance.

He put the lunch box in Xiangxiang's hand, moved a small bench for her to sit down and eat, and he went to brush the pot, "Is it making loofah soup?" I'm not as good as you, but it's enough to deal with them! ”

Xiangxiang didn't move while holding the lunch box, Han Jin urged her while brushing the pot, "Eat quickly, but you can't eat too much before eating, do you remember, one year you ate too many cherries, you lost your teeth, you couldn't eat anything, and you were teary-eyed when you drank chicken cake, grandpa didn't say that he was used to you eating too much, but he didn't say that the fruit of the tree was not good, it was too sour, and he cut it down and planted sweet plums the next year." ”

Xiangxiang didn't remember, because her grandfather didn't say that in front of her, she only remembered that since then, as soon as she ate cherries, Han Jin was counting beside her, and after eating a dozen of them, he would definitely find something for her to do, so that she could eat them slowly.

Han Jin saw that she still hadn't eaten, so he leaned over with a smile, "Give me a taste, feed me one, and I'll have something good for you!" ”