Pei Xinghe was very happy to hear Gu Qingmeng's words. He knew that the little girl got along well with her parents and would not hate them. She could also make money to support them. He would work hard to raise her better and better.
Pei Xiuzhen leaned on her husband and wiped away her tears. The third and fourth sons were the only good ones in the family. The third son was in the army and didn't come back often. He just sent five dollars to his parents every month. He got married last year and received a letter in the first half of the year saying that his wife was pregnant and she should give birth in winter.
The fourth brother... looked at his younger brother Pei Xiuzhen and was a little confused. "You say he's useless, right?" He's a profiteer, but he doesn't have a proper job. He's a bit of a jerk, and all he has is a good-looking face.
I guess Gu Qingmeng just fell in love with her brother's face.
"Old Four, be careful when you go out. You're getting married soon and you'll have a family to take care of. I'll buy you two bottles of vanishing cream in a couple of days. You can put them on your face. Mengmeng will get some too."
She had asked someone to bring cosmetics to Gu Qingmeng, because vanishing cream was not worthy of her beautiful sister-in-law.
At that time, few people were willing to buy even clam oil, let alone vanishing cream. Pei Xiuzhen knew about cosmetics thanks to her father-in-law, who was the deputy director of a meat processing plant. The cosmetics were given to her mother-in-law by someone else, and then her mother-in-law gave them to her. Only then did she know that there were cosmetics that were more advanced than vanishing cream.
After using them up, her husband bought her another set. Thinking of her husband Pei Xiuzhen showing off her feminine appearance, her husband worked in the logistics department of the meat processing plant. As long as he could hold on for another two years, he would be promoted to director, and at least deputy director in the future.
Just talking about this relationship, it would be easy for Pei Fugui and Pei Jianshe to get a temporary job and then become a regular employee. However, the two brothers are not ambitious and only know how to bully others at home, even with their family members. Who would dare to get them around?
Yang Heping has told Pei Xinghe more than once to work in the meat processing plant, which would make it convenient for him to go to the black market in the county, but Pei Xinghe just refuses to go?
They left early in the morning and returned at noon with a few bags of food. On the way, Pei Xiuzhen asked Gu Qingmeng to go back with them to see how to divide the property.
Gu Qingmeng refused without hesitation. She and Pei Xinghe weren't even engaged yet. It wouldn't be appropriate for her to attend the Pei family division. Even if she did, she wouldn't have a say. It would be better not to go. With the team leader and Aunt Shuqin there, the family would probably be divided equally.
Besides, Pei Xinghe’s money is all in her hands, and a man like that won’t suffer any loss.
They brought back two bags of grain. Only the uncle and two aunts were at home, as the rest had gone up the mountain. Gu Qingmeng had just carried the backpack to the kitchen when she remembered to buy mutton.
While the three of them were gathered around the food, she quickly took out a large piece of lamb chops from the space and put it into the backpack.
"My dear, where did you get so much food?"
Fu Qingzhou had a hunch that the place where he bought food must be a place he didn't want to hear!
All three of them were staring at Gu Qingmeng. What could she do? She didn't want to lie, so she could only tell the truth.
"Pei Xinghe asked someone to buy it. I don't know where he got the food."
"Well, this area is all mountainous and the land is poor. They need a lot of food to do things, so they have to ask someone to get food in advance."
Hearing that it was not his niece who got the food, Fu Qingzhou no longer cared about anything else and happily put the food in the cabinet.
When Gu Qingmeng took out the meat from the backpack, several people were surprised. They thought that the meat from the supply and marketing cooperative was not selling well. But then they thought that there seemed to be a pharmaceutical factory in the county, so the meat could not be unselling.
After repeated questioning by several people, Gu Qingmeng finally said that she had exchanged it on the black market. After being lectured for nearly half an hour, she finally escaped from the misery.
"Uncle, did you exchange these chickens, ducks, geese, and eggs for them? By the way, have you gone to invite the Pei family?"
When she came back, she saw chickens, ducks, and geese tied to the ground, and a basket of eggs on the kitchen floor. The Pei family should be dividing the family property at this time, so it seemed inappropriate for them to ask for help.
"Uncle, you're awesome, right? But it's all your credit that we were able to exchange these things for you. When the villagers heard that I was your uncle, they all rushed to exchange things for me. I've already invited the Pei family, Su Xue's father-in-law, and that young elder."
Fu Qingzhou repeated to the people that they had to prepare two tables of meals. At this time, there were no green vegetables left, only potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and radishes. If they were in Beijing, they would go directly to a restaurant to entertain guests, but here they couldn't even order a few dishes in a restaurant.
Sun Yan and Feng Yanan didn't notice it at first, but as the ingredients continued to increase, they both became a little flustered. They both had jobs and ate in the cafeteria most of the time. They had less time to cook and even fewer dishes to serve.
"How about I make some patties?"
"How about making some dumplings?"
The two of them spoke in unison, and then fell silent as they looked at the ingredients. This made Fu Qingzhou realize that no one in the family seemed to be particularly good at cooking, and he had been a little careless in inviting this guest.
"Let me cook! It's a good opportunity for my uncles and aunts to taste my cooking skills."
Gu Qingmeng came to the rescue with a smile, which made the three of them almost cry. The baby they held in their hands could even cook for them. How much hardship did it take?
Before they could be sad for too long, Gu Qingmeng assigned work to everyone. Some were killing chickens, some were plucking feathers, and some were cutting vegetables. Everyone started working.
Gu Qingmeng breathed a sigh of relief. It must be embarrassing to be stared at all times, okay?
My second uncle and his family didn't come back at noon, so the three of us simply had some dumpling soup with salted duck eggs. We ate up half a pot of dumpling soup.
"My dear, your cooking skills are amazing. You must have inherited them from your grandma! Your grandma's cooking skills are so good that she can even make shredded potatoes taste like meat."
Fu Qingzhou fell into memories. His mother gave birth to three siblings, and she loved the youngest sister the most. Since the youngest sister died of dystocia, his mother's already poor health became even worse, and she passed away in less than half a year. How could their Fu family not blame Gu Jun?
He not only caused them to lose their beloved sister, but also their mother.
"Then how about I make a plate of shredded potatoes for uncle today? Uncle won't be sad."
Seeing that his uncle was missing his grandmother, Gu Qingmeng quickly changed the subject and let the two children of Black Panther out to play. Soon, there was a noise in the yard.
Gu Qingmeng and her two aunts began to prepare ingredients for the afternoon dinner. They had braised pork belly, sweet and sour pork ribs, roasted lamb chops, stewed chicken with mushrooms, duck for soup, steamed cured fish, stir-fried Chinese sausage with cabbage, stir-fried shredded potatoes, and candied sweet potatoes.
Eight dishes and one soup, perfect.
Seeing Gu Qing dreaming about frying sweet potatoes, the not-so-sting Sun Yan couldn't help but feel a little pained. Using so much oil just to fry a sweet potato! She felt that the sweet potato was somewhat unworthy.
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