Chapter 240 Gu Xiaoxia’s Double Happiness
Li Long took Gu Xiaoxia back to the middle school on his bicycle. At first, neither of them spoke.
However, Li Long could clearly feel that although Gu Xiaoxia was also quite reserved, her relationship was obviously much closer because of her engagement. When the road was rough and the car was unstable, she would no longer just hold on to the lap of the back seat, but would subconsciously hold on to her own clothes.
This is obviously a relatively closely related expression.
"Do you still need to prepare lessons when you go back?" Li Long asked proactively, "Do I still need to keep school during the holiday?"
"No more lesson preparation. The exam is coming soon. The main thing now is to urge students to review well - the class is over. I can go home after the holiday. We female teachers don't have to guard school."
Li Long I think it's pretty good. At least he is happier than the teacher in his previous life. He remembered that in his previous life, it seemed that the farther back he went, the more responsibilities a teacher had. During holidays, he would be assigned many tasks that had nothing to do with teaching, and the pressure became more and more intense.
Of course, he only knows some things that can be seen on the surface, and he doesn’t know the specifics.
And today’s students have different levels of respect for teachers. The authority of teachers still continues because of "the king of heaven and earth, the king and the teacher", and the matter of beating, scolding and corporal punishment still exists.
It’s just that Li Long feels that in schools here, similar things are much less common than what he says. After all, firstly, the population is small, and secondly, there are newly built villages and towns, and many traditional things have been destroyed.
Of course, parents generally still attach great importance to education. Both men and women must go to school. Those who study well will receive high attention in the village. This is inevitable.
Gu Xiaoxia will also chat with Li Long about the good students and the naughty ones in the class. Li Long said jokingly:
"Although you attach great importance to studying now. But let me tell you, 80% of the time in ten or twenty years, I will remember you and come to see you often. They are all naughty ones. Those who studied well and got good jobs will not come back to visit you. "
"No?" Gu Xiaoxia obviously didn't believe it.
"Then you...have you seen your teacher?" Li Long suddenly asked.
"My high school teacher was rehabilitated and returned to the mainland!" Gu Xiaoxia retorted, "I haven't had much contact with him since then. Otherwise, I would have definitely gone to see him."
"Well, you are kind and righteous." Li Long had no choice but to say.
"That's pretty much it!" Gu Xiaoxia is a bit arrogant. She feels different now that she's engaged, and she can let go of her personality.
We arrived at school while chatting and laughing.
The sun had set in the west. Li Long sat in Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory for a while. Teachers who lived on campus came back one after another. Some came to say hello to Gu Xiaoxia, bring her things, and some watched the fun.
Li Long knew that it was not good to stay any longer, so he stood up and said:
"I'll come over again tomorrow."
"When will you come over tomorrow?" Although Gu Xiaoxia was reluctant to leave, she I also know that Li Long is not suitable to stay any longer.
"Go back and set down the net later, and go sell the fish early tomorrow morning. After selling the fish, it will be almost noon by the time you get here. Will you cook for noon? If not, I will take you there by bike. "Eat in the county?"
"Where can I get it?" Gu Xiaoxia said.
"Okay." Li Long smiled.
Li Long left the school on his bicycle and rushed to the team.
Gu Xiaoxia began to pack the things she brought over.
There are two packets of candy among them, which were given by the Li family when they got engaged. Gu Xiaoxia planned to give them to her colleagues to show her attitude.
Also put an end to the ideas of those who have any ideas about her.
This is Gu Xiaoxia's own idea.
Teacher Wang came from the next room, leaned against the door, and said with a smile:
"He sent you here? Is this the first time? Are you... candy?" "
"Well, we are engaged." Gu Xiaoxia's voice was low and a little shy, but she was serious and her tone was firm.
“Are you really sure it’s him?” Teacher Wang was still a little surprised, “Don’t think about it anymore?”
"I won't consider it anymore." Gu Xiaoxia shook her head and said, "It's him."
"I know you will say that you can't be here without him, but you have to distinguish between what is kindness and what is love. ..." Teacher Wang has personally watched Gu Xiaoxia's transformation process in the past few months. She believed that Gu Xiaoxia would go higher and further.
It would be a pity if your wings were tied up by a rural person.
"Teacher Wang, eat some candies." Gu Xiaoxia stood up and grabbed a handful of candies for Teacher Wang, then said with a smile, "Let me tell you a little story he told."
"What did he say that made you remember it so deeply?" Teacher Wang took the candy, peeled one off and put it in his mouth, then said vaguely, "Let me listen."
"In ancient times, a man saved a woman. If the woman fell in love with that man, she would say, 'There is no way to repay this kindness, I can only promise it with my body'..."
"Pfft!" Teacher Wang's laughter point was also relatively low, and he laughed directly, "Don't tell me, this kind of thing really happened in ancient times..."
"It's not over yet!" Gu Xiaoxia continued. , "If that woman doesn't like that man, she will say, 'I can't repay you for saving my life. I will repay you by working as a cow or a horse in my next life.'"
"Eh..." Teacher Wang replied immediately Wei Lai,——,"Don't say it..."
"It's quite ironic, isn't it?" Gu Xiaoxia said, "It's also quite true, isn't it?"
"Then you are...the former?" Teacher Wang asked tentatively, "If someone else provided you with information, would you be..."
"When he first told me, I thought he was Hint to me. But he said again, this is not a hint, it is just a hint. A little joke...or a joke. What he wants to tell me is that the relationship between us has progressed step by step, not because of one thing. So, our relationship can withstand the test..."
Teacher Wang stopped talking.
She suddenly discovered that Li Long, who she thought was illiterate, was not as shallow as she thought.
His academic qualifications are not high, but it does not mean that he has less experience and knowledge.
Li Long rode his bicycle and turned to Tao Daqiang's house first. Seeing Tao Daqiang feeding the donkey in the yard, he shouted:
"Daqiang, are you free? Get off the net."
" Yes, yes!" Before Tao Daqiang could speak, Tao Jianshe shouted in the vegetable garden, "Daqiang, go ahead."
Tao Daqiang put down the grass in his hand, clapped his hands, and walked over with a naive smile. Li Long.
"Brother Long, you go back first, I will be there soon." Tao Daqiang didn't want to make a bicycle. He felt that it was inconvenient for Li Long to carry him.
Li Long didn't force himself, said hello to Tao Jianshe, adjusted the front of the car, and rode home.
Li Long heard the footsteps behind him, and when he turned around to look, he found Tao Daqiang running with great strides, only a dozen steps away from him.
He laughed and cursed:
“If you don’t want to ride in a car, you have to run...”
“Let’s move around, I can run fast.”
Li Juan and several girls were dancing with rubber bands outside the Li family courtyard. Although it was hot during the day, the sun was almost setting now and the temperature had dropped a bit.
Seeing Li Long coming, the girls hurriedly got out of the way. Li Long smiled and entered the yard.
Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were bickering habitually, while Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were feeding the pigs - the pigs in the yard had grown to half-size, and now was the time to eat fiercely. Every time they were fed , they are all up for grabs. Li Jianguo said that he was worried that these guys would jump out of the pig pen.
The wall of the pig pen is 1.5 meters high, so you should not be able to jump out unless you are in a hurry.
Li Qiang is not here, he must have gone to play.
"Why, are you still going down the net?" Li Qingxia asked when he saw the panting Tao Daqiang behind Li Long.
“Let’s go.” Li Long joked, “We are already engaged, so we don’t have to make more money to build a house and buy furniture.”
“That’s it. Let’s go, I’ll go with you. "Although Dad doesn't have much money, it's good to be able to help." Li Qingxia stood up and rolled up his sleeves, "Father and son are going to fight."
Li Long smiled. The three people carried tires, nets, and pots tied with cloth and headed toward Xiaohaizi.
Meng Zhiqiang came back from Xiaohaizi carrying a bag and happened to meet Li Long and the others.
"Uncle Li, Xiaolong, are you... going down the net?"
"Yes." Li Long said with a smile, "Idle time is idle. Catch some fish and sell them tomorrow." Yes." Meng Zhiqiang was also speechless, and so was he. But Li Long is really just idle. This year, he had never seen Li Long once as a public servant.
I have never seen Li Long before. At that time, he thought Li Long was just idle, but now, Li Long has become his role model.
Arrived at Xiaohaizi, Li Qingxia asked Li Long to lower the net, while he took off his coat, carried the basin into the water, and lowered the "artifact" for catching loaches to the edge of the nearby reeds.
Li Long watched his father go into the water and shouted:
"Dad, it's best to move the basin further down, as close as possible to the bottom. That ditch fish likes to stick to the bottom."
"Okay, okay, okay. , Got it." Li Qingxia held the basin in one hand and waved his hand while the other was free, indicating to Li Long that he should just finish his work.
Li Long was in a good mood and went offline quickly. Tao Daqiang cast five or six nets on the shore, and Li Long had already cast six nets and returned.
“Brother Long, you are so fast offline today.”
"Haha, if you pick up the net smoothly, I can download it quickly." Li Long smiled, and the three of them went back together.
The person who took the net the next day was Tao Daqiang. He strongly demanded that he take the net and let Li Long watch.
Li Qingxia still followed, and this time the fish in the basin was so proud that it almost opened the cage cloth above it. He returned to the shore and smiled. The fish in this pot must be at least ten kilograms!
"Xiaolong, if you sell this fish, don't give me any money. I don't know if I can catch up with you when you get married, so save it first." Li Qingxia whispered to Li Long.
"Dad, I am rich." Li Long said with a smile, "Just this time, I earned much more than you..."
"What you have is yours. If dad doesn't give it to you, what are you talking about?" Li Qingxia shook his head, and then seeing that Tao Daqiang had already taken up all the nets, he spoke faster:
"We'll talk about the rest later. ”
After returning to Li’s house, choosing fish and putting the bag in, Li Juan happily waited beside the bicycle with her schoolbag on her back.
Li Qiang was going to preschool. He looked at his sister and said unconvinced:
"When I go to elementary school, I will let my uncle carry me..."
"You were in the team when you were in elementary school, so why would you need your uncle to carry you?" Li Juan said with a smile, "Let's wait until you are in the third grade!"
The quarrels between children seem to adults It was just a joke, so no one stopped it. Li Long hurried out the door with Li Juan who had had breakfast.
Outside the village, he saw Meng Zhiqiang carrying a fish bag hurriedly forward with his head lowered, so he said hello and continued to move forward.
Meng Zhiqiang looked at the two bags of fish carried on the back of Li Long's bicycle and the bag of fish hanging on the front handlebar. He roughly estimated that the fish weighed at least 70 kilograms.
He heard from Tao Daqiang that Li Long usually used six to eight nets, and on average one net could catch ten kilograms of fish.
Why can I catch less than ten kilograms of fish with four nets?
Is it because it is on the side, or is it for other reasons?
Li Long didn't know that Meng Zhiqiang was already thinking about the reason why he caught so few fish. He dropped Li Juan off at the elementary school and hurried to the county.
I picked up the tools in the compound and then went to Shicheng.
He came early today, and there was still room in the stall. He opened the stall, and anyone who was interested saw that there were three pots, and immediately knew that a loach was coming. So without waiting for Li Long to shout, he gathered around.
Li Long is also considered the star stall owner here. He shouts loudly, hangs the scale high, speaks nicely, and is not soft-spoken to those who maliciously crowd in, so the fish sells very quickly.
After more than an hour, the fish were sold out, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief and felt his throat was a little hoarse.
After packing up his things and drinking milk tea at the milk tea shop, Li Long sat under the shed outside and looked at the entire old street.
There are a lot of second-guessers and bastards wandering the streets. The joint defense team members come here from time to time, but when they encounter those idlers, they usually don't care if they don't cause trouble.
When Li Long was setting up his stall just now, some arrogant people passed by, but they didn't care about Li Long - I don't know if it was because of his reputation or because the timing was wrong.
The Uyghur young man with an accent from eastern Henan chatted with Li Long from time to time, and the two became familiar.
Coming back from Shicheng, he arrived at the county compound. After putting down his things, Li Long looked at the time and saw that it was almost time, so he left the yard. On the way out of the city, he encountered a cart selling watermelon, shouting. After hearing that it cost three cents per kilogram, I bought a sack directly.
Watermelons were really cheap at this time. When Li Long bought a lot of them, the watermelon seller opened a watermelon and handed half of it to Li Long, insisting that he eat it.
Nowadays, when selling watermelons for customers to taste, the process is also rough. They don’t cut them into teeth like in later generations. They just crack them open and break them into several pieces of different sizes with your hands, and just gnaw them. .
“Is this a melon from the field?” Li Long asked, “or a melon from the plain forest farm?”
Shimoji is a place that belongs to Shicheng. Watermelon is very famous, and it even became famous throughout the country in the industry.
Pingyuan Forest Farm is a forest farm in Ma County and is also rich in watermelons. People usually recognize these two places when eating melon.
"From the fields. It's hot this year, so the melons ripen early," the stall owner said with an accent from eastern Henan, "There are a lot of melons planted, so I lose money...sigh."
"Grown on my own land. ? How many ration fields did you allocate? ”
< br>"One person has two acres of land." The stall owner said while nibbling watermelon. "There are many people in my family, more than ten acres. After planting five acres of watermelon, I have to earn some money for my children to go to school. This year's watermelon harvest is good, but selling No price increase.”
Li Long knew that in two years' time, the price of watermelon would rise to five cents. Until the 1990s, a kilogram of watermelon would be calculated based on the gross.
As for the calculation in terms of blocks, it has already passed the new century.
The stall owner helped Li Long load a sack of watermelon onto the back seat of his bicycle. Li Long paid and rode away.
This sack of watermelon weighs more than 70 kilograms and only costs more than two yuan... really cheap.
When we arrived at the township middle school, the students here had just finished school, and those close to home were leaving the campus one after another.
Most of the students are still in school, some are resting on the tables in class, some are having fun on campus, and a very small number of them go to the school cafeteria.
It is said to be a canteen, but in fact, someone opened a jelly stall in the school, selling jelly at noon.
When Li Long passed by the jelly shop on his bicycle, he saw the plates of jelly in the glass cabinet and couldn't help but swallowed.
I haven’t eaten for a long time!
The jelly noodles in various parts of northern Xinjiang have their own characteristics. The Shicheng jelly, which is closest to Ma County, is thin and sour. The seasonings are mainly vinegar, minced garlic, etc. The ingredients are cucumber shreds, and some add some coriander. In addition to the sour vinegar seasoning, the Liangpi jelly in the Yili Valley also has special hot ingredients. It is topped with old brine made from eggs, spices, etc., and the taste is different.
The Liangpi here in Ma County is more characteristic of the Zhoucheng side and has a Hui flavor. The main side dish is blanched and chopped leeks, which is quite special.
He planned to go to Gu Xiaoxia's place later to put down the watermelon, and then buy two cents of jelly to serve as a side dish.
Arrived at Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory, Li Long parked the car, unloaded the watermelon and dragged it into Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory. When he saw her sitting blankly on the bedside, her head lowered, she didn't know what she was thinking.
"What's wrong?" Li Long felt something was wrong. He immediately put down the watermelon, sat next to Gu Xiaoxia, and asked with concern: "You...are you uncomfortable? Or have you been wronged in some way? Tell me. "
Gu Xiaoxia then reacted, looked at Li Long, listened to his concerned words, was stunned for a moment, shook her head, showed a joyful and somewhat complicated expression, and said:
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"It's okay...no, something happened. But it's not...that's it." She felt that what she said was wrong and said directly, "Just before school was over, the school received a notice from the Education Bureau that I would be seconded to work in the Education Bureau for a period of time. Time..."
"Good thing!" Li Long smiled, "This is because the Education Bureau is interested in your talent. By the way, did any leaders from the Education Bureau come to inspect it some time ago?" br>
“Yes. In June, the Education Bureau Wang The deputy director came over to inspect my work, observed my class, read my lesson plans, and asked me some things about my writing work..."
"Then it should be that this person appreciates you more..." Li Long nodded, and then He became a little nervous, "Deputy Director Wang...is he a man or a woman?"
"Female." Gu Xiaoxia answered, then realized and lightly punched Li Long, "What? I'm worried it's a man. ”
"Of course, you are so good, I'm worried about being snatched away!"
"Then you don't believe me?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little angry.
"What are you thinking about?" Li Long smiled, approached Gu Xiaoxia, and stood next to each other. "You are excellent, and you will naturally attract others' attention - I am sure I can trust you. Mainly because I am worried Others are harassing you."
Gu Xiaoxia nodded and softened her expression after listening to Li Long's explanation.
She thought for a while and asked Li Long:
"Then shall I go?"
"Of course I will go! Such a good opportunity!" Li Long said firmly.
(End of this chapter)