Yu Rujia asked in surprise, "So fast? I didn't hear a thing! Is the person she contacted from our brigade?"
Even if she doesn't care about team affairs, she shouldn't have been completely unaware of such a happy occasion, unless it was a secret event.
Huang Guihua: "After what happened, no one in our brigade would dare to marry her, so she married into the Hongzhong Brigade of the Dong'an Commune next door."
"They didn't even take care of anything at home before sending the person away. Many people in the team didn't know about it and were afraid that someone would hear about it and gossip."
“If it weren’t for her neighbors seeing them every day, she wouldn’t know about this. It’s normal that you didn’t hear anything.”
Yu Rujia: "They weren't even from the same commune, so how did their family find their way there?"
Huang Guihua: "If she marries someone nearby, wouldn't all those things about her be found out very quickly? How will she live her life then? Only if she marries someone far away, because of her looks, will her husband treat her better."
“The Red Central Brigade is a three- or four-hour walk from here. She hardly has any chance to go home throughout the year. Her future depends on herself.”
Yu Rujia: "Her mother has indeed sacrificed a lot for her daughter."
Huang Guihua: "There's nothing we can do about it. Their reputation is so bad that if they stay at home, the family won't have a moment's peace. If they get married early and far away, no one will talk about it, and their reputation will slowly recover."
"Now that she's married, you don't need to worry about her causing trouble for your Shujing anymore."
That's true. Now that Zheng Lanlan is married, Gao Shujing and Duofu don't need to worry about going out anymore.
In a few words, the two reached the foot of the mountain. After walking a few steps, they saw a small section of bracken sprouting out. At this time, the bracken was at its most tender and crisp, and it was delicious whether it was served cold or stir-fried with cured meat.
Huang Guihua reached out and broke off a piece of bracken: "Rujia, you used to live in the city, have you ever eaten bracken before?"
Yu Rujia: "It is indeed difficult to find wild vegetables in the city, but I study medicine and often go to the mountains to find herbs. I have eaten a lot of wild vegetables. I like to use bracken fern in a cold salad. It is refreshing and delicious. How do you eat it?"
Huang Guihua: "We usually stir-fry it like regular vegetables. How do you make this cold dish? Is it like goose intestine salad?"
As soon as the news spread that goose intestines were edible, the team members ate them without restraint. In the end, even the goose intestines that used to require a lot of effort to clean up were almost completely pulled up by the roots, which shows how much the team members ate.
Huang Guihua had naturally eaten this popular dish before, and even made it into a cold salad, but she never used as many ingredients as Yu Rujia.
Yu Rujia: "It's pretty much the same. First, blanch the ferns. Blanch them for two minutes, then add oil, salt, soy sauce, chili powder, and roasted peanuts... then mix it all together. I guarantee you'll want to eat it again and again."
Huang Guihua: "I don't need your guarantee, just hearing about all these seasonings tells me it's delicious."
Yu Rujia: "Apart from oil, salt, and soy sauce, the rest of the seasonings are all homemade. You can give it a try."
Huang Guihua: "I'll try it when I get back. I've eaten your cooking a few times, and every time I feel like I'm going to eat my tongue. You can even make the smelly pig offal taste better than meat. If you can approve of this cold bracken salad, it must taste really good."
Yu Rujia often cooks offal at home, and Huang Guihua often comes to chat with her and has tasted her cooking.
After walking a few more steps, they found a clump of wild onions, and the two of them started digging with small hoes.
Huang Guihua: "How are you going to stir-fry wild onions this time?"
Yu Rujia: "This is delicious when stir-fried with cured pork."
Huang Guihua: "With meat added, is there any dish that doesn't taste good?"
Yu Rujia: "Even if you don't stir-fry meat, stir-fried eggs are delicious. Don't you raise chickens at home? They lay eggs every day. If you don't use these eggs to eat them, are you going to use them to hatch chicks? Even if you were hatching chickens, you wouldn't need so many."
One household registration booklet can only raise two chickens. No matter how many eggs there are, the number of eggs used for hatching the chickens is pitifully small.
Huang Guihua: "Eggs have so many uses, how can we just eat them like this?"
Yu Rujia: "There are only four people in your family. You and your brother-in-law are both capable. What's the problem if you're short of eggs?"
The two chatted and laughed as they dug up a basket of wild vegetables and went home to prepare lunch.
Gao Shujing won't be coming home for lunch, so Yu Rujia plans to cook two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a soup before heading over.
Just as he was thinking about what to cook, Duofu came running back from outside with his younger brothers, each carrying a handful of mushrooms in their pockets.
Yu Rujia frowned: "Why did you all go up the mountain?"
Duofu: "We went with Erdan, so it's okay since there are many of us."
Big Egg from Captain Huang's family works for Gao Shujing, while Second Egg receives instructions from Captain Huang. In addition, the little ones are good-looking and clever, which makes Second Egg very fond of them.
Ever since Gao Guojing left, Erdan would come to play with Duofu and the others whenever he wasn't in school.
Erdan grew up as the brigade leader and knew exactly where the brigade couldn't go. Yu Rujia felt more at ease letting Duofu play with him.
Yu Rujia: "You can go for a walk at the foot of the mountain with Erdan, but you absolutely cannot go into the mountains."
Duo Shou: "I know there are man-eating wolves, tigers, and bears in the mountains, so we can't go."
Yu Rujia: "Yes, once we go there, we'll never be able to eat anything delicious again, and we'll never see our aunt again."
Duolu immediately said, "We're not going into the mountains; we don't want to go hungry."
Yu Rujia pointed at the little guy with annoyance: "So only good food is important, and your aunt isn't important, right?"
Duolu, who had just put down the mushrooms, ran over and hugged her leg, nuzzling her affectionately: "Auntie is important, Auntie is more important than delicious food, I like Auntie the most." Such a sweet talker for such a young age.
Duoxi followed his second brother's steps and hugged Yu Rujia's other leg, tilting his dirty little chubby face up and softly saying, "I like Auntie."
More than half a month after Gao Guojing left, Duoxi finally started speaking more words and could spout several words in a row.
Yu Rujia rubbed the two little heads: "At least you two have a conscience. Auntie will make you something delicious later."
Doro's big eyes lit up: "What delicious food are you making?"
Duofu, who was on the other side, had already seen Yu Rujia's basket of wild vegetables. He walked over and took a look: "Auntie, are you cooking these? We don't think we've ever eaten these vegetables before."
With the new dish in hand, Duolu let go of Yu Rujia's leg, hopped to his older brother's side, stretched out his little hand to flip it over, and affirmed, "It's a new dish, I want to eat it."
Having grown a bit more, Duolu had lost the desire to try new things. When he saw this basket of wild vegetables he had never seen before, he didn't even think about tasting them.
Duoxi hopped over and squatted between her two older brothers: "Auntie, I want to eat."
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