Chapter 3: Eating meat buns

“Where is Xiao Song from?” Bai Zhengqian asked.


    Song Zhi replied cautiously: “I am from Beijing.”

    Tan Fenghui brought over cotton wool and tincture of iodine, and wiped the wounds on Song Zhi’s face and hands.

    Song Zhi whispered, “Thank you, sister-in-law.”

    Bai Zhengqian asked him again: “Are you a student?”

    Song Zhi was silent for a while before saying, “I…I am not a student, I have already graduated from university. I originally planned to stay in school to teach, but the result…”

    Bai Zhengqian  has served as the party secretary of Ruyi Village for many years, and he has seen the world.

    With such a talented appearance, Song Zhi was already a university teacher, but suddenly he went to the countryside to become an educated youth. Seeing Song Zhi hesitating when talking about this, and thinking the capital is nearly two thousand miles away from the province, there must be a reason for this.

    After thinking about it, Bai Zhengqian said: “Since you have already come, stay here in peace, our village is not rich, but we have advanced ideas, you can stay in our village, ah you can teach or something, everyone is the screw of socialism, where do you need to nail it!”

    After a long time, Song Zhi said “um”.

    He felt a warm and soft touch coming from behind him, and he always felt that there was a clear and sweet fruity fragrance overflowing, and he couldn’t help but glance back.

    ——Only to see that the little beauty with bright eyes, snow skin and black hair was looking at him curiously with her eyes full of curiosity.

    Bai Zhengqian quickly explained, “It’s okay, it’s okay! Xiao Song, don’t be uncomfortable, this is the fourth girl in my family. Although she is seventeen years old this year, she has always been a child at heart. You can treat her like Hongdou and Huangdou.”

    Song Zhi looked at Hongdou and Huangdou, who were only four or five years old, and understood.

    He made an effort to show a kind smile to Bai Taotao.

    Bai Taotao, however, looked at Song Zhi in surprise.

    ——No, isn’t this His Majesty the Immortal Emperor?

    She was a little confused, and couldn’t help but think of her past life.

    ——In her previous life, Bai Taotao was an immortal peach spirit, but not a peach tree spirit.

    The difference is that she was originally a ripe white peach formed on the immortal peach tree, delicious, soft and juicy. It was plucked off by an immortal and presented to the nobleman to enjoy. The nobleman held her in his hands for ten days and ten nights, what embarrassing things he was thinking about? When he wanted to eat her, the nobleman left in a hurry for some reason and put the peach aside. The immortal peach was immersed in the aura of the nobleman, making it an illusory human form.

    This is Bai Taotao.

    Later, because the immortal mansion was unguarded, she stumbled and left ignorantly, and fell into the mortal world accidentally. People saw her beauty and tried to harm her. Fortunately, she was rescued by the passing Mei Sect elder, and finally became the Mei sect’s female disciple.

    Don’t know how many years later, when the Emperor Immortal’s birthday was being celebrated, the three worlds and nine realms had sent people to offer gifts to celebrate the birthday. Bai Taotao also followed the Mei Sect’s elders and went with them, and was ordered by her master to offer a dance for the Immortal Emperor at the feast.

    She saw the Emperor for the first time and was shocked.

    ——It turns out that the immortal Emperor is the noble person who nourished her with aura.

    Coincidentally, the immortal emperor is also called Song Zhi!

    This…

    At this moment, Bai Taotao deeply breathed the rich aura of the educated youth Song Zhi, curiously sizing him up, wondering if he really is the Immortal Emperor Song Zhi. Then, should she recognize him? And then she wanted to ask him when she performed a dance on his birthday, originally dancing well, why did suddenly a sky thunder struck? and then why did she come here? Did he also come because of that sky thunder?

    It’s just that there is a room full of people here, and it doesn’t seem to be easy to ask questions.

    Bai Taotao sighed.

    The breath she exhaled directly hit Song Zhi’s face, like Lan Xun and Gui Fu, with a touch of peach fruit fragrance, making Song Zhi’s face and ears red.

[Lan Xun and Gui Fu- both are metaphor which refers to a strong fragrance that lasts for a long time]

    Song Zhi rarely gets so close to girls, especially Bai Taotao’s face is so beautiful. At this moment, the little beauty put her hand on his back, and tilted her head to look at him curiously. A white beautiful face was about to hit his face.

    Tan Fenghui handled the wounds on Song Zhi’s hands and face, and said gently to Bai Taotao: “Tao Tao, sit down quickly.”

    “Hey! Sit—okay!” Bai Taotao replied happily.

    The girl was beautiful like a flower, her voice was sweet, crisp and delicate, like a sweet, sticky and juicy peach ripening in summer, shaking so that Song Zhi’s heart was itchy and crisp, and the back of his neck was red.

    He tried to stabilize his mind, pretending to be indifferent, but the tips of his ears have long been red.

    At this time, Bai Xingxing hurried back, and as soon as she walked in, she shouted, “Dad! Big brother and sister…Ah, Song Zhi ?” 

     Seeing Song Zhi, Bai Xingxing was stunned.

    Bai Dongsheng was surprised.

    He looked at Song Zhi and Bai Xingxing again, wondering: “Xing’er, you and Song Zhi…you two know each other?”

    Song Zhi also looked at Bai Xingxiang strangely. He arrived in Ruyi Village only today, of course he did not know Bai Xingxiang. So how did Xing Xing know him? And even know his name?

    Bai Xingxing anxiously said, “ah, that, just now I, I went to the educated youth station ……”

    Hongdou said with her head tilted: “I went to the educated youth station with Huang Dou just now, but I didn’t see fifth aunt!”

    Bai Xingxing almost revealed the stuffing, and hurriedly patched, “Oh, everyone was gone when I went, hahaha… I heard that eldest brother brought the educated youth Song Zhi to talk, hahaha…”

    When Fenghui married into Bai’s family, the sisters were only seven, six, or five years old. She really treated the sisters as her own children. When she saw Bai Xingxing’s recklessness, she cursed: ” I asked you to stay at home and take care of your fourth sister. Where did you go? Your fourth aunt ran into the house to bully your fourth sister, don’t you know?” 
  
    Bai Xingxing let out a cry, violently thundering, ” Fourth aunt is bullying my fourth sister again? I’m looking for her to settle the account!”

    Just about to run out-

    Tang Liren and Bai Lili entered the room carrying a double-eared cauldron together, and the faces of the mother and daughter were as gloomy as ink.

    Bai Xingxing’s eyes widened and asked: “Mom, third sister, what’s the matter?”

    Tang Liren instructed Hongdou, “Go and shut the door first.”

    Bai Lili was so angry that her eyes turned red, and said, “You take a look at it yourself.” She gestured to Bai Xingxing to look at the rice pot.

    The Bai family hasn’t separated yet, and Bai Zhengqian has set the rule that each family would take turns to cook for three days. Originally, all four families sat in the courtyard and ate together. But because there were many children and several sisters-in-law did not get along very well, the scene was too chaotic, so finally old lady Bai, Chen Juxiang, made the decision to let each family share the meal directly in the kitchen and then bring it back to their own family hall to eat.

    Bai Xingxing looked at the pot, and was furious.

    Everyone also saw it, and couldn’t help but frown.

    ——In these days, every household is not rich. The Bai family’s habit is to drink thin food in the morning and eat dry food for dinner. The women took turns cooking for a day or two, and were basically able to keep track of the portions of food in each house.

    But the batter soup at noon today is only two-thirds of the usual! And the soup is thin like water, not much noodles.

    Today it’s the second aunt’s turn to cook. The second aunt is recognized as a good person. She has always been close to eldest family, and it is impossible to miss the eldest family.

    There is only one possibility-

    Li Cuier went to the kitchen one step ahead and fished the batter from their pot into her home pot!

    Bai Zhengqian is the head of the family, thinking that Song Zhi is here today, the internal contradictions in his family are inconvenient to be exposed to outsiders, so he said in a deep voice: “Okay, okay, hurry up and eat! Let’s talk about it tonight.”

    Everyone sat around the kang table, while Tan Fenghui greeted Song Zhi and arranged Bai Lili and Bai Xingxing to move bowls of batter soup.

    Tang Liren glanced at Bai Zhengqian.

    Bai Zhengqian has been with her for many years, and this tacit understanding is still there, his wife is asking him: Do you want to take out the meat buns?

    The family has a large population and is not rich. After a trip to the county town, he was determined to buy meat buns, but it was also calculated according to the number of people, so they couldn’t bear to buy one more. Now that there is one more Song Zhi, one less bun. Besides, the amount of batter soup at noon is still less than usual!

    Bai Zhengqian thought: his son Bai Dongsheng has to go to work this afternoon, how can he be hungry!

    So he nodded at his wife.

    Tang Liren understood it, and instructed her granddaughter, “Hongdou, bring it over here.”

    Hongdou jumped and took the bag of meat buns, and handed it to Tang Liren.

    Under the guidance of her daughter-in-law, Tang Liren knew the basic situation of Song Zhi, so she smiled and said to Song Zhi: “Educated Song, don’t be polite when you come to your aunt’s house, just treat it as if you were at your own home.”

    Song Zhi was flushed sitting with Bai Taotao, and his whole body was soft, and he wished to leave now. However, some unexplainable strange feelings were born in his heart. After listening to Tang Liren’s words, he lowered his head and let out an “um”.

    Tang Liren began to divide the meat buns.

    The family watched eagerly.

    Bai Xingxing, Bai Dongsheng, and Song Zhi were unaware of this. When they saw the white and round meat buns, they were surprised.

    Tang Liren finished dividing the buns neatly: one for each, except her.

    Bai Zhengqian smiled, broke the meat bun in front of him in half, handed half of it to his wife, and said to his children and grandchildren: “Why are you still stunned, eat it!”

    Tang Liren took half of the bun from her husband and put it back in his bowl, “You are not in good health, you need to have tonic!”

    Bai Zhenggan, “I am lying at home every day, and what tonic! It’s you, once I’m down, I have to rely on you both inside and outside, you eat!”

    Tan Fenghui stood up and said, “Dad, you will eat yours, and mine will be given to mom.” As she said, she picked up the meat buns from her bowl and put them into Tang Liren’s bowl.

    Tang Liren, “Come on, you eat it! You are still pregnant!” 

Bai Dongsheng, “Mom, eat mine. Hui’er brought me a boiled sweet potato in the morning. I only ate it at eleven o’clock, now I’m not hungry.”

    Tang Liren expressed disagreement, “That’s not going to happen, now the family relies on you alone to work, and you need to eat.” 

Bai Lili, Bai Xingxing, Hongdou and Huangdou shouted-

    “Mom, I’ll give you mine to eat, I don’t like meat buns!”

    “Mom, you eat mine, and I and my third sister will share.”

    “Grandma, I’ll share a bun with you…”

    “Grandma, grandma, I’ll give you the meat filling, and you give me the bun skin.”

    Seeing the filial piety of her children and grandchildren, Tang Liren smilled and narrowed her eyes.

    Song Zhi looked at the meat buns in his bowl, and then at the lumpy noodle soup in the bowl. He stood up and said to Bai Zhengqian: “Uncle, aunt, I…I have something to do, so I will go back first.”

    Bai Zhenggan hurried to say, “Don’t, no matter what you have, eat before leaving!”

    Bai Dongsheng also persuaded, “Song Zhi, you should leave after eating . It’s all this point. You probably won’t have any food if you return to the educated youth station now.”

    Bai Taotao felt clear-headed and comfortable after absorbing the aura for half a day, and saw that people were giving way for a bun.

She grabbed the meat buns in her bowl and put them in Tang Liren’s bowl, then grabbed the bun in front of Song Zhi and broke them in half, stuffing the small half of the meat bun into her mouth and the large half of the meat bun into Song Zhi’s mouth.

    Song Zhi subconsciously opened his mouth and bit into the bun.

    Everyone was stunned.

    “Mom, eat! Dad, eat!” As she said, Bai Taotao tilted her head again, looking at Song Zhi with a smile, “Brother Song Zhi…eat!”

    Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren were both moved by the silly girl and they no longer give away, saying to the children, “Eat, eat, eat!”

    Bai Taotao bit the meat bun. Although the meat bun is delicious, she still feels that the aura on Song Zhi’s body makes her feel more comfortable. She slowly gnawed at the meat bun in one hand, and stubbornly hugged Song Zhi’s arm in the other.

    ——Being in contact with his body, the spiritual energy can be inhaled faster and more directly!

    Song Zhi took a bite of the delicious thin-skinned and thick delicious meat bun, then turned his head and quietly glanced at the well-behaved and beautiful Bai Taotao beside him, and lowered his eyelids.

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