Chapter 67 Thinking
"I know."
After getting the consent of the two, Jiang Yang and Tiedan held hands and ran away like a gust of wind.
There were many military dependents who came to the foot of the mountain to pick wild vegetables and fruits. Xu Zhishu and Jiang Yingying were together at first, but later they separated.
Xu Zhishu was blocked by a few military wives, who were all family members of the Second Regiment. Jiang Yingying simply walked away, leaving her sister-in-law to deal with it alone.
At this moment, she really couldn't be loyal.
Among those sisters-in-law, there is one who is quite two-faced. Jiang Yingying is not as capable as her sister-in-law yet. She always has a smile on her face when talking to anyone.
Walking to a place with few people, Jiang Yingying felt the warm sun, breeze, birdsong and insect sounds in the mountains...
Jiang Yingying stopped, she had come here unknowingly.
This was the third time He Yan brought her to the secret base in his heart.
Jiang Yingying pursed her lips at the site where the wild chestnuts were discovered. There were not many chestnuts left here at the moment. Last time, Jiang Chao and He Yan had almost picked them all.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yingying's eyes darkened, and she didn't know where her brother and him were now, and whether they had taken good care of themselves.
It has been almost a month since they went out on the mission.
Of the two people that Jiang Yingying was worried about, one was on his way back, and the other was hiding in the streets with his men.
He Yan and his companions had been watching here for several nights. This time, they waited a little longer. The target person came out three minutes later than usual and had not come out yet.
He Yan looked at the time and frowned.
"Captain, this is a little later than the previous times, isn't it?"
"Monkey, Tiger, you stay here." He Yan said, "Eagle, Viper, follow me."
"Yes, Captain."
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On the other hand, Jiang Chao received an urgent notice from his superiors on his way back that a group of people near him were planning to smuggle my country's secret research data out of the country.
Jiang Chao cursed inwardly and led a team to change direction.
In the back hill of the family compound, Jiang Yingying hid from the crowd and sat in a daze in her small world.
There was a rustling sound in the grass. Jiang Yingying's ears moved. She stood up quietly, trying not to make any sound.
When she walked carefully to the place where the sound came from, she saw a fat white rabbit, a rabbit! Eating grass.
Jiang Yingying's heart was about to jump out, braised rabbit head, cold rabbit, spicy rabbit meat...
Various delicious recipes went through her mind. To exaggerate, in just a few seconds, Jiang Yingying went through more than a dozen ways to cook rabbit meat.
In this era, everything is good. Most people are simple and kind. When they hear that someone needs help, nine out of ten households will lend a helping hand.
But the material conditions are really too poor.
Especially meat. Even the richest families cannot and dare not eat meat for every meal.
Not only because they can’t buy it, but also because they are afraid that if they buy it, they will be seen by those with red armbands.
The atmosphere in the family compound is not as tense as outside, but since everyone lives together, we can actually know exactly what everyone eats at home and what smells there.
The pastries and other things that Jiang Yingying had made before were all made with ingredients found in the mountains. There were four people in their family, and only three of them were paid a salary. At most, they would be criticized by those gossipers for not knowing how to live.
But it has been a long time since I last ate this meat. When Jiang Yingying and He Yan first started dating, he was injured, and she wanted to nourish him.
I would go to the grocery store early in the morning and squat there, but I would only buy something once or twice.
Now they are all away, and there are only her, her sister-in-law, and the child Yangyang at home.
I occasionally make my own breakfast, and mostly eat in the cafeteria for lunch and dinner. I rarely eat minced meat.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yingying stared at the fat, trembling rabbit butt and swallowed her saliva. She couldn't be distracted now.
The fat rabbit was concentrating on eating grass and had no idea that it was being watched.
The time is now!
After Jiang Yingying got a little closer, she pounced forward and pressed the rabbit firmly under her body.
At first, she felt the rabbit struggling under her, and it was strangely itchy, but Jiang Yingying endured it and did not move away.
When the rabbit's struggle slowly stopped, Jiang Yingying exhaled, and finally stopped moving, which made her whole body hairy.
Jiang Yingying did not get up immediately. She pressed on for a long time, but there was no movement from the rabbit under her. Then she reached under her body, but she didn't know where she caught the rabbit.
Jiang Yingying held on tightly with her hands, making sure that the rabbit would not suddenly wake up and escape from her hands, then she slowly got up.
Looking at the fat rabbit in her hand, Jiang Yingying weighed it in her hand and found it was really fleshy.
A smile appeared on her face, and she grabbed it and smashed it to the ground hard, but the rabbit didn't make any more noise.
Jiang Yingying pulled the weeds nearby and asked her to find some vines to tie up, so she tied up all four legs of the rabbit.
Afterwards, Jiang Yingying hid it in her backpack, covered it with wild vegetables, and walked away in a hurry.
You can only feel at ease if you send the fat meat that falls from the sky back home.
Because of the meat, Jiang Yingying temporarily put her thoughts about He Yan behind her. She came out of the forest, turned a few corners, and gradually met people from the family compound.
She leaned over to look and saw that Xu Zhishu was no longer surrounded by people chatting, but there were two or three sisters-in-law from the Second Regiment around the field where she was digging wild vegetables.
Jiang Yingying stretched out her hand and gestured to her, indicating that she should go down the mountain first. Xu Zhishu nodded, and Jiang Yingying went to look for Jiang Yang again.
The children were on the other side, and when Jiang Yingying found him, Jiang Yang already had quite a few achievements in his small backpack.
"Auntie!" Seeing her, Jiang Yang immediately pointed at his backpack. "Aunt, look, I dug up a lot of wild vegetables."
"Our Yangyang is really capable!" Jiang Yingying praised, "Yangyang, auntie wants to go back first, do you want to go with auntie, or stay on the mountain for a while longer?"
Jiang Yang looked at his small backpack, then looked at the situation over at Xu Zhishu, and then looked at Jiang Yingying in front of him.
He pursed his lips and said, "Aunt, I'll go back with you."
As he spoke, Jiang Yang put his small shovel back into the backpack, and then he put the backpack on his back with his little hands.
"Tiedan, Erniu, Huahua..." He said goodbye to his good friends one by one, "I'm leaving first."
"Okay, Jiang Yang, let's play together next time."
Jiang Yang walked to Jiang Yingying and wanted to hold her hand, but when he looked at his dirty hands, he pulled back.
"Aunt, let's go."
Jiang Yingying took the initiative to hold his hand, "Okay, let's go, Tiedan, come to my house to play with Yangyang next time."
"Yes, I understand, Aunt Yingying."
Jiang Yingying took Jiang Yang down the mountain. After returning home, Jiang Yingying first looked around and then closed the gate.
Although Jiang Yang was puzzled, he would not question his aunt.
Then he saw his aunt take out a rabbit from the basket.
rabbit?
rabbit!
It’s still a white and fat rabbit! ! !
Jiang Yang was so happy that he went crazy. Fortunately, the little guy knew not to make a fuss about anything at home, especially something like meat.
Jiang Yang's eyes were almost shining, and he was so excited that he circled around the rabbit for several times. When Jiang Yingying was about to be dizzy, he finally stopped.
"Aunt! Did you catch this in the mountains?" The little guy covered his mouth and looked at her with sparkling eyes, without Jiang Yingying needing to reply to him.
He nodded to himself, "Of course it is!"
"Aunt, you are so awesome!"
From the moment Jiang Yingying took out the rabbit, she was impressed by Jiang Yang's reactions. Her eyes were filled with smiles and the corners of her mouth were raised.
Hearing her nephew praising her for being so good, if she hadn't retained some rationality, Jiang Yingying really wanted to boast that she would go up the mountain to catch another one next time.
At this moment, she managed to suppress the corners of her lips that were raised a little bit.
"It's okay, it's just my aunt who is lucky."
"Anyway, my aunt is really good. She's better than Uncle He and my dad. They didn't catch any rabbits when they went up the mountain."
At this moment, Jiang Yang had completely forgotten about the hunting trips the army sent into the mountains every year, and the wild boars, roe deer and other animals hunted by his father Jiang Chao and those military uncles.
Jiang Yingying's vanity suddenly swelled, and she felt flattered by Jiang Yang's praise.
She was now full of strength and felt that if she went up the mountain again, she might be able to catch another rabbit.
"Aunt, you are so awesome!"
Facing the child's starry eyes, Jiang Yingying coughed and said, enough is enough, she couldn't float down anymore.
"Yangyang, you watch the gate in the yard. If you hear any noise, tell your aunt and she will deal with the rabbit first."
"Okay!" Jiang Yang agreed and swallowed his saliva.
"Aunt, are we having rabbit meat for lunch?"
"Eat. We can eat one rabbit in three ways, not only at noon but also at night."
Jiang Yang swallowed even louder. The two men didn't even bother to care about the wild vegetables they picked. One of them was concentrating on processing the rabbit meat, while the other looked at his aunt, then looked vigilantly in the direction of the courtyard gate.
In order to prevent the aroma of meat from escaping, Jiang Yingying closed all the small windows and doors of the kitchen and cooked inside while sweating profusely.
Cold rabbit, spicy rabbit head, braised rabbit meat...she's here!
When Xu Zhishu came back, she found the courtyard gate closed. After she separated from those people, she watched them walk away before knocking on the door.
"My master is not at home, who is it?"
"It's me, your mother." Xu Zhishu said this in a sarcastic tone.
When Jiang Yang opened the door, Xu Zhishu found that her son's face was particularly alert and serious, but also a little festive.
Xu Zhishu raised her eyebrows in confusion, and let Jiang Yang pull her into the courtyard and locked the door.
"Where's your aunt?"
"Mom, hush." Jiang Yang looked around vigilantly and whispered, "Aunt is in the kitchen."
Xu Zhishu looked at the time and it was time to make lunch, so she looked at Jiang Yang.
"Your aunt is busy, why don't you go and help her, Yangyang? Cooking is not a one-person job." Xu Zhishu reached out and tapped his forehead, put down the backpack, and thought about going to the kitchen to help.
Jiang Yang held her back, "Mom," he looked at her disapprovingly, "We are guarding the yard, don't go and make trouble."
Xu Zhishu was almost laughing out of anger. If this boy didn't tell her the truth, she would make sure his butt would be beaten to a pulp today.
"Mom, let's prepare for the outside attack," Jiang Yang said seriously, "guard our kitchen!"
Jiang Yang spoke these words in a low voice, but Xu Zhishu could clearly hear the excitement in the second half of his sentence.
She lowered her head, hooked Jiang Yang's shoulder, and whispered in his ear: "Did your aunt go to buy meat?"
That’s not right. If I go to the mountain and then go to the grocery store, can I still buy meat?
Moreover, during this period, there was not much good meat available in grocery stores, mostly large bones and livers.
Jiang Yang shook his head and nodded, his teeth showing when he smiled.
"Mom, my aunt is amazing!"
Jiang Yang moved a little closer, looked around, and his expression became alert.
Xu Zhishu smiled and said, "No one."
Jiang Yang looked at her and said disapprovingly, "Be careful!" He pursed his lips, leaned close to Xu Zhishu's ear, and excitedly but carefully told her the story of his aunt catching a fat rabbit in the mountains.
At the end of his speech, Jiang Yang couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
Xu Zhishu also swallowed her saliva. She and Jiang Yang exchanged glances and decided that they had to be cautious.
She asked, "You came back with your aunt?"
"Well, I went down the mountain with my aunt."
"Did you meet anyone on the way? Were you discovered?"
"No, no, I just met a few aunts on the way and just said hello from a distance." Jiang Yang said, "It's so far away, the aunts probably don't know, right?"
"It's okay, you did a great job, you are worthy of being our Yingying!"
Facing Jiang Yang's big, blinking eyes and thinking about his previous series of cautious actions, Xu Zhishu paused and praised, "You are worthy of being my son!"
Jiang Yang straightened his chest and sat with his back straight, just like he was standing in a military posture, with quite the demeanor of Little Poplar.
Xu Zhishu thought about it and decided to go see if Jiang Yingying needed help. He could let Jiang Yang guard the door alone. He was a smart kid and could guard the door and no one would know that they were eating rabbit meat today.
As soon as she walked to the kitchen, she saw Jiang Yingying open the door a little, and the two sisters-in-law met their eyes.
"Sister-in-law, you're back." Jiang Yingying said, "I've prepared the meal, wash your hands first, and I'll take the dishes out."
"Sister-in-law, let's go inside to eat today."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll serve the dishes."
"No need. It's stuffy and hot in this kitchen. I'll do it." The kitchen was really hot, but Jiang Yingying didn't dare to open the door completely. She was afraid that the fragrance would escape.
"You keep cooking in there to heat up the food, I'll just serve the dishes." Xu Zhishu went into the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks without saying anything.
As soon as she entered the kitchen, she felt it was really hot. She looked at the sweat on Jiang Yingying's forehead.
"We are Yingying..."
At this tune, Jiang Yingying trembled and got goose bumps on her hands.
"Sister-in-law, let me serve the dishes first."
Xu Zhishu washed his hands in the kitchen and took the dishes out. In the yard, Jiang Yang's eyes brightened when he saw her coming out with dishes and chopsticks.
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