I Became the Favorite of Big Bosses

Chapter 458 Jealousy

Grandma Gu added another portion to the meal, cooked a large pot of porridge, and served Yanyi a large bowl.

This was not enough, Grandma Gu pushed the fried peanuts on the table towards Yanyi.

When Wei Lan saw it, he quickly turned away the peanuts and pickles.

"Girl, what are you doing?" Aunt Gu gave Wei Lan a dissatisfied look, "If you want to eat, just put some in the bowl, this..."

 “Grandma!” Wei Lan smiled sheepishly at Yanyi, and explained to Grandma Gu: “He is allergic to peanuts and cannot eat peanuts.”

Worried that Grandma Gu would not understand what an allergy is, Wei Lan thought for a while and added: "If he eats peanuts, he will have shortness of breath and rashes on his body. It will be uncomfortable! So... don't give him these peanuts." Eat well.”

Wei Lan has always kept in mind what Cheng Aiying said last winter.

Grandma Gu understands medical science after all. After hearing Wei Lan's general description, she mentally classified allergies with the "peach blossom ringworm" she used to have in her old days.

On the other side, after Wei Lan finished speaking, the two men at the table glanced at her sideways, with mixed emotions.

Unconsciously, Wei Lan used a small spoon to scoop two small spoonfuls of pickles into the bowl and mix them up. Finally, he scooped up a spoonful of porridge, pursed his lips and blew on it gently to take a sip.

Seeing that Gu Chao next to him did not move, and was under the table where no one could see, Wei Lan kicked him lightly.

Gu Chao turned his head and frowned at her.

Wei Lan tilted her head, covering her ears and lowering her voice, "Why don't you eat? It doesn't suit your appetite? I'll make some cold skin for you in the evening..."

Gu Chao also tilted his head and lowered his voice, "I don't like to eat cold skin."

 No, don’t like to eat?

 Is it because you have eaten too many times and are tired of it?

Wei Lan was suspicious for a moment, blinked her clear peach blossom eyes, and said: "Then, I will make hot and sour noodles for you? Add rapeseed and peanuts, and three spoons of chili sauce. You must like it!"

Gu Chao frowned even more, but turned his head away, "I don't like spicy food either."

Wei Lan:?

 You don’t like spicy food? What a liar!

Some time ago I sent a jar of chili sauce to Haishi, but I don’t know who was holding the jar of chili sauce and refused to let go.

If Wei Lan can no longer see Gu Chao's little emotions, then she, then she will...

 It’s just a big spoon.

　　 (H province says, spoon = fool, fool.)

 Gu Chao stepped on the ground hard under the table. Wei Lan snorted and sat up straight to continue eating.

It was Gu Chao, on the other hand, who was defenseless when Wei Lan stepped on him. He immediately let out a hiss and curled up his calves to rub them. Unexpectedly, his legs were too long and his knees pushed up, causing the small table to tremble.

Grandma Gu threw the knife at her, "Is there a nail in your butt?"

Wei Lan laughed, and Grandma Gu's eyes instantly fell on her. She was so frightened that she quickly sat down, not daring to move or look around.

Breakfast ended in a hurry, Gu Chao carried the **** and Yan Yi and walked out one after another.

Wei Lan followed Yanyi and warned with concern: "You can't use your strength with this injury, and you can't touch the water..."

After thinking about it, Wei Lan added: "There is a high probability that the canteen will have fried eel with spicy sauce at noon. When the time comes, ask Zhang Xiaokui to come here and have a meal at home."

Yanyi’s sharp brows furrowed and then relaxed, “It’s not appropriate.”

 After saying that, he turned around and left.

 Leng is a little colder, but at least he is not at a loss for words.

 Wei Lan didn't care about Yan Yi's indifference. She turned around and glanced at Gu Chao, who was watching eagerly from the side. The ends of her dark and slender eyebrows were raised immediately.

Wei Lan pursed her lips and made a promise, then asked with a smile on her face but not on her face: "Why? Why don't you go to the ground?"

Gu Chao didn't say anything, just stood at the door with a hoe, looking straight at her with a pair of deep eyes.

Wei Lan felt uncomfortable when he saw him, but also a little angry, "It doesn't make sense. You brought this person here, and I bandaged and cooked the food according to your wishes, but now you blame me?"

 After saying that, Yin Hong pursed her lips and glared at Gu Chao. Wei Lan turned around and left.

Gu Chao took a step toward the house, quickly grabbed Wei Lan's hand, and said in a deep voice, "I don't blame you."

 Gu Chao knew in his heart that Wei Lan had no such intentions for Yanyi, and he had made mental preparations before bringing Yanyi here.

 But he didn't know what was wrong with him. When he saw Wei Lan greeting Yanyi to warm him up, he always felt uncomfortable.

That kid just had a slight injury on his wrist. If it was serious, he would definitely go to the hospital...

 What did he do to bring people back?

Gu Chao felt that he should blame himself for having such emotions. He really shouldn't have made trouble with Wei Lan.

 He is an adult, a man, not a child of three or two years old.

 After a moment of silence, Gu Chao released his hold on Wei Lan's hand and said, "It's okay."

 Speaking, he picked up the **** and walked out.

Wei Lan's peach blossom eyes trembled twice, and she didn't understand Gu Chao's change.

 But almost subconsciously, Wei Lan grabbed Gu Chao's arm with his backhand and put his other hand on Gu Chao's shoulder.

 Taking a slight step forward, Wei Lan stood up on tiptoes and pecked his chin.

Like a dragonfly touching water, light and fast, for a brief moment, Wei Lan took a step back and pushed Gu Chao out.

　　"Okay, let's go. Come back for lunch today? I'll cook it for you alone."

Wei Lan's cheeks are red, and the light pink at the end of her eyes is like spring water.

It is obviously the shy posture of a daughter, but it is like a flower blooming suddenly on the branches, beautiful and delicate, attracting people to want to take one step closer, and then one step closer.

Gu Chao reached out and wanted to pull Wei Lan to continue to be naughty, but Wei Lan jumped away first.

 “Grandma!”

"Why!"

Wei Lan shouted in the direction of the kitchen, and Grandma Gu answered the call.

Gu Chao slowly took back his hand and looked at Wei Lan resentfully, "Nanny, you've learned a bad lesson."

Wei Lan puffed up his cheeks and urged with a smile, "Okay, go quickly, we will have to blow the trumpet when we get to the fields soon!"

 Gu Chao then put away his thoughts of fighting, said softly "Yeah", picked up the **** and walked out.

Wei Lan unlatched the courtyard door, patted her face, rolled up her sleeves and walked into the house, "Okay, let's get to work now!"

 Having not taken two steps, there was a banging sound on the backyard door behind me.

  “囡囡.”

 It is the voice of Gu Chao.

Wei Lan quickly opened the door, and it turned out to be Gu Chao.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I forgot to give this to you." Gu Chao took out two letters from his arms and gave them to Wei Lan. Then he walked back while talking, "I went to the fields."

The letter was brought back from the post office in the morning. I originally planned to give it to Wei Lan when I got back, because I was delayed for a while by Yanyi, and then I forgot about it.

Just now I walked to the road and touched my pocket, and then I remembered. "Oh..." Wei Lan hesitated and looked at the two letters in his hand.

 This letter was sent from the capital city and was paid by Wei Xueliang.

 The other letter was sent from Haishi and was signed by Xie Jinghong.

 Compared with Wei Xueliang's letter, Xie Jinghong's letter is very thick.

Wei Lan pinched it and felt it. It was about as thick as Mao Zedong’s worth of 1,000 yuan.

 Are you sure it’s a letter? Not a diary?

Xie Jinghong’s letter was addressed to Gu Chao. Wei Lan locked the letter in the drawer and sat by the window to open her own letter.

 One piece of letter paper, two pieces of Tuan Tuan (ten yuan for two pieces), and some small bills.

Wei Lan put the money note aside, shook out the letter and read it carefully.

As before, the veteran cadre started with the formulaic words "Dear Comrade Wei Lan, a son of the people". Later, Wei Xueliang briefly asked about Wei Lan's current situation, and then continued to talk about Wei Lin's situation.

Wei Xueliang said that Wei Lin has been drinking the rice wine brewed by Grandma Gu since the new year. He cannot say that it has a big effect, but it does have an effect. At least, his face looks a little red.

The Song family was also very happy about Wei Lin's improvement, and even vigorously and eagerly hoped that Wei Lin and Song Qi could get married as soon as possible.

Wei Lan read it and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. When she saw the last paragraph of the letter, the corners of her mouth drooped and her lips pursed.

In that sentence, there are two words that stand out the most:

 “Looking forward to returning.”

Putting the envelope close to her chest, Wei Lan frowned and couldn't help but sigh, "Look forward to returning..."

 How can this be a question of returning just as long as you want to?

  means wanting to return, but not being able to return.

 Patting his face, he put the letter back into the envelope and put it in the bottom of the drawer.

Wei Lan took out another piece of letter paper, filled the pen with ink, and considered it for a long time before writing a reply word by word.

After writing the reply, Wei Lan found an envelope and put it in it, then put it under the book and got up and went out to do some work.

 Gu Chao came back for lunch at noon. He loved spicy food. He had eaten cold skin too many times before, so he was probably tired of it.

Wei Lan was hesitant about making hot and sour noodles. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally decided to make hot and sour noodles.

 She knows how to cook some spicy dishes, but she doesn't have much right now. What she has at home is only enough to make hot and sour noodles.

Grandma Gu has already tidied up the kitchen, put everything in its corresponding place, and everything is clean.

Wei Lan scooped two bowls of sweet potato flour from the bag under the cupboard. Based on the experience last time, making it went much more smoothly this time.

 Made the paste and boiled the water. While the water in the pot was boiling, I went to the well in the backyard to get half a bucket of water. I washed the wooden basin that I didn’t use much and set it aside.

After finishing all this work, the water in the pot was boiling. Wei Lan took the bamboo tube with holes drilled in it that he usually used to water the flowers, and poured the mixed batter into the bamboo tube. The batter immediately flowed out from the small hole at the bottom.

Wei Lan held it with her hands and ran all the way to the stove, opened the lid of the pot, held the pot and turned it back and forth more than ten centimeters above the water.

 The batter flows into the pot and is quickly cooked by hot water and shaped into cylindrical strips of sweet potato flour.

The bamboo tube is as long as Wei Lan's palm and has a thick wrist. When all the batter is used up, there is a considerable amount of sweet potato flour formed in the pot, a big white bag, rolling up and down with the "gurgling" of hot water.

 Cover the pot and simmer for a while. Wei Lan uses chopsticks to pick out the sweet potato flour, transfers it to a freshly washed wooden basin, and soaks it in cold water.

 Put it in a place with a low temperature, and it will last at least two or three days without going bad.

If it can be dried in the sun, it will last longer.

 With the same operation method, it took two hours to finish the entire basin of batter.

Wei Lan wiped his sweat and put the basin on the kitchen table. The basin was covered with a bamboo whip dustpan usually used to scoop out rice, to prevent cats and mice from ruining things and to prevent dirty things from falling in.

After finishing these tasks, Wei Lan gathered her hair and tied it into a high ponytail. She didn't stop after that, but moved the chair and bench to the backyard wall.

After stacking the bench on the chair, Wei Lan went to the small shed where the farm tools were kept and dug out a small hoe.

 It has long arms and pointed ends. It is the sharp-nosed **** that Grandma Gu usually uses for growing vegetables.

The top of the courtyard wall was connected to the floor of the bamboo forest. Wei Lan stepped on the chair and threw the **** over first, then grabbed the top of the wall with both hands and stepped on the small bench for a long time before struggling to climb over.

Wei Lan sat on the ground, raised his hands to wipe his sweat, took a few breaths, glanced at the small courtyard in front of him, and subconsciously moved back.

This place is two meters above the ground in the backyard. If you fall carelessly, you may even suffer a concussion.

After sitting for a while to calm down, Wei Lan picked up the **** and walked deeper into the bamboo forest.

 Wei Lan came to the Gu family's bamboo forest for the first time in person. She heard from Gu Chao that there was cat bamboo in the bamboo forest, but she didn't know where exactly it was.

The bamboo body of arrow bamboo can grow up to about five centimeters thick, and the bamboo shoots are more slender, which is very suitable for making bamboo shoot tips.

As for cat bamboo, cat bamboo is also called moso bamboo. It can grow up to more than 20 meters. The thickest bamboo itself has to be 20 to centimeters. Its bamboo shoots start to sprout from the soil. It is four to five times thicker than the bamboo shoots of the arrow bamboo next to it.

There are many ways to make bamboo shoots, such as stir-fried tender bamboo shoots with meat, bamboo shoots and ribs soup, braised large bamboo shoots in oil, sour bamboo shoots, etc.

 Because the bamboo shoots of Cat Bamboo are large in size, the shoots are wider and longer than other types of bamboo shoots.

 In some places where rice dumpling leaves cannot be found or grow at all during the Dragon Boat Festival, the bamboo shoots of cat bamboo are used as rice dumpling leaves to wrap rice dumplings.

Bamboo trees grow densely in the bamboo forest, and in the dense shadows, there are dots of sunlight.

Wei Lan walked and stopped, her eyes wandering around, and sure enough, she saw a cat bamboo shoot with knee height and thick legs in the open shadow of a tree in front of her.

"found it!"

Wei Lan raised her lips and ran over happily.

When I walked in, I realized that the reason why it was suddenly open and a large area of ​​sunlight poured in was because there were peach trees planted in this area.

Bamboo is tenacious in life and grows very fast, and there is a reason why Cat Bamboo still occupies the smallest area in the bamboo forest.

The Gu family's peach **** are in the middle of the bamboo forest. Wei Lan has counted the small peach balls. There are nine peach trees in total, standing in two rows, well-proportioned.

 The cat bamboo grows around the peach tree. In order to prevent it from occupying the peach tree's territory and competing with the peach tree for nutrients and water, Gu Chao takes measures every year.

Of course, this measure is rather crude.

　　Gu Chao: Pout it.

Part of the bamboo shoots that were poked out were "thrown" into the wild (bamboo) wilderness (forest), and part of them were served to the dinner table by Grandma Gu.

Wei Lan looked back and forth a few times, then picked out the bamboo shoot closest to the peach tree and dug it out.

Normal bamboo shoots can be broken with a little force, but Wei Lan knew that bamboo is an underground stem, and the shallowest growth is only 20 centimeters below the ground.

As long as it's the slender bamboo shoots of the arrow bamboo, that's it. The cat bamboo is large, and the part below the ground can probably be fried for two or three plates. Just breaking it off is equivalent to throwing away that part, which is a pity.

Wei Lan is not confident that he can dig to a depth of twenty centimeters, but even if he digs only five centimeters, it will reduce some waste, right?

 (End of this chapter)