Chapter 392 391. Unhappy Past [2-in-1]
Half an hour later.
Before Huaiyu and Zhou Qian took stock of the supplies they were sure to sell, they saw the neat and new house, the neat stacks of firewood, and a square ice-box next to the pond. library.
It was an artificial cold storage built by Lin Xuefeng by diverting water from the pond, compressing it into ice bricks, then paving the floor and building walls. It consumes no electricity and saves energy. Now Lin Xuefeng has put in the fresh meat ingredients that were frozen along the way and is slowly wiping his hands and coming back.
Zhou Qian was silent.
Huaiyu was stunned.
She originally planned to spend an afternoon and an evening tidying up her home that she had not been back to for several months, but now...
It has only been half an hour now!
“The power is so useful.” She cried with envy.
“Don’t think so.” Zhou Qian didn’t know whether to comfort himself or Huaiyu: “Fang Ze has been here too, think about what he helped with my house.”
It can be said that he did nothing.
Huaiyu:...
She suddenly became happy again and couldn't help showing a big smile to Lin Xuefeng: "Lin Xuefeng, you are so awesome! Everyone I know is worse than you Far away.”
No one can withstand Huaiyu’s sweet words and remain indifferent. Lin Xuefeng couldn’t help but laugh. Then he also came forward: "Zhou Qian, now that the temperature has risen, the cold storage may not last long if it is left like this. If it is convenient for you, when you go to the defense army to inquire about the news, can you change it with some insulation cotton or hay? Something like that?”
Zhou Qian’s face tightened: “Xiaoyu calls me brother, is it appropriate for you to call me that name?”
Lin Xuefeng paused and looked back quietly.
Zhou Qian felt weak for a moment - this was his former idol, General Lin!
But at this moment, he only cleared his throat, and then tightened his face again.
After a while, Lin Xuefeng's expression remained unchanged, and his voice remained calm and gentle: "Brother Zhou Qian."
Zhou Qian's tense expression suddenly relaxed, but what came to his mind was not The joy was actually a strong guilty conscience, so that he was not in a happy mood at all, and even hesitated:
"Then what...this...after..."
Huaiyu sighed, with a troubled look on his face: "Brother Zhou Qian, do you like me too?"
Zhou Qian subconsciously replied: "Of course I... bah bah Bah! Don’t think that you are so confident that you have Lin Xuefeng as your boyfriend!”
He snorted and said disdainfully: “Mao girl!”
Huaiyu is so angry!
He threw a handful of dried fungus back into the bag: "I'm just asking! Why are you attacking me personally! I saw you were embarrassing Lin Xuefeng, so I thought you were jealous?"
Girls are outgoing! Girls are outgoing!
Zhou Qian originally felt a little embarrassed for his former idol to call him brother, but now he gave it all and looked at Lin Xuefeng again:
"Tell me, what should we do between us?" What do you call me?"
Lin Xuefeng said without changing his expression: "Brother Zhou Qian, I am younger than you, and you and Xiaoyu have the final say in the family, so just call me by my name."
"You see!" Zhou Qian raised his chin: "Don't look at your love book if you have nothing to do. What do you learn every day?"
He put down the things in his hands triumphantly, and moved out calmly at this moment Lin Xuefeng tried the bicycle after it had been cleaned, and it was obvious that he was now able to accept the fact that his former idol called him brother.
"I'll go to the defense army to inquire first. If the materials there are suitable, I'll bring them back first. If they're not enough, I'll go to Jinyuan Community. I happen to have some odds and ends on hand, so I should be able to buy a few bundles of hay. Come back."
After saying that, he put his foot down, pedaled the bicycle, and quickly drove away on the overgrown path.
On the other hand, Huaiyu stared at the fungus in his hand and wondered: "I thought Brother Zhou Xian would be a little disappointed when he saw your superpower. I didn't expect him to be happy so easily?"
After she finished speaking, she didn't hear Lin Xuefeng's answer. She couldn't help looking up curiously, but saw the other party sighing helplessly: "I thought you noticed his unnaturalness and went out of your way to smooth things over."
Huaiyu: "? What's so unnatural?"
She reacted and said matter-of-factly: "Aren't you only 30? Brother Zhou Qian is already 30. Is there any problem with this title?"
Lin Xuefeng didn't know what to say, so he could only nod his head: "No problem."
With Lin Xuefeng here, their original plan was greatly shortened. Huaiyu hesitated for a moment: "Why don't we just take it to Boss Tang directly after we finish sorting it?"
"In this way, you can pay off the debt a little bit, and the psychological burden can be reduced. In addition, you can also send the news that Uncle Zaozi has been waiting for. One day earlier, the couple can accept it earlier."
After she finished speaking, she saw that Lin Xuefeng had easily picked up a bag with one hand and moved her position again. The forearm muscles that roll up the sleeves during the movement are tight, the lines are bulging, and they are particularly smooth.
Huaiyu couldn't help but take a second look.
It’s so strange. I am with Brother Zhou Qian every day. When working in the summer, he only wears a vest, but I don’t feel anything is wrong.
But Lin Xuefeng was always well-dressed, and if she made a slight movement to reveal something, her eyes would be drawn.
Huaiyu thought for a while and concluded that it was not his fault, it must be due to hormones.
The next moment, he saw the forearm that he had looked at twice stretched out in front of him. It was white and strong, with faint blue blood vessels visible on the inside.
“Want to touch it?”
Lin Xuefeng’s smiling voice was in my ears: “I just saw you staring at it for a while.”
Huai Yu’s face was a little bit red.
but!
She stretched out her hand and squeezed it neatly: "The muscles are so strong! When can I train like this?"
Lin Xuefeng thought for a while: "Then it would be better to stand on the plank tomorrow. Let's start. If you stick to it for a year, your arm muscles should look pretty good. "
Huaiyu pulled back his hand as if he was burned: "Forget it, it was too hard. It hit my neck while sleeping in the tree cocoon last time."
Lin Xuefeng said helplessly. Xiaoyu, do you want me to remind you that you slept soundly last time?”
Huaiyu said seriously: "Don't talk about this when you are working... We are so poor now, we should focus on making money."
As she said this, she picked up the pile of wild chrysanthemums in her hand: " Do you want to sell all this? I brought the cuttings. If you want to drink it, we can grow it ourselves.”
Lin Xuefeng smelled the unique slightly bitter fragrance of wild chrysanthemums, and nodded at this moment: "It's up to you to decide - I rely on you to support me now."
But he was a little curious: " How do you dry these wild chrysanthemums? ”
It’s not so much drying as air-drying. Huaiyu gestured: "Put them flat into a large gauze bag and tie the two sides to the roof of the car. Once the car is driven, there will be wind on the road and they will slowly dry up."
Many things are collected slowly like this.
But...
Huaiyu raised his head and looked at Lin Xuefeng, who was silently sorting. His expression was less gloomy and more composed than in the wilderness. , that is——
“What a pity.”
She was a little pitiful: "You are so kind, but now you can't even say your name casually, and you can't walk on the street openly... I feel so sorry for you in this world."
"No." Lin Xuefeng twisted the bag There is a cluster of wild chrysanthemums with stems inside - they were probably picked in a hurry, so they were pulled down hard.
The branch of wild chrysanthemum with dry stems was gently and delicately pinned to Huaiyu's ear. It has a very slight weight, a very subtle bitter fragrance, and a particularly obvious sense of presence.
And Lin Xuefeng’s answer was like this wild chrysanthemum, gentle but powerful:
“This world has been very good to me.”
"In the past, I was just an ordinary art student. Now I am either thinking about how to achieve a career or thinking about the burden of starting a family."
"But now, I have worked hard from the starting point and have been an ordinary person. I have also been a hero - just like the martial arts books I read in childhood, the hero's destination is to retreat to the mountains and forests."
"Xiaoyu. , don’t you think this is very romantic?”
He gently touched Huaiyu’s hair and said softly:
“Especially in this world, I can still meet someone. I will be the one who will choose me no matter what. I feel that God has been so good to me that I have to work hard to do more good things and consider others along the way..."
"Life is really too happy, I am frightened and flattered."
Huaiyu said nothing.
After a while, she silently raised her head again, her eyes seemed to be twinkling with stars, and her voice was as soft as a mist: "Lin Xuefeng, you...don't you have a parent too?"
< br>Lin Xuefeng was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter -
"Xiaoyu, are you afraid that your loud voice will irritate me?"
He shook his head: "Studying art is very expensive. Without the support of my parents, it is difficult for me to learn how to read."
"But..." He thought of the past and always felt as if It happened in the previous life, far away and separated by heavy fog: "The year I was about to graduate from college, they got sick and searched everywhere for various folk remedies to cure the disease. "
"But my body couldn't support it, so I relied on my constant companionship. All the achievements I had made in the past few years in college were lost at that time - no papers, absenteeism, and dropout..."
He missed the art exhibition carefully arranged by his tutor. The originally scheduled project and his cooperating classmates were forced to break the contract. He paid liquidated damages but also lost everything.
I couldn’t even complete a simple request for leave.
In a hurry, he was taken directly into the car by the couple who had lost their minds in order to survive. From forcing him to make sacrifices, forcing him to believe in things he shouldn't believe, to finally trying various home remedies himself...
< br>In just one year, all his energy and energy were worn away.
However, the sufferings of the so-called native families that could have been written about in a big way are not worth mentioning to Lin Xuefeng after experiencing the disaster.
There is no need to even take it out to spoil Xiaoyu’s mood.
So even his voice was light.
"Later, when they insisted on going to an undeveloped hot spring deep in the mountains, the disaster began."
Lin Xuefeng said these things in an understatement, but Huaiyu keenly obtained a lot of information from it - some The family may be rich, but they may not care about their children, right?
However, since Lin Xuefeng didn't want to mention it, it was definitely something she wasn't happy about, so she didn't want to get to the bottom of it. Unless one day he wants to tell it, he is willing to listen to the story.
So she shook her head: "How pitiful! If I had known you earlier, would we have been together?"
Lin Xuefeng thought for a while: "I don't know. But... …probably not.”
"Why? Didn't you like Huaiyu before?" Huaiyu was a little curious: it was clearly written in her spiritual food that if you love someone, you will accept everything about her!
Lin Xuefeng shook his head: "In my eyes, you have always been different individuals. Each person's experience and life will shape her character, and the me you met earlier is not the same person I am now. "
He stared deeply at Huai Yu: "But, Xiaoyu, if you can appear in the disaster like this, In front of me, I think I will still like you."
"No matter how gloomy the plant is, it will always pursue the sun."
Huaiyu raised his head and looked. His eyes were full of hope and vision, as if such a beautiful thing had really happened before, and they supported each other and had an exceptionally bright future.
...
Zhou Qian didn't come back until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. His powerful legs and feet pushed the 28-bar bicycle like a hot wheel, with a thick bundle of things tied behind it.
"This is the insulation cotton brought back from the defense army. It is not available in Haycao Jinyuan Community. We have to buy it at Hongsheng Trading Market."
"Xiaoyu, have you packed it up? ? After packing it up, let’s load it up and leave.”
Huaiyu nodded: “It’s all done, and the things to be sold have been put in the car. Brother Zhou Qian, get in the car and rest for a while. Lin Xuefeng. Wear a mask and drive for you.”
Zhou Qian didn't refuse - he never stopped in order to rush for time. At this moment, he took the kettle handed over by Huai Yu and got into the car.
Here, Lin Xuefeng was still talking to him: "The thermal insulation cotton is already very good. Let's buy some hay. As long as we can ensure that the cold storage can last for more than 20 hours in summer, otherwise we have to worry about it at night. Reinforcing this is a bit troublesome."
Zhou Qian gulped down his saliva and asked curiously: "Don't you dig a cellar in the summer?"
Lin Xuefeng was helpless: "Xiaoyu likes to eat fresh food very much. Even if you dig a cellar, it is best to store more ice in it to keep it fresh. These insulations are always indispensable."
Zhou Qian nodded: "Okay, we'll discuss the specific house plans later. You and I will go back to the house to sleep tonight. Do you have any objections?"
Like a worried old father, he strictly guarded against the two of them being alone together in inappropriate places.
But Lin Xuefeng showed no offensive power now, as if the oppressive eyes of Chen Ning that Zhou Qian saw in the surveillance camera were just an illusion.
“No, Brother Zhou Qian.”
Lin Xuefeng said sincerely: “This is what it should be, but I haven’t cleaned up the house over there yet. I’ll come back in the evening.”
It's all little things.
Zhou Qian curled up the corner of his mouth. Hearing this title now, he felt relaxed and not at all uncomfortable.
He thought for a while, but for a moment he didn't know how to act like the big brother, so he could only say unfamiliarly: "Then, let's do this for now."
Okay! It’s almost 400 chapters! Can the New Year be completed? If not, can it be completed with 500?
Good night.