Chapter 5 She Wants to Eat Meat

"You're back? What are you holding?" Wang Yanmei saw her sister-in-law coming back and walked up to her and took the paper bag from her hand.

Seeing her daughter coming back so early with a paper bag in her hand, Mother Lin couldn't help but feel surprised. It seemed that her daughter really didn't go to look for the boy from the He family again.

"I bought the meat." Lin Xia came home after buying cloth. She saw a busy vegetable market and went in for a stroll.

People were coming and going inside. She had thought that materials were very scarce in this era, but she did not expect that the varieties were still very rich.

While walking around the market, I suddenly saw a group of people gathered in front of me. I walked over curiously and found out that it was a meat stall. The staff selling meat were busy. It was a slightly cold day in April, but the male staff were wearing clothes with exposed arms and were sweating all over.

Lin Xia looked at the big chunks of meat and felt so greedy that she wanted to take a bite.

"Where did you get the meat coupons?" Lin's mother suddenly remembered that a coupon was needed to buy meat. She only gave her daughter cloth coupons but no meat coupons.

Wang Yanmei took the meat from her sister-in-law's hand, feeling curious. She thought it was the meat ticket given by Lin's mother privately, but after seeing Lin's mother's reaction, she knew it was not, and she felt a little curious.

"I changed it." Lin Xia said frankly while drinking water from a large jar.

When she saw someone paying, she remembered that she needed a meat ticket to buy meat. Seeing that there were only a few cloth coupons and money left in her pocket, Lin Xia remembered that she had no meat ticket.

Lin Xia hadn't eaten a single bite of meat in the past few days since she came here. It would have been fine if she hadn't seen any meat, but now that she saw the meat, how could she be willing to give it up? She had only vegetables and whole grains every day, and she felt like she had lost weight again.

She felt like she was about to drool. She had to eat the meat today, otherwise she would not be able to sleep tonight.

Lin Xia thought for a moment and waited patiently by the side until an older woman with a basket arrived. Lin Xia noticed that when the older woman paid, she still had some extra meat tickets in her hand.

In order to eat meat, she risked her dignity today and shamelessly walked up to the older sister who had just bought meat and took her away.

When they reached the corner, the older sister who was pulled over looked puzzled. If the person who was pulling her wasn't a fair, tender and delicate girl, she would have elbowed him.

Only when the little girl said she wanted to exchange the tickets did she put aside her doubts. When she heard that it was cloth coupons, she was tempted. Her family had enough meat, but her daughter was about to get married, and she was in need of some cloth coupons.

In the end, the two of them got what they wanted and parted ways contentedly. Lin Xia happily took the ticket and went to buy meat.

"How did you change it?" Lin's mother was suspicious. Why didn't she usually encounter such a good thing?

"That's how I exchanged it. At least I have meat to eat." Thinking back on it later, Lin Xia couldn't help but feel disgusted with her own shamelessness.

"Let me do it!" Lin Xia looked at the temptingly colored piece of pork and started thinking about how to eat it.

Wu Fangfang, who was resting at home while pregnant, heard the commotion outside and walked out of the room with her big belly. She just happened to hear Lin Xia announce her decision to make braised pork.

Suddenly everyone in the kitchen was shocked.

"You cook?" Mother Lin seemed to have heard some shocking news. This lazy daughter was actually going to cook?

"It's me! I'll be in charge of cooking. Do you have any potatoes at home?" This piece of meat is not the most suitable pork belly, but it has both fat and lean meat and is quite suitable for braising.

Lin Xia learned to cook from her grandmother since she was young. In the early days, she cooked for herself to save money because she was poor. Later, when she made money, she still liked to cook by herself. She wanted to make it clean and healthy. She would learn to cook anything she wanted to eat.

Lin Xia thought that with such a small piece of meat, each person could only get two pieces, which was definitely not enough. She thought of adding more potatoes. This versatile ingredient, after being covered with broth, is not much worse than meat, and is a good tool for eating with rice.

Mother Lin looked at Lin Xia suspiciously when she said she wanted to cook. The sun was rising from the west? Why did she suddenly want to cook?

Wang Yanmei hesitated and questioned in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. Can this sister-in-law do it? Will she waste the meat? She has never seen her sister-in-law cook since she got married, and she doesn't know if she can eat it.

Wu Fangfang, who was happy to have meat to eat today, was stunned. "Sister-in-law cooking? Is this edible?"

The original owner was lazy and had hardly ever cooked. But when the eldest daughter got married and learned to cook, the younger daughter also learned from her, but she didn't cook often.

The Lin couple treat their two daughters and their son equally and have no preference for boys over girls, otherwise they would not have sent both daughters to school. This is why the Lin family lives a tight life even though both of them are working.

When raising their child in the past, the Lin couple worried a lot about their naughty son. Their well-behaved and sensible daughter did make them feel relieved. It was only after she met the boy from the He family that her daughter became abnormal.

"How about I do it?" Wang Yanmei wanted to stop her sister-in-law from cooking. It seemed that her sister-in-law was not good at cooking. The family hadn't seen meat for a long time. It was so hard to get a piece of meat to satisfy their craving. If she didn't cook it badly, she would be heartbroken.

"You'd better go and take a rest!" Lin's mother wanted to chase him away, thinking that Lin Xia was just joking because she was in a good mood.

"I'll do it, I'll do it! If you don't let me cook, I... I won't go on the blind date!" Lin Xia was anxious and yelled. She thought for a long time but couldn't figure out how to get back the power of cooking. She could only threaten with the blind date.

Seeing this, Lin's mother stopped trying to stop her and let Lin Xia do what she wanted.

Lin Xia knew that her sister-in-law and mother did not trust her, but it didn’t matter. When she showed her skills, she would definitely surprise them and make them look at her with new eyes.

She took a few potatoes and went out to the sink to peel them. Behind her, Wang Yanmei and Lin's mother looked at the piece of meat and the potatoes she took away with heartache, as if they had already seen the mess of meat.

When Wu Fangfang saw that her sister-in-law and mother-in-law did not say anything to stop her, she didn't know what to say. She just felt a little distressed and reluctant to give up the piece of meat. She had been craving meat for a long time since she became pregnant, but she didn't dare to say it out loud for fear of being laughed at for being a greedy woman.

No matter how much Wang Yanmei tried to try to stop her, she could only watch Lin's mother agree to her sister-in-law's nonsense. The mother-in-law was good in every way except that she was too partial to her sister-in-law.

Everything was good about Wang Yanmei marrying into the Lin family. Her parents-in-law were not unreasonable people. But seeing that her sister-in-law had stayed at home for a year without going out to work, she couldn't wait to marry Lin Xia off.

The sister-in-law is not a bad person, but she also has to make plans for her son.

Lin Xia was looking at the small tiles and bumpy potatoes in his hands with annoyance, missing the modern peeler so much. He hadn't lived such a hard life for more than ten years and was actually a little uncomfortable.

Wang Yanmei couldn't stop her sister-in-law, so she had to pick up the meat and go to the sink to wash it. But when she walked to the sink and saw the potatoes in her sister-in-law's hand that looked like they had been chewed by a dog, she no longer had any hope for her sister-in-law.

Lin Xia saw her sister-in-law's shocked look and felt embarrassed. Could she say that the tool was not good enough? This really did not represent her true level.