Chapter 31 It’s all Yu Hui’s fault
Qian Lan pointed at a short-haired girl among the female soldiers in the art troupe and asked Yu Hui.
I was very puzzled. Xiao Yu only took care of the children at home and went out to buy groceries. She had never come into contact with the girls from the art troupe and should not know them. Why was this short-haired girl glaring at Xiao Yu?
"Isn't that right?" Yu Hui said.
"Why is she glaring at you? Do you know each other?" Qian Lan heard Yu Hui's tone and felt that they knew each other.
"Wu Hongyan, who are you looking at?" The girl walking behind Wu Hongyan saw that she slowed down, so she looked in the direction she was looking and asked her.
"No one." Wu Hongyan quickly retracted her gaze and took a few quick steps.
The girl frowned as she looked in the direction of Yu Hui and the others, then followed them.
After walking a little further away, Wu Hongyan turned around and looked at Yu Hui resentfully.
This country woman is so hateful. She has clearly apologized, and this was just a misunderstanding.
This country woman still went to complain to the leader of the art troupe, because the deputy director had already decided on the new dance and asked her to be the lead dancer.
But yesterday, the deputy director suddenly found her and said that she had ideological problems and was not suitable to be the lead dancer, so he replaced her with someone else.
She asked the deputy team leader if someone had reported her, but the deputy team leader just asked her to think about it carefully and did not say what happened specifically.
After thinking about it, she concluded that the only possibility was that Captain Gu’s country wife had gone to the regiment leader to complain about her.
After all, the regimental leaders all lived in the military district’s family compound. If Captain Gu’s country wife wanted to file a complaint, she didn’t have to go directly to the regiment, but could go directly to the leaders’ homes to file the complaint.
She had been looking forward to this lead dancer position for a long time. She had been practicing hard for this position, but she lost the lead dancer position because of this country woman. How could she not hate it?
And because of this country woman, she, Liu Qian, and Xuelian all had a falling out.
They all blamed her because she caused them to misunderstand someone on the bus and get lost, and she also had to bear the risk of being reported to the group leaders and being punished.
She was so angry that she quarreled with them for a few words, and then they fell out. Now they don't call her to eat or to practice dancing in the dance studio.
Wu Hongyan did not reflect on herself at all and felt that all this was Yu Hui's fault.
It was because of her aggressiveness and persistence that she lost her position as the lead dancer, lost her good impression in front of the troupe leaders, and fell out with her good sisters.
"How could this really happen? That girl even dared to glare at you. Where does she get the nerve to do that?" Qian Lan was even angrier than Yu Hui after hearing her story about being wrongly accused on the bus.
"You really should go to their regiment leader and complain about them, so that everyone can see how they wrongly accuse the military families." Qian Lan said indignantly.
Yu Hui said, "As long as they don't mess with me, this matter will be over. If they mess with me again in the future, I will definitely go talk to their group leader."
Qian Lan: "You are a kind-hearted girl."
If it were her, she would have gone straight to the art troupe that afternoon.
Yu Hui smiled and said nothing.
When they got home, Gu Xi and Gu Nan were very happy to see the candied haws. Yu Hui gave them the candied haws and put Bei Bei down from her back.
After carrying for most of the morning, she was really tired and her back ached.
"Mom, you eat first." Gu Xixi held the candied haws in front of Yu Hui.
Yu Hui didn't bother to be polite with him and just opened her mouth and took a bite.
Seeing her mother eating it, Gu Xixi was very happy and started licking the candied haws.
"Ah, I want it..." Beibei, who was placed in the cradle, stood up by holding the edge of the cradle and reached out to grab the red candied haws in his second brother's hand.
Gu Nan was hesitating whether to give his sister a lick or not when he heard his stepmother say, "Don't give it to your sister. She's still too young to eat candy."
Gu Nan looked at his sister apologetically, lowered his head and took a bite of the candied haws.
Candied haws are so sweet and delicious. The last time I ate candied haws was during the Chinese New Year.
"Wow, wow, wow..." Beibei pouted and started crying when she saw that her brother didn't give her candy, but it was just thunder without rain.
"You guys go out and eat, don't let her see." Children are like this. If they see others eating, they want it, but if they don't see, they don't want it.
So, Gu Nan and Gu Xi ran to the yard to eat.
Beibei couldn't see anymore, so Yu Hui coaxed her a little and she stopped crying for candied haws.
The two brothers finished eating the candied haws before entering the house. Yu Hui had rested enough, so she asked them to look after Beibei and went to the kitchen to stew the chicken.
This stewed chicken takes a long time, so it should be cooked early.
She bought some dried bamboo fungus at the market and planned to make some bamboo fungus chicken soup.
Cut the chicken into pieces, blanch the green onion and ginger in a large pot, then put it in a large casserole, add water, old ginger, and bamboo fungus, and stew it on the stove.
After the chicken was stewed, Yu Hui slowly prepared the other dishes for lunch.
There was stewed chicken for lunch, so she planned to stir-fry tofu with green onions, stir-fried water spinach, and spicy and sour chicken offal.
The chicken offal will not be able to suppress its flavor unless it is stir-fried with sour and spicy flavor.
It took quite a while just to clean the chicken offal. After the chicken had been stewed in the casserole for about half an hour, the aroma began to waft out.
"It's not a festival now, but who's stewing a chicken? The day before yesterday, they were enjoying steamed buns, and today they're enjoying chicken. Isn't this just bringing out the gluttons in the kids' stomachs, and making them ask us for meat?" Liu Qin said as she walked outside the courtyard gate.
Her youngest son, Luo Xiaojun, is out playing now, but if he comes back and smells the fragrance, he will definitely ask her for meat.
The day before yesterday, Xiaojun started asking her for steamed buns. Yesterday morning, she went to the cafeteria and got some steamed buns for him to eat, and only then did he stop.
Wang Tiaohua, the mother of Deputy Battalion Commander Luo, who lived across the street from her, also came out of her house. "Isn't it? I wonder whose family is stewing the chicken?"
Liu Qin's husband's surname is also Luo, and he is a battalion commander. Wang Tiaohua's son's surname is also Luo, and he is a deputy battalion commander. Fortunately, one is the battalion commander and the other is the deputy battalion commander. If both of them were battalion commanders, and someone called him Battalion Commander Luo, no one would know who they were calling.
"Whoever's house has guests today must be that family." It's not a festival, and if there were no guests at home, no one would stew chicken.
A soldier's family member carrying a vegetable basket passed by the two houses and heard the conversation. He pointed to Captain Gu's house in the back and said, "That's Captain Gu's stewed chicken."
"Captain Gu's home? Yu Hui? Is Captain Gu coming back?" That's not right. It takes a month to study in Beijing, and Captain Gu has only been gone for more than half a month. It's still too early for him to come back.
After all, it will take a few days on the road.
"Since no one came back, they stewed the chicken. It was her family who steamed buns the afternoon before yesterday." Her family lives next door to Wen Zhaodi's. Yesterday morning, Wen Zhaodi pulled her aside and talked about how Captain Gu's new wife was stingy and money-conscious.
She said her son Hongbing wanted to eat buns. She saw Yu Hui holding the buns and wanted to exchange two with her, but she refused and even sold them for 20 cents each.
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