Chapter 122: The Old Man (2nd Watch)
Seeing the familiar alleyway, those painful and obscure memories suddenly came to her face, Xing Xiaojuan turned around in a hurry, regretting that she shouldn't have gone out.
"Xiaojuan!" Song Shilin came out to fill the road with a bucket of burned honeycomb coal, but he didn't expect to see Xing Xiaojuan at a glance.
I haven't seen her for a few years, Xing Xiaojuan is still the same as she was in school, her face is small, and she is still very beautiful, Song Shilin's heart moved, but this throbbing was quickly shattered by reality, looking at Xing Xiaojuan's current hairstyle, Song Shilin remembered that Xing Xiaojuan was married.
Xing Xiaojuan was stunned, subconsciously took a step back, and when she saw Song Shilin's young face and the smile on her face, she responded, she was reborn now, everything is different from the past, Song Shilin didn't think it was tyrannical, she didn't have to be afraid of her.
But the instinct of the body was still there, and she was very resistant to Song Shilin's approach.
With her hands clenched into fists and her nails pinched into her palms, Xing Xiaojuan forcibly suppressed the trembling in her heart and asked with a smile, "Why are you back?" ”
"It's my turn to take family leave this year." Song Shilin smiled, in fact, he had already retired from illness, and he had basically decided to return to the city.
However, thinking that Xing Xiaojuan married in the countryside, he probably wouldn't be happy to hear such news, Song Shilin didn't say much, and asked Xing Xiaojuan instead, "Are you also coming back from family leave?" Let's go and sit at my house. ”
Song Shilin pulled the air, Xing Xiaojuan had already withdrawn a few steps away, she smiled stiffly, facing that Song Shilin had exhausted all her strength, she really didn't have the courage to step into the hellish home in her previous life.
"No, no, no, I've been out for a while, and I'm going home." After Xing Xiaojuan waved her hand, she fled.
Song Shilin looked at Xing Xiaojuan's back strangely, poured the coal ash in the bucket into the small puddle with ice on the side of the road, stepped on it and filled it, and then stomped back to the house.
When he and Xing Xiaojuan were studying, they actually walked quite close, and there was a little ambiguity, but they didn't pierce the layer of window paper, but after so many years, Xing Xiaojuan has already married, maybe he even has children, he has no thoughts in his heart, and when he sees Xing Xiaojuan again, he is just an ordinary classmate.
It's Xing Xiaojuan, I don't know why she is a little avoidant of him like a snake and scorpion, is it because she still has him in her heart?
It's unlikely, he came back these days, and he also inquired about the news of his former classmates, knowing that Xing Xiaojuan was married to someone in free love in the countryside, and I heard that Xing's parents also went to the wedding, so he should be very satisfied with this son-in-law.
I couldn't figure it out, Song Shilin didn't think about it anymore, he was busy moving around now, and he tried his best to go back to the city, but he didn't want to be an unemployed young man.
I didn't expect to meet Song Shilin when I went out, and when I returned home, Xing Xiaojuan went back to the house and lay down, first I couldn't fall asleep over and over, and after finally falling asleep, I kept dreaming, dreaming that Song Shilin's fists and feet fell on her body like raindrops.
It hurts so much!
was beaten, Xing Xiaojuan desperately thought in her mind about the past when Zuo Weiguo held her in the palm of his hand, spoiled her and loved her, and relying on these memories, she could carry it again and again.
"Defend the country, defend the country......"
Xing's mother didn't see Xing Xiaojuan come out at dinner, and when she came into the back room to call someone, she found that Xing Xiaojuan was a little confused, "Old Xing, come quickly, carry Xiaojuan to the hospital, this child has a high fever." ”
After returning from the hospital, Lou Yanni and Han Rin went to the market again to buy some fresh eggs and flour, and along the way, Han Rin drove with one hand and held Lou Yanni with the other.
The two discussed the meal to be prepared tomorrow and to meet Han Rin's close comrades-in-arms, and Lou Yanni was still somewhat nervous.
Even if I tossed in the middle of the night, I still got up early the next morning to prepare.
However, Han Rin got up earlier than her, when Lou Yanni got up, the hot water and basin Han Rin were cleaned up, and the stove was still clasped with soft steamed buns and boiled eggs in a bowl, and Lou Yanni said in advance that he wanted to borrow the kitchen utensils, and he also borrowed them, and there was a stove with new coal.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face and eating breakfast, Lou Yanni went into the kitchen to get busy, the stew had to be stewed in advance, the cut was also cut, and some dried vegetables had to be soaked in boiling water for later use.
Lou Yanni has always been methodical, and after she cut and washed the dishes to be fried at noon, she pulled the curtain into the house and found out those snacks and put them on the table.
Fortunately, there are melon seeds and peanuts at home, as well as sweet persimmons necessary for the New Year, as for candy, because I don't know how many children there are, and there are not many candies, Lou Yanni didn't take them out directly, for fear that the distribution would be uneven, and the children would have to fry the rack.
When a few sisters-in-law came to the door with their children in advance and wanted to help, they found that there was nothing to do at all, there were stews on the stove in the kitchen and the house, rice was steaming on the small coal stove, and Lou Yanni had already done the work of washing and cutting, and the kitchen was clean, and she couldn't even do the work of hygiene.
Everyone had to give up looking for work in the kitchen, and followed Lou Yanni into the back room, the back room was cleaned up by Han Rin before going out, and it was more expensive than Lou Yanni to clean up herself, and there were a few plates of snacks on the kang table in the outhouse.
"This is so polite, you little pudding, hurry up and thank Auntie." The regiment commander's daughter-in-law was an easy-going middle-aged woman in her thirties, and the other three who came with her were the political commissar and the daughter-in-law of the commander of the 3rd battalion and the commander of the 103rd company.
Of course, these comrades are not the only ones who come to dinner, but the daughter-in-law is with the army and is easy to get along with.
Where did they think that Lou Yanni's hands and feet were so fast, they just needed to eat ready-made.
"Xiao Han really found a good-looking and quick daughter-in-law." The daughter-in-law of the political commissar and the daughter-in-law of the head of the regiment are about the same age, and they went to the kang when they saw the child, "It is rare for us to steal back to leisure, thanks to Xiaolou's blessing, and eat back ready-made." ”
Although she has a cloth towel on her head and wears working clothes, Lou Yanni is really good-looking, with fair skin, natural eyebrows and good eyebrows, and her long eyebrows are slightly heroic when she has a cold face, but she always has a smile on her face, and her eyebrows and eyes are crooked when she laughs, and all that is left is sweetness.
Lou Yanni smiled shyly, and brought a boiling kettle to pour tea for them, "Hot hands, sisters-in-law be careful." ”
Lou Yanni uses the brewing method in her hometown, sesame seeds are stir-fried, ginger salt tea brewed with salt and ginger, and a small handful of peanuts are sprinkled on it.
"I haven't drunk this for many years, it's still the daughter-in-law of the old Xu family who changed jobs before, she is also from the south, and she also likes to make tea like this." The daughter-in-law of the head of the regiment took a sip and praised it, peanuts and sesame seeds are good things, Lou Yanni put less salt and is not salty, salty and fragrant.