Chapter 69: A Few Things
Jiang Yingying hurriedly said: "Brother, are you hungry? I'll make you a bowl of vermicelli."
Everything is ready, including the sweet potato vermicelli that was just made a few days ago, pickled sour beans, and the leftover vegetables that were just picked from the backyard.
Jiang Yingying didn't wait for Jiang Chao to respond. She turned around and went to the stove to light the fire and boil the pot. She took out a handful of vermicelli and put it in the pot.
Xu Zhishu looked at Jiang Chao's face, which had become much darker and thinner, as well as the dark circles under his eyes and the red bloodshot at the corners of his eyes.
It was obvious that he had suffered a great deal outside.
She leaned forward to smell the scent on Jiang Chao's body and asked, "There's still some in my bowl. You can have a bite first. I'll go get you some hot water to wash up."
Jiang Chao also picked up his collar and smelled it. He came back in time because he hadn't washed it for a few days.
He said, "No, I'll just take a cold shower."
"Boil a small pot and add some cold water. Warm water is fine. If you wash with cold water, you won't be able to eat the vermicelli cooked by Yingying later."
Jiang Yingying chimed in from behind, "Brother, listen to your sister-in-law. Taking a cold shower in the middle of the night will only make you suffer when you are old and have poor health. Your family will suffer."
After hearing what they said, Jiang Chao said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."
A small pot of hot water boiled all of a sudden. Jiang Chao took the pot and poured it into the wooden barrel, then fetched some cold water into it.
I hadn't taken a bath for a few days, and sometimes I even hung out in the wild. This time, Jiang Chao took an especially long and careful bath.
When he came out, Xu Zhishu was the only one left in the kitchen.
Jiang Chao asked, "Where's Yingying?"
"Go back to the room and sleep. Come quickly. Yingying's vermicelli is delicious. It's made with sweet potatoes. I don't know what's wrong with Yingying's brain. She's so smart and deft."
Jiang Chao sniffed and said, "It smells really good."
Xu Zhishu sat opposite him and watched him eat with big mouthfuls.
After a while, a big bowl of vermicelli was eaten. "Wife, is there anything else?"
"There's still a big pot left, eat slowly," Xu Zhishu said with distress in his eyes, "How long has it been since you last ate?"
"Yes, the food at home is so delicious. I haven't eaten it for a long time."
Xu Zhishu agreed with what he said. She said, "That's true. Yingying's cooking skills are impeccable."
As he was talking, Jiang Chao had already filled another large bowl and returned to the small table. If Xu Zhishu hadn't been there, he could have stood by the pot and finished his meal.
"Wife, you really don't want to eat?"
"No, Yingying and I have already eaten."
Seeing that Xu Zhishu didn't look like she was lying, Jiang Chao asked her two more questions, then quickly shut up before she got impatient and quickly finished the whole pot of vermicelli.
After eating, Jiang Chao did not let Xu Zhishu wash the pot and dishes himself.
"Okay, wife, let's go back to the house."
"Okay, I'm sleepy too."
Jiang Chao felt a warm feeling in his heart. His wife just felt sorry for him. She could have gone back to the room to sleep, but she waited for him in the kitchen.
But when Jiang Chao saw Xu Zhishu walk to Jiang Yingying's door without hesitation, question marks appeared in his head.
"Wife, this is not our room." There was a hint of grievance hidden in Jiang Chao's words.
For some reason, Xu Zhishu felt a little guilty, so she turned around.
"Oh, wrong way."
After returning to the house, Jiang Chao locked the door and asked, "Wife, what did you and Yingying eat last night?"
"The scallion oil noodles we had were delicious. The taste was so good that I almost exposed myself in front of Jiang Yang this morning."
After Xu Zhishu answered, he realized something was wrong.
Then, she was held in the arms of some stingy man.
"During this period, have you and Yingying been quite happy? Did you move your pillow to her side?"
"You two sleep together every night?"
After the last sentence was spoken, the room was filled with sour air.
Xu Zhishu argued: "Ahem, I'm a little scared to sleep alone when you're not here..."
"Hmm."
Jiang Chao blocked her remaining words of excuse with his lips, "I'm back, don't be afraid, go get the pillow back tomorrow."
"Hmm."
The next morning, thinking about Jiang Chao's return, Jiang Yingying got up early, went to the backyard to pick some green onions, and ate the scallion oil noodles that Jiang Yang had been craving for in the morning.
Seeing Jiang Chao suddenly appear in the yard, Jiang Yang screamed and ran into his arms.
Jiang Chao picked him up and threw him into the air. Jiang Yang shouted for joy a few more times, his little face flushed with excitement.
"Hehe, Dad, higher, higher."
At this time, Xu Zhishu came out of the room. She glared at Jiang Chao, who quickly withdrew his hand and put Jiang Yang back on the ground.
Jiang Chao patted his son's fat butt and said, "Son, go brush your teeth, go quickly."
Jiang Yang blushed and covered his buttocks, "Dad!" He stomped his feet, "I'm a man, you can't touch my butt!"
Jiang Chao smiled flatteringly, "Okay, okay, come on, Dad will take you to wash up."
Xu Zhishu snorted, rubbed his waist, and went to wash up.
When the family of three came back, Jiang Yingying's scallion oil noodles were ready.
"What a nice smell," Jiang Yang moved his little nose, "This smell is so familiar."
Seeing the guilty look in Xu Zhishu's eyes, Jiang Chao just found it funny. Seeing her like this, it was easy for him to guess that Jiang Yang had probably been fooled by her a lot during this period of time.
"Yingying, let me serve it."
Seeing Jiang Yingying coming out with a bowl of noodles, Jiang Chao hurried forward and took it with one hand.
Jiang Yang also walked forward with his little feet. It smelled so good. He wanted to eat a big bowl today.
This scallion oil noodles successfully filled the Jiang family's four members. Jiang Yingying could still relax at home, but the other three had to go to school and work with bulging bellies.
Before going out, Jiang Chao washed all the dishes, holding Xu Zhishu's shoulder bag in one hand and Jiang Yang's schoolbag in the other.
"Let's go. I'll take you to school today."
Jiang Chao, who had just returned, still held a very high position in Jiang Yang's heart. "Dad, you are so nice!"
"Yingying, let's go."
"Okay, go slowly on the road."
After watching the family of three walk away, Jiang Yingying suddenly felt a little disappointed. She shook her head, went back to the yard, picked up her backpack and straw hat, closed the gate, and went up the mountain.
There are enough vegetables in the backyard, and there is enough flour and seasonings in the kitchen, but Jiang Yingying wants to go up the mountain to dig some wild vegetables and mushrooms, or maybe she could be lucky enough to catch a rabbit like last time, which would also be good.
After all, no matter what it is, it can be considered as adding some food to the home.
On the way up the mountain, Jiang Yingying met many sisters-in-law, many of whom had the same idea as her.
When she met people, Jiang Yingying just greeted them with a smile, quickened her pace, and slowly left behind her sisters-in-law who loved to have fun.
Jiang Yingying let out a light breath and began to concentrate on her role as a little girl digging wild vegetables. Following her memory from last time, she walked towards the area where the rabbit was found.
There were fewer people walking around there, and the further they went in, the more wild vegetables Jiang Yingying filled her backpack.
Jiang Yingying's eyes lit up. She found a nest of pheasant eggs in the grass!
Pheasant eggs! ! !
Jiang Yingying quickly put the dozen eggs, covered with wild vegetables, into the backpack.
As a result, as soon as she put the eggs in and turned around, she saw a pheasant staring at her from behind.
Jiang Yingying's heart trembled. Inexplicably, she felt a little guilty and scared. Could this be the owner of this nest of eggs?
Before Jiang Yingying could react, the pheasant pounced on her with a very ferocious look.
But Jiang Yingying's hand reacted faster. She grasped the pheasant's body tightly, and with a weak heart, she swung the pheasant in her hand violently, and then smashed it to the ground two or three times.
Jiang Yingying finally breathed a sigh of relief after the pheasant stopped responding.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, looked at the motionless pheasant on the ground, and then looked at the pheasant eggs in the basket.
A smile flashed across Jiang Yingying's face. Great harvest!
She happily tied up the pheasant with hemp rope, yes, hemp rope.
Before going up the mountain, Jiang Yingying thought that maybe she could have good luck again and catch something. In order not to face the situation of tying the rabbit with weeds again, Jiang Yingying brought a hemp rope.
At that time, Jiang Yingying was still thinking that maybe she had too high a filter for herself. It was not so easy to catch something as soon as she went up the mountain.
But now it seems that Jiang Yingying thinks "shamelessly": Maybe, she has a little luck.
On the way down the mountain, Jiang Yingying naturally avoided people.
When she got home, she chopped the pheasant with a kitchen knife. Jiang Yingying was sharpening her knife at home, while He Yan led a small team and also forced the target mission into the dense forest.
The gunshots continued to ring out as they were making the final siege. The order from above was: if they could capture her alive, that would be fine; if not, then at least spare Ishida Keiko's life and never allow her to have the chance to commit crimes in our country again.
At the critical moment, seeing that the other party was about to escape using the cableway, He Yan and Lao Ying intercepted her from the left and right.
After ensuring that the prisoner was subdued, He Yan said, "Be alert and stay alert until she is handed over to our comrades."
"Make sure you complete the mission, Captain!"
When He Yan and his group of escorts met up with comrades from the National Security Bureau, Jiang Yingying had already plucked all the feathers off the pheasant.
She looked at the time, washed her hands, picked up her bag, and went out to work.
When Jiang Yingying saw Jiang Chao at lunch time, she told him not to eat in the cafeteria and to go home and wait for her to cook.
After finally making it to dinner and getting off work, Jiang Yingying came out of the cafeteria and saw someone waiting for her at the cafeteria door.
Her heart skipped a beat, but when she realized it was Jiang Chao, she could not hide her disappointment.
Jiang Chao raised his eyebrows, "Why, are you unhappy that I came to pick you up?"
"Brother! How could that be..." Jiang Yingying stepped forward and said, "Let's go home and make delicious food for you."
Jiang Chao took a big step forward and said, "Yingying, you and Yangyang are indeed aunt and niece."
"Um?"
"Losing your temper and lying are exactly the same thing."
"elder brother!"
Under Jiang Chao's teasing gaze, Jiang Yingying retracted her foot and stomped her feet. She snorted, "Brother, you're done. Do you know who you can't offend?"
"Who?"
"The one who cooks."
After Jiang Yingying said this, she trotted off angrily. Jiang Chao hurriedly followed her, apologizing repeatedly.
"Yingying, Yingying, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong..."
Jiang Yingying and Jiang Chao arrived at the family compound. When they were almost at the door of their home, they saw Xu Zhishu and Jiang Yang waiting at the gate.
Jiang Chao pursed his lips, but the corners of his lips were still raised.
He looked at Jiang Yingying, his tone slightly cocky.
"Really? I didn't expect your sister-in-law and Yangyang missed me so much that they waited for me at the gate of the courtyard..."
Before Jiang Chao could finish his words, Jiang Yang saw them and ran over.
"This kid, does he miss me so much?"
"aunt!"
The smile on Jiang Chao's lips froze, and Jiang Yingying caught Jiang Yang who was rushing towards her.
"Why are you waiting at the door?"
Jiang Yang could not see his old father at all at this moment, his mind and eyes were filled with Jiang Yingying.
"Aunt!" His chubby body twisted in Jiang Yingying's arms, "I miss you!"
Jiang Chao felt his hands itchy and coughed.
Jiang Chao, who just returned, still has a certain status in Jiang Yang's heart.
He turned and looked at him.
"Dad, Yangyang misses you too."
Jiang Chao raised his lips, "Dad misses you too, let's go home."
"oh."
Jiang Yang reached out and held Jiang Yingying's hand, and the two walked together, leaving Jiang Chao behind.
Jiang Chao gritted his teeth and looked at the chattering little figure in front of him. He really felt like clenching his fists.
He walked quickly to Xu Zhishu's side and said aggrievedly: "Wife, my son bullied me..."
As he said this, he wanted to lean his head on Xu Zhishu's shoulder.
Xu Zhishu pushed him away, looked at his pitiful appearance, and said something coaxing.
"He's at the gate, and someone might see him." She said, "I'll teach him a lesson for you tonight."
"My wife is always good to me." Jiang Chao said.
After entering the yard, Jiang Yang turned around and gave orders to Jiang Chao.
"Dad, close the door."
Jiang Chao didn't understand why, but he still closed the door.
After realizing what was happening, Jiang Chao tried to keep a calm face and said seriously, "Jiang Yang, come here."
"I'm not going. I'm going to help in the kitchen."
Xu Zhishu also glared at him, "If you don't want to cook, don't make trouble. Yingying comes home from work all day and still has to cook. How tiring it is."
Then, she also went to the kitchen.
Suddenly Jiang Chao was the only one left in the yard, and he pointed at himself.
"I?"
How could he not feel sorry for Yingying? She is his own sister!
Jiang Chao rolled up his sleeves, squeezed into the kitchen, and said, "Come on, I'll cook this meal. What do you want to eat..."
The second half of his word got stuck in his throat and couldn't come out.
Jiang Chao looked at the washed chicken on the chopping board? pheasant?
Jiang Yang looked at Jiang Yingying with sparkling eyes, and Xu Zhishu was no less excited.
"Aunt, you are so amazing!"
"Aunt, can you take me with you next time you go up the mountain?"
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Xu Zhishu also praised him a few times, but she was also worried.
"Yingying, the mountains are dangerous. Don't go too deep. Just walk around the periphery."
"Our Yingying is so amazing, she can even catch pheasants in the mountains..." and so on! He asked, "Did Yingying catch this in the mountains?"
Jiang Yang said: "Aunt is amazing. Last time we went to the mountains, she caught a big fat rabbit."
Speaking of rabbit, Jiang Yang swallowed uncontrollably. He remembered the braised rabbit meat and cold rabbit he had eaten last time.
That was the first time Jiang Yang knew that rabbit meat could be eaten in so many ways, and he sometimes even dreamed about it at night.
Want to eat!
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