Chapter 237: Thoughts
After filling a full bowl with pig slaughter dish, Su Ning and Fu Jiaming didn’t mind either and squatted on the ground with everyone else to eat heartily; it was so fragrant they simply couldn’t stop.
No one spoke again; the entire threshing ground was filled only with the sounds of slurping and gulping swallows.
After washing the pork stomach, large intestine, and small intestine clean, there was no foul smell; they were all quite crisp, bouncy, and chewy, plus the powdery softness of the potatoes, the tender mellowness of the radishes, and the fresh sweetness of the vegetables.
It was indeed a pig slaughter dish so delicious that people looked forward to it from the beginning of the year to the end; the more they ate, the more addicted they became.
After scraping up the last few bites of meal in the bowl, Fu Jiaming sighed with satisfaction, “Too fragrant, too delicious!”
The old man and the others not coming to eat was really such a loss!
After all, he cared about his face, so he couldn’t do something like the little kids nearby licking the soup juice from the bottom of the bowl; he could only put down the bowl and chopsticks with a bit of regret.
“If you want to lick, just lick; at most, I’ll pretend I didn’t see it.”
“Hehehe, lick what? But if you can’t finish it, I don’t mind; I can…”
“I mind; I can’t.”
“Fine, fine, fine; in the end, I misjudged you.”
Truly a foodie just like Xi You; willing to throw away face for good food.
Smiling and shaking her head, Su Ning’s mouth still wanted to eat, but the things in her stomach were already almost up to her throat.
After the retort, seeing his dejected face, she still stretched out the bowl in her hand and used chopsticks to pull over the side of the meal she hadn’t touched for him.
“Hurry and stuff your mouth.”
“Hahahaha~”
“So happy? Eaten your fill?”
“Old man, you’re done eating?”
Su Qingshan had his hands behind his back holding the empty bowl, smiling and nodding his head.
The two sped up a bit and ate all the remaining meal, then used the clean, fluffy snow on the ground to simply rinse the bowl and chopsticks before returning them to him.
Seeing that the snowflakes falling from the sky were trending from small to large, Su Qingshan took the bowl and chopsticks, stacked them together, and said to the two of them, “Hurry and take the things back now before the snow gets heavy.”
“Right, Ning Ning, the fresh meat needs about ten days to smoke on the kang; on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth, I’ll have your young man send it over to you again.”
“Good, old man, then I’ll be waiting to eat the ready-made stuff~”
After a simple chat with him and saying goodbye, she and Fu Jiaming carried the two meat bones they bought and headed back.
On the way back, there were all people who had eaten until their mouths were oily, chatting and laughing, going in twos and threes together.
Until they passed through most of the village, the road ahead and behind suddenly felt much emptier.
“Comrade Fu! Comrade Fu Jiaming, wait!”
“Hm?”
Just as they were about to pass the Educated Youth Point, near the corner, a sudden and unfamiliar shout came from behind.
Fu Jiaming turned his head in confusion, and when he saw it was a female comrade who looked extremely unfamiliar and seemed to be an educated youth, the confusion in his eyes instantly turned to bewilderment.
Around twenty years old, two braids just reaching her chest, wearing a pink fairly fitted cotton coat with lamp-core velvet pants tightened several turns below, and thick-heeled cowhide boots on her feet.
Just this outfit of new styles from the department store would cost at least over a hundred yuan for the set.
It seemed she was undoubtedly an educated youth from the Educated Youth Point, but he didn’t know her; how did she know his name and inexplicably call out to stop him?
“Huff huff, Comrade Fu…”
The anxious Xu Qian saw them finally stop and was delighted; she gritted her teeth and quickened her pace, only panting heavily a few times after jogging up to him.
“Who are you?”
“Comrade Fu, I’m Xu Qian, an educated youth from the Educated Youth Point.”
“Xu Zhiqing, what do you need from me?”
“Can we… talk over there?”
Xu Qian had an expression like it was hard to speak, using her little eyes to embarrassedly glance at Su Ning who was sizing her up, blushing as she barely smiled and greeted, “Hello, Doctor Su.”
“Comrade Xu.”
Politely smiling back on the surface, but several question marks popped up in her heart.
Xu, all surnamed Xu; what was the relation between this Xu Qian and that Xu Qian who secretly passed her a message last time?
The two looked about the same age, differing by no more than two years; just one had short hair and the other long hair.
Looking closely, their eyebrows and eyes had five or six parts similarity; could they be sisters?
Glancing at the bag she hid behind her, and the shy expression on her face, calling out Fu Jiaming and then suddenly proposing to chat with him alone… this?
Could it be that this Xu Qian wanted to pry at her own Xi You’s corner of the wall!
Thinking of this, a dangerous smile rose in Su Ning’s eyes; without saying anything, she looked toward Fu Jiaming.
Fu Jiaming immediately sensed something wrong, his scalp tightening involuntarily: Damn, what was this murderous look from Su Ning?
He really didn’t know the person in front of him!
“Comrade Xu, if you have something to say, just say it; please don’t say things that cause misunderstanding. And Su Ning, hurry and restrain that creepy look of yours; I really don’t know this water fairy onion.”
“……”
What kind of man was this? How could he open his mouth and say things that embarrassed two female comrades so much?!
Xu Qian was choked to the point of chest pain, holding back again and again without rolling her eyes; thinking she needed a favor from him, she could only take several deep breaths, “Comrade Fu, I really have something very important.”
“The reason I want to speak alone and privately is for safety.”
What kind of statement was this?
Fu Jiaming was about to say something more when he received the look from Su Ning; thinking it over, he put down the two hemp sacks in his hands and nodded very reluctantly.
Not just her, he also wanted to see what this Xu Zhiqing really wanted to do.
The two didn’t walk far, stopping in a place within Su Ning’s line of sight but where she couldn’t hear the conversation.
“Speak, Xu Zhiqing.”
What was with making it so secretive, like something shady; if Su Ning misunderstood and whispered to Shuang Shuang, he wouldn’t be able to clear it even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
Fu Jiaming’s expression really couldn’t be called good as he kept more than two meters distance from her; that guarded attitude was just short of saying outright: Don’t pounce over; I’ll kick.
Xu Qian, really unable to hold back, finally rolled a big white eye and unconsciously took half a step back.
“Comrade Fu, I heard you’re friends with that Yan Bei who’s undergoing reform?”
“Oh, who did you hear that from?”
Hearing this, Fu Jiaming instantly restrained his expression, his eyes narrowing as he stared unblinkingly at her, an inexplicable sense of oppression surging from him.
Don’t say when this person got serious; the aura on him was not one bit weaker than that young master from the capital at their Educated Youth Point.
It made that already not-bad-looking face seem even more so.
Seeing him seem to misunderstand something, Xu Qian subconsciously pinched the corner of her clothes and hurriedly explained, “I don’t mean anything else, and I’m not trying to report; I just want to ask if it’s true?”
“What exactly do you want to say? I don’t have much patience.”
Biting her teeth, Xu Qian blushed and somewhat awkwardly took out the meat hidden behind her.
Adjusting the collar of her coat and pulling up the scarf around her neck, Su Ning switched the things in her hands.
Looking at Fu Jiaming’s gaze that frequently turned toward her, her brows furrowed slightly.
Until Xu Qian said something with red eye rims, he withdrew his gaze and shook his head very firmly.
Immediately after, someone heartbrokenly covered her chest with one hand and suddenly turned and ran off.
“What play is this?”
“A play about digging a hoe.”
“Hm?”
Fu Jiaming strode over and picked up the bag on the ground; when he looked up and met her suspicious gaze, he suddenly grinned, “The person wanted to dig your corner of the wall.”
“Hm?”
“Hahahaha, you didn’t hear wrong. That Xu Qian wanted to probe my relationship with Yan Qi and have me secretly bring that meat to him.”
Even mixed up to the point of having an identity everyone avoided, that Yan Qi kid could still attract bees and butterflies; he was really something.
Speaking of, was that face that good-looking?
He wasn’t bad either, okay; how come from childhood to now, that kid was always more popular with little girls?
“How did she know about you two?”
“She said her friend ran into us together on the mountain one day.”
“But I didn’t admit it; after all, she had no evidence and could only guess.”
If it were before, Fu Jiaming would still be nervous; after all, Yan Qi’s identity was indeed a problem, and if reported, it would undoubtedly make things worse.
But now, the biggest problem was no longer a problem.
Fu Jiaming secretly glanced at the person whose expression was unclear, eyes flickering indeterminately, not knowing what she was thinking, “Su Ning, can I ask a question?”
“No.”
“Hey, I didn’t even say what… hey, wait for me!”
Looking at the person striding ahead with full effort, Fu Jiaming couldn’t help wanting to scratch his head: She was really angry and jealous?
The first 500,000 words of the outline are done; time to prepare the next part. Stopping here for today to write the detailed chapter outline.
