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Chapter 7 - 7. Growing Closer

Martina leaned in the corner of the kitchen to watch Huang Guilong cooking. Huang Guilong was washing and peeling several potatoes, first cutting them into thin slices, and then stacking the slices across and cutting them into very thin potato shreds. He wanted Make a potato shredded in vinegar and give Martina a taste. When Martina was in France, she would only boil potatoes in water, then peel them and eat them with salt. She was surprised that the Chinese could cut potatoes into such beautiful neat threads without using a cutting machine. The oil in the pot was hot, Huang Guilong poured the potato shreds into it and stir-fried a few times, then topped with the sweet and sour sauce mixed on the side, sprinkled with some green onions, and in a blink of an eye he brought out a plate of delicious color, fragrance and taste. Shredded potatoes in vinegar. Martina took a bite, and immediately raised her face and narrowed her eyes to make it delicious. Huang Guilong understood her expression. She was complimenting his craftsmanship. Who knows that Martina's compliment has been upgraded. She hugged Huang Guilong and kissed him hard on his right cheek. "Chinese food is so delicious. Unfortunately, Chinese people always make the kitchen very dirty. It's greasy."

Huang Guilong stood in the middle of the kitchen as if hit by an electric current, and kept touching his face with his right hand. He couldn't recover for a long time, and his chest jumped wildly. Martina set the table and chopsticks, but Huang Guilong came out and ran into the kitchen again. Seeing his silly look, she asked: "Huang, did I make you upset? Did I hurt you?" Huang Guilong didn't understand her. What does it mean to hurt him? Anyway, he knows that this girl is the best girl he has treated him since he grew up, and she will never harm him. It's just that I'm a countryman who goes to work in the city, so I don't deserve a girl from a province or city, let alone a foreign girl who treats herself well and is affectionate to herself. He stammered and said that, Martina asked: "Why can't I have s*x with you, don't you know what egalite is?" Martina can speak French in a hurry, and I can't remember it now." How to say "egalite" in Chinese, she ran to the bookshelf and pulled out the French-Chinese dictionary and quickly found the word: egalite, equality. She closed the dictionary and asked Huang Guilong: "Don't you understand that all men are created equal?"

Huang Guilong smiled bitterly: "Martina, you really look like a little girl." He always pronounced Martina as "Matila". He said: "How can people be equal to people? The city people are the city people, the country people are the country people; the rich are the people who enjoy happiness, and the poor are those who suffer."

Martina was a little excited and spoke a lot of French. Seeing Huang Guilong looking at her inexplicably, she remembered that he didn't understand French, but she couldn't express all the meaning in Chinese, so she had to say: "I am equal to you. Is it okay?" Huang Guilong nodded bewildered.

Martina drank coffee after dinner, Huang Guilong took another box of yogurt and s*ck*d it. He thought it was strange for foreigners. This coffee was so bitter and medicine-like to drink, it was not as sweet as yogurt to drink long meat. He often remembered the first time he entered this house to drink yogurt. Now he can drink it every day. Martina knows he likes it, so she buys a lot of it in the refrigerator.

The two of them watched TV close together, Martina's room was full of things, and the two of them had to sit together to face the TV. They were waiting for the TV commercials. Not long ago, Martina was spotted by an advertising company in Shanghai, and asked her to shoot a mineral water commercial, earning 500 yuan a day. She was so envious of Huang Guilong that she was exhausted. After working for a month to earn 500 yuan, Martina said that people are equal?

Martina on TV is very beautiful. She is dressed as a young woman and introduces the benefits of drinking this mineral water to the audience in the bright and clean kitchen. Huang Guilong said: "This water is ready to be sold in the future. Even foreign women love to drink it. Chinese women don't always have to drink it. In fact, the people in the city are the stupidest. The water is also bought for a lot of money. The water in the well is not sweeter than this." Martina became interested when she heard it: "Then when will you go home and take me with me? I want to drink the sweet water from the well." Huang Guilong smiled kindly: "Okay. , What's so difficult about that."

Huang Guilong thought dozens of times in his mind about the time to go, his body was stuck and still, thinking of the dim work sheds ventilating around, the cold and dirty quilts that hadn't been washed for many days, he really didn't want to leave Martina's warm and comfortable room. He didn't want to play poker with the people in the workshop, and didn't want to be mocked by them with dirty words. He always waited for the dead of night and the workers to sleep well before returning.

Martina yawned a long time, and when Huang Guilong hadn't left, she said, "If you don't want to go back, you can live here. There is still a bed." Martina lived in a double room in the International Student Building. Tu Qingjing, she rented it alone with double the money. Huang Guilong stood up nervously and shook his head again and again: "No, no, let others know how to make it clear, I dare not stop."

"I paid to rent this room. I invited you to live in. It doesn't matter to anyone. What are you afraid of?" Martina's firm tone gave Huang Guilong a lot of courage, and he really wanted to fight this episode. After watching the TV series, he hesitated to sit down and watch TV.

Huang Guilong really didn't return to the work shed that night. The next day, he just went downstairs. He picked up the kit he brought last night and quietly went downstairs. The middle-aged woman who had copied him at the service desk was dozing off, and a drop of saliva flowed down the corner of his mouth. After coming down, Huang Guilong covered his mouth and smiled, gently opened the door and ran towards the construction site.

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