Sweetness

Push aside the sweet potato vines, use a small shovel to remove the soil near the root, wait until the sweet potato emerges, then dig around the sweet potato until more than half of it is exposed, and finally uproot the root, Xu Qingning looked at the freshly unearthed sweet potato and sighed, Another one was broken.

Pan Chen got close, looked back at her, and smiled: "Take a rest when you're tired, there's not much left anyway."

There are not many sweet potato fields in the two ridges, there are few things to do, there are many people, and there is plenty of time. The big guys are basically digging while playing, and the atmosphere is very comfortable.

Not far away, Qu Yiming and Cen Xi gave up directly, and had already circled around a large patch of tomatoes, as if they were about to bald a few tomato plants.

It's strange to say that he's obviously not that much of a tomato lover. In the past two days, he's only eaten tomatoes mixed with sugar for three meals.

Xu Qingning shook her head, and continued to dig the soil with the shovel until another one was damaged, then she gave up and moved the bench to sit next to Pan Chen.

For the competition, everyone distributed a basket, and the sweet potatoes in Pan Chen's basket are very good, big and with intact skin, unlike those crooked melons and split dates in her basket, Xu Qingning looked at them more, and started to shovel them with a shovel in boredom The soil at the foot, again and again, did not speak.

Pan Chen separated the sweet potato from the sweet potato vine, put the sweet potato into the basket, and looked at her: "Want to tell me something?"

Xu Qingning did have something to say, she has been depressed all day, met Pan Chen's gaze, and frowned: "What do you think those people who confessed to me before like me?"

Pan Chen almost laughed out loud.

She held back, after all Xu Qingning looked very serious.

She thought for a while: "Isn't it written in the love letter?"

"Then I didn't read those love letters." Xu Qingning remembered the one or two she had read, and frowned, "It's very nasty, and very explicit."

Pan Chen chuckled, quickly closed the corners of his mouth under Xu Qingning's warning eyes, and answered seriously: "I like your good looks, just look at your face, it's so superficial."

"Tian Tian also looks at faces?"

"Ah." Pan Chen understood what Xu Qingning was going to ask, she subconsciously denied it, "Tiantian doesn't seem like someone who looks at faces."

"Really." Xu Qingning continued to shovel the soil, "Then why do you say she likes me?"

Pan Chen was taken aback for a while: "Don't you like her?"

Xu Qingning clicked her tongue: "Just tell me, what is good about me that might make her fall in love with me, that's all."

"Rich?" Pan Chen said and denied herself, "Tiantian is not a person who loves money. You see, we have stayed here for the past few days and we haven't spent any money. It's useless for her to ask for money. She I definitely won't like you because of this."

"I spent it," Xu Qingning smiled, "I spent six cents."

"..." Pan Chen also laughed, "You're so embarrassed to mention it."

Xu Qingning sighed.

Her self-confidence, her pride, were all crushed by Tian Tian's words last night.Maybe it wasn't that serious, but she just didn't have the confidence to speak up.

"Student halo?"

"..." Xu Qingning stopped and looked at her: "At least you have something useful to say."

Pan Chen was not happy: "Back then, there were indeed many people in the school who liked you because of your grades."

"My grades are so good that Tian Tian can do nothing for me." Xu Qingning thought of the sweet potatoes she had dug, and sighed. It would be better to be a top student than to know how to dig sweet potatoes.

Pan Chen was silent for a while.

Xu Qingning waited for a while, a little annoyed, pointed at her with a shovel, and threatened: "Is it gone?"

Pan Chen smiled: "I can't remember it for a while."

Xu Qingning took the shovel to help Pan Chen shovel the soil, and was also thinking: "I have a bad temper and impatient, so there is no possibility of getting points for my personality."

"It's not necessarily true," Pan Chen looked at her, "Carrots and cabbages each have their own preferences. If Tiantian likes to have a bad temper."

Xu Qingning glanced at her, and Pan Chen immediately surrendered: "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

"Forget it." Xu Qingning made a gesture to stand up, but Pan Chen held her back, "What's the hurry? Let's talk a little longer, are you planning to confess your love?"

"Fuck you!" Xu Qingning lowered her voice, looked around nervously, and felt relieved when she saw that no one was paying attention.

Confession?She died without even uttering the word '表'.

"Then you intend to seduce?" Pan Chen asked again.

"?" Xu Qingning stared at Pan Chen inexplicably, then smiled suddenly, "I realize that you are thinking a lot in your head every day."

Xu Qingning bent down, and took two sweet potatoes from the basket, confidently said, "Squeeze your two sweet potatoes, so that your memory will be long!"

"... Beast!" Pan Chen let go of her hand, "Get out of here, get out of here."

Xu Qingning put the collected sweet potatoes into the basket, and continued digging slowly. Digging sweet potatoes was effortless, and she easily thought of what Tian Tian said last night.

——The engagement is broken, even if the matter is over, it's nothing.

It is true that Xu Qingning wanted Tian Tian not to care about the dissolution of the engagement, but why did Tian Tian seem to not even care about the engagement?

If she understands correctly, these words are completely saying: if it’s over, it’s over, so don’t mention it again, let’s be beautiful.

?

Xu Qingning thought about it for a day.

She thinks it's very strange, too strange, this sentence doesn't match Tian Tian's "affectionate and only love her" persona, right?Didn't Tian Tian only want hers wholeheartedly?Even her gentle and amiable second sister, she refused without thinking.

Does it matter if the engagement is broken?

Xu Qingning was very puzzled.

In Xu Qingning's vision, Tian Tian can express her dissatisfaction with the termination of the engagement, or even her dissatisfaction with her. , if Tian Tian is willing, she will hug her, or kiss her, and the result...?

Not knowing how many sweet potatoes were destroyed by her again, Xu Qingning puffed her cheeks, threw the sweet potatoes into the basket, and took a deep breath.

**

All the sweet potatoes were dug up, and the good-looking, large sweet potatoes were picked out and put into a big basket, ready to be sold in the market the day after tomorrow.

After dinner, it was time for the much-anticipated roasted sweet potatoes.

Fortunately, Tian Tian's home is a wood-fired stove, so there is no need to make an extra fire. Just use the remaining fire after cooking to put the sweet potatoes to be roasted on the edge of the fire, and you don't even have to worry about the sweet potatoes being burnt by too much fire.

After playing a round of Monopoly, Xu Qingning got up to pour water and listened to their discussion: "Is the sweet potato ready to bake?"

Qu Feng: "What's the rush? There's still one more game."

Qu Yiming: "Okay, grandpa let you lose this time so that you are willing to be a grandson."

Qu Feng: "The side that loses this time will be responsible for picking up the sweet potatoes later, and also responsible for peeling them, and feeding them to the side that wins. How about it?"

Cen Xi: "I'm afraid you are a grandson."

Qu Yiming: "Where's Ah Suan?"

Xu Qingning drank a glass of water: "I'll get it, you guys play slowly."

"Eh?" Qu Yiming was surprised: "Qu Feng's words didn't arouse your fighting spirit? How could you admit defeat?"

"Dizziness, I won't come, you guys go dark, I'll go out for a walk." Xu Qingning put down her cup, walked around the main room and walked to the yard.

After dinner in the evening, Tian Tian was taken for a walk by the neighbor's kid. It was getting late, and she didn't know where the walk went.

Xu Qingning felt that she had nothing to worry about. After all, Tian Tian grew up here. Could it be possible to get lost after walking all night?

But she couldn't let go.

Especially the harmonious scene of Tian Tian and Mai Sui walking forward with each hand holding the little kid before going out is simply an eyesore.

Xu Qingning turned around along the windmill road a few times, afraid of getting lost and afraid of the dark, she stopped at the intersection to feed the mosquitoes for a while, and saw that Tian Tian really had no intention of coming back, so she turned back.

Going back to the main room, Xu Qingning suddenly remembered the promised roasted sweet potatoes, and Xu Qingning walked towards the kitchen.

Suddenly hearing Tian Tian's voice, Xu Qingning was overjoyed and quickened her pace, but when she was approaching the kitchen, she heard Maisui talking: "I bought a ticket for the morning of the 6th."

Xu Qingning stopped.

In the corner of an impartial wall, neither advancing nor retreating, Xu Qingning hesitated for a while, and simply stood there.

"I won't see you for a long time again." Mai Sui said.

Tian Tianpa was picking up roasted sweet potatoes at the stove, and when she heard this, she raised her head and smiled: "The mobile phone is very convenient, I can video when I want to meet."

"Indeed." Mai Sui leaned against the wall and smiled at her, "Have you figured out when to find me?"

"I'm not so busy waiting." Tian Tian rubbed her arm against the broken hair that fell to the side of her face, "I want to wait until I feel better."

"Why are you in a bad mood?" Maisui approached her and knelt down beside her.

"No," Tian Tian smiled, "A lot of things have happened recently, and I feel that my mood is not as calm as before. It is not ideal to see the city where grandma lived in this state."

"I thought it was what I said just now that scared you." Mai Sui said frankly.

Tian Tian was silent for a while, and finally said with an honest smile: "There is indeed a little bit."

"I can't help it. I originally wanted to wait until I finished college to tell you, but the friends you brought are so good, I'm afraid." Maisui looked forward to her, and her eyes were full of apprehension.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Mai Sui said again: "I didn't mean to ask you to agree to me immediately, I just wanted to tell you my heart, as long as you don't hide from me!"

Mai Sui's voice was a little low: "I have to go to school again, and I won't see you for so long. I really don't feel relieved. You are so good and there are so many people who like you. There are definitely many choices. I just want to let you You know, when you have a choice, don't worry, you can consider me, I will wait for you."

Maisui has already confessed.

Xu Qingning's heart sank.

She couldn't tell exactly what it was like in her heart, as if she had knocked over a bottle of five flavors, both sweet and bitter, she couldn't help turning her head and looking towards the kitchen.

The two squatted in front of the stove, Tian Tian had a basket in front of her, which contained baked sweet potatoes, and she was holding a sweet potato in the tongs, but she didn't move, looking at the ears of wheat, the ears of wheat Also looking at her.

Xu Qingning's heart tightened, but Tian Tian smiled suddenly: "Sister Mai, don't do this."

"How?"

"I……"

"I don't want to hear it," Maisui covered her ears, as if she still wanted to cover her mouth, stopped her hand in the air, and said, "I know what you want to say, I don't want to hear it yet, so don't tell me yet. "

"Okay." Tian Tian smiled helplessly, and put the sweet potatoes back into the basket.

Maisui looked at Tian Tian's smile, her heart was at peace, she stretched out her hand suddenly, and added to Tian Tian's astonished eyes: "It's dirty here." She touched her cheek.

Xu Qingning took a step to the right, and stood boldly at the door.

"Okay, it's clean, it must have been when you rubbed your hair just now." Maisui helped her brush her hair behind her ears with a gentle voice.

Tian Tian looked at Xu Qingning who suddenly appeared, pursed her lips, and said in a daze, "Sour?"