Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Smoked Fish Paste (Second Update)…
"Go to work?" Hua Feifei really didn't expect that going to the countryside would be so hard. She hadn't digested today's hardships yet, and she still had to work tomorrow. She couldn't help but wipe away another handful of bitter tears.
Han Jing and Xu Fei couldn't help feeling a little depressed.
"That's enough," Ye Yu bluntly interrupted their sadness and dissatisfaction, saying, "Aren't you hungry? Let's cook dinner first and then go back to the house to pack our gifts, okay?"
Gurgle~
Someone's stomach rumbled, interrupting Hua Feifei's angry words.
"I'll take that as your agreement," Ye Yu nodded to himself, then continued, "Now let's discuss the kitchen rules. Can you guys cook? How should we arrange our meals from now on? Can you guys cook? Can we each take turns cooking each day?"
Nowadays, there are very few people who can’t cook. Hua Feifei, Han Jing, and Xu Fei can all cook. At least the basic cooking of sweet potatoes and corn is not a problem. Some can also roll out dough, and some can steam white rice. It’s a pity that they can’t buy rice in their small town in the north.
"Okay."
"……Can."
"Alright then, I'll cook tonight and tomorrow. We don't have much food right now, so we'll just have roasted sweet potatoes or boiled corn tonight and tomorrow morning," Ye Yu quickly made the final decision on the cooking matter, then kindly suggested, "Also, now take out the food you need and go back to your rooms to change clothes and shoes to avoid catching a cold. There's no health center in the village, and you might end up sick."
Hua Feifei, Han Jing, Xu Fei: "..." How can this female comrade be so cold and indifferent?
"How do you know there is no health station in the village?" Han Jing couldn't help asking.
Ye Yu looked at him as if he were a fool: "The captain never introduced the medical officer."
The medical worker is also one of the cadres. Even if he has something to do today, it is not a reason for the captain not to mention it at all. Refer to the militia company commander who was not seen today.
Moreover, the team leader had the strongest smell of disinfectant on his body when he was in the town, but most of it had dissipated when he arrived in the village. This shows that he had changed medicine in the town, and the leader of a team needed to go to the town to change medicine. On the other hand, it also confirmed that there was no medical worker in the village.
At the same time, it can also be speculated that Wang Zhiming had just retired and had not been the captain for long.
"……oh."
Han Jing, Xu Fei, and Hua Feifei felt that Ye Yu was really inhumane, whether it was the overly clear quantitative system just now, or the blunt statement that "the person is gone", but they couldn't say what was wrong. These considerations were correct if they thought about it carefully.
The three of them looked at each other, silently took out their rations, and went back to their rooms.
After they left, Ye Yu looked around the kitchen.
The stove has two doors, a stack of dry firewood, an old iron pot, an earthenware water tank, two wooden barrels and a wooden cupboard. It is really well equipped.
In this era, buying an iron pot requires an industrial ticket, and dry firewood represents thoughtfulness.
It doesn’t matter if it’s empty.
Ye Yu first took the bucket and went to fetch water. The location of the educated youth point was only a few hundred meters away from one of the streams, and it was also upstream, so it was quite convenient to fetch water.
It only took a few minutes to go back and forth twice. The wooden barrels were not enough, so I reached my hand into the water and secretly used the space to carry some. Unfortunately, the space was still a bit small.
What's even more regrettable is that the stream water is very clear but there are no fish, shrimp or loaches, only mud, stones and moss. She is not surprised by this. If there were fish, the villagers would have caught and eaten them, so she would have to go further upstream in the mountains to look for them.
Wash, scrub, light a fire, and boil water.
Cooking today was really simple. It didn’t require much skill, mainly because there weren’t that many ingredients. I used two stoves together, one to cook corn and the other to roast sweet potatoes.
Compared with Hua Feifei's two corns, Han Jing's two corns and two sweet potatoes, and Xu Fei's one corn and four sweet potatoes, Ye Yu's current appetite is equal to their total and he is still only six-tenths full. He still needs to add more oil and water.
“??!”
Han Jing and Xu Fei, who had changed their clothes and taken the things they brought from home, were shocked when they entered the kitchen. Ye Yu cooked so much corn and stuffed so many sweet potatoes into the stove? Apart from what they ate, she ate the rest by herself?
Han Jing muttered to himself:
"No wonder he's so strong."
"But, such an appetite..." Xu Fei omitted the rest of the words. More than 100 kilograms would not be enough for her to eat for a few days. He thought he had eaten too much today, mainly because the train journey and the day's journey were really tiring.
"? I've always had a big appetite," Ye Yu thought for a moment and added, "The firewood and water you use to cook are also mine." It's not a big deal.
Xu Fei waved his hand: "That's not what we meant. How can we count all the firewood and water on you? You're a female comrade—"
"Not all of them. I'm only in charge of the kitchen. Everyone's responsible for their own kang." The only thing Ye Yu cared about was the kitchen. She added two more sticks of firewood to the stove, raised her eyes and asked, "What's wrong, comrade?"
"……nothing."
Xu Fei was crying in his heart. He was a grown man, but he couldn't compare to a girl. Where was his dignity? He and Han Jing looked at each other and saw the sadness in each other's eyes.
To be honest, it’s not that Han Jing and Xu Fei look down on lesbians.
They had met some very outstanding female comrades who held up half the sky in the past, but they had never seen a female comrade with such great strength and physical strength.
The impact was too severe.
Han Jing and Xu Fei took two minutes to calm down before going forward to help.
Those who are making fire are making fire, and those who are cooking are cooking.
After a while, Hua Feifei came out and dinner was almost ready.
They didn't have tables or chairs here, so a group of people gathered around the stove to have this meal.
In addition to corn and sweet potatoes, Xu Fei brought a can of spicy fermented bean curd from home, Hua Feifei brought a bag of smoked fish with soy sauce from home, and Han Jing took out a small bottle of diced meat fried sauce.
Ye Yu thought sweet potatoes and corn were good, but smelling the chili and meat, it was hard to say that they were worse than sweet potatoes and corn. The smell of chili and soy sauce stimulated her and made her swallow her saliva frantically, but she still had the basic bottom line of being a human being. If she didn't steal or rob, she wasn't a bad person, so she could only take out the pickled spicy cabbage from the package.
After dinner, the air was silent for a minute.
Han Jing couldn't bring himself to eat the meat sauce alone, so he suggested, "Destiny brings us together, and we're gathered here today because it's fate. We'll learn and progress together, and build the village together. To celebrate our reunion, how about we have this meal together?"
Hua Feifei was not a stingy person. She didn't speak first mainly because she was still sulking with Ye Yu about choosing a room. She turned her gaze to Ye Yu.
Of course Xu Fei didn't mind. Eating together was actually beneficial to him, but because he had met the god today, he also turned his attention to the god Ye Yu.
So three pairs of eyes were fixed on Ye Yu.
Ye Yu usually doesn't show much expression. His eyes are like peach blossoms, but the black and white are not clear, giving people a hazy and mysterious feeling. But when he talks about food, his eyes bend into two crescents and the corners of his mouth rise slightly.
Everyone could feel her bright and cheerful mood, and they seemed to be infected as well.
But Ye Yu was even more stingy than they thought. He was happy at first, but when he saw how many sweet potatoes and corns he had taken out, his expression paused. However, they didn't eat as much as he did, so he couldn't eat any more. His expression relaxed again.
"I'm fine."
Because Ye Yu's expression was too contagious, the other three people more or less guessed what she was thinking. The corners of their mouths twitched, and they didn't know what to say.
The sumptuous celebration banquet finally went on.
The red spicy fermented bean curd is really delicious. The salty and fragrant flavor of fermented bean curd goes best with staple food. The chili peppers from Xu Fei’s hometown are both spicy and fragrant, simply amazing.
While Hua Feifei and Han Jing were still getting used to the spiciness, Ye Yu devoured the food with abandon, not forgetting to ask Xu Fei if he had any chili seeds. They could also plant some in their own plot, and she could exchange them with him.
"What a coincidence! I actually brought some," Xu Fei, who also loves spicy food, said proudly, "I brought a lot of dried chilies from home. If it's not enough, I can always ask my family for some. In my hometown's commune, every household grows chilies."
The red and spicy fermented bean curd is delicious, and the soy sauce smoked fish is equally good, there is a lot of fish in it!
The dish in Shanghai is also called fried fish. The fish is first fried thoroughly and then soaked in sauce. It is not only seasoned with rice wine to remove the fishy smell, but also a lot of white sugar is added. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour and juicy. It is really very delicious.
Ye Yu:
"Feifei, can you do it?"
"Fei Fei?" Hua Fei Fei pointed at her nose and asked in disbelief. This name gave her goose bumps all over the floor. She stammered, "Who, who, who... who are you calling Fei Fei?!"
"What about Xiaohua?" Ye Yu blinked her eyelashes. What's wrong with blinking a little for a bite of delicious food? If one blink wasn't enough, she could always blink a few more times.
This is because Hua Feifei is pretty. If it were... uh, Han Jing's ugly duckling acne-prone face, it definitely wouldn't work.
"Comrade Ye, please be normal." Hua Feifei tried to distance herself from him with a look of heartache.
"You can't." Ye Yu muttered to himself as if he didn't hear anything, and then demonstrated in front of everyone how to become cool and aloof in a second.
“…”
"……meeting."
Hua Feifei answered weakly. She didn't know why she agreed to this man. Maybe she really was a peach blossom fairy from the mountains, and was particularly good at bewitching people.
Damn it! I hate her so much! I still hate her now! I’ll always hate her!
Ye Yu was satisfied and said "Fei Fei" to get closer to her, then extended his claws to the diced meat with sauce.
Not to mention anything else, the diced meat inside alone can already become a top delicacy nowadays. Add onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, and it tastes super delicious when paired with white flour buns or noodles.
"Han Jing, this diced meat sauce you..."
Han Jing, feeling he couldn't bear Ye Yu's pleading gaze, blushed and surrendered. Before Ye Yu could finish her question, he answered loudly, "I can! My mom and I made this meat sauce together. I remember the ingredients and the method very clearly."
But this pork is very rare, the demand for soy sauce is a bit high, and onions, ginger and garlic are also difficult for them to get as they have nothing. It is impossible for them to replicate this diced meat fried sauce. They can only hope that they can send some from home?
"As long as you can do it." Ye Yu believed that as long as it was not the end of the world, the environment and soil had not changed, and the plants in the ground were not mutated and could not grow, what could not be achieved?
Han Jing didn't quite understand what this sentence meant. After this meal, he, Hua Feifei, Xu Fei and others also realized that Ye Yu was not born indifferent, or always indifferent. She just gave all her enthusiasm to food.
There are many foodies like this nowadays, but Ye Yu’s obsession with food can be described as strong.
So strong that it makes them a little nervous?
Ye Yu was unaware of their dilemma and was concentrating on enjoying the delicious food in front of her. Others might be polite when faced with food shared by others in an era of food scarcity, but she would not, and she had no idea what politeness meant.
Not a grain of corn was left.
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