Gong Liang and Guo Mingzhu went to the cafeteria to eat. With the advantage of facial recognition, Gong Liang successfully got a portion of eggplant with minced meat that was obviously more minced than the others.

Of course, it is incomparable to the braised pork brought by Guo Mingzhu.

After the meal, the young couple wandered around for more than an hour. Even if they were students who fell in love in high school, they did nothing but walked around the playground for two hours.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Gong Liang sent Guo Mingzhu home and walked home slowly. When he got home, Gong's mother was massaging Gong's father's thighs, and Gong's father was not idle either, grabbing a yellowed book and trying to flip through it.

Books, practice hand strength.

"Xiao Liang is back. Zheng Da just came over to borrow some winter melon candies. He said that Master Jing is making snacks tomorrow and there are not enough winter melon candies. I remember there is a small bag of winter melon candies at home. I just looked for it and couldn't find it. You can look for it again to see if it's something.

The things are suppressed. If you find them, send them to Master Bing," Gong's mother said.

"Okay." Gong Liang went back to his room, put down his notebook, and started rummaging through the cabinets to find winter melon candies.

Gong Liang's family didn't have two cabinets in total, but the things in the cabinets were rather miscellaneous. Maybe it was because they were worried about being eaten by rats if they were left outside. Basically, as long as they were eating, even sweet potatoes had to be locked in the cabinet.

Gong Liang rummaged through it carefully and found winter melon candy wrapped in oil paper in a barrel of a long-empty can of malted milk.

"Mom, I found it. I'm going to deliver candy to Master Jing." After saying that, Gong Liang took the winter melon candy and went to the next door.

To the right of Gong Liang's house is the Xia family, and to the left is Jing Lixiang's house. The houses are adjacent but their areas are not the same. The areas of the Xia family and Jing Lixiang's house are both larger than that of Gong Liang's house.

It’s just that the Xia family has many children. They have two boys and a daughter. Both boys have graduated from high school and have not found formal jobs. The daughter is currently in high school. When the children are older, they can’t sleep well when they are crowded together. In order to let everyone

The children can have as much independent space as possible, and the small house is divided into several rooms, so it seems very crowded.

Binglixiang's home is relatively spacious. Huang Shengli and Zheng Da both live here. The house has three separate rooms and a large living room. It can be seen that the welfare benefits of state-owned hotels are quite good, and the allocated houses are

All big.

The door of Jing Lixiang's house was not closed. Gong Liang originally wanted to knock on the door, but as soon as he pushed it open, the door opened.

Huang Shengli and Zheng Da were all in the living room. The tables and chairs in the living room were all spread out with oil paper. Inside the oil paper were winter melon candies. At first glance, the amount seemed astonishing.

"Master Jing, I'm here to deliver the winter melon candies." Gong Liang was shocked by the scene in front of him. When he was looking for where to put the bag of winter melon candies in his hand, he looked at Zheng Da and was shocked again.

Zheng Da had a big bulge on his forehead, a bruise on his face, and tissue paper stuffed in his nose. It looked like he had been severely beaten.

"Today, the fight in the state-owned hotel hit the chef?" Gong Liang was shocked.

Why hasn't he heard of such breaking news?

Zheng Da:——·

Huang Shengli laughed heartily and mocked his junior brother mercilessly: "Look, when everyone sees you like this, their first reaction is that you didn't win the fight in the hotel today."

Gong Liang took a closer look at Zheng Da and made sure that he was not the result of a fall, but a pure beating.

Concernedly asked: "Who hit you?"

"My mother." Zheng Da hummed.

Gong Liang:?

"When he didn't have enough winter melon candy, he went home and picked the lock and rummaged through the cabinet. His mother thought there was a thief in the house and hit him with a stick. Zheng Da bumped into the cabinet and knocked him, lost his balance, and hit his nose against the wall again, that's all."

"If you ask me, he deserves it. He just takes things when he goes home and picks the lock. Who wouldn't think he was a thief?" Huang Shengli said.

Zheng Da refused to accept and argued: "There are 5 kilograms and 6 taels of winter melon candy. If I ask my mother for it, can she give it to me? I must pick the lock! Besides, isn't this rewarding? After being beaten, at least I got the candy.

, it’s not in vain.”

Jing Lixiang shook his head helplessly, pretending to be vicious and said: "It's time for another beating, a gentle one."

Zheng Da hurriedly smiled, but unfortunately his face was bruised and purple, and there was tissue paper stuffed in his nose. The smile would have been so ugly.

"Master Jing, do you need so much winter melon candy to make snacks?" Gong Liang asked curiously.

Ling Lixiang smiled and said: "You definitely don't need ordinary snacks. Isn't it your birthday tomorrow?"

You must eat something good and do something unusual for your birthday.”

Only then did Gong Liang realize that so many winter melon candies were prepared for his birthday tomorrow.

I was shocked and moved for a moment, and then I subconsciously rejected it: "It's too expensive."

"Master Bing, it's already embarrassing for me to bother you to prepare the ingredients and cook for me personally to celebrate my birthday. This - so much, this -"

The room was full of winter melon candies, and the blackmail beast made him unable to speak, and his speech became incoherent for a while.

What's the point? Winter melon sugar is not a very precious thing. There are many sugars that are better than winter melon sugar. Children will not want to eat winter melon sugar because there are milk candies and fruit candies. These are just because of the large amount.

It’s not expensive.”

"Birthdays are a big day. When I was a child, if there was anything my dad could do on his birthday, he would eat whatever he wanted. If there are dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, you can also eat dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder."

"Remember to come at seven o'clock tomorrow. I specially applied to reserve a private room for you. Once your 20th birthday is over, you will be a real adult when you get married next year. If you want me to spend so much time making snacks for you on your birthdays in the future, I won't even make them for you.

." Master Ling joked, waving his hand to signal Gong Liang to go back quickly.

Gong Liang could only nodded sheepishly and went back.

Gong Liang went back, but Qin Huai did not. He stayed at Jingli's home and watched the three of them count the winter melon candies.

Bing Lixiang is right. The winter melon candies in the house look like a lot, but in fact they are spread with oil paper underneath to increase the visual impact. When counted, there are only 9 jins and 4 taels, including 5 jins and 6 taels.

Two were obtained by Zheng Da with a beating.

To make mince filling, 9 pounds and 4 ounces of winter melon sugar is enough.

Kai Lixiang nodded, indicating that there was no problem with the winter melon candy, and Hutchison Shengli looked at the list and continued to count the next item.

Zheng Da did not participate in the purchase of ingredients. He didn't know how much to make, so he asked stupidly: "Master, is there enough winter melon sugar? If not, I remember that my uncle's house has some. I can't bear this beating in vain, otherwise

I'll go to my uncle's house tomorrow to get some."

Zheng Da didn't wait for an answer, but Jing Lixiang and Huang Shengli laughed loudly.

After counting the ingredients, he left home and asked the two apprentices to stop chatting and go back to the room to sleep. Especially Zheng Da. Now that Zheng Da has become a full-time employee, he can shoulder the heavy responsibility of making buns and steamed buns in the state-owned restaurant in the morning.

Not only will you delay everyone from buying breakfast if you get up late, but you will also have your wages deducted if you are late.

Under the threat of salary deduction, Zheng Da quickly went back to his room to sleep.

Qin Huai walked through the wall back to Gong Liang's house and found that Zheng Dadu had gone to bed at the speed of light and fell asleep instantly, while Gong Liang was still sorting out information by the light of the kerosene lamp.

There are a lot of things written down densely in the notebook. Some are circled and marked, and some are marked with horizontal lines and thickened. In addition to the information, some experiences are also written down.

At the top of the latest page, there is a line written so hard that the pen broke the paper and the words spilled onto the next page.

Gong Liang, you have to be confident. What are you afraid of? Why do you tremble involuntarily, be afraid, shrink back, and want to retreat every time you go to a big occasion? Can you, who is so cowardly and timid, be worthy of your colleagues, leaders, friends, and Master Jing?

???'

When Gong Liang was sorting out information, he would look for the previous content from time to time. No matter how many pages he turned, this sentence would always be at the top of the page.

The next day, Gong Liang went to work as usual.

Section Chief Chen compiled some new newspapers for Gong Liang and gave him an apple to wish him a happy birthday.

Gong Liang was so flattered that he repeated the information compiled last night to Section Chief Chen. The two discussed together all morning. Qin Huai listened a little confused and didn't listen at all. He looked around the office.

Not to mention another young man who is fishing, this guy has the same hobbies as Luo Jun. He likes to read novels, mostly martial arts novels.

The plot is a bit old-fashioned, but the writing is very brilliant. The young man who fished for fish was fascinated by it, and Qin Huai was also watching it with gusto. The whole morning passed in a blink of an eye.

After lunch, the young man took the time to continue reading the novel. Qin Huai also took the time to read the novel.

The day passed like this.

The bastard fished hard all day long, and worked conscientiously at work all day long.

When he got off work, Gong Liang hadn't eaten the apple given by Section Chief Chen. He washed it and brought it to his partner who was waiting for him at the door of the silk weaving factory after get off work.

Guo Mingzhu happily took the apple and asked: "Where did the apple come from? It looks sweet at first sight."

"Chief Chen gave it to me," Gong Liang said, "Why don't you eat the pearl?"

"We're going to have a big meal soon. If you eat apples now, they'll take up too much space." Guo Mingzhu put the apples into her bag, "Take them back and save them for tomorrow morning. I haven't eaten apples for a long time. Last time our work sent out

Apple is still the same as last year.”

Then next time I go on a business trip, I'll help you pay more attention. If there are any apples, I'll bring some more for you.

"Well, the apples you exchanged are definitely sweeter than those given out by our work unit." Guo Mingzhu took Gong Liang's arm and said,

Without holding his hand, she pulled out a scarf from the back of her clothes like magic.

"Da da da da da, look, the birthday gift I prepared for you!" Guo Mingzhu shook her scarf, "When my parents locked me up at home, I had nothing to do, so I brought all the wool my mother bought.

Knitted scarves, this one is the most beautiful, the other ugly scarves were all dismantled by my mother.”

"It looks good!"

"It looks good." Gong Liang nodded heavily.

"Why are you not surprised at all? Do you know the scarf I knitted for you?" Guo Mingzhu asked.

"Ah, what a surprise." Gong Liang pretended to have just seen the scarf, and after making Guo Mingzhu laugh, he explained, "You hid the scarf on your back, wrapped it in your shirt, and I saw the bulging...

I saw it when I came out."

"Oops." Guo Mingzhu was a little annoyed, "Who told you that your birthday is in May? If you wear thick clothes for your birthday in winter, you won't be able to tell."
To be continued...