I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 451 Don’t worry, I will never...

The venue is easy to find. The corner of Gu’s backyard next to the jasmine bushes has densely scattered bamboo shadows, and the sunlight cannot reach it directly all day long, so it’s perfect.

According to Wei Lan's request, Gu Chao built a shelf about 1.5 meters high there, with a layer of 20 centimeters, divided into several layers, and a light-blocking roof made of thatch on top.

"not enough!"

"What else is missing?" Gu Chao asked, looking sideways at Wei Lan.

Wei Lan pursed her lips, narrowed her peach blossom eyes, and thought for a moment before saying: "Although there is no sunshine here, there is still bright light. Mushrooms need a dark environment!"

Gu Chao nodded and said calmly: "This is easy to handle."

 After saying that, he turned around and was about to go to work. Wei Lan quickly held the person in his hand, "It's just a little light-blocking, and ventilation is needed, otherwise the hyphae will be easily suffocated!"

Wei Lan's face was full of seriousness. Every time his dark eyes blinked, his long eyelashes trembled slightly to cover his eyes, which were filled with thoughts.

Gu Chao knew in his heart that Wei Lan had carefully considered and considered this matter before and after, and it was not just wind and rain.

Immediately, Gu Chao had a plan in mind. He nodded and said, "Leave it to me."

Gu Chao moved quickly, went into the house, took the axe, and entered the bamboo forest.

Wei Lan guessed that he was planning to weave a bamboo curtain, but the result turned out to be as expected.

After that, Gu Chao split bamboo strips with familiar movements, and Wei Lan helped him a little.

 It is said to be a help, but in fact it is just a matter of handing over tools occasionally, and other times it is mostly just watching.

She doesn’t know how to split bamboo strips or weave curtains.

Wei Lan looked at her seriously and didn't notice Gu Chao looking over at him from time to time.

Gu Chao looked at her for a while, then groaned and said with a smile: "Why are you so serious? Do you still want to learn?"

"It's impossible to learn it, but it's good to have some knowledge! It can always help you a little." Wei Lan said truthfully.

  She knew very well how much she weighed.

 Bamboo braiding products are widely used, and from time to time one or two have to be braided. If she knew how to do it, Gu Chao could save a lot of trouble.

"What can be done while waiting for dinner, why do you need to take action?" Gu Chao smiled hoarsely, her little face was serious, her eyes were clear, if it weren't for the fact that the bamboo he pinched was a little dirty, he would have really wanted to be in her Put a pinch on your face.

Gu Chao raised his eyebrows and winked, his handsome face made a funny face, deliberately making Wei Lan laugh, "If you really want to help me, you don't have to be entangled in this matter. You can make more delicious food."

As expected, Wei Lan was amused by him, and in an instant, the laughter of a lark was floating in the air.

Wei Lan sighed in her heart: There is a saying that is really true, "To capture a man's heart, you must first capture his stomach." Look at this, aren't you thinking about it all the time?

 “What do you want to eat? I’ll cook it for you?”

“By the way, it’s the end of February now, and the Tomb-Sweeping Festival will be in a few months. By that time, the bamboo forest in our backyard should be growing bamboo shoots, right?”

Wei Lan turned her head to look at Gu Chao. Two strands of black hair on her ears swayed with her movements, and a bright smile appeared on her smooth face. "Have you ever eaten bamboo shoots? They are also delicious."

Gu Chao was busy with his hands, looking back at her from time to time, and answered in a flurry of words, "I have eaten it. There is a small piece of cat bamboo near the peach forest. Every year around the Qingming Festival, bamboo shoots as thick as an arm can appear. In previous years, grandma Used for stir-frying, the taste is not that great but not bad either.”

But the Gu family was having a hard time at that time, and one bite was regarded as good, and there was no need to be picky about taste.

Wei Lan nodded and counted with Gu Chao with his fingers. Bamboo shoots can be used to make delicious things.

“Fresh bamboo shoots can be fried with meat slices, dried bamboo shoots can be stewed in soup, and there are also sour bamboo shoots!”

“Just use my grandma’s method of making pickles, add some chili peppers, and the bamboo shoots will be hot and sour, so delicious! It’s also an appetizer in summer!”

Wei Lan's eyes suddenly brightened up, and her lips moved as she swallowed saliva, as if she was appreciating the taste of sour bamboo shoots.

Gu Chao was amused by her greedy cat-like appearance, and sighed softly, with a coaxing and doting tone, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I can't finish all the bamboo shoots sprouting from such a large bamboo forest in one season. When the time comes, do it one by one, and do whatever you want."

Wei Lan immediately stopped smiling, glanced at Gu Chao angrily, and muttered, "Don't think I don't know. On the surface, you seem to be letting me do whatever I want, but in your heart, you're also looking forward to it, right?"

As Wei Lan said this, she stood up and approached Gu Chao, and continued to ask, "If you ask me to do it differently, how much can I eat? I don't know which big mouse it ended up in?"

Wei Lan holds a grudge. One year ago, he held her in his arms, nibbled and kissed her, and was almost discovered by Grandma Gu. But what did he say at the time?

 It was said that there were rats, and Wei Lan was afraid of them, so the two of them got close to each other.

Gu Chao naturally thought of that incident and sighed: It was really an unforeseen disaster. This old score was turned over suddenly, making it inevitable for people to avoid it.

Just as he was thinking about how to get over this matter, he glanced at the person standing at the door of the kitchen. Gu Chao felt relieved and said, "Jiang Zhiqing."

The sound of "Jiang Zhiqing" completely diverted Wei Lan's attention. She turned her head and saw Jiang Lihua standing there with an expression that was hard to explain.

Wei Lan felt a bulge in her heart. Could it be that Jiang Lihua heard what she just said?

But after thinking about it carefully, it seems that she didn't say anything excessive about Meng Lang just now?

Wei Lan was still stunned, Jiang Lihua jumped over the bamboo strips on the ground with a lunge, holding Wei Lan's hand tightly, "Wei Lan!"

 Obviously, her words were not directed at Wei Lan, or in other words, Gu Chao.

Wei Lan was stunned for a moment, "What, what's wrong?"

 After a pause, Wei Lan asked again, "Did you quarrel with your brother again?"

Jiang Lihua's wheat-colored cheeks suddenly puffed up, her beautiful eyebrows raised high, and she gave Wei Lan a gentle push, "What are you talking about!"

"Then tell me carefully what's going on!" Wei Lan blinked, and one step away from him, Gu Chao was busy chopping bamboo strips. Every bamboo strip he chopped and threw to the ground would be thrown into the air. Swing like a snake twisting.

Wei Lan was afraid of disturbing Gu Chao, and the other bamboo strips were sharp, and she was also afraid that she or Jiang Lihua would be cut if they were thrown on her or Jiang Lihua, so she simply pulled Jiang Lihua to sit down on the other side of the well mouth.

After Jiang Lihua sat down, she hesitated for a long time and secretly looked at Gu Chao. When she saw that Gu Chao was not interested in the content of their conversation, she started to talk: "It's just the matter in the cafeteria..."    The incident of diarrhea in the cafeteria before. The three girls were wrongly accused. Wei Lan already knew what happened privately, and she had long forgotten about it, but Jiang Lihua was different.

Although Second Aunt Liu was dealt with, Jiang Lihua did not know that the culprit was Second Aunt Liu, so she did not connect the two events at all.

Jiang Lihua had been feeling aggrieved until this morning, when the captain called her and Li Sangsang over and secretly told her what had happened.

After saying this, Jiang Lihua let out a "tsk" sound and sighed heavily, with the same inexpressible expression on her face again, "Tell me, what is all this about?"

They are all forced by life. Aunt Liu is ambitious, but her ambition is in the wrong place.

 Another old saying goes, poor people must be hateful.

 On the contrary, there must be pity for those who are hateful.

There is no need to feel pity for such people, and there is no need to spend time hating them. It’s just a bad world.

 Furthermore, there are so many people like this in the world. If you really want to hate them, how can you come to hate them?

Wei Lan was silent and patted the back of Jiang Lihua's hand gently, "Let's just let this matter go. Don't think about it anymore. Let's pay more attention in the future."

"It has no choice but to do this." Jiang Lihua frowned slightly, and just nodded, her delicate wheat-colored face suddenly became filled with indignation, "I will write a sign when I get back, no one is allowed to enter! If there is a disobedient person, If something happens, it doesn’t matter if she’s the murderer or not, it’s up to her!”

Looking at the entire brigade members, there are only a few who can read. Those aunts who usually like to make household chores are all illiterate. Jiang Lihua's writing is basically in vain.

Wei Lan didn’t want to dampen Jiang Lihua’s enthusiasm, so she didn’t tell her frankly. She just pursed her lips and smiled helplessly, “As long as you’re happy.”

Jiang Lihua suddenly smiled, dragged Xiao Mazha to sit closer to Wei Lan, and held one of Wei Lan's arms affectionately, "It's better for you, I can't find anyone else to deal with this matter."

Wei Lan knew about the matter, but Gu Sande was not worried. He was afraid that Jiang Lihua and Li Sangsang had some opinions, so he explained it separately.

Although he made everything clear, he still warned at the end that only the three of them knew about this matter and it was not good to tell others.

Jiang Lihua was sometimes slow, but at this time she was very smart. She knew that Gu Sande was telling them to go back, so she kept her mouth shut.

 Before coming to the Gu family, Jiang Lihua had already complained to Li Sangsang for a while, but it was Wei Lan who came to see her again after she had not complained enough.

After finishing speaking, Jiang Lihua felt much better. Her eyes wandered randomly, and soon she noticed Gu Chao in the courtyard. She suddenly moved her head away from Wei Lan's shoulder, "What are you planning to do?"

Every time he got something good, Wei Lan always kept silent and told the cloth and sewing machine from before. If they hadn't discovered it when they came over to watch TV, they might have been kept secret for the rest of their lives!

Thinking of this, Jiang Lihua turned around and looked at Wei Lan with a resentful expression.

Wei Lan rolled her eyes and said, "What's that expression on your face? I'm not hiding it. Didn't I already tell you that I wanted to try growing mushrooms?"

Jiang Lihua suddenly realized it, but she frowned again, with doubt and disbelief on her face, "You mean, these bamboos are used for mushrooms? Didn't Sang Zaoer say to use wood?"

Wei Lan didn't bother to explain, so she simply pulled Jiang Lihua back to the room.

The two of them squatted in front of the table by the window. Wei Lan took out a bottle from the place where his feet usually rested and handed it to Jiang Lihua.

Jiang Lihua dragged it with one hand and put the other hand subconsciously on the bottle cap. Wei Lan was afraid that she would unscrew it, so she quickly warned, "Just take a look here, you can't open it now!"

"Ah..." Jiang Lihua nodded hesitantly, moved a little closer to the bright spot, and held up the bottle to look at it carefully.

The sawdust in the bottle was packed tightly, and some white things that looked like small hairs or spider webs were densely packed. Jiang Lihua's brows knitted, "That's it?"

 Can mushrooms grow from this hair? Even beating her to death won't work.

The questioning tone suddenly lit the fuse. Wei Lan took the bottle back and put it back in an angry tone, "That's it!"

Her little face tensed up, but Jiang Lihua still didn't know that she was angry, so she quickly changed her words, "It's not that I don't believe you, I, I am, I am..."

It took a long time, but he didn't say anything clearly. Instead, he amplified the feeling of "disbelief". Jiang Lihua slapped her mouth and felt like crying, "I haven't seen how mushrooms grow." , I haven’t heard that mushrooms also have seeds... Oh, don’t be angry?”

 Wei Lan wasn’t really angry, she just didn’t like to be questioned about things she was sure of. As soon as Jiang Lihua apologized, she walked down the steps.

Anyway, there is nothing else to do right now, and she can't help in the backyard.

Wei Lan simply pulled Jiang Lihua to sit down at the table, took out the notebook he usually took notes, and flipped through the pages page by page for Jiang Lihua to read.

Wei Lan explained while flipping through the book, "Mushrooms have seeds, and the spores are their seeds. Well... you can understand it this way. Its seeds are too small. When they mature, they float in the air like dust and are difficult to see with the naked eye. .”

Jiang Lihua nodded confusedly and asked, "Then how did you collect the seeds?"

"How can I collect any seeds? I just have the mentality of trying... You see, I made two copies of the test products. There was an accident with the mushrooms, and only this one was successful." Wei Lan held up the notebook in his hand. Click where the number is written and answer truthfully.

Jiang Lihua said with a long "hmm" and said: "I realize that you know a lot!"

"Making delicious meals, knitting sweaters, making clothes... Now you have even solved such a difficult problem as mushrooms!" Jiang Lihua counted on her fingers for a while, and then asked a fatal question, "Wei Lan, Where did you know these things?”

"Well…"

Stuck for a moment, Wei Lan looked unnatural, "This, this..."

 How to answer this question?

Wei Lan's brain was working rapidly. Soon, a light flashed through his brain, and Wei Lan caught it in time.

"Have you forgotten? My father is on duty in the army." Wei Lan turned back to look at Jiang Lihua, with a formulaic smile on her face, and began to make up random things, blaming everything on Old Wei.

She originally thought that such a sentence could explain everything, but seeing that Jiang Lihua still wanted to ask questions, Wei Lan quickly took the initiative, put her small hands together to block Yin Hong's lips, and deliberately lowered her voice, "You know, because of the working environment , sometimes there are some special circumstances and you can read some books."

This appearance makes it clear that this matter cannot be publicized everywhere.

Due to the reform movement, many books were classified as banned and must be destroyed. Suddenly, Jiang Lihua’s mind opened up, and a picture emerged in her mind:

There was a blazing fire in the military district schoolyard. A man in military uniform (Father Wei) stood upright on one side. Behind him was a pile of books as high as a hill. In the corner of the "hill", a young girl (Wei Lan) was ignorant. Open a book…

Jiang Lihua felt moved in her heart. Wei Lan was even willing to share such a sensitive topic with her.

 (End of this chapter)