Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Smoked Fish Sauce (Second Update)…

"Go to work?" Hua Feifei had never thought 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 interrupted their sadness and dissatisfaction without hesitation, and said, "Aren't you hungry? Let's cook first and then go back to the house to pack the 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, and then said, "Now let's discuss the kitchen rules. Can you cook? How should we arrange the three meals a day in the future? Can you cook? Can we take turns to cook every day?"

Nowadays, there are very few people who don’t know how to cook. Hua Feifei, Han Jing, and Xu Fei all know how to cook. At least basic cooking of sweet potatoes and corn is not a problem. Some of them can even 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."

"Okay, I'll cook tonight and tomorrow. There isn't much food right now, so we can only eat roasted sweet potatoes or boiled corn tonight and tomorrow morning," Ye Yu quickly decided on the cooking matters and kindly suggested, "Also, now take out the food you need to eat and go back to your rooms to change clothes and shoes to avoid catching a cold. There's no health station in the village, and you might die from the illness."

Hua Feifei, Han Jing, Xu Fei: "..." How can this female comrade be so cold?

"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 sanitation staff."

The sanitation worker is also one of the cadres. Even if he has something to do today, it is not the reason why the captain did not mention it at all. Refer to the militia company commander who was not seen today.

Moreover, the captain smelled the strongest of disinfectant when he was in the town, but most of it had dissipated when he arrived in the village. This shows that he changed the medicine in the town, and all the leaders of a team needed to go to the town to change the medicine. It also proved from another perspective that there were no health workers in the village.

At the same time, we can also guess that Wang Zhiming just retired and has not been the captain for long.

"……oh."

Han Jing, Xu Fei, and Hua Feifei felt that Ye Yu was really inhuman, 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 food, and went back to their rooms.

After they left, Ye Yu looked around the kitchen.

The stove has two doors, a pile of dry firewood, an old iron pot, an earthenware water tank, two wooden barrels and a wooden cupboard. It is really well equipped.

In that era, you needed an industrial stamp to buy an iron pot, and dry firewood represented thoughtfulness.

It doesn’t matter if it’s empty.

Ye Yu first carried the bucket and went to fetch water. The location of the educated youth site 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 barrel was not enough, so I reached my hand into the water and secretly used the space to carry some more. Unfortunately, the space was still a little 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 is really simple. It doesn’t require much skill, and mainly because there aren’t that many things needed. Two stoves are used together, one for cooking corn and the other for roasting 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 food intake and he is still only six-tenths full. He still needs to add more oil and water.

"??!"

Han Jing and Xu Fei were shocked when they changed their clothes, took the food they brought from home and went into 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 already eaten too much today, mainly because the train journey and the day's travel 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 all the firewood and water be counted on you? You are a female comrade——"

"Not all of them. I'm only in charge of the kitchen. Everyone is 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 with the lesbian?"

“…Nothing.”

Xu Fei was crying in his heart. As a grown man, he was not as good as a girl. Where was his face? 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 lesbians who were capable of holding up half the sky in the past, but they had never seen a lesbian with such great strength and physical strength.

The impact was too strong.

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 the group of people gathered around the stove and had to make do with this meal for the time being.

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 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 peppers and meat, it was hard to say that they were worse than sweet potatoes and corn. The peppers and soy sauce made her swallow madly, but she still had the basic bottom line of being a human being. Not stealing or robbing is not being a bad person, so she could only take the pickled spicy cabbage out of the package.

After dinner, the air was silent for a minute.

Han Jingshi couldn't bear to eat meat sauce alone, so he suggested: "Fate brings people together. We are gathered together today because of fate. In the future, we will study together, make progress together, and build the countryside together. To celebrate our gathering, how about we have this meal together?"

Hua Feifei was not a stingy person. She didn't speak first because she was still arguing with Ye Yu about choosing a room. She turned her gaze to Ye Yu.

Of course Xu Fei didn't mind. Eating them all together was actually beneficial to him. But because he had met the god today, he also turned his eyes 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.

However, Ye Yu was even more stingy than they thought. He was happy at first, but then he looked at the many sweet potatoes and corns he had taken out and his expression froze again. However, none of them ate as much as he did, so he could not 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 her thoughts. The corners of their mouths twitched, and they didn't know what to say.

The grand celebration finally went on.

The red spicy fermented bean curd is really delicious. The salty and fragrant flavor of fermented bean curd goes best with the 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 was eating like crazy, and she asked Xu Fei if he had any chili seeds. They could also plant some in their own plot in the yard, and she could bring some to him in exchange.

"What a coincidence! I really brought some." Xu Fei also loves spicy food and brought a lot of dried chilies from home. He said proudly, "If it's not enough, I can ask my family for more. In the commune brigade in my hometown, every household grows chilies."

The spicy fermented bean curd is delicious, and the smoked fish with soy sauce is equally delicious. There is a lot of fish in it!

It is also called fried fish in Shanghai. The fish is first fried thoroughly and then soaked in the sauce. Not only is it seasoned with rice wine to remove the fishy smell, but a lot of white sugar is also added. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and sour and juicy. It is really, really delicious.

Elm leaves:

"Feifei, can you do it?"

"Fei Fei?" Hua Fei Fei pointed at her nose and asked in disbelief. The name gave her goosebumps all over her body. She stammered, "Who, who, who... Who are you calling Fei Fei?!"

"What about Xiaohua?" Ye Yu blinked her eyelashes. What's wrong with blinking for a bit for a bite of delicious food? If one time is not enough, she can always blink a few more times.

This is because Hua Feifei is pretty. If it was replaced with... 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 heart attack.

"You can't." Ye Yu muttered to himself as if he didn't hear it, and then demonstrated how to become aloof in a second in front of everyone.

“…”

"……Can."

Hua Feifei answered weakly. She didn't know why she agreed to this man. Maybe she really was some peach blossom fairy from the mountains who was particularly good at seducing people.

Damn it! I hate her so much! I still hate her now! I will always hate her in the future!

Ye Yu was satisfied and said "Fei Fei" to improve the relationship, and then extended his claws to the diced meat and fried sauce.

Not to mention other things, the diced meat inside alone can become a top delicacy nowadays. Add onions, ginger and garlic to make it fragrant, and it is super delicious when paired with white flour steamed buns or noodles.

"Han Jing, this diced meat sauce you..."

Han Jing, who felt that he could not bear Ye Yu's pleading gaze, blushed and surrendered. Before Ye Yu finished asking, he answered loudly: "I can! This meat sauce was made by me and my mother. I remember the ingredients and method very clearly."

But pork is extremely rare, and the demand for soy sauce is a bit high. Onions, ginger and garlic are also difficult to obtain for them as they have nothing. It is impossible for them to replicate the diced meat fried sauce. They can only see if they can send some from home?

"As long as you can do it." Ye Yu thought 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 had not mutated in order to 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 understood 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 entanglement and was concentrating on enjoying the food in front of her. Others in the days of food and clothing shortages might have been polite when faced with food shared by others, but she would not, and she had no idea what politeness was.

There was not a grain of corn left.