Chapter 53 I'm so annoyed◇
Time flies. In the blink of an eye, another month has passed. In ten days or so, it will be the Spring Festival. This is the first time for them since arriving in Liaodong...
The time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, another month had passed. In ten days or so, it would be the Spring Festival, the first year for their families after arriving in Liaodong.
Zhou Jin and his companions had only been in the camp for less than two months and were still in the recruit training period. They had asked Zhou Zemao to bring back a message, saying that they would definitely not be able to return for the New Year this year.
The Zheng family members were all worried sick, especially little Zhou Ying, who had cried several times and said that if her elder brother didn't come back, she would forget him!
Perhaps afraid that he had really forgotten, he seriously took a charcoal pencil and lay on the kang table to draw a portrait of Zhou Jin. You know what, although the brushwork was very immature, the boy in the painting had a half-smile on his face and looked exactly like Zhou Jin. Zhou Jin always had this expression when he played the hermaphrodite!
Because of this painting, Zhou Yu discovered her younger sister's great talent for painting, so that night she secretly took three meat buns made by her mother and entered the space with the painting by Zhou Ying to comfort her brother's stomach and discuss the future training of little Zhou Ying.
The brother and sister had agreed that every evening at midnight, if they had nothing to do, they would check their social media accounts to check in on each other's messages. If they missed anything, they would leave a note for the other to avoid worrying them.
Therefore, the whole family missed Zhou Jin very much, except Zhou Yu who didn't miss him at all!
She is so fed up with it! Every day she has to steal the food her mother makes for this guy, and if he doesn't, he will go to the kitchen and eat it in the middle of the night!
As a result, she was stared at suspiciously by her mother several times, and her mother also reminded her subtly at the dinner table that if she was hungry, she could eat as much as she wanted. It was okay for girls to eat a lot. They were at the age of growing up, so there was no need to be embarrassed!
But...it's not that she eats well, right?!
Zhou Jin had been waiting in the space for a while. He had also taken a quick shower, but he didn't dare use shampoo or shower gel for fear of being smelled by his roommate Zhou Po. He was lying on the bed with his legs crossed, reading his copy of Journey to the West on his laptop. There was no internet in the apocalypse, so he found a notebook and saved some classic movies, such as Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin... and some Marvel movies. When he was bored or stressed out, he would watch...
Seeing his sister come in, Zhou Jin looked at the buns in her hand at first sight and couldn't help complaining,
"Why are there only three..."
The food in the military camp is only slightly better than slop, and he relies on the food his sister brings him every night to satisfy his cravings!
"How much more do you want?! I didn't even have a full meal tonight just to save these three buns for you, okay?!"
Zhou Yu angrily threw the buns and Zhou Ying's painting into his brother's arms, and went to the kitchen in the space to fry two eggs for himself.
Because their RV space is a constant temperature space and has infinitely circulating energy, there is no need to worry about water, electricity, and gas running out, nor do they have to worry about the food placed in the space being spoiled.
Therefore, the brother and sister had recently taken the time to reorganize their previously messy space, sorting the supplies into their proper categories. The compressed biscuits and canned food that had kept them from starving during their exile were now discarded into a corner with disdain. In the apocalypse, they had been eating these things for years, and now, compared to their mother's cooking, they were disgusted with them.
Zhou Jin's men were also swept into the corner. Except for a gun with more than a dozen bullets left and the two crossbows used in the last hunting trip, nothing else was kept and they were all put into the cabinet in the corner.
Without ammunition, those left outside are useless. What are they going to do with them?!
They also cleared out the small kitchen in the RV. Zhou Jin also took advantage of the lunch break in the military camp to disguise himself and go to the market in Baili Town to buy a lot of vegetables, meat, eggs and other things, and put them all in the space for emergency use.
However, although both the brother and sister can cook, their cooking skills are limited, so they don’t cook very often.
Zhou Yu also checked all her cosmetics and medicines, and asked Zhou Jin to go to the town to buy her a few small wooden shelves. She placed the medicines on the shelves according to their types and uses. The rest of the boxes of iodine were also stacked next to the shelves. What's more, after all this sorting, the space in the RV suddenly became much more spacious and more like a room. Unlike before, there was no place to stand.
At this time, the two siblings were sitting at the cleaned dining table, one holding three buns and the other holding a plate of fried eggs. While eating, they discussed the education of little Zhou Ying.
When Zhou Jin saw the painting drawn by Zhou Ying, he was really moved. He had been thinking about little A Ying for a long time. Several times when he sneaked home to eat, he wanted to go to the room to take a look at the little girl, but since she and her mother now slept in the same room, Zhou Jin did not dare to take the risk and had to give up.
Now that he saw how well she drew herself, even including the small mole on his ear, he felt that his younger sister had a conscience, unlike his sister who didn't even know he had a mole on his ear!
Therefore, Zhou Jin immediately agreed to Zhou Yu's suggestion and decided to spare no financial and material resources to train his younger sister to be a painter!
So, the next day, Zhou Yu told her mother about her idea of letting her younger sister learn painting. Zheng always treated her children equally and loved them all. Seeing how much her eldest daughter loved her younger daughter, she was so happy that she couldn't refuse.
He immediately took out five taels of silver and asked Zhou Yu to follow Zhou Luo and others in their mule cart to Baili Town to buy various painting supplies for Zhou Ying and also buy some New Year's goods.
Zheng originally wanted to go with her daughter, but she has been too busy recently because the Chinese New Year is approaching. The cotton clothes made by her, Bai and Liu are selling very well. They have been working hard these days and have also invited Li Gui's daughter-in-law and several women in the village to help, just to make more cotton clothes before the New Year and earn more money.
This time when Zhou Yu went to the town, in addition to buying painting supplies and New Year's goods for her younger sister, she also had one thing to do, which was to go to Tongji Pharmacy to see how her alcohol was selling.
Two weeks ago, after repeated experiments, Zhou Yu finally discovered the precise method for distilling 75% alcohol. Then, claiming he'd once stumbled upon an ancient book about the method and effects of this alcohol, he forced his master to join him in several days of experiments using injured chickens and ducks. Ultimately, they concluded that using this alcohol to disinfect medical knives and wound surfaces could significantly reduce the risk of wound ulceration and suppuration.
Moreover, Zhou Yu also told his master that the ancient book also said that this kind of alcohol, in addition to being used for sterilization and disinfection, can also be used to prevent bedsores for patients who lie down for a long time, and to physically reduce fever, etc.
Zhou Ruifeng was incredibly proud and impressed by his apprentice's ability to replicate alcohol based on a few bits of memory. Without even needing Zhou Yu's urging, he spontaneously took the alcohol to Baili Town to recommend and boast about it to his new friend, Doctor Shi from Tongji Pharmacy...
This time he stayed at Tongji Pharmacy and had not returned for more than ten days. During this period, he only asked Zhou Luo to take a message to Zhou Yu, asking her to bring him dozens of bottles of alcohol, saying that Doctor Shi's pharmacy needed to restock the goods.
The alcohol Zhou Yu distilled last time was canned by her into small porcelain bottles half the size of a palm. The porcelain bottles were brought to her by Zhou Luo from the town. Each bottle could hold 500 milliliters. Zhou Yu canned more than 100 bottles in total. Seeing that Doctor Shi wanted them, she asked Zhou Luo to deliver 50 bottles.
Today, Zhou Yu went to the town. In addition to buying painting supplies and New Year's goods for little Zhou Ying, she also wanted to go to Tongji Medical Clinic to see how her alcohol was selling. If it was okay, she wanted to wait until the New Year to make a business out of the alcohol, or sell the recipe directly.
Her brother has gone to the military camp and won't be able to make any money for a while. Now little Zhou Li at home has to go to school and little Zhou Ying has to learn painting, so money needs to be spent everywhere.
Although Uncle Zelin didn't charge her younger brother tuition, he couldn't ask him to pay for the pens, ink, paper, and inkstone. These were not cheap at that time, and so were the ink and painting supplies. Zhou Luo said they were very valuable!
Zhou Yu felt that the few dozen taels of silver his brother left at home before he left and what his mother earned from working day and night making clothes were definitely not enough.
As a member of the family, Zhou Yu naturally wanted to do his best.
When Zhou Yu went to town, Zhu Xi, who was bored all day, naturally wanted to follow him. Zheng Shi was also willing to let him go, but she was always worried about Zhou Yu, a little girl, going to town...
So, when Zhou Yu finished packing, Zhu Xi was already waiting for her at the door, shaking a purse up and down in his hand, and said with a smile:
"Hei girl, since you and your aunt are unwilling to accept my money, then I will treat you to a delicious meal in town!"
Knowing that Zhou Yu didn't like to hear him call himself "young master", Zhu Xi swallowed the word "young master" back when it was about to come out of his mouth.
Zhou Yu looked at his purse which had emptied more than half of its money in less than a month, looked up at the sky speechlessly, and thought to himself, this guy is such a prodigal!
Ever since his grandfather sent him a hundred taels of silver, he'd become a spending freak. He'd be asking Zhou Luo and the others to bring him things for five or ten taels a day, or else he'd go to town with a cart to buy things himself. He never seemed to care much for the things he bought, playing with them for a while before throwing them away...
He even once asked Zhou Luo to bring him a whole slaughtered pig, saying he wanted to treat everyone from several families to a whole pig feast?!
But he didn't know how to cook, and there was no place to hire a cook in the village. In the end, Zheng and his friends put down their work and helped him prepare the banquet. He was happy, but Zheng and his friends lost dozens of copper coins each!
Therefore, Zhou Yu felt that even if he didn't let him treat him, his bag of silver would not last long, so he might as well spend it all!
"Sure! I heard the braised pork and roasted lamb shanks at Yingbinlou are delicious. Let's go try them. And we can go visit cousin Zhou Li while we're at it."
"Okay! Then we'll bring some back for A-Li and A-Ying!"
Zhu Xi liked Zhou Yu's straightforward nature, so he naturally agreed to what he said. Then the two of them, each carrying a basket, went to find Zhou Luo and the others to take a ride with a smile on their faces.
As the saying goes, whether you have money or not, you will have a good New Year. Now that the New Year is coming to an end, there are naturally many people going to buy New Year's goods. When Zhou Yu and the other two arrived, the two mule carts of Zhou Luo and others were already full of people. Zhou Yu saw that Zhou Luo had specially reserved space for them on his cart, so he hurriedly pulled Zhu Xi to sit on it.
After they sat down, they found that the person sitting next to them was the newly moved in old man Ye. Because this man often went to Zhou Ruiquan to play chess, and often played for a whole day, the younger generations of several families were now very familiar with him.
So Zhou Yu smiled and greeted him.
"Grandpa Ye, you're also going to town to buy New Year's goods!"
Seeing Zhu Xi sitting there rudely, he nudged his arm with his elbow and whispered a reminder:
"Call for help!"
How can you be so ignorant!
Zhu Xi... gritted his teeth...
"Ye~~Grandpa~Hello!"
Ye Qing...sweating...
"Hey, hello too!"
The author has something to say:
Emperor Chengqian: Ye Qing! I heard you dared my grandson to call you grandpa?
Ye Qing: ...sweating profusely...
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