Chapter 85: People Who Aren’t Family Don’t Enter the Same Door
Yun Qinghuan genuinely found Bai Naihan very easy to get along with. He was like a field snail fairy at home. Apart from cooking, she did nothing.
[1] In Chinese fairytales, the field snail fairy is a mythical figure who silently helps one out.
He even washed her clothes for her.
Of course, having experienced the awkwardness of the last time she washed clothes, she would consciously wash her own intimate clothing beforehand.
Jiang Wenxiu looked at her with a complicated and indescribable expression. “…”
Yun Qinghuan touched her face. “What’s with that expression?”
Jiang Wenxiu shook her head. “Nothing, I just suddenly think you and your younger brother-in-law are quite a match.”
“What ‘quite a match’? Don’t talk nonsense.” Yun Qinghuan quickly glanced towards the kitchen, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw he wasn’t paying attention.
Seeing her like this, Jiang Wenxiu’s smile widened. “Qinghuan, what are you thinking? What I mean by ‘quite a match’ is that you’re very suitable to be a family. Isn’t there a saying, ‘People who aren’t family don’t enter the same door’?”
Yun Qinghuan knew she was teasing her and smiled silently, pursing her lips.
In the evening, Liu Yuzhi smelled the aroma as soon as she returned from the fields. When she saw the large pot of braised pig offal in the kitchen, she almost drooled. She looked at Yun Qinghuan admiringly. “So this is how you make pig offal? It smells delicious.”
It hadn’t been in vain that she had cleaned it for so long last night, her hands almost peeling.
Just then, it was almost done braising, so Yun Qinghuan picked up a piece of pig intestine with chopsticks and offered it to her. “Mom, try this, be careful…”
Before she could finish saying “careful it’s hot,” Liu Yuzhi directly put the braised pig intestine in her mouth. It was so hot that she sucked in air and fanned her mouth with her hand, but she couldn’t bear to spit it out. After it cooled down, she chewed it with a bright look in her eyes. “It’s really delicious! Mom has never eaten anything so delicious in her life!”
Yun Qinghuan laughed. “Is it really that exaggerated? Wasn’t the braised pork I made yesterday delicious?”
“It was also delicious. Anything my daughter-in-law makes is delicious.”
Liu Yuzhi directly flattered her, praising her until Yun Qinghuan herself felt a little embarrassed.
Where was it that exaggerated?
She just usually liked to watch food videos and try to cook herself. She had also worked part-time in restaurants during her student days, but to say it was particularly delicious was definitely not comparable to a professional chef.
But she was happy to be praised.
Seeing An’an also looking at her greedily, Yun Qinghuan directly picked up a little pig offal with chopsticks, chopped it up, drizzled it with the braising sauce, and put it in his special small bowl for him. “You eat this. After you’re done, take some to your Grandma Chen and Aunt Jiang.”
Aunt Jiang was Jiang Wenxiu.
The little guy happily took the bowl and ate, praising it incoherently.
Yun Qinghuan didn’t forget Bai Naihan either. She also chopped up a little and drizzled it with braising sauce before handing it to him. “Eat this first to taste it. Eat more when we really have dinner later.”
The man took the bowl, his expression gentle. He picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, feeling as if his taste buds were blooming. He couldn’t help but say, “It really is delicious.”
Moreover, making braised pig offal like this didn’t use much oil, just some seasonings.
Things like cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, peppercorns, and galangal didn’t cost any money. There were these trees on the mountain, and they would usually pick some, dry them, grind them, and use them as seasonings when stir-frying dishes to enhance the flavor.
It was just that these seasonings wouldn’t taste good if not used properly, and they would even have a strange taste, so the villagers didn’t really like to use these seasonings.
When An’an returned after delivering the braised pig offal to Jiang Wenxiu and Grandma Chen, his bowl had never been empty. Grandma Chen had even generously given him two milk candies, making the little guy’s face full of smiles.
He also asked Yun Qinghuan when they would send more delicious food to others, saying he wanted to go deliver it. Yun Qinghuan was a bit amused. “Where are there so many good things to give to others? Go wash your hands and eat.”
Hearing that it was time to eat, An’an didn’t dwell on this and quickly went to the well to wash his hands before coming to eat.
Dinner was braised pig offal. Yun Qinghuan had specially chopped it up, drizzled it with braising sauce, and sprinkled it with scallions, ginger, and garlic, making it particularly delicious.
She even extravagantly made steamed buns and put cucumber shreds and lettuce inside, then sandwiched some braised pig offal in them to eat together. It was simply incredibly delicious.
After eating, drinking some corn porridge made this little life feel too good.
After dinner, Liu Yuzhi said that they would be harvesting wheat soon. When the busy farming season arrived, they would probably be very busy, having to get up before dawn to go to the fields, and she was afraid they wouldn’t have time to make breakfast, so she would have to trouble her and Bai Naihan to work a bit harder during this time.
Usually, Yun Qinghuan couldn’t get up in the morning. Most of the time, Liu Yuzhi would get up to make breakfast, and she would make lunch and dinner.
Hearing this, Yun Qinghuan directly laughed. “What’s the big deal? We’re all family. It’s just a matter of making breakfast, not a big deal. Mom, just go to the fields to work.”
The summer harvest was really tiring. They got up earlier than the chickens and went to bed later than the dogs. Even though Yun Qinghuan tried her best to make delicious food every day, with meat in almost every meal, Liu Yuzhi still lost weight and her skin became very tanned.
Not long after the summer harvest began, Secretary Liu sent someone to the pigsty to pick out a particularly fat pig to slaughter and distribute the pork to the villagers according to the number of people in each household, thinking of supplementing those who were doing farm work, afraid that some people wouldn’t have enough energy and would collapse halfway through their work.
Yun Qinghuan was really working hard at cutting pig feed. Plus, they always went together as a group of three. Feeding these eight pigs, each pig grew very well, even fatter than when Sister Li was feeding them. Secretary Liu was very satisfied and even increased Yun Qinghuan’s work points. Originally calculated at five work points a day, he now directly calculated it at seven work points a day for her.
In contrast, the pigs raised by Wang Shufeng were pitifully thin. The two pigs together were not even as heavy as one of the pigs raised by Yun Qinghuan.
When Secretary Liu saw this, his face immediately darkened.
Even though Wang Shufeng tried to make up for it later, even going to the extent of giving people money to help her cut pig feed, those pigs were usually so hungry that they couldn’t gain weight back in a short period of time.
Secretary Liu was very dissatisfied with Wang Shufeng, and this even extended to the educated youth settlement, feeling that the comrades from the city were not good at farm work.
Of course, not every educated youth was bad at farm work. Some worked hard, but after all, they came from the city, and they definitely couldn’t compare with the villagers who had been doing farm work since they were young in terms of physical strength and skills.
Because of his resentment, Secretary Liu, who had originally promised to allocate funds to the educated youth settlement to repair the houses, now disappeared without a trace.
Qiao Yue even came to complain to Yun Qinghuan, saying that Wang Shufeng was going to ruin them. The educated youth settlement was located in the old houses of the village. When they first moved in, the village had found someone to repair them, but after all, they were old houses, and with several years passing, the educated youth settlement had become even more dilapidated. Now, if the wind blew a little harder, the windows would rattle and creak.
Qiao Yue was worried that if the wind got any stronger, it might even blow down the educated youth settlement.
These things aside, the most annoying thing was rainy days. The houses in the educated youth settlement leaked rain!
It rained heavily outside, and it drizzled inside the houses, making it impossible to stay there.
The people in the educated youth settlement had originally hoped that Secretary Liu would allocate funds for them to repair the houses. They didn’t need anything too good, just enough to keep out the wind and rain. As a result, Wang Shufeng messed everything up, and all their hopes were dashed. Naturally, they all resented Wang Shufeng.
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