After rubbing her sore neck, Pei Manning got up and went to the kitchen to make lunch.
The back room was originally a storage room with a lot of things piled up in it. Pei Manning cleaned it up and turned it into a kitchen.
The other closet is used as a bedroom, and the second room is used as the main hall and dining room.
Pei Manning would go to the state-owned vegetable store to buy vegetables every now and then, but those vegetables were usually grown in Xumijie to feed chickens and ducks. She only ate vegetables grown in Xumijie.
This is just to cover up and avoid arousing suspicion.
Later, she discovered that many varieties of vegetables here were not found in Sumire and seemed to have been introduced in later times, so she asked Mrs. Xu to buy many of them.
When Mrs. Xu was young, she planted some green onions, ginger, garlic, and peppers in flower pots in her yard, and she also had various vegetables to grow at home.
I heard that she wanted to eat, so I rummaged through the cupboard and took out several bags of pork belly.
When I gave it to her, I kindly reminded her: "Sister, it won't sprout if you plant it in the open air now. Wait until after the Chinese New Year and the spring comes, then you can plant it in your yard. Don't plant it now."
As soon as Mrs. Xu saw Pei Manning's appearance, she felt that she definitely didn't understand these things. The skin on her hands was white and soft, as tender as if you could squeeze water out of them. Her ten fingers were thin and soft, without any bruises. She had no idea how expensively she was raised.
๊ทธ is also pretty, with big black eyes, charming and seductive, fair skin, black hair and red lips, just like a fairy.
When she opened the door for the first time, she was stunned standing outside.
Subconsciously, she was shocked and worried that this girl was difficult to get along with. Unexpectedly, she was actually quite easy to get along with, with gentle eyes and a personality as gentle as water.
Pei Manning stuffed a bag of red bean paste cakes into Xu's hand and said with a smile, "Thank you, Xu's wife. I'll store those first and plant them in the spring. This is the newly made red bean paste cakes. I'm giving them to you to try."
Pei Manning couldn't blame Mrs. Xu for not giving her much. Although the cakes were not many, they were a token of her appreciation after all.
Mrs. Xu refused for a while. This thing was expensive. She once gave her a bowl of steamed buns, so she didn't mention it. But how could a few bags of vegetable seeds be worth exchanging for this?
However, thinking of eating mung bean cake for the first time, Mrs. Xu still swallowed her saliva. She didn't know how Pei Manning made it, but a small piece of cake could be made green and carved with patterns.
The fragrance is refreshing and not greasy. One piece will make you think about it for days.
Pei Manning stuffed the butter paper package into her hand and went home with the streaky food.
She planted them all in the fertile, dark soil of the Xumi world.
Nowadays, the things in the Sumi Realm are much richer than when she first came into being.
In addition to the medicinal herbs and flowers that I planted before, I can also buy vegetables on the market, such as cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, beans, radish...
However, the fruit trees were still the common peach, pear, persimmon, orange, plum, apple and vines. They grew only as high as her shoulders and had no flowers or fruits.
She plans to find an opportunity to plant some other types of fruit trees.
The chicks that Pei Manning bought in Anxian have grown up now. The hen has laid several eggs, but Pei Manning is reluctant to eat them and wants the hen to hatch them.
It was getting late at noon, so Pei Manning fried some cabbage and steamed some fish.
Although fish is also expensive, it is only 5 cents a piece, which is much cheaper than pork.
She took the steamed fish out of the pot, and the tempting aroma immediately filled the kitchen. She poured hot oil and soy sauce on it, and then she heard the sound of a car outside.
Pei Manning was stunned for a moment, put down her things, and realized that she had heard correctly, because there was a knock on the door.
"Comrade Han, Comrade Jiang, why are you here?" Pei Manying opened the door and saw Han Jingchen and Jiang Ye, both covered in dust.
"It's like this, Comrade Pei, we put an ad in the newspaper to find out some news for you, but no one has contacted us yet." Jiang Ye scratched his head, "No matter what, we have to tell you about the progress of the matter."
Not only that, they also checked the recent missing persons records, the registration of educated youth who fled their hometowns, and the files of criminal fugitives. So far, they have not found anyone who can match Pei Manning.
However, these materials are all in paper form and stored in archives. There are so many of them all over the country. It would be a huge project to find them one by one. It would be better to find a breakthrough from Pei Manning.
The only problem is that she always shows her true colors.
But so far, Comrade Pei seems to be fine.
After all, they gave her a chance to escape, but she didn't run away. She lived here peacefully and waited for them to investigate.
Pei Manning poured them a cup of hot water and said, "Sit down first and drink some hot water to warm yourself up."
Han Jingchen glanced at the stir-fried cabbage on the table, which obviously hadn't been used yet. He frowned and asked, "You haven't eaten yet?"
Pei Manning nodded: "I was busy for too long this afternoon and forgot to cook. Have you eaten? Or should we eat together?"
She didn't have a clepsydra or sundial, so she couldn't tell the time. She just listened to what her neighbors were doing. When everyone was cooking, she would help them cook. Sometimes she would be so engrossed in painting that she would miss dinner time.
"That's great, Comrade Pei. It just so happens that I haven't eaten lunch yet." Before Han Jingchen could say anything, Jiang Ye interrupted happily.
He could smell the aroma of the food from a distance, and even though he hadn't tasted it yet, his mouth was watering.
I don't know what Comrade Pei did.
Han Jingchen frowned, and couldn't bear to see Jiang Ye eating. He kicked him, and Jiang Ye jumped away immediately. "Then go and help serve the dishes."
While Han Jingchen was still talking, he quickly ran into the kitchen and took out the steamed fish.