Chapter 47

After entering the family compound, Lin Qingqing said to Lu Cheng: "Lu Cheng, you take Hai Ci home first, I'll go to sister-in-law Xiuyao's house, she brought about 200 kilograms of food today, I'll go and take a look."

"Then you will bring it back to the brine later?" Lu Cheng asked, "I'll go with you." It's not that he underestimated her, she couldn't even carry 20 kilograms of winter melon, let alone 200 kilograms of pig intestines.

Lin Qingqing: "Don't bring all back, I'll distribute them evenly, see how many people wash them, and arrange to take them to their homes to brine. I will come back to mix the brine, if I can't carry it, I'll call you."

Lu Cheng heard that this is also fine: "Okay."

When Lin Qingqing arrived at Yu Xiuyao's house, Yu Xiuyao was chatting with several military wives. Lin Qingqing came here after finishing work in the cafeteria, so she was later than them. However, they were probably waiting for Lin Qingqing.

"Lu Cheng's wife is here."

"Qingqing is here."

"Deputy Regimental Officer Lu's wife is here."

Everyone greeted Lin Qingqing.

"Hello, sisters-in-law." Lin Qingqing said with a smile. Including Yu Xiuyao, there were four people here, the ones who sent her to the hospital that day. Therefore, Yu Xiuyao also made appropriate arrangements and called all the people who were sent to the hospital.

Yu Xiuyao said, "You're finally here. I was just wondering whether I should call you."

"I just finished working in the cafeteria and came over right away." Lin said softly, "Have you arranged your sister-in-law's affairs?"

Yu Xiuyao: "Yes, we've divided it into four parts, 50 kilograms each. I asked Dawang to write it down. I told them that the cleaning, firewood, and brine making are all done at their house, and each person will get one cent per kilogram. The Cui family has a bicycle, and the Cui sister and I will deliver the goods together, and we will get an additional two yuan per month."

Lin said softly, "Then do as my sister-in-law says. I'll go home to get the ingredients." In this way, her family won't have to make brine anymore.

...

When Lin Qingqing returned home, Lu Cheng was standing in the yard. He saw Lin Qingqing carrying the seasonings but no ingredients. Lu Cheng said, "Is it too heavy? I'll go with you to get it."

Lin Qingqing said, "No, I'll prepare the seasonings. We're not cooking at our house today. Sister Xiuyao called the three sisters-in-law who sent me to the hospital last time to join us. With her words, the four families shared the work equally, so we also cooked at their four families. I'm not worried about anything else, I'm afraid they can't clean it up. But I think Sister Xiuyao should be reliable. If they can be called, they must also pay attention to hygiene. "

Lu Cheng said: "They are all good people. When I was on a mission before, they often took care of Haici. I...the day I came back, they also told me that you had a conflict with the aunt of Commander Qin. They also asked me to treat you well, saying..." At this point, Lu Cheng paused and said that they were an old man and a young wife. Lu Cheng couldn't say this, he simply didn't admit that he was old. "

What did you say?" Lin Qingqing saw that he stopped talking and asked curiously.

"That you are a good comrade." Lu Cheng changed his words without blushing or panting. But because he felt a little guilty, he didn't dare to look at Lin Qingqing.

Lin Qingqing did not doubt his words. How could she know that the serious-looking Lu Cheng would lie? So she was quite happy to hear what Lu Cheng said. Who doesn't like to be praised? "You take a nap. I'll go to prepare the ingredients."

Lu Cheng naturally did not go. He stood at the door of the kitchen and watched her prepare the ingredients. Fortunately, soy sauce, salt and sugar are all provided by the supply and marketing cooperative, and no tickets are required to buy condiments such as star anise. Otherwise, there would not be so many soy sauce tickets just to buy soy sauce.

The most consumed ingredient in making brine is soy sauce. Because of the soy sauce, less salt is used, and less sugar is used, just to enhance the flavor.

"Doesn't this need oil?" Lu Cheng saw that Lin Qingqing did not add oil, but the supply and marketing cooperative sent several kilograms of oil.

Lin Qingqing said: "No oil is needed, but I told the supply and marketing cooperative that I needed oil. I just didn't want the cooperative to figure out the recipe. However, although the oil is not needed, the bean paste is needed, so the money for the oil is used to offset the money for the bean paste."

Lu Cheng: "Then we won't be short

of oil at home." "The carpenter's wife and I have agreed that if we need anything, we can exchange it for oil... Oh, I remember, I forgot the sesame powder. I have to go to the carpenter's house later." Lin Qingqing remembered the sesame powder.

"I'll go." Lu Cheng said, "I'll go to the county town by the way to buy your high school books."

Lin Qingqing heard that it was okay: "But will you be able to come back in the afternoon in time?"

Lu Cheng: "In time."

Lin Qingqing: "Thank you, Lu Cheng." Her tone was grateful, and her bright eyes looked at him as if they could speak.

She was different from others, at least in Lu Cheng's heart. Not only because she was his wife, but her difference was in her personality. She was very good at getting along with people, but sometimes she was like a child.

"You..." Lu Cheng wanted to ask, he had been on a business trip for half a month and she didn't ask for a wedding night. Was it because she was angry? But after thinking about it, he decided to ask in the evening. "Then I'll go first."

"Goodbye!" Lin Qingqing watched him walk away at the kitchen door. When she retracted her gaze, she was stunned when she saw the seasoning on the ground.

What should she do?

She is alone in this world. If there is a man by her side who has good conditions in all aspects, especially a good personality, and is also a handsome and warm man, she can't say that she is very moved, but her heart will be touched.

Maybe it's a bit nervous and scared to be alone in this world, so she wants to have someone to rely on.

Maybe after her grandma passed away, she felt lonely, so she wanted someone to accompany her like her grandma.

However, this person cannot be Lu Cheng, she is someone else's husband.

But it seems that this person cannot be someone else, because in terms of identity, she is Lu Cheng's wife.

This contradictory relationship makes Lin Qingqing very helpless.

She thought about it and realized that she really couldn't just escape, nor could she just get along with Lu Cheng like this. If she used this marriage to live comfortably for a few years, it would be unfair to Lu Cheng. But if she happily accepted Lu Cheng, what if the original owner came back?

Lin Qingqing was not a hesitant and indecisive person. After thinking for a while, she made a decision. Since she had made a decision, she stopped thinking about it. She took the seasonings and went to blanch the pig intestines.

Four families, each family put their pig intestines into the pot with seasonings. Lin Qingqing told them the heat and time, and everyone began to wait for the brining to come out of the pot.

Everyone took this money-making job very seriously, and Yu Xiuyao knew their personalities, so they didn't do anything that would disgust Lin Qingqing. For example, Lin Qingqing went to each other's kitchens and saw that they were very clean. When making food, hygiene is the most important thing.

The saltiness hadn't gone away yet, and Lu Cheng came back. When Lu Cheng came back and saw that no one was at home, he went to Qin's house and saw Lin Qingqing sitting there chatting with Yu Xiuyao.

"You're back." Lin Qingqing saw Lu Cheng appear, said hello to Yu Xiuyao, and left.

Lu Cheng waited for her to come out at the gate of the yard, and then left side by side with her. "I have brought sesame powder and books. I have also asked the high school you mentioned. The teacher there said that you can take the exams at the end of each semester. As long as you pass each subject, you will be given a high school diploma after the final exam of your senior year."

Lin Qingqing was finally relieved to hear him say this. "That's great. Thank you for your hard work today."

This sentence made Lu Cheng feel a little strange. Or rather, he felt that Lin Qingqing at this moment made her feel very strange. Lu Cheng is a person with sharp feelings, due to his profession. Once he has this feeling, he starts to look for the reason. But... he can't find the reason.

The two returned home, and Lu Cheng decided to ask directly: "Have you been angry with me recently?"

"No." Lin Qingqing was a little confused by the question. Lu Cheng couldn't find any point on his body that could make her angry. She does all the housework and washes her own clothes. She used to wash the dishes, but now she eats in the cafeteria, so she doesn't have to wash the dishes. But just because he can wash clothes, Lin Qingqing thinks he has a lot of advantages.

"Then you..." Lu Cheng hesitated, his handsome face flushed slightly, and he was a little embarrassed to ask.

Lin Qingqing: "What?" Seeing Lu Cheng's expression, Lin Qingqing was curious, "Why do you think I'm angry?" Does she act angry every day? No, she lives a happy life every day and feels that she is living a fulfilling life. It's different from the days when she was a host before. When she was a host before, she talked to herself in front of the dull camera. Although she was interacting with fans, it was actually the same as talking to herself through the network cable.

But now, she seems to have found another kind of fun in life. She wakes up every day at the wake-up call, and then goes to work with the comrades in the kitchen of the third company, researching the daily meals with the limited ingredients, and trying to make the comrades of the third company eat more deliciously. She

then uses her free time to make salty dishes and play with the cubs. Her life has never been so leisurely, nor has it ever been so brilliant.

"You... then why do you..." Why don't you mention the wedding night to me? Lu Cheng really couldn't hold back this sentence. Lu Cheng thought, let's not say it. Just take action at night. He is a gay man, and he should be more proactive in such matters, and can't wait for the female comrades to take the initiative. After thinking it through, he said, "It's okay, maybe I misunderstood. I'm going to the army. The book is here. Take a look first. I'll arrange time to teach you when I come back in the evening."

Lin Qingqing felt that he was inexplicable, and he left at a speed that was a little fast.

Lin Qingqing shook her head and picked up the high school books. Did Lu Cheng overestimate her? He actually bought all the books from the first to the third year of high school. Lin Qingqing flipped through a few pages. Her grades in junior high school were not good, mainly because of her serious bias in subjects. She had good grades in mathematics and Chinese, but very poor grades in English and physics and chemistry. If you take 100 points, her mathematics can basically be above 90 points, and Chinese can also be above 80 points, but English is only around 50 points, and physics and chemistry can only be around 60 points.

Apart from the 26 letters of the alphabet, she couldn't understand English at all when put together. So she took the entrance exam for a technical secondary school.

Lin Qingqing put down the book with a sigh. She felt that she was asking for trouble. Why did she mention going to high school?

Lin Qingqing put the book in the room, then closed the door and went to the cafeteria.

Today, Yu Xiuyao brought back two hundred kilograms of food ingredients. There may be more and more tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. In this case, the wood ash in the cafeteria of the third company's kitchen squad alone is obviously not enough. I have to discuss it with Qi Shao and ask him to ask other cafeterias. However, as the food ingredients increase, the money she earns will definitely increase. Even if the money for the wood ash is deducted and given to the cafeteria, there will probably be a lot left. Lin Qingqing didn't want to be criticized. If the money she earned was too conspicuous, she would have to give some of it away, just like the donations of love in later generations.

The canteen of the Third Company's kitchen squad

When Lin Qingqing arrived, Qi Shao and others had not started work yet. When Lin Qingqing saw Qi Shao, she remembered the matter of wood ash, so she asked: "Qi Shao, can you help me contact the squad leaders of other kitchen squads? Because the amount of pig intestines has increased here, I am worried that the wood ash of the third company's kitchen squad alone is not enough for me."

Qi Shao said without thinking: "What's the problem? The wood ash of the other eight companies has nowhere to be used."

Seeing that Qi Shao agreed so readily, Lin Qingqing thought it was not a big deal, and she was relieved. "Really? Thank you so much, Squad Leader Qi. Then I will subsidize the canteens of other companies according to the subsidy for our canteen."

Qi Shao: "No need for subsidy, right? This wood ash is just something we throw away. Now someone needs it, so it can be considered... it can be considered useful. As the saying goes... it is a worthy death."

"..." Lin Qingqing was amused by his description, "That won't work. If I don't give them subsidies, it would be bad if people gossip about them." Lin Qingqing was also frank with her opinion, "Besides, I can use my subsidies to buy some things for the soldiers in several companies to replenish their bodies. Now that the weather is hot, I can buy some mung beans and cook mung bean soup for them. If it is winter, I can buy some soybeans and grind soy milk for them to drink."

Qi Shao was stunned when he heard it: "Is it possible?"

Lin Qingqing: "Of course we can, do we have a stone mill here?"

Qi Shao: "We do have a stone mill, but no one here knows how to make soy milk."

Lin Qingqing pointed to herself: "I can." The process of making soy milk with a stone mill is the same as the principle of squeezing soy milk with a soy milk machine. As a food blogger, Lin Qingqing would not miss such an eye-catching thing as making soy milk with a stone mill, because modern people like simple things more and more with the development of the times.

Qi Shao did not expect Lin Qingqing to make soy milk: "That's great." Their troops do not need tickets to purchase ingredients. The troops will give them a sum of money. As long as they purchase something with the specified money, it is up to their kitchen team to decide. Of course, they will not buy anything casually, after all, the funds and materials are limited. But if Lin Qingqing gives the kitchen team some subsidies for wood ash, then it is also possible to use these subsidies to provide some benefits to the soldiers in the company. "Then Comrade Lin will decide when the time comes."

Seeing that Qi Shao had no objection, Lin Qingqing was also happy: "Okay." Speaking of which, if someone said that she was occupying the army's resources, it would definitely have a bad impact on Lu Cheng. So it was great that Qi Shao could understand. "By the way, Squad Leader Qi, can the people in our family compound use the stone mill here?"

Qi Shao said: "It's universal, anyone can use it."

Lin Qingqing thought to herself, then next time she would go to the carpenter's wife to exchange some soybeans, so that she could grind soybean milk to drink.

The two chatted for a while, and then it was time to prepare dinner. Today's dishes were shredded potatoes with vinegar and scrambled eggs with tomatoes. For the soldiers, it was another happy day.

The soldiers of the third company rushed to the cafeteria again, which naturally attracted the attention of other companies. They were all from the independent regiment, and many of them knew each other, so once there was some movement in one company, other companies would know it immediately.

After dinner, Lin Qingqing arranged for Qi Shao and others to prepare breakfast for tomorrow.

Hearing Lin Qingqing's arrangement, Qi Shao's eyes widened: "Then tomorrow morning will be very happy for them." Fortunately, they ate first.

Lin Qingqing smiled and said: "Then don't tell them."

"I definitely won't tell them, let them guess. They have been eating like crazy these two days, and they will definitely show off to other companies tomorrow." Not to mention those soldiers, even Qi Shao himself wanted to show off.

Lin Bao said, "I've already boasted about it, but those guys didn't believe me. Who hasn't eaten cucumber and eggplant? They said it was just like eating braised pork."

Puff... Lin Qingqing listened to Lin Bao's imitative tone, which sounded like a crosstalk. "Isn't there a saying that makes a fortune in silence? We'll just keep quiet and eat delicious food, regardless of whether they believe it or not." She originally wanted to say that she would keep quiet and eat a big meal, but this really wasn't a big meal.

"That's right..."

After preparing the ingredients for tomorrow morning, Lin Qingqing went home with Lu Cheng and Lu Haici who had been waiting for a long time.

On the way, Lin Qingqing said to the father and son, "You don't have to wait for me in the future, you can come back and take a shower first."

Lu Haici pulled Lin Qingqing's clothes and said first, "I want to be with my mother." His voice was so soft and he was really the best at pleasing others.

Lu Cheng, who was one step behind, wanted to sew his mouth shut. He felt that it was very likely that Lin Qingqing was angry with him recently. The reason was that he did not ask for a wedding night like on the wedding day, so Lu Cheng also wanted to show that Lin Qingqing would not be angry anymore. But every time he looked at his son, he felt that Lin Qingqing would only get more and more angry with him, because this little bastard was too good at pleasing people.

"Hai Ci is right, we are fine anyway." Lu Cheng said. He actually wanted to say that he wanted to wait, and he was willing to wait. But... he couldn't say it.

Lin Qingqing glanced at him. Since she had carefully thought about the relationship between herself and Lu Cheng at noon, she would hear different meanings in every word Lu Cheng said. How a man feels about a woman can be detected from his words, actions and eyes. In the past, Lin Qingqing had the memory of this body, so she never thought that Lu Cheng would be interested in her. Therefore, she and Lu Cheng got along more easily and casually. But since she realized that Lu Cheng had a good impression of her, she was not at ease at all.

Because she had the biggest secret in her heart.

"That's what you want to wait for, don't ask me for a reward afterwards." Lin Qingqing teased.

"I definitely don't want it." Lu Haici acted like a loyal little boy, "I don't want anything, I just want my mother."

Lu Cheng: "..." How should he respond to this?

"Then you don't want your father either?" Lin Qingqing teased him.

Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Lin Qingqing spoke up, otherwise he would have been killed by his son's words.

"Well..." Lu Haici thought about it, fortunately he didn't sacrifice his own relatives for the sake of justice, "Dad wants it too, but I want mom the most." He used three "mosts", which was more powerful than double "most". But..."What about mom? Dad or me?" He asked a question that went deep into the soul.

Hearing this, Lu Cheng subconsciously stood up straight. Oh, he was standing straight at first, and now he stood even straighter. But he didn't dare to look at Lin Qingqing, he could only watch secretly with his peripheral vision.

Lin Qingqing gave the little guy face and answered without hesitation: "Of course I want Lu Haici the most."

"Hehe..." Lu Haici laughed brilliantly.

Lu Cheng: "..." This laugh was not brilliant at all.

"Does mommy not want daddy anymore?" Lu Haici asked again. This was the question Lin Qingqing had asked him just now. The little brat was very good at inferring other things.

Lin Qingqing felt her face getting hot. She couldn't answer the question "yes" or "no". "Then tell me, do I want your daddy?" She pushed the question to Lu Haici.

Suddenly, Lu Cheng's eyes swept towards Lu Haici like bullets in a gun. He felt that nine times out of ten, the little brat would answer "no". Lu Cheng no longer had any hope for his son's answer. He began to think about how to deal with him in the evening.

"Of course." Lu Haici said his most desired wish in a childish voice, "Children should be with their parents. They can't be without their father or their mother." This was his greatest wish in his life.

Lin Qingqing, who was originally in a teasing mood, suddenly fell silent after hearing Lu Haici's words. She touched Lu Haici's head with her not-so-big and not-so-thick hands. This was once her greatest wish.

Children should be with their parents. This is not only Lu Haici's wish, nor is it just her wish. It should be said that this is the wish of every child.

Lu Cheng's hand involuntarily covered the hand that Lin Qingqing was touching Lu Haici's head with. Unlike Lin Qingqing's soft hands, his hands were very big, very thick, and even rough. However, Lin Qingqing looked at him. He met Lin Qingqing's gaze: "We will always be together." He, she, and Lu Haici, and perhaps their future children.

Lu Haici originally held his mother's clothes with one hand, and now he held his father's clothes with the other hand. On one side of him was his mother, and on the other side was his father. How nice! The little kid laughed and jumped.

Lin Qingqing did not answer. Although she was silent, she did not withdraw her hand.

However, Lu Cheng's eyes darkened... As expected, she was still angry with him.