Although the weather is warmer at this time, the temperature is not much higher, and the lard pork is still fresh after two days, and it can't be broken at all.

Only Wei Lan was worried about missing the big cafeteria, and was quickly diverted by Gu Chao, carrying the basket and running in the direction of the team in a panic.

When Wei Lan arrived at Li's house, Li Sangsang was tidying up sorghum stalks in the courtyard.

The broom at home has been used for a long time, and there are not a few hairs left on the broom head, so in the morning Li Hong went out to draw a sorghum stalk as a model, and told Li Sangsang to sort out a small bundle of bundles against the length, and when he came back, he could tie a new broom.

Hearing the sound of knocking on the courtyard door, Li Sangsang put down the work in his hand, got up and went to open the door, "It's here!" Who? ”

Wei Lan, who opened the door and saw the basket with both hands together, was stunned for a moment, and the sentence "Why are you here" stuck in her throat and didn't say it, Li Sangsang subconsciously looked at the basket in her hand.

"Ahh I thought I'd have to wait a while! It's about to fire, and I'm wondering what to do, but I didn't expect you to get it? ”

A big piece of snow-white plate oil, lying quietly in the basket, Li Sangsang saw it, and jumped to his feet excitedly.

Two women comrades passing by heard the movement and looked over here curiously, Wei Lan glanced at it, pursed her lips and smiled: "Go in and say?" ”

"Huh!" Li Sangsang nodded hurriedly, stepped out of the way and invited Wei Lan into the courtyard, and finally bolted the courtyard door with a "click".

Lard is a sought-after commodity, Li Sangsang didn't have enough oil at home to eat a few years ago, so he wanted to buy lard to top it, Li Hong and Li Jiandang ran to the town for several days in a row, but they didn't buy it.

At the moment, such a large piece is placed in front of him, and Li Sangsang is rare.

I didn't care about the grease on the board oil at all, my hand turned over and over on it, and touched and touched, "You're too capable!" How? ”

"Good luck." Wei Lan's eyes bent, revealing a shallow smile, "If you want to buy it next time, you may not have such good luck." ”

Li Sangsang nodded in agreement, she is a little greedy, and she usually likes to care about some trivial things and small things, but the big canteen is assigned from above, not only about the entire team, but also about her father's black yarn hat.

Therefore, Li Sangsang not only did not dare to think carefully, but also paid attention to it from time to time, for fear that something would go wrong.

This large piece of oil is said to weigh a catty, and it must be eight or nine without leaving ten, but Li Sangsang still cautiously follows the process.

"You sit down for a while, I'll get the scale!" Invite Wei Lan into the hall and sit down, and Li Sangsang poured a glass of water.

Afraid that something would go wrong, Li Sangsang didn't move the plate oil in the basket again, and went straight to the back room to get the scale.

Wei Lan cooperated on the side, Li Sangsang weighed it a few times, each time it was a pound and two taels, to make sure it was not a mistake, Li Sangsang jumped up on the spot with a scream, jumped to Wei Lan's side, and wanted to give Wei Lan a bear hug.

Wei Lan's hand was unprecedentedly fast, and he propped it on Li Sangsang's head to prevent her from approaching, "I know you're happy, and I'm happy too, but it's imperative, let's boil the oil out first, right?" ”

Li Sangsang was stunned, patted his head and smiled: "Look at me!" Forget about business! Let's go, I'll call Jiang Zhiqing, let's go to the big canteen to clean up! ”

The grain set aside by the commune and the brigade had been delivered to the big canteen two days ago, and now in the small cabinet where the grain is stored, the key to the cabinet and the key to the door of the canteen are all at Li Sangsang's.

Soy sauce, vinegar, salt, bowls, chopsticks and crockpots are also ready, and when the oil boils out, the big canteen can be fired.

Li Sangsang called his brother Li Jiandang to fill the big water tank in the corner of the small courtyard with water, and the three girls divided the labor, sweeping the floor and wiping the table, cutting the oil into cubes, and lighting the fire, and they were very busy.

Li Jiandang had nothing to do after picking up the water, and when he saw Jiang Lihua sitting at the door of the stove and lighting the fire, Li Jiandang rubbed his head that was blown into a thorn, and carried a bundle of firewood into the house by the firewood pile under the eaves window.

There was a "bang" sound when the firewood was put down, Jiang Lihua didn't care about it, until her calf was patted, and she noticed the stupid big man half-squatting on her side.

Jiang Lihua: "?"

"What for?"

Without warning, there was a loud sound, and the other two girls in the room turned their eyes together.

Li Jiandang's face turned red all the way to the root of his ears, and when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, and said, "No, it's nothing, the firewood was picked up by everyone...... That's enough, right? Nothing else, I'll go first! ”

As if there was a vicious dog chasing after him, Li Jiandang finished speaking and quickly ran away.

Jiang Lihua looked inexplicable, Li Sangsang looked at the door and sighed, his face full of confusion.

Jiang Lihua's babbling temperament, Li Jiandang really wants to chase people down, and it takes a lot of effort.

Wei Lan shook her head, lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled silently.

With the preparation of various things in the big canteen, time passed, and soon it was the day when the sunflower seed project started.

Director Lu of the commune came specially to follow Gu Sande, set off a firecracker on the ridge, waved his fist and said an inspiring speech, and finally shouted "officially start work" in a loud voice.

The young men in the team who were looking for to participate in the project rushed to the forefront one by one.

The male intellectuals also deliberately behaved, one by one, with their sleeves rolled up, struggling to wave their heads and sweat, just to be remembered by Director Lu with a familiar face, and to go back to the city in the future, so that they would not have no way to ask for help.

On the other hand, Gu Chao didn't think about it so much.

Wei Lan and Li Sangsang, Jiang Lihua and a group of other girls huddled together and stood by watching, Gu Chao nodded to her and said hello, before picking up the hoe and finding a corner alone to start working.

This large area was turned over before the winter, and yesterday it was ploughed by oxen, and today the main work is to dig small pits in the broken ground, after which someone will come and scatter the seeds.

It wasn't a lot of tiring work, but it was busy, and soon a group of young men began to have beads of sweat on their foreheads, and it was too hot to be dry.

I don't know who got up, took off their clothes and beat their shirtless, and the little girls who were watching were red one by one, covering their eyes and looking through their fingers.

Wei Lan pursed her lips and was speechless for a while, turning her head to look at Gu Chao.

Gu Chao also took off his clothes, but he was more gentle, and took off the outer jacket, revealing a pair of snow-white pointed collars and a slim black cashmere sweater in the inner shirt.

Tall, strong where it should be strong, and thin where it should be, the hands and feet are quick and serious to work, every time the hoe is raised and falling, the black cashmere sweater on the arms will stretch out the beautiful and smooth lines of the muscles.

Handsome and serious, with a good temper, it's hers.

Wei Lan's dark and slender eyebrows raised slightly, and her delicate hibiscus face evoked a shallow and sweet smile.

Just as they were about to call Jiang Lihua and them back, a dark-skinned girl in the crowd asked, "What are they wearing?" Are we so stylish? ”

Wei Lan turned his head to look, and sure enough, most of the young men in the team were shirtless, only Gu Chao and the educated youths were still wearing clothes, and they were all sweaters and cashmere sweaters.

They were all the ones they weaved when they were in the winter of last year.

"It's like a sweater! It is only sold in big cities, not to mention in the town, not in the county. A girl with braids answered first, and scolded the field: "Didn't you see it?" The sweaters are all educated youths. ”

The know-it-all comes from the big city.

This seemed to make sense, but soon, the girl who spoke first said, "What did Gu Chao and Li Jiandang say?" They're all wearing them! ”

"Gu Chao and Wei ......"

The crowd was chaotic, and the girls originally wanted to talk about something, but seeing that Wei Lan was present, most of the people who were talking about it were the right girls, who were not highly educated, and there was an inexplicable awe of the city that they were envious of Qing.

The girl with braids paused for a moment, didn't dare to say more, and muttered: "People have been to Beijing, and they bought it in Beijing!" ”

These people don't dare to say Wei Lan and Gu Chao, but it doesn't mean that they don't dare to say Li Jiandang.

Soon, someone's eyes were fixed on Li Jiandang, "I always saw Li Jiandang running to the educated youth point before, don't you get along with a female educated youth, right?" ”

The chatter was not loud, but it was enough for everyone present to hear it clearly.

However, the voice did not stop, "But yes, it's the son of the production captain, if we are together, we can also be taken care of, do less or do some work with high wages, right?" ”

The crowd fell silent for a moment.

Among the female intellectuals, Wei Lan is getting rid of the object with Gu Chao, Lin Qing has been married some time ago, and now in the intellectuals, Yang Yan and Jiang Lihua are in the Zhiqing Point, and only Jiang Lihua joins the big canteen to do "light provincial" work.

Wei Lan suddenly laughed, if she hadn't deliberately provoked this, she could have written the word "Wei" upside down.

Wei Lan's eyebrows were slightly strengthened, and she pulled Jiang Lihua, who was not very good-looking, behind her, and took a step forward and was about to speak, when someone moved faster than her.

Wei Lan only felt a flower in front of him, and in the next second, he heard Li Sangsang's unceremonious voice sound:

"Just you have a mouth? The horn is happier than a donkey, if you want to have a donkey, you can do it, just one mouth, you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour. ”

"You...... Sang Zao'er, you, you ......" The girl with braids is called Chunzhi, and she has a pleasing round face, but now she is so angry that Li Sangsang's hands are shaking, and she can't say a word.

"Don't call me, disgusting!" Li Sangsang's chin raised and he glanced at Chunzhi in disgust, looking down on him very much, "I'm about to get married, what's the matter, I don't know what Jikoude is?" Beware of your in-laws looking down on you! ”

I thought it was a vicious battle, but after Li Sangsang's voice fell, Chunzhi's face alternated between blue and white, and finally covered his face and ran away crying.

"Phew!" Li Sangsang spat on the ground, turned his head and looked smiling again, affectionately grabbed Wei Lan and Jiang Lihua's arms, and dragged the two back, "She's just a snob, and she can't see others if she is not good...... We can't be angry with this kind of person. ”

Wei Lan leaned forward to look at Li Sangsang, "Something inside?" ”

"Uh......" Li Sangsang paused for a moment, and glanced at Jiang Lihua.

Li Sangsang didn't want to say much about this kind of thing that was easy to misunderstand, but seeing Jiang Lihua's frowning brows and her lips pursed and her body heavy, Li Sangsang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Her unsuccessful brother has been pursuing Jiang Lihua for half a year now, and he hasn't been able to get the girl to nod.

Li Sangsang was afraid that Jiang Lihua would close her heart because of those yin and yang weird remarks just now, and she would turn around and scare away.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Sangsang said: "My brother is twenty-one years old this year, and he was supposed to get married two years ago, but the marriage partner listened to the family's arrangement, abandoned my brother, and turned his head to get along with a demobilized soldier from the third team upstream. ”

Jiang Lihua's eyebrows moved, obviously listening.

Wei Lan's eyes widened, "That object, it can't be the one just now, right?" ”

Li Sangsang rolled his eyes and nodded in disgust, "It's her." But I heard that her subject went out to do something a while ago and broke her leg...... The two people who used to be tired of crookedness, today when they see her come back, they talk like yin and yang, I think she can't get better with her legs, and now she wants to come back and pester my brother. ”

Wei Lan's little face wrinkled speechlessly, what is this, what is this?

Li Sangsang snorted coldly and said with a strange smile: "But she is beautiful, although my brother is a little stupid, he is also an honest good guy, there is no reason to ask her to waste the scourge like this." ”

"Hmm......" Jiang Lihua answered unconsciously, lowering her head and not speaking.

Li Sangsang was anxious, broke away from Wei Lan's two hands and grabbed Jiang Lihua's arm, and said anxiously: "Oh, Sister Lihua, don't worry, even if the woman in the world dies, my brother won't fall in love with that Chunzhi if he's lame, you can rest assured!" ”

Jiang Lihua looked embarrassed, her cheeks were slightly red, she wanted to defend herself, but she couldn't bear to push Li Sangsang away.

Wei Lan laughed out loud, and her eyes were shining and stood up to relieve the siege: "Okay, look at what you scared, this matter will pass like this, and no one will mention it in the future." ”

It's one thing not to mention it, but how Jiang Lihua chooses in the future is another thing, Wei Lan is only responsible for throwing the steps so that the atmosphere between the two people is not so stiff.

The first two are all insiders, and Wei Lan said so, if she continues to twist it, it will be hypocritical.

Jiang Lihua chuckled and nodded, "um", and went down the steps, and then the three girls talked and went to the big canteen with a smile.

In response to the lie she inadvertently told when she came back from Beijing, when she went out this morning, Grandma Gu specially reminded Gu Chao to put on the brand new number.

Finally arrived at the meal, Jiang Lihua stood on the Xiaogang slate bridge and shouted at the throat, only the people of a few acres of land nearby heard it, and the people in the distance shouted one by one, which was very difficult.

Gu Chao hesitated for a moment, pulled off the number on his waist and blew a string of "Dududu", and the busy people in the distance looked up, he took the number, and shouted: "Go back to eat, come back in the afternoon." ”

On the long wooden table in the large canteen hall, everyone sat around the table, each with a bowl of rice in front of them, two sweet potatoes the size of small fists, and a large pot of lard egg soup and a large plate of chili fried vegetable mushrooms in the middle of the table.

The oil residue was used when the lard was boiled before, and a large handful of salt was sprinkled, which could be kept for a while, and the three girls in charge of the big canteen had already planned to put a small handful of soup every time.

The soup has a large amount of oil and a meaty flavor, so the soup in the pot is not too sought-after compared to the vegetable mushrooms on the plate.

There was only one spoon for the soup, and everyone rushed together to grab that spoon.

(End of chapter)