Most of the family compounds are still bungalows with a small courtyard in the front. Some of the two families are separated by bamboo fences, while some are not. The courtyard allocated to Gu Sheng is in the corner, not very big, and is connected to another family's house next to it.
The yard is only about ten square meters. Once you enter the house, there are three rooms connected together. The first room is the main room with a window. Under the window is the stove. There is an uncapped area where the first room is connected to the second room, which is equivalent to a skylight, so that rainwater outside can fall down. A ditch is dug in the corner of the wall so that rainwater and domestic water can be drained out. There is a small wooden cabin of about one or two square meters on the side, which can be used as a bathroom. You can wash and rinse rice here, and there is also a faucet.
The outermost room is the kitchen and the living room, with two small bedrooms inside. One of the bedrooms has only a large bed, and the other room has a desk and bookshelves, which will be used as a study in the future.
Gu Sheng helped her move all the medical books into the study. Zhan Aiping walked around the room. Gu Sheng took a quick bath with cold water and threw his changed clothes into the enamel basin. He said with a cold face, "Wait a minute and you wash your clothes. I'll watch you do it."
Zhan Aiping: “…” I regretted it. I shouldn’t have fought with him if I had known earlier.
Zhan Aiping made a fire to boil water, washed her hair and took a bath. She sat on a small stool and wiped her hair with a white towel.
The clothes she took off were piled on top of Gu Sheng's clothes. While drying her hair, Zhan Aiping was thinking about how to make a fuss for him.
Who knew that before she could figure out how to respond, Gu Sheng had already picked up the basin of clothes and started running under the faucet.
Zhan Aiping rubbed her face and thought to herself, I just like the way you sound tough on the outside but are soft on the inside!
After washing, Gu Sheng asked her to take the clothes to the yard to dry. Zhan Aiping happily ran outside to dry the clothes. She was very happy. She just regretted that she didn't have a smart phone, otherwise she would have taken a picture of this scene and posted it on WeChat Moments.
—This was the first step in her reputation as a “virtuous” person in the staff housing estate.
Although she had never been a good wife and mother in her two lifetimes, an unvirtuous person likes to be praised for being virtuous.
Even if you receive a few false compliments, you can still be happy.
It's just a pity... After waiting for half a day, there was no one watching, and Zhan Aiping finished drying the clothes in a depressed mood.
Gu Sheng crossed his arms and looked at her from behind: "You're slower at drying clothes than I am at washing them?"
"If you leave it in the sun for a little longer, the clothes will be dry."
Zhan Aiping: "Who told you to wash the clothes too fast? Did you wash them clean? Next time I will use my two eyes to supervise you."
"Supervise you like a drill sergeant."
Gu Sheng snorted and laughed: "Next time you will do the laundry, and I will supervise you."
"You can't supervise me, so I have to supervise you. If you really want to be busy, I will help you wash."
Gu Sheng came over and raised his hand to high-five her: "It's not tiring when men and women work together. When I'm at home, I'll help you with what I can do. When I'm busy, it'll be hard work for Comrade Zhan."
"Are you hungry? I'll go to the cafeteria to get some food. You wait here."
"Um."
Zhan Aiping was pulling weeds in the yard, waiting for an "Ele.me" guy to help bring her takeout. This yard had not been inhabited for a while and was overgrown with weeds, so it needed careful care.
She looked at other people's yards. Some had fruit trees planted, some had vegetables planted. She estimated that every family had planted some green onions, and many had planted flowers. After all, Yunnan Province was a well-known flower-growing area, and you could grow a field of flower seeds if you just scattered them.
Of course, only heat-resistant varieties can be planted; varieties that require vernalization cannot be planted.
Before her rebirth, she and Old Man Gu also built a garden and grew vegetables and a lot of flowers. In particular, there was a period of time when Zhan Aiping became obsessed with growing roses, which was a very addictive hobby.
Because most people who grow roses can easily start from - I only grow three or four roses - Never mind, let's just grow twelve - Hey, fifty? - Damn, I actually grow hundreds of roses...
Yes, she eventually planted more than a hundred kinds of roses. Watering, fertilizing, caring for and pruning all became a hassle. Because Zhan Aiping had to go out to practice medicine, she could only ask Comrade Lao Gu to help her take care of the roses.
The retired unemployed vagrant Lao Gu could only help her take care of those thorny things without complaint.
He also despised her: "You medical students never retire and live a life of toil."
Zhan Aiping laughed at him: "You can only miss your bravery in the past. We medical students become more popular as we get older."
Lao Gu was quite good at growing flowers, but he was also poisonous. He would take flower cuttings, and every time he took flower cuttings, one would survive. This led to them often giving flower seedlings to other people.
An old friend asked them to sell flower seedlings on Taobao to provide Lao Gu with a new job.
Thinking about those things, Zhan Aiping showed a little smile on her face. Not long after, Gu Sheng came back with a lunch box. He asked her to come and eat: "Little glutton, I gave you a lot of meat."
Zhan Aiping: "What I fear most is that people are good-for-nothings and don't even know it."
Gu Sheng smiled, and the two of them moved a small stool and sat in a row in the yard to eat. Gu Sheng was quite good at choosing vegetables when serving her food, and he gave her a lot of carrots. She had loved eating carrots since she was a child.
He called him a rabbit spirit.
Gu Sheng likes to eat potatoes. Zhan Aiping can eat a carrot in a row and eat fried carrots for every meal. He can eat potatoes for a month in a row and eat fried shredded potatoes for every meal.
Sure enough, when their meals are put together, you are the carrot and I am the potato.
Both of these appear frequently on dinner tables in this era. Because they are easy to store and can be preserved for a long time, they are essential varieties for canteen pot dishes.
When Zhan Aiping was a child, she often ate canteen food. The food her parents cooked was not as delicious as the canteen food. So when she was studying outside or in the compound, people complained that the canteen food was bad and like pig food, she always kept silent.
Because she thought it was delicious...
The one who shared the same suffering was Gu Sheng, because the food his parents cooked was also terrible, it was worse than eating in the cafeteria. The common behavior of the two of them was that they wolfed down the food in the cafeteria and happily ate the "pig food".
There was a month when Zhan Aiping ate stir-fried carrots with peppers and some greens for every meal, and Gu Sheng ate stir-fried potatoes and tofu every time. They stared at each other's plates and gave each other a look that said, "You're eating this again."
So they are not picky about food, as long as it is not too bad, they can eat it.
So... Gu Sheng thought it was good to eat in the cafeteria for the rest of his life.
Why didn't he eat the food she cooked
It was because when they were both young, Gu Sheng was kicked out of the house by his parents and was not given any food to eat. Zhan Aiping took a look at him and was kind enough to invite him into her home and cook a meal for him... but ended up sending him to the hospital for emergency treatment.
She was young at that time and especially fantasized about "playing with fire". She felt a great sense of accomplishment when she made fire and cooked by herself. She also remembered an aunt in the yard who could cook Sichuan cuisine and would add some spices and seasoning powder to the dishes.
—Gu Sheng is a very generous person.
The bowl of food she gave him was tantamount to saying "Wulang, take your medicine."
Even though he was almost poisoned to death by her, he still liked her and was willing to marry her.
After that incident, Gu Sheng was rescued, and the adults did not blame her. Aunt Qin even stopped her mother, and Gu Sheng was discharged from the hospital in high spirits. Zhan Aiping felt resentful because of this incident, and after apologizing, she didn't want to see Gu Sheng or get along with him. However, Gu Sheng always took the initiative to provoke her and quarrel with her. As a result, their relationship became worse and worse.
They never mentioned this matter in front of her. Although she seemed careless about it, she actually kept it in mind.
That's a crack.
Zhan Aiping threw a piece of carrot to Gu Sheng: "Do you know why I studied medicine?"
Gu Sheng threw a chopstick of potato to her: "Who knows what you are thinking, one moment you want to be a doctor, the next moment you want to be a teacher."
Zhan Aiping said seriously: "I studied medicine to treat pigs."
Gu Sheng: “…”
"Because pigs are so greedy, they always eat randomly."
Gu Sheng: "If you want to treat pigs, you should study veterinary medicine."
Gu Sheng pinched her face and said, "Eat well and stop talking nonsense."
"When we get to the military hospital, I'll slowly treat your pigs."
Zhan Aiping couldn't help laughing. She patted him on the arm. Some people can always "put themselves into the story".
She took a few bites of the food in her hand and stared blankly at the clouds in the sky.
She once studied medicine because of Gu Sheng, but later gave up because of him. The operation failed and the person died under her scalpel. Her operation was correct and the cause of death had nothing to do with her, it was just an accident. But after that, she always had nightmares. In her dreams, she dreamed that Gu Sheng died that year.
Outside the dream, they persuaded her: "It's not your fault."
Many new doctors would feel psychologically uncomfortable when seeing someone die in front of them for the first time. They all understood her and advised her.
But the feeling of almost killing someone always lingered in her mind, and she always doubted herself.
She confused dreams with reality.
They said: It's not your fault.
She replied in her heart: That's my fault.
"What are you daydreaming about? Don't you want to eat? Is it not tasty?" Gu Sheng pushed her, and Zhan Aiping came back to her senses and looked at him.
Gu Sheng sighed: "Why don't we start cooking tomorrow? You just steam some potatoes for me."
Zhan Aiping blinked her eyes and held back the tears. Her voice was a little hoarse: "Don't worry, I am very good at cooking potatoes now."
Gu Sheng: “…”
"real."
Zhan Aiping smiled and rubbed his head.
"Let's raise two ducks in the yard from now on."
One is called Shengsheng and the other is called Pingping.
She said that Gu Sheng was being stubborn, but he was not the only one who was being stubborn.
To be more pretentious, in those green years, who doesn’t have a white moonlight boy buried deep in their heart and unknown to others
Photos can be stolen, but memories will remain there forever. Her heart was given to someone a long time ago.
She studied medicine because of him, she wanted to learn cooking because of him, she wanted to be a good wife because of him... It's just a pity that they met too early, and by the time they realized their feelings, everyone thought it was impossible for them to be together, including themselves.
He Mingzhang doesn't eat spicy food, but she always puts a few chilies in her dishes. She cooks dishes that the person she likes likes... She even impulsively decided to have a wedding banquet because the person she likes was in Shanghai.
Her brain was really broken. Perhaps in order to make herself give up completely, she was so stubborn and crazy to do such a thing. She wanted him to watch her marry another man. She wanted to see his reaction, wondering if there was any possibility that he liked her.
—“In the past, transportation was slow, letters were far away, and a lifetime was only enough to love one person.”
She has only loved one person in her life.
But Zhan Aiping really doesn't like this sentence. If it wasn't a green train, but a high-speed train, if it wasn't a letter, but a video call, when space and distance were no longer obstacles, would everything in the past be different
If you miss it for a moment, you will miss it for half a lifetime.
Zhan Aiping leaned on him, left Shanghai, and took off her heavy winter clothes. They were both wearing thin clothes, and when they were so close together, they could clearly feel each other's body temperature. She liked this feeling very much, and this was also the reason why she liked Yunnan Province.
This kind of body temperature makes people feel real and warm.
"Gu Sheng, I am your wife now, and we will have a home."
"Should we plan the yard? What do you think we should plant?"
—Fifty years have passed since then, and everything is a brand new beginning.
(End of this chapter)