Chapter 004: Feeding Mosquitoes Outside to Avoid Su Wan
"Thank you, Sister Wei, for your advice. I understand."
Su Wan happily thanked Mrs. Wei. She invited her home for dinner but was rejected, so she returned to the house.
It was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and Su Wan quickly started cooking.
She was cooking for two people. In this era, rice cookers still needed to be turned on. She quickly washed the rice cooker, cooked a bowl and a half of rice, and then hurriedly washed the vegetables and meat.
The weather was too hot and there was no refrigerator, so she planned to cook one pound of braised pork out of the two pounds of meat, use the other pound of fat meat for stir-frying, and use the lean meat for meatballs and vegetable meatball soup.
Soon, a plate of braised pork, a porcelain bowl of vegetable meatball soup, and a plate of stir-fried vegetables were on the table.
After cooking, Chen Yuan still hadn't come back.
She waited for a while, and seeing that the person had not returned yet, she was just about to go outside to look for him when Chen Yuan came back.
His expression was still serious. When he saw the prepared food on the table, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. "You made this?"
"Yeah." Su Wan smiled and nodded, "Will you come home for dinner later?"
"good."
Chen Yuan still spoke very little. He filled a bowl of rice and placed it in front of Su Wan naturally, then filled another bowl for himself.
The two of them sat at the table without saying a word.
Su Wan didn't feel embarrassed. Could it be as embarrassing as that night?
Whenever Su Wan thought that her sexual dream was real, she wanted to find a hole to crawl into. Fortunately, Chen Yuan didn't say a word about it, and the two of them got along peacefully.
Halfway through the meal, Su Wan suddenly remembered what Sister Wei had said and asked tentatively, "Chen Yuan, Sister Wei said we haven't invited anyone to dinner yet. Do you want to pick a time and I'll cook a meal for everyone at home?"
Chen Yuan, who was eating with his head down, was stunned when he heard this.
He looked up at Su Wan, feeling that she had become a different person since that night. Could it be that she became docile because she got what she wanted?
When Chen Yuan thought of that hot night, his blood rushed to one place.
The strange feeling made him gasp. The wound on his back was torn, burning with pain. The beauty in his mind disappeared, and he quickly woke up.
"When you invite colleagues to dinner, you need to prepare at least two tables of dishes."
"It shouldn't be a problem. It's hot, so the food won't cool down quickly. I can make it ahead of time. You pick a time, and I'll go buy groceries earlier."
Su Wan was willing to do it, and Chen Yuan also wanted to see whether she had really changed or was up to some other tricks, so he agreed.
After dinner, Chen Yuan said he was going to say hello to his colleagues and left.
After clearing away the dishes, Su Wan cleaned the house again. When Chen Yuan came back, she told her, "Let's cook for tomorrow night. There are 23 colleagues who have agreed to come, and there are more than a dozen sisters-in-law and children living here. The sisters-in-law said they will come back to help tomorrow, so let's cook for three tables!"
When entertaining guests, of course everyone has to be invited. Whether they come or not is their business. He will not offend anyone by inviting everyone.
Su Wan nodded. "I'll make a menu later. I have to go to the market early tomorrow morning to buy vegetables. If I go a little later, the market will probably be closed."
Chen Yuan looked at her fair, tender, and chubby face, his expression dazed for a moment.
After a moment of distraction, he took out two big unity banknotes from his pocket and handed them to Su Wan, "Use this money to buy groceries."
Two big unity tickets cost twenty yuan.
What was the level of twenty yuan in 1982?
In this era, rice costs 1.8 yuan per pound, cooking oil costs 70 to 80 yuan per pound, pork costs one yuan per pound, eggs cost 1.1 yuan each, and vegetables and fruits cost only a few cents per pound. You can imagine how strong the purchasing power of 20 yuan is.
Chen Yuan was only fifteen years old when he joined the army. When he was almost twenty-two, he was promoted to the rank of major and received a sixteenth-level salary, which was one hundred and twelve yuan a month.
His unit was a confidential one, and he received a monthly allowance of 20 jin of food coupons, 5 jin of meat coupons, and two bars of soap.
Su Wan didn't take the money and whispered, "I still have some money in my hand."
"That's the dowry your parents-in-law gave you. Save it for yourself. I'll give it to you after I get my salary in a couple of days." Chen Yuan started, then added, "My salary this time is for the month before last and the month before last. I'm planning to remit 100 yuan back home. Is that okay with you?"
Chen Yuan's salary was split into two parts, one he kept for himself and the other he sent back home. A few months ago, his brother went up the mountain to chop firewood and accidentally rolled down the hillside, was hit on the head and injured his waist by a rock. The hospital treatment cost more than two thousand yuan, which almost emptied Chen Yuan and his family's savings. He also used his remaining savings to marry Su Wan, so he really had no money now.
Su Wan hummed softly, "Two months' salary is over two hundred yuan, right? The army has allowances, so we don't need that much money for food. You can send a few dozen more back home and keep a few dozen on hand for emergencies."
Chen Yuan looked at Su Wan with complicated eyes, and for a moment he didn't know whether what she said was sarcastic or not.
The two are from the same village. Although Su Wan is not a bad person, he is not someone who cares about others. He can even be said to be very selfish.
Her sudden change made Chen Yuan alert.
After all, the medicine she gave him almost cost him his life.
When two people get married, he will naturally fulfill his marital obligations.
The relationship between men and women should be very pleasurable, but that night Chen Yuan felt like an old ox plowing the field, grunting and cultivating. Controlled by drugs, he could still clearly feel the wound on his back that had just been sutured bursting open. He did not deny that he did feel some pleasure, but this kind of pleasure made him feel disgusted and disappointed.
Su Wan looked at his unpredictable face, swallowed her saliva, and said, "I'm serious. My family spent money on our wedding, and my parents must be short of money. Sending them a few dozen more dollars can help them buy some meat."
Chen Yuan nodded, and regardless of whether she was sincere or not, he planned to send a few dozen more dollars back home.
I cooked dinner again, and the dishes were leftovers from lunch. I also fried some extra vegetables to make do with it.
Chen Yuan was going to do something, so Su Wan washed her clothes after taking a shower and hung them outside, while she lay on the bed, bored and dazed.
Without the phone, Su Wan didn't feel anything when she was busy, but now that she suddenly had nothing to do, she felt bored.
She turned over and saw paper and pen on the bedside table, so she simply wrote down the menu for tomorrow.
There are about forty adults and a dozen children. Su Wan has to think carefully about how to make the food both plentiful and delicious.
Can I buy two fish, use the fish heads to make a large fish head tofu soup, slice the fish tail and make boiled fish with bean sprouts, tofu puffs, and pig's blood, and make a boiled fish? Buy five pounds of meat and make a braised pork and a sweet and sour pork tenderloin that the kids love. Then buy a chicken and make a mushroom chicken dish...
She made a list of the menu, and later in the evening, she lay down on the bed yawning and fell asleep.
Chen Yuan waited until almost eleven o'clock before returning from outside. There was no sound in the room. He walked into the room and looked at Su Wan who had fallen asleep on the bed, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He never dreamed that one day he would be outside feeding mosquitoes until so late just to avoid sleeping with his wife.
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