The Role of Women in Novels
Chapter 20

A candy was suddenly inserted into the rough palm, which made Zhao Guodong a little embarrassed. He was stunned for a moment before saying: "I .. I don't like candy."

"Are there people who don't like sweets?"

Li Yufeng asked back. If they were in that era, it would be good if they did not like sweets. But in this day and age, sugar is not easy to come by, and the sweetness can really make people feel sweeter, "said Jiadong. You've never eaten candy, so you just eat it!"

He looked at Zhao Guodong expectantly, he always made a face, as if he had never smiled ...

Zhao Guodong held a candy in his palm, this kind of gold candy that I ate when I was a kid, and when I bit it, there was a thick sugar cider in it, so sweet. He carefully stuffed the candy into his jacket pocket, not wanting to eat it at all.

Li Yufeng was slightly relieved when she saw that she had received the candy and her facial expression was not that fierce.

The health center was in an alley next to the school, Zhao Guodong signed up for him, after the doctor examined Li Yufeng's wounds, he was asked to go to the injection room for an injection test.

"You can't do this. You're allergic to tetanus and you can't get shots. I'll prescribe some crickets for you. "The doctor looked at the red spots on Li Yufeng's white and soft arms that did not fade away, frowned and said, "But the recent busy agricultural season. There were a few people who had cut off his legs and feet, and we ran out of crickets in our hospital, so go and see the situation - run the pharmacy across."

Li Yufeng did not know what a cricket was, but she still thanked the doctor, and took him to hand it over. After receiving the prescription, he turned around and walked out of the consultation room.

Zhao Guodong was sitting on a bench outside the clinic, with a serious expression on his face, it was obvious that he had not taken the initiative to accompany Li Yufeng, but when he saw Li Yufeng come out, it was obvious that he had not taken the initiative to accompany Li Yufeng, he stood up and asked her, "How? Will you be injected now? " Zhao Guodong doesn't want to be with her, forget it.

"You haven't been injected yet, why did you leave?" Zhao Guodong reminisced about how he cut off his leg that night. Even though it was dark, under the moonlight back then, he could still see his injuries were not superficial, other than that The people in the countryside had always been rude people, he said, no matter how pampered Li Yufeng was, it must have been because his injuries had not healed well that his family let him get an injection.

“Doctor says no need to drink it.” Li Yufeng threw the prescription in her hand to Zhao Guodong, and continued, “Go to the pharmacy to get the cure.” Zhao Guodong opened the apothecary to take a look, and

following behind Li Yufeng, swinging his horse tail as he walked.As if he was scratching his heart, he hurriedly sped up his pace to follow.

...

"Sorry, we don't have crickets anymore in our pharmacy. It's only May, and I haven't come out of the mud pit yet" the seller said apologetically. Now supplies are severely limited, and even some commonly used Chinese medicinal ingredients are scarce. The crickets won't be surplus until July, and are already sold out here.

Although Li Yufeng felt that she would not be unlucky just because of such a small injury, but it still made her a little depressed due to such a trivial experience.

"Let's go!" He decided to go to his brother-in-law Zhang Cuihua to buy some meat and eat it back. They say that what he eats will make up for him, and if he eats meat twice, all the blood he bleeds will be replenished.

Zhao Guodong followed behind him like a small follower, and when he saw Li Yufeng walking towards the supply and marketing cooperative, he followed suit.

Grandma gave him a pound of meat ticket before leaving, and asked him to buy fatty meat and cook a small bowl of lard.

But you have to be lucky to buy fatty meat, he came late today, and he might just be able to buy half-slim and half-fat pork.

They lined up at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperatives for a while, and finally arrived at the seller's window. Seeing that it was his sister-in-law Li Yufeng, Zhang Cuifang simply smiled and said, "Why are you here this year?" As he spoke, he handed the large bone that was cut to Li Yufeng, and took out the meat ticket he bought.

But such a good thing couldn't happen to a person like Zhao Guodong, if they could buy a pound of plump meat smoothly, it was all luck.

"There's only half a catties left ..." Zhang Cuifang originally wanted to keep it as a favor, but when he saw his brother-in-law open his mouth, he let it go after thinking about it: "Give him half a catties again the oil residue, will it be fine?"

"Thank you, brother-in-law!" Li Yufeng was about to smile, and turned to Zhao Guodong and said, "Take out your meat ticket."

Zhao Guodong took out the tangled meat ticket from his pocket with restraint, and Li Yufeng took it Go, then he took the lard and the remaining oil from Zhang Cuifang's hands, and, and take him away from the team.

The eyes of the people lining up at the back stared straight at the white fat and the rest of the yellow cooking oil, and their saliva almost dripped.

“Friends, is there any lard again?” Someone asked reluctantly.

Zhang Cuifang smiled and said, "Sorry, today is sold out, hurry up tomorrow!"

The people who were marching actually knew in their hearts whether to rush early or not, just look at the large bones Li Yufeng had brought. These large bones sell for 16 cents per catties, and once eaten and dried, can sell for 14 cents, which is the equivalent of two cents for eating meat and bone, and the people in their inventory meat boxes and marketing cooperatives have great prices.

“This is it.” Seeing him away from the crowd, Li Yufeng handed the lard and the remaining oil to Zhao Guodong.

Although lard and oil residues only amount to one catties, you should know that before they are made into lard and oil residues, they can weigh up to two or three catties! People in this age generally do not have oil and water, so I would be grateful for fatty meat, and lean meat basically does not sell. Seeing as half of the seller's cut was lean meat, it would be heartbreaking. If this meat ticket is replaced with fatty meat, the pork will be boiled only three or four taels, and the remaining oil may be only a little. This time, Zhao Guodong took advantage of Li Yufeng's relationship. He took the items from Li Yufeng, wanting to thank her, but feeling a little embarrassed. Thank you so much. So much lard is enough for their family savings for two months. Zhao Guodong's grain-colored face showed a slight smile, and Li Yufeng's heart was moved by his honest and satisfied appearance. There seemed to be a light shining under his dark eyeball, which was an infinite life expectancy, no matter how life was at the moment, but he was never desperate. "You see these expensive things now, but after ten or twenty years, you will no longer underestimate them. At that moment, no one wanted to eat it. Forty years later, basically no one likes to eat fatty meat , even for people who have experienced this epoch, for fat meat, the last thing left is just nostalgia. Back then, as technology progressed, people could even make pigs with lean and lean meat. It was an era when fat was completely forgotten. “How can there be anything tastier than fat in this world?” Zhao Guodong lifted his head and replied, insulting a young woman like her who did not know the suffering of the people... Li Yufeng was not angry Zhao Guodong now had a sincere face that doted on fat, so she would not be angry at him. Food is the most important thing for him, the motivation of all his hard work now is to be able to eat with fullness so that the whole family can live well. “Then why don't we bet?” Li Yufeng looked at him, blinked and said, “If... after thirty or forty years you still like to eat fatty meat, I will lose; do not like to eat fatty meat anymore ... Then you ... will agree to one of my terms?"

Zhao Guodong felt a little worried when he saw her devious eyes. He did not realize that Li Yufeng was very smart before, but now he did not dare to underestimate her. He always felt that the way he looked at her was full of conspiracies. Zhao Guodong thought for a moment, then shook his head firmly and said, "I can assure you, no matter how many years I have, I still like to eat fatty meat. As for your condition ..." Li Yufeng did not

could it help to laugh when he heard his reply How did Zhao Guodong know that he would become Zhao Guodong's richest person in the future?

"You don't have to rush to make sure." He looked at her, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. There were still fine grains of sweat on his forehead, and crystalline sweat flowing from him were finely bronze-colored.the skin, the lure of male hormones. Coupled with his serious expression and a hint of suspicion to himself, a very special harmony formed on his face, making him look upright, handsome, and cautious.

Li Yufeng's fingers ransacked the backpack for a long time, took out a cotton handkerchief, put it into Zhao Guodong's palm, turned around before her cheeks flushed, lowered her head as she walked, and said, "Remove your sweat, full of sweat. sweat." His face is everywhere ..."

he said, speeding up his pace and walking in front of the Xinhua Bookstore. A notice was posted on the wall outside the bookstore, which mentioned new books published recently, and there was a long queue at the door.

Farmers in general did not have this kind of awareness, and those who came to buy books were educated young men who stood in line in the commune.

The afternoon sun was already a bit hot, Liu Zhenhua bought a newspaper to cover his head, when he saw Li Yufeng coming, he was about to extend a hand to greet her, but he saw Zhao Guodong was holding a clean white handkerchief in his hand, chasing after Li Yufeng's footsteps.

Liu Yiyi stood in the crowd a little confused, seeing Liu Zhenhua looking towards Li Yufeng, when someone bumped into her from behind, she staggered and bumped into the person in the front row, who did not even look at him, impatiently Said: "What are you squeezing, you have not reached you!"

Liu Yiyi's cheeks suddenly turned red, tears welled up in her eyes, she bit her lips and lowered her head, tears falling onto the concrete floor under her feet.