Professor Gu's daily life in the countryside after his rebirth

When it was time for lunch, Yu Gang came over and called Li Yuquan and Gu Zhan: "Director, Comrade Gu, the canteen is ready."

"Xiao Gu, let's go over there."

Gu Zhan raised his head, stretched his waist, and followed Li Yuquan out of the office.

Li Yuquan deliberately slowed down his pace, waiting to walk parallel to Gu Zhan.

"Xiao Gu, how's the progress today?" Li Yuquan asked tentatively.

Li Yuquan originally thought that with three people translating, the progress would be much faster. However, he didn't know that the other two staff members were so poor in their skills that they seriously delayed the progress of the work.

He was now hoping that Gu Zhan would move faster so that he could report to Director Liu.

“Okay, about a third.”

Considering that he still had things to do in the afternoon, Gu Zhan picked a book with relatively less content to translate. It was a book of about a hundred pages, and he had translated at least forty or fifty pages by now.

Li Yuquan grinned. With the books that Gu Zhan had translated before, he could now report to Director Liu on the progress of the tasks at each stage.

"Director, Comrade Xiao Gu, please!"

After entering the restaurant and sitting down, Yu Gang was pouring water when the chef had already brought up the dishes.

Braised pork, spicy chicken, tomato and egg, and a soup all looked brightly colored and appetizing. Not long after the dishes were served, two bowls of rice were brought over.

Rice was a rare commodity in Jing City at that time.

Jing City is located in the north and does not grow rice. Rice has to be transported from the south. Transportation is not convenient at that time, so rice is a priceless commodity in Jing City.

Looking at the table of food in front of him, Gu Zhan couldn't help but miss Liu Xiaoxi. He hadn't been home all morning. He wondered if this silly woman was anxious staying in the room, and whether she was hungry now?

Seeing what Gu Zhan was thinking, Li Yuquan picked up his chopsticks and called out to Gu Zhan: "Little Gu, eat quickly. I'll send food to your wife after you finish eating. You must be hungry."

Gu Zhan smiled gratefully and picked up his chopsticks to eat.

Because Li Yuquan and Gu Zhan's meals were prepared by the chef alone, the meal was served a few minutes earlier than the normal staff meal. Therefore, when the employees of the Agriculture Bureau rushed into the restaurant after get off work, they saw Li Yuquan already eating.

Other employees are used to it, as receptions at the company are usually staggered by a few minutes.

Li Yang was in a bad mood and became sensitive because of what Yu Gang told him today.

Especially when he saw the young man sitting with Li Yuquan and Yu Gang at the back of the restaurant, he intuitively felt that the man was the other person among the three of them who everyone had never met.

He patted Liu Weibing's shoulder and pointed to where Li Yuquan and the other two were sitting. "Look over there, that young man sitting at the same table with Director Li. Is that the person Yu Gang mentioned this morning?"

Liu Weibing looked in the direction Li Yang pointed, and saw three people at the table chatting happily. The food on the table was much better than the staff meals in the cafeteria.

"probably!"

After Li Yang brought the food and sat down, he began to observe the movements at that table carefully. Most of the time, it was Li Yuquan who invited the young man to eat, and the man did not refuse at all. The two looked like old friends who had known each other for a long time.

This realization made Li Yang feel extremely jealous.

Why? They were doing the same job, but Li Yuquan looked down on the other person and treated them harshly. This was simply discriminatory treatment!

Looking at that person's clothes and temperament, he's probably not the child of a leader, right?

In an instant, the imbalance in Li Yang's heart reached its peak, and his feeling towards Li Yuquan changed from respect to contempt.

Humph, you are all a bunch of snobs, looking down on the weak whenever you can. What is there in them that is worthy of our respect?

Li Yang ate the rice in his bowl in a disjointed manner, and it tasted like chewing wax.

Looking at Liu Weibing again, he was eating a bowl of rice with gusto.

Li Yang glared at Liu Weibing from an invisible angle and thought to himself: What's so delicious about this rice mixed with corn? Look at the other person's table, it's full of white rice and meat dishes.

When leaving after dinner, Li Yuquan handed a cloth bag to Gu Zhan.

After taking it with gratitude, Gu Zhan hurriedly walked out of the Agricultural Bureau compound and headed towards the guesthouse.

In the guesthouse room, Liu Xiaoxi couldn't count how many times she had looked out the window. It had been so long, it was already half past twelve, and Gu Zhan still hadn't come back?

Could something have happened? As soon as this thought came to his mind, Liu Xiaoxi quickly said "Pooh" to drive the bad thought out of his mind.

Finally, she was so impatient that she moved a wooden stool in the room to the window, sat on it, and waited for Gu Zhan to come back.

Finally, she saw Gu Zhan among the pedestrians below the window. Excited, she quickly moved the stool back to its original place.

For some reason, she just didn't want Gu Zhan to know that she had been waiting for her for a long time.

Gu Zhan was afraid that Liu Xiaoxi would get impatient, so he walked very quickly. Almost at the same time when Liu Xiaoxi moved the stool back to its original place, there was a knock on the door.

"Coming!"

Knowing that the person knocking on the door was Gu Zhan, Liu Xiaoxi happily ran over to open the door.

Gu Zhan was standing in front of the door, wondering if the person inside was hungry, when his eyes lit up and he saw that the door of the room had been opened from the inside.

"Sorry for being late. Are you hungry?"

Liu Xiaoxi nodded shyly. She was indeed hungry.

Maybe it was because of her pregnancy. She used to cook after work, and the meal would be ready after 12:30. But recently she has been feeling very hungry, and even after eating, she still feels like eating.

Gu Zhan touched the top of Liu Xiaoxi's head and took out the lunch box from the cloth bag: "Look, what did I bring you to eat?"

Liu Xiaoxi opened the lunch box in surprise, and a smell of meat hit her face. She saw that one side of the lunch box was filled with rice, and the other side was filled with braised pork and spicy chicken.

It should be that Li Yuquan took his actual situation into consideration and deliberately packed two meat dishes but no vegetarian dishes.

"Braised pork, chicken, and rice."

Liu Xiaoxi looked at Gu Zhan with sparkling eyes.

Liu Xiaoxi has almost forgotten her memory of rice. She doesn't know which year it was, but during the Chinese New Year, her father bought a pound of rice from the county supply and marketing cooperative. Her mother didn't want to eat just the rice, but mixed it with cornmeal or millet and ate it for several meals.

"Eat quickly!"

"have you eaten?"

Although Liu Xiaoxi was also craving the food in the lunch box at this moment, she still resisted the urge to ask Gu Zhan first.

Gu Zhan smiled, sat down beside the bed and said, "Hurry up and eat, I've already eaten."

Knowing that Gu Zhan had already eaten, Liu Xiaoxi felt relieved and lowered his head to eat.