Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 140
Translated by Serena Love
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Chapter 140: Bonus Chapter - Tangtang and Dahai (3)
Dahai and Gu Zhili belong to the same class. When he returned to the classroom, he saw the rice ball on the table. It was his favorite shrimp, seaweed, and dried ribs rice.
The adolescent boy was very hungry, and he ate half of the rice balls in two or three bites.
Zhao Lanxiang prepared a box full of rice balls for her son, which is definitely more than enough for him. Gu Zhili glanced towards Dahai.
Dahai generously handed his lunch box in front of Gu Zhili, "Are you hungry? Have some food."
Gu Zhili took a rice ball to eat.
He Jiashu was wearing a white school uniform at that time, clear and clean, and peach blossoms seemed to shatter when he squinted. Gu Zhili is also the same. They all wear the same school uniform, but the man was meticulously neat, clean, and shiny. His cheeks chewed slowly, and the adam's apple rolling from time to time brought a subtle blurry swallowing sound, which made the girls at the same class thump with warm hearts.
He Jiashu is still completely a boy, but Gu Zhili already has a man's charming appearance. People often dare not to look straight at him for fear of blushing. He is as handsome as the hero in the movie.
Gu Zhili praised, "It's delicious. Aunt Xiang's craftsmanship is always very good. I'll thank Aunt Xiang when I come back."
His eyes were deep, and his lips were slightly ripped.
After Dahai went back that day, he told his mother about it.
Zhao Lanxiang thought that Gu Zhili was in the same class as Dahai. This is the period when boys growing up. Both Teacher Gu and Gu Shuoming were their old acquaintances, so Zhao Lanxiang made more food every day afterward.
Tang Tang also brought an extra meal for Gu Zhili every day.
The classmates in Class 3 recognized Dahai's lovely sister and was already used to her delivering meals. Gu Zhili and Dahai were brothers who grew up together, so they also agreed that Tang Tang was Gu Zhili's sweetheart.
The three often walked together from school, and gradually it became the norm.
One day, Dahai plays basketball after school, so Gu Zhili would have to wait for Tang Tang in front of the high school building. Gu Zhili, who was waiting for the first time, did not see Tang Tang. He went directly to her classroom.
He looked at the girl who was writing homework for a long time in her seat. His eyes narrowed with a faint emotion.
In a light tone, he said outspokenly, "Why, are you hiding from your Tiedan brother?"
Gu Zhili's self-confidence, so calmly pierced her embarrassment, made Tang Tang stare at him suddenly.
She said, "Hide? Hide... I was just waiting for Dahai. It doesn't matter. After I finished writing a math paper, he would almost finish. You go back first--"
Gu Zhili looked down at her condescendingly. "Well, then you will be pitifully hungry when you write your test paper. He has returned home to eat."
"He won't remember you."
Tang Tang found a bit of familiarity.
It is really Tiedan's style.
She remembered the days when he was a child and his mouth was really sharp.
Gu Zhili also said, "You adolescents girls, are you all so twisted?"
"You used to be a chatterbox, but now I can't get a few words with a stick. Jiayue grew up and became a lady."
Tang Tang felt like she was being trampled on her sore foot. If he knew that she had a little confused feeling about him at some point, he would laugh out of his teeth.
Tang Tang's thoughts went back and forth, but she still had a calm expression on her face when it reached the end. She said word by word, "Yes, ah. Now I become a lady, so what?"
Gu Zhili's quiet face has a faint smile, and the corners of his lips were slightly down.
"Well, I know. Then, my lady, let me ask you to pack things quickly. I am hungry."
Gu Zhili asked about her school work. Tang Tang was like his sister, so she honestly told him.
After finishing the conversation, she asked about the list posted for the last monthly exam, "Your English is already good?"
Gu Zhili was silent for a moment and coughed softly, "Not very good."
"If I have good grades, why would I ask you to help?"
He asked calmly, with a steady tone, not slow.
He had such a normal tone, so Tang Tang wondered whether she had struck someone's sore foot.
Tang Tang turned her head and said kindly, "You can ask help without shame. It is very modest and hard-working." She is very proud of Dahai. He would rather shut himself up for a few days than unable to do something.
Gu Zhili heard her words and was very silent.
He doesn't have to look back to imagine the expression on her face at this moment. She even took out her headphones and listened to English words.
Afterward, without any words, Gu Zhili carried the girl in his bicycle's back seat and steadily sent her home.
He said to Tang Tang, "You are still young, don't think about so many messy things. It's enough to study hard."
Tang Tang heard it. She couldn't help but ask, "What messy things?"
Gu Zhili thought of the unknown letter caught in his English book that day. Her attitude has changed since then.
He only thought she was very slow even though she should be smart, but she was too sensitive.
Gu Zhili, like her elder brother, taught her seriously, "The most important thing for high school students is to study hard."
"Dahai nor I will have a premature love, so don't help us to receive letters in the future, and don't bring it to us. Remember?"
Tang Tang nodded and remembered the two important points. She didn't need to receive the letter from people anymore, and Gu Zhili said that he wouldn't fall in love early.
She glanced back at him before going upstairs, "This is not necessarily. Dahai has never said such a thing. You can't represent him."
Gu Zhili only waved at her but did not speak.
Many years later, He Jiayue asked Gu Zhili why he could say this sentence in his high school year.
Gu Zhili replied to her, "A character like Dahai is a good piece of material for a lonely man. If he could get a girlfriend, I would take his last name. Ha ha..."
At that time, his "Ha ha" did not represent the connotation of a smile. Gu Zhili's deserted face could already accurately express his meaning.
...
In winter, Gu Zhili and Dahai are preparing for the college entrance examination nervously, and the thick practice papers they did in one semester can be used as firewood.
Zhao Lanxiang talked to Dahai about his parents' college entrance examination.
She looked up and said deeply, "The college entrance examination has changed the destiny of our generation. Your father was a poor farmer in a ravine that was too poor to eat. He lived his entire life just to work for one meal at a time."
"Suddenly, the college entrance examination resumed. He realized that this was his only chance. He sharpened his head to study and studied all night long. You know, your dad never went to school before. But then he took the exam, and he was the provincial champion. At that time, if he could not be the champion, he would not have the opportunity to study because of his family background. How many hardships he experienced during this period can be imagined. So—"
"Dahai, Tang Tang, you have to fight. The smoothness of the first half of your life is the result of your parents' hard work. Cherish the college entrance examination, don't underestimate it. It was the only opportunity for your parents' generation to reverse our destiny." Zhao Lanxiang lamented.
Dahai deeply remembered his mother's words.
He began to prepare hard. His fingers were stiff in winter, but he continued to write questions.
His parents were all those who had crossed the narrow bridge at that time. Especially when his father also took the title of provincial champion. Dahai realized that he could not tarnish his parents' name. On the eve of the New Year, a series of welfare subsidies, shopping vouchers, and movie tickets were issued to each family. Gu Zhili gave his tickets to Dahai.
Dahai left it idle in the corner, so Gu Zhili used these tickets to trick Tang Tang out to watch the movie.
He said calmly, "If you occasionally entertained, learning would be more energetic."
In the 1990s, the movie theaters were already very large, at least unlike the open-air black and white movie theaters in their parents' generation. Tang Tang yawned in distress while sitting on the brand new cotton seat.
Gu Zhili watched the whole movie silently by himself and woke up Tang Tang when the movie finished.
When Tang Tang woke up, she found that her head was leaning on Gu Zhili's shoulder. The tall man was forced to bend his knees deeply into his seat. She warmly touched her neck to calm herself down.
She felt so hot that her ears flushed slightly.
Tang Tang jumped up when she was awake and looked like she did not know what year it was, "I'm sorry, I'm not sleeping anymore. Is the movie over?"
Gu Zhili nodded. His face was very gentle but disappointed.
Tang Tang has always known him as a stingy person. Most likely, he was angry with the way he coldly snorted.
But he touched her hair silently and said warmly, "It doesn't matter. It's not a good movie."
"Go to bed early."
Tang Tang was accustomed to his cold and poisonous tongue, but she was very sad when she saw his gentle appearance for the first time.
She followed Gu Zhili, stepping on his shadow, and suddenly wanted to ask what type of girl he liked.
But when she asked...
Gu Zhili thought for a while and said quickly, "I like taller girls. Girls in the south are too short."
Tang Tang looked at his slender, straight thighs, then at her own short legs, and silently silenced.
Many years later, she secretly turned Gu Zhili's notes and realized that the rare tenderness of Gu Tiedan, the cheap mouth, was to hide his guilty behavior.
That day in the black room of the movie theater, he couldn't resist the temptation and secretly kiss her.
So that the questions she asked later aroused his vigilance and made him firmly deny it.
...
Winter comes to spring. Spring comes to summer.
Gu Zhili and Dahai both entered the examination room of the college entrance examination. Just like the tens of millions of other college entrance examination candidates. He Songbai and Zhao Lanxiang stopped their work.
Before the results were announced, Dahai applied for his father's alma mater with great confidence, and Tang Tang asked Gu Zhili where he applied. Gu Zhili replied that he applied for the military academy, which was also expected because he took a year off in his second year of high school to follow his father for special training.
Because he grew up in the military yard, Tang Tang knew that he applied for the military academy was closed for public throughout the entire course. They only had a few days of winter and summer vacations.
She sighed to Gu Zhili, "Good luck."
"Who made you apply for this kind of school?"
Gu Zhili's vision is far-reaching, with a faint smile, but his tone is serious, "It is a dream in my heart."
"To defend the stability of the motherland and protect the safety of the people."
Both Da Hai and Tang Tang laughed because their great-grandfather often said something similar.
Dahai said, "Go, defend the stability of the motherland. I will develop the motherland's economy!"
After the exam, Dahai took the crown of the provincial champion without any suspense. Gu Zhili followed closely, and he was in the top five in the province. The school produced two outstanding high achievers at once. They happily raised a banner and gave them financial rewards. Dahai took out the reward money and invited the whole class to go to the newly opened restaurant to eat casual meals.
He was so happy that he was drunk and dragged Gu Zhili. Gu Zhili called the He family to ask them to get Dahai home.
After receiving the call, Tang Tang drove to the restaurant with her father, and soon they returned home.
Gu Zhili threw the drunk teenager on the bed, covered him with a cold towel. Dahai twisted around and fell asleep on his back.
Gu Zhili's always neat and tidy clothes were stained with Dahai's vomit. Tang Tang handed him a brand-new man's shirt, "Here if you want to change. It's not Dahai. It's newly bought from my family Auntie."
She also knew that Gu Zhili was not used to wearing other people's clothes.
Gu Zhili glanced at Tang Tang lightly, took the clothes to the bathroom, and changed. He also took a shower by the way.
The boy who just came out of the bathroom had wet hair, and his cold face was covered with a faint crimson color. Water droplets from the tip of his hair slowly trickled down his face and wet his thin white shirt. The thin and light cloth outlined the texture of his chest vaguely. The cold, tall boy suddenly became vivid and fragrant.
Youthful charm and very attractive.
It seemed that Gu Zhili was going to show up in her mind every night before she is going to bed.
Tang Tang glanced over his head, "I'm going to bed first."
Gu Zhili took a large towel and wiped the water droplets on the top of his hair randomly.
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He stopped Tang Tang the moment before the door locked.
Tang Tang uttered a sigh and heard Gu Zhili said, "Although I can't stare at you at school, please remember that you can't fall in love early."
"If I found out, hehe..."
Tang Tang didn't respond to him. She murmured, turned around, and fled.
She thought that some people are really abominable. After infatuating people, they acted decently like an elder. They waved their sleeves lightly without taking away a cloud.
It's abominable.
Many years later, Tang Tang asked Gu Zhili if he was ashamed or not. He set a fire but prevents people from lighting a match, which is indeed hypocritical.
Gu Zhili said without guilt and frankly, "At that time, I was an adult, and you were not. This is the difference. Do you understand?"
...
Golden autumn in September.
Freshmen reported one after another that after Gu Zhili went to college, he was busier than other military students. He never had time to go home during the winter and summer vacations. Dahai and Tang Tang once thought that they had lost contact with this old friend.
If they did not receive his letter every three weeks, they would have forgotten him.
Dahai said this, "When he was young, he walked away in a hurry. Then when he got older, he came back and let us remember him again, but then disappeared completely."
"Oh, busy people... He is busier than our dad."
Dahai despises Gu Huaijin's sloppy words for a friend's reunion. If it weren't for the friendship during high school that year, Dahai would have ranked him behind.
"But for his handsomeness, I decided to be friends with him still."
Dahai's thumb flicked the military uniform photo sent by Gu Huaijin. Every boy had a pine green military dream in his heart. He had discarded it, but Gu Zhili had followed it. Although Gu Zhili talks less, he is also very few friends that Dahai respected.
He complained and wrote a letter about the wonderful life of a university student to Gu Zhili. "Let him be jealous!"
Tang Tang silently watched his brother write a letter, and her mind couldn't help but drift towards the long letter that Gu Zhili wrote to her in her locked drawer.
She decided not to tell Dahai and let him continue to be happy.
Spring had passed, and in autumn, Tang Tang finally rose to the third year of high school and stepped into the battlefield that her younger brother had once embarked on.
She calmed down and used her unique and careful patience to practice her test papers over and over again. Outside the window, she heard the sound of the wind, the gardenia was fragrant, and the warm wind blew people's hearts.
Tang Tang remembered her brother and Gu Zhili, and their proud achievements. Her chest was bulging warmly.
As she wrote the last line of the last subject, her black fountain pen suddenly made a circle, and she drew a small heart in the blank space.
Gu Zhili, I love you.
...
After the college entrance examination, Tang Tang added another glory to her alma mater by achieving the top ten in the province. She did not hesitate to apply to the same school as Dahai, which is also where Grandpa Gu works.
Soon after school started, she ushered in her and Dahai's adult ceremony.
Tang Tang and Da Hai's 18th birthday is in autumn. People said that in the autumn, 18 years ago, she and her brother almost tossed their mother to death in the delivery room.
At the age of eighteen, she and Dahai personally prepared a meal for their mother, and they made the cake together.
The cake has a picture of two little ones standing next to a little princess wearing a layered skirt with pink waves. In order to draw the skirt's colorful pattern, Tang Tang had practice with several cakes. Dahai has learned from Uncle Tiezhu, worked hard for a long time, and finally, he has a place to play. He made a "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall." When he lifted the lid, the whole house was fragrant, making people's index finger move.
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Zhao Lanxiang looked at her two filial children and she was moved until her eyes full of tears.
Tang Tang leaned on her arm and be coquettish, "Mom, blows the candles and makes a wish!"
Dahai very gentlemanly put a birthday hat on his mother, took the opportunity to put the necklace he bought after earning money throughout the winter and summer vacation to her neck, "Mom, thank you."
Zhao Lanxiang was touched but complained, "This is obviously your birthday. Sit down and blow the candles, happy eighteen years old, my darlings."
Tang Tang and Dahai opened the champagne, sprayed it, and the ribbon confetti flew all over the place.
They invited a lot of their high school, junior high school, and even kindergarten friends and classmates. The friends happily sing birthday songs and have a good time.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the birthday party was almost gone. Tang Tang and the aunt at home cleaned the mess in the house.
She received a call.
The mellow voice of the man is scorching and deep, "Happy birthday."
He took a breath, and it sounds slightly rushing and sultry.
"Although the blessing is a little late, I will give you a gift."
Tang Tang was very angry when she received the call and hung up.
There were a few more stubborn calls sounded, and at last, Tang Tang finally took it. His helpless voice came out of the microphone. "The person who is giving the gift seems to be here. You open the door."
Tang Tang put on her coat and ran downstairs. In the late autumn, the leaves fell on the sidewalk trees. The moonlight quietly elongated his long shadow.
Her breath suddenly hurried, and she ran to him in two steps.
She had a lot to say, but at this moment, as if her throat was punched, she couldn't make a sound.
After two years of absence, he grew stronger and taller. The boy's youthful spirit disappeared, and he became more mature and stable, with a strong gentleman's spirit. His eyes were firm and deep. The faint moonlight made his face calmer and more handsome.
He watched Tang Tang in slippers and crooked clothes. His thin lips twitched away a curved arc, and he smiled deeply.
"Little girl, did you fall in love early?"
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