Gu Qingqing took the fragrant duck meat directly from the spatula with her hands. She took a bite and passed it to the man beside her happily: "It's so delicious! Brother, come and try it. My third uncle's cooking is better than that of ordinary state-owned restaurants."

Before she went to the military corps last time, her mother took her and her brother Yuan Chao to eat food in a hotel. Although the food tasted good, it was still a little worse than that of her third uncle.

In her heart, Third Uncle’s cooking is the best in the world, followed by Yu Uncle, and then her mother and second aunt.

Gu Cai was flattered by her praise and waved his hands: "It's because you have been used to the dishes cooked by your uncle since you were a child..."

Chu Dai took a bite of the sizzling duck meat and nodded with a smile: "It's delicious."

Gu Cai smiled even more happily.

There are many dishes today, and the meal will not be served until 7 o'clock in the evening. The boys of the Gu family carried the food and bowls to the main room. The big round table was filled with dishes, including braised pork, boiled fish with melon, roast duck with dry wine, stir-fried chicken with peppers, steamed egg, pumpkin and vermicelli soup. Beetroot and Chinese cabbage are common green leafy vegetables in winter. There is even konjac tofu cooked with red peppers and coriander. It is so delicious.

Gu Qingqing could no longer hold back her excitement. After Gu Tiezhu, Chu Yuan and the elders were seated, she quickly served them rice and then pushed down the guard who was standing there like a wooden stick.

The guard subconsciously wanted to give her a shoulder throw, but Chu Dai grabbed her wrist.

He was a little confused, and when he came to his senses, he was at a loss as to what to do and was about to stand up.

Gu Qingqing placed the bowl and chopsticks in front of him with a smile, "Eat, don't stand."

The guard subconsciously looked at Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan nodded at him, and the guard touched the bowl. "Thank you, comrade."

Gu Qingqing laughed.

They sat around the round table. There were nineteen people including the Gu family and Gu Qingqing. There were four people in total including the Chu family's father and son, Chu Zhao and the guards. There were too many people to fit in, so they divided into two tables.

Gu Bao had already brought the coal stove and placed it under the table so that it would be warm while eating.

When Tiezhu started to eat, they followed suit.

Chu Yuan looked at the table full of delicious food and his appetite grew. The meat in his bowl was always full. Gu Tiezhu and Gu Jin sat next to him and kept putting meat into his bowl.

The hospitality in the countryside was so warm, and since they were relatives, Gu Tiezhusi didn't feel sorry for them at all.

Chu Zhao finally understood why his sister-in-law always talked about how delicious her uncle's cooking was. This was really delicious, even better than the food at the Flight Crew Kitchen. The food at the Flight Crew Kitchen was just more nutritious with more meat, but the taste was just average.

Thinking of this, he said, "Uncle, aunt, Canyang will be back tomorrow. I will pick him up at the train station then."

Shi Rushuang knew that her eldest son would not be back until New Year's Eve because he had to go to the tailor shop to get clothes for his sister. She was happy at this moment: "Okay, then we can go there after lunch on your uncle's bicycle."

"Okay." Chu Zhao nodded and continued to eat with his head down.

Gu Qingqing listened to the elders chatting and whispered in Chu Dai's ear: "Why don't you try that fish? Brother, you won't be embarrassed to eat some food, will you?"

She looked at the man for a while and found that he only held the one in front of her.

Chu Dai glanced at her and said, "You are leaning on me, it's hard to get up."

Only then did Gu Qingqing sit up straight.

Seeing the two people whispering here, Han Lianxin and Zhang Yuqing looked at each other and nodded secretly.

The three sisters-in-law whispered quietly -

"Sister-in-law, will Qingqing send a message to my parents' home about her wedding?"

"Of course." Shi Rushuang was happy that her daughter and her husband had a good relationship. "You guys are going back to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the Chinese New Year. Then you can bring your relatives over and have a good time."

"As long as you don't mind that I have too many family members, I have no objection. I will go back and bring my parents, brother and sister-in-law here." Han Lianxin smiled.

"How many people can be more than us, Gu's family?" Zhang Cuifen heard what the second son's wife said and glared at her: "This year your eldest brother is the leader of the production team. The team has more than enough food. Let the in-laws come over, and then they can take the food back."

Chu Zhao pricked up his ears and listened for a long time. He used to be worried about his brother, thinking that with so many people in the Gu family, they would not make things difficult for him. Now he is completely relieved.

The Gu family is a very kind family.

It’s a pity that Gu’s family only has his little sister-in-law as their sweetheart, otherwise he really wants to marry one home.

Chu Yuan was used to being lonely at home all year round. Although he would occasionally drink and play chess with other commanders, it was still a little boring.

Now that he has come to the Gu family, his heart is burning with joy, as if he has become part of this big family and is one of them.

If he could not still fight for the country for another ten or twenty years, he would have wanted to come directly to Gu's family to take care of him in his old age. He saw that Gu's family had many empty houses, so he could just give his monthly allowance to them as food.

"Captain? Captain!"

"Why are you still eating, old man?"

"Let's watch TV, Uncle Gu." This is Zhao Yu's voice.

Gu Jin quickly finished the rice in his bowl and said, "Dad, Mom and Daddy, take your time eating. I'll go out and greet some people first."

"Go ahead." Zhang Cuifen shook her head. This old man never put down his bicycle during the day, and when he came back in the evening he would keep playing with the TV.

Gu Bao followed him out: "Dad and Mom, I'm done eating too, you guys take your time."

Chu Yuan found this family interesting, so he squinted his eyes and slowly clinked glasses with Gu Tiezhu.

Gu Qingqing had been whispering to Chu Dai: "My brothers and I have agreed to go catch snails after dinner. Do you want to go with us or stay at home and watch TV?"

"I'll go with you." Chu Dai put the rice grains at the corner of her mouth into his own bowl. "It's too cold outside. Do you want to put on more clothes?"

"Let's go back to the room later." At this point, Gu Qingqing pulled his sleeve and whispered in his ear, "Do you want to stay in the same room with me tonight?"

Chu Dai smiled: "You want to live in the same room with me?"

Gu Qingqing pulled his sleeve sheepishly and whispered, "I can't sleep without you by my side."

Chu Dai held his forehead with his hand, and a low laugh escaped from the man's throat: "I slept soundly alone."

"Dream on!" Gu Qingqing snorted.

Since they got married, Gu Qingqing has become more and more courageous. At the beginning, she didn't dare to look him in the eye and could only look at him secretly, but now she touches him all over when he sleeps. The change was very fast and natural.

Fortunately, he had known Gu Qinglie for two years and had seen her personality from him. He knew that both Gu siblings were equally passionate and bold, so he was able to accept it slowly.

Sometimes I even have a novel feeling about her, discovering that she has more than one side.

She can carry bamboos carelessly, or pull your sleeve and act coquettishly to you with her big watery eyes, or even take advantage of you and make further advances as if it’s a matter of course.

A fickle woman.

When they came out after dinner, the yard was already crowded with people. The villagers brought stools from their homes and took up seats. Qin Wu also came and argued with Gu Jin about how to change the stage.

Gu Jin still had that honest, smiling, silly look. Qin Wu next to him was so angry that he jumped up and down: "What do you mean I'm a country bumpkin? Have you used this thing before, Gu Hanzi?"

"Isn't this working?" Gu Jin scratched his head and said, "You'll get the hang of it after using it a couple more times."

Qin Wu rolled his eyes again at this veiled show-off.

"Po! Don't move, I got it!" The picture flashed by and turned into snowflakes again.

The man sighed: "Abao, didn't you have dinner? Why are your hands so unsteady?"

Gu Bao held up the antenna pole and shouted down: "Satellite? Gu Weixing, you hold it."

"Hey, here comes my uncle." Gu Weixing, the youngest son of Gu Cai, climbed up to the roof swiftly. "You should have called me a long time ago. Why don't you look at my name?"

Gu Bao was relieved and left the task to him and climbed down by himself.

As soon as Gu Weixing got started, the screen appeared immediately, and everyone in the audience laughed: "If you want to watch TV, you have to use Weixing!"

Qian Guihua laughed so hard that she fell backwards: "Isn't this what I found?"

The TV screen stopped flickering, and the female soldiers in military uniforms came into view.

"These are the sons and daughters of heroes! I went to the Red Flag Production Team to see them last time." When the electricity was first connected, the Red Flag Production Team bought a TV and they all ran to watch it.

"Hush, be quiet, Mengzi, raise your voice."

Qin Wu was annoyed: "Foolish, you are capable, why did you ask me to come?"

"You are the most capable!" Gu Jin smiled.

Gu Qingqing originally wanted to run over to talk to Zhao Yu, but seeing that she was so engrossed in watching, she stopped.

She had watched a lot of TV at the Chu family during this time, and since she had seen this drama before, she didn't find it new.

Chu Dai followed Gu Qinglie and Gu Yuanchao carrying a bucket. Gu Xiong went to get the fishing nets. No one liked to go to the river in the winter, so it was a good opportunity for him to see if he could get some shrimps to eat for the New Year tomorrow.

"Qingqing," Chu Dai called her, "Go back to your room and put on a cotton jacket. I'll be waiting for you here."

Seeing that Chu Dai cared about her, she couldn't suppress the smile on her face. Gu Qingqing said "Hey" and hurried back to the house.

Gu Qinglie put his hand on Chu Zhao who just walked over and said, "Brothers, I'm going to show you today what it means to catch loaches. You've never experienced this before, right?"

Chu Zhao kindly reminded him: "My grandmother's home is also in the countryside, and I have to go back to live there for a while every year."

"Oh, then you're definitely not as good as me at catching loaches. How about we have a competition? The loser gets to run around the village twice."

Chu Zhao pointed at the big yellow dog in Xue Jianshan's hand at the door and said, "I want to run, but I'm afraid this thing will chase me."

"Are you afraid of dogs?" Gu Qinglie looked incredulous, then burst into laughter and patted Chu Dai's arm: "Old Chu, did you hear that? He's a soldier who's fought in wars, but he's afraid of dogs!"

Chu Dai didn't say anything for a long time.

Chu Zhao said maliciously: "Brother, I am not the only one who is afraid. He is afraid too. When we were kids, we were chased by the dog in the compound and ran around the yard. He was even bitten."

Gu Qinglie: “…Hahaha!” His laughter became more and more unbridled and could not be stopped: “You two masters, were bitten by a dog?”

"I didn't, it was him." Chu Zhao sold his brother without hesitation: "Didn't you see that when Da Mi walked past him today, his body was tense like a fully stretched bow."

Gu Qingqing just came out of the house wearing a cotton jacket, her big eyes full of disbelief, she tried to hold back her laughter and said, "Brother, are you afraid of dogs?"

She thought he was fearless and not afraid of anything!