"Gu Weizhou said he'd accompany me back to Shanghai; he has some vacation time." Gu Weizhou said this a couple of days ago, asking her if she wanted to go back to Beijing for the Spring Festival or stay in Dalian.
Ruan Yunxi asked if she could return to Shanghai, as she was worried about Granny Hua.
Gu Weizhou said yes.
Ruan Yunxi has been happy these past two days; it's so great to be back in Shanghai.
"Do you still have family in Shanghai?" If Sister-in-law Sheng remembered correctly, Ruan Yunxi's parents seemed to have passed away unexpectedly. She was an only child, and everyone else had gone abroad early on. They had lost contact with each other, and she couldn't go abroad either.
“There was a nanny who raised me from childhood, and I want to go back to see her,” Ruan Yunxi said.
“The old lady is getting on in years, you can go back and visit her.” Sister-in-law Sheng knew Ruan Yunxi’s identity, but she didn’t expect that she had a wet nurse.
Sure enough, the lives of capitalist daughters are different from theirs.
Miao Huahua arrived shortly after. She came to use the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed) because her mother-in-law wouldn't let her sit near it at home, as she was afraid of the cold. So she came to Ruan Yunxi instead, but fortunately, Ruan Yunxi didn't mind.
When asked about her plans for the Lunar New Year, Miao Huahua said, "I'll listen to my in-laws. My family home is too far away, so I probably won't go back."
When Ruan Yunxi and the others thought of Miao Huahua's heartless in-laws, they looked at her with pity and gave her a handful of melon seeds to eat for fun.
Miao Huahua said her family home was far away, so her mother brought her younger brother to the family compound the next day to beg for money.
It was Ruan Yunxi who encountered it.
She wanted to eat braised pork ribs and ordered them to be picked up today. On the way, she met a mother and son who were asking for information. They were dressed in rags and smelled bad. When they saw Ruan Yunxi, they immediately came over and asked, "Comrade, do you know where Miao Huahua lives?"
Ruan Yunxi raised an eyebrow at her: "Who are you to her?"
The old woman immediately said, "I am her mother."
Another shifty-eyed young man, who was staring intently at Ruan Yunxi, said, "I'm her brother, her biological brother!"
Ruan Yunxi glanced at them, noticing their features didn't quite match, pointed to Miao Huahua's house, and turned to leave.
Watching Ruan Yunxi's departing figure, Miao Tianbao said, "Mom, she's so beautiful, hehe!"
"Don't look around. This is a military officers' family compound, not our village," Mother Miao warned, indicating that the people in this compound were not people they could afford to offend.
Ruan Yunxi went to get the spare ribs. There were two spare ribs tied with hemp rope. She would have to chop them into pieces when she got back so that Gu Weizhou could stew them. She didn't know how to stew braised spare ribs. She wasn't good at cooking.
Gu Weizhou was also afraid that she would hurt herself, so he basically didn't let her cook.
When the women in the compound saw that she was eating ribs again, they were all incredibly jealous.
A child saw the ribs and tugged at his mother's clothes, asking, "Mom, when are we going to have meat?"
"Mom, I want to eat pork ribs!"
"Mom, I want to eat meat!"
"Eat, eat, eat! Do I look like a spare rib?" The sisters-in-law also wanted to eat. It's not that they didn't have enough meat coupons; they were saving them for the New Year and couldn't bear to use them now.
Ruan Yunxi was different. Once she got the meat ration coupons, she immediately went to buy meat to eat and wouldn't deprive herself of it.
As Ruan Yunxi passed by Sister Sheng's house, she said to Xiao Yingtao, "Yingtao, I'll bring you braised pork ribs later."
"Thank you, Auntie!" As soon as she heard there were ribs to eat, Little Cherry followed along excitedly, and Sister-in-law Sheng couldn't stop her.
Privately, she often complained, "That Cherry has eaten a lot of meat from Yunxi's family. How are we going to repay that favor?"
"When we get back to our hometown, let's bring her two ginseng roots!" Ginseng is produced in Sister-in-law Sheng's hometown; others can't get it, but her family can.
While other products may not be impressive, ginseng is still a decent option.
Sister-in-law Sheng thought about it and agreed. She could only call home and ask her father to keep two good ginseng roots for her to give away.
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