Chapter 34: Louzi takes the initiative to jump into the pit

Time flies, and a week has passed in the blink of an eye.

On Sunday morning, Gao Zhendong, who had picked another online article, was eating breakfast. However, this time the quality of the article was pretty good and it was a good way to kill time.

While he was eating, the door opened. Gao Zhengdong, holding a steamed bun in his hand, walked over to open the door.

As the door opened, what came into view was a face with the lower half covered by a scarf, and only a smiling crescent moon could be seen.

Gao Zhendong recognized her immediately: "Lou Xiao'e, why are you here? It's not that cold, is it? Why are you wearing a scarf like this?"

Lou Xiao'e was obviously very happy to be recognized by Gao Zhendong even though she only showed half of her face. "Why, I can't come? I came here today to see you. I don't have a phonograph at home, and I want to listen to you."

Gao Zhendong thought, are you kidding me? You don't have this thing at home. I wrote the word Gao upside down eight hundred times, using a different font each time.

Lou Xiao'e also knew that this reason was probably a bit of a lie. After all, it was a bit hard for someone who could immediately put the needle to the beginning of the second movement of "From a New World" to say that he didn't have a phonograph at home.

But she wasn't worried about being exposed, or rather, she didn't care if the lie was exposed. As for an excuse, it was good to have it, whether it was true or not was not important.

Gao Zhendong didn't expose her lies. He poured her a glass of water, then pointed at the phonograph while eating: "It's over there, you can play it yourself. But I don't have many records here, I wonder if there's one you like. By the way, have you eaten? If not, let's eat some together." He made more steamed buns today and included the daily amount.

Lou Xiao'e walked over and started eating without any hesitation: "Just keep eating, don't worry about me."

The music started, it was "A New World" again. Maybe it was because Lou Xiao'e liked listening to this, or maybe it was for some other reason.

Gao Zhendong quickly finished his meal, drank the last sip of soy milk, and went to wash up again with the toiletries. Lou Xiao'e looked at Gao Zhendong who was washing up, then looked around the room, which was very tidy.

Gao Zhendong walked back and sat down beside the return air furnace.

Seeing that he was fine, Lou Xiao'e asked him, "It's so warm here. What were you going to do today?"

Gao Zhendong remembered what he had been planning to do, and pointed at the Peony six-tube radio on the table. The transformer had been bought a long time ago, but the thing had not been repaired yet: "I was planning to fix this thing, so that I can have two turns and two sounds, haha." Watch, bicycle, phonograph, radio, just two turns and two sounds.

Lou Xiao'e had never seen anyone repairing this thing before, and her eyes flickered with curiosity: "Then don't worry about me, I'll listen to me, you repair yours."

"Really? You can stay?"

"Really! I can stay!"

Hearing this, Gao Zhendong didn't act pretentiously. He walked into the inner room and pretended to get something. In fact, he mixed some peanuts, melon seeds, and candies, and brought them out and put them on the table: "Then I won't care about you for now. Just eat whatever you want. Just tell me if you want anything."

Lou Xiao'e nodded, picked up a candy from the plate, peeled it and put it into her mouth. The candy slowly melted in her mouth and was very sweet.

Gao Zhendong was concentrating on disassembling the radio. Replacing the transformer was not difficult. He just had to disassemble the machine, remove the parts, clean the solder, and solder. For him, who had been in the automation industry for two lifetimes and was a senior garbage collector in his previous life, it was a piece of cake.

Gao Zhendong was repairing the machine very attentively, and Lou Xiaoe was watching it very seriously. They were repairing a machine, but they were watching a person.

Lou Xiao'e poured the melon seeds on the table and peeled them one by one. She put the kernels on a plate, but did not eat much. The smell of rosin flux of solder wafted in the air, but she did not think it was unpleasant. She looked at Gao Zhendong with ripples in her eyes.

After a while, Gao Zhendong breathed a sigh of relief, turned on the power, and tried to see if the radio was working properly.

As the switch was turned on, a rustling sound came from the radio speaker. Gao Zhendong slowly turned the frequency adjustment knob, and the rustling sound gradually became smaller. A voice suppressed the rustling sound: "People's Broadcasting Station." Lou Xiao'e shouted happily: "It's fixed, it's fixed, Zhendong you are awesome." She seemed happier than Gao Zhendong.

Gao Zhendong chuckled, in his previous life he was good at computer repair but had no girlfriend. He didn't expect that in this life he would have a beautiful girl staring at him while repairing the radio.

Lou Xiao'e pushed the plate of melon seeds in front of Gao Zhendong and said, "Here, it's a reward for you."

Gao Zhendong chewed the peony slowly, picked up the plate and poured it into his mouth: "It's not your radio, why are you thanking me?" Just these words could break the red line of the stainless steel.

Lou Xiao'e didn't care and said with a smile: "Because I can listen to it in the future."

Gao Zhendong is not stupid: "Then I'm welcome anytime."

At this time, the phonograph needle reached the innermost circle of the record. Although the record was still spinning, the music stopped and only a slight spinning sound could be heard. This old-fashioned hand-cranked record player will not stop spinning after playing. The innermost circle of the 78-rpm Bakelite record is circular and will continue to spin in the inner circle after playing. The brake device on the phonograph is needed to stop the record player from spinning. The needle will not lift up automatically and needs to be lifted up by hand.

Gao Zhendong walked over, lifted the needle, and looked at his watch. It was almost noon.

Turning around, Gao Zhendong asked Lou Xiaoe: "Would you like to have dinner at my house?"

"Okay~~~" Lou Xiao'e was very happy.

"Can you do it?" Gao Zhendong asked knowingly.

"No." Lou Xiao'e said confidently but with a little guilty conscience.

"If you don't know how to do it, then learn it. Can we do it together?"

"Okay~~~" There was a hint of eagerness in the straightforward answer.

The two young men worked together for more than half an hour, and two dishes and a soup were served on the table.

Under Gao Zhendong's command, Lou Xiao'e cooked a traditional Chinese dish: scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Lou Xiao'e had no idea that tomatoes were out of season at that time, but tomatoes are relatively durable in storage, so if you have to explain it, it makes sense.

The staple food was the steamed buns left over from the morning, which had been heated up in a steamer. Lou Xiao'e ate the buns in small bites while happily and ramblingly chatting with Gao Zhendong.

"Zhendong, do you think the dish I made is particularly delicious? I think it's better than what my family makes."

"It's okay, but as a newbie, it's not bad. It seems that you have a talent in this area. As for why you think it tastes particularly good, it's probably because you are excited and you made it yourself, so you naturally like it." Gao Zhendong first praised her for her talent and then provoked her with denial.

"You mean I didn't do it well? I still don't believe it. I'll learn a few more dishes and practice more. I'll make you convinced."

"Okay, I'll wait! I'm just afraid that you'll give up halfway and escape." Gao Zhendong added another bundle of firewood.

"Impossible! Gao Zhendong, just wait!"

So everyone knows that provoking someone is a trap, but there are still people who keep jumping into it, such as George Blake, a KGB agent lurking in MI6 and a staunch red fighter. As for Lou Xiao'e, she even took the initiative to jump into it and covered herself with dirt.

　There's a lot to do on Monday, so I'm posting two chapters at once

　　
　
(End of this chapter)