Isolated island

Haiping's obedience made Guan Yuangui smile with satisfaction.He dug out a medicine bag from the cage, opened it, and picked out the medicine inside.Haiping watched from a distance, and saw that it was a piece of ginger that had been warmed yellow by the sun.

Guan Yuangui skillfully grinds ginger juice in a ceramic bowl and pours it into a small aluminum pot that boils like crab bubbles. The sweet aroma that fills the room adds a pungent and spicy taste, making it less sticky. , a little more intriguing layers.

Haiping felt that he should say something, and at this moment he finally found something to say. "Sir...do you often work in the kitchen?"

Guan Yuangui didn't hear clearly and turned to look at him. "What?"

"I said, I think the officer should often cook by himself, otherwise his movements would not be so agile."

"No, not at all." Guan Yuangui stirred the thick porridge in the aluminum pot with slow and strong hands, slowly and patiently.He said, "I don't cook very often, I just let the servants bring the big pot of rice from the cafeteria to make do with it."

"Oh……"

"Maybe it's to prepare for returning to the mainland." He looked at Haiping and smiled. "My daughter may need me. She doesn't know how to cook, but she has to cook something. So when I have free time, I often think about how to cook something that can still be eaten with limited materials."

"That's great." Haiping said. "This feeling of being needed."

Guan Yuangui was taken aback. "How to say?"

Haiping scratched his head, and said honestly: "It's different if you have a daughter. If you have a family, you will live well for your family. And because you are needed, even if you give something, you seem to be willing. Once you are willing, you will be happy. It will be safe and sound."

Guan Yuangui could hear the admiration and longing in Haiping's tone, but he didn't say anything, he just silently put his sincere words in his heart, and echoed in a long way: "Oh... …Yeah?"

"So," Haiping said again, "the officer should be transferred as soon as possible after meritorious service."

Guan Yuangui stared at him slightly, surprised that he suddenly mentioned this matter.

"In this way, we can reunite with our daughter as soon as possible, right?" Haiping asked seriously, "Have you ever thought about it, sir?"

"... Transfer?" Guan Yuangui thought for a while and said, "Actually, before I met you, I thought about it all the time. But now, I think that transfer is something that everyone has to fight for. If you don’t miss me, don’t fight.”

"what?"

"Because, after getting to know you," Guan Yuangui looked deeply into his eyes and smiled from the bottom of his heart, "I feel that life on this island can be tolerated."

After speaking, he brought two wide-mouthed shallow bowls, scooped a bowl of hot and sticky glutinous rice brown sugar boiled longan for each other, so he didn't see Haiping's dazed expression.

He seemed unbelievable that he would be a reason for Guan Yuangui to endure the life on the island.His heart, undeniably, was as hot as the temperature of the stove.

"Come on, let's eat, it's just right." Guan Yuangui asked while moving the small case, "By the way, how long can you stay? Is there anything going on next?"

Haiping regained his composure, and replied, "Tonight, I will stand guard in place, sir."

"Substitute?"

Haiping replied with a little embarrassment: "I'm making trouble again. I have to show the team something so that the team leader can calm down. So I volunteered to stand in for the whole ten-month night call."

Guan Yuangui's expression darkened, and he asked, "What time is the shift?"

"Second watch to fourth watch."

"It's all ten months?"

"Well, both."

"That's just right." Guan Yuangui put the porridge bowl on the small case and pushed it closer to the sea level, his words seemed to be an order. "Finish."

Haiping stared wide-eyed, looking into the bowl.There are a lot of huge longan meat in the bowl, wrapped in glutinous rice and brown sugar that has been boiled into gravy, and under the warm yellow light, it shines a warm and happy brown-red luster, which is better than any paradise tickets, tobacco or wine coupons. It also made Haiping happy.

He was indeed like a child, showing all kinds of joyful emotions for Guan Yuangui to see one by one.

And Guan Yuangui was also happy to watch.

"Where did you get the longan, sir?" Haiping asked, his voice choked with joy. "There are longan on this island, I dare not even think about it."

He didn't wait for an answer, and immediately opened his mouth, which was so hot that tears flowed.

Guan Yuangui laughed and took a sip.He is not addicted to sweet taste, but because of Haiping, he thinks this sweet taste is worth savoring carefully.

"There are also red cane sugar and glutinous rice," Haiping said happily after eating, "Did this fall from the sky?"

Guan Yuangui didn't want to disappoint him, and didn't want to make him feel owed because of the hard-earned ingredients, so he followed Haiping's innocent words and said, "Yes, maybe it really fell from the sky. So , you just eat. This way, it won’t be cold when you stand guard at night. Hmm?”

"Sir, do you know? Longan is called "Furou" in our hometown." Haiping scooped up a longan and said with a grin, "It seems that if you eat it, you will really be blessed. The person who named it must know longan. nice taste,"

"Fu Rou," Guan Yuangui's eyes could not be separated from Hai Ping. "Yeah, that's an apt title."

After a while, Haiping's bowl bottomed out, but Guan Yuangui hadn't taken a few mouthfuls.

Guan Yuangui got up and added another bowl for him.

Haiping is sorry. "No, sir, save it for food!"

"Eat it for me." Guan Yuangui said, "I can't eat that much by myself, and it would be a waste to keep it. If you eat it, you are helping me."

In fact, Haiping's mouth was also greedy, and he felt a little relieved when he heard him say that.

Guan Yuangui watched him eat quietly, and occasionally, for his own sake, would take a few bites when Haiping looked at him embarrassingly.

Tasting Haiping's frankness is more enjoyable than drinking this rare bowl of sweet porridge.He is willing to give everything to keep Haiping like this.