Chapter 369 Going Out to Eat
This winter break was quite meaningful for Ye Qian. She remembered that she had just traveled through time in 1965, and this year was already 1980. She had been in this world for a full 15 years, and she was already 30 years old. The mention of 30 naturally brought back memories of her past life. In her past life, she was alone at 30, and ultimately died unexpectedly. Fate was cruel.
In this life, she lived a completely different life from her previous one. Not only did she have a happy family and a successful career, these were all things she had dreamed of in her previous life, and she had them all in this life. Ye Qian had also thought carefully about why this life was completely different from her previous life. She felt that mentality was very important.
In her previous life, she had an unfortunate family and suffered hardships since childhood, so she developed an inferiority complex. She was an introvert by nature, and with her inferiority complex, haha, who would want to interact with her with such a personality? That's why she has few friends and a small circle. She is nearly 30 and still unmarried. It's because there are no elderly people around her, otherwise they would be anxious to death because of this.
In this life, she has space and supplies, so she naturally has the confidence. She hates her personality in her previous life, and she works hard to change herself step by step to become more confident, which is obviously effective.
Although her life was busy, she felt her own value, and she also had a supportive family, so she had no worries.
Ye Qian sat in a chair and thought about many things in her previous life and this life until Gu Jinyan came back from get off work and interrupted her.
As soon as Gu Jinyan entered the room, he felt that something was wrong with Ye Qian, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine, just reminiscing about the past." Ye Qian replied with a smile.
"Then did you remember anything?" Gu Jinyan asked as he sat next to her.
Ye Qian nodded: "Yes, yes, I feel like I have lived a very happy life."
Gu Jinyan smiled and said, "This lifetime? You are only 30 years old, and your whole life has just begun. But I will make you feel very happy in the future."
Ye Qian was stunned when she heard Gu Jinyan's words. Then she blushed and buried her head in his arms, laughing secretly. Gu Jinyan said helplessly: "It's time for dinner. Put on your coat quickly. The stove in the room is so hot. You will catch a cold if you go out."
"I understand." With that, the two of them stood up. Gu Jinyan put on Ye Qian's coat and went to the living room to have dinner.
Ye Qian was on vacation early as a student, but Gu Jinyan was still at work. Taking advantage of the vacation, Ye Qian put on her new small backpack and went out to buy some groceries.
The old one had been worn out a long time ago, but Ye Qian was reluctant to throw it away and kept it in the space. This new one was bought for her by Aunt Lan outside.
Ye Qian and Auntie Lan went out together and walked around the vegetable market. Auntie Lan couldn't help but sigh, "The supply is really sufficient now. It's not like a few years ago when we couldn't buy anything we wanted."
Ye Qian smiled and said, "Times have changed. Things will be better in the future."
Aunt Lan also agreed: "Yes, just look at how lively it is now and you will know that life is getting better day by day, isn't it?"
The two walked to the meat counter, bought a lot of tofu, dried tofu, and seasonings such as onions, ginger, garlic, and chili peppers, and went back. It was not that Ye Qian was reluctant to spend money, but the braised meat shop had cooperated with the meat factory, so the purchase price was naturally much cheaper than the price outside. She just needed to increase the order quantity. She also had vegetables in her space, so she just needed to carry some back every day.
I went to the market and these are the only things I really wanted to buy.
After delivering the vegetables, Ye Qian went out several times with a small basket on her back, bringing home a lot of vegetables, sweet potatoes and corn.
The next day, after the meat she ordered arrived, she used the space to bring the meat back to Zi's house. When Aunt Lan saw Ye Qian carrying half a pig back, she was shocked: "Why is there so much? How did you bring it back?"
Ye Qian sat on the chair and took a sip of water before answering Aunt Lan's question: "Someone delivered it to the door, otherwise how could I get it back?"
Aunt Lan didn't doubt it and nodded directly, "Then how do we prepare the meat?"
"Separate the meat first and I'll get some fish to pickle together. It won't go bad even though it's cold now. After it's pickled, I'll send some to the Fu family. The Fu family is celebrating the New Year here this year, so they can have a taste then." In her previous life, Ye Qian was from Han City. In Han City, people would pickle fish and meat together in the twelfth lunar month during the New Year. It's called cured fish and cured meat. These things pickled with salt will not go bad even if eaten all year round.
In the past, supplies were scarce and fish and meat were hard to buy, so people didn't pickle them. The harvest has been good in the past two years, and those with some money have started pickling them again. This reminded Ye Qian of this dish. She missed it last year because it was after the twelfth lunar month, so she wanted to try it this year, so she bought half a pig. She doesn't like fatty meat, but pickled fatty meat is especially delicious when stir-fried with vegetables, so most of the pickled meat is relatively fatty.
Then she left some pork belly, planning to make braised pork, and the spareribs could also be used to make soup. The sparerib lotus root soup was simply delicious. She hadn't eaten it in years. She could also braise pig's trotters, or make soybean and pig's trotter soup. Thinking of this, Ye Qian swallowed unconsciously, and Ningning noticed and said to her, "Mom, you can't eat raw meat. It will upset your stomach."
Ye Qian was speechless: "Mom knows."
"Then mom is still swallowing her saliva." Ningning looked at Ye Qian with an innocent face.
Ye Qian: "Because when I see meat, recipes pop up in my head." Ye Qian pointed to the pork belly and said to the three children: "Look at that, you can make braised pork." She pointed to the ribs and said, "I plan to make pork rib lotus root soup with this." She pointed to the pig's trotters and said, "I want to braise this or make soup. Pig's trotters are delicious."
After Ye Qian finished speaking, the three children also swallowed unconsciously. Ye Qian immediately said, "Why are you swallowing? You can't eat raw meat. It will upset your stomach."
The three children were immediately amused by Ye Qian. Aunt Lan looked at the relationship between the four people. The mother and son did not seem like mother and son, but they got along quite well. As Ye Qian said, they should get along like friends so that there would be no barriers. This is very good. Aunt Lan did not understand it at first, but she understood it after a few years. This way is indeed very good. At least their relationship is indeed closer than that of mothers and sons in other families.
Aunt Lan continued to divide the meat. Ye Qian asked the three children to go play aside. She went out again and took out a few big fish from the space and asked Aunt Lan to kill them together.
Gu Jinyan returned home right after marinating the fish. Seeing that everyone was busy but the kitchen was deserted, he asked, "Hasn't anyone cooked yet?"
Everyone looked at each other, and then they realized that dinner was not ready.
"Let's go out and eat, private dishes."
Gu Jinyan knew at a glance that everyone must have been busy all day and it would be too troublesome to cook, so he mentioned it to everyone.
Everyone nodded in agreement: "Okay, okay."
(End of this chapter)
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