"Don't talk nonsense, how do you know she's lip-syncing?" Qian Duoduo said.
"Does this need to be said? Even if they are really singing. Anyway, the elders don't want to listen to songs, men, hum, they are all drunkards who don't care about drinking. Did you hear that? Director Fang also went to Chairman Wen specifically Approving silk stockings, hahaha. I can't even imagine what Chairman Wen would have looked like at that time." Zhang Yunmi probably thought of that scene and burst into laughter.
"You must have a serious face, and then you feel secretly happy: you can see your legs again." Lin Ziqi interjected.
Several girls laughed together.
The carriage stopped at Gate 3 of Nanhai Farm. Lin Ziqi didn't want the school bus to go around half a circle just for her to enter the farm, wasting everyone's time. We got off the bus here.
Nanhai Farm belongs to the green zone, so there is no safety risk for Lin Ziqi walking alone. No naturalized citizens who are not farm workers or their family members can enter here. Even the naturalized citizens who come to do business can only enter and exit the service compound with their pass. If you want to go to other places, you have to apply for a special pass and be accompanied by someone. The strict security system is not only to ensure the safety of the senators - the farm is responsible for supplying food to the Senate, and many senators come to the cafe for leisure consumption - but also to ensure that the various seedlings and seeds in the farm are not stolen or destroyed.
"Please pay attention to safety and be careful on the road." The young man from the escort company politely held her hand and helped her down the steps.
"Thank you." Lin Ziqi smiled sweetly. Today's escort company soldiers are jointly selected by the Political Department of the General Staff, the Political Security Bureau and the General Office. They are not only required to be absolutely politically reliable: serving the Senate for more than two years; having family members with good family relationships living and working in Lingao; Good military qualities, quick reactions, and actual combat experience; there are also certain requirements for appearance: no less than 165cm in height, regular facial features, loud speaking, and at least a Level 2 B level in Newspeak.
He is a tall and handsome soldier among the naturalized people, with a tall and straight military posture, even though he only wears a simple cotton uniform. He also looks capable, upright, and heroic.
"Serve the Senate and the people!" The soldier raised his hands in salute and watched her walk into the farm gate. Only then returned to the carriage's back seat pedal. At the same time, the other three soldiers remained on alert, ready to fire at any time.
Lin Ziqi nodded slightly and answered the salute of the police petitioner at the door. As soon as you enter the gate, you are greeted by a tree-lined passage, with small windbreaks planted on both sides of the road. There is an endless stream of farm workers wearing bamboo hats and overalls on the road. Carts and carts also passed by from time to time. Some of them knew her and took off their hats to say hello from a distance. She is also generous with her smiles and words.
This section of the road is very long, nearly half an hour's walk, but Lin Ziqi declined her father's request to send a rickshaw to pick her up - she doesn't think walking is a burden, the fields, woods, and gardens on both sides of the road are like the most beautiful scenes. , walking there feels like a feeling of happiness in a painting.
After walking for more than half an hour, the residential area of the farm finally appeared. From the outside, it looks like a clean and beautiful village, surrounded by woods and fields. The main part of the village is the dormitory for naturalized civilian cadres on the farm. There is a separate community next to it: the elders who work in the Committee of Agriculture live there, including some elders in the biology profession: because they served the Committee of Agriculture in the early years. Able to stay here.
There is also a guard company duty station at the entrance of the elder community. Originally, Wu Nanhai felt that this was a bit out of touch with the masses and suggested that petition police be used instead. However, the general office disagreed and believed that the close guard of the elders should still be handled by the escort company.
"Sister Ju, you are busy." As soon as Ziqi entered the residential area, she saw Sister Ju, the maid of Wu Nanhai's family, drying vegetables.
Although every house here has a yard, the maids are still used to drying vegetables on public grounds: they can be spread out and the sun is good. So we went all the way in. There are dried vegetables everywhere beside the road and in the open space. If Wu Nanhai had not firmly banned it, there would have been a large number of smelly pickled products such as salted fish and fish sauce tanks hanging out to dry.
Sister Ju turned around and saw Lin Ziqi, and quickly wiped her hands on her apron. He smiled and returned the greeting.
"Hey, Ziqi, school is on holiday?" Wu Nanhai, who turned out of the small church at one end of the residential area, greeted with a kind smile.
Ziqi's smile became even brighter, "Yes, Uncle Nanhai." She kept calling Chu Qing "sister", but she called her Uncle Wu Nanhai, which was Ziqi's little bit of fun.
It's not yet five o'clock. Although Wu Nanhai is one of the few "new good men" among the elders, he rarely goes home before getting off work. This made Lin Ziqi feel a little strange.
Overtime work in the Senate was commonplace, and continuing to work for a few hours after get off work was "the norm". In the houses next to Lin Ziqi's, the owners are rarely seen: they don't come home until midnight. Every time Lin Ziqi saw their maids cleaning the door or going shopping, she would guess whether they were feeling lonely and desolate, neglected by their men, feeling empty, lonely and cold...
This kind of conjecture came to an end until the maid sisters from these houses became pregnant one after another, and then someone hugged the baby. Obviously, they were not as empty, lonely and cold as she imagined.
She responded to the greetings all the way, carefully avoiding the "rampant" toddlers everywhere, and arrived at the door of her yard.
Lin Ziqi's father, Lin Fatian, worked as a horticulture technician in a greening company before time travel. After the D-day, he was assigned to the Agricultural Committee as an agricultural technician without any hesitation. He now has seven or eight official titles, but Lin Ziqi doesn't remember any of them. Her father was a senator, a "chief", and that was enough.
The door to the courtyard is open. This is what she dislikes the most about her living secretary: the door is always open, and she never knocks when she enters. No matter what you are doing, you just open the door and come in.
This Meng Lan, I guess, looks pretty good - that's why Lin Ziqi was interested in giving her a "nice-sounding, very artistic" name. But she obviously didn't do well in the maid training class.
But if you say anything to her, she will just lower her head and listen with tears in her eyes. If you get any more aggressive, she will simply kneel down. Once Lin Ziqi lost her temper, Meng Lan brought a cane over with tears in her eyes, knelt in front of her and handed it to her with both hands. Let Lin Ziqi know what "asking for forgiveness" means.
"The attitude is very good and I won't change it." After a few tossings, Lin Ziqi didn't bother to dwell on this issue anymore. She opened the door every time she returned to her room.
Fortunately, she is pretty good at housework and her cooking is quite delicious. The hygiene habits that she was most worried about at the beginning were also good - Meng Lan reportedly said that they were all "beaten out" with rattan. Every time I heard Meng Lan talk about her experience in the maid training class: "I don't know how many canes were broken," "I couldn't sit still, so I slept on my stomach every day," "There were so many big buckets of tears shed." Instead, she felt a little pity for her: to be serious, Meng Lan was only in her early twenties. Not a few years older than myself. Although I always like my father, he is still a man in his forties after all. He is tanned all the time, so he may not be a handsome man.
She, Lin Ziqi, was determined not to marry such an impressive man.
However, it is not obvious that she has suffered so much "pain" on weekdays: Meng Lan happily does housework every day and serves her father meticulously. If she goes home, he will serve her in the same way, or even better. In short, any woman in the old time and space, including the mother who has divorced her father, would never, never serve her father like this. Lin Ziqi somewhat understood why her uncles, including her father, risked their lives to come to another time and space.
After entering the door, the small courtyard is not big, but it is clean and tidy. There is a stone paved floor in the middle, and flower beds along the walls around it. Various flowers and ornamental plants are planted there. One of the flower beds is planted with various herbs - This is Ziqi's "little flower garden", but now her father is taking care of it. In one corner is a wisteria stand with a round table and rattan chairs underneath. Lin Fatian often sits here to smoke, drink tea and relax.
There are also several long stone tables in the yard, with various tree stump bonsais on them. This is Lin Fatian's hobby. When he sees good stumps, he picks them up and makes a few pots. If there are too many, he gives them away. His works are displayed in the offices of the Council and the Senate.
Meng Lan was sweeping the floor in the yard. She was only twenty years old and had been living with them since she became Lin Fatian's personal secretary three years ago. It's not necessarily beautiful, but she is very well-born and of medium height. The matching black and white maid outfit looks really nice. Although she knew it was a bad taste of the senators, it just looked good.
Seeing that the lady who rarely came home was back, Meng Lan immediately put down her broom and came over, taking Ziqi's canvas bag: "The chief said you were coming back, but I thought it would be later. How long will this vacation be? Are you hungry? Dinner will be in a while, so I'll go get you some snacks first."
"No, I already had some snacks when I came here. I'm not hungry now. I only have two days off. I probably have to go back to school early. Is the bath water ready?" Ziqi said as she walked.
The hot water supply in the senator's dormitory relies on a copper heat exchanger installed in the stove, and firewood or briquettes are used to heat the tap water. It is similar to a gas water heater, except that Lingao lacks high-calorie gas and can only rely on stove wood or briquettes for heating, and this kind of stove requires adding fuel to heat up every time it is used.
"Everything is ready. Miss, are you going to wash it right away? I'll go get you more firewood." Meng Lan followed her through the yard and entered the entrance hall. She immediately knelt down and took out a pair of straw slippers and helped her take them off. Put on shoes. (To be continued.
