Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 26
Translated by Serena Love
Thank you to Soupysuspicions for proofreading this chapter.
At this moment, Pan Yuhua's second sister, Pan Yu, was looking for He Songbai's shadow in the crowd.
Such a proud person was splashed with dirty things by her sister-in-law. He must be very sad at this moment! Pan Yu couldn't wait to help shoulder everything he encountered. She was ashamed and blamed herself. Her brother and sister-in-law would never understand how precious He Songbai was!
Pan Yu's heart was like a blazing inferno. She couldn't wait to find He Songbai in order to apologize to him for her brother's behavior!
Soon Pan Yu met the person she was looking for, on the way to the He family's house.
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She quickly took out a bottle of medicine from her schoolbag and said with a whisper, "Grandma Li's leg has probably been hurting again recently. I heard people say that by giving the elderly more calcium supplements, their hands and feet will not hurt as much. I went to the pharmacy to buy these calcium tablets. Take them back and give it to her..."
He Songbai has just pulled himself out of the embarrassments and self-consciousness from being "peeped at in the bath". His whole body was still hot all over. But he saw the calcium supplements in Pan Yu's hand, and he simply refused, "No. I still have something to do."
Pan Yu blushed a little, and her eyes were a little hot and humid. "Yes, I'm sorry."
"My brother was wrong to treat you like that... they, they don't understand! I apologize on their behalf. It was me, I was too selfish."
He Songbai who was about to walk away, stopped.
Pan Yu gazed affectionately at this thin man. She looked at his deep and delicate eyes, and summoned the courage to say, "I will be your wife."
He Songbai felt like he was struck by lightning.
Pan Yu used what little courage she had left as a young girl to say, "I don't think your family is poor, nor do I care about your family's background. If you are willing to be my man, go find a matchmaker to talk to my parents. I don't want your gift money, I just want you."
He Songbai paled, his expression was stiff, as if he'd seen a ghost, his thin lips squirmed as he tried to find something to say.
After a long time, he said, "I don't know why you would have such strange thoughts, but you better dispel them at once, because it is impossible!"
He Songbai paused before continuing fiercely, "Don't come to see me in the future."
Pan Yu stayed rooted to the spot alone and began crying sadly.
...
He Songbai originally planned to go home, but when he was about to enter the house, he suddenly changed direction and went to the captain's house.
Li Dali's family was about to have lunch. He saw He Songbai coming and asked, "What's the matter?"
He Songbai did not speak.
Li Dali looked at the tall, thin young man in front of him and knew that he had something to say, but he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. The young man's eyes looked at him expectantly, but then He Songbai bowed his head and kicked the stone casually. Li Dali's impression of him had always been a violent and lonely backward person.
But today Li Dali changed his mind a little bit about this young man. He saw that when he was splashed with urine, he still continued to do the review without changing his expression. Li Dali was willing to be more patient with him.
He smiled heartily and praised without hesitation, "What you said at the meeting today is really good, and you can even quote the chairman's words. It was the performance of a person of culture!"
"The thought in your review is correct, and your direction is also right. Go in the direction you mentioned earlier and don't be discouraged! Keep working hard!"
After Li Dali finished his speech, He Songbai looked at him embarrassedly. He whispered faintly, "Can you give me another job?"
His low voice was full of helplessness.
Li Dali was stunned, and his eyes flashed with caution.
He Songbai paused then and quickly explained with frustration, "I have been assigned that job by the commune since I was sixteen, and it has not changed ever since. The fifth-grade field at the foot of Niujiao Mountain is only giving me five points. I'm the only one that do this kind of job."
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"The land is not good, carrying water back and forth is difficult, and the work is exhausting. But, at the end of the year, after all that hard work, I only get a little bit of food distributed to me."
It is very common for an adult to work hard for five points of work. If you can't finish five points worth of work, then you are not capable of stronger labor. But the five-point work in the fifth-grade field that He Songbai's does was different. There are first-grade paddy fields, second-grade paddy fields, third-grade drylands, fourth-grade, then fifth-grade fields... When it comes to the fifth-grade field, it is basically a barren land with very low efficiency. It was almost impossible to grow crops there. If the waterwheel cannot be used to irrigate the land, you have to rely on manpower and it was particularly tiring.
Li Dali only took over the responsibility of being captain in the past two years. He had basically changed the majority of the unreasonable agricultural arrangements, but... He Songbai had never come to him or complained, so Li Dali had never thought about his situation.
The entire production team had no less than 100 people, where would Li Dali have so much spare time to adjust each of people's livelihoods one by one? It would be best if no one ever came to him to complain!
However, at the moment, Li Dali, after listening to the youth's explanation, was ashamed of his own negligence.
His eyes deepened and he said, "This..."
"Then I will change it for you. That fifth-grade place is really not good. Fifth-grade place..."
Most fifth-grade land in the village are completely uncultivated wasteland. Everyone was rushing to work in the first-grade and second-grade fields, but there are still plenty of third-grade and fourth-grade fields available.
"Never mind that piece of land. When the paddy field on the mountain opens up, everyone will not have to work so hard. Everyone will be trying to plant the paddy field." Li Dali said.
He Songbai heard these words and was surprised as if his whole body was shocked by a jolt of electricity. He couldn't believe it, but his ears had indeed hear these words! At this moment, his whole body seemed to be infused with a burning force, and he felt an unbelievable warmth. What an overwhelmingly excitable yet pleasant feeling! His heart was hot, and he sincerely said to Li Dali, "Thank you!"
He had remembered Zhao Lanxiang's words. After finishing the review, he planned to come to the captain to mention what he had always wanted to say but could not put into words before. He Songbai just wanted to give it a try, just to give it a try. It probably wouldn't work, but what if the captain actually agreed to change his job? He had fought hard and returned with a sigh of relief!
He Songbai, who had received an affirmative answer, felt as if his heart had leaped over the moon! Everything seemed bright and fluttering as if his entire body were weightless. It was hard for him to believe that this is reality and not just a dream!
Li Dali replied, "Go back and work hard."
"Alright."
He Songbai returned home very, very happily.
After finishing lunch, Zhao Lanxiang heard the movements outside and peeked out the window. She saw the man, who seemingly refused to come home, had finally came back. She quietly waved at him from the window.
Her white wrist waved vigorously, blindingly dazzling under the sun, making it hard to ignore. Even so, He Songbai walked past her daringly.
Zhao Lanxiang examined the man's clothes that were finally beginning to dry, and said abruptly, "Take off your clothes, I will patch them up for you."
He Songbai's ears quickly turned into a suspicious shade of red.
The clothes he is wearing today was torn when he had been collecting firewood, she must have seen the holes!
He Songbai's only decent clothes were scrapped on the day he fell off the bike on the way to the black market. Today, when he went to a review meeting, he deliberately wore a set of "fairly decent" clothes to the stage. Actually, the underarm of this shirt was broken, but people could only see it if he rose his arms above his head.
This woman must have found it while she was washing his clothes earlier at the riverbank.
Zhao Lanxiang pushed and shoved him, urging, "Hurry up. I am your girlfriend. Why can't I fix your clothes? If you don't hand them over quickly, I'll have to take them off you myself."
He Songbai, who heard her words, suddenly felt his refusal was caught in his throat. He swallowed down his disapproval, lowered his eyes and embarrassingly said, "You wait."
So, He Songbai ran into his room and locked the door. His mood had undergone sharp ups and downs. After half a day, he was exhausted. He lay in bed and a sudden burst of fatigue struck him, making him drowsy.
'Clothes?'
It was impossible to let Zhao Lanxiang sew his clothes. A man's clothes could only be sewed by his wife. He is unmarried, she is not married, it is best to keep a little distance! He was truly afraid of her burning enthusiasm. Her sticky, sweet and fragrant energy that made him realize the soft and beautiful ambiance of a woman at first sight. This feeling was like poison. As soon as he had a taste, he was infected. After all, he is still a normal man!
So... He Songbai, with such a bold and aggressive mind, took a long nap.
When he woke up, he found that the door of his room was cracked open, allowing the dazzling sunlight to pour in through the slit of the door, enveloping the room in a golden hue.
He Songbai rubbed his groggy head and saw an image. He was blurred by sleepiness and thought that it could only be an illusion.
In the warm, plentiful afternoon sunlight, he saw the profile of a beautiful woman sitting beside his window and threading a needle. Her eyebrows delicately framed her lowered eyes, as she focused on the dusty rag in her lap. The slender and verdant hands seemed to glow in the dazzling sunlight, making even the rags held by those hands seemed pleasing to the eye.
The thick, rough homespun cloth was pierced by her needle with a muffled prick. The shirt had previously mended again and again with dense, reliable stitches by He Songbai's attentive elder sister. The woman in front of him used the needle and thread in her hand to pass through the cloth. The thick and heavy texture made this task into a stubborn struggle.
He Songbai rubbed his eyes again, and his breathing became a little heavy.
The woman by the window, seemed to have heard him. She suddenly turned her head, and their eyes met.
Zhao Lanxiang said angrily, "Here, your courage is getting bigger now."
"I asked you to hand over your clothes and let me mend it, and what were you doing? You were sleeping!"
He Songbai's temple began to ache. His voice was a bit hoarse as he asked, a little nervously, "You, why are you here?"
Zhao Lanxiang threw the rag in her hand onto the bed. Her willow-like eyebrows raised in anger and said, "Of course to sew your clothes and take care of you! I am worried that you have to wear torn clothes, but what about you..."
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"Okay, I know. You tried to avoid me. If I didn't say that elder sister came last time, you would have continued to pretend to be sleeping and refused to open the door!"
The woman's usually docile voice was louder than ever, and it pierced people's hearts.
He Songbai coughed awkwardly and said, "No, but I, I think it's still good to pay attention to distance. Otherwise..."
Before he finished speaking, his words were drowned in the soft lips of the woman.
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