Chapter 171: New Neighbor

　　It seems that overnight, bell-bottom pants paired with various shirts have become a fashion and are popular in the streets and alleys.

　　As a university with the largest number of young people, there are also many people who pursue fashion.

　　Now, whenever you go out, most of the classmates you'll meet, both male and female, are wearing the same outfit. Some girls who like to be prettier have made a Dacron dress, mostly in white. Dacron clothes are somewhat transparent, but they look particularly neat when worn. Girls walk in groups on the street wearing brightly colored dresses. Even though they are not in the eyes of the older generation and will attract attention, they are still very independent.

　　It is like a beautiful landscape, bringing vitality to this country that has been wearing gray clothes for more than ten years.

　　Two weeks after school started, Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei gradually stopped living in the dormitory. They bought a bicycle and rode it to and from school every day.

　　Jiang Youtao planted some fruits and vegetables in her backyard, which were all ripe. She couldn't eat them all by herself, so she made a lot of dried vegetables and gave them away to many people.

　　The Fu family received the most. Fu Shaoguo and Jian Rou were both admitted to university. The university they were admitted to was not as big as the one Jiang Youtao and her friends attended in the capital, but it was not bad in the capital.

　　There are three college students in the family, and his future wife is also a college student. Shao Qing walks with a breeze these days.

　　Her yard was not big, and she couldn't grow much, not even enough to feed her family. The vegetables Jiang Youtao sent just solved the family's urgent needs.

　　Shao Qing put the dishes in the kitchen and brought out a bowl of pork rib soup for Jiang Youtao.

　　Ever since Shao Qing knew that Jiang Youtao liked to drink soup, she would stew it from time to time. This time, she added kelp and mung beans to the pork ribs soup.

　　She put it on the pot when she went to work in the morning, and it's just right to drink it now.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't bother to be polite with her. She picked up the spoon and started drinking: "Aunt, your soup is getting better and better."

　　The pork rib soup with kelp has an indescribable sweetness. The only seasoning is ginger slices and a little salt. The green beans are stewed to bloom, adding a crunchy texture to the soup. The meat is also very soft and falls off the bone with a slight pull.

　　Shao Qing knew that Jiang Youtao loved to eat chili peppers, so she specially planted a small bunch of them. She harvested them two days ago. She chopped garlic, salt, soy sauce and ginger, and marinated them, and used them to dip the ribs in to make the meat taste even better.

　　The peppers are a variety that Shao Qing specially found. They are very spicy, but not spicy in the mouth, which is very satisfying.

　　The Fu family originally did not eat chili peppers, but because of Jiang Youtao, her family also started to eat spicy food. They would get up in the morning to cook a bowl of noodles, put two green vegetables in it, and add a spoonful of chili sauce when eating. They would eat until they were sweating and their lips were swollen from the spiciness, but they were reluctant to spit it out. The drowsiness they felt when they woke up in the morning was also relieved by this bowl of spicy noodles.

　　Now, not even any noodle soup will be left in their family.

　　Shao Qing also served a bowl and sat next to Jiang Youtao to eat.

　　Fu Shaoguo and Jian Rou just went to school. They were like sponges, absorbing knowledge from books eagerly. They ate all their meals at school, and it was already past ten o'clock when they came back from self-study.

　　Fu Wenyan has been busy at the newspaper recently and doesn't come back at noon. Fu Shaohua follows the professor around everywhere and doesn't come back at noon. He is very busy even on his days off.

　　Jiang Youtao came to have dinner with Shao Qing every day.

　　Shao Qing said: "Then you should eat more. I have stewed a big pot and also cooked rice."

　　Shao Qing particularly likes Jiang Youtao. She liked her before, and now she likes her more and more as they get along.

　　Good looks are secondary. Not to mention the Fu family, even the Shao family members are not ugly. Shao Qing likes Jiang Youtao's temperament, which is generous, open, and cheerful, especially her eyes, which are particularly pure. As an elder, no one doesn't like such a girl.

　　Fu Shaohua is two years older than Jiang Youtao. Jiang Youtao is 20 this year and Fu Shaohua is 22. But in Shao Qing's opinion, they are still young. She and Fu Wenyan got married when they were both 24 or 25 years old.

　　Fu Shaoguo and Jian Rou got married at the age of 27. Now they are 30 years old, and Shao Qing is not in a hurry for them to have children.

　　She has always been a very open-minded person. She lets her sons decide who to marry, when to get married, and when to have children. As a mother, she just needs to guide them in the general direction.

　　"Tao'er, the National Day is coming soon, and after the National Day is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Can you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with us this year? Let's go back to the old house."

　　Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiang Youtao and her friends were still in Yangping County and missed it. During the Chinese New Year, Shao Qing invited Jiang Youtao to celebrate the New Year together, but Jiang Youtao did not agree.

　　Jiang Youtao thought for three seconds and then agreed. She had a stable relationship with Fu Shaohua and got along well with Shao Qing and others. She had also met Fu Shaohua's aunt, who was a very easy person to get along with.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't know what would happen to her and Fu Shaohua in the end, but they would definitely not break up for a while. So it would be nice to meet his other family members.

　　"Good."

　　Shao Qing happily went to serve Jiang Youtao some food.

　　Pork ribs soup with rice is also a great dish. Add a spoonful of chopped pepper sauce, and the spicy flavor has an indescribable sweetness, which goes perfectly with the rice.

　　Jiang Youtao added an extra spoonful of chili pepper when she was eating, and it was so spicy that she gasped. Shao Qing poured her a glass of water, which was boiled water that had been cooled. Shao Qing was a soldier when she was young, and she drank boiled water when she was in the army. After so many years, it has become a habit for her.

　　After dinner, she took a nap in the small room that Shao Qing had specially prepared for her. When she went out, a heat wave hit her. It was almost October, but the weather was still so hot. Except for the two rains at the beginning of the school year, it hasn't rained since then.

　　The Han family's house is right next to Shao Qing's. It has been renovated and Old Man Han and Old Mrs. Han have already moved in. They are taking a nap in the room now, so Jiang Youtao didn't disturb them.

　　She went straight home. The door of Gu Nianwei's house next door was open, so Jiang Youtao knew that Han Yanqing was also there. She tactfully did not disturb them.

　　It was only a few steps from Fu's house to Liushu Hutong, and the journey took less than ten minutes, but she still broke into a sweat.

　　If conditions allowed, Jiang Youtao would not let herself down. She took a quick shower in the small bathroom, and the heat in her body finally dissipated.

　　Jiang Youtao took out a pot of iced fruit tea from her system backpack. After taking a sip in the hot summer, she felt relaxed all over.

　　There were some noises coming from next door. Jiang Youtao went out to see and saw someone had moved in.

　　No one has lived in this small courtyard next door since Xiao Chengping's family moved out.

　　Seeing Jiang Youtao, an old lady who was shouting while moving things came over to talk to her. She introduced herself first: "We are from Shandong Province. My family name is Bai. My son-in-law is an educated youth who went to the countryside. He passed the college entrance examination and returned to the city. We all followed him here. This house is rented. We are a family of seven and live here. Girl, is this house rented or yours?"

　　As the old lady said this, her eyes kept looking inside, as if she wanted to rush directly into Jiang Youtao's yard.

　　Although the old lady was very enthusiastic, Jiang Youtao didn't like her very much because her eyes were too lively. She smiled politely and said, "This is my house."

　　Jiang Youtao didn't say much. The young people who had returned home and rented another yard from Gu Nianwei walked in from the entrance of the alley and greeted Jiang Youtao one after another.

　　They were all young people and had been neighbors for so long that they were all familiar with each other. When Jiang Youtao was not busy, they would come to her house to ask her questions. As long as Jiang Youtao knew something, she would tell them.

　　After being interrupted, Mrs. Bai stopped talking to her. It happened that someone was moving a cabinet into the yard. It was a large piece of furniture, so Mrs. Bai hurried over to take a look.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't look at it any further and turned back to the house.

　　As for what Old Lady Bai said about her son-in-law being admitted to university and taking the whole family with him on his return trip, Jiang Youtao just listened to it and let it go.

　　After all, she had traveled through so many worlds, and she had seen a lot of great enemies. However, due to the limitations of the times, most of these great enemies were women.

　　It's just right for a man to come here at this time to neutralize the situation.

　　Unless the big villain next door is the male protagonist of the small world, Jiang Youtao will not care.

　　Jiang Youtao had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she read a book for a while and then started knitting a sweater. This is very popular in school now.

　　Jiang Youtao knitted a smoky grey one for Fu Shaohua. She planned to knit two identical ones except for the size. When autumn comes, they will be perfect couple outfits.

　　The wool yarn was cashmere yarn that she bought in the system mall. It was very soft and warm. Jiang Youtao planned to knit another scarf, one red and one white.

　　In the evening, when Jiang Youtao was preparing to cook, Fu Shaohua came. He was covered in dirt and went to the bathroom to wash his face as soon as he arrived.

　　When he came out, he said, "Folks in the suburbs dug up a lot of porcelain and pottery fragments while farming. The village secretary was very knowledgeable and reported the matter to the Archaeological Bureau. After research, the Archaeological Bureau confirmed that they were from the Han Dynasty. Our professor took us to see the fun."

　　The wind was strong and the dust was heavy in the suburbs. They had been climbing up and down all day, and not only were there dirt on their bodies, but when he washed his face just now, even his ears and nostrils were covered in dirt, and so was his hair.

　　"Take a shower, I'll find you some clothes." Fu Shaohua had clothes and Jiang Youtao also had some.

　　Fu Shaohua was feeling unwell all over, so he agreed. He went to get the clothes himself and didn't let Jiang Youtao go. Jiang Youtao waited for him to go into the bathroom and then went to the kitchen.

　　She cooked a bowl of noodles, fried an egg, cut cucumber into shreds, and blanched green vegetables and bean sprouts.

　　After Fu Shaohua took a shower and cleaned up the mud and sand in the bathroom, it was just right for eating.

　　The two of them ate noodles with soybean paste and talked, and Fu Shaohua talked about everything that happened at the archaeological team's excavation site on the outskirts of the city today.

　　His eyes were shining, and it was obvious that he loved archaeology.

　　Jiang Youtao loved watching TV when she was in an orphanage in her previous life. At that time, the receivers were still those big round pots that could broadcast only a few channels. The director's mother liked to watch science and education channels, so they watched them too. After watching for a long time, they found it fun.

　　At this moment, she was listening to Fu Shaohua talking about archaeology very carefully and seriously.

　　After dinner, the sun was hanging in the sky and about to set, so Jiang Youtao and Fu Shaohua went out for a walk together.

　　This has become a tacit understanding between them over the years. Even when it snows heavily, the two of them will go out for a walk.

　　As she passed by the next door, a woman in a white dacron skirt came out. She glanced at Fu Shaohua, smiled at him, threw him a wink, then turned and walked away.

　　Fu Shaohua immediately turned to look at Jiang Youtao: "Tao'er, I don't know her."

　　Jiang Youtao certainly knew this. She looked at Fu Shaohua's delicate face for a moment, then patted his shoulder: "I remember you said before that if I want to find someone to practice with, I'll find you, right?"

　　Fu Shaohua thought of his young and ignorant self.

　　At that time, Jiang Youtao had just met Zhong Qianxi and was particularly interested in practicing martial arts. Fu Shaohua had not yet married the girl, so he took the initiative to recommend himself to Jiang Youtao, but Jiang Youtao never asked him to practice martial arts.

　　After being together for so many years, Jiang Youtao has never taken the initiative to hide it. Fu Shaohua is not a fool and can see some of it.

　　Especially this time of moving, Jiang Youtao was really strong.

　　On the other hand, Fu Shaohua had not trained himself systematically since he was fifteen, and this was even more so after he went to the countryside. Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were simply not human beings. Even during the two months when they were busy with the college entrance examination, they did not stop practicing martial arts!

　　Fu Shaohua had a bitter face. He doubted that he could not last more than ten moves against Jiang Youtao.

　　Seeing him like this, Jiang Youtao burst out laughing: "I was just teasing you. Of course I know you don't know her. They just moved in today. Come on, let's go for a walk. When we come back, let's buy two ice creams. I want to eat green bean ones."

　　Fu Shaohua breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you."