MTL - Accidentally born in the ’60s-Chapter 21

I figured out the crux of the tangled oneself for half a year, Mingdong's mood instantly opened up, he jumped off the parallel bars excitedly, and pulled Mingxi to run around the playground twice, okay Stretch out the joy in your heart.

Mingxi was dragged by Mingdong and ran for two steps, then squatted on the ground and couldn't move: "I've been on the train for a few days, how can I be stupid with you, if you want to run, run quickly , go back to the dormitory to sleep after running, and tomorrow we have to go to the fourth uncle's house."

Mingdong smirked twice: "Mingxi, do you think I'm stupid, in fact, I can fall in love with Osmanthus first and then get married, so it's not an arranged marriage. Come to think of it, isn't this just delaying things here?"

Said brother, don't read those messy books if you have time, or I'll go home and tell the milk."

"Why do you tell the milk everything?" Ming Dong glared at him: "How old are you, can you stop being so naive? Besides, don't let such trivial matters Milk is troubled."

"It's okay if you don't tell the milk, hurry back to the dormitory and let me sleep, I'm sleepy." Mingxi yawned again, urging Mingdong to go back to the dormitory, and poured a basin of hot water After soaking my feet, I fell asleep on the bed.

Ming Dong was not sleepy at this time. When he thought of officially starting his relationship with Osmanthus, he always felt that he had to prepare well. He glanced at his face against the glass, and when he saw his hair was messed up by himself, he hurriedly went to wash his hair with water, and even shaved his beard for the first time, took out the white shirt from the box and sprinkled some on it. Water, smoothed out the folds, and hung it on the window to dry.

Zhang Hai, who slept in Li Mingdong's upper bunk, watched Mingdong toss around all night, and couldn't help teasing him: "Washing hair and drying shirts, are you going on a blind date tomorrow? "

Before Mingdong could answer, Meng Weishan, who brought Mingdong's luggage back in the afternoon, interjected: "I don't think it's a blind date, but a date?" He winked at Mingdong: "Who is that girl who came with your brother? I look at her in unusual ways?"

As the saying goes, the old master is beaten to death with random fists, Mingxi's simple, straightforward and rude advice made Mingdong enlightened. When he heard Meng Weishan say that Osmanthus looked at him differently, his heart pounded suddenly, with a hint of joy on his face, but he tried to pretend to be calm: "Oh, is it? What kind of eyes? I didn't notice it."

"You just pretend." Meng Weishan gave him a white look: "The girl who looks at you clearly likes you." Meng Weishan bumped Ming Dong with his shoulder and asked gossip: "What does that girl have to do with you? Is it your daughter-in-law? Have you been through the door?"

Mingdong didn't hold back the joy for a while, and replied a little embarrassedly: "I haven't come yet, I will go back and get married during the winter vacation."

Meng Weishan was happy, and sat next to Mingdong and put his arms around his shoulder: "Your life is so good, the wife you married is so beautiful!"

Ming Dong blushed instantly to the root of his neck, he kicked Meng Weishan aside, turned and sat in front of the table and grabbed a book, his face was full of joy.

Meng Weishan burst out laughing: "I'll just say it, you can't hide my eyes, just look at the young man who is in love."

"Dating in love?" As soon as Ming Dong heard the word he was most concerned about recently, he couldn't help asking Meng Weishan: "How do you talk about this love?"

"If you ask me, you are asking the right person." Meng Weishan sat next to Ming Dong and imparted his experience very carefully: "When I was chasing my daughter-in-law..."

"Wait wait!" Zhang Hai jumped off the top bunk and looked at him in disbelief: "Even you are married?"

"How funny, why can't I get married? I married my daughter-in-law as soon as I graduated from high school." Meng Weishan shook his hair and made a dashing gesture: "Look at me, I have good knowledge and good character. No matter how good you look, the most important thing is to always be sincere to your daughter-in-law, so that you can marry a daughter-in-law."

Meng Weishan sat next to Mingdong and introduced his experience: "I tell you, the most important thing in dating is two people, don't take your brother with you when you go on a date, go shopping, etc. It affects your relationship."

Ming Dong glanced at Ming Xi, who was sleeping soundly, and nodded seriously: "You are right, I will throw him away when I finish watching my fourth uncle."

Meng Weishan nodded and gave him a "teachable" look: "The second one, to create romance." Looking at Ming Dong and Zhang Hai's blank faces, Meng Weishan stood When the sun rises, take her to the mountains to enjoy the sunrise and feel the morning light of hope together; when the sunset is the most beautiful, take her to the riverside for a walk and bathe in the golden light together; When the full moon rises, take her to the rooftop to recite poetry and watch the stars that fill the sky;

"You can pull it down..." Zhang Hai couldn't help interrupting him: "This place is far from the mountains and not near the river, why is it more tiring to talk about love than to catch a train? Now, when the moon is particularly bright, there are no stars, so I don't know the term moonlight and stars are rare!"

Mingdong disagrees with Zhang Hai's idea: "I think Weishan said it well, the scene is really beautiful, as for the mountains and rivers, it doesn't matter, our hometown When I go out, I will make up for this section after I get home. Weishan, you continue to say."

Meng Weishan's few lines of poetry were interrupted by Zhang Hai, and he suddenly forgot the remaining lines, so he had to avoid the key and said lightly: "Then you take her shopping and see A movie or something to promote feelings."

Ming Dong nodded and closed the book in his hand: "Just do it!"

In the early morning of the next day, I heard the voice of the girls in the dormitory rustling in their clothes, and Gui Hua, who had already woken up and dressed, hurriedly opened the door and went out to wash. When she came back from cleaning up, the girls in the dormitory cleaned up and walked out one by one with towels and washbasins. When there was no one in the room, she quickly took the rag and mop, and cleaned up the inside of the dormitory.

The female students came back and saw that Osmanthus had tidy up the dormitory.

"I have nothing to do, and living here will cause trouble for you. You have to do something." Osmanthus smiled: "You are welcome."

"You're too polite, in fact, you don't need to help us clean up the dormitory. Like our classmates, relatives often come to stay overnight. This is a normal thing, you don't need to be embarrassed." The tall girl smiled and picked a book from the table, ready to take it out.

Meng Shuran looked at Osmanthus and her classmates chatting and laughing, and couldn't help but think of Li Mingdong again, and she always felt unwilling. She bit her lip and asked slightly hostilely, "Osmanthus, do you know the words?"

"I know!" Osmanthus replied calmly: "I also went to school for a few years. After I can't wait for school, Mingdong has taught me for a few years."

Meng Shuran was blocked for a while, and her face was a little ugly. She looked at Osmanthus, and she always felt that her own thoughts had nothing to hide in front of her. This feeling made her a little embarrassed and annoyed, and she was instantly full of anger He roared out: "With all due respect, if you don't go to school, you probably won't have anything to talk about with classmate Li Mingdong, right?"

Osmanthus looked at her in amazement, with a trace of puzzlement on her face: "Why do you always ask about me and Brother Mingdong?" Osmanthus smiled peacefully Looking at Meng Shuran, when the eyes of the other classmates fell, he said calmly, "Let you worry about us. Brother Ming Dong and I grew up together, and there are many topics we can talk about. We always have a lot to talk about when we go home from vacation.”

"Osmanthus, come down to eat!" Li Mingdong's voice sounded just right from downstairs, Osmanthus walked quickly to the window, stuck her head out, and showed a bright smile: "Brother Mingdong, wait for me Now, I'll come down here."

Meng Shuran's face changed from blue to red, from red to pale, Osmanthus turned around and nodded to her with a smile: "Brother Ming Dong asked me to go out for breakfast, wait for it We're going to his fourth uncle's house for dinner, to buy some things for the wedding in the afternoon, and we have to trouble you to pick me up in the evening, and I may have to stay here for a few days."

Meng Shuran looked at Osmanthus and didn't know how to answer, but the girl who picked Osmanthus up yesterday smiled and added: "Don't worry, just wait until you come back at night and shout, I'll pick you up, right Do you remember my name? My name is Li Xian."

Li Xian listened to the footsteps of Osmanthus and walked away, and then gave Meng Shuran a lukewarm look: "There are only eight girls in our class, don't make any shameful things to us. Blackened your face."

Meng Shuran was annoyed and angry, her eyes were red with anger: "What do you mean?"

"You know what it means." Li Xian sneered: "Li Mingdong has a fiancée, and he is about to get married, so don't bother us with anything useless."

"I don't know what you mean." Meng Shuran said angrily: "I don't know Li Mingdong well, but I just asked Osmanthus a few questions out of curiosity. Why are you so angry?"

Only Meng Shuran and Chen Ge, a girl who was better than her, were left.

Chen Ge looked at Meng Shuran and shed tears, so he took a towel and handed it to her: "Li Xian said something ugly, but the reason is that, besides, you just went to university, Don't be in such a hurry to find someone."

Meng Shuran wiped her tears without uttering a word, Chen Ge poured her a jar of water, and comforted her by saying, "There are many boys in our school, you can always be in college for four and a half years. If you find a good one, don't worry too much."

Meng Shuran took a sip of water, got up and walked to the window, looking at the back of Li Mingdong who had just walked out not too far, I saw him and Osmanthus walking side by side, the two looked at each other from time to time, looking at It looks so good...

"How did you sleep last night?" Ming Dong looked at Osmanthus and asked.

"Very good, your classmates are also very good, take special care of me." Guihua replied with a smile, with a little excitement in her tone: "This is the first time I live in such a high place Upstairs, I'm excited."

Listening to Osmanthus laughter from the bottom of his heart, Mingdong couldn't help laughing: "I thought you would be afraid, when we first went to school, there was a girl who lived on the second floor She was so scared that she cried, and in the end the teacher had no choice but to transfer her to the first floor."

"Then she specified that it wasn't our girl from Beicha, just a tree dozens of meters on the Red Pine Mountain. The big girl and the young man would swish when he climbed up. That one is much taller than this building." Osmanthus looked curiously at the campus while walking, and looked at the students who came and went with their books in between, with a hint of envy in her tone: "It's great to be able to go to university."

Ming Dong glanced at Osmanthus and remembered the scene when she insisted on giving up her junior high school after graduation from elementary school. At that time, she didn't think too much about it when she was young, she just thought she didn't want to study. In fact, when I think about it now, the young Osmanthus was only worried that spending money on reading and eating for nothing every day would make my milk and mother unhappy, so I gave up reading.

Sighed, Mingdong was a little annoyed, if he wanted to understand at that time, he should persuade Osmanthus more, milk and mother didn't care about it at all, but they didn't understand reading, that's why By Osmanthus leave school.

Looking at Mingdong, who was in a low mood, Osmanthus couldn't help but ask: "Brother Mingdong, what's the matter with you?"

"It's fine!" Since the past can't be changed, Mingdong doesn't think about it anymore, he looked at Osmanthus and smiled: "Actually, you can read without going to school, I taught you before Do you recognize the words?"

Osmanthus nodded: "I kept all the letters you sent home in the past, and I can read them down."

Ming Dong glanced at her: "I'll find a few books for you when you're free at home, and take it as if you're going to school."

"Are you an old book?" Osmanthus looked at Mingdong expectantly.

Ming Dong was a little embarrassed by her fiery eyes, and he laughed foolishly: "Well, it's a Chinese textbook used in junior high school and high school."

Osmanthus nodded excitedly, her eyes bright as if there were stars hidden in it, Ming Dong couldn't take his eyes away at a glance, when he was about to say something, a The unpleasant voice interjected: "Brother, you don't know how many years those books are, can you still find them? Why don't you just let Sister Osmanthus use mine."

Ming Dong glared at Ming Xi and suddenly felt that what Meng Weishan said was too right: you need two people to fall in love, and one more person is an eyesore!

***

After breakfast, Mingdong took Mingxi and Osmanthus to Li Mulin's house with bacon, hazel mushrooms and pine nuts picked from the mountains. Li Mulin is a line patrol worker and often shifts shifts, but Ming Dong has figured out his work schedule in the morning, and every time he comes, he can get stuck on his days off.

"Fourth Uncle, are you at home?" Ming Dong knocked on the door and shouted again.

"Come, come!" Li Mulin who was chopping firewood quickly put down his axe and walked away quickly: "Mingdong is coming?"

As soon as the door opened, Mingxi and Osmanthus hurriedly called out, "Fourth Uncle."

Seeing Mingxi and Osmanthus, Li Mulin was surprised and asked, "Why are you here? Your milk is fine at home? How is it? The food supply is insufficient this year?"

"It's all good. Before I came, I asked my fourth uncle to send me a message, saying that the fourth uncle should go back early this winter." Osmanthus put down the burden of hazel mushrooms in her hands.

After a night of trying to understand that marriage and love are not in conflict, Ming Dong said it in a down-to-earth manner: "I will have a wedding with Osmanthus in winter."

Osmanthus was a pleasant surprise to hear this. She thought that she and Mingdong were still discussing their marriage, and she was thinking about how to talk to Mingdong. He admitted it himself.

"This is a big happy event, I was thinking that your mother should arrange a wedding for you." Li Mulin said cheerfully: "Hurry up and drink water for a while, come all the way here. ."

Mingxi ran ahead with bacon and pine nuts: "Fourth uncle, my milk brought you pickled wild boar."

"That's great, we haven't bought meat for a while, who beat the wild boar?" Li Mulin took the things and walked in while asking.

Mingxi's legs trembled when she heard this question: "...I don't want to say it."

Ming Dong followed the fourth uncle and Ming Xi to walk a few steps in, and suddenly realized that Osmanthus was not following. He looked back and saw Osmanthus standing there looking at him smirking, and he couldn't help laughing. Mingdong walked over and touched Osmanthus' head, feeling the warmth in his chest: "Come in, silly girl."

***

In autumn, every household in Beicha is busy, harvesting crops, picking wild vegetables and doing countless things all day. The same is true of the old Li family, before the crops were ripened by Zhen Zhen and collected secretly, they never went to the fields to see them, until Zhen Zhen's third aunt Liu Xiulan came over and hurriedly asked: "Second sister-in-law, the crops you planted on the mountain Why don't you collect it, I just went to see that the crops are growing."

Wang Sufen jumped off the kang as soon as she heard it, Mrs. Li looked at her calmly, and said with a decent expression: "This unknown Xi and Osmanthus are not at home, we are busy with other things. It's alive, and it hasn't been emptied to collect it yet."

Liu Xiulan was anxious: "What is more urgent than harvesting crops, every household is nervous this year, what if there is such an immoral person who steals corn in the middle of the night?"

Mr. Li tapped on the edge of the kang with a cigarette bag, her face was calm: "It's hard to find it in the fast daytime at my house, and it's dark and blind in the mountains and forests, if anyone really dares to touch it like that In the past, I served him."

Liu Xiulan sat on the kang and wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Yes, when I saw that no one accepted it, I was in a hurry, and I forgot about it. But mother, don't It's too late, so what if it rains in a few days."

"Well, I know." Mrs. Li nodded: "I'll ask Mingbei to find his father in a while, and I'll collect it in the afternoon."

"Okay, if you count, I won't stay here any longer. My house hasn't been repossessed yet." Liu Xiulan raised her legs and was about to leave. Wang Sufen hurriedly chased out: "It's almost noon, why don't you call Mu Sen and the children over for dinner?"

"No, I've already steamed the pancakes in the morning." Liu Xiulan waved her hands without looking back: "Hurry up, you have a lot of work."

Liu Xiulan was sent away, Wang Sufen ran back a few steps, and carefully closed the door: "Mother, didn't we harvest all the crops, why are they growing again? Is it? Is Zhen Zhen finished?"

Old Mrs. Li was not sure about this either: "Can't you? Didn't you take her up the mountain again? Besides, how could she know that it was from our family after such a long distance?"

"But, apart from Zhen Zhen, there should be no one else who has this ability." Wang Sufen said quickly.

Mr. Li turned her head to look at Zhen Zhen who was practicing walking with the kang piano, and waved to her: "Treasure, come to the milk."

As soon as Zhen Zhen turned her head back, she sat down on the kang with her legs soft, and Mrs. Li held her in her arms: "Bao, do you know what happened to the crops on our mountain? ?"

Zhen Zhen sat on Mrs. Li's lap and ate straight at her: "I'm full!"

"Aiya, my good granddaughter, do you want to make grandma full?" When Mrs. Li saw Zhen Zhen's handsome appearance, her heart was broken: "It's just that I'm tired. Are you not tired?"

Zhen Zhen looked at her short legs that couldn't stand up yet, remembered her age hard, decided to talk less and pretend to be stupid. She happily climbed down from Mrs. Li's lap and continued to practice walking while holding the kangqin.

I didn’t eat much of the crops I harvested before, but this time I can harvest another batch. Even three meals a day for Lao Li’s family are enough to eat for one winter. When Mrs. Li thought about it, she felt full of energy, and wished to go to the mountain to harvest crops immediately.

Wang Sufen looked at Mrs. Li's fidgety look, and quickly persuaded her: "It's not too late, I'll steam some dry food first, and I'll make Mu Wu and Mingnan Mingbei full. Good job."

"Evaporated cake, full rice noodles, no sweet potato noodles, and stewed bacon and cabbage to make them eat happily." When Mrs. Li thought of another crop of ripening, she immediately gave it a shot. back.

Wang Sufen responded, found a piece of soy sauce and came out to make dough, and made a piece of dough mixed with white flour for Zhen Zhen alone. When Mrs. Li came out, she saw that she had picked up two eggs from the basket and handed it to her. Past: "Put two eggs in Zhen Zhen, did you not drink the milk you got in the morning? Pour half a bottle into it. Our Zhen Zhen has a thin throat and she can't swallow anything that is too rough."

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"Fa cake!" Wang Sufen replied without raising her head while cutting the bacon: "It's whole rice noodles."

Since Mingbei can remember, his family has never eaten dry food with whole grain rice noodles. Do you want dry food with all-white flour? Then it's supposed to be more fragrant than this hair cake."

"If you can eat enough, you won't be fooled. If you want to eat white noodles, it's really annoying." Wang Sufen gave him a white look and kicked his **** with her toes: "Don't block it here, hurry up Go to the grain store and ask your father to come back. The grain store hasn't come to supply grain for a few months, and they don't pay wages, so what are you doing there?"

Mingbei glanced at the cauldron reluctantly, then ran out quickly, and when the two men came back out of breath, lunch was ready.

Zhen Zhen sat at the kang table, happily chewing the fragrant and soft rabbit-shaped hair cake with her four little teeth, Li Mingbei poked Zhen Zhen's forehead: "Silly girl, This is a fake rabbit, wait for my brother to go up the mountain, and I will give you a real rabbit to eat."

Wang Sufen gave him a look: "Don't fix that useless thing, hurry up to eat and your father go up the mountain to harvest the crops. You work hard, your milk said that I will give it to you for the past few days. Eat dry and put meat in the dish.”

"That's fine!" Li Mingbei picked up a piece of hair cake, put it in his mouth and took a big bite.

Turning potatoes, harvesting sweet potatoes, and breaking corn, the people of Beicha generation were pleasantly surprised to find that, despite the lack of rain this year, the crops are growing exceptionally vigorous. More than double.

"The harvest is good, does it mean that the year is getting better?"

"Yes, these hard days are over."

"Our forest area can grow such good crops, and the surrounding area is definitely not bad. I see that there will be no shortage of food supplies for next year."