I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 437 The trapped beast and the moon

Wei Lan rolled her eyes angrily, "You know why you still ask?"

Jiang Lihua pursed her lips, but still couldn't hide the envy on her face, "If you ask me, Gu Chao definitely loves you."

She pushed Wei Lan and continued: "If you don't say more, let's just talk about two yuan! Looking at the entire brigade, which man is willing to buy a pair of two yuan shoes for his mother-in-law?"

"If you live your own life, why compare yourself to others?" Wei Lan raised his eyebrows slightly. He saw the two people approaching from the corner of his eye. Suddenly he bent his eyes and said with a smile: "Maybe there is a second person who loves my wife. What? Right, Comrade Li Jiandang."

Jiang Lihua was still a little confused by what Wei Lan said before. When she heard Li Jiandang's name later, Jiang Lihua raised her head in shock and met Li Jiandang's eyes directly behind Li Sangsang.

Li Jiandang just came over and didn't hear what they were saying at all. His eyes fell on Jiang Lihua, and he nodded instinctively and said "yes".

Jiang Lihua's face turned red with embarrassment, her eyes turned to the side, and she didn't know what to say.

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Li Sangsang tilted his head and glanced at the people.

Li Sangsang came with Li Jiandang and didn't hear clearly what Wei Lan and the others were talking about.

Jiang Lihua blushed and said nothing. Wei Lan narrowed her eyes and smiled and changed the topic: "It's nothing."

As expected, Li Sangsang didn't pursue the matter. He stepped forward and opened his arms, holding someone's arm with one hand and leading Wei Lan and Jiang Lihua forward. "Then let's go quickly! It looks like it's going to rain today, so hurry up and go early." Come back!"

"Your brother?" Wei Lan glanced back, and Li Jiandang followed closely behind him, carrying a bamboo basket on his back.

Li Sangsang explained: "My father said he was afraid that the three girls would be in danger, so he asked my brother to protect us!"

“Oh, that’s it!” Wei Lan raised her lips and gave a shallow response, glancing at Jiang Lihua with a vague gaze.

Poor Jiang Lihua, she usually only makes others angry when she is full of airs, but today she was blushing.

After chatting with Wei Lan for a few insignificant words, Li Sangsang finally noticed the abnormal Jiang Lihua beside him.

Li Sangsang leaned forward and stretched his neck to look at Jiang Lihua, "Why don't you speak?"

 Jiang Lihua:…

say? What could she say?

The matter between her and Li Jiandang was finally revealed. What if Wei Lan changes the topic to her as soon as she opens her mouth?

Jiang Lihua was speechless for a while, then suddenly looked forward, pointed to the hillside in the distance and said: "Look, it's foggy. There might be heavy rain at noon! Let's hurry up!"

 After saying that, he broke free from Li Sangsang's arm and ran away.

"Hey! Hey!" Li Sangsang raised his eyebrows and said "Hey" several times, but Jiang Lihua didn't stop. She turned her head and looked at Wei Lan, "I think what Jiang Zhiqing said makes sense, what about us?"

Wei Lan nodded.

So the three girls ran up the hillside path, with the big man Li Jiandang chasing after them.

 As long as the temperature is right, you can find mushrooms all year round.

 The sun was strong the past few days and the ground was moist. Places with dead trees and rotting grass are very suitable for mushroom growth.

Wei Lan casually picked up a wooden stick and held it in his hand. He pushed through a few withered and yellow weeds and discovered a chicken fir.

Chapteryx is commonly found on the ground in coniferous and broad-leaved forests, or is connected to termite nests. There are stable ecological conditions in the nests, which are suitable for termites and chickadees to coexist.

 Cha Shan Bao is made of red soil and hemp bones. The soil quality is not particularly good. Wei Lan basically concluded that there is a termite nest under the chicken fir tree.

This chicken fir is about eight to ten centimeters high. The top is gray and the umbrella has not been opened. It must be because it rained yesterday and the temperature suddenly dropped again.

  The Fiber Fungus is thick and plump, with fine white texture. When it is not opened, it tastes sweet and crispy. It is also rich in protein, fat and other trace elements necessary for the human body. It is known as the best among bacteria.

It is a rare and exquisite product, and the one in front of you grows naturally.

Wei Lan was overjoyed. She pushed aside the grass and squatted down. Using her hands and a wooden stick, she dug along the edge of the mushroom rhizome.

 Termite nests are usually 20 centimeters underground. As long as the termites do not move, they will still be able to create new ones after a while.

Afraid of disturbing the termite nest, Wei Lan did not dig deeply. After digging about seven or eight centimeters, he broke off the chicken cone halfway and filled it back with the dug-out soil.

Li Sangsang found a large piece of straw mushroom nearby, most of which were the size of thumbs. It was not easy to pick out the ones with long fingers.

Li Sangsang worked hard for a while. When he looked up and saw Wei Lan's face and hands covered with red mud, he was startled: "What did you do? Did you fall?"

“No!” Wei Lan showed her the chicken fir in his hand, “I found this, what did you gain?”

Pushing his mouth towards the large piece of straw mushroom in front of him, Li Sangsang stared at the chicken fir in Wei Lan's hand: "I know this mushroom. Drinking it in soup can make people's eyebrows fade away..."

Li Sangsang didn't know the value of chicken fir trees, but only knew that chicken fir trees were delicious. He was afraid that Wei Lan would be stupid and take them out, so he said more, "Come over here and pick some straw mushrooms with me. We'll eat strawberries later." Dry the mushrooms and take them to the cafeteria, but you can keep this for yourself."

Almost instantly, Wei Lan understood Li Sangsang’s intention.

 When he came out, he said he wanted to stock up on more ingredients for the canteen. If he suddenly changed his mind and said he wanted to keep the chicken conong, Li Sangsang and Jiang Lihua might have objections.

Wei Lan was thinking just now that she might as well spend some money to buy it.

Who would have expected that Li Sangsang would bring a pillow as soon as he dozed off.

Wei Lan smiled and nodded, with Genzi beside Li Sangsang, picking up straw mushrooms together.

 “You go over there to look for fungi, don’t follow me!”

On the other side, Jiang Lihua raised her eyebrows and glared at Li Jiandang who was following him.

This man is serious. He insists on following her in such a big place. Is he afraid that others won't see what he has in mind?

Jiang Lihua was a little angry, and at the same time she felt a strange feeling in her heart.

 It's a little sweet, a little nervous, and a little embarrassing...

This strange feeling made Jiang Lihua feel irritable and inexplicable.

Seeing that she couldn't drive away Li Jiandang, she simply picked up her small basket and turned around to leave.

Li Jiandang followed closely, glanced at Li Sangsang, and explained in a low voice: "The two of them are together, they are safe, but you are alone, I don't worry..."

Jiang Lihua’s ears were slightly hot, her head buried in her voice and her voice was muffled and shy, “Who wants you to take care of it? Stay away from me!”

"Lihua!" Li Jiandang lowered his voice, regardless of whether Jiang Lihua could see or not, and pointed to Wei Lan, "Look, they have already started picking up straw mushrooms, and we still have nothing...I don't want to let you know. You mean to compete with them, but it’s not good to go back empty-handed, right?”

Jiang Lihua paused when she heard the sound, and then looked towards Wei Lan. Seeing Wei Lan and Li Sangsang talking, laughing and busy, she suddenly felt a little concerned.

Yeah, if she goes back empty-handed, I don’t know if Wei Lan will laugh at her, her face will definitely not look good.

Jiang Lihua pursed her lips and looked at Li Jiandang pretending to be impatient, "Do you have a way to find the fungus?"

"Of course!" Seeing that Jiang Lihua no longer resisted him, Li Jiandang raised his thick eyebrows and tried to hold Jiang Lihua's hand, but Jiang Lihua backed away.

Li Jiandang scratched the back of his head with a smile, took back his hand and walked in front of Jiang Lihua, "The hillside in front has few tea trees and a lot of turf. In the past, there were a lot of mushrooms. It rained yesterday, so there must be some."

 “Mushroom?”

Jiang Lihua said "Huh". She had heard of tea tree mushrooms and straw mushrooms before, but this was the first time she heard of ground vegetable mushrooms and she couldn't imagine what they looked like.

"The mushroom is also called the fungus, and it looks like the fungus, but...it just looks more watery than the fungus." Li Jiandang was stupid and thought for a while before he came up with this explanation. Jiang Lihua became even more confused when she said this.

When Jiang Lihua saw the mushrooms with her own eyes, she picked up some and looked at them.

A dark green lump, wet and sticky, not to mention easily broken, and also covered with various small grains of sand and weeds.

 It’s not easy to clean up this thing.

"Are you sure it's this one? Is this edible?" Jiang Lihua turned to look at Li Jiandang suspiciously.

Li Jiandang squatted aside with a silly smile on his face, "This is it, it's delicious."

　　Okay, just make sure you can eat it.

Jiang Lihua rolled up her sleeves, opened her bow from left to right, held the basket in one hand, and picked quickly with the other.

Chicken mushrooms grow on the ground. Jiang Lihua cannot pick them properly and often throws them into the basket along with the weeds.

Li Jiandang watched for a while and couldn't help but tell her, "Put your hands lightly, pinch a little and slowly lift it up."

As he spoke, he made a show to Jiang Lihua.

Jiang Lihua frowned and retorted, "It's so slow. How long will it take to pick up a full basket?"

Li Jiandang was not at all worried about Jiang Lihua, who was like a bag of dynamite. He smiled and said, "Even though you can pick it up quickly, you will still cry when you go home to wash it."

 Jiang Lihua felt indignant and took a look at the mushrooms in her basket that were covered with rotten grass leaves. She finally pouted and followed Li Jiandang's instructions to pick them up slowly.

At about eleven o'clock at noon, it began to rain lightly again. The three of them had a lot of harvest in their baskets, so they planned to go home first. When they come another day, the straw mushrooms that just poked their heads out of the ground should be ready for picking.

The vegetable mushrooms were difficult to deal with, so Li Sangsang lectured Jiang Lihua, and Jiang Lihua said hello to Wei Lan and followed the Li brothers and sisters.

Wei Lan slung the small backpack around his neck, raised his two small hands above his head, and trotted back to block the rain.

As soon as I stepped onto the bifurcation of the field path at the entrance of the brigade village, I bumped into Gu Chao, who was walking with an umbrella.

 “Brother Chao!”

"Nanny." Gu Chao called out, quickly took two steps forward, and covered Wei Lan within the scope of the umbrella.

The patched old black cloth umbrella not only blocked the raindrops, but also blocked the light source, casting a shadow over the little girl's rosy face from running.

Gu Chao took Wei Lan's backpack and put it on his shoulder. He stretched out his big hand and was about to take Wei Lan's hand, but Wei Lan hugged his arm.

Wei Lan hissed at the air conditioner, leaning forward and dragging Gu Chao home, "The weather is changing so fast, the wind is blowing and it's freezing! Let's walk faster and go home quickly!"

Gu Chao Ling's lips curved, his expression gentle and caring, "Okay."

I persuaded Wei Lan to slow down, swallowed it back carefully, and let her drag him forward.

 …

"stop."

 As the man's cold voice fell, the white Soviet car stopped on the roadside.

Yanyi lowered the car window, squinted and looked into the distance.

Zhang Xiaokui craned his neck and took a glance, a little unsure: "Is that Wei Zhiqing? And Comrade Gu Chao."

On the ridge of the field, a man and a woman holding umbrellas walked hand in hand and drifted away.

 Yanyi pursed his thin lips into a straight line, tightened his hands under his sleeves, and glanced at Zhang Xiaokui with his sharp side eyes.

Zhang Xiaokui was agitated, fearing that the deputy bureau would kick him out. He grabbed the steering wheel with both hands and sat at a right angle, not daring to say a word again.

Yanyi turned his eyes to the window again. He didn't look back until the pair of figures disappeared and said, "Drive."

"yes!"

The car started up again, and a plume of green smoke spewed out from the exhaust port of the parking space. The wheels stirred up a burst of mud. Countless mud specks flew up and then fell into the mire. There was no shock at all.

 It’s like him and her.

 One is a trapped animal struggling in the quagmire, and the other is the bright moon hanging in the sky.

 The wet quagmire may reflect the bright moon.

The trapped beast may briefly embrace the bright moon, but in the final analysis, we are still two people.

 Eventually they will part ways.

"well…"

The man's deep brows wrinkled and then relaxed, relaxed and wrinkled again, and finally he only managed to let out a shallow sigh.

 …

At home, Grandma Gu had just scooped out half a bowl of rice from the rice vat and was preparing to steam the rice. When Wei Lan saw her, she quickly stepped forward to take the things off, "Grandma! I'll make lunch today!"

Wei Lan is good at cooking, and Grandma Gu always relies on her.

It’s just that Wei Lan has just come back from the tea mountain buns, and the mud on her hands has not been washed off. Grandma Gu can’t help but nag behind her: “Didn’t you mean picking up fungi? Are you going to dig a cave dwelling?”

It's okay not to say anything. After saying this, Wei Lan pushed the rice basin on the table, pulled the bamboo basket from Gu Chao's shoulder, and showed the chicken conong to Grandma Gu like a treasure, "Grandma, look! "

"You can't get such good things by digging cave dwellings!" Wei Lan's eyebrows were flying. After a while, he handed the chicken to Gu Chao, "Brother Chao, help me wash it! Let's add another dish for lunch!"

Grandma Gu had been talking about it for a long time. She saw that Wei Lan was cheerful and busy and had no intention of quarreling with her, so she suddenly felt a little boring.

Wei Lan was busy slicing the chicken fir, when Grandma Gu suddenly fell silent. Wei Lan raised his head curiously, and frowned slightly with his thin, dark eyebrows, "What's wrong, Grandma? I'm listening."

That confused and confused look made Grandma Gu feel inexplicably choked.

"The old woman is useless, no one wants to listen to her words." Aunt Gu made a face, took off her clothes and threw it in Wei Lan's hand, "You guys should be busy, let the old woman have some time to relax."

Grandma Gu said she wanted to take some time off, but instead she sat at the door of the stove, holding a pair of pokers to help light the fire.

People often say that when old people get older, they become like children. Wei Lan has never had grandparents since she was a child, so she has never experienced this. However, she has a profound experience with Grandma Gu.

 Stubbornness and willfulness are not big problems, as long as you are healthy.

Wei Lan smiled helplessly, just as Gu Chao was carrying firewood into the house, their eyes met unexpectedly, and Wei Lan winked at him playfully.

The eel was marinated early in the morning. Wei Lan cut a piece of fat meat skin from the beam, cut it into small cubes and put it in a pot to boil the oil. After the meat skin was browned and dried, stir-fry it, then take it out of the pot and add onions, **** and garlic to stir-fry until fragrant.

 (End of this chapter)