Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 102
Translated by Serena Love
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After Li Laifu finished speaking, Li Daniu fell into silence. After a long time, he said, "I am only half-leader of the brigade. I will not get mixed up. Let my brother worry about it!"
Then, the brigade members broke out in a fight again, and Li Laifu hurriedly left Daniu's house.
Li Daniu went to his big brother, Li Dali, that day. After a few days of recovery, Li Dali could freely walk with crutches and take care of some trivial chores at home.
He Songbai saw that his brother-in-law did all the work he wanted to do. He could do it just fine, even though he did it slowly while humming a song.
After cutting wood, he helped Zhao Lanxiang to grind rice flour.
Zhao Lanxiang wanted to make rice noodles at night, but He Songbai was very busy and tired. She would rather grind it by herself, rather than wake him up to do the hard work. Li Dali saw this, let the woman rest, and pushed the grinding wheel himself.
He Songye sat down on a small bench and wiped the sweat that had oozed between her husband's foreheads with her sleeves. She smiled at her husband, who was grinding rice flour.
The pure white sticky rice milk oozes out from the mill, with a fresh rice milk fragrance.
Zhao Lanxiang said gratefully, "Thank you, Captain."
Li Dali jokingly said, "No need to thank me. The best food I have eaten in my life is what I have eaten here in the past half a year. I want to thank you!"
Zhao Lanxiang uses freshly ground rice milk to make rice noodles. She wanted to make a cultural heritage local specialty, the famous old-friend noodles.
She cut the pig liver, pork intestine, and pork into thin slices. Then cut the freshly picked spring bamboo shoots into uniform thin strips and marinated them to make sour bamboo shoots. Add tender green bean, stir-fry them with tender ginger, minced garlic, and minced chili until fragrant.
She boiled pork bones for soup base for three hours, seasoned with more than ten kinds of spices, then she added the stir-fried ingredients. The soup was hot and sour and delicious, with a refreshing aroma.
Eating it in winter drives away the wind and cold, warms the heart and lungs. In summer, people eat it as an appetizer and invigorating the spleen. The old-friend noodles is sour and spicy. It was stimulating and refreshing.
Holding a large pot of noodles, Sanya inhaled deeply, "It smells so spicy, my saliva is flowing!"
She loves spicy food, but it was the first time she had eaten this kind of sour, spicy, and salty soup. She inhaled a mouthful of hot soup. The noodle soup had layered flavors that caught her attention. First, the sourness was so refreshing that her tongue involuntarily secreted saliva. Then, the spicy taste slightly stimulated her taste buds, causing her to eat more, and she couldn't help but stop to wipe her sweat.
The salty taste carries the delicate and tender flavor of pork, which was intoxicating. The layered flavors make people more and more fascinated.
Sister He just sucked on the rice noodles and ate them clean. She finished her last drop of soup and ate all the things in the bowl. After that, she belched satisfactorily.
She gestured happily, "Bamboo, delicious. Sour and crisp, appetizing."
Li Dali had recovered, so this is the first time he ate something slightly spicy, and his head was somewhat sweaty.
He heard his wife's appetite and stared at her involuntarily.
Sister He was blushing, and she looked shy under the man's hot eyes.
He Songbai ate very gracefully. The others had finished eating, but he still picking young bean sprouts and sour bamboo shoots. After eating, others were scattered, and he finally put down his chopsticks and revealed his white teeth.
"After eating, I'll do the test paper."
He quickly packed up the tableware, washed it, and sneaked into his girlfriend's room.
Spring had become extremely warm and hot, and the cold nights had become cool and humid. There was a very light gardenia fragrance in the woman's room.
He flipped through his girlfriend's textbooks and picked mathematics and physics. Then he sat upright and began to study meticulously.
Zhao Lanxiang asked him about the pig farm, and He Songbai threw a small book to her.
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Zhao Lanxiang checked carefully, "You... why you have no money again."
He Songbai was extremely ashamed and couldn't help but lightly cough.
"Expansion of a pig farm is a must. Now the policies and environment have become loose, so we have to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. Who knows what wind will blow in the future."
"This is... my remaining money." He scratched his head, pulled out a crumpled banknote from his pocket, and handed it to her.
The shabby banknote still faintly had his body temperature. Zhao Lanxiang counted the notes and locked them in a box.
"I'll save it for you. I'm afraid you will be so courageous to invest all your capital in the future. I don't want your money."
He Songbai squeezed the corners of his lips upwards, "It's okay if you want it, foolish woman."
'It was originally saved for you.' He was embarrassed to say this sentence. He only remembered it silently in his heart, and then he turned to the book full of energy and devotion to read it.
After He Songbai went to the city to do business, he would probably feed the pigs to death. He spent a total of half a day with Li Zhong and asked him to come back with a few pig-raising books to learn techniques by himself. Grandma is old, and he doesn't want to trouble her. So after eating, he came to his girlfriend to read about pig breeding, and by the way, he reviewed the basic knowledge.
Zhao Lanxiang didn't know what sort of door He Songbai had opened. He really studied the textbook seriously and then wrote a lot of notes.
She looked at him with satisfaction. The smile on her lips froze for half a second.
"..."
"After reading, remember to write this. Your math is not good. I am afraid you can't even read the pig breeding book."
Zhao Lanxiang pushed the test paper in her hand.
...
In the silent night, the only bright lamp in the room was placed at the table. The swaying light reflected the man's straight back like a lush little cypress tree.
He wrote the last stroke and placed the books on the table.
His girlfriend was sleeping soundly in bed. Her white face was revealing a certain degree of tranquility. Her cheeks were slightly covered with healthy pale pink. Maybe she thought it was too hot, so she kicked the thin blanket to the side. He Songbai picked up the quilt and covered her.
Unexpectedly, at the moment he leaned over, a small book in his pocket slipped to the ground, waking up the sleeping woman.
Zhao Lanxiang stretched her waist and said vaguely, "You have not sleep yet?"
He Songbai's adam's apple rolled, and his voice was hoarse and low, "I'm not sleeping anymore, I have to kill the pigs later. Sleep."
He covered her eyes with his hands, picked up his small book, and hurriedly left the room.
After a while, Zhao Lanxiang was awake and jumped out of bed, only to see him blend into the night through the window.
The night was as cold as water.
She stared at the small bright spot until it gradually disappeared.
Zhao Lanxiang suddenly heard something. She frowned and walked to Sister He's room in her sleeping clothes.
There was a heated argument between two men inside the room.
She recognized one of them. Li Laifu said impatiently, "I don't know what you are insisting on."
"Now, the atmosphere of the entire brigade is getting worse and worse. If you don't work, you won't have any food. But these stupid people want to sit and enjoy the success."
"This system itself is wrong, and it now exposes some contradictions!"
"Forget it, what I told you today, just forget that I mention it."
Li Dali remained silent for a long time, and then he said, "Your idea is dangerous."
"I don't know what you have experienced these days, making you look like this. You are irritated easily and not working hard."
"Your mother's hard work!" Li Laifu couldn't help but scold him.
"You have been paralyzed in bed for half a year. You don't know anything. Do you know how poor we are now?"
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"We are so poor that even the two cottages where the educated youths had settled had no money to cover their living expenses. Year after year, most people in the village could not eat enough food or wear clothes. Didn't these people work hard already?"
"There are five strong laborers in your family. But for the whole year, your family was only paying famine debt. The blood, sweat, and sickness for more than ten years have been spread in vain. In your heart, were you not forced to do this?"
"You, like me, have been working hard all year round to eat sweet potato rice, won't you be tired?"
Li Dali seemed a little tired, and he sighed and reassured him, "Sit down and talk."
Li Laifu snorted. He said, "You are brain dead. I asked you to learn techniques and throw seedlings with me a few years ago. You didn't do it."
"When I have a good harvest, your eyes will be greedy. But you will be pulled around by your brigade the next year. You are such a slow-tempered character, everyone else has eaten and fed, yet you are still struggling to fight the autumn wind."
Li Dali had done all the speculation now, and he has touched the door to the new world. He thought about it and quickly accepted Li Laifu's "leftish" thought.
"You want to do this. It's not impossible. But I think you have to..."
The sound in the room suddenly went quiet and became almost inaudible. Outside the room, Zhao Lanxiang, who accidentally overheard it in the corner, had a shock in her chest. Heatwave surged in her body, and the excitement seemed to rush into the sky.
Zhao Lanxiang, who heard the conversation, clearly saw a major event in her mind.
How lucky she was to stand here and witness the historical reform and transformation. Her heart was turbulent, and her brain started to feel eager. Even her eyes felt irritated.
She pressed her feeling and knocked on the door with her fist. The door knocked so late at night, frightened the two big men in the room who were planning "bad things."
Zhao Lanxiang said, "Captain, this is Zhao Lanxiang, can I come in?"
After a while, the old wooden door creaked open. Li Laifu stared at this uninvited guest late at night.
Zhao Lanxiang smiled and said warmly, "Don't be afraid. I'm here to support you."
Their discussion was suddenly interrupted by someone, and his whole body was wilting.
Li Dali, who was not good at smiling, put a smile on his face. In a muffled voice, he said, "Zhao Lanxiang, what's the matter, it is so late?"
Zhao Lanxiang said outspokenly, "I just heard your conversation."
But she paused and continued, "But I promise that nothing I heard tonight will be revealed to anyone."
Li Laifu glared fiercely at her and exhaled. "Don't dare to trust you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he took a punch from Li Dali. Li Dali said, "Zhao Lanxiang is kind to us, couple. I believe in her. Her education is not lower than yours. It's better to have one more person to discuss."
Li Dali said while pondering. His last sentence was light and almost submerged in the air, with the gentleness of the night.
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