Bai Fumei in the 70’s

The crystal pan-fried bun in his mouth had a crispy bottom and a thin layer of skin. The meat inside was thick and juicy. The juice inside was flavored with tube bone soup. It was fresh and rich. He Songbai tasted four of them and felt not satisfied enough.

He opened his mouth again after eating, but he took a mouthful of cold wind and sand.

"No more?"

It took a long time for Zhao Lanxiang to respond to what He Songbai said to be sweet. She looked down at the only two fried pan-fried buns with corned meat in her arms. The one that He Songbai had just eaten was stuffed with leeks. Where did the sweetness come from?

Zhao Lanxiang's heart was suddenly hot by his muffled expression.

She pinched the lean muscle on the man's waist and silently lowered her head to feed him two "sweet" meat buns.

"This is sweet."

He Songbai held a corned meat bun and squinted lazily.

"It's all sweet!"

After the long drive, Zhao Lanxiang didn't speak, but He Songbai kept chattering all the way.

"Big girl, sing a song for me to listen?"1

"Who do you call a big girl, don't you have a sister?"

Zhao Lanxiang pinched him again and scolded, "Just ride your bike. Why do you want so many things?"

Her family sometimes called her "Niu Niu" or "big girl," and it was indeed, because Zhao Lanxiang had no elder sister.

Zhao Lanxiang's grandfather, Zhao Xiong, has three sons. Zhao Yongqing ranked second, and there is an older brother. Zhao Lanxiang's uncle had a son and a daughter, but his daughter is one year younger than Zhao Lanxiang.

It is not surprising that Zhao Lanxiang heard He Songbai call out this title. She often put letters written from home on the table, and the title given by her parents at the beginning of the letter was Big Girl.

She asked, "You peeked at my letter?"

"No." He Songbai quickly replied.

He just glanced at random and looked at her letterhead.

The lady was very careless. She put the letter under his nose danglingly, so he was looking at it openly.

But to be honest, He Songbai was still curious about her family. She was familiar with his family, but he didn't even know how many people in her family, or their surnames and first names.

He Songbai said casually, "Don't you sing, big girl?"4

Zhao Lanxiang pinched him and couldn't bear him, so she lowered her head and sang.

Her soft voice was not as clear as usual, with the hoarseness from the morning, and a strangely shallow laziness.

"The moon is so beautiful. The moon is not you.

Shine by my side, without your affection."

She hummed slowly, and she couldn't remember the old songs from decades ago. She hummed over the lyric when she didn't know it. She only remembered a few sentences clearly.

Time will never come back, leaving infinite memories.

Who knows where you are tonight, who knows where I am tonight. "

Along the green and cold mountain, tens of thousands of leaves have fallen from the trees. But the pine and cypress trees in the cliffs are still evergreen—the shallow tone brought a touch of sadness.

"Seeing the moon reminds me of your love."

After He Songbai listened to her singing, he hummed and said, "Are the song of your city people so unrestrained?"

Zhao Lanxiang said unconvincingly, "Your folk songs, um...what a good brother and sister, is it still hot?"

He Songbai heard the words and smiled sullenly.

She said, "You also sing a good brother and sister song for me?"

"No singing, no singing."

After He Songbai finished speaking, he pedaled his bike more vigorously. The wind blew past his sturdy head, across his wheaten neck, and poured into his neck.

The wind also swayed Zhao Lanxiang's braided hair. She held her hair and pressed her face to his warm back, and couldn't help but smile.

This shy and boring little man.

...

After riding for a long time, they arrived at the new pig farm. This pig farm was deeper into the heart of the mountain than the original one. It took a long time to go back and forth. No wonder she never saw his figure during this time. If it took so much time to come here, she also did not want to go home casually.

It was also just in time as the winter is a slack period for farming. The farm work of the brigade was not much. Luckily he was idle. Otherwise, he would be exhausted by running back and forth twice a day.

He Songbai took her up the mountain, and there was a strong smell of pig feces from an unremarkable tile house hidden by the forest.

Before she got close, Zhao Lanxiang could smell the vivid smell.

The place where the pigs were raised was really stinky. No wonder he had these smells on his body. It was almost what she guessed. The pig farms and slaughterhouse he worked at were gone, and he needed a considerable sum of money in a short period of time. What else except for buying the pig farm?

Zhao Lanxiang walked into the pig farm and counted a few. There were no fewer than a hundred pigs, but they were nothing but a suckling pig. However, some pigs are slightly larger, but she can't see any pigs that can be sold at a glance. For a short period of time, this pig farm had no income.

She couldn't help but move her eyes and fell into deep thought.

Gou Sheng and Niu Dan saw He Songbai brought a stranger over, and they came over involuntarily.

He Songbai introduced them to each other. He pointed to Zhao Lanxiang and said, "My girlfriend, my own person."

"Rest assured."

Gou Sheng saw Zhao Lanxiang and glanced at her a few more times, "Let's bring fewer people in the future. This can be very nerve-wracking."

Niu Dan said, "Sister-in-law."

Gou Sheng left complaining, but he also greeted Zhao Lanxiang.

Niu Dan coughed and said, "We have just started this job. He was so worried that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. He always had to come here."

He Songbai moved the pen, stood in the pigsty, and touched the little piglets, inspecting them one by one.

He whispered to Zhao Lanxiang, "The two of them have been friends with me for many years. They live in this deep mountain and old forest because they live for the pig farm."

Zhao Lanxiang couldn't help but be surprised.

He Songbai said, "For the sake of safety, Gou Sheng had to say that."