"You still say!" Wei Lan's cheeks bulged, and he punched him in the chest.

People are inherently complex, and they will show different sides in the face of different people.

It's not that it's unacceptable, it's just that she's a little shocked, and Wei Lan feels that she might need a little time to buffer.

That cute little friend and little brother is, in a sense, a hidden boss!!

She used to think of herself as a sister and elder, and treated Xie Jinghong as an ordinary child to tell this and that......

Although Xie Jinghong's reply was very good, in his heart, there was a high probability that he would treat her as a second fool, right?

Wei Lan covered her face, hmm...... What a shame!

"Sister Lan, I'm waiting for you!" There was a voice from Youlan in the front yard, and Wei Lan hurriedly got up, "Just come!" ”

After that, he turned to look at Gu Chao, "Do you have to go to the post office to send a letter in a while?" ”

"Yes, this still needs to be planned." Gu Chao nodded.

Regarding the garment factory, Xie Jinghong strongly agreed with Wei Lan's idea, and analyzed the pros and cons with Gu Chao afterwards, Gu Chao was sure that Wei Lan would not be too tired as she said, so he agreed.

Although the people on both sides have already started to arrange, what to find a venue and hire people, in fact, they are only a little frowning, and the exact has not been finalized.

"That's good!" Wei Lan nodded clearly, paced to the wardrobe, and took out a small burden from it and handed it to Gu Chao, "Since Xie Jinghong can withstand things, then we must also show our own attitude, at least not to make people think that we are just talking." ”

At the very least, let people know that they not only have ideas, but also can make beautiful, delicate and durable clothes.

In the baggage are the clothes that Wei Lan made for Xie Jinghong according to the size estimated by Gu Chao last week.

"Hmm." Gu Chao took the package, responded lightly, and said, "Just this time, just let him know that you will have ideas and ideas." ”

Wei Lan didn't know about the flying vinegar that Gu Chao was eating at this time, but she smiled and nodded, "Well, just this once." ”

Through correspondence before, Wei Lan really liked Xie Jinghong, a child.

But since knowing that Xie Jinghong was not as immature and ignorant as she imagined, Wei Lan's mood gradually began to change.

She will still like Xie Jinghong, without any prejudice.

But in the end, he can no longer be treated like an ignorant child.

"Sister Lan!" At the door of the room, Youlan poked in a small head.

Today is Gu Yu, and each family on the team will send a person to pick tea leaves in the tea mountain bag, because of the sunflower seed project, the tea picked this year can be kept by their own families.

Grandma Gu has bad legs and feet, and the person from the Gu family is Youlan.

You Lan started preparing early in the morning, and just waited in the front yard for a long time, but when she didn't see Wei Lan coming, she ran over to see what was going on.

Wei Lan knew that he had been delayed for a long time, so he told Gu Chao to come back early, picked up the small back basket and led Youlan to run out, "Go, go!" Run faster, we're sure we'll be able to pick more than the others! ”

Gu Chao smiled dumbly, looked at the two figures that gradually ran away, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

Grandma Gu came out of the kitchen with a bucket of swill, originally going to the front yard to mix chicken food, but when she saw Gu Chao pinching the letter and walking out, Grandma Gu called out to him: "Brother Chao wants to go out?" ”

Gu Chao nodded, took the swill bucket from Grandma Gu's hand and carried it to the front yard.

Thinking that Grandma Gu was looking for him for something, Gu Chao explained: "Grandma, I'll go to the town to send a letter and come back, and I'll get home by bicycle for an hour." ”

Grandma Gu waved her hand, disapproving, "Go ahead, when you come back, let's see if you can still buy meat, tomorrow will be the twenty-first, it happens to be you twenty-one years old, and you will eat at the age of twenty-two." ”

Gu Chao had an epiphany at this time.

It turned out that this year's Gu Yu was April 20th.

Gu Chao turned his head to look in the direction of Chashan Bao.

On the morning of April, the sky is clear, the sun is slightly warm, the fields and grass are green and the water is green, and the tea mountains are greener in the distance.

In the crowd, the bright and yellow figure with a straw hat, bright and yellow, was particularly eye-catching, and he could see him at a glance.

With a soft expression, Gu Chaoling's lips curled upwards and replied softly, "Okay." ”

……

Wei Lan rushed to the tea mountain bag with the idea of showing off his skills, and found a corner with fewer people with Youlan to start picking tea, but after only ten minutes passed, Wei Lan regretted it.

How much I looked forward to it before I came, how much I regret it now.

Wei Lan's movements were very slow, the tea trees were mixed with thorns, and there were thorny wild raspberry trees, and if she didn't pay attention to it, she would be hooked by thorns just now.

There was no injury, but the clothes on his body were stabbed and scratched, as a last resort, Wei Lan became cautious, and his movements slowed down.

In addition, picking tea leaves always repeats those three actions: reaching out, pinching, and closing hands, Wei Lan feels even more boring.

finally understood why Grandma Gu and Gu Chao were so strongly blocking her move to come to Chashan bag with a big frame on her back.

Wei Lan's little face wrinkled together in embarrassment, and she was secretly glad in her heart: It's good that she didn't carry it......

If you really come here with a big frame and are laughed at as a big fool, it's not a matter of running away?

Wei Lan wanted to retreat, but seeing that the little Youlan could persevere, and that the strength of her hands and feet was not inferior to those sisters-in-law and daughters-in-law nearby, she was really embarrassed to escape.

Wei Lan gritted her teeth and picked the tea leaves for two hours, and when she saw that the time on her watch pointed to eleven o'clock, she didn't say anything, she rushed down the mountain with the basket on her back, running faster than a rabbit, "Youlan, you can pick it for a while and go home!" I have to go to the big cafeteria! ”

"Oh......" Youlan nodded, stretched his neck and shouted, "Oops! Sister Lan, you should run slower! ”

"Got it!" Wei Lan's mouth responded, and his two legs were already flying upside down.

It's as if there's a strand: as long as I'm running fast enough, people can't see my lazy thoughts.

Running all the way back to the big cafeteria, Wei Lan was already tired, so she threw the basket on the table in the hall, and the whole person was lying on the table panting.

At noon, the sun was bright and the temperature was high, although he brought a hat, Wei Lan had white skin, and after staying in the scorching temperature for so long, his fair face was as red as a boiled shrimp.

Li Sangsang came out when he heard the voice, and when he saw that she was so charming and as if she had been destroyed, he was stunned for a while.

After a while, he reacted, reached out and pulled the small back basket on the table, "Let me see, the eldest lady has been preparing for several days, how many tea leaves have been picked?" ”

"I'm annoying you! Mulberry dates! Wei Lan pulled the back basket from Li Sangsang's hand like a fried cat, hugged it tightly in his arms and turned it away.

The tea leaves in the back basket are pinched hard, and there are two small handfuls.

Wei Lan was really annoyed suddenly, and there was no lack of annoyance.

How did she set a goal before?

When I think about it, I really hit myself in the face!

Wei Lan was so angry that she snorted quietly, and Li Sangsang was amused by her awkward appearance.

It wasn't until Wei Lan glared at him that Li Sangsang completely retracted his teasing thoughts, "What's the matter, you've done a good job." Picking tea leaves is so boring, I don't like to pick tea leaves, it's all my mother's go. ”

Wei Lan said in her heart: It's boring, after this time, she won't go again in the future!

The two of them complained about picking tea leaves for a while, and Wei Lan suddenly asked, "Where is Jiang Lihua?" ”

Li Sangsang shrugged, "Jiang Zhiqing...... I'm talking about Jiang Cheng, he works in the sunflower seed field, and the one who went to pick tea should be Sister Lihua, this is a little bit, and she should be almost coming back. ”

Wei Lan nodded, indicating that she understood.

After resting for a while, Wei Lan got up to fetch water and wash her hands, but found a problem that made her very uncomfortable.

It is the right hand that picks the tea leaves, and you need to use your thumb and index finger to pinch the tea leaves and pinch them again.

In the two hours of picking tea just now, Wei Lan's thumb and index fingertips and fingertips had already been blackened, and she thought it was dust on the tea leaves, but now she soaked in water for a long time and found that she couldn't wash it off, so she realized the problem.

Wei Lan didn't believe in evil, and tried it with the lard pancreas that used the big canteen to wash his hands, but it didn't work, and he used the soil method commonly used by the brigade, mud, and plant ash to test it successively, but it still didn't work.

The color on the fingers did not fall off at all, and they were even a little swollen from rubbing.

Looking at the dirty fingertips and the black fingers, Wei Lan suddenly became irritable, and his hand smashed back into the basin, splashing everywhere.

"What's wrong?"

As Jiang Lihua entered the house, Wei Lan hurriedly withdrew her hand and shook her head, "No, it's nothing." ”

Jiang Lihua has changed a lot in the past six months, and the first and most obvious point is that her hands and feet are neat and she can endure hardships.

After picking the tea leaves in the morning, her results are much better than Wei Lan's, the back basket is larger than Wei Lan's, and the tea leaves in it are also half of the back basket.

Jiang Lihua came back with a pinch, she was thirsty, she went into the house and drank a big bowl of water, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Okay sisters, start working!" ”

……

After finishing the affairs of the big canteen, Wei Lan was in a depressed mood and went home without eating.

Grandma Gu was mending a torn gown in the courtyard, and she was a little surprised to see Wei Lan come back, "Why is it so early today?" Didn't eat in the cafeteria? ”

Wei Lan tugged at the corners of her mouth, "I've eaten Grandma." ”

After saying that, he plunged into the house and went back to his room.

Grandma Gu stopped sewing and mending, and looked at the empty hall, a little confused.

Sometimes the door in the courtyard "creaked", and Grandma Gu looked back, "Brother Chao'er is also back!" ”

"Well, I'll just come back and have a look." As he spoke, he also plunged into the house, and there was no one.

Gu Chao sent a letter back in the morning, and went directly to work in the field, and went to the big canteen to eat at noon as usual, but he didn't see Wei Lan, and asked Jiang Lihua to know that Wei Lan came back first.

Li Sangsang revealed that Wei Lan's mood was not high, and Gu Chao was a little uneasy, so he wanted to come back and have a look.

The wooden door was closed, and the darkness inside could be faintly seen through the cracks.

Gu Chao wasn't sure if Wei Lan was taking a nap or what, so he finally didn't suppress the worry in his heart and knocked on the door, "Huh?" ”

The curtains in the room were tightly drawn, the young girl was lying on the bed, and the mood of the person who had always been sunny seemed to have fallen into a trough overnight.

Wei Lan's body moved, and he rested his head on the pillow, revealing a half-melancholy face, "Huh? ”

"Open the door."

"Don't." Wei Lan raised her eyebrows, refusing simply.

There was silence outside the door, she thought that Gu Chao was gone, and she felt even more depressed in her heart, and in the next second, she suddenly heard the door panel "cluck", and then the light source spilled in.

Wei Lan was stunned for a moment, turned over his mount and looked back, Gu Chao actually unloaded the door panel!

The man leaned the door panel to the side, his face grim and heavy.

Wei Lan instantly used the ostrich and sold it miserably, "Brother Chao, I, I'm just in a bad mood, I want to stay alone for a while......"

Gu Chao sat on the edge of the bed next to Wei Lan, hooked his head to look at the ground, and didn't speak for a long time.

The two were silent side by side for a moment, and Gu Chao suddenly spoke: "Youlan is eleven years old, even if she is not happy or unhappy, she will not lock herself in the house. ”

The words to be explained were stuck in his throat, Wei Lan suddenly lost his voice, and the whole person was out of strength, and sat there with a sad face.

She didn't know what was wrong with her, it was as if an inexplicable negative emotion was surging up.

irritability, panic, restlessness......

However, obviously this month, the eldest aunt has just left.

Wei Lan couldn't find a reason to explain the sudden burst of negative emotions.

"You want to be alone for a while, you can be in the room, you can be in the backyard, I will give you space, give you time, and it won't bother you." Gu Chao turned his head and looked at Wei Lan with dark and deep eyes, "But don't close yourself, I'll be worried, grandma and so will they." ”

As if to fulfill Gu Chao's words, Grandma Gu's voice came from the kitchen, "Wei Lan, Grandma has ordered a pot of shredded pork noodles, get up and eat some?" ”

Wei Lan was stunned, looked sideways at Gu Chao, her eyes were shining, and the next second there were crystal tears, "Brother Chao, I ......"

"No one blames you." Gu Chao interrupted Wei Lan's words, and his rough fingers gently wiped away the crystal tears from the corners of her eyes, "What makes you feel bad, you can tell me, what you can't solve, I'll solve it, I can't solve it, let's figure it out together, huh?" ”

"Hmm......" Wei Lan sobbed and shook his head, his little hands nested into fists to wipe his tears, innocent and fragile, completely opposite to the usual sunny and pampered appearance, the small whimpering sound was heartbreaking, "I don't know, I just, I'm afraid." ”

"Afraid of what?" Gu Chao patted her on the back to soothe, but Wei Lan just shook her head and said "I don't know" while shedding tears.

I don't know what I'm afraid of, but I'm afraid.

It's as if a mountain suddenly pressed up invisibly, and my heart was depressed.

Gu Chao saw that he really couldn't ask, and he was afraid that Wei Lan would think deeply and his mood would be worse, so he accepted his mind to ask.

Patiently accompanied Wei Lan to comfort him, and when he saw that Wei Lan had the tendency to stop crying, Gu Chao immediately turned around and said, "Do you remember what day tomorrow is?" ”

"Huh?" Wei Lan was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Brother Chao's birthday." ”

Before in Beijing, Wei Xueliang asked Gu Chao's age, and when Gu Chao said that he would be twenty-one years old on April 21, Wei Lan kept remembering.

And because the wedding day of Wei Lin and Song Qi was also set on April 21, Wei Lan remembered it very clearly, and even began to think about how to arrange Gu Chao's birthday a few days ago.

(End of chapter)