Chapter 271： covet

Chapter 271 Coveting

 Chen Lianmi wiped the sweat from her face and muttered: "What's going on? A comrade is here at the banquet, but why is another educated youth involved?"

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Huo Lang came to pick up Yan Wenshu on time, and of course Si Ningning was also with him.

As soon as they left the Zhao family's courtyard, Chen Lianmi grabbed Zhao Hongbing's elbow in the main room, looking out, "Hongbing, what do you think is going on? Isn't this what Alang is interested in?" Comrade Yan? Why are you getting involved with Si Zhiqing again? "

"Look at your mouth, how did you say this? What do you mean you are involved with Si Zhiqing again?"

“I didn’t say anything? Aren’t you worried that Alang would make a principled mistake?”

Chen Lianmi has always kept it in mind!

  Pushing forward in time, Si Ningning was her favorite daughter-in-law candidate. Even if Si Ningning could not be their daughter-in-law due to Zhao Hongbing's objection, it would not erase Si Ningning's good impression in her heart.

Then, Chen Lianmi let out a "tsk" and stroked her short hair back. She couldn't help but say something more like Si Ningning, "Besides, what is Comrade Yan like? Just judging from how little contact he has had in the past two days. I don’t know either, but Si Zhiqing is a good girl, and good girls shouldn’t be bullied!”

Usually listen to right gossip, Zhao Hongbing is most annoying Chen Lianmi in these things.

Breaking away from Chen Lianmi twice, Zhao Hongbing frowned, his face was a little serious and a little impatient, "Okay, don't be so careless about this matter. After they finish sending people back, I will find Alang in private." Ask what’s going on.”

“Have you already said this? Do you still need me to worry about this and that?”

“Hey, okay, okay, you bitch!” Zhao Hongbing put on his straw hat, picked up his **** and walked out, “I’m going to the fields.”

“Why are you leaving in such a hurry? You don’t have the kettle with you? No one will bring it to you this afternoon!”

The two couples chatted and chatted. On the other hand, Si Ningning and Yan Wenshu had reached a reconciliation. They both recorded each other's accommodation addresses and agreed to exchange letters regularly.

Si Ningning waved goodbye to Yan Wenshu, and then trotted back. When she passed Huo Lang, Si Ningning stopped briefly and said, "I've finished, you go!"

Just now, Si Ningning asked Huo Lang to follow them and keep a distance from them on the grounds of secret communication between the girls. Now that the girl's "secret communication" has ended, she has to return to the production team, and the only way to go to the county is It had to be delivered by Holang.

"Hmm." Huo Lang responded in a low voice, but before leaving, he asked: "What did you say?"

Just now from a distance, Huo Lang vaguely saw Si Ningning stuffing something into Yan Wenshu, but Huo Lang didn't see what it was.

"Go and see them off first, don't make them wait too long." Si Ningning thought about it for a moment, then smiled brightly and said, "I will tell you the rest when you come back."

"Okay." Huo Lang agreed, lifted up his long legs, took a few steps, and then turned back, "I'll come back to see you at the educated youth center. You'll be fair and aboveboard."

The relationship was not confirmed before. When Huo Lang found Si Ningning in the past, he was always worried that others would gossip about Si Ningning. But now that the relationship is confirmed, he is no longer afraid of others gossiping.

Even so, he is still leading the way.

Si Ningning nodded in acquiescence and waved her palms inwards and outwards, "Go ahead."

Huo Lang no longer hesitated, turned around and started running, quickly catching up with Yan Wenshu, who was already a hundred meters away.

Si Ningning stood far behind and watched Huo Lang and Yan Wenshu off until they reached the mountain trail in the distance. Yan Wenshu stood there shaking her hands and waving to her to say goodbye. Si Ningning's lips curved into a gentle smile. He waved his hand.

It’s not bad to have a friend you meet by chance.

Thinking about it, Yan Wenshu had already retracted her hand and continued to set off. Si Ningning did not stay there for long, turned around and walked towards the production team.

In the evening, when Huo Lang came back from the county and went to see Si Ningning at the educated youth center, he brought a bag of rice in his hand, which weighed about five kilograms. He gave the bag to Si Ningning, but Si Ningning looked confused. The look of, "What is this?"

“You eat the rice.” After Huo Lang finished speaking, he added later, “They can also eat it if they come over.”

Si Ningning was hesitant, but after hearing this, he took it.

It was dark outside, and the educated youths had all returned to the educated youth spot. When the two of them were talking, there were always people around them stealing glances.

Si Ningning tightened her grip on the rice bag and successfully frightened the covert Li Lingyuan away with a sideways glance. Si Ningning blinked and turned back. She stood on the steps and leaned forward slightly, whispering: "Then I'll accept it. I have a lot of tickets sent to me from home, but I can’t find a way to buy them and it’s no use holding them. I’ll collect them and give them to you someday, and you can buy them for me.”

Huo Lang's peach blossom eyes swayed, and his two thin lips opened and closed before he could speak, but he was frightened by Si Ningning's low scolding: "Don't refuse!"

"I packed it up so you could buy it for me, not for you... I know you have a way."

Because of work, Holang does have a more convenient formal way to buy things.

Si Ningning actually lacks everything, but now she is with Huo Lang, which means that the intersection will be closer in the future. In order not to make mistakes and let Huo Lang notice the clues, it is best if everything she uses can be directly used. Or indirectly cross the road.

In other words, let Holang know where this thing came from, rather than appearing out of thin air.

Holang nodded, "Okay."

Si Ningning showed a warm smile with satisfaction, "Okay, it's very late today, let's go back!"

Huo Lang glanced at Song Shuhan and other male educated youths passing by behind him, but did not move.

“What’s wrong? Is there anything else?” Si Ningning asked in confusion.

Horang asked instead, "You have nothing else to say to me?"

"Hmm..." Si Ningning said a long and confused "Hmm", nodded and thought for a moment, then patted his forehead with his little hand, "Oh, I almost forgot!"

Huo Lang's deep peach blossom eyes suddenly lit up, looking forward to Si Ningning's next speech.

But Si Ningning lowered her voice and said, "Comrade Yan asked me to tell you that she is embarrassed to tell you that she is engaged to be married to the person she chose... When that person changes his job and returns to the three northeastern provinces at the end of the year, we will hold a happy event."

“She said that there was a big controversy in the family about this matter, and she was afraid that she would be reprimanded if she told you in person, so she asked me to tell you.”

Huo Lang's arched eyebrows were slightly frowned, but relaxed for a moment. He asked Si Ningning in a low voice, "That's it? Do you have anything else to say to me?" Si Ningning shook his head, lips Petal pursed his lips and hesitated for a long time, then asked in confusion: "Don't you have any ideas about Comrade Yan?"

"No." Holang replied truthfully, "Family members are also bystanders. We can only guide and cannot make decisions for her. The days to come will be good and bad, and you have to live it yourself."

This is not unreasonable.

Huo Lang was so open-minded, and Si Ningning didn't have much to say, so he could only calmly comfort him: "Things are always multi-faceted, and you choose them. Even if your parents are not satisfied, the final result may not be the same." Bad. And I think people like Brother Bing are quite reliable."

“Scream again.”

"Huh?" His train of thought was suddenly interrupted, and Si Ningning was a little confused, "What's your name?"

“What you just said.”

Si Ningning thought about it for a moment and pushed Huo Lang with half anger and anger, "...There's something wrong!"

After finishing her words, she stamped her feet and turned around directly to enter the house.

Holang laughed jokingly in a low voice before turning around and going home.

While passing by the house of Educated Youth Point, Huo Lang bumped into Mo Bei, who was standing there. Huo Lang slowed down a little, raised his eyes and glanced at Mo Bei up and down.

The gauze on Mo Bei's forehead has been removed, and the stitches inside have been picked out cleanly, leaving no big scar. However, due to the special location of the wound, a gap appeared at the peak of the right sword eyebrow that was originally stiff and sharp. An acquired eyebrow break is formed.

Hong Lang felt that as a man, it was extremely normal to have three or five scars on his body, but considering that the scars on Mo Bei's eyebrows were caused by rescuing Si Ningning, he couldn't help but re-examine them.

Mo Bei is not bad in appearance and size. Let alone ordinary people, even if he is a member of the general and military services, the power and explosive power shown by his external conditions are initially estimated to be above the second level.

Just because he is not old and has not experienced any major events, Mo Bei looks younger and more energetic. To put it bluntly, he looks like a good-looking boy.

But looking at it now, Xu Na's broken eyebrows recognized Mo Bei's heroic process of coming forward. Looking at Mo Bei now, Huo Lang could clearly feel that the impetuous aura of young people in Mo Bei's body was not dissipating. Less, and then what emerges is a mature restraint, and...

Huo Lang looked at Mo Bei, and accidentally met Mo Bei's cold gaze. Huo Lang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled calmly.

The successor showed not only mature restraint, but also the ferocity and sharpness of a vicious dog guarding his food when faced with him.

Putting aside personal emotions, Mo Bei may have really matured.

Regarding the matter of liking Si Ningning, Huo Lang felt a little sorry when facing Mo Bei. After all, Mo Bei once asked him that, and what was his answer at that time?

He regards Si Ningning as a junior and will never be able to...

There may be some regrets, but things are unpredictable. Now that it has developed to this point and the relationship with Si Ningning has been confirmed, Huo Lang chose to face it calmly instead of thinking about the girl he likes because of a little regret. Push it to others.

As for what Mo Bei thinks of him, or what kind of hostility he has towards him, or that Mo Bei likes Si Ningning and wants to declare war on him or something like that, Huo Lang doesn't care and is not afraid.

Although he didn't like others coveting Si Ningning, Huo Lang knew very well that it was normal for a girl with good looks to have suitors.

Horang is always ready to accept the challenge of other admirers and is confident that his girl will always be his girl.

Their eyes met for a brief moment, and under Mo Bei's cold and sharp gaze, Huo Lang smiled and nodded, then withdrew his gaze and looked straight ahead, passing by Mo Bei.

For a period of time afterwards, except that the interactions with Huo Lang became closer and more intensive than before, Si Ningning's life in the educated youth spot seemed to have returned to its original starting point.

It is an ordinary life of three meals a day, collecting and washing, plus occasionally doing some practical or impractical DIY crafts.

For example, they used the excess sawn wood from the beams in the literacy class to make log coasters. Another example was giving Huo Lang the bamboo roots he picked up from behind the educated youth point, and asking Huo Lang to simply modify them and open the bamboo joints to help her make a bamboo vase. When the flowers are in season, they are used to arrange flowers, and when there are no flowers, they are used to store miscellaneous small objects.

There is one more thing worth mentioning here, that is, after three months of feeding by the people at the educated youth spot, the first few rabbits caught by Huo Lang, two of the female rabbits had already given birth to babies.

If you want to ask Si Ningning how he knew it, you can tell by looking at the rabbit's enlarged belly and the slightly reddened breasts.

Huo Lang once said before that he would make a larger rabbit cage and send it to the educated youth center in his spare time, but it was delayed due to various things. Now that the rabbit has grown up, the baby rabbit will be born soon, so things can't be delayed any longer. , just before the literacy class started, Si Ningning and Huo Lang ran up the mountain for several days.

Chopping bamboo of appropriate thickness is one, and the other is collecting strong dead wood.

There are usually more than eight rabbits in a litter. Counting a dozen rabbits at eight, there will be sixteen rabbits in two litters. This is based on the fact that the other two female rabbits do not have litters.

No matter how you calculate it, it is inevitable that there will be more and more rabbits. Once the number of rabbits increases, the rabbit cages made entirely of bamboo strips will seem a bit useless at first, because they are oval and cannot have multiple rabbit cages. Stacked together, even if the place is large, it will look crowded over time.

Si Ningning discussed with Huo Lang and agreed to combine wood and bamboo strips to make a square rabbit cage.

Then nail an iron mesh to the bottom of each cage or use bamboo strips to form a grid chassis to prevent the accumulation of feces. There are removable drawers underneath, so that the cages can not only be stacked one on top to save space, but are also convenient for daily care. .

Zhao Hongbing talked to Huo Lang in private, and after roughly understanding the relationship between Huo Lang and Si Ningning, he didn't say much.

As for the fact that Si Ningning occasionally went up the mountain with Huo Lang, Zhao Hongbing actually didn't know about it. However, he passed by Chen's yard several times and saw the things piled up in the yard. Through inquiries, Zhao Hongbing got a general idea intermittently.

I passed by Chen's yard when I came back from the fields that day. I saw Si Ningning and Huo Lang working hard in the yard. Zhao Hongbing wiped the sweat from his forehead with a **** and stood outside the yard and shouted, "We are making a cage!"

Si Ningning heard the voice of Zhao Hongbing, straightened up and said with embarrassment, "Yes, captain!"

Huo Lang once revealed to Si Ningning that Zhao Hongbing knew about their relationship, but Zhi Gui knew that this was the first time that Zhao Hongbing bumped into her and Huo Lang alone.

I don’t know whether it was due to the influence of the times or something else, but Si Ningning always felt a little uncomfortable.

Holang calmly called "Uncle", then buried his head and continued to measure the dimensions and saw the wood.

(End of this chapter)