Chapter 37: The young wife eats too little, will she starve to death?
Without Chen Zhaoyue's interference, Wen Yanxi cooked the dish with great efficiency.
As the last dish was served, the simple stir-fried pork with green peppers, pickled cabbage and tomato and egg soup were neatly placed on the table, looking delicious and fragrant.
Although there are only three dishes, the portions are quite large and more than enough for two people.
"Eat." Wen Yanxi said briefly and served Chen Zhaoyue a bowl of rice.
“This…” Chen Zhaoyue was speechless for a moment as he looked at the large bowl in front of him, which was comparable to a soup bowl.
The rice in the bowl was piled up like a small mountain, which made Chen Zhaoyue wonder, is there no more bowls at home?
Otherwise, why would he use the soup bowl to serve her rice?
When she looked up, she saw that the bowl in Wen Yanxi's hand was even bigger than hers, like a small washbasin, and was filled with rice.
He sat down calmly, picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, and was about to eat when he suddenly seemed to think of something.
With a turn of the chopsticks, the food fell into Chen Zhaoyue's bowl.
Chen Zhaoyue: “…”
Although she was very happy that her uncle picked up some food for her, how could she finish this bowl of rice?
"Uncle, don't you have small bowls at home?" Shen Zhaoyue looked at the dishes in the bowl, blinked, and finally asked.
"?" Wen Yanxi was visibly stunned when he heard this, and raised his eyebrows in confusion: "Isn't this the smallest bowl?"
There was a hint of confusion in his tone, as if to say, "Isn't this small enough?"
Chen Zhaoyue almost choked on the rice grains—this is still called a small bowl?
She looked down at the "small bowl" in front of her that was as big as a soup bowl, and then looked at the "normal bowl" in Wen Yanxi's hand that could hold half a pot of rice, and suddenly understood something.
The north is indeed different from the south. When I was at Wen Qimin's house before, the bowls were smaller, probably because there was an elderly person in the family.
She was eating from a small bowl at the time, so she didn't notice it.
Now she looked at the mountain of rice in front of her, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Uncle, I can't eat so much, can I give you some?"
"This is not a lot." Wen Yanxi really didn't think that he gave Chen Zhaoyue too much food. After all, he saw that the military wives also ate about the same amount.
“That’s a lot!”
"..." Wen Yanxi stopped talking after hearing this, and just silently pushed the bowl towards her.
Chen Zhaoyue picked up the bowl and transferred nearly half a bowl of rice to it.
"Is this all you eat?" Wen Yanxi stared at the remaining rice in her bowl, frowning slightly, with obvious suspicion in his tone.
Is this amount enough to fill you up?
In two days, his young wife will starve to death, right?
Will he become a man who starves his wife to death before they even get married?
“It’s really a lot,” Chen Zhaoyue couldn’t help but laugh: “It looks small, it’s simply because the bowls here are too big!”
She gestured with her hand and said, "Where we are, this kind of bowl is used for soup. Rice bowls are only this big at most. I don't want to waste food, so uncle, don't cook so much rice in the future."
Wen Yanxi stared at the size she gestured, was silent for two seconds, and finally just said "hmm".
Although his hometown is in Shanghai, he rarely goes back there and has forgotten that he finds it troublesome to use small bowls to serve rice, so he always eats in a soup bowl.
When I have time, I'll go to the city and buy a few small bowls for Chen Zhaoyue.
Chen Zhaoyue lowered her head and ate the vinegar-stirred cabbage that Wen Yanxi had just picked up with her chopsticks. The crispy and tender cabbage had just the right amount of sweet and sour in its mouth and was surprisingly delicious.
"Delicious!" Her eyes lit up and she couldn't help but praise.
Wen Yanxi paused her chopsticks when she heard that, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and added another chopstick of meat slices to her bowl.
"Thank you, uncle." Chen Zhaoyue smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes, lowering his head to eat rice in small bites, like a kitten.
Very cute!
Wen Yanxi stared at her for a while before continuing to eat.
He didn't notice that Chen Zhaoyue was secretly looking up at him while eating.
When Wen Yanxi eats, he always picks up the dishes first and then eats the rice with big mouthfuls. His movements are quick and decisive, which makes people feel that the food is particularly delicious.
In the huge house, two people were eating quietly, which was very warm.
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In the military clinic, the military doctor was examining the poisoned military wife who had just been sent there.
"She's recovering well." The military doctor put away his instruments and smiled with satisfaction. "Thanks to your timely treatment, the toxin didn't spread. Otherwise, although she wouldn't have been fatal, it would have been very painful for her."
"That's good..." Yue Xiulan breathed a sigh of relief, her tense shoulders finally relaxing. "But it wasn't us who handled it, it was a little girl. It's all thanks to her!"
She slapped her forehead in frustration: "It's a pity that I was so anxious just now that I forgot to ask her name."
I hope to see her again in the family compound, but there are quite a few military wives there.
Yue Xiulan was already thinking about mobilizing a few good friends from military wives to go to the family compound to look for him.
The clinic suddenly became lively.
Several military wives who came with them were talking at once:
"That little girl looks so young, but I didn't expect she actually knows medical skills!"
"You didn't see it. Her technique was so clean and efficient. In just a few 'swish, swish, swish' she released the poisonous blood!"
"The silver needles looked scary at first, but they were so quick and accurate..."
The military doctor, who was organizing his equipment, suddenly stopped and keenly grasped the key information: "Acupuncture and bloodletting? Is the technique professional?"
"Professional?" Several military wives looked at each other in confusion. "Well...we don't know much about medicine, but it looks quite professional."
Yue Xiulan carefully recalled the scene at that time, nodded and said: "Judging from his posture, he must be an expert in his field."
The military doctor nodded thoughtfully, thinking back to the wound he had just seen. The needle holes were arranged neatly, and the technique was indeed professional.
"Interesting..." she whispered to herself, "I didn't expect there's someone in our family compound who knows Chinese medicine?"
It would be great if we could recruit such talents to the health center.
Yue Xiulan glanced at the military doctor and thought for a moment: "I have to talk to Lao Bai about this tonight."
That night, as soon as Bai Jiang entered the house, he was pulled to the dinner table by his wife.
"Oh...what are you so anxious about?" Bai Jiang felt that he hadn't even stood firmly when he was pulled over by someone with great force. "Wife, you are so fierce!"
"Old Bai, do you know that there is a new girl with medical skills in our family compound?" Yue Xiulan didn't care, but asked while serving the rice.
"You know medical skills? I've never heard of that." Bai Jiang shook his head: "Why do you ask that?"
Yue Xiulan put down her rice spoon and told her husband in detail how the girl she met rescued the soldier's wife who fainted during the day.
When talking about the girl's skillful acupuncture techniques, his eyes lit up.
"Oh, there is such a hidden military wife in our family compound?" Bai Jiang became excited immediately after hearing this and didn't even have time to eat.
The northern border is a remote area with poor resources in all aspects, not to mention medical conditions.
It is common to have insufficient medicines and health centers often lack staff.
Now that there is such a good seedling, Bai Jiang immediately came up with the idea of recruiting him into the health center.
Bai Jiang looked at Yue Xiulan seriously: "Whose family is the girl you are talking about?"
"This..." Yue Xiulan was suddenly speechless, and her fingers unconsciously twisted the corner of her clothes.
"What's her name?" Bai Jiang asked again when he saw her silence.
"She..." Yue Xiulan's head drooped lower and lower, her voice as thin as a mosquito's.
Bai Jiang never expected that Yue Xiulan would be clueless about anything he asked.
"No, you didn't even ask her name?" Bai Jiang looked at her with some resentment.
"Hehe," Yue Xiulan smiled awkwardly, her face full of guilt: "The situation was urgent at the time... I was only worried about the wounded..."
"Look at what you've done!" Bai Jiang shook his head helplessly, tapping his fingers lightly on the table.
How can we find people when we don’t know anything, and still want to recruit them into the health center?
"Oh," Yue Xiulan muttered softly, knowing she was in the wrong: "I just wanted you to help me find out..."
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