With Duan Ziyi's help, Xue Qi and Lu Moxuan finished seeing all the patients before the end of their workday.
Ye Zhaozhao thought that since it was the weekend tomorrow, she would invite them to her house for dinner.
Xue Qi and Lu Moxuan were already impatient, as long as the soldiers from their hospital were there.
Everyone had to praise Ye Zhaozhao's cooking skills; it seemed they were in for a treat tomorrow.
Xue Qi made a decision: in order to have dinner tomorrow, she would skip dinner tonight.
Duan Ziyi felt a little embarrassed to go and freeload a meal so soon after arriving, so she thought she would ask her mother to cook a dish for her to take over.
When Ye Zhaozhao returned home, she saw a sheep lying in the house. Gu Yunduan was bleeding the sheep with a knife, while Gu's mother and grandmother were boiling water in the kitchen.
"Gu Yunduan, where did this sheep come from?"
There's still a lot of roe deer meat that Lin Meimei gave us before; we should eat it quickly in this weather.
It's probably going to spoil, so Ye Zhaozhao thought she might as well air-dry it and send some to everyone later.
Gu Yunduan told Ye Zhaozhao that these were the items they had caught during their field training exercise on the mountain today. The items that were due to be given to the military region had already been given, and the rest were distributed among the members of their regiment.
Gu Yunduan was assigned a small one, weighing only thirty or forty pounds. Ye Zhaozhao then told him about treating her apprentice to a meal, and Gu Yunduan clapped his hands in delight.
"Honey, what a coincidence! Do you remember that comrade from the transport team I told you about?"
"Remember."
Gu Yunduan said he would come to his house for dinner tomorrow, and Ye Zhaozhao thought it was a good idea to invite them all at once. Gu Yunduan went to prepare the mutton.
Ye Zhaozhao went inside and wrote out a menu, while Zhao Hong brought over the farm's accounts for the month.
Ye Zhaozhao asked Gu Yunduan to cut some mutton for Zhao Hong to take back.
Zhao Hong waved her hand, then leaned close to Ye Zhaozhao's ear and whispered something.
Then Ye Zhaozhao instructed Gu Yunduan to cut up the lamb kidneys and bring them back to Zhao Hong.
Zhao Hong took the lamb kidneys home and cooked them for her husband tonight.
Ye Zhaozhao thought that lamb kidneys had the effect of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening virility, so it seemed that Zhao Hong wanted to have another child.
That's true. If you want to have a child, do it while you're young. Gu Yunduan envied Zhao Hong's man, who could have "meat" tonight, while she still had to endure it.
Looking at Ye Zhaozhao's big belly, Gu Yunduan thought, "Persistence is victory."
Fresh mutton is the best, so Gu's mother and grandmother are going to make a mutton stew with radish.
The radishes and cabbages were all stocked up by Ye Zhaozhao last winter.
She had Gu Yunduan dig a cellar in the yard, and now they've already eaten more than half of the radishes and cabbages.
The mutton stewed with radish is tender, flavorful, and neither tough nor fishy.
It's delicious and goes well with rice. The smell of meat filled the residential compound today; several families got some lamb.
We cooked for everyone tonight, but those who didn't get any lamb can only look on longingly at it.
Wang Li didn't get any mutton, but knowing her family was craving it, she thought she'd wait until her sister-in-law got married.
She was determined to have a good meal of meat; it tasted just as good in Chuxiong.
During this time, he found everything about his lazy and good-for-nothing sister displeasing and wanted her to leave their home as soon as possible.
Chu Xiangxiu was in such a hurry to get married because she had had enough of living under someone else's roof. Once she had her own home, she would see who would dare to drive her away.
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Because they were hosting a lunch party, Ye Zhaozhao and Sun Xiuhua went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the morning. Since the two of them were frequent customers, the sales clerks were quite familiar with them.
"You've come at just the right time; the supply and marketing cooperative just restocked yesterday."
We just restocked, so all the food is fresh.
Ye Zhaozhao bought shrimp, sea bass, bok choy, tofu, okra, and spinach. Her hands were overflowing.
Sun Xiuhua offered to help her carry the bags, even though Sun Xiuhua hadn't bought much.
Her eyes lit up when she saw the face cream. After Ye Zhaozhao gave her the shampoo last time, her hair became black and shiny, and everyone praised her for it.
It's this face of hers; exposed to the wind and sun all day, she looks several years older than others.
Recently, she noticed that Liu Erfeng looked much younger and her face was very delicate.
Only after asking did they learn that Liu Erfeng had been using face cream. Seeing Sun Xiuhua, the saleswoman suggested she buy a box to try. Ye Zhaozhao also felt that she should take care of herself.
Sun Xiuhua used to be reluctant to buy these things, but now she feels that looking younger is more important than anything else.
She didn't want to become a haggard housewife, so she bought a box without saying a word.
Just as the two finished paying, they saw Chu Xiangxiu and a man enter.
A woman followed behind, whom Ye Zhaozhao recognized as Li the Hunter's unreasonable sister-in-law.
"Comrade, how much is this fabric?"
The woman went straight to the fabric, and Chu Xiangxiu followed the man without saying a word. After the salesperson told her the price, the woman thought it was too expensive.
"Your fabric is way too expensive! Are you just overcharging?"
Upon hearing this, the saleswoman at the supply and marketing cooperative's face changed. Everything in the supply and marketing cooperative had a price. Wasn't she wronging herself by saying that?
"Comrade, you have to take responsibility for what you say. If you think my cloth is too expensive, go to the village and buy coarse cloth."
Everyone does it this way; the coarse cloth in the village is a bit uncomfortable to wear.
However, the price was a plus, but the woman felt that the salesperson's words were an insult to her.
He glanced in the direction of Ye Zhaozhao and the others, then pointed at the sales clerk and started yelling.
"What do you mean? Are you saying I can't afford it?"
The sales clerk didn't want to talk to someone like her who couldn't afford it but still wanted to save face, so Chu Xiangxiu, seeing her mother-in-law's attitude, quickly went up to her and said something.
"Mom, no need, I don't need to wear new clothes."
The woman nodded. At least she had some sense. The matter of the clothes was brought up by the head of the household. Because Chu Xiangxiu was pregnant, her family did not give a bride price.
The man felt it wouldn't be right not to give her a set of clothes, and the villagers would laugh at them. The woman was unwilling, so the man spoke up.
Chu Xiangxiu's brother is a military officer, so her dowry will definitely be substantial, and it will all end up in her family's hands.
The woman then led her to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cloth.
In the end, the woman still bought the cloth, thinking about Chu Xiangxiu's dowry.
Ye Zhaozhao and Sun Xiuhua came out of the supply and marketing cooperative after watching the play.
On her way home, Sun Xiuhua couldn't help but sigh.
"I don't know whether to say good or bad about Wang Li?"
"Sister-in-law Sun, what did you say?"
The family that Wang Li found for Chu Xiangxiu had a previous wife who left because her husband listened to his mother too much. Chu Xiangxiu was unaware of this.
However, Wang Li knew that Sun Xiuhua had also said that this family had told Chu Xiangxiu in advance.
They won't help her raise the child, so she'll have to give the child away after it's born.
Chu Xiangxiu agreed, since she didn't want the child anyway.
Ye Zhaozhao felt that Chu Xiangxiu was pitiful, but there must be something hateful about her; the choice was her own.
When she got home, Sun Xiuhua knew that she had been treated to a meal and asked her if she needed any help.
The farm is closed today too. Ye Zhaozhao waved her hand, saying that her mother and grandmother were there.
Ye Zhaozhao started preparing as soon as she returned from grocery shopping.
Braised prawns, steamed sea bass, braised mutton, pan-fried tofu, blanched okra, shiitake mushrooms and bok choy, and egg drop soup.
Ye Zhaozhao had just laid out the dishes when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, she saw a man and a woman and asked them what was going on.
How did you two run into each other?
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