Being coaxed like this, Xie Shuting's usual squeamishness became more intense. Not only did she not stop crying, she cried louder and louder.
"You still want to cry, right?" Su Nanbing didn't continue to coax her, turned around and said, "Okay, you can continue to cry here. If my mother asks, I will kill you for running into my house last night.
Tell me everything."
When Xie Shuting heard this, she immediately stopped crying and grabbed Su Nanbing's hand anxiously, "No, please don't tell anyone else, otherwise I won't survive. How can I have the face to see others?"
"Since you know this is your fault, then don't cry...
I don't owe you anything. If you have to say it, you owe me. It was your precious first kiss. Do you think I wasn't? My first kiss was inexplicably snatched away by you. I haven't said anything yet. Why are you crying?
If you want to cry, I’ll cry too, okay?”
Being treated so harshly by Su Nanbing, Xie Shuting sniffed and did not dare to cry anymore.
"I'm sorry," she wiped away her tears, "I won't cry anymore."
"Okay, you go back. Just follow what I said last night and pretend that nothing happened. Anyway, it was just a small accident for me. I will forget everything about you and you don't have to think about it anymore.
Already."
Xie Shuting didn't know what to say, so she said "Oh" and watched Sun Nanbing go straight home.
After the rooster crows, Luo Youlong's voice rang out on the village radio. He said: "In previous years during the Spring Festival, we set off firecrackers, worshiped ancestors, performed lion and dragon dances, and set up a stage to watch people perform. This year, these activities are gone.
These are all bad habits! The brigade’s requirement for us is to ‘keep fighting at the age of 30 and continue on from the first year of junior high’…
It was originally planned to give everyone a day off today, but there is no way. People in other villages are working hard to produce and compete for first place. We in Luohu Village cannot fall behind, right? So the originally scheduled rest was cancelled, and everyone is still here today.
Gather to work as usual.
At noon, the cafeteria will cook "Remembering the Bitterness and Thinking of Sweet Rice". I hope every household can make this meal.
Someone must have asked, what is this ‘remembering bitterness and thinking about sweet rice’?
Let me tell you about the ingredients. Use three to five things including rotten vegetable leaves, taro flowers, radish leaves, tree bark, wild vegetables, rice bran, and bran to make porridge. Although it is porridge, you cannot add rice.
If you eat rice, it’s not called remembering the bitterness and thinking of the sweetness.
Why do we eat this sweet meal on the first day of the Lunar New Year? It’s just so that we can all experience the food that people in the old society often ate, remember the hard days before, then think about the good days now, and then look forward to the future..."
Luo Youlong's words woke up the whole village, and everyone complained, "We have been working till the end of the year without a day off!
I used to look forward to the Chinese New Year, thinking that I could have a good New Year, eat well, drink well, and sleep more. This is good. It’s okay if I don’t rest. What else can I eat to remember the bitterness and remember the sweetness? I don’t need to remember the bitterness.
, I’m in terrible pain right now.”
"Shh! Please keep your voice down, no one will think you are mute if you don't speak."
Although everyone complained a lot, they still went to work carrying hoes and other farm tools.
"Aunt Bai, have you seen Shuting?" Hua Wenli couldn't help but ran out of the room and asked after she didn't see Shuting after getting up.
Bai Lu nodded, "She got up before dawn and has already returned to Captain Luo's house."
"Oh," Hua Wenli breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I'll go to work too..."
Seeing that she was about to run out the door, Bai Lu hurriedly shouted "Wait a minute", then took a piece of pancake and handed it to Hua Wenli, "I made leek pancakes, take one to eat, be careful because it will burn your hands."
"No, Captain Luo just said that today I want to eat Yikusi sweet rice. I will go to the cafeteria to eat it..."
"It's right to remember the bitter and miss the sweet, but just remember the bitter in your heart. It's rare to celebrate the New Year. How can you eat bran porridge? That stuff is for pigs. People eat it and get stuck in their throats," Bai Lu said.
Eat the bread and then go out, as long as others can't see you."
Hua Wenli was moved. Smelling the aroma of the pancakes, she took the pancakes and took a bite.
The aroma of leeks filled her mouth instantly. She squinted her eyes and said, "It smells so good!"
"If you like it, eat one more piece." Bai Lu said with a smile.
"No, thank you Aunt Bai. I'll be satisfied with just one piece."
Hua Wenli quickly ate the pancakes, wiped her lips clean, said goodbye to Bai Lu, and went out in a hurry.
"Wen Li is a pretty good kid, Wen Wen Jingjing," Bai Lu looked at Hua Wenli's leaving figure, pulled Nan Bing's sleeve, and said with a smile, "If it weren't for Wen Li, she already has someone she likes, I would
I think her character is a good match for you, Nan Bing."
Su Nanbing said with a smile: "Mom, I haven't seen you for a few years, why do you like random things?"
"Your eldest brother is already married. Of course I also hope that you can find someone you like. Having a caring person living with you makes me feel more at ease, mom. Your personality is like your father's, sometimes you are too impatient.
I think you should find a quiet girl like Wen Li, who can remind you when you are impulsive..."
In order to stop her mother from nagging her endlessly, Su Nanbing said: "I would like to find a beautiful, virtuous, intellectual, kind and gentle woman like you, but there are so few such people that I can't find her."
"Hey, I was talking to you about business, and you made fun of me again." Bai Lu pinched her second son's face.
Not long after, the Su family all got up. Huang Yuzhu handed the mended pants to Jiang Yun, and after he had put them on, they walked out together.
"I just heard Captain Su say that we should eat Yikusi sweet rice. Does every household have to make it?" Huang Yuzhu asked.
"Why are you wasting food to make such unpalatable food when you are so good?" Bai Lu shook his head and said, "I don't plan to do it. We will just eat normal food and have a decent New Year..."
Originally, she had a strong objection to not being able to take a holiday during the New Year.
Unlike last year, setting off firecrackers and watching dragon and lion dances have become bad habits, which is simply inexplicable.
Jinbao and her mother stood aside, "I listened carefully to Uncle Luo's words just now. He said that he hoped that every household can make sweet rice to remember hardships and remember hardships. He did not say that every household must do it, so we can do it if we don't want to.
Just don’t do it.”
"I heard it too!" Su Xiaosi raised his hand high.
After finishing speaking, he said greedily: "Did Mom make leek pancakes? It's so delicious!"
"Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold." After saying that, Bai Lu stuffed Wennian with half a chicken and pancakes that had been wrapped in advance, "You can take these back to eat. I don't know what you eat in the cafeteria on weekdays.
But it’s definitely not as delicious as the food at home…”
"Mom, I can't take these with me. Even the village has advocated eating sweet rice. The town must be stricter, especially during the Spring Festival. I heard that someone ate meat secretly in the dormitory last year, which made people criticized.
Said he was backward-minded."
Bai Lu was surprised and said: "Ah? How can it be so serious?"
Seeing his mother frowning tightly, Jinbao comforted him and said, "Mom, it's just that the three days of the Spring Festival are stricter. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, my father and I went to town to bring a roast duck to our third brother. Duck is better than chicken."