Cut ginger, schizonepeta, and perilla into slices or strips, and put them into a pot of boiling water together with tea leaves. The Five Gods Soup is almost ready.
Mu Huaixi sprinkled the ingredients into the two pots and stirred them with a large spoon. A spicy and refreshing smell rushed to his face, refreshing his mind.
"Hmm..." Wang Xiaohua also leaned over to smell it, and suddenly said, "When the boat comes back later, we can throw a fish directly into the pot."
"Hahahahahahahahahaha", hearty laughter rang out beside them. Mu Huaixi's hand lightened, and the pot lid she was about to pick up was taken away by someone. It was Luo Rui who came over with a smile. She leaned closer to Mu Huaixi and said, "Originally, I was going to get on the boat too, but I heard you were coming here to wait for me."
Mu Huaixi didn't know what she meant, but she felt a fierce aura from Luo Rui similar to that of Ying Mingcheng. She took a step back, raised her head and looked at the other party, waiting for Luo Rui's next words.
Looking closely, Luo Rui's face was well-proportioned, her skin was firm, her eyes were bright, and her cheeks and lips were slightly pink. She was healthy and beautiful. Mu Huaixi had always seen some problems with the women he had seen since he entered the mountains, but when he suddenly saw such a beautiful face, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Luo Rui was also looking at her, and saw that her eyes contained inquiry, doubt, and even admiration, but not suspicion or vigilance. Suddenly, she reached out and pinched her cheek, "Ying Mingcheng is so lucky. How did he find such a beautiful and capable wife? Sigh!"
"Oh my God!" Wang Xiaohua on the side had already covered her mouth excitedly. Her eyes moved back and forth between the two of them, and gradually became confused. Why did she feel that she saw an inexplicable pink bubble between Commander Luo and Doctor Mu?
Why is Instructor Luo still touching Dr. Mu's face?!
What's wrong with being a little pampered?
Luo Rui came in a strange way and walked even faster. Mu Huaixi touched his face and looked puzzledly at Instructor Luo who was running towards the lake and rushed onto the boat. He didn't understand why she was waiting for him just to say these two sentences?
Luo Rui chuckled after getting on the boat. She originally wanted to explain their relationship to Ying Mingcheng's wife to avoid rumors that would make the young couple unhappy. But just now, she could tell from Mu Huaixi's reaction that the other party had at least heard about her and Ying Mingcheng, and didn't mind.
The other party was so frank and even had some inexplicable admiration for her, which made Luo Rui very happy. An idea suddenly came to her mind that maybe she could become friends with Mu Huaixi.
Mu Huaixi, who was sitting by the stove, hadn't figured it out yet when she heard Cang Kaiyu calling her, and a group of soldiers following behind him were all staring at her.
Mu Huaixi chatted with Cang Kaiyu for a few sentences and found out that this fishing activity was actually a competition based on battalions, and the Fourth Battalion naturally sent out its own elite team.
"Comrade Mu, you can expect a fish feast in the cafeteria tonight," Cang Kaiyu said confidently, noticing the aroma coming from the pot. "Are you going to make ginger soup for us today? Can you..."
Cang Kaiyu suddenly became a little embarrassed. He glanced warily at Wang Xiaohua, whose ears pricked up, and asked in a low voice, "Can you put more sugar in it?"
It happened that the medicine soup in the pot was boiling. Mu Huaixi asked Xiao Cang to help open the pot and sprinkled two bags of brown sugar into the pot in front of him.
Cang Kaiyu's eyes lit up, and his lips trembled, "Comrade Mu, this is too generous!"
"There are two large pots, and you're not going to drink it yourself." Wang Xiaohua was dissatisfied with him standing by the pot and snatched the lid and slammed it shut. "If you don't cover it, the medicinal vapor will fly away. Doctor Mu, do you think I'm right?"
Mu Huaixi laughed. Seeing that almost everyone on the shore had gone into the water, she urged the people from the fourth battalion to set off as well. However, Cang Kaiyu was not in a hurry. He shouted and three or five people came out. They quickly chopped all the firewood beside the stove and then hurriedly ran onto the boat.
"The people in the Fourth Battalion are pretty nice," Wang Xiaohua finally said something nice, then looked at Mu Huaixi with sudden enlightenment, "Doctor Mu, your wife is from the Fourth Battalion, how could I have forgotten this!"
Mu Huaixi suddenly heard the word "lover" and blinked before realizing that her lover was Ying Mingcheng. During these days in Hulu Valley, he was not around every day, but it seemed that his name, his brothers, and his shadow were everywhere.
I don’t know how he is doing now?
Ying Mingcheng and his companions have arrived at the mission site. They are here to catch a group of spies who stole secrets from the Military Industry Factory 338. Intelligence shows that this group of people may split up and flee the country in three directions. Ying Mingcheng and his companions are waiting at the southwest dock, which has a well-developed water system. If they are allowed to escape, it will be difficult to catch them.
Two boats leave the dock in three directions every day, but the departure times are different from morning to night, and the flow of people is also very large. In addition to strengthening the original security checks at the dock, Ying Mingcheng and his companions also dressed up as passengers and porters at the dock, constantly monitoring the people coming and going.
Ying Mingcheng played the role of a porter. In the morning breeze that could produce white mist, he wore only a thin shirt with a tight cloth belt tied around his waist. He also changed his usual upright posture, with his back slightly hunched and shoulders tilted, holding a shoulder pole, and looking eagerly at every passerby.
If Mu Huaixi was present, he probably wouldn't recognize Ying Mingcheng at first. He looked like the porters that could be seen everywhere at the docks, squatting casually on the side of the road, waiting for good luck to come.
Ying Mingcheng and his companions waited at the dock for another morning, but still found nothing. He found a fellow porter who was equally tired, and the two of them asked the owner of a stall at the dock to buy a bowl of hot soup together, which they ate with the black steamed buns and flatbreads they had brought with them.
Most of the porters next to them were like them. Some had received big orders in the morning and sat confidently at the tables and chairs set up by the stall owner, ordering a bowl of meat soup noodles generously. They had to have enough energy to continue taking work in the afternoon.
Like other porters with no work, Ying Mingcheng squatted beside the stall, numbly biting the cold, hard pancakes, but still paying attention to any movement on the dock, just in case he could get an order.
"Please move aside, please move aside. My wife is very pregnant. Please don't touch her."
Suddenly, a young couple caught his attention. The woman was indeed very pregnant, her blue-black cloth jacket so full that she struggled to walk, relying entirely on her husband's careful support. Someone saw the man, his back hunched from the weight of his load, put down his pancakes, and asked if he needed help, offering to carry his wife aboard.
The man quickly waved his hands and said he had no money, but he was particularly willing to spend money to buy meat soup noodles for his wife. The woman also looked at him from time to time, and they seemed very affectionate.
But Ying Mingcheng felt something was wrong the more he looked. He finished the pancake in three bites and deliberately passed by the couple. Suddenly, he discovered something.
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