Gao Guojing: "Rujia's herbal tea is very effective. My mouth, which was burning just now, has recovered."
Yu Rujia: "Eat spicy food a few more times, and you'll get used to it and this won't happen again. Your brother eats very spicy food now."
In the evening, Gao Shujing quickly cleaned up the children and then took them to Yu Rujia's room.
Gao Guojing followed and handed Yu Rujia two small bags: "My dad asked me to give you the big bag, and my third brother asked me to give you the small bag. They told you to buy whatever you want and not to worry about the money."
Yu Rujia took the bag, opened it, and saw that Xia Taishun had given her another large wad of cash and banknotes. After a quick glance, she realized it was almost a thousand yuan.
Xia Jingrong has a little less money, but still over two hundred, and his ticket is only slightly less than Xia Taishun's.
Yu Rujia: "When they left last time, they stuffed a bunch of money and coupons into my hand. I've only spent a few hundred, and they've sent me another bunch. Did they send over all the money they had for buying food?"
Gao Guojing: "My dad still has some, and my mom has an income, so they won't go hungry. As for my third brother, I don't know."
Yu Rujia: "I won't be short of money for the next few years. When you go back, tell them not to send any more money over."
Gao Guojing said strangely, "Sister Rujia has actually changed her personality. Didn't you used to want to move all your things out of the house?"
Yu Rujia: "...I've never taken more things from you all before than this."
Of course, she was only counting what she snatched from the Jing generation; she didn't include what other elders and Han Meifeng gave her.
Gao Guojing shrugged and said, "If they give it to you, just keep it. They won't listen to me anyway."
Gao Shujing: "My dad and third brother live and eat in the army, so they won't go hungry. Rujia, don't worry about keeping it. Just buy whatever you want, as they said."
Gao Shujing didn't find anything wrong with Xia Taishun and Xia Jingrong giving money to Yu Rujia while he himself didn't get a penny.
The next day, after breakfast, Yu Rujia and Gao Shujing were sorting through the things Gao Guojing had brought when they discovered that there were two thick quilts.
Yu Rujia: "Why did you even bring a blanket?"
Gao Guojing gritted his teeth and said, "They're worried that you won't have anything to use here."
Last night, it was only around 10 degrees Celsius outside, but with Yu Rujia's temperature control system, the temperature inside the house was nearly 20 degrees Celsius.
Gao Guojing felt hot even with a four-pound quilt at night, so a ten-pound quilt was completely unnecessary here. He had brought it all this way for nothing.
In Y province, the total number of nighttime temperatures below five degrees Celsius throughout the year doesn't even add up to a single month. A ten-pound quilt is indeed not used often, though some people who are sensitive to the cold might need it.
With a temperature-controlled system at home, an eight-pound quilt is enough for them to get through the winter.
The thin quilt Yu Rujia made at the time weighed four jin (2 catties) and the thick quilt weighed eight jin (4 catties). She thought that if it was too cold in winter, she would use both quilts together.
Gao Shujing had just arrived and didn't know what the winter was like here, so he made a 10-pound quilt, which was just enough for a few elderly people to use. They didn't have a temperature-controlled array there, so the 10-pound quilt would be useful.
Gao Shujing: "Let's just leave it here since it's been delivered. We'll turn it into a two-pound quilt to use as a mattress later, it'll keep us warm."
After putting down the blanket, Yu Rujia continued rummaging through her luggage and quickly found a pile of cloth, eight cans of malted milk powder, more than 20 kilograms of cured meat, and a bunch of other odds and ends. No wonder she had to bring it back by car.
Yu Rujia couldn't imagine how Gao Guojing managed to cram all these things into the train. Were they using someone else's train as a freight car?
After tidying up the things Gao Guojing brought, Gao Shujing collected all the dirty clothes from home into a bucket and carried them to the hand pump well to wash them.
Well water is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature in the courtyard is close to 20 degrees Celsius, so washing clothes with well water won't make your hands freeze.
With nothing to do, the kids went to play in the backyard. After playing with them for a while, Gao Guojing, who had nothing to do, got up and walked over to Gao Shujing.
Gao Guojing: "Brother, do you wash this many clothes every day?"
Gao Shujing: "There are many children in the family, and it's winter. If each child only needs one or two pieces of clothing, that's not enough. After I go to work, you'll have to take care of these things."
Gao Guojing came to Shangfen Brigade to help out; he was prepared to take care of the children and do housework.
Kao Kuo-Ching: "I don't need to go to work, but I have no problem doing housework."
While the two were chatting, Gao Guojing noticed a piece of clothing in the basin of washed clothes. He reached out and picked it out to examine it carefully: "Brother, is this Sister Rujia's clothing?"
Gao Shujing: "Yes."
Gao Guojing wanted to ask why Yu Rujia didn't let her wash her own clothes, but seeing how naturally Gao Shujing washed them, and considering Yu Rujia's past behavior, Gao Guojing felt it was normal for her to leave her clothes to her own brother to wash.
Gao Guojing, whose mind wasn't as sharp as Gao Shujing's, never considered that Gao Shujing's act of washing Yu Rujia's clothes was for ulterior motives.
After washing the clothes, Gao Shujing fixed some things as usual, then called Gao Guojing to the kitchen to prepare lunch together.
Gao Guojing carefully observed, "Brother, you sliced this meat too thinly. You can see the light through it."
Gao Shujing: "This meat is for making boiled sliced pork. It needs to be sliced thinly so that it can absorb the flavor well."
When cooking, Gao Shujing specifically instructed: "When putting the food in the pot, put some of the smaller amount of chili peppers on a plate first, and then add some chili powder to the rest and cook it again."
Gao Guojing replied without hesitation, "Is it because Sister Rujia likes spicy food?"
He and Gao Shujing are brothers and have lived together for more than ten years. He knows that Gao Shujing is not picky about food. The fact that a dish has to be cooked in two separate batches is definitely a sign of Yu Rujia's taste.
Gao Shujing: "Well, Rujia is quite particular about food, so please pay attention to her."
Xia Taishun and Xia Jingrong were always worried that Yu Rujia didn't have enough money. Gao Guojing had previously thought their worries were a bit unnecessary, but after lunch and dinner, he realized that their worries were justified.
A huge table full of dishes: stir-fried pork intestines, spicy chicken, garlic ribs, braised duck, two kinds of green vegetables, and a fish soup.
Last night, he ate a table full of delicious food, assuming that Yu Rujia and the others had prepared it especially to welcome him.
This morning we had lean meat porridge with vegetables, plus steamed eggs specially prepared for the little ones.
At noon, there were leftovers from last night plus two new meat dishes: boiled sliced pork and stir-fried cured pork. He didn't think much of it.
It wasn't until he saw that the evening's dishes were all new, and that all the meat dishes, which would otherwise be fought over when served elsewhere, were just ordinary fare here, that he realized something was amiss.
Gao Guojing: "Do you eat this well every day?"
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