I found that every school has many green paths. It is late autumn now, but the evergreen trees planted along the way are lush and green. The long beard-like objects hanging from the tree trunks are swaying in the autumn wind. There are many thorns along the way.

The children in red scarves were holding a plastic bag in their hands, laughing and playing while picking up the paper peels of fruits and melons that had fallen on the lawn by the roadside.

Garbage was sorted into pockets, and cardboard boxes were laid out on the roadside not far away. On them were written in childish handwriting, "recyclable, not recyclable." The recyclable boxes were filled with cans and mineral water bottles, and there were also

There was a little girl guarding the place, with an armband with the word 'supervision' printed on it pinned on her arm, and two eye-catching red bars.

Gu Qingyan shook Pei Shaochen's hand, "What is the position of the two red bars? Is it the squadron leader?"

Pei Shaochen turned to look at her in confusion, "Have you forgotten? Didn't you wear an armband with two red stripes before?"

Yeah? Gu Qingyan was stunned, why couldn't she remember? "How do you know?"

As if realizing that he had let slip, Pei Shaochen immediately smiled and nodded solemnly, "It seems to be the duty of the squadron leader!" After saying that, he walked towards the roadside, bent down and pulled out a can from the grass and handed it to him.

Children picking up rubbish on the side.

"Thank you, uncle!" Listening to the sweet voice of the little girl politely thanking him, Pei Shaochen straightened up, walked to Gu Qingyan, leaned over and said with a low smile: "Our baby will definitely be a well-educated and sensible boy in the future!"

Gu Qingyan was thinking about how he changed her topic again and again, wondering in her heart that she lost interest in asking further questions due to his words. Pei Shaochen was not idle all the way. He was not a cleaning girl.

Picking up trash is just helping

The children kicked the football back from the field and had a lot of fun along the way. Gu Qingyan followed him and couldn't help but ask, "If you like children so much, why don't you spend money to build more Hope Primary Schools so that more children can enjoy it?"

How many children will benefit?”

Pei Shaochen, who was adjusting his collar, looked up at her, "Hey, how do you know I didn't build it?"

Lu Qingyan was amused by his raising of eyebrows. She stretched out her hand and rubbed his face. She heard Pei Shaochen say with a smile: "I built it. I started building it a long time ago. I don't even remember how many buildings I built."

! I just write letters of encouragement to those children in the name of my close uncle every once in a while, encouraging them to study hard!"

Lu Qingyan was dubious after hearing this. He would have the leisure to do these things? "To prove that what you said is true, when I am free, I will definitely visit the schools you built one by one! Let's see if you, a capitalist, really have such love.

!”

This time it was Pei Shaochen's turn to be stunned. The Hope Primary School built by Pei had hundreds of seats instead of thousands. If she really wanted to go, she might not be able to leave within a year and a half.

"What are you writing to the children? Can you recite it to me?" Gu Qingyan suddenly became interested and pestered Pei Shaochen to ask. Pei Shaochen remembered the letter he sent just last week, which was addressed to a little girl.

The letter, what's the content in the letter--

"Can you recite to me the most incisive words you have written?"

Pei Shaochen choked on his saliva, the most incisive sentence, well -

"you guess--"

"Intimate uncle', ps: I seem to have made her angry again, what should I do? It's xx, xx, xxx (with a simple expression of someone about to cry without tears).

ps: We are finally getting married. I am waiting for my uncle to bring her to see you. She is very beautiful, the most beautiful woman that my uncle has ever seen. On xx, month xx, xxx (the sun is sunny, a simple little sun exudes

Not golden light but pink hearts).

...

The last letter, ps: My uncle is going to be a father. The first thing he does when he opens his eyes every day is to lie on her belly and say "good morning" to our baby, telling him that his uncle loves him and loves his mother even more!

(This simple drawing depicts two abstract trees, with a very small sapling in the middle growing vigorously under the care of the two trees.)

.......

He would never tell her that the last sentence in each of his letters was a promise of happiness for her.

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"Well, Mom, he's in the bathroom, what's wrong?" Gu Qingyan was looking at a pot of pothos that needed hanging branches on the balcony. She broke off a slightly yellowed leaf with her hands and put it into the trash can on the side.

Gu's mother has been calling her every day recently, asking her about her physical condition without hesitation. As Gu Qingyan listened, she would think of her father's low voice from time to time, and occasionally she would whisper a few words on the phone. Gu Qingyan knew it must be her father.

I wanted to fight for the phone with my mother, but my mother refused to give it to her, and I couldn't help but get angry, but I was afraid of shocking my daughter, so I didn't yell loudly.

"I'm fine. He just accompanied me for a system check today. Don't worry, everything is fine!"

Only then did Gu's mother let out a sigh of relief, and began to ask Gu Qingyan if there was anything she particularly liked to eat or if she was picky about certain things, and Gu Qingyan answered her questions one by one.

"Mom is someone who has been there. If you have any physical discomfort or are unsure about anything, you can come to me and ask me. By the way, pregnant women will constantly get bored with the things they once liked to eat, and they will like the things they didn't like. Now you

Is this the case?"

Gu Qingyan pursed her lips, leaned on the balcony, looked at the living room again, and saw that no one in the bathroom had come out yet, so she said in a low voice: "Yes, I suddenly want to eat bitter melon recently!" When talking about this bitter melon, Gu Qingyan's heart

I felt extremely depressed, thinking of Pei Shaochen before

When cutting bitter melon, she was as thin as a cicada. She knew nothing but cutting bitter melon. She could eat any dish in the refrigerator but could not live without bitter melon. When she finally learned that Mu Shuiyun liked to eat bitter melon, she couldn't wait to cut it when she thought of it.

This species became extinct,

At noon this afternoon, she unexpectedly smelled the bitter melon in the food box, which immediately aroused her greed. Even she found it incredible. Her mother was right, the taste of pregnant women is indeed very strange.

Unexpectedly, Mama Gu on the other side of the phone laughed, "Hey, Yan Yan, didn't you like eating bitter melon before? I remember that you used to like a dish called bitter melon and purple sweet potato rolls. You would eat it every time you went to the restaurant.

Order one, you forgot?"

"How can I?" Gu Qingyan asked in confusion, but her mind was thinking about the possibility of her mother saying this.

"To be precise, it should be from when you were in the first grade of junior high school in City D. After that, you changed your taste after transferring to another school. Have you forgotten? At that time, you once fell in love with pearls. You said you liked pearls and I gave them to you.

Just buy it, but you dragged your brother on a hot day during the summer vacation and asked your brother to go to the river to fish for mussels and pearls for you, and your brother still paid for it.

Your father was chasing you all over the courtyard with a military whip, but you, the culprit, hid in the house and used a knife to cut open river mussels to dig for pearls. As a result, several river mussels took out not a single pearl, but you took your own.

There was a cut on my hand, and I screamed in pain. Your father was so angry that he took out his anger on your brother. Your brother received a good beating. Have you forgotten?"

"Oh Mom!" Gu Qingyan couldn't help it when her mother told her about the embarrassing incident when she was young. She still vividly remembered the basketball that hit her face in the first grade of junior high school. She had completely forgotten other things.

Now that her mother accidentally mentioned it, she heard Gu Qingyan laugh and cry a little. It seemed that it was indeed the case, but her brother had been beaten too many times for her when she was a child, and her mother didn't mention it specifically, so she really forgot about it.

"Just let the part-time workers at home do whatever you like to eat. I believe Shaochen will agree." Gu's mother changed the subject at the right time and stopped mentioning those things when they were children. The things that happened to the two brothers and sisters when they were young are simply too numerous to count.

Well, now that the two children have grown up, it is really interesting to think about these things occasionally, and even Gu’s mother herself is amused.

It was already half an hour after chatting with Mama Gu. Gu Qingyan hung up the phone and rubbed her ears. Just as she was about to stretch and go to the refrigerator to find something to eat, she heard the sound of the door closing.

Gu Qingyan looked over there in surprise and saw Pei Shaochen wearing plaid pajamas and his hair was still a little wet. It looked like he had just come in from outside the door. He was holding a plastic bag in his hand, and he couldn't see clearly what was inside.

He directly mentioned

When she arrived at the kitchen, Gu Qingyan walked quickly from the balcony to the kitchen. She realized that she was walking too fast today, so she slowed down and walked carefully to the door. She heard the kitchen faucet pouring water.

Pei Shaochen opened his sleeves and didn't know what he was doing. He took the knife from the knife stand and held it in his hand. Gu Qingyan couldn't see what was in the other hand. His back was facing her, and his back was obscured.

That hand.

Seeing how mysterious he was, Gu Qingyan walked over. Her steps were light and she could slow down. She even held her breath, but she heard Pei Shaochen, who had his back to her, chuckle and say, "Qingyan, go wait outside.

, I’ll get it done quickly!”

Lu Qingyan sighed in frustration. Did he have eyes on the back of his head? Every time he tried to sneak up on him, he would be discovered immediately. This made Lu Qingyan annoyed and discouraged. She walked over and hugged him without any explanation.

She leaned on his waist and rubbed her face against his back, forgetting that she came into the kitchen to find something to eat. When she saw his back, she couldn't help but hug him.

Less than half an hour after she had eaten dinner, Aunt Qin, the part-time worker, had just finished cleaning up and left. She was hungry again. In fact, she was not hungry, but greedy. And now she especially wanted to eat bitter melon, and she was keenly smelling the smell of bitter melon in the air.

, I was not used to smelling it before, but now I smell it and feel that it is a strange and refreshing aroma. At this time, let alone letting her eat any delicacies from the mountains and seas, she is very interested in this thing.

Xi was keen on it, and Gu Qingyan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and squeezed her face from under his arm. Pei Shaochen sighed helplessly, and had to raise his left arm to let her come over, watching her in surprise and surprise.

Blinking at the bitter melon in his hand, he couldn't help but laugh out loud. He put down the knife and took her out from under his arm, "You're so disobedient, you don't want to eat it?"

Gu Qingyan pouted and glanced at the plastic bag marked 'xx Supermarket' placed on the stove. There was also a small bag with a price tag on it. Two fresh bitter melons wrapped in plastic wrap already had one.

After being disemboweled, he was using a spoon to scoop out the seeds and put them in a small bowl.

"Did you go out just now?" Gu Qingyan raised her eyes and asked in surprise.

Pei Shaochen nodded nonchalantly and said "Yeah", then let go of his hand around her waist and continued to play with the bitter melon in his hand.

Did he just hear what he said on the phone?

This was the second time that Lu Qingyan saw him cutting bitter melon skillfully. After digging out the bitter melon seeds, he looked at Gu Qingyan apologetically, "I don't know how to make bitter melon and purple sweet potato. I will ask Aunt Qin to teach me how to make it another day. You just have to do it tonight."

Eat it if you can!" After saying that, before the stunned Gu Qingyan could react, he took the kitchen knife and pounded it rhythmically.

Cut out thin slices of bitter melon on the cutting board, and under Gu Qingyan's shocked eyes, skillfully put some olive oil in the pot, then poured the sliced ​​bitter melon into the pot and stir-fried for a while, and finally the inside

Some minced lilies and scallops were also sprinkled on it. When a plate of fried bitter melon was presented in front of Lu Qingyan, Lu Qingyan was stunned.

She just said it casually, but it didn't take him half an hour to buy it and put it in front of her. Looking at the man standing in front of her holding a small plate in his hand to show the fruits of his labor, Gu Qingyan never thought that he would

One day, she was so moved that a man cooked a delicious dish for her. She just looked at the steaming emerald green dish, and her eyes slowly turned red.

On the dining table, Pei Shaochen placed a small bowl for her, heated up the leftover soup, scooped out a bowl and placed it in front of her. Under the soft light, he raised his chopsticks to pick up the food for her, "Eat quickly.

, Well, let me taste it first!" Pei Shaochen took a small piece and put it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, blinked his eyes, frowned, and asked, "Did you pay attention to the salt I put in just now?"

Gu Qingyan picked up the chopsticks and picked up the vegetables in the bowl and put it into his mouth. Pei Shaochen put down his chopsticks and said regretfully: "It seems that there is too little salt. Wait a minute, I will go back to the pot and stir it up!" He stood up and took the plate.

Lu Qingyan stretched out her hand and grabbed the edge of the plate, "No, I think it's quite suitable!" She looked away and added, "Pregnant women can't eat too salty food!" After saying that, she picked up a chopstick and stuffed the dish into her mouth.

Pei Shaochen no longer insisted, but sat aside and watched her eat quietly. Under the soft light, the two of them sat next to each other. Lu Qingyan remembered the last time that little Tiantian came, and the three of them ate tomatoes and eggs together.

The man sitting in front of her has always been
To be continued...