Year: I planted trees in Saihanba

Chapter 203 Leaving Without Saying Goodbye (Yan Xiangli)

Night falls quickly.

"Xia, you're back?"

"When did you come back?"

Feng Cheng looked at Xia Tian sitting in the cafeteria and excitedly went to greet her.

"Arrived this afternoon!"

Xia Tian glanced at Feng Cheng and said with a smile.

"Xia, did you bring me any good food when you went to Beiping this time?"

Feng Cheng rubbed his hands together, looking at Xia Tian with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

"certainly……"

Feng Cheng was very happy to hear Xia Tian's words.

"I knew it, Engineer Xia, you're the best."

"Where is the good food?"

Feng Cheng looked behind Xia Tian to see if she had hidden the delicious food.

"no!"

Summer then uttered two more words.

Upon hearing the last two words of Xia Tian, ​​Feng Cheng's smile vanished instantly.

"Xia, how could you still lie to people?"

Feng Cheng muttered something.

"I'm going to Beiping on business, not to buy delicious food."

"Besides, you didn't tell me, so why would I bring any delicious food?"

Xia Tian looked at Feng Cheng with an expression of utter self-righteousness.

"If you don't have it, you don't have it!"

Feng Cheng listened to Xia Tian's words and muttered something else.

……

"Commander Xia/Engineer Xia, you're back?"

The university students and the advance team arrived at the cafeteria one after another.

Seeing Xia Tian sitting in her seat, they all went up to greet her.

"Ok!"

Xia Tian smiled and nodded in response.

"Alright, stop making that long face!"

Xia Tian looked at Feng Cheng, who was sitting to the side with an unhappy expression on his face, and said something.

"You're acting like a wronged little wife, as if I've bullied you!"

Now that everyone is here!

"Feng Cheng, go and distribute this box of pastries to everyone!"

Summer magically produced a box of "Daoxiangcun" eight-piece ware from behind her back and handed it to Feng Cheng.

"Wow, Daoxiangcun's eight traditional dishes!"

Feng Cheng looked at the pastry box that Xia Tian had taken out and happily accepted it.

"Xia Gong, I knew you were the best!"

Feng Cheng immediately performed a Sichuan opera face-changing act, looking at Xia Tian with a grin.

"Get lost, go and distribute it to everyone!"

"okay!"

Feng Cheng responded and ran off to distribute the eight large pieces of food to everyone.

"Captain, it's yours!"

"Old Wei, it's yours!"

"Dayong, Erhuang, you two!"

"Comrade Xuemei, this is for you!"

"Comrade Meng Yue, this is for you!"

"Comrade Mengyin, this is yours!"

"Sui Zhichao, this is yours!"

"That's Da Kui, yours!"

"Comrade Xiurong, Yan Xiangli, these are for you two."

Feng Cheng quickly distributed a piece of the two large boxes of eight-piece set to each person.

"Thank you, Engineer Xia/Commander Xia, thank you, Comrade Feng Cheng/Technician Feng!"

The college students and the advance team members thanked Xia Tian and Feng Cheng respectively.

"You're welcome. This is a specialty of old Beijing. Let everyone have a taste!"

Summer smiled and said something to everyone.

"Alright everyone, come and taste it!"

"it is good!"

Feng Cheng carefully picked up a piece of osmanthus cake from the remaining pastries.

He put it into his own bowl.

He remembered that Tang Qi's favorite food back then was osmanthus cake from Daoxiangcun.

He also developed a liking for osmanthus cake, just like Tang Qi.

Feng Cheng placed the remaining four pieces of pastry in front of Xia Tian.

Then, sitting down, I carefully picked up the osmanthus cake.

Slowly put it into your mouth.

Daoxiangcun's osmanthus cake remains unchanged, retaining its original appearance and flavor.

But for him, everything had changed.

People are scattered, things are not as they were yesterday, my sick soul is like a swing rope. The horn sounds cold, the night is late. I fear people will ask, so I swallow my tears and pretend to be happy.

For some reason, as he ate this osmanthus cake, Feng Cheng suddenly thought of this half-stanza of poetry.

A single tear slowly slid down Feng Cheng's cheek.

Apart from Xia Tian, ​​who was sitting next to him, no one noticed anything unusual about Feng Cheng.

Looking at Feng Cheng's appearance, Xia Tian could only sigh slightly in her heart.

Dinner soon ended in an awkward atmosphere.

……

After the meal, Yan Xiangli found Xia Tian sitting in the cafeteria.

"Have you thought about it?"

Xia Tian looked at Yan Xiangli sitting in front of her and asked a question.

Yan Xiangli listened to Xia Tian's words and fell silent.

"Since you've made up your mind, I won't try to persuade you anymore!"

Xia Tian looked at the silent Yan Xiangli and spoke to himself.

"This is your transfer order!"

Xia Tian took Yan Xiangli's transfer order from his bag and placed it in front of him.

I wish you a bright future!

After Xia Tian finished speaking, she got up, intending to leave.

Just as summer was about to step out of the cafeteria.

Yan Xiangli suddenly spoke up and called out to Xia Tian.

"Commander Xia!"

"what happened?"

Summer did not return.

Yan Xiangli stood up and bowed deeply to Xia Tian.

"Thank you, Commander Xia!"

Xia Tian listened to Yan Xiangli's words, waved his hand, and walked out of the cafeteria.

He did not persuade Yan Xiangli to stay in Saihanba.

They didn't ask him why he left Saihanba.

Just like he said from the beginning.

Yan Xiangli doesn't belong here.

Even if we force them to stay, it won't make any difference.

Xia Tian and Chang Wei were walking back to the old camp.

The moonlight stretched his shadow very, very long.

"Tonight is destined to be another sleepless night!"

……

the next day.

"Xiangli, stay home and get some rest!"

Ji Xiurong looked at Yan Xiangli's face and gently gave him instructions.

"okay!"

Yan Xiangli nodded gently.

Soon, Xia Tian led everyone towards the Wind-Suppressing Divine Tree.

Yan Xiangli shook his head as he watched the group walk away.

I shook off all the jumbled thoughts in my mind.

Back in my dorm room, I picked up my pen and took out some paper.

Yan Xiangli quickly wrote a letter for Ji Xiurong.

I carefully folded the manuscript paper and gently placed it into the prepared envelope.

I left my dormitory and went to the girls' dormitory.

He placed the letter on the table and left the girls' dormitory.

After finishing everything, Yan Xiangli began packing his luggage.

He meticulously packed away all his belongings.

I walked out of the dormitory and put my luggage in the car that was waiting there.

Finally, I took one last, deep look at the appearance of the camp.

As Yan Xiangli turned to get into the car, he seemed to remember something.

He squatted down, carefully scooped up a handful of yellow sand, and put it into an empty jar.

And so, Yan Xiangli left Saihanba quietly.

Apart from Xia Tian, ​​no one on the group heading towards the Wind-Suppressing Divine Tree knew of Yan Xiangli's departure.

Meanwhile, in Shaquan Village.

Looking at his mother, who was half-paralyzed on the kang (a heated brick bed) and barely breathing, Zheng Laoji made a decision in his heart.

"Little San'er, come here!"

Zheng Laoji called his son, Zheng San'er, over.

"What's wrong, Dad?"

"Go, gather the villagers, and come with me to cut down that tree!"

"But Dad, if we cut down that tree, won't the Forestry Bureau arrest us and put us in jail?"

Zheng San'er listened to his father's words as if he had remembered something terrifying.

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