I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 439 Even if all the women in the world die...

Although the weather is getting warmer now, the temperature is actually not that high. The lard and pork are still fresh after being stored for two days, and they will not spoil at all.

Only Wei Lan was worried about missing the things in the canteen, and was quickly diverted by Gu Chao, who hurriedly ran toward the brigade with a basket in hand.

When Wei Lan arrived at Li's house, Li Sangsang was sorting sorghum stalks in the yard.

The broom at home has been used for a long time, and there are not many hairs left on the broom head. In the morning, Li Hong went out and pulled out a sorghum stalk as a model. He told Li Sangsang to sort out a small bundle according to the length, and when he came back, he could tie it into a new one. broom.

Hearing the knock on the courtyard door, Li Sangsang put down what he was doing, got up and opened the door, "Here it comes! Who is it?"

　　Opening the door, she saw Wei Lan holding a basket with both hands together and was stunned for a moment. "Why are you here?" was stuck in her throat. Li Sangsang subconsciously looked at the basket in her hand.

"Ah! I thought I had to wait for a while! The fire was about to start. I was just wondering what to do, but I didn't expect you to get it now?"

A big piece of suet was lying quietly in the basket. When Li Sangsang saw it, she jumped excitedly.

Two female comrades passing by heard the commotion and looked here curiously. Wei Lan glanced at it from the corner of his eye, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Let's go in and talk?"

"Hey!" Li Sangsang nodded hurriedly, stepped aside to invite Wei Lan into the courtyard, and finally bolted the courtyard door with a "click".

Lard is a hot commodity. A few years ago, Li Sangsang didn’t have enough oil at home, so he wanted to buy lard to top it up. Li Hong and Li Jiandang ran to the town for several days, but couldn’t find any.

 Li Sangsang was extremely surprised to see such a big piece in front of him.

He didn't care about the grease on the suet at all. He turned his hand over and over, touching it again and again. "You are so capable! How did you do it?"

“You’re lucky.” Wei Lan rolled her eyes and smiled slightly, “If I buy it next time, I may not have such good luck.”

Li Sangsang nodded in agreement. She was a little greedy by nature, and she usually liked to care about trivial matters and trivial things. However, the matter of the canteen was assigned by the superiors. It was not only related to the entire brigade, but also to her father's black hat.

Hence, Li Sangsang not only did not dare to be cautious, but also kept an eye on things for fear of making mistakes.

This large piece of suet weighed one kilogram, so it was definitely close to ten, but Li Sangsang still followed the process carefully.

 “You sit down for a while, I’ll go get the scale!” Inviting Wei Lan to sit down in the main room, Li Sangsang poured a glass of water.

Afraid that something might go wrong and he couldn't explain clearly, Li Sangsang didn't touch the suet in the basket and went straight to the back room to get the scale.

Wei Lan cooperated. Li Sangsang weighed himself several times, and each time he weighed one pound and two taels. To be sure, Li Sangsang screamed and jumped up on the spot, jumping to Wei Lan's side, thinking Give Wei Lan a bear hug.

 Wei Lan's hands were faster than ever before, and she put a hand on Li Sangsang's forehead to stop her from getting closer, "I know you are happy, and I am also very happy, but first of all, let's boil out the oil first, right?"

Li Sangsang was stunned for a moment, then patted his head and said with a smile: "Look at me! I've forgotten all the important things! Let's go, I'll call Jiang Zhiqing, let's go to the cafeteria to clean up!"

The grain allocated by the commune and the brigade has been delivered to the canteen two days ago. It is now in the small cabinet where the grain is stored. The keys to the cabinet and the canteen door key are with Li Sangsang.

 Soy sauce, vinegar, salt, bowls, chopsticks and crockery are all ready. When the suet is boiled out, the big dining hall can be opened.

Li Sangsang called her brother Li Jiandang to fill the large water tank in the corner of the courtyard. The three girls divided the work, sweeping the floor and wiping the table, dicing suet, and lighting the fire. They were extremely busy.

Li Jiandang had nothing to do after carrying water. He saw Jiang Lihua sitting at the door of the stove and lighting a fire. Li Jiandang rubbed a handful of his head that had been blown into thorns, and carried a bundle of firewood into the house from the firewood pile under the eaves and window.

There was a loud clatter when the firewood was put down. Jiang Lihua didn't pay attention to it. It wasn't until someone patted her calf that she noticed the stupid man squatting beside her.

 Jiang Lihua: “?”

 “What to do?”

There was an unexpected sound, especially soft, and the eyes of the other two girls in the room turned to each other.

Li Jiandang's face turned red all the way to his ears. He swallowed what he said and said hesitantly: "No, it's nothing. Everyone collected the firewood... Is this enough? If there's nothing else, I'll leave first!" "

As if being chased by a vicious dog, Li Jiandang finished speaking and ran away quickly.

Jiang Lihua looked puzzled, and Li Sangsang looked at the door and sighed, with a look of despair on his face.

Jiang Lihua has such a blustering temperament that Li Jiandang would have to put in a lot of effort if he really wanted to catch her.

Wei Lan shook his head, lowered his head and pursed his lips in a silent smile.

With all the things in the canteen being prepared, time passed and it soon came to the day when the sunflower seed project started.

Director Lu of the commune came here specially, followed Gu Sande, set off a firecracker on the ridge of the field, waved his fist and said an inspiring speech, and finally shouted "Officially started construction" in a loud voice.

 The young men selected from the brigade to participate in the project rushed to the front one by one, as if they had been given a shot of blood.

The male educated youths also deliberately showed off, rolling up their sleeves, waving their heads, and sweating, just to be remembered as a familiar face by Director Lu, so that they could go back to the city through connections and not have no way to ask for help.

On the other hand, Gu Chao didn’t think so much.

Wei Lan, Li Sangsang, Jiang Lihua and other girls crowded together and stood watching. Gu Chao nodded and said hello to her, then picked up the **** and found a corner to work alone.

This large piece of land was plowed before winter. Yesterday, people drove oxen and plowed one side. The main work today is to dig small holes in the broken soil, and then someone will come and scatter the seeds.

 It was not a tiring job, but after a lot of work, beads of sweat began to appear on the foreheads of a group of young men and it was extremely hot.

I don’t know who got up and took off their clothes and shirtless. The faces of the little girls watching were all red, and they covered their eyes and looked through their fingers.

Wei Lan pursed her lips and was speechless for a while, then turned to look at Gu Chao.

Gu Chao also took off his clothes, but he was more elegant and took off his outer jacket, revealing a pair of white pointed collars and a slim-fitting black cashmere sweater underneath.

 Tall and tall, he is strong where he should be and thin where he should be. His hands and feet work quickly and conscientiously. Every time the **** is raised and lowered, the black cashmere sweater on his arms will show the graceful and smooth lines of the muscles.

Handsome and serious, with a good temper, he belongs to her.

Wei Lan's black and slender eyebrows were slightly raised, and a sweet smile appeared on her delicate face.

Just as he was about to call Jiang Lihua and the others back, a dark-skinned girl in the crowd asked, "What are they wearing? Are we so fashionable?" Wei Lan turned around and saw, sure enough, most of the young men in the team were shirtless. Only Gu Chao and the educated youths were still wearing clothes, and they were all wearing sweaters and cashmere sweaters.

They were all knitted by Yang Yan and the others in the winter last year.

"It seems to be called a sweater! They can only be sold in big cities. We may not even have them in the town, let alone the county." A girl with braided braids answered first, and after a while she pouted at the field: "Don't you see? Wearing a sweater? They are all educated youth."

 Informed people come from big cities.

This seemed to make sense, but soon, the girl who spoke first said again: "What about Gu Chao and Li Jiandang? They are also wearing clothes!"

 “Gu Chao and Wei…”

The crowd was noisy, and the girls wanted to discuss something. Seeing Wei Lan, the person involved, was present. Most of the people talking were the girls they met, who were not well educated. In addition to being envious of the young man in town, there was also an inexplicable feeling. Awe.

The girl with braided braids paused, not daring to say more. Then she changed her subject and muttered: "I have been to Beijing, so I bought it in Beijing!"

These people dare not speak of Wei Lan and Gu Chao, but it does not mean that they dare not speak of Li Jiandang.

Soon, someone's eyes were fixed on Li Jiandang, "I always saw Li Jiandang running to the educated youth spots before. Isn't he dating some female educated youth?"

The babble was not loud, but it was enough for everyone present to hear clearly.

However, the voice did not stop, "But that's right. He is the son of the production captain after all. If we are together, he can be taken care of and do less work or do more light and light work, right?"

The crowd was silent for a moment.

Among the female educated youths, Wei Lan is dating Gu Chao. Lin Qing got married some time ago. Now the only ones in the educated youth camp are Yang Yan and Jiang Lihua, and only Jiang Lihua joins the canteen to do "light" work.

Wei Lan suddenly laughed. If the words were not deliberately sarcastic, she could have written the word "Wei" upside down.

 Wei Lan raised her eyebrows slightly and pulled Jiang Lihua, who had an unsightly face, behind her. She took a step forward and was about to speak when someone moved faster than her.

Wei Lan felt her eyes blur, and the next second, she heard Li Sangsang’s rude voice:

“You’re the only one who has a mouth? You bray louder than a donkey. You can do as much work as a donkey, but you just have a mouth. If you can’t eat the grapes, you’ll say the grapes are sour.”

"You...Sang Zao'er, you, you..." The girl with braided braids is called Chun Zhi. She has a pleasant round face, but now her hands are shaking because of Li Sangsang's anger, and she can't say a complete sentence.

"Don't call me that, it's disgusting!" Li Sangsang raised his chin and glanced at Chunzhi with disgust, looking down upon her, "You are going to get married soon. Why, you don't know what Jikoude is? Be careful that your husband's family looks down on you. !”

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"Bah!" Li Sangsang spat on the ground, turned around with a smile on her face, took the arms of Wei Lan and Jiang Lihua affectionately, and dragged them back, "She is just a snobbery, she doesn't After all, we can’t see others being well... We don’t have to be angry with such people.”

Wei Lan leaned forward and looked at Li Sangsang, "Do you have an inside story?"

 “Uh…” Li Sangsang paused and glanced at Jiang Lihua from the corner of his eye.

Li Sangsang didn't want to say more about such a thing that could easily lead to misunderstanding, but seeing Jiang Lihua's brows furrowed, her lips tightened and her whole body looking heavy, Li Sangsang couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Her incompetent brother has been pursuing Jiang Lihua for half a year now, but he still can't get the girl to nod.

Li Sangsang was afraid that Jiang Lihua would close her heart because of those weird remarks just now and scare her away later.

After careful consideration, Li Sangsang said: "My brother is twenty-one this year. He was going to get married two years ago, but the marriage partner followed the family's arrangements and abandoned my brother. He turned to a demobilized soldier from the third team upstream. On."

Jiang Lihua’s eyebrows moved, obviously listening.

Wei Lan's eyes widened, "That person couldn't be the one just now, right?"

Li Sangsang rolled his eyes and nodded in disgust, "It's her. But I heard that her partner went out to do something a while ago and broke his leg... The two people who used to be tired of each other saw her come back today and broke their legs. After talking like that in a weird way, I think her partner's leg is probably not going to recover, and now she wants to come back to haunt my brother."

Wei Lan’s little face wrinkled up speechlessly, what does this mean?

Li Sangsang snorted coldly and said with a strange smile: "She is beautiful. Although my brother is a little stupid, he is also a very honest and good young man. There is no reason for her to cause such trouble."

 “Hmm…” Jiang Lihua responded unconsciously, lowering her head and saying nothing.

Li Sangsang was anxious, broke away from Wei Lan, grabbed Jiang Lihua's arm with both hands, and said anxiously: "Oh, sister Lihua, don't worry, even if all the women in the world die, my brother will not be able to see even if he is lame." If you fall in love with that Haruzhi, don’t worry!”

Jiang Lihua looked embarrassed, her cheeks were slightly red and she wanted to defend but couldn't bear to push Li Sangsang away.

Wei Lan laughed out loud, with bright eyes, he stood up and came to the rescue and said, "Okay, I see you scared people, let this matter go as it is, and no one will mention it in the future."

It is one thing not to mention it, but it is another thing how Jiang Lihua will choose in the future. Wei Lan is only responsible for throwing out the steps to make the atmosphere between the two people less tense.

 The first two are both insiders, and Wei Lan has said so. If she continues to coy, it will be hypocritical.

Jiang Lihua chuckled and nodded, saying "Yeah" and walking down the steps. After that, the three girls talked and went to the cafeteria with smiles on their faces.

In response to the lie she had unintentionally told when she came back from the capital, when she went out this morning, Grandma Gu specifically reminded Gu Chao to put on the brand new number.

At last it was time for dinner. Jiang Lihua stood on the Shiban Bridge in Xiaogang and shouted at the top of her lungs. Only the people in the nearby acres of land heard her. People in the distance shouted one by one, which was very laborious.

 Gu Chao hesitated for a moment, then pulled off the trumpet from his waist and blew a string of "dudududu". The busy people in the distance looked up. He stopped the trumpet and shouted: "Go back to eat, come back in the afternoon."

Everyone was sitting around the long wooden table in the large dining hall. In front of each person was a bowl of rice and two fist-sized sweet potatoes. In the middle of the table were a large basin of egg soup with lard residue and a large plate of fried mushrooms with chili peppers. .

The oil residue is from when lard was boiled before. A large handful of salt was sprinkled on it and it can be left for a while. The three girls in charge of the canteen had planned well and put a small handful every time they made soup.

 There is a lot of oil in the soup, and there are meaty oil residues. Compared with the mushrooms on the plate, the soup in the basin should not be too popular.

There was only one spoon for the soup, and everyone rushed together to grab that spoon.

 (End of this chapter)