Chapter 56 ABCDEFG Yesterday's dinner included a dish of braised small fish, but today the table was full of mussels. A plate of scrambled eggs with mussels, a plate of blanched mussels, a plate of steamed mussels with garlic, and a pot of mussel tofu soup. It's no wonder that these mussels must be the same ones I got yesterday, which my father brought back from the experimental field of the breeding office. After all, it's the season when mussels are on the market. The experimental field is not very large, but it occupies five acres of sea area. In addition, the yield of these improved thick-shelled clams is very high, so five acres of sea area can produce forty to fifty tons. Fang Xianfeng has not made a decision about mussel farming yet, but his mind seems to be becoming clearer and clearer. These days, he has been running to the farming office when he has nothing to do. "Dad, did you buy these mussels from them?" "How dare they charge me for such a small amount of food?! Eat it, and try some more ways to eat it!" Fang Wei smiled, picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with mussels and put it into his mouth. For people living by the sea, mussels are certainly not a rarity, but they are seasonal seafood after all, and people don't eat a lot of them on weekdays, so they can't be said to be sick of them. When they are on the market, you can buy a pound of them at the dock for 20 cents. They are shellfish, and they look like a lot, but in fact, there are not many to eat. Of course, if they are sent inland for retail, the price will not be this high. I don’t know if it’s because my mom’s cooking skills have improved, or if the running exercises these days have consumed my energy and stimulated my appetite, but Fang Wei feels that his appetite is a little bigger than before. In the past, I would feel full after eating two bowls of rice at most, but now I have to eat half a bowl to feel full.
After dinner, my mother went back to the kitchen to clean up the dishes, and my father took the game card and inserted it into the red and white console with ease, then connected the line to the TV and started playing Contra. When the old man met his son's hesitant gaze, he felt a little guilty... What can he do about it! There are no shows in the evening, he doesn't have to do homework, and there's nothing good to watch on TV. What else can he do if not play games? I'm tired after a whole day, and you won't allow me, your dad, to play games? Besides, I don’t have any books on finance yet! Thinking of this, Fang Xianfeng felt at ease and started playing his Contra. After a while, he lost his life. He turned around and looked at Fang Wei: "If you have nothing to do, go back to your room and read. You are standing behind me and affecting my performance!" "Don't make excuses, vegetable." "Hey, you kid..." Fang Wei was both angry and amused, so he ignored him and went back to his room, got some clean clothes and went to take a shower. Soon, I heard my mother scolding my father: "Playing games every day! What's so fun about it! You said you bought it for Wei, but I think you bought it for yourself! Hurry and change the TV back to me, I haven't finished watching the show yet!" "Hey, hey... don't pull me, don't pull me! Okay, okay, what's so good about that pig head..." "Hurry! It's about to start!" "Don't just pull out my card! It will burn!" Tian Xilan has no other hobbies except watching TV series. This year's hit "The Legend of the White Snake" is the drama she must watch every night. There are not many TV series these days. Once a drama becomes popular, it will be rebroadcast repeatedly. During the summer vacation, "Journey to the West" was played every day. In a few years, in addition to the rebroadcast of "Journey to the West" during the summer vacation, "The Lotus Lantern" about Chenxiang splitting the mountain to save his mother would probably be a must-watch. Shu Chang was the goddess of Fang Wei's youth. He has watched "The Lotus Lantern" and "Magic Phone" so many times. …… After taking a shower, Fang Wei took his dirty clothes and two new sets of school uniforms to wash in the yard. At first, he didn't notice Xu Cailing on the other side of the low wall. She was also squatting next to the water-shaking well washing clothes. When she finished washing the clothes and stood up, Fang Wei was squatting next to the water-shaking well again. The two of them didn't even meet.
Fortunately, after the girl finished washing and hanging the clothes, she did not rush back to the house, but went to the open space in the yard, muttering 1234, 5678; 2234, 5678... and doing morning exercises late at night, accompanied by the cool moonlight and the night breeze. The kicking and stomping noises finally caught Fang Wei's attention. He stood up and looked while twisting the clothes. Behind the low wall, the girl from the neighbor's house is venting her perpetual motion-like energy. Xu Cailing had just finished taking a shower. Her shoulder-length hair, which had been tied into a ponytail during the day, was now hanging naturally. She didn't use a hair dryer to dry it. In this half-wet and half-dry state, the bright and cool moonlight made her wheat-colored skin look more hydrated. She wore a loose T-shirt on the upper body and a pair of short home shorts on the lower body. Her slender legs extended from the trouser legs, with very flexible and even leg lines extending all the way to a pair of small feet in slippers. She jumped and danced like this, very seriously, reading the rhythm to herself and then doing the movements. When no one was watching her, her movements were more standard and smoother than those in physical education class. After finishing the first dance, Xu Cailing increased the difficulty of the second dance. She recited the rhythm very quickly and performed the movements very quickly. At this speed, she was surprised to find that the radio gymnastics was actually quite difficult! So she started competing with herself, going faster and faster... Until a voice sounded behind me—— "Are you going to fly to the sky?" The girl had just jumped up, and when she heard the sound, she twisted her waist in mid-air, turned half a circle and looked over. With this kind of physical coordination...if it were someone else, they would probably fall. But after Xu Cailing turned half way, she stood steadily again. "What are you doing! You scared me all of a sudden!" "I'm doing the laundry." "Then just wash your clothes!" "I'm washing." "Have you been spying on me for a long time?" "Well, you seem to be going crazy." "…I was practicing and you went crazy." Fang Wei ignored her, put the washed clothes into the basin, and took them to the clothesline to dry. Xu Cailing didn't feel comfortable to continue dancing as Fang Wei had caught her going crazy. She had just been dancing at a super fast speed for quite a while and now felt sore all over. She had just finished taking a shower and was sweating again. She would wipe it off when she got into the house later. "Fang Wei." "Ok?" "What do you think of my dancing?" “very good!” "Willigood? What the hell..." "This is English, it means, very good, awesome, awesome."
"...Oh! I remember now. My English teacher seemed to have mentioned this in class! We finished reading the alphabet, and she said Willy Good. I wondered what she was talking about, but it turned out to be this..." "It's very good, very~good~" "Willigud!" "..." Well, Fang Wei was too lazy to correct her pronunciation. As long as she understood the meaning, that was enough. Xu Cailing was quite happy. Not only did she receive Fang Wei's affirmation for her aerobics skills, but she also learned a sentence of stylish English. The girl, who grew up in the beautiful scenery, had no intention of appreciating the brilliant starry sky above her head. She just lay on the wall and watched the boy from the neighbor's house hanging clothes. A thin leg was bent behind her, with the toes touching the floor and swaying gently. The bright white moonlight sprinkled on her, and her shadow also swayed gently. Xu Cailing was wearing shorts and was not worried about being bitten by mosquitoes in the yard because she was insulated from mosquitoes. Anyway, as long as she was outside with Fang Wei, the mosquitoes would only bite Fang Wei. "You didn't wring out your clothes, they're all wet when you hang them up." "You never wring clothes, how dare you say that to me?" "That's different. I didn't twist it at all, but you twisted it but didn't twist it dry. Does that mean that I achieved the effect I wanted, but you didn't?" "..." You know what, this little girl's words really stunned Fang Wei. "Why did Teacher Wen ask you to go out at noon?" "Nothing, just asking her how effective this teaching method is. What do you think?" "I think it's very interesting. Teacher Wen's teaching is completely different from other teachers!" "What's different?" "Well……" The girl lying on the wall tilted her head and thought, unable to explain why, but her feeling was very clear: "At least I won't be tempted to doze off!" "..." That seems really different. Just as he had hung up the clothes, he wrung the lower ends of the clothes with both hands to wring out some of the water that had accumulated on them. The water would stop dripping for a while. I haven't started to grow yet, I don't have much strength, my hands are small, and I can't wring out clothes, there's nothing I can do... Seeing him put the basin away and prepare to go back into the house, the girl who was lying on the wall as leisurely as a cat could no longer stand. "What are you going to do?" "Do your homework. Have you finished yours?" “…Don’t do it secretly! Wait for me!!”
"hehe." Fang Wei ignored her, and suddenly ran into the house when she wasn't paying attention. "You sneak attack!!" Xu Cailing was so angry that she quickly ran away from the wall and ran into the house. When the two met again, it was on the windowsill of their respective rooms. Fang Wei originally didn't want to do his homework by the windowsill, but he had no choice. If he didn't agree, paper balls would keep flying in from the window. He had no choice but to follow Xu Cailing's example and move a small table and a desk lamp over. The two of them sat face to face by the windowsill to do their homework and read. "Oh!" The girl who was concentrating on doing homework (distracted) suddenly had an idea in her head. She looked up and said in surprise, "I suddenly understand what classmates mean! No wonder people in the past called classmates classmates. Are we classmates now?" "Ah." "Then Zhiyi is your deskmate, and I am your classmate?" "Ah." "Fang Wei, have you memorized the alphabet?" "Ah." "I'm asking you, and you're still humming. You're not even listening to me!" "...No, I really did memorize it. ABCDEFG..." "!!!" The girl suddenly broke out in a sweat. They were studying together, so shouldn't they be at the same pace? How could you actually memorize it?! "What about Spring?" "Almost there, almost there." "!!!" "How do I memorize the alphabet? The pronunciation is so weird, it's different from the pinyin..." "ABCDEFG~~HIJKLMN~~OPQ..." Fang Wei didn't say anything, he just sang this alphabet song to her. Xu Cailing listened quietly. Twinkle, twinkle little star ~ the sky is full of little stars ~ It turns out to be a tune... She suddenly felt that memorizing the alphabet wasn't that difficult after all... (End of this chapter)