Volume 1 Chapter 0005: The wine is not drunk, but the love remains
On the way, we passed by a paddy field and went down to the field to break off some straw from the rice stack.
He fetched two buckets of water that were just level with the edges of the buckets, wiped off the burrs on the straw, and then fetched some water from the well to rinse it. He threw a few straws into each bucket, then Nan Yi picked up the load and walked back.
With straw in the bucket, the water will not easily ripple and will not easily overflow. In this way, Nan Yi can speed up his pace.
One load, two loads, three loads...it took three loads of water to fill the water tank.
Seeing that the female educated youth were already there making a fire to cook, Liu Zhen was also smart enough to be in charge of making the fire. Nan Yi went to rummage through his net bag again and took out a lunch box and two enamel water cups.
"Sister Qu Jing, this is the pork with fermented black bean sauce and pork with preserved vegetables that I brought from home, as well as the beef I bought from the commune at noon. Please heat them up for us to eat together later."
"Oh, what's so tiring about? You have something good to share with everyone, so what's wrong with me helping out a little?"
Qu Jing looked at the teacup and lunch box that Nan Yi opened, and couldn't help swallowing.
There were often people coming to Wenchangwei to sell meat, but the educated youth had no money. They could only buy daily necessities, stamps and envelopes with their monthly allowance, and they also had to save up the money to ask their families to send them cloth coupons so they could buy cloth to make clothes.
At most, a little roughness could be worn off from each penny, and everyone would pool their money together, and only when they could no longer bear it would they cut some meat to eat. If they wanted to eat meat, they would mainly rely on fishing for frogs and catching water snakes.
"Meat, where is the meat?"
People who haven't smelled the aroma of meat for three months will have particularly sensitive noses to it. Following the smell, all the male educated youth were lured out one by one.
"Wow, there's meat, Nan Yi, the one you brought is so delicious!"
Lin Guangwei wiped his saliva and spoke nonsense.
Lai Jihua swallowed his saliva, wishing two claws would fly out of his eyes, full of greed.
Li Hai was okay. He just took a glance and then looked away.
He was tall, with fair skin with a hint of black, a resolute face, strong but a little fat, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His food supply was guaranteed, and he should have never felt hungry since he was a child.
"Li Hai's family should not be simple, probably his parents are both in the government." Nan Yi made a judgment in his mind, "Lin Guangwei is from a family of ordinary people, at first glance he is an okay person; Lai Jihua is a person who should not be made close friends, most likely he is a treacherous villain who will stab his brothers in the back if he gets the chance."
The first impression has been made, and the rest needs to be confirmed in daily life.
The good and bad of some people can be seen at a glance, while some people are more introverted and hide it more deeply. If you want to make a correct assessment of their character and habits, you need to consider many parameters and conditions, and it also takes time.
Simply put, time reveals a person’s true character !
"Tell me, which of you three newcomers has slept in my bed?"
Just as the male educated youth were gathering around the stove enjoying the aroma of meat, Ke Hongxing rushed out with a cold face and asked angrily.
"Is it you?"
"Or Nong?"
"Could it be Nong?"
Without giving others time to answer, Ke Hongxing singled out three people and questioned them one by one.
"Sister Ke, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Ke Hongxing stepped forward, his finger almost poking at Nan Yi's face. "Ask me what's wrong. Someone has moved the box next to my bed, and the letters inside are all messed up. Tell me, who moved my things?"
"Is that so?" Nan Yi nodded calmly and said, "Sister Ke, I don't know who has been in there. But I guarantee that neither Liu Zhen nor I have. You might as well ask other people to see if they have been in there."
Then, Nan Yi said to Liu Zhen: "Zhen'er, you didn't go in, right?"
"Well, I didn't." Liu Zhen nodded.
If we remove two of the three, the range will be smaller. Anyway, it is Jiang Biyun horizontally or vertically.
"Let me read my letter!"
Bang! Ke Hongxing slapped Jiang Biyun on the left cheek.
"Let me read my letter!"
Smack, right cheek.
"I let you ..."
"Ke Hongxing, are you done yet? That's enough." Zhao Hongzhuang grabbed Ke Hongxing's hand and said righteously, "We come from all corners of the world and work hard for a common goal. We must unite and love each other, with a red heart facing the sun..."
"Well, it has started again. Nan Yi, let me tell you something. Don't mess with Zhao Hongzhuang or Ke Hongxing here. If you mess with them, it will be a big deal and it will never end."
Lin Guangwei took the cigarette handed over by Nan Yi and reminded Nan Yi kindly.
"I understand. I understand."
The farce did not last long. It ended when Qu Jing, who was already used to it, prepared the meal and announced that the meal was ready.
Nan Yi "once again" rummaged through his net bag and took out a bottle of Fenjiu and a bottle of small champagne wine produced by the Beijing Grape Wine Factory①.
"How can good food be without good wine? Sisters, drink champagne, and brothers, let's drink Fenjiu. This stuff is greasy, so I only brought two bottles of each. Let's finish one bottle today, and drink the rest another day when we are tired."
Nan Yi handed the champagne to Zhao Hongzhuang. Although her face was still sour, she could not resist the charm of champagne. She took it and put it in her mouth and bit off the cap. "Don't look at it. Go get the teacup."
Upon hearing this, several female educated youth hurried back to their rooms to get teacups, regardless of whether it was Ke Hongxing who had just beaten someone, or Jiang Biyun who had been beaten.
Jiang Biyun hated Nan Yi a little, but that didn't stop her from eating and drinking her enemy's food.
The male educated youth didn't need to be called out at all. When Nan Yi took out the wine just now, several people had already taken their tea cups and were staring at the wine bottle in Lin Guangwei's hand with eager eyes.
"Pour it up, pour it up."
Lin Guangwei had just bit open the cap of the wine bottle when Lai Jihua urged him.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Half a jar per person. I'll divide it evenly." Lin Guangwei said as he poured the wine.
First pour a little into each teacup, and then do another round; after pouring a little, compare them, for fear that one of the teacups has too much.
In the end, he divided the bottle of wine into four equal parts.
Let’s put it this way, even if what was distributed was gold, no one would say that they got too little.
Nan Yi took a look and found that only Lin Guangwei's cup had a little more water than the others. This was because the porcelain of his teacup had been badly chipped, so the water content was deeper than that of the others.
Lin Guangwei: "The long road ahead is as hard as iron, but now we start over again."
Li Hai: "If the sky had feelings, it would also grow old. The right path in the world is vicissitudes."
Nan Yi: "I feel sad and lonely, and ask the boundless earth, who controls the rise and fall?"
"In this case, why not just start drinking it?"
Lai Jihua was too lazy to agree with the three people and received a lot of glares from them.
"Okay, okay, now that I have the long rope in my hand, I will be able to tie up the blue dragon. Okay, can we start drinking?"
"drink!"
"drink……"
The four teacups clinked together, creating ripples of the wine in the cups. This was the only enthusiasm left for the few people after being tortured in the countryside for several years.
After taking a sip of wine, the three of them quickly picked up their chopsticks to pick up the food.
The wine is already in your glass, but the food is still in the bowl. If you don't eat it yourself, it will go into someone else's stomach.
Look at these women. With one chopstick, they can pick up pickled mustard greens as big as a ping-pong ball. The outside is wrapped with pickled mustard greens, and inside is a piece of fat, greasy meat.
When you put it in your mouth and take a bite, the lips become very cute, which makes people want to lick it under the pretext of liking it and roll the fat on it into their mouth.
Bang!
Whoosh!
The chopsticks were as fast as lightning, striking the meat bowl one after another. Large pieces of fat meat were taken out from the pickled mustard greens and bean paste and tremblingly rushed to the execution ground.
After the fat meat is eaten, the chopsticks will move on to the beef.
Nan Yi took a sip of wine leisurely, then slowly picked out a piece of lean meat from the bean paste, stuffed it into his mouth and tore it apart along the texture. He then used his tongue to tear the meat strip apart from horizontal to vertical.
The strips of meat moved back and forth between the incisors, canines, and molars, being mashed into a paste with a crunching sound. The flavor was completely absorbed by the taste buds, and then the tongue rolled and swept the paste into the two deep eye sockets.
If you want to eat and drink to your heart's content, you must loosen the belt.
Liu Zhen no longer had to be as cautious and secretive as she was on the train. The red cloth rope around her waist had been replaced by a military belt. She lifted up her hem and unbuckled the belt.
Puff, like the bump on a bicycle tire, my lower belly suddenly bulged out another two inches.
The others did the same and loosened their belts one by one.
Nan Yi sipped the last drop of wine in the teacup, then stood up and reached into the net bag again, pulling out a few hawthorns. He walked to the stove, picked up the fire tongs and stirred the ash. The covered sparks immediately popped out.
Pick up a bundle of straw stuff it into the fire pit, use the fire tongs to pick up the sparks, puff up your cheeks and blow inside, and the bundle of straw will catch fire.
When most of the straw bundle was burned, Nan Yi stuffed another rapeseed dumpling in. After the rapeseed dumpling was on fire, he stood up, walked to the water tank, drew two scoops of water into the lead pot, and put the hawthorn into the water.
"Zhen'er, there's hawthorn water in the pot. Turn down the fire. I'm going to Captain Xian's house."
"Um."
"Nan Yi, why are you going to Xian Yaodong's place?" asked Lin Guangwei who was lying there paralyzed.
"Go and talk about the settlement of Liu Zhen and I. We want to settle down completely and become members of the commune here. We will no longer be educated youth."
"What? Settle down? Are you crazy? If you settle down, you can't go back to the city."
