Age: Passionate youth, starting from graduation assignment

Chapter 108 Affectionate
In order to calm down, she stared out of the window for a long time in a daze, finally sighed faintly, and went to the bathroom to change her underwear.

……

The more Su Jingshu thought about it, the more embarrassed she felt, and falteringly replied that she slept in the early morning, and then she never dared to meet Xu Jichang's eyes again.

Xu Ji often asked knowingly: "Why do you sleep so late, do you have something on your mind?"

"It's okay, but the spirit is coming up."

Su Jingshu concealed it, and couldn't help but look at Xu Jichang resentfully after she finished speaking, thinking that it wasn't because of you.

Xu Jichang pretended not to see her gaze, and asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "How long has your nanny been on leave?"

"It's been a long time, and I won't be back for a while."

Su Jingshu replied without defense, "What's the matter?"

Xu Jichang felt relieved, and put his arms around Su Jingshu's slender waist: "That's good, so that we won't be embarrassed when she comes back suddenly."

While speaking, he had already pulled Su Jingshu into his arms, kissed her little cheek, and put his hand on her round buttocks.

"Hey, you are..."

Su Jingshu didn't expect Xu Jichang to be so straightforward today, and felt that she lost strength all over her body. After calling out softly, she lay softly in his arms, and let him do whatever she wanted except for the occasional trembling.

After a while, Xu Jichang let go of Su Jingshu and helped her straighten her crumpled shirt and skirt.

Su Jingshu lay quietly in Xu Jichang's arms for a while, and after a while, she breathed out and said, "Didn't you ask me to ask you about the whereabouts of Mr. Du last night? I'll help you ask now."

"Okay, I'll wait for the good news."

Xu Jichang nodded and watched Su Jingshu stand up from the sofa and walk into the room.

After a while, there was a phone call and polite greetings in her room.

Du Xiaojing's family must have spent a lot of time and energy trying to find out the whereabouts of her father, right?

But now Su Jingshu's way of finding her father is so simple.

It can only be said that in their circle, the gap between people is even greater.

Xu Jichang sighed in his heart.

In the room, after making a few phone calls, Su Jingshu stood up from her chair and went back to the living room: "The result of the inquiry is over. Old Man Du lives on a small farm in the north of Hebei Province. Currently, his basic life is still guaranteed and he is still in good health."

"I think you should want to visit his old man's house, so I told you in advance. If you want to go, you can visit him in the near future."

There is a result so soon?It seems that you still have to find the right person to do things.

Xu Jichang said happily, and when Su Jingshu sat back beside him, he took her hand: "I should go to see Mr. Du in a few days, and I'll come back to you after watching him."

"Oh? Then you stayed in the capital for a long time this time."

When Su Jingshu heard what Xu Jichang said, she felt joy in her heart, and she looked at him affectionately and said.

"It's hard to come here, it's a pity to go back in a hurry."

"Yes, it's a rare opportunity to travel on business."

Su Jingshu said, "Also, I will write down Mr. Du's detailed address for you later, so you can go to him according to this address."

"okay."

……

A few days later, Xu Jichang took Du Xiaojing's letter with him, bought some nutritious products such as milk, eggs, and dried meat, and bought some medicines commonly used by the elderly, and prepared to go to the northern part of Hebei Province to visit Du Lao.

After all, when Su Jingshu mentioned Elder Du, she only said that his basic life was guaranteed.In this era of scarcity of supplies, this kind of wording means that Mr. Du's food level should be very average, and he rarely sees oil and water.

As for medicines, they are even more indispensable.The old man's health has changed rapidly, so if he bought some medicines and brought them there, he might be able to save the old man's life at a critical moment in the future.

Carrying two full bags, Xu Jichang boarded the long-distance bus to the city where Mr. Du lived.

It stands to reason that taking the train is the fastest way, but in the introduction letter issued by the factory to Xu Jichang, the destination only includes the capital, so it cannot be used to buy train tickets to other regions.

That's why Xu Jichang chose to take a car.

Fortunately, the destination is not too far from the capital, so Xu Jichang took the first bus and arrived there after five or six hours.

After getting off the bus, he spent another five cents, got in the carriage of the state-owned cart shop, and came to the farm where Mr. Du was.

The scale of the farm doesn't look big, and the security officer standing guard at the gate looks lazy.

After lazily asking Xu Jichang's name, the other party put him in directly.

After entering the farm, Xu Jichang made some inquiries and found out that Mr. Du was pouring vegetables in the innermost part of the farm, so he hurried forward.

After walking a few hundred meters, he saw a lush green vegetable field. A thin old man wearing a straw hat, blue sweater, and trouser legs was holding a water ladle and watering it. He looked just like an ordinary old farmer.

This should be Mr. Du, Xu Jichang concluded in his heart, and walked over at a faster pace: "Mr. Du, hello."

The old man turned his head, a bit of astonishment appeared in his eyes: "You are..."

"My name is Xu Jichang, and I came to see you on the commission of Xiao Jing."

Xu Ji often came to the old man.

"Boom..."

Elder Du's expression froze for a moment, he let go of his hand, and the water ladle fell on the mud floor.

"Xiaojing...how did she know I'm here?"

"I asked someone to inquire about it. Here, this is a letter from Xiaojing. Please read it."

After Xu Jichang finished speaking, he took out the letter written by Du Xiaojing from his pocket and put it in the hands of Mr. Du.

"Thank you, thank you..."

Elder Du hurriedly said, after receiving the letter, he tremblingly took out a pair of reading glasses from his pocket, but he couldn't put it on because his hands were trembling.

Xu Jichang extended a helping hand and helped him put on his reading glasses.

"My father Qi..."

After seeing the handwriting on the envelope clearly, Elder Du's eyes were slightly moist.

It has been several years. At the beginning, my daughter was still a primary school student with crooked handwriting, but now she can already write gracefully.

After taking a deep breath, Elder Du suppressed the sadness in his heart, opened the envelope and read it carefully.

Xu Jichang was silent at the side, he could see that Mr. Du was reading very seriously, belonging to the kind of posture that he would not miss a single punctuation mark.

The autumn wind blows, the wild geese fly, and the fallen leaves turn into fertilizer.

In the vast autumn landscape of the northern country, Xu Jichang stood quietly until Mr. Du finished reading the family letter in his hand and looked up at him.

The moment the eyes of the two sides met, Xu Jichang clearly read the sorrow in Du Lao's eyes, but soon, the sorrow disappeared in a flash and was replaced by strength.

"Young man, you have worked hard on this trip. I know you must have worked hard to find me. On behalf of our Du family, I would like to express my gratitude to you here."

"I've finished reading the letter too. Xiaojing told me about you taking care of him in the letter, and here I would like to thank you again."

When Mr. Du said this, he stretched out his skinny hands to Xu Jichang.

"Mr. Du is polite, Xiao Jing is a very good girl, I can't stand by and watch her."

Xu Jichang put down the bag in his hand, stretched out his hand and held it tightly with Mr. Du.

After shaking hands, Xu Jichang picked up the bag again and talked with Mr. Du as they walked.

During the conversation, Elder Du's demeanor and words were full of optimism, and he didn't mean to complain at all. After a while, the two returned to his residence.

It's not hard to see that the farm took good care of Mr. Du, and gave him a separate large room instead of living in a collective dormitory like other employees.

At the table in the residence, after chatting with Xu Jichang for a while, Mr. Du took out a pen and paper and began to write a letter. After finishing writing, he put the paper in an envelope and handed it to Xu Jichang: "This is my letter to Xiao Jing, please bring it to her."

"Don't worry, Mr. Du, I will bring the letter. There are also these nutritional supplements, please be sure to accept them."

"No, no, I can't let you spend money, you'd better take it back."

Elder Du hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

He was still calm on the surface before, but in fact he was very excited inside, so it wasn't until Xu Jichang brought it up that he noticed the nutritional supplements he brought over this time.

"I don't lack these over there. You have a lot of labor on the farm and you don't have the opportunity to supplement nutrition, so I'll leave it to you."

"No, the conditions here are already good, at least much better than when I was young. You'd better take the things away."

"You don't have to be polite, this is also my heart..."

……

After a long time of refusal, Mr. Du had no choice but to put away Xu Jichang's gift.

At this time, he stood up from the chair, turned around and came to a cabinet, opened the drawer, took out something, and presented it to Xu Jichang.

Xu Jichang saw clearly that what he was holding in his hand was a well-made silver pocket watch.

"Take it."

Mr. Du put the pocket watch into Xu Jichang's hand, and said without hesitation, "It was seized from the battlefield. Once a shell fell near me, the shock wave knocked me away, and it even flew dozens of meters from my arms."

"I fell so badly that I broke a leg, but it still walked very accurately, hehe."

When Mr. Du said this, his eyebrows were beaming, as if what he was talking about was not an experience in distress, but an anecdote.

Xu Jichang had no choice but to take the pocket watch, "Mr. Du, you are really lucky."

"I will keep this pocket watch of yours with special commemorative significance."

"You praise my life, I admit it."

Mr. Du said cheerfully, "In the past few years since I came to the farm, not only have I not been sick, but my health has improved a lot after working."

"By the way, young man, you are the same as Xiao Jing, you are both from the Dongfang Chemical Fertilizer Factory, right?"

"How is your factory building now? How much fertilizer production can you contribute to the country and the people every year?"

Xu Jichang told Mr. Du the answer truthfully, and Mr. Du beamed with joy after hearing it, and praised him again and again.

"Okay, the country is now proposing to realize the four modernizations. According to your approach, I think agricultural modernization is just around the corner."

At the end, he rubbed his hands excitedly, looking even happier than during the Chinese New Year.

Xu Jichang was infected by Du Lao's spirit.

"Don't worry, Mr. Du, there will definitely be more and more modern factories like ours in various industries in our country."

"If you take good care of your body here, you will definitely see our country prosper and prosper one day."

"Sure, I will take good care of my body, please rest assured, Xiaojing."

When Du Lao said this, his eyes also showed the ambition of the old man.

Xu Jichang lowered his voice: "Well, the body is the greatest capital. If you take good care of your body, all possibilities will exist in the future. People like you are the precious wealth of the country."

Elder Du also lowered his voice to the lowest level: "I don't dare to do it. But I think with my old body, I can still do something for the country."

"must be able to."

Xu Jichang said in a firm tone, reaching out his hands with Mr. Du at the same time, and holding them tightly.

It was already noon at this time, after Xu Jichang finished his lunch at Mr. Du's place, he collected his letter to Du Xiaojing and bid him farewell.

The opportunity to visit was won by Su Jingshu for him. The process seemed easy, but negotiations were definitely inevitable.

If you stay too long, it may make things difficult for Su Jingshu.

Mr. Du also understood Xu Jichang very well, and walked him all the way to the gate of the farm, waving goodbye to him reluctantly.

The way Xu Jichang returned to the capital was the same as the way he came in the morning, but the order was reversed.

He first stopped a big car driven by a fellow villager nearby, and after paying five cents for the same fare, he arrived at the passenger station by car and boarded the long-distance bus back to the capital.

This bus was relatively faster than the early bus, and it took more than four hours to send Xu Jichang back to the capital, just in time for dinner.

After Xu Jichang got off the passenger terminal, he initially planned to go to the guest house and call Du Xiaojing.

But after thinking about it, Du Xiaojing doesn't have a phone in his current residence. If he really wants to talk to her, he can only call his work unit.

What if someone is eavesdropping by then?
It should be noted that whether it is my visit to Mr. Du this time or Du Xiaojing's identity, it is a secret, and it seems a little inappropriate to be heard.

The same is true for telegrams. Unless you have a radio station at home, everyone in the telegraph room can see the content.

As for writing letters, let alone, letters travel slowly these days, and by the time the letter I wrote is sent from the capital to the Northeast, maybe all of my own people have already returned.

So after careful consideration, Xu Jichang felt that it was not appropriate to make a phone call, so he might as well go back and tell her himself.

After returning to the guest house, Xu Jichang put away the letter written by Mr. Du, explained to Chu Shanshan about the search for the head of the art troupe, and went to Su Jingshu's house.

When Xu Jichang knocked on the door, Su Jingshu was having dinner, so she invited him to eat together when she saw him coming.

So Xu Jichang served himself a bowl of rice, sat down at the table, and chatted with her about seeing Mr. Du today while eating.

The meals at Su Jingshu's house are very light and healthy. There is one dish of stir-fried green vegetables, one dish of steamed eggplant, and the only meat dish is fried diced pork with bamboo shoots.

Xu Jichang is not surprised by this. In her circle, the concept of healthy regimen and balanced diet has long been popular. The diet advocates light food, less oil and less salt.

Of course, if Xu Jichang did it himself, he would still like to eat more fish and meat.

During the meal, Su Jingshu ate very slowly, and the way she ate was particularly gentle.

After seeing Xu Jichang went to serve another bowl of rice, she showed a gentle and considerate smile: "Young man, he is growing up."

"Isn't it enough to just eat these light foods?"

"It's already very good, and the food standard is quite high."

Xu Jichang can't say that these dishes can't satisfy his appetite.

"Let's add another dish."

Su Jingshu said, got up and walked to the bedroom, then dialed the phone.

The phone rang in the bedroom, and a respectful voice came from the receiver. Su Jingshu hung up the phone after a few simple instructions to the other party.

At the dinner table, Xu Jichang deduced from the content of the conversation that the other party should be the manager of a state-run restaurant.

"I said hello, and food will be delivered later."

Su Jingshu said lightly.

Xu Jichang smiled and said nothing: I ordered takeaway decades in advance.

"Tuk Tuk..."

After a while, there was a knock on the door. Su Jingshu stepped forward to open the door, took the food from the stranger, and handed over the money and food coupons that had been prepared.

"How can I collect your money? How dare I..."

"Take it, Manager Hu, I can't take advantage of your restaurant for nothing."

At Su Jingshu's insistence, the other party had no choice but to say sorry, and accepted the money and ticket.

This is interesting, when future generations order takeout, it is also delivered by the delivery boy.

It's good for her, the hotel manager delivered it to her door in person.

"Eat it, I'll order more if it's not enough."

After bringing the roast duck and braised pork ribs to the table, Su Jingshu said to Xu Jichang.

"Enough is enough."

Xu Jichang didn't eat it right away, but first put two pieces of roast duck for Su Jingshu.

"Eat it, it's for you to eat."

After Su Jingshu ate a piece of roast duck, she looked at Xu Jichang with fond eyes and said, "Eat it taller and stronger, and you will be more attractive to little girls in the future."

Xu Jichang said without hesitation, "But I like Jingshu like you."

"Pfft, sweet talk."

Su Jingshu smiled shyly, but felt sweet in her heart.

After eating, the two went downstairs for a walk, during which Xu Jichang held Su Jingshu's hand.

Su Jingshu was shy and afraid at first, but when she thought that most of the faculty and staff of the family home had gone to the mountains and the countryside, she mustered up her courage again and obediently put her hand in Xu Jichang's for a while.

During the walk, the two chatted a lot, including not only their views on some things in the current society, but also their imaginations about their future lives.

In the middle, Su Jingshu admired Xu Jichang's views on some matters.

And when he talked about the future life of the two of them, some remarks made Su Jingshu feel very shy.

"When I come to the capital in the future, it will be convenient for us to meet. You can often come to see me then."

"Then...then you are not allowed to hide from me."

Su Jingshu held Xu Jichang's arm in her arms, and leaned on his shoulder with a delicate face wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

When she said this, her fair face was already flushed.

"Why avoid you. At your current age, staying with me more is good for your health. I have to be responsible for your health."

Xu Jichang said seriously.

"Huh? Does it have anything to do with health?"

Su Jingshu was a little surprised.

Although Su Jingshu is a university professor, when it comes to matters between men and women, she is just a primary school student when it comes to Xu Jichang, so she is convinced by him unconsciously.

"Of course. The ancients didn't say that a woman is 30..."

When Xu Jichang said this, he whispered a few words in Su Jingshu's ear.

Su Jingshu was very ashamed when she heard that, not only her small face turned red, even the white skin on her snowy neck also turned red.

(End of this chapter)