Chapter 5: Wheat Fragrance

The train ride takes three days and three nights.

But when it came time to eat, Xia Zhi felt a little embarrassed.

Others have to carry dry biscuits or steamed buns in their pockets.

There are good living conditions, and there are even eggs, biscuits and so on.

Her pocket was empty, nothing.

Even if I want to drink hot water, there is no teapot.

She didn't notice that the eyes of the people around her were gradually looking at her with contempt.

They have seen poor people, but never such poor people.

Showing off your wealth these days will kill you, but being too poor will also make you unable to hold your head high.

There was no time to prepare for the summer solstice last night, time was too tight.

When it got darker, people started to take out big pancakes to roll green onions again, so Xia Zhi decided to avoid it.

In another two hours we will probably reach a big station, and I hope that when I get there I can meet someone brave enough to do small business so that I can buy some food.

Today, these stations are small and there is not enough time to stop there, and there are not many people getting on the train to sell things.

I was hungry for a whole day on the summer solstice.

I didn't eat enough last night, so I feel really dizzy now.

During the summer solstice, I wanted to drink some water to fill my stomach, but I didn’t even have a teapot.

I blame myself a little for being too hasty this time and not fully prepared.

Mainly because time is too tight.

If you can run out, you are lucky. If someone from the Gu family accidentally sees something about you, that would be a big deal.

Xia Zhi hid at the door of the train.

Because you have to get off the train here to and fro, almost no one sits here, and even if you sit here, you will be kicked away by the conductor.

Xia Zhi just walked forward and found that there were already people in this place.

But it seemed a bit impolite to turn around and leave after he had already walked in.

Especially when the other party is a person in uniform.

Clothes with this characteristic look like they belong to some kind of special unit.

Definitely not a bad guy.

This person should also be hiding here and smoking.

When he noticed Xia Zhi's appearance, he hurriedly threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground and crushed it with his foot.

Xia Zhi stood aside and stared out the window at the gradually darkening roadside scenery, although she tried hard to keep her gaze outside the car window.

But his eyes still involuntarily fell on the aluminum lunch box held by the man beside him.

The lid of the lunch box has been opened, and there are two fat white steamed buns inside.

Although it is simple and does not even have any side dishes, Xia Zhi's nose can smell the pure flour smell of wheat-flavored steamed buns.

After being hungry all day, I saw steamed buns, and they were big white steamed buns.

Zhou Zhengan looked at the girl next to him, his head facing the car window.

Looking from the back, the girl was seriously looking at the scenery outside the car window, but he was not blind.

The girl's eyes were staring directly at the steamed buns in the lunch box in her hand through the car window.

The suspicious liquid flowed down the corners of his mouth.

Zhou Zhengan glanced at the steamed buns and smiled bitterly. Everything he had eaten since he was born tasted tasteless.

He has no sense of taste.

Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty all taste the same in his mouth, so he never has any expectations or longing for food.

Even if this steamed bun is eaten in one's stomach, it only supplies all the nutritional functions of one's body. In fact, one is enough.

Let this steamed bun help those who can help.

Zhou Zhengan handed over the lunch box.

"Are you hungry, girl? Let's have some steamed buns. Don't worry, I'm a good person."

Xia Zhi turned around suddenly, her eyes shining brightly, as if a hungry wolf had seen fat.

No way, there are good people these days, but not many are kind enough to give away their big white steamed buns to others.

Xia Zhi felt that her expression was a bit vulgar and embarrassing.

After swallowing, he realized that drool was dripping from the corners of his mouth.

She wiped the corners of her mouth with her sleeve in a somewhat cover-up manner. It wasn't that she didn't care about cleanliness. She couldn't find a handkerchief anywhere on her body.

"Comrade, thank you, I'm not hungry."

"Gulu, Gulu, Gulu!"

The thunderous stomach growl exposed Xia Zhi's lies.

Xia Zhi's face suddenly looked like red cloth.

Pressing his stomach with his hand, he almost stopped wailing, almost rushing to the scene of social death.

Zhou Zhengan showed a joking smile and passed the lunch box forward again.

"Comrade, I know you are hungry, just eat, it doesn't matter."

Seeing Xia Zhi, he was still a little hesitant, so he stuffed the lunch box directly into Xia Zhi's hands.

"Eat, you're welcome, serving the people is what you should do."

The corner of Xia Zhi's mouth twitched, not to mention that people in uniform these days have such a lofty belief.

She really couldn't eat other people's food for free, so she hesitated for a moment, but then she thought that she hadn't eaten for a day, so she couldn't really starve to death and go to the border.

"My name is Xia Zhi, comrade, what is your name?"

Zhou Zhengan looked at the magnanimous person in front of him, but he was not at all generous, because he looked a little embarrassed and inferior in the embarrassing scene just now.

"My name is Zhou Zhengan."

"I went to the border to support construction. I ate your steamed buns today, and I will definitely pay you back in the future."

Xia Zhi took a steamed bun and broke it into half, then stuffed the lunch box back into Zhou Zhengan's arms.

Nowadays, food is a precious commodity, and others are reluctant to even give it to others, not to mention that Zhou Zhengan's is a white-flour steamed bun.

A grown man's daily ration is only two steamed buns. He can't be so indifferent and just eat a steamed bun. That would be inappropriate.

"Thank you, I'm in that car. Don't worry, I'll give it back to you once we get there. I know your name."

"Don't be so polite."

Zhou Zhengan waved his hand and smiled as he watched the girl turn away.

Although it tasted tasteless to him, it must have tasted delicious to the girl.

Summer Solstice! ?

This name is really nice.

Thinking of the girl drooling, Zhou Zhengan finally felt hungry.

He took the remaining half of the girl's steamed bun and took a bite.

Zhou Zhengan suddenly raised his eyebrows.

What's going on?

He lost his sense of taste from the moment he was born. No matter what he ate, it tasted the same.

But today, he actually tasted the white flour steamed bun.

A strong fragrance, it was indescribably delicious when bitten in the mouth.

At first, he thought he was hallucinating.

He stuffed all the steamed buns in his hand into his mouth.

The more he chewed, the more he felt that the fragrance was not an illusion. Really, he tasted a sweet and soft feeling.

The strong wheat aroma, this should be the wheat aroma that his comrades-in-arms talked about. After fermentation and evaporation, it produced a special fragrance.

There was actually a faint fragrance in his mouth.

Zhou Zhengan suddenly had tears in his eyes. Could it be that his illness was cured?

He swallowed half of the steamed bun impatiently, grabbed another steamed bun and put it in his mouth to eat.

That's right, his sense of taste has recovered!

Zhou Zhengan ran back to the carriage desperately.

He couldn't contain his excitement.