Chapter 29 : When I come back, we’ll get married

“Zhuang Mingcheng!”

Xiao Ting looked at the bedding he was carrying, and her heart trembled.

“Zhuang Mingcheng, you… are you going to live with her? Do you really like her? A woman from the countryside?”

Zhuang Mingcheng frowned and stopped.

Looking back at Xiao Ting, he was a little angry. “Comrade Ting, every time you ask me this, I feel insulted. I’ll say it one last time, I definitely like her!”

After all, they have been together for so many years, and Zhuang Mingcheng sincerely advised, “Also, don’t say such things in the future. It will have a bad influence on you.”

The workers, peasants, and soldiers are one family, but Xiao Ting’s words reflect her contempt for farmers, which is really dangerous.

Based on these few words of hers, if someone with ulterior motives reported it to the higher-ups, even the teacher would probably be implicated.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhuang Mingcheng suddenly thought of something and said solemnly

“Comrade Ting, Lu Fangfang is my fiancée now and will be my revolutionary partner in the future. Please stop talking about driving her away. As long as I am here, no one can drive her away!”

What he had said was clear enough. Zhuang Mingcheng turned around and walked into the family compound, carrying his bedding.

“Zhuang Mingcheng! You will regret it, you will regret it!” Xiao Ting shouted unwillingly.

It’s a joke that her three years of love is not as good as that of a peasant woman.

“You will regret it, you will regret it, you will definitely regret it…” Xiao Ting kept repeating this sentence. She must make Zhuang Mingcheng regret it and must drive away that bitch named Lu!

Forget it if she can’t go to the new province.

Bah, she was too lazy to go so far.  Xiao Ting said bitterly, “Zhuang Mingcheng, you go and suffer on your own!”

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Family compound.

Lu Fangfang had already made a table full of raw sugar cakes, and all that was left was to fry them.

The fire in the coal stove had been lit.

She sat by the pan and placed the sugar cakes in the pan one by one.

After a while, a sweet aroma emanated from the pot.

Looking outside, Zhuang Mingcheng had not come back yet. Lu Fangfang touched her stomach and felt a little hungry.

In the morning and at noon, she had been so busy making Xiao Ting angry that she hadn’t eaten anything.

Now, she couldn’t stand the aroma of the sugar cakes anymore.

She took a sugar cookie out of the pan, blew on it, and took a small bite while it was still hot.

“Hmm!”

A sweet taste came from her mouth, accompanied by the meaty aroma of lard, and Lu Fangfang was satisfied at once.

To be honest, if the sugar cakes she made were released in later generations, they would definitely be too greasy.

But in this era, it is just right.

Lu Fangfang felt that every cell in her body was expressing a desire for sugar, lard, and rice cakes. She didn’t care about the heat and chewed them quickly in small bites.

This sugar cake is fresh out of the pan. Eat it while it’s hot. It’s so fragrant and it’s a real treat.

It’s a pity that Zhuang Mingcheng hasn’t come back yet.

Lu Fangfang ate the last bit of food in one gulp, and then said with a satisfied look on her face, “I don’t know where this person has been. He clearly said he would be back soon. “

Shaking her head, she cut up some pork and prepared to make another stew.

She looked through the vegetables that Zhuang Mingcheng bought. There were only three kinds: radish, cabbage, and potato, and they were all wrinkled, clearly having lost water.

There is no other way. Now is not like the later times where we have vegetable greenhouses and can grow off-season vegetables.

In this day and age, it’s good enough to have radishes and cabbages to eat.

“By the way, we can try growing some greenhouse vegetables.”

Lu Fangfang seemed to be thinking about something.

She didn’t plan to make it too big, after all, one has to be low-key in this day and age.

With a piece of plastic sheet, you can build a small shed in the yard and grow some food for yourself, otherwise, the long winter will be too hard to endure.

Lu Fangfang peeled a cabbage and just put it into the pot to stew when she saw Zhuang Mingcheng coming back.

She hurried over to him and saw the man carrying something on his back. She suddenly felt her face getting hot.

“You are…”

“The bedding in my dormitory is relatively clean. You can use it first. After I leave, you can live in the family compound. If there’s anything you can’t solve, go find the regiment commander and the political commissar. I’ve already told them.”

“Oh.”

Lu Fangfang suddenly realized that she had been overthinking.

Her face became even hotter, and she quickly lowered her head.

Zhuang Mingcheng: “…”

His fiancée, although young, had a lot of ideas.

“Don’t let your imagination run wild. When I come back, we’ll get married. We’ll have plenty of time then.”

“Pah, what nonsense are you talking about?”

Lu Fangfang spat and hurried back to the house in embarrassment.

Zhuang Mingcheng smiled and followed.

He knelt down to put the bedding on the newly bought double bed, smoothed it out, and tidied it up, then went back to the outer room.

“I smelled the fragrance at the entrance of the family compound. What delicious food did you make?”

Lu Fangfang squatted beside the frying pan and waved to Zhuang Mingcheng.

She lifted the lid of the pot, and the sugar cakes inside were still hot.

She took a quick look, picked out one that was cooked to perfection, and handed it to Zhuang Mingcheng.

“Hmm!”

“How about it?”

Lu Fangfang looked at him expectantly.

“Um…”

Zhuang Mingcheng frowned and took another bite.

After chewing for a while, he slowly said under Lu Fangfang’s anxious gaze, “I have never eaten such delicious cakes.”

Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes at him. She thought her efforts were in vain.

She stood up, took a rectangular enamel plate from the cupboard, and put the sugar cakes in it.

“As long as you like it, I still have some left. I’ll bake them later, and you can take them with you on the road.”

As she spoke, her mood became depressed again.

Zhuang Mingcheng patted her back gently and said, “Comrade Lu Fangfang, have you ever heard of a poem?”

“Poetry? What poem?”

Lu Fangfang turned her head and looked at him curiously.

“If love is long-lasting, why should we be together day and night?”

“Alas!”

Lu Fangfang shuddered and felt goosebumps all over her body.

This guy actually recited love poems, which was really beyond her expectation.

Giving him a blank look, she placed the sugar cake on the table and asked Zhuang Mingcheng to sit down.

The cabbage stewed in the pot was ready, so she scooped a bowl and put it on the table.

The food in the lunch box from the morning was not eaten, so she heated it up and put it on the table.

Sugar cakes, pork stewed with cabbage, and fried shredded potatoes were considered quite sumptuous in that era.

However, Lu Fangfang was still a little dissatisfied.

In her opinion, it was still too simple, and she became more determined to start a side business.

“Mingcheng, I wish you a safe journey.”

Under the table, Zhuang Mingcheng silently took his fiancée’s hand, his heart filled with reluctance.

“Fangfang, wait until I come back, then we’ll register for marriage!”

“Um!”

Lu Fangfang nodded vigorously, feeling excited.