Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

Seeing that Lin Baoyan didn't understand what he meant, Wu Zhi quickly changed the subject and started talking about what to eat during the New Year.

"Just get me a goose. I really want to eat goose stewed in an iron pot. By the way, your brother Zhou also likes to eat this. Look at his ribs. Doesn't he really need to nourish himself? Goose stewed in an iron pot is very nourishing."

Lin Baoyan rolled her eyes: "How do you know that I have extra geese in my space? What if I don't have any?"

Wu Zhi said as a matter of course: "If I were you, I would definitely keep some chickens, ducks and geese from my space so that I can take them out and eat them when I need them."

Lin Baoyan had no choice but to take out a white goose weighing about ten pounds and prepare it for dinner.

Wu Zhi saw such a fat goose, and his mouth opened wide, grinning from ear to ear: "You don't know, I've been on missions every day recently, and the only food I eat is steamed bread that's hard enough to crack walnuts. Poor my throat, it feels like being scraped by sandpaper after eating it, it hurts so much."

"It's fine that I only had steamed bread, but I didn't have any vegetables. It would have been fine for one or two days, but I didn't have any vegetables for more than half a month. As a result, I actually became a person with hemorrhoids! I was tortured enough in my last life, and I wanted to take good care of myself in this life and never repeat the same mistake. In the end, I still couldn't escape this tragic ending. This fucked up world~"

Wu Zhi covered his face and howled.

Lin Baoyan had figured out his behavior pattern a bit now, so she asked directly, "What do you want? Let me make it clear first, just some fruit, nothing else."

Wu Zhi immediately put down his hands that were covering his face, and as if nothing had happened, he opened his mouth and listed a long list of names: "Durian, cherry, strawberry, watermelon, lychee, mango,"

"Wait, wait, wait," Lin Baoyan stopped talking in a headache. "You want so many, and they are not in the same season or area. How are you going to give them away? How are you going to explain it?"

Her space remains a secret until now, and only a very few people know about it.

Wu Zhi chuckled and said, "When did I say I was going to give it to others? I ate it all by myself. I don't know how long I'll be away on business, so I'm in need of a bite of fruit."

He complained: "You have an orchard, so you can eat all kinds of fruits anytime. You don't realize how much of a fruit shortage there is out there. We don't have as many fruits in the north as in the south, and they're not what I like to eat. The monthly quota is only so small, and I'm really greedy. Very greedy."

"Look at you. Every time we come, you give us fruit. You give us whatever we want, and there's no limit on the quantity. You must have a lot left over. Just give some to me, your brother."

Lin Baoyan had no choice but to prepare enough of each kind for Wu Zhi. She also picked a lot of apples and pears for Zhou Kangzhan and put them on the second-floor balcony to freeze, waiting for him to take them with him when he left.

She planned that in the future, even if Director Liu came, she would not just take out fruits to entertain him, so that everyone would not think that she had a lot of unplanned money in her hands.

Today is New Year's Eve, and Lin Baoyan didn't even keep Li Mei. Of course, Lin Baoyan didn't know if there were other people guarding in secret in other places.

Originally Lin Baoyan had started preparing the New Year's Eve dinner at noon, and she had almost finished preparing it. She just needed to wait for everyone to arrive and stir-fry a few side dishes, and that would be enough. Now there was an iron pot for stewing a big goose, so Lin Baoyan had to roll up her sleeves and ask Wu Zhi to start working together, otherwise, there would not be enough time.

After Zhou Kangzhan rested for more than an hour and woke up, the New Year’s Eve dinner began.

At last year’s New Year’s Eve dinner, the two of them said they wanted to celebrate together, but Zhou Kangzhan had an emergency mission and missed it. This year they finally got together and everyone cherished it very much.

The two men opened a bottle of Lianhua Bai, and Lin Baoyan could only drink watermelon juice. Three people shared eight dishes and spent the 59th Spring Festival together.

After finishing the New Year’s Eve dinner, the three of them cleaned the kitchen, sat together and ate some dates. Zhou Kangzhan stood up first.

"Baoyeon, I have to go. I have to be on duty tonight."

Lin Baoyan was helpless. He probably had to squeeze in so much time to have time to have New Year's Eve dinner with her this year.

"Wait a minute, I'll get you something to take with you."

Without waiting for Zhou Kangzhan to refuse, Lin Baoyan ran to the second-floor balcony, took a sack, put all the frozen apples and pears in it, and then carried it downstairs.

Zhou Kangzhan, who followed up, hurriedly took it and helped carry it downstairs.

Lin Baoyan pointed at the sack and said to Zhou Kangzhan: "Brother, take these away and eat them slowly. When you are done, come back to me for more."

Wu Zhi yelled, "Sister Baoyan, you are too partial. I want to eat some fruit, but you have to beg for it for a long time. Brother Zhou doesn't eat fruit, but you prepare it for him in advance. It's too unfair. I want this treatment too."

Zhou Kangzhan laughed. He couldn't say anything to refuse. He simply accepted his sister's kindness. He touched her head with one hand and said, "Take care of yourself. If something happens, don't rush up. Let Li Mei notify people to solve it. If you really encounter danger, don't worry about anything else. Go into the space and hide for at least three days. You have to put the alarm clock I gave you before in the space, understand?"

Lin Baoyan's heart skipped a beat, but she still nodded obediently: "I know, you take care of yourself too."

Zhou Kangzhan picked up his hat and put it on, then picked up the sack, nodded to Wu Zhi, and strode out the door.

"Brother Zhou, I really admire you. You know nothing, but your sense of smell is so sharp that you can see something." Wu Zhi looked at Zhou Kangzhan's back as he left, listened to the sound of the engine starting outside the door, and said faintly: "I understand why he was the youngest among so many candidates, but he ended up going to No. 95 Courtyard."

Without waiting for Lin Baoyan's response, he stretched and said, "Sister Baoyan, I'm leaving too." He said seriously, "Brother, I also have my mission to complete. You stay here and don't go anywhere. It's not your brother Zhou or me, and Director Liu. Don't go out with anyone, okay?"

After thinking about it, I felt a little uneasy, so I added, "It's Chinese New Year, right? You should let others have two more days off. You work every day all year round and never have a day off. You should take a few more days off to spend time with your family."

Lin Baoyan was confused.

It was such a warm and loving New Year's Eve just now, how come it turned out like this in the blink of an eye?

If only Zhou Kangzhan said this, she could still barely comfort herself, it might be because of his profession, but if even Wu Zhi said this, it meant that there was indeed a problem.

She grabbed Wu Zhi's arm and asked anxiously, "I should have some authority and know some secrets. You know, I am not allowed to know anything. If I make the wrong choice, I don't know what the consequences will be."

Wu Zhi chuckled, reached out and touched Lin Baoyan's head, and also strode out of the door, saying: "Don't worry, as long as you don't run around and do what your brother tells you, there will be no problem. Well, I really have to go, see you next time. Remember to prepare more fruits for me, I want this much next time."