Chapter 232: This meal, still depends on who you eat with

Two days later, the last cart of poles was pulled back to the team by Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang.

Li Long and Li Qing Xia stayed in the mountains for another half day, mainly to get some wild vegetables and such.

Morels were almost out of season, Li Long turned over several gullies, picked less than five kilograms fresh in total.

And the black tiger palm mushrooms that had already started to grow, he got more than ten kilograms.

More were porcini mushrooms, pine mushrooms, and a large amount of straw mushrooms.

There were quite a few he didn't recognize, including mushrooms very like termite mushrooms, he didn't dare to pick them either. He even saw "see-hand-blue" (a type of bolete), and a kind of purple mushroom, looking very beautiful, eerily beautiful.

Li Qing Xia dug a few roots of Codonopsis, he said he might not be able to wait for the late autumn Codonopsis harvesting season—of course, mainly because he heard Li Long say the Codonopsis here was large, he didn't believe it, as a result, he believed it after digging it out.

Then he couldn't help it—a root of Codonopsis weighed half a kilogram, who would dare believe it!

These things were mostly half-dried, and Li Long and Li Qing Xia packed them into sacks and brought them back.

While Li Qing Xia was digging Codonopsis, Li Long specifically went to pick wild strawberries, which was "di piao" (ground scoop).

Now this season, there was no fruit at home, they could eat it in the mountains, but the family couldn't eat it, so Li Long picked two full enamel basins—too strenuous. This thing, although better than strawberries, was small in size!

Fortunately, there were patches after patches on the mountain here, didn't need to move the nest to pick for a long time.

Li Long himself was eating while picking, by the time two basins were picked, Li Qing Xia also carried a small bundle of Codonopsis and walked out of the forest.

In these two days, Li Long also specifically went to the place where he was scratched by that lynx, and didn't discover that "murderer" there.

Li Long's thought of "revenge" wasn't very persistent. This lynx made him wake up, he wasn't any top-notch expert in hunting, not even first-class.

After all, every time he hunted, basically it was an ambush, chasing was once, the kind where the brave wins when meeting on a narrow road, really didn't have—or rather, the lynx counted as running into it this time, and then he failed.

So Li Long was very clear, wanting revenge was very difficult. Unless according to Chen Hongjun's statement, his luck was good, just happened to run into that guy, and it didn't discover him, then there was a possibility of an ambush.

The probability was too low, not considering it.

Not considering others, this period of time cutting poles in the mountains counted as a very rich harvest, so Li Long didn't have much nostalgia, tidied up the wooden cabin, things that could be brought had already been taken by the horse cart, so when Li Qing Xia dug Codonopsis and came out, Li Long tidied up and also prepared to return.

The two packed the collected things. Those wild mushrooms and such were all put into sacks, only these two basins of wild strawberries, Li Long poured them into a large basin, then covered them with a small basin and tied them on the back seat of the bicycle.

The two rode to the county town, Li Long bought a few steamed buns, and the two ate while walking back.

When they reached the township middle school, Li Long let Li Qing Xia go first, he went to find Gu Xiaoxia.

Li Qing Xia smiled and indicated he understood, then rode his bicycle back.

Li Long turned into the school, at this time school was already over, Gu Xiaoxia was cooking at the dormitory.

"What to eat tonight?" Li Long asked when the bicycle rode over without getting off.

Hearing Li Long's voice, Gu Xiaoxia raised her head in surprise, saw it was indeed Li Long, walked over two steps with a smile and said:

"Preparing to make a vegetable soup... why did you come?"

"The work in the mountains is finished, so I came back. What kind of vegetable soup is this?"

"Green vegetable soup," Gu Xiaoxia said in a low voice, "Losing weight, just drink some vegetable soup."

"That won't do." Li Long shook his head, "Your figure is so good, losing what weight? Can't lose... By the way, I got some dried mushrooms in the mountains, not completely sun-dried, leaving some here for you."

He took down the bag, took out dried mushrooms, and let Gu Xiaoxia take a basin to store them.

Gu Xiaoxia also knew not to be polite with Li Long, took some dried wild mushrooms and hurriedly said:

"Enough, enough..."

Li Long poured some more and said:

"I can get more when I go into the mountains later, you just eat. By the way, there are wild strawberries, quite sweet..." He poured some wild strawberries here for Gu Xiaoxia.

Gu Xiaoxia was also seeing wild strawberries for the first time, picked a red one, tasted it in her mouth, and said in surprise:

"The taste is really good... so this is wild strawberry!"

"Yes. There are many in the mountains, locals call it di piao... don't know why it's called that."

"I bought something for you, you wait..." Gu Xiaoxia suddenly thought of a matter, let Li Long wait first, then went to the desk drawer and took out a small rectangular iron box, saying:

"Come, try it."

Li Long recognized it at a glance, isn't this a Flying Eagle brand razor? The manual kind.

Li Long took it, incidentally touched his beard, it had truly grown quite a bit during this period of time.

Li Long's beard inherited Li Qing Xia's, belonging to a full beard, according to the local name it was "missing face beard". However, Li Long was young now, hadn't manifested yet, just started to transition from fluff to beard.

"Then I'll try." Li Long said with a smile.

"There is also shaving cream..." Gu Xiaoxia took out another tube of shaving cream and said, "Using this is not easy to scrape the face. I'm cooking now, you wait."

Li Long came, there were no steamed buns here, steaming now was too late, had wild mushrooms, and braised meat, so Gu Xiaoxia intended to make some "jiu pian zi" (pulled noodle pieces).

Li Long opened the razor box, dismantled a blade from the paper bag, installed it on the razor holder, washed his face, applied shaving cream, and then began to scrape his beard carefully.

Haven't used this for a long time, really not very familiar.

After all, in the previous life, most of his life used electric ones, now taking this out again, that sharp blade still made Li Long a bit worried.

Scraped carefully on the face, no injury, Li Long was quite happy.

Focused care on the Adam's apple, carefully, also no injury, not bad.

Then both sides of the chin—hurt a bit, Li Long knew, saw blood.

Alright, fortunately it was just a little bit, and then even more careful—the place where it was scraped hurt!

Finally scraped it, took water to rinse the razor, then dismantled it, and put it back in the box.

Finally washed his face, looked at the injured place, a not-so-big cut, skin injury, nothing.

Gu Xiaoxia was kneading dough here, saw Li Long finish scraping, came over to look, and then nodded:

"Not bad, broke a little, use it often later."

"Hmm, I know." Li Long put the razor box in his pocket, "Are you going to pull noodle pieces?"

"Hmm, you sit for a while, this is very fast."

"Alright." Li Long wasn't polite either, sat on Gu Xiaoxia's bed, looking around this single dormitory.

The room was quite big, pity it was just a single room. Gu Xiaoxia tidied it quite cleanly, the cooking area and living area were distinguished quite clearly, quite a few things were placed, but mixed without being messy.

The desk also served as a dressing table, a layer of newspaper was spread on it, there was a small mirror, a stack of books was neatly placed at the corner of the table, and there were paper and pens. The bedding on the table was folded very neatly, and one could vaguely smell the faint fragrance of laundry detergent or other things.

Li Long scanned a circle and said:

"You are still missing a small table here, in these two days I will pull some wood over, let Carpenter Qu hit a small square table for you, it's convenient to put things. Also hit a shelf..."

"Don't, don't, don't, the dormitory is just this big, can't put it down." Gu Xiaoxia hurriedly waved her hand, "Just like this now is fine. Keep that wood, keep..."

"Then first hit a small table, otherwise putting things on the ground is not too good. There are many woods in the mountains, this time is to pull poles, otherwise I could pull a few carts of wood back."

As for things like high and low cabinets, if hit, they were hit, just pull them over when the time comes.

He didn't even feel it himself, now the relationship between the two was actually at a relatively subtle time, both were considering for the other, and when paying, didn't bring a bit of utilitarianism, just hoped to let the other party live better.

Completely different from when he was dating Wu Shufen in the past, at that time he would pay attention to the other party's likes and dislikes, and hoped more to please the other party.

Now he just thought about letting the other party live better, even because of this, he carried a bit of male chauvinism.

The "jiu pian zi" Gu Xiaoxia made wasn't first stir-frying the pot and putting vegetables and finally pulling noodle pieces. She first stir-fried the vegetables, washed the pot, poured water and boiled it, then pulled, after the noodle pieces were cooked, poured the stir-fried vegetables in, finally put some coriander and green onions when taking it out of the pot, and then dripped a few drops of sesame oil.

Li Long's own method of making "jiu pian zi" in the previous life was also like this, he subconsciously said:

"Pull the dough thinner, it will be flavorful."

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"Alright." Gu Xiaoxia's hands were pulling fast, the stretched noodles were draped on her arms, there was a little bit of sweat on her forehead.

Withdrew the fire under the pot, Gu Xiaoxia first scooped a large bowl for Li Long, handed him the bowl and chopsticks, and then scooped a small bowl for herself.

"Why only that little?" Li Long asked.

"I myself don't have a big appetite." Gu Xiaoxia explained seriously, "These are already enough."

She took out half a bowl of chopped pickles drizzled with sesame oil and placed them on the desk.

Li Long picked some pickles, put them into the bowl, and ate them.

"Hmm, the taste is very good!" Li Long praised after eating a mouthful, "You can go to a restaurant to be a chef!"

"How could it be..." Gu Xiaoxia blushed, lowered her head, and began to eat in small mouthfuls.

Li Long's words made her very happy.

Wang Laoshi next door also smelled the aroma. She stepped out intending to scrounge a meal, but then saw Li Long's bicycle, hesitated for a moment, and retreated.

Better not disturb the warm moment of the young couple.

Li Long ate very slowly at first, chatting with Gu Xiaoxia while eating.

"Are the students difficult to lead?"

"It's okay, occasionally naughty, but most are obedient." Gu Xiaoxia said, "Chinese is still quite good to teach... I am also reviewing while teaching here."

"Went back these days?"

"Went back, saw my dad. My dad said, because of your relationship, the team leader arranged a light job for him, letting him distribute iron wire to each household, calculating work points, quite good..."

Gu Xiaoxia's mood was a bit complicated when she said this.

At that time when she went back, Gu Bo Yuan was self-deprecatingly saying that just now. He, a dignified university student, when did he fall to the point of having to accept the favor of someone who hadn't even finished junior high school?

But things were like this, what could be done?

Actually Gu Xiaoxia also wanted to persuade Gu Bo Yuan, if he really was persistent about his university student title, then wait until the education bureau exam. With his foundation, getting a compilation wasn't difficult—at this time, the entire Northern Xinjiang was very lacking in talent, even more lacking in talent with high academic qualifications.

It was just that she didn't persuade him. She knew her father had an obsession, this life he didn't intend to go out again to do anything, just wanted to stay here, call it avoiding the world or thinking it through, just didn't want to think about so many sordid things again.

Since it was like this, why complain?

This was her father, couldn't complain like this.

If her father's personality had half of Li Long's flexibility, maybe his life wouldn't be like this now.

"That's not looking at my face, old Xu, Team Leader Xu just said it like that, blew me up a bit, later let me have work and then leave it to the team, pull more work for the team." Li Long picked another chopstick of pickles, eating while saying, "But it's quite good for Uncle Gu to do this, money although not much, but not tiring."

"Then how are you in the mountains?" Gu Xiaoxia still couldn't forget the experience of going to the mountains last time, "Is the grass yellow now?"

"Not yet, but the ones close to the outer mountains already have signs of turning yellow, if you want to see very green grassland, you have to walk very far into the mountains..."

"That's also fine, that scenery, I still remember it now..."

Looking at Gu Xiaoxia's intoxicated expression in the memory, Li Long thought to himself, should he go get a camera?

Eating a large bowl of "jiu pian zi", Li Long was already sweating, eating happily, he was also very happy.

"There is half a bowl left in the pot, I'll scoop it for you..." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long finish eating, stood up and said.

"Full." Li Long stood up, took the bowl and went to wash it, "Enough. We ate something on the road."

"You put the bowl down, I'll wash it." Gu Xiaoxia hurriedly stood up and followed, "What are you washing the bowl for..."

"Wash and rinse, just a smooth thing." Li Long said, "You hurry up and eat, this meal can't be eaten too fast, but also can't be eaten too slow."

Gu Xiaoxia saw there was still half a bowl of rice in her bowl, blushed, and hurriedly lowered her head to eat.

After eating, the sky was already a bit dark, Li Long said:

"Then I'll go back first, you see it's about time and close the door. How is the safety here?"

"The school worker will patrol at night, we will also buckle the door at night, safety is okay." Gu Xiaoxia said.

Li Long thought for a while, felt this dormitory was still a bit thin.

Later, buy a courtyard in the township, or let Gu Xiaoxia take the exam to the county?

This still couldn't be rushed.

Fortunately, there wasn't just Gu Xiaoxia in this row of dormitories now, if something happened, calling out, others could hear it, Li Long still wasn't very worried.

Bidding farewell to Gu Xiaoxia, Li Long rode his bicycle back, when he was about to reach the neighboring village, Li Long discovered that they had already started organizing the wheat field here.

In a year, the most tiring, most hard-working season was about to start.

Thinking about cutting wheat soon, Li Long had a bit of a headache.

Cutting wheat not only had to be under the big sun, but also wheat awns pricked people, efficiency wasn't high, not to mention bending over all day, comparable to picking cotton manually in later generations.

Too difficult!

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