Although Gu Xingze's constant barking was annoying, Yun Shu was still prepared to let him have a New Year's Eve dinner since he was a visitor from afar.
"Two people, keep it simple."
Gu Xingze had no objection and followed her into the kitchen: "Can you cook?"
I usually only wash fruits at home, and the processing of ingredients is limited to putting cold dishes in the microwave.
Yun Shu still had a dull expression on her face, expressing the highest level of contempt.
"Otherwise I'll starve to death when I'm alone?"
Gu Xingze stopped questioning and sat down to ask her how to make a fire.
"If you do this again and again, if you can't order it, don't eat."
"... Pressure teaching method? OK, I'll try it."
She pinched off the two green onions in the jar in front of the stove and asked, "Do you eat sour radish?"
"I don't eat much."
"Then I'll add two more."
"..."
"Do you want it spicy? Very, very spicy."
"A little less is fine."
“But only the very spicy ones.”
"..." Gu Xingze laughed angrily, "Did you do it on purpose?"
She said nothing and grabbed a fish from the water tank next to her with both hands.
Gu Xingze frowned: "Must you eat fish?"
He now dislikes fish, especially grass carp with black belly.
Yun Shu glanced at him and cut off the fish head with one knife.
"You don't have to eat it."
"...Your posture doesn't seem like something I can choose."
How could the slender and weak fingers on his shoulders be so strong?
The fire was burning brightly, so Yun Shu poured a bowl of chopped sour food into the oil. The hot, sour, and salty flavor suddenly appeared, and the smoke quickly filled the entire kitchen.
Then she dropped the shovel and ran out.
Gu Xingze didn't know what she was doing. He choked and coughed, and was about to stand up to find her.
As soon as he stood up, Yun Shu showed half of his face from the door and said to him: "Stir fry, be careful not to let the oil fly out."
"..." He stood for two seconds, and his angry laughter was not enough to express his emotions.
After working in the small and dark kitchen for an hour, it was already completely dark outside.
The lights were turned on in the main room, and Gu Xing put the dishes on the table. He looked at the person who was lowering her head to share the dishes and gave her a nod on the side of the face.
Yun Shu raised her hand and rubbed it: "What are you doing?"
"I've only been back for a few days and I've already lost some weight."
She ignored these words, took out the fish tail she had just cut off, stepped on the threshold, and tiptoed against the top of the door.
With a "click", Gu Xingze leaned against the door, took a photo, and asked her, "Why are you so close?"
"There is more than enough every year." She did this seriously, and after finishing posting, she took two steps away to check the height.
Gu Xingze raised his chin and motioned behind her: "Someone is coming."
Those who came were Sister Yunduo and Second Brother, who were sent by Sanniang to deliver food and inquire about the situation.
"My mother said you definitely didn't make these reunion dishes and asked us to send some over. You just made a fish?"
Yun Shu: "He only likes to eat fish."
Gu Xingze took the responsibility, and when he looked over, he met the eyes of the two people who were secretly sizing them up. The other people hurriedly lowered their eyes, not daring to look at each other.
He didn't say anything and took the food bowl from her hand.
The dishes are very unique, including a bowl of golden egg skin wrapped with meat, cut into thick slices, and the aroma is fragrant.
When people left, he pointed at the dish and asked, "What is this?"
"Fragrant bowl, braised pork."
Yun Shu asked him to taste a piece, and then said with a normal expression: "Sanniang and the others must not have done much. They gave us half a bowl, which is not enough for the five of them. Come with me tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings."
The gesture of arranging household chores was very novel. Gu Xingze nodded in agreement and asked again: "In what capacity?"
"man."
"What man?"
"My man," she glanced at him, "talks a lot and eats."
Gu Xingze fed her a piece of fish with a smile in his eyes.
He was sitting under the lamp, and Yun Shu could see clearly that his expensive clothes, handsome face, and the car outside were all out of place here.
The noble young man really didn't fit in with the dilapidated earthen house. As she was eating, she suddenly asked: "What was the first thing you felt when you walked in here?"
I thought he would say it was dirty, broken, or something else to get rid of it, but after thinking about it, he said: "Build the road and plan it, and this place should be developed into a cash crop planting area."
She was stunned for a moment: "...is it okay?"
"Yes. Provincial and municipal levels have agricultural support policies for villages and towns. If the measured soil quality is suitable and there are roads, trial planting can be carried out soon."
She knew about road construction. She brought the card when she came back, just to spend the remaining two million on it. But she never thought about cash crops.
She blinked slowly and poked the rice twice with her chopsticks: "Then I'll try asking the party secretary to apply... What else can you do? Don't you think there's a big difference between this place and where you live?"
Gu Xingze roughly understood what she wanted to say, stared at her steadily and said:
"Haicheng was also a small village in the beginning, and it was slowly developed because of its good location. When I have the ability to transform an unsatisfactory place into a promising place, I will not dislike any environment. What's more,
You are here."
She slowly took a mouthful of rice and said softly, "Oh."
She was still intolerant of love talk and acted like an automatic filtering robot. Gu Xingze fed her another piece of fish and turned to the topic he was interested in: "What are your plans for tomorrow?"
"My parents' graves need to be laid with new soil, and you have to do it."
"What's the meaning?"
"My son-in-law has to press the soil. This is a custom. Do you want to do it?" she asked casually while picking up vegetables.
It seems that this is not an important thing, he doesn't want to do it and others do it.
Gu Xingze looked at her curled and trembling eyelashes, put a piece of meat wrapped in egg skin in her bowl, and casually said as if chatting about something commonplace: "Do. What preparations should I make?"
"I'm ready."
"Hmm. Where should I sleep tonight?"
She paused with her chopsticks: "My room. I didn't know you were coming. Only one room has been cleaned up."
"Sleep with you?"
She always said it a little bitterly. She raised her head and said with a wooden face: "You sleep on the floor."
"Can you bear it?"
"Have no patience. I can step on you even if I get up in the middle of the night."
No matter how he heard it, Gu Xingze could only hear it as cute. He couldn't help it and laughed so much that his shoulders shook.
Of course, he still qualified to go to bed at night.
The warm fragrance of nephrite was in his arms, and Yun Shu pressed against his heart, telling him about family affairs.
Gu Xingze listened and stroked her hair gently.
"Then how should I introduce myself to my uncle and aunt tomorrow?"
"No introduction is needed. They don't want to hear your voice yet, they just want to hear me."
"...Okay, I'll be a tool to press the soil. I'll pay New Year's greetings tomorrow. I'll bring some New Year's gifts. It depends on what you mean."
She simply talked about her relationship with everyone.
The sound, neither high nor low, was very hypnotic in the dead of night. Gu Xingze had been rushing for two days and had only slept on the plane. He was already very tired. It didn't take long for his breathing to become steady.
Yun Shu looked at his deep brows and eyes close at hand, traced them gently with her fingers, then pulled up the quilt, buried her in his arms and fell asleep.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yun Shu took Gu Xingze up the mountain and found two tombs on the back side of the mountain.
They are next to each other, a bit crude, and the yellow straw paper on the tomb can no longer be seen clearly.
Gu Xing followed the instructions, turned over new soil, and pressed two more pieces of yellow paper on top.
Yun Shu lit wax and incense, knelt on the ground and watched the fire burn.
When it was almost burning, she touched the tombstone and whispered: "Dad, Mom, this is Gu Xingze."
With this sentence, she paused for a while and continued: "I should marry him and have two children. Maybe the name you gave my child on the hospital bed can be used."
Before her parents passed away, she wanted to tell her everything that would happen in the next sixty years and verbally participate in it.
They have thought about the name of the child, how many tables to sit at the wedding banquet, how to deal with the husband's family, and even the name of the grandson.
"What happened in the past six months is a bit complicated, so I won't go into details. But there are two things that you should be very happy about - I have the opportunity to go to college, and I also have the opportunity to build roads for the village."
"Also, don't worry, I can't go far and I will come back to see you every year."
After kneeling for a long time, Gu Xingze pulled her up.
The wind was also strong on the mountainside, and when it blew for a while, the grass and trees around them rustled.
Like their response.
Yun Shu looked at the rolling mountains in the distance, tears flowing down her cheeks, but she made no sound.
Gu Xingze wiped away the tears with his fingertips and said softly: "They are saying that it's time for you to start a new life."
She nodded, swallowed her sobs, and looked into the distance again: "Yes. I have a new life."
Another gust of wind passed by, and the lens of heaven and earth zoomed in and out. Their figures gradually became smaller, and only the embrace of each other could be seen from a distance.
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