The next morning, Xie Sufen got up to cook. Ji Xia heard the noise and yelled outside, "Mom, I don't want corn porridge. I want meat, steamed buns, and rice porridge."
Xie Sufen was embarrassed. "Hey kid, look at every household. Who doesn't eat meat during festivals? Be obedient. When I cook the porridge later, I'll put more meat in it. I'll also heat up yesterday's steamed buns for you to eat. Okay?"
After all, Xie Sufen felt sorry for the child and couldn't bear it.
Ji Xia can actually eat very well by herself. There are delicious foods in the space that she bought from various restaurants. They are still in the same state as when she put them in.
She walked out and threw two featherless chickens and a large piece of wild boar belly to her mother, weighing about five or six pounds. "I got this last night while hunting with someone in the mountains. Put more meat in when cooking. We'll have meat for every meal in the family from now on. I'll take care of it all."
These were all things she had gotten from the supermarket and placed in the space.
Xie Sufen was stunned. Two chickens in her left hand and a large piece of meat in her right hand. She couldn't react. "You went up the mountain last night?"
"Yeah!" Ji Xia said as a matter of course, "Let's go up the mountain! Mom, go cook quickly, I'm starving. You still have to go to work soon, don't waste time."
It was time for her to go for a walk in the mountains. Game was always better than what she would get in supermarkets later on. She wondered how delicious the original game would be at this time.
The thought made her drool. Seeing that her mother would need some time to cook, Ji Xia decided to go up the mountain to check it out first.
She was so fast that she disappeared out the back door.
Liu E walked to the door and saw the meat in Xie Sufen's hand. Her eyes almost fell out. "Sister-in-law, it's good that you drove us away. After we left, your life has improved a lot. You can even eat meat, and there is so much meat!"
She was full of anger, thinking that if she got pregnant with a son for the Ji family, she would be able to live a good life. Who knew that now she not only had to live in a cowshed, but also had no rice at home.
"What are you doing here?" Xie Sufen has never gotten along with this sister-in-law.
"Sister-in-law, I wouldn't come to your house for no reason. Last night, all of Mom's money, notes, and rice were gone, and we couldn't even afford to eat this morning. After all, we were brothers before, so you wouldn't have the heart to see us starve to death, would you?"
Liu E glanced at the meat in Xie Sufen's hand, meaning, if you eat meat like this, you can't let us starve!
Xie Sufen put the meat into the kitchen and said, "This is what Xia Xia hunted down from the mountain. If you want to eat it, ask Tongping to hunt it himself. We don't have any."
"Then lend us some rice and flour." Liu E was really shameless.
Xie Sufen laughed and said, "You're not afraid of irritating your tongue when you talk. You asked me to lend you some rice and flour. When you left, did the old lady leave any rice and flour for us? Don't you know? For our meal last night, we borrowed a liter of cornmeal from Cuixiang and made a bowl of porridge."
Liu E's original intention was not to borrow rice or flour. She knew that Old Lady Ji did not leave a single grain of rice for Xie Sufen. Her ultimate purpose was to borrow money.
Xie Sufen sneered when she heard her talk about borrowing money, "Instead of borrowing from me, you might as well borrow from Hongmei. Don't you know whether I have money or not?"
Liu E felt a little embarrassed. After all, the last dozen yuan had been taken away by Old Lady Ji. "It would take Hongmei to give it back. Don't blame me. It was my mother who asked me to come."
"I have no money left. There is not even any ash in my pocket." Xie Sufen said, and without paying any attention to her, she turned and went into the kitchen to cook.
Liu E came back and told the old lady the result. She dispelled her doubts. It seemed that her loss of money was not caused by her own actions, but was caused by that damn girl Ji Xia.
Ji Xia walked around the mountain and came down with two fat rabbits in her hands, intending to ask her mother to make braised rabbit meat for her.
He met Qin Xiao who was leading a group of people up the mountain. He was wearing a straight military uniform, with a stern look and a serious expression, as if someone owed him three liters of stale barley. Ji Xia looked at the two bars and two stars on his shoulders and thought to himself, he is a battalion commander after all.
Ji Xia walked past him without even glancing at him. All the soldiers led by Qin Xiao saluted Ji Xia. The platoon leaders recognized that this woman was the one who had tried to scam the battalion commander before, and glanced at the battalion commander sideways.
"Stop!" Qin Xiao said coldly.
Ji Xia stopped immediately, as if following an order, which made Qin Xiao frown.
He investigated this woman. She was a native of Liaoning Province. Her father served as a mechanized infantryman for eight years. When he retired, he was a company commander and had won second-class individual merit. Logically, he should have been able to stay in the army, but because her grandmother did not allow her mother to join the army, her father had to transfer to the local area and work as the head of the equipment department in a machinery factory.
Ji Xia has never been a soldier, but her strict and law-abiding behavior has a kind of iron-blooded temperament, which makes Qin Xiao more suspicious.
Ji Xia glanced at him sideways, "Brother Soldier, do you have any instructions?"
Feeling that their battalion commander was being teased, the other soldiers in the row found it hilarious and they were trying so hard to hold back their laughter that their cheeks were sore.
Qin Xiao's teeth ached, and he said sternly, "Be serious!"
Ji Xia took a step back, facing Qin Xiao, arms folded across his chest, "Comrade, who is the one who's being dishonest? Have you forgotten that you made advances the last time we met? I haven't even gone to your unit to report you for being a hooligan yet. What's your unit number?"
Gao Zan looked at his battalion commander and then at the girl. She had fair skin and was beautiful, wearing a well-fitting military uniform. Unlike other girls, she did not have two rustic pigtails, but a ponytail swung behind her head, which made her look both beautiful and heroic.
Their battalion commander is a female insulator. Last time, he actually pulled this woman into his arms, which really seemed like he was being a hooligan.
Qin Xiao endured it again and again, "We are investigating something. During the last air raid, when you were hiding, did you see anything special?"
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