Chapter 54 I’m Afraid, I Pretend
Lu Zhanlin and Xu Feng put down the things in the yard, especially the two pheasants. They found hemp ropes to tie them to their feet to prevent them from flying away and infecting other families.
Chu Yue brought Lu Yuanbao into the house and poured the water from the thermos into the washbasin. It was too late to change clothes, so she first wiped her face with hot water, washed her hands, and made them a little cleaner.
Chu Yue washed quickly. After wiping Lu Yuanbao's face, she put the basin on the ground, put soap on his little hands, and let him wash slowly.
Lu Yuanbao's fingernails were covered in mud from digging yam. He now knew that he couldn't eat without washing his hands, so it would take him a while to wash them.
After Xu Feng entered the room, he introduced himself to Chu Yue again.
"Sister-in-law, let me introduce myself again. I'm Xu Feng, the company commander of the 5th Company of the 3rd Regiment. I used to be a comrade in the same trench with Lu Tuan, and now we're good brothers. Before at the train station, I really didn't know about your relationship with Lu Tuan, and I didn't mean to hide it from you."
Xu Feng was so eager to survive that he almost said it was all Lu Zhanlin's fault and had nothing to do with him.
Chu Yue already had a rough idea of what happened at that time and shook her head indifferently.
Lu Zhanlin frowned aside. Sister-in-law is sister-in-law. What little sister-in-law? It sounds weird.
Xu Feng was a dashing man. Seeing that Chu Yue didn't care, he immediately continued, "Sister-in-law, I ate the wedding candy you and Lu Tuan gave me. I'm here to have another meal today. Sorry to bother you."
"It's just a meal, it's nothing."
Chu Yue looked up at Xu Feng, who was about the same height as Lu Zhanlin, and looked around as if she was picking a piece of pork belly.
Xu Feng felt uneasy when he was looked at by the petite Chu Yue, and always felt that something was wrong.
Lu Zhanlin couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?"
Chu Yue smiled and said, "Captain Xu looks so strong, he must be very good at working."
Chu Yue's implication was that it was okay to eat, but one had to work as hard as possible.
Xu Feng didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at this time, and immediately nodded happily and agreed, "Sister-in-law, if you need me to do anything, just tell me!"
Not long after.
Chu Yue built a bonfire in the yard and piled all the pine cones she had brought back and those she had taken out of the space without leaving any trace aside.
One by one, green pine cones were thrown into the fire. After more than ten minutes of burning, the moisture inside the pine cones was dried out, and the outer layer turned pitch black.
The layers of fish-scale-like structures on the pine cones crack open, and the pine cones can then be taken out of the fire.
Tear the hot pine cone in half and take out the pine nuts from the cracks. (Picture)
Chu Yue demonstrated it to Xu Feng, then said, "Captain Xu, I'm sorry to bother you."
"No big deal, I'll do it right away."
Xu Feng thought it was simple and started working on it immediately.
But after he actually did it, he found that because the pine cones contained moisture, the thick smoke that came out when he first started roasting the fire was very choking and irritated his eyes.
At this time in the evening, the cold wind blew from all directions, and there was no way to avoid it. It always blew towards you, making you want to cry.
The second step is to remove the pine nuts from the opening.
The pine nuts were small and numerous. Xu Feng was a rough man. He hit the pine cones with a wooden stick. A pile of pine nuts fell off, and he felt that was enough.
But there was a small supervisor named Lu Yuanbao next to him.
Lu Yuanbao shouted crisply: "Uncle Xu, there's more inside, more!"
"Uncle Xu, you didn't clean it up, don't waste it!"
"Uncle Xu, this thing is expensive, it can be sold for money--"
If Chu Yue is a big money-grubber, then Lu Yuanbao is a small money-grubber. He also regards Chu Yue's words as the truth. Chu Yue said that pine nuts are expensive and more valuable than pork belly, so he took it seriously in his heart.
Chu Yue took great pains to cut it from the top of the pine tree, and then carried it down the mountain with great effort. She must not let it go to waste.
When Lu Yuanbao shouted, Xu Feng had to pick up the pine cone again and carefully pick out every tiny pine nut inside.
He showed it to Lu Yuanbao, "Is this okay?"
Lu Yuanbao looked at it carefully and felt satisfied. He nodded seriously and said, "Well, that's enough. Let's go to the next one."
Wow!
The way he gave orders to others to do things was exactly the same as Chu Yue's.
Before, I thought they were like poor little creatures enslaved by the landlords.
Xu Feng now feels that he is the real pitiful guy!
When the news got out, Captain Xu had to work hard just to have a bite to eat.
The pungent smell of smoke spread out, and several sisters-in-law smelled it and came over to look curiously.
"What's going on? Is there a fire in Captain Lu's yard? Why is there suddenly smoke?"
The sisters-in-law took a stool, stood on it and leaned over the wall to look around, and just happened to see Xu Feng being directed by Lu Yuanbao to work.
"Oh! It's Captain Xu... Hahahaha... This is the first time I see Captain Xu working. Captain Xu, if you hold on for a few more days, maybe you can get a wife like Captain Lu!"
My sister-in-law is familiar with Xu Feng. She lay on the wall and joked with Xu Feng happily.
After hearing this, Lu Yuanbao rolled his bright black eyes and asked innocently, "Uncle Xu, you're still not married at this age?"
“Hahahaha…hahahaha…”
My sister-in-law on the wall burst into laughter.
Xu Feng's eyes were red from the smoke, tears welling up in his eyes, and he shouted, "Go away, go cook for your man, and stop making fun of me. You too, Lu Yuanbao, you're so young, what do you know about getting a wife or not? Let me show you—is this okay?"
Lu Yuanbao didn't care whether Xu Feng got a wife or not. He stared at the pine cone seriously and pointed with his little finger.
"Here, here is a small pine nut."
Xu Feng: This is really killing me...
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inside the house.
Chu Yue took a kitchen knife, picked up a pheasant, and walked to the corner of the yard.
Lu Zhanlin looked at the kitchen knife that shone with a cold light and asked hurriedly, "What are you going to do?"
"Kill a chicken." Chu Yue said calmly, as if it were a matter of course. "Captain Xu is your brother, and he's helping out again. He wants to stay for dinner, so we can't treat him badly. Yesterday, Sister Zheng gave me some chestnuts. If we kill a chicken, it will be just right for making chestnut stewed chicken."
What Chu Yue said made sense and there was no big problem, but when she talked about killing the chicken, she didn't blush or feel nervous, and was unusually calm.
Her demeanor at this moment was more like she was going out to the yard to cut a bunch of leeks.
Lu Zhanlin looked at Chu Yue's fair face, then at her slender wrist. The handle of the kitchen knife was thicker than her wrist.
He asked, "Aren't you afraid of killing the chicken?"
Chu Yue was stunned by the question.
How could she be afraid of killing chickens? When she was a medical student, she could cut open all kinds of animal corpses, even human cadavers, without batting an eyelid. Later, when she became an emergency doctor, she saw even more severed limbs.
But at this moment, she is not a medical student teaching cadaver anatomy, nor is she alone, so she does not have to be strong and indifferent forever.
Under Lu Zhanlin's worried and puzzled gaze, something on Chu Yue's body was silently changing.
She thought for a moment and said, "I'm scared. I don't dare to kill a chicken. Zhan Lin, you come."
Lu Zhanlin breathed a sigh of relief without leaving any trace.
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