Jia's daughter-in-law of Zhen Hanzi's family

Chapter 226 Food
Zhen Youqin not only went to buy traditional Chinese medicine, but also bought a lot of food. He was worried about attracting people's attention, so he planned to come back late on purpose.

However, he went to the hospital, the black market, and other villages to buy Chinese medicine, and it was late when he returned home.

Of course, when he was on the road, he didn't dare to put all the grain on the cart, but let Xiao Qi keep it and get it out when he was about to get home.

Now he's used to Xiao Qi who is willing to bring a thousand catties of stuff for him without hesitation, but he wants Xiao Qi to get him something rare, let alone a door, not even a window.

He also got used to Xiao Qi's Xiao Qi, so he simply went to the black market to buy thousands of catties of grain.

Better rice, flour, glutinous rice, and dried noodles add up to more than 500 catties, which are kept for the family to eat.

In addition, rice with more broken rice and flour with lower grades are cheaper, and more than 500 catties were prepared for Dr. Huang's grandparents, Grandma Su, Mr. Chen and Mr. Wu.

It's not that he was reluctant to part with the money, so he prepared second-class rice noodles for them, but that people in the countryside now eat steamed buns, taro, sweet potatoes and wild vegetable dumplings on weekdays to satisfy their hunger.

If you can eat noodles or gnocchi from time to time, it can be regarded as a feast for the taste.

Moreover, even if they gave them the rice noodles they had brought, they were embarrassed to accept it.

There are three grandparents and grandchildren in Dr. Huang’s family, so he put down three bags of rice, one bag of flour, one bag of dried noodles, and several canned fruits: “Auntie, I’ve bought all the Chinese medicine you wrote. My son will prescribe the prescription in the morning, and then teach my eldest sister how to make traditional Chinese medicine."

"Okay." Doctor Huang looked at the rice noodles he moved down very embarrassedly: "Thank you so much, now Song Zheng and I have work points, and by the end of the year, I will find a way to return you some money or food."

Thanks to their husband and wife being considerate of them, they said they owed them first, and they will talk about it later when they have more money.

But she also knew that if they hadn't fed them first, her grandparents would definitely not be able to eat enough now, let alone be able to eat so well.

Moreover, they can't buy so many rice noodles.

"Don't worry, we'll talk about it later." When Zhen Youqin thought of the more than 500 yuan he spent buying food on the black market today, his heart ached.

But he knew that his daughter-in-law was generous, and because Dr. Huang cured his sister, now she is helping to treat Team Wei.

And my daughter-in-law also said that this person eats whole grains, maybe my family will ask for it that day, and treating them better now is considered an early investment.

Thanks to the fact that they are rich now, they are willing to buy so much.

Of course, if you buy this time, you can live for several months at home.

Now he is more determined to continue working in the transportation team, otherwise the current rice, white noodles and dried noodles are not cheap, and he will not be able to support his wife.

He also sent a bag of flour and a bag of rice to the three families of Grandma Su by the cowshed, and another ten catties of dried noodles, and then drove the bullock cart home.

Each bag of rice weighed fifty catties, and Zhen Xiaoer and the others couldn't carry a bag, so they carried the rice with Jia Yunhang and put it in the cellar.

Sister Zhen also came to help, and reminded her brother by the way: "Why don't you go to the kitchen to eat some gnocchi first? Let's get these in."

"That's fine." Although Zhen Youqin ate a few steamed buns to fill his stomach on the way, but when he heard that he had specially saved dinner for himself, he went to the kitchen with some pork bones.

Sister Zhen hid all the food in the cellar, and felt sorry for the money she had spent: "Rice and flour are not cheap now, and there are not so many rice noodles in serious channels. I bought so much at once, I am afraid it will be better." Hundreds of dollars."

Now she is glad that Suanhuang can earn a lot of money by changing hands, otherwise she would not be able to support so many people with her brother's dead salary.

Zhen Xiaoer giggled excitedly around a dozen full bags: "Hehe, now you don't have to worry about running out of food at home."

Putting his arms around Jia Yunhang's shoulders again, he said in a low voice: "At this time last year, it was rare for us to eat such precious food as rice and white noodles, and we ate all kinds of wild vegetable dumplings every now and then."

Jia Yunhang looked at him a little surprised: "The wild vegetable dumplings a few days ago also taste good?"

That kind of look is, you can eat such food, but still hate it?
When Zhen Xiaoer heard his words, he sneered and said, "The wild vegetable dumpling we ate last time was mixed with white flour and diced meat, can it be delicious?"

"At this time last year, what we ate were wild vegetables mixed with a little bit of cornmeal. It was very unpalatable. It was astringent and cut my throat. When I think about it now, I can't swallow it."

Jia Yunhang also thought of the dry and rough corn dough that he ate in the labor camp last year, or the rice with little rice but a lot of sweet potatoes, and he felt sorry for him: "No, we are from frugality to extravagance. It’s easy, but it’s hard to go from extravagance to frugality.”

Jia Xiaoer nodded vigorously, and said happily, "Hehe, it's fortunate that your sister married my brother, so we have the good life we ​​have now..."

...

Jia Haohao was originally tutoring the two younger sisters in Zhen Erniu's room. Hearing the movement outside, he thought that Zhen Youqin had returned, got up and said, "Your sister should not read for too long by the candlelight. Go outside and have a look."

Hearing sister-in-law's concern, Zhen Erniu and the others smiled and agreed.

Jia Haohao came over and saw Zhen Youqin carrying a snakeskin bag into the kitchen, so he quickly followed him in, watching him put the bought meat on a large clean cutting board.

"This meat still has ribs," Jia Haohao also felt that he was very worthless, and he was supposed to have no shortage of meat to eat, but now he couldn't help swallowing when he saw such a big lump of pork.

Braised pork, dumplings, wontons, meat pies, etc. are already imagining oily delicacies in my mind.

I just ate a big bowl of gnocchi at night, but now I feel a little hungry again.

She swallowed, and asked him, "Where's Xiao Qi?"

Zhen Youqin was taken aback for a moment: "Oh, Xiao Qi fell asleep earlier, I put Xiao Qi into the ox cart, I'll go and bring him in."

"No need." With such a small distance, Jiahao summoned Xiao Qi with his mind.

Xiao Qi quickly stepped on catwalks, came in with her tail cocked, grabbed Jia Haohao's trouser legs, climbed into Jia Haohao's hands, and began to complain to her with her thoughts: "I don't want to go out with him in the future, do you really want to go out with him?" I don’t know, he’s really stingy, he bought me a steamed stuffed bun at noon, it’s so unpalatable.”

He glanced at what Zhen Youqin was eating, and felt that he lost his appetite just looking at it.

Xiao Qi looked at Jia Haohao with her cat eyes that were as dazzling as gemstones and acted like a baby: "Okay, I have been starved and thin by him, I want to eat roast duck."

Jiahao touched Xiaoqi's smooth fur, felt the heavy body, and couldn't help but vomit: "You are definitely overnourished, and I can't just say you are thin?"

When Xiao Qi heard this, she meowed angrily, and glared at her: "Even you bully me? I won't help you transport things next time."

Then how can it work, my man still needs to rely on Xiao Qi to resell to earn extra money?

Jiahao hurriedly said with a smile on his face, "I'm just kidding you, let's eat roast duck."

She spent three hundred gold coins in the space with her thoughts to exchange for two delicious roast ducks. Xiao Qi felt it and jumped onto the table, and there were two more roast ducks next to her little paw.

"I haven't seen any meat at home for several days." Seeing that Zhen Youqin's eyes lit up, Jia Hao said with a smile, "It's rare that Xiao Qi is generous today and is willing to treat guests. You can say that you bought it later, and we will buy it tonight." Eat one, and another one at noon tomorrow."

Before Xiao Qi and Jia Hao Hao communicated with each other with their thoughts, Zhen Youqin didn't know what they were talking about, but now hearing what his daughter-in-law said, he couldn't help complaining to her: "Daughter-in-law, Xiao Qi is really too partial, I asked Xiao Qi to get me something to drink when I was thirsty, but Xiao Qi didn't want to."

Jia Haohao couldn't tell him the truth: that's because I earned the gold coins, and you don't have the right to use the gold coins, Xiaoqi will definitely not be able to satisfy your unreasonable request.

She can only comfort: "In the future, I will pack some tea and put it in the teapot, and you can ask Xiaoqi to put it away, and you can drink it when you are thirsty."

After finishing speaking, he tore a big duck leg of a roast duck for him: "Eat it quickly, I'll call them all to eat."

Then he tore Xiaoqi's favorite duck neck and let it eat, and then he went to call everyone to eat something good together.

Zhen Youqin looked at the figure of his daughter-in-law leaving, and felt that she felt sorry for him, so he forced Xiao Qi to bring out two roast ducks for him to make up for.

When he saw Xiao Qi who was gnawing on the duck neck, he felt even happier.

Hmph, even though Xiao Qi is very good, but his daughter-in-law still likes him more, so she let him eat duck legs, and let Xiao Qi gnaw on duck necks without meat.

Although a roast duck weighs more than three catties, but now there are ten people in the family, and everyone can only share three pieces of duck meat.

But this is enough to make people happy, they all take small bites, and eat the roast duck very cherished.

Only Sister Zhen murmured to herself: My younger brother is too incapable of living now. He bought so much meat, why should he buy roast duck?

It's better to buy a live hen, which can lay eggs anyway.

Now I have a rooster, two hens, and two ducks at home. Although it looks a lot bigger, but if I want to wait for the chickens and ducks to lay eggs, I guess I have to wait a month or two?

Team Wei only ate one piece of duck meat, and saw his son gnawing on the duck meat contentedly, so he planned to save the remaining two pieces of duck meat for his son to eat.

He was also a little worried, thinking that Zhen Youqin must be willing to spend a lot of money on roast duck because he was there.

He also felt that it was difficult to repay the debt of favor, and hoped that he would get better soon so that he could repay others later.

He whispered to his son, don't be greedy, be sensible...

...

After giving Wei Dui acupuncture and moxibustion, Dr. Huang told Sister Zhen how to make medicine, and then left Zhen's house to see a doctor for another old man who had an appointment.

Sister Zhen looked at the more than ten silver needles pricked near the man's knee, and she felt dizzy. Seeing that his head was sweating from the pain, but his expression remained unchanged, she admired him a little: "Captain Wei, just call me if you have anything to do." , I'll do the laundry outside."

Thinking that he hadn't changed or washed his clothes since he came home, he felt a little regretful that his younger brother had gone to work in the town early in the morning, and he was too embarrassed to help him wipe his back.

I can only wait for the afternoon, let Xiao Er and Yun Hang help him wipe his body and change his clothes.

"I'm fine," Captain Wei didn't want to drag them down too much, with a gentle face: "You go to work? I'll call the two little guys if I have something to do."

"I won't go to work anymore!" Sister Zhen felt that he was really not opening which pot and which pot he was carrying.

I have been working well for a few months, but now I have become a vagrant again.

"Why don't you go to work?" Captain Wei thought she was staying here to take care of him, so he hurriedly said, "It's fine for me to be at home by myself, I really don't need you to stay here to take care of me."

"If you are like this, I am embarrassed to stay any longer."

When Sister Zhen heard him say this, she realized that he really misunderstood that she stayed to take care of him, so she could only smile wryly: "It's really none of your business, you also know that I took my daughter back to my mother's house, fortunately, I have a younger brother Brother and sister are here, so no one will gossip openly."

"I used to work on a livestock farm, and it was easier to live there. Others envied me, saying that my younger brother and sister became accountants, and they used the public service to benefit themselves..."

Only then did Team Wei understand why Big Sister Zhen stayed.

In fact, when divorced women return to their natal homes, there are very few who will not be gossiped about.

Not only are the parents at home unwilling to have the divorced daughter go back to her natal home, they are worried that people will criticize such an embarrassing thing, and they are even more afraid that the son at home will have opinions.

The brothers in the family would also dislike the divorced sister who went back to live with her natal family, which would bring down the reputation of her children, and they all wished to find another family for her and marry her off immediately.

However, he felt that Sister Zhen was doing well at home.

I still remember when I first saw her, she was pale and thin, her legs were not good, and she was so thin that she looked like she could be blown away by a strong wind.

Now Sister Zhen has fair skin, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and looks very pleasing to the eye.

He felt that it would not be difficult for someone like Sister Zhen to remarry.

Wait until I have a look at her temperament. If she is good, I can introduce someone to her later.

For example, several of his brothers before him were unmarried, and there were a few older ones he knew, whose mothers-in-law were sick and gone, and now they are still single?
Sister Zhen didn't know that he was already thinking of introducing a suitable partner to herself.

She kept staring at the small alarm clock, and when the time came, she hurried over and carefully pulled out all the silver needles on his leg as Dr. Huang taught.

Seeing his sweating profusely, she asked nervously, "Captain Wei, does it hurt?"

"It's okay to be hurt." Team Wei smiled instead: "It's a good thing to be hurt. If it doesn't hurt, then I won't cry."

Seeing her tense body tense again, she smiled reassuringly: "Thank you, thanks to you for helping me."

"It's good that you don't dislike me for being clumsy." Sister Zhen wrung out the towel and handed it to him: "Wipe your face first, and I'll get you the medicine."

The taste of traditional Chinese medicine is very bitter, so bitter that it is difficult to swallow.

But Captain Wei drank it in one gulp without blinking.

At lunch, Sister Zhen brought him a bowl of pork rib soup, a bowl of white rice, and half a bowl of Chinese cabbage: "Captain Wei, you eat first. If it's not enough, ask me to add more rice for you."

(End of this chapter)