"Don't talk about it anymore." Seeing Yang Zhaodi's expression turn gloomy, Tan Shuangxi quickly turned his head to one side, pretending to look at the calm river surface, calming down his mood and driving the image of Yang Zhaodi out of his heart.
, after a few more glances, maybe he will change his decision.
"Whenever the North is restored, or there is no need for me to go to the battlefield anymore, I will go home to have blind dates and live a stable life. But I don't know what else I can do. Maybe no one will want me to go back to dry salt.
Well." Tan Shuangxi said, suddenly laughing, but still did not turn around.
The two of them stared at the calm river outside the window in silence. Dusk had begun to fall, and the Wenlan River was glowing with golden light. I don't know who burst out laughing first, and then the two of them smiled tacitly at each other. Today
The blind date was undoubtedly a failure, but this feeling was something the two of them had never experienced before.
After coming out of the teahouse, although the blind date has ended,
"Brother Shuangxi," Yang Zhaodi broke the silence as she walked down the river bank and could already see the Dongmen City Bus Station in the distance, "Since you don't want to get married and I don't want to get married, if you go home like this, you will definitely be arranged to have a blind date with someone else.
, How about we all tell our families that the two of us are..." Yang Zhaodi couldn't say the last few words, and her voice was as low as a mosquito.
This meaning couldn't be simpler. Of course Tan Shuangxi understood it instantly, but he couldn't find a word to describe it. What should he say? Good relationship, good... In the limited family education, he listened
All they heard were the words of their parents who ordered matchmakers, and although Fu Bojun’s education also included social reform content such as freedom of marriage, these lessons sounded to them like chanting scriptures, and they had no feeling at all.
"Falling in love?...Okay." Tan Shuangxi finally found a new word in his mind. His intuition told him that this word represented the relationship between two people, a description that transcended the level of suitable living.
"That's what I mean, so my mother won't force me." Yang Zhaodi lowered her head and agreed, fiddling with her clothes with both hands. After hearing Tan Shuangxi's affirmative answer, she raised her head and smiled happily.
Standing up, a small dimple appeared on Tan Shuangxi's face.
"Zhao Di... Yang Zhaodi..." A woman wearing a plaid coat waved to the two of them across the road.
"Sister Mei..." Yang Zhaodi waved excitedly, and then explained to Tan Shuangxi, "This is Sister Mei from the finance and taxation class. She is the most beautiful girl in the class." She winked at Tan Shuangxi meaningfully.
Blinking. Yang Zhaodi obviously wanted to go for a walk with this sister Mei, but Tan Shuangxi did not go to get to know this sister Mei.
Sister's interest, so she said goodbye. After saying good-bye, Yang Zhaodi hesitantly added, "When you have time, come to the farm to see me. I will take you to see the farm's experimental field. I guarantee you have never seen it."
After saying that, he ran across the street with a smile, and he and Sister Mei warmly linked arms and walked towards Dongmen City.
The setting sun is falling into the distant skyline, and the Wenlan River is like a golden belt, lingering on this fertile land. The sunset penetrates the leaves and shines on Tan Shuangxi's face, making him feel warm and calm. The world changes from
Never been so beautiful, never been such a fate
The world is constantly changing. In the new world created by the Senate, Tan Shuangxi and Yang Zhaodi no longer live, grow old, sick and die along the path they can see the future at a glance. They imagine the vast world and infinite opportunities, and their fate finally comes to them.
Showed a smile.
Tan Shuangxi returned home and had a good sleep. He has been running around these days. Lingao is not a big city, but he has run around a lot. Now he urgently needs to take a good rest and relax his nerves.
When he woke up, it was already three o'clock in the morning. When he saw the sun shining on the white plaster wall, he suddenly panicked: It's so late!
Years of military service have made him develop the habit of getting up early. Even though he was at home on vacation, he still felt quite guilty about sleeping in broad daylight.
He got up and put on his clothes. Under the bed, his mother prepared a pair of cork-soled rattan sandals for him. This was also a new thing in recent years, but farmers rarely wore it. After all, the cork soles were not resistant to wear and tear and would be useless after a day of farm work.
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It seemed that the family treated him as a guest. Tan Shuangxi shook his head and walked to the main room. Breakfast was covered with bamboo on the table, and inside was a bowl of dry rice noodles and cooked sauce mixed with rice noodles.
Tan Shuangxi smiled, and he really treated himself as a guest. He took a mouthwash basin and a towel, walked to the yard, scooped water from the basin, and started washing. Although brushing teeth is a "new life movement" of the Senate
It is an important part of promotion, but in rural areas, there are still not many people who have this habit. Moreover, toothbrushes and tooth powder are also an expense. Therefore, the main ones affected are military personnel, employees and relatively wealthy families with children studying.
After washing up, Tan Shuangxi held a big bowl, stirred the rice noodles with chopsticks, and stirred the sauce evenly. Although it was a sunny day and the sun was shining, the yard was cool and comfortable with a cool breeze.
He placed the dishes and chopsticks on the table in the courtyard, picked out a juicy cucumber from the large wooden basin for washing vegetables, shook off the water, and ate it with a mouthful of cucumber and a mouthful of rice noodles.
The pumpkin flowers were in full bloom on the fence, and white cabbage butterflies were flying up and down. The road outside the fence was quiet, everyone went to work. He was the only one who was so leisurely and lazy. He hadn't been like this for a long time.
His house had just been renovated not long ago, and the design drawings were based on the model house in the "New Rural Planning". It has three main rooms, left and right wing rooms, and a courtyard design at the front and rear. Even if it is suitable for living, it is also conducive to living.
Engage in garden economy.
My parents obviously didn’t put much thought into the garden. Apart from planting a few ridges of vegetables for their own consumption and raising a few pigs in the backyard, they didn’t have any “projects”. My parents and my three brothers took care of more than 100 acres.
The land is indeed busy enough.
His home is not far from Ma Niao. According to the administrative division of the Senate, it belongs to "Ma Niao Town", but it is not a "stove household". There is no "field" or salt trough. Fortunately, his home still has a few acres of farmland. Every year, his income is
During the dry season in autumn, when the saltworks were in peak season, I would do odd jobs, and in the spring, before the rainy season, I would return home to tend the fields. Except for the few years when wealthy households were trying to seize the saltworks, I could barely get by.
After the Australians came, they cleared up the land tax. Although the Tan family's annual tax was not small, the miscellaneous "fees" were swept away and the burden was much lighter. After Tan Shuangxi went to serve in the army, he enjoyed
He received a lot of preferential treatment. His father and brothers put the family business in order and no longer worked odd jobs in the salt works. This kind of hard work was now done by new immigrants from the mainland.
His family did not contract the fields to the Tiandihui, but gradually bought some fields from other families in the village - all relying on the military pay and wartime allowances sent back by Tan Shuangxi. His parents remitted these remittances bit by bit.
Collect them and wait for opportunities to buy other people's fields.
No matter in which time and space, what rural people lack most is cash. When selling land, they often cannot sell it for a high price. The two elders of the Tan family rely on the money Tan Shuangxi remitted and have plenty of money; in addition, in recent years, they have gone to the city to "work".
"There are more and more people, and many people are selling their land at low prices and moving into towns. The Tan family has gradually accumulated more than 100 acres of land.
The old couple of the Tan family have just passed their fifties, they are still in their prime and can still contribute. Tan Shuangxi's brother Tan Shuangqing is also a young man in his 17s and 18s. In order to farm the land, he took out a loan to buy two Simmental cattle. According to rural standards, it is considered a "family business".
"Prosperity". The newly built house and the stored wood all indicate that the family is planning to hold a happy event. Naturally, he is the protagonist of this happy event.
It is nonsense to say that Tan Shuangxi does not want to marry a wife. Tan Shuangxi is a normal man, a strong man in his twenties, fourteen or five years old, and in an army all men, how can he not want a woman? As the saying goes, he has been in the army for three years
, old sows all have double eyelids. Tan Shuangxi has been a soldier for more than three years.
Although "yellow tickets" can provide temporary relief, as I get older, I always feel that something is missing around me. In the army, life is tense and orderly, and this emptiness is easily filled. In the past few days since I came back, at midnight
When he came back from the dream, the loneliness and emptiness was like a pair of strong hands, constantly rubbing his heart.
"Maybe it's time to start a family."
Tan Shuangxi fell into a certain contradiction. On the one hand, he did not want to worry about the rear when he went to the battlefield, and he did not want to drag down other people's good women if he was killed or disabled; but on the other hand, there was a knowing person beside him.
A woman who knows how cold and hot she is, someone is waiting for her when she comes home from vacation...
Thinking of this, Yang Zhaodi's frown and smile seemed to float in front of his eyes again. He suddenly realized what his random promise yesterday meant, and he secretly regretted it. This little girl is so clever!
Although he understood that this agreement was of no benefit to him, Yang Zhaodi's dimple-like smile made him unable to feel disgusted.
Forget it, the matter has come to this, and there is no regret medicine to take. Tan Shuangxi put down the bowl and chopsticks and swallowed the last bite of cucumber. Thinking of doing something for the family.
The yard was swept clean and the vegetable plot was watered. Even the clothes and quilts he brought back were washed and dried by my mother. The pigs and chickens in the backyard were also fed. Tan Shuangxi
I walked around and found nothing to do.
Tan Shuangxi has seen the diligence of his parents since he was a child, but this kind of diligence did not bring much benefit to the family in the past. It was nothing more than barely maintaining the family's livelihood. Compared with now, it is really "changed"
The sun, the moon, the sky and the earth are vast.”
Since there is nothing to do at home, it is better to go to the village and see if the old people are still there and how their childhood friends are doing.