Chapter 043 Abalone and Chicken Soup
The newspaper matter came to nothing; after all, it was only a small matter.
If a fight really breaks out, the only one who will be at fault will be Li Haijun, but he is not that stupid.
As Wen Jiajia's work progressed, Director Xue assigned her more and more tasks. In less than a month, Wen Jiajia had established herself in the Sixth Workshop and became Director Xue's number one assistant.
In June, she took over the job of recording workshop data, which has been her main daily work so far.
Therefore, she had to stay in the workshop for at least two hours every day and gradually became familiar with the people in the workshop.
What surprised Wen Jiajia was that the workers in the workshop were not only focused on production, but also occasionally engaged in drug research and development. Wen Jiajia had always thought that the research department was in charge of the research work of the entire pharmaceutical factory.
Team leader Wei said, "There are only a few people in the research department. Our pharmaceutical factory has 12 workshops. If they all wait for the research department to feed them, they will starve to death."
After Wen Jiajia got to know him better, he became more talkative and was no longer as indifferent as when they first met.
"How many people are there in the research department?" Wen Jiajia asked curiously.
"Only 18. Oh, including the two assigned this year." Team Leader Wei said after thinking for a moment, "And these are the ones that our factory director went to the Ministry of Health and begged for. Otherwise, where would we get 18 people?"
Wen Jiajia sighed, saying that there is a real shortage of talents at this time.
No wonder it was difficult to see researchers in blue in the pharmaceutical factory; it turned out there were only 18 of them.
"For example, the fist-shaped products in our workshop were developed by us. Although we are not college students, we have been working on the front line for a long time and we will understand the basics."
Speaking of this, Team Leader Wei was quite proud: "One of the three medicines exported comes from our workshop. But the workshop next door is also good. They changed the distillation method and it has shown results recently. You can go and have a look when you have time."
"Can we visit each other's workshops?"
"Nonsense, of course we can. Otherwise, how can we communicate and improve each other?" Team Leader Wei glared, "This is what the factory advocates. Wen Jiajia, you didn't even read the promotional poster carefully."
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The propaganda column was made by Sha Yue. Wen Jiajia never looked at her when she saw her copying the newspaper every day.
"Then I will communicate and learn more in the future." Wen Jiajia immediately corrected her attitude. It just so happened that she had already figured out the sixth workshop and wanted to go out for a walk.
But before long, she was busy again, so busy that she had no time to go out.
The reason was that the factory wanted to import a batch of new equipment, and Director Xue needed her to write an application report.
If you fail the first time, you have to write a second time. It is not enough to just write, you also have to report the status of the machines in your own workshop, and sometimes you have to argue or even quarrel with other workshops.
A few days later, a fight almost broke out.
No matter how good the relationship was, it was useless in front of the new machine. In the end, even the broom was in hand! It was still the security department who came to stop it.
Wen Jiajia always felt that this scene was familiar. After careful consideration, wasn't it the same scene that would happen when two villages competed for water in the countryside? Workers and farmers are one family.
In short, she had two blisters on the soles of her feet from running so much and lost more than three pounds.
Mid-June.
It was only when the plum rain season arrived that Wen Jiajia realized that rainy days could come so frequently.
Wei Dai's mission lasted a long time, and he returned just before the Dragon Boat Festival.
Being a night owl, he always comes home late at night when everyone is asleep. If he were in his hometown, he would always have to put at least two mousetraps on his feet every time he goes home.
It was past nine o'clock and the lights had long been dimmed, but Wen Jiajia was not in the bedroom. Instead, she was drying clothes in the living room.
It rained for a week straight, and the clothes at home were extremely damp and even smelled stuffy, so they had to be dried.
Old family members who have stayed here for a long time all have ovens prepared. The one that Wen Jiajia is using now belongs to Sister Bao.
At this moment, she was still thinking about asking Wei Dai to compile one as soon as he came back.
According to Sister Bao, based on previous years, this drizzle will not end until the end of the month.
The night was silent except for the sound of dripping rain and the crackling of the charcoal fire.
The door was half-open, and a rustling east wind brought a drizzle. The misty rain splashed onto Wen Jiajia's face. She had no choice but to step back again.
The charcoal fire was getting dim again. She poked it with a bamboo stick and it started burning again.
Just at this moment, there was a sound coming from the door.
Wen Jiajia was stunned for half a second, then quickly got up and walked to the living room door.
In the darkness, Wei Dai's figure appeared on the wall, then he leaped and lightly jumped into the yard.
Because the door was half-open, Wei Dai did not see Wen Jiajia until Wen Jiajia rushed out of the door.
"Why didn't you knock?"
Wen Jiajia jumped onto Wei Dai, and Wei Dai quickly held her up, his heart pounding.
"Why don't you knock if you want to talk?" Wen Jiajia's eyes were startlingly bright in the night, and when he looked into her eyes, it seemed as if his soul would be sucked into her eyes.
Wei Dai held her up with one hand, pressed the back of her head with the other, and kissed her vigorously twice: "I was about to ask you, what are you doing out here? It's raining and I can't see."
Having said that, he quickly carried her into the house.
The couple had been separated for a long time, and when they reunited, neither of them wanted to let the other go.
Wen Jiajia stood on the ground, but hooked her arm around his neck, pressed her cheek against his, and asked softly, "Why did you take so long this time? I thought you would be back at the beginning of the month."
She couldn't sleep those nights, always feeling that Wei Dai would appear at her door.
Wei Dai looked tired, but his eyes were gentle. He stroked her cheek with his hand: "It's a bit of a hassle, but it's not a big deal. Don't worry, I probably won't have any big tasks by the end of the year."
"Really!" Wen Jiajia was delighted, her voice suddenly raised, "That's good, I was really worried when you left, sometimes I had nightmares at night, and I couldn't fall asleep after waking up from the shock."
Especially in the past half month, Wen Jiajia's tone was always filled with grievance.
Wei Dai was extremely sad and held her in his arms: "I'm sorry, I..."
"Don't say anything, I'm glad you're back." Wen Jiajia decided to be with him, so naturally she had already accepted the fact that he was often not at home. That was the nature of his job, and even though she missed him, she would not ask him to stop going on missions in the future.
"Don't worry, I'm not injured this time." Wei Dai felt heavy in his heart. He suddenly understood why Lao Bai chose to retire from the army.
Wen Jiajia pushed him away: "Then go take a shower first, I have to check after you finish."
Wei Dai laughed: "Okay, check however you want."
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes when she saw that he was acting weird again. Just as she was about to say something to him, her nose moved and she smelled a burning smell.
"Ah, my clothes!"
The clothes are not turned over, they will get burnt!
She quickly turned the clothes over and touched the burnt side. Sure enough, there was a hard lump.
Wen Jiajia felt so distressed because these were new clothes that had just been made.
"It's okay, let's buy more." Wei Dai was very generous.
Wen Jiajia pushed him: "Go take a shower."
Wei Dai went to take a shower. Before taking a shower, he had to open the gate and bring in the luggage that he had just placed at the door.
I don't know where Wei Dai is going to do his mission. His luggage stinks and there is a lot of dirt and grass on it. Wen Jiajia refused to let him put it on the sofa and pointed at the floor and said, "Put it here and wash it tomorrow."
After thinking for a while, I said, "No, you should soak it in after you take a shower, otherwise it won't be clean tomorrow."
Wei Dai: "Okay, don't touch it, let me do it later."
Wen Jiajia thought to herself, I won’t touch it.
The clothes were almost dried, and because they were still hot, Wen Jiajia didn't put them in the closet. Instead, she spread them out on the back of the sofa to dry, waiting to be collected tomorrow.
As for the brazier, leave it alone for now.
I only saw Wen Jiajia sitting next to the baking oven, with her head lowered and put into the baking oven.
The surface of her hair was slightly wet, and without a hair dryer, she could only use a dryer to dry it. This was how Wen Jiajia usually washed her hair in winter.
Wei Dai took a quick shower and within five or six minutes, he could be heard opening the door.
"Have you washed your hair?" His hair was still dripping when he walked in, and his hair in front of his forehead was stranded. Wen Jiajia felt that it was a little long and needed to be trimmed.
Wei Dai nodded.
Wen Jiajia pointed at the oven and said, "Then you should come and try it too. Don't think you can be so aggressive just because you are young. You will have enough headaches when you are old."
Wei Dai smiled and said, "Okay."
He thought to himself that it is you who complains of headaches every day, not me, so I have to be careful that you will have headaches when you get old.
But Wen Jiajia didn't like to hear this. She didn't like to hear others say that she was old.
It was almost eleven o'clock when the two of them dried their hair. Wei Dai soaked his backpack in the wooden barrel. He then closed the doors and windows and entered the room.
Tomorrow is the weekend, and Wen Jiajia doesn't need to go to work. Wei Dai hasn't come back for a long time, so they both can't sleep tonight. It's not until the birds chirp outside that they realize it's already two o'clock in the morning.
Wen Jiajia was so sleepy that she kicked off the quilt, hugged her new pillow and fell asleep.
Wei Dai was still excited. He didn't know what he was thinking about. His thoughts gradually calmed down. After a long time, he fell asleep with steady breathing.
The next day.
Wen Jiajia slept until half past ten, and Wei Dai did the same. When she drowsily glanced at her watch, she suddenly woke up and shouted, "Oh no!"
She immediately threw back the quilt, opened the door in her slippers and ran to the next room.
However, the two children's rooms were empty and there was no sign of them.
Wen Jiajia came to the living room again, only to find that the living room door was open and there was a simple breakfast on the dining table.
Rice porridge and soy sauce poached egg.
She breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that Wei Dai got up in the morning to cook for the two children.
There are no weekends in the Yuhong class. Some time ago, Wen Jiajia had to get up and cook even on weekends. When I think about it carefully, I realized that I was the only one who slept until I woke up naturally this morning.
Wei Dai also came out. Wen Jiajia scratched her hair and said, "I don't even know when you got up to make breakfast for them."
"I was woken up by Chun'er and Xuanxuan." Wei Dai lit the stove and put the porridge in the pot to warm it.
Wen Jiajia slept too late last night and now only felt dizzy. She did not feel refreshed at all as she usually does when she wakes up.
Even breakfast was tasteless.
"You should take a rest tomorrow, right?" Wei Dai asked.
Wen Jiajia nodded: "This week is a big week, so we have two days off."
It was strange that the big and small Zhou system existed at that time. She didn't know what was going on in other places, but the pharmaceutical factory implemented the big and small Zhou system, and Wen Jiajia was very satisfied with it.
Wei Dai said, "Then I'll go pick some bamboo leaves and we'll make rice dumplings tomorrow."
Wen Jiajia came back to her senses: "Yes, tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival!"
She then perked up and said quickly, "I still need to soak the glutinous rice. Oh, and I also need to buy some meat... Oh, then I have to go to the city again!"
Wei Dai laughed: "Don't you really want to go into the city?"
Wen Jiajia was depressed, with her shoulders drooped. "Who would want to go back to the city if they only stay there for five or six days a week?"
She almost vomited after walking that road.
She even suspected that she had PTSD caused by going to the city, because she felt a little panic whenever she entered the city.
It seems that he was injured at work recently. This is the first time in Wen Jiajia's two lives that she has experienced this feeling.
Wei Dai said distressedly: "It's okay, I'll go, you can wash the rice dumplings at home."
He was thinking about buying more things to give Jia Jia some nourishment. It was dark last night and he was very excited so he didn't notice. But now he saw her and found that Jia Jia had lost a lot of weight in such a short time.
So after dinner, Wei Dai went to the river to pick zong leaves. There were many zong leaves growing by the river where the troops were.
In fact, there are two kinds of rice dumplings leaves. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, while bamboo leaves are used in the south. Both have a fresh fragrance.
But compared to reed leaves, bamboo leaves are wider and more suitable for wrapping rice dumplings.
Some families would use dried leaves to wrap the rice dumplings, but Wei Dai felt that fresh leaves were more fragrant than dried leaves.
He picked a lot of them at a time. Zongzi are durable and when they are about to go bad, they can be cooked and eaten again.
After picking half a basket, Wen Jiajia was dumbfounded when she saw it, "How much glutinous rice do I need to soak?"
Wei Dai said without hesitation: "It should be 10 kilograms."
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"Do we have 10 kilograms of glutinous rice at home?" Wen Jiajia asked him, and took it and looked in the cabinet, and there really was some.
And it’s more than 10 kilograms, at least 15 kilograms.
Wen Jiajia thought that Wei Dai must be giving some to others, so she followed his instructions and soaked 10 kilograms of glutinous rice in water.
After picking the rice dumplings leaves and washing and hanging out his backpack and some dirty clothes, he rode his bike to buy food.
Since you are going to make zongzi, you should eat it to your heart's content.
Wen Jiajia thought about it and decided to make the rice dumplings with richer fillings.
She prepared two kinds of rice dumplings, sweet and salty, for the family to eat both sweet and salty.
The filling of sweet rice dumplings is red bean paste, so after soaking the glutinous rice, you have to soak the mung beans as well.
In fact, Wen Jiajia prefers red bean paste to mung bean paste. Unfortunately, there are not enough red beans at home, so she can only use mung beans.
As for the salted rice dumplings, Wen Jiajia thought for a moment and took out the dried mushrooms, dried peanuts, and salted duck eggs she had collected.
Soak dried mushrooms and dried peanuts in water, and remove the white from the salted duck eggs and only take the yolk.
She did not waste the egg whites of the salted duck eggs. She mashed them and put them in a bowl so that she could use them to fry eggs in the next two days.
Don’t underestimate the egg whites of salted duck eggs. Put the crushed egg whites into the egg liquid, add chopped green onions and fry them in a pan. The fried eggs will have a strong salty aroma and are much more delicious than the usual fried eggs.
On the other side, Wei Dai has arrived in the city and is buying food.
He did not rush to buy meat, but went to a remote vegetable market and came to the innermost stall.
"Hey, Brother Wei, long time no see."
"I'm quite busy these days." Wei Dai squatted down to look at the shrimps in the bucket, touched them with his hand and said, "Weigh one pound for me."
The stall owner nodded and served a pound of shrimps.
This is also a public vegetable market, but it is too far from the city gate. If he didn't take a shortcut, it would take at least two hours to get here from home. Wei Dai never brought Wen Jiajia here.
As for taking a shortcut, they would have to pass through a mixed housing area. The population there was mixed, the roads were chaotic, and Wei Daitou got lost there when he came back, and his tire was punctured. He was unwilling to take his wife through there.
"What about the abalone?" Before leaving, Wei Dai caught a glimpse of the abalone hidden under the basket.
The stall owner had a bitter look on his face. He had reserved this for his friend, but he didn't know that Wei Dai had seen it.
"Give me eight abalones." Seeing that the abalones were still moving and were large in size, Wei Dai wanted to buy some.
"We're having a family treat today." The stall owner reluctantly packed the abalone for him.
Wei Dai took it and said, "No, I'm giving it to my wife to replenish her body."
Having said that, he left, crossed over again, and returned to the city gate.
He did not go back immediately, but found a friend at the meat processing factory and bought three pounds of pork belly from him.
Before he left home, his daughter-in-law repeatedly reminded him to buy pork belly.
Fortunately, the factory had collected a lot of pigs recently, and they had just slaughtered two fat pigs because of the Dragon Boat Festival, so Wei Dai was able to buy pork belly.
"There are some bones left. Do you want some?" the man asked.
Wei Dai: "Yes, give me two ribs. By the way, do you have pork fat?"
The man was speechless and shook his head: "Where can you find pork fat at this time? Even the leg meat is gone."
Today's pigs are fat, resulting in thicker leg meat. Everyone is scrambling for the leg meat, leaving behind the leaner pork belly.
Wei Dai left with regret, and went to the nearby vegetable market to buy two live fish and two large blocks of tofu before leaving the city.
But this time he still did not go back to the army directly, but went to the nearby village to find a fellow villager to exchange an old hen for him. After the exchange, he returned home with two large bags full of things.
"You've used up all your meat coupons for this month!" Wen Jiajia jumped down from the tree in shock.
Wei Dai was amused by her: "Why did you run up the tree?" Has the incident with the tree been completely forgotten in his mind?
Wen Jiajia threw the pumpkin vine in her hand and said, "Who knew that the pumpkin vine could climb up the tree when no one was paying attention? I couldn't pull it down, so I could only climb up the tree."
The pumpkin was planted next to a date tree. I thought it would climb up the wall along the corner, but who knew it would climb up the tree.
Wen Jiajia was really worried that her date tree would be damaged. She heard from Wei Dai that this date tree was very productive of dates, and she was looking forward to eating the red dates.
Wei Dai laughed again.
Wen Jiajia didn't react and was completely focused on the big sack.
After untying the sack, she was stunned for a moment: "I was wrong. Not only did you use up all the meat coupons for this month, you must have also spent all the money you saved in the previous two months."
Wei Dai tied up the chicken and said, "It's actually not a big deal. The chickens didn't use meat coupons." Instead, they used industrial coupons.
He added: "As for the meat coupons...it's okay, I'll find a way to exchange them for some other day."
Seeing that he had a solution, Wen Jiajia didn't care anymore. She just wanted her to have meat tickets every week to eat stir-fried eel in the cafeteria.
Shayue did not lie to her, the stir-fried eel in the cafeteria was indeed delicious.
"Let's go eat, I'll clean up." Wen Jiajia pushed Wei Dai into the house, then took out the pork belly from the bag with great interest.
Marinate the pork belly with soy sauce, rice wine and spices, and pour the abalone and shrimp into the bucket.
The abalone was still moving, but some of the shrimp were dead, while others were still full of energy.
As for the two fish, Wen Jiajia was scratching her head, "You bought too much. We can't finish the fish today."
Wei Dai quickly said, "One is for the neighbor next door."
The couple had a conversation last night, and Wei Dai also learned from Wen Jiajia that the Xie family next door has been taking good care of her recently.
She became increasingly busy, sometimes not getting home until seven o'clock. Thanks to the help of Teacher Shen next door, the two sisters Wenchun and Wenxuan were not hungry when they came home from school.
Wen Jiajia patted her forehead and said, "It's due!"
No one is home next door now, so Wen Jiajia puts it aside and plans to kill it all together later and send it over in the evening.
evening.
When the two sisters learned that Wei Dai had returned, they did not stay outside to play, but rushed home as soon as school was over.
When they got home, they insisted on climbing onto Wei Dai's back. Wei Dai followed them, squatted down and carried both children on his back.
Wen Jiajia just came out of the room, and the two girls waved at her.
Wen Xuan shouted excitedly: "Auntie, you come up too."
Wen Jiajia carried the fish that Wei Dai had killed to the next door. Before leaving, she patted Wen Xuan's butt and said, "Don't fall."
"No way, your uncle is stronger than you!" Wen Xuan shouted immediately.
The waxberries trees on the mountain are in fruit. Last week, my aunt insisted on carrying her on her back so that she could pick the waxberries from the trees.
Who knew that he fell down while carrying her on his back, as if he had fallen headfirst. My aunt was fine, but she had a big bump on her head, and it hurt so much that she cried.
Wen Jiajia felt guilty and ran away.
This girl is really vindictive.
When I came to the next door, Shen Xunzhen was just cooking.
Wen Jiajia hung the fish by her window: "Teacher Shen, take this fish and eat it."
Then he left.
Shen Xun was really confused, he wiped the water off his hands and chased after him: "Why are you giving me fish for no reason?"
Wen Jiajia: "Thank you for taking care of Wen Chun and Wen Xuan during this period. Please don't be polite to me. Please accept it."
Seeing Shen Xunzhen untying the fishing line, he quickly said, "It's just a fish, you really have to accept it. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan will have to trouble you in the future."
Besides, the two sisters come to someone else's house every day to listen to the radio, which is also taking advantage of the other person.
After saying that, he left quickly. When Shen Xunzhen arrived at the door with the fish in his hand, Jia Jia was no longer there.
She sighed, shook the fish in her hand and went back to the house.
Wen Jiajia came into the yard humming a little tune. The two children had already gotten off Wei Dai's back and were now pestering Wei Dai, wanting him to make a seesaw for them.
Wen Jiajia teased them: "Our yard is so small and it's full of vegetables, where is the space for you to put the seesaw?"
Wen Chun pointed outside the house and said, "You can put it outside."
Wen Jiajia asked her again: "What about other children who want to play?"
Wen Chun was confused and embarrassed. She didn't want to give it, but the teacher said she had to learn to share.
Wen Xuan was very decisive: "That's ours, don't let them play with it."
After a pause, she continued, "Xiaoyi and his brother are fine, Jiaoyang sister is fine, Axing is fine, Feifei, Feifei, even though she always says I'm a glutton, she gave me milk biscuits, so that's fine too..." As she counted, her face wrinkled and her voice became smaller and smaller.
There are only two positions on the seesaw, and so many people can play. How can she and her sister play?
Wen Jiajia's head jumped at the same time: "So forget about the seesaw. The land outside the house is not ours. It is a public area belonging to everyone. Seesaws are not allowed there. Be careful that the uncle in charge of logistics will report you and criticize you and report you to your school."
When the two children heard this, they felt that it would be extremely embarrassing if they were really reported to school.
So they went back to their room with a dejected look on their faces, not even paying attention to the chicken soup bubbling in the kitchen, and only came out when the aroma of the chicken soup filled the air.
Abalone and chicken soup tastes really good, but no matter how good it is, you will get sick of it if you eat too much.
Wen Jiajia was forced by Wei Dai to eat two chicken legs and two large abalones, and she was full of resentment all night.
Oh my god, my teeth are stuck!
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