Everyone sat around the dining table in the cafeteria, looking forward to today's banquet.
As a family member and Tao Xiaobo's sister-in-law, Shi Yanning naturally helped.
Shi Yanning bought some potatoes and made French fries for everyone.
French fries are simple to make, but it is not easy to make them delicious.
First peel the potatoes, and the soldiers will help. Tao Xiaobo is popular, so a large group of soldiers came to the temporary kitchen to help wash the vegetables.
Then soak the potatoes in clean water to remove the starch, put them into the pot and blanch them for one minute, then take them out and rinse them with cold water. Everyone felt that Shi Yanning's practice of rinsing them with cold water was not clean.
But he didn't say anything. Shi Yanning had prepared the French fries in advance. Today he just fried them again for one minute, took them out, and put them on the table.
When the children in the yard smelled the aroma of French fries, they reached out to grab them impatiently without even having time to wash their hands.
They are all at an age where they are greedy, and no one would bother with a child on such a happy day as today.
"This is delicious! I want more."
Shi Yanning saw that the children liked it, but still said to the adults: "This is not easy to digest. Children can eat it as a snack. There will be dishes later."
When the adults heard that there would be dishes, of course they pulled the children back and told them to eat more since they would finally have a meal of meat later.
Because there are so many people in the camp, Mrs. Li, who manages the canteen, can only cook simple dishes. On days like this, she can't cook like usual.
So the idea came up that each family member should bring out their own specialty dish, one dish per person, and the ingredients would be prepared by the team.
Tao Xiaobo's mother, Aunt Zhou, asked Tao Xiaobo to take her to the market and then to the home of a fellow villager, where she ordered a truckload of chickens and ducks.
Therefore, everyone wanted to cook more dishes immediately.
Looking at the whole pig placed in the kitchen, everyone felt that Aunt Tao was very generous!
This scene stabbed Captain Su in the back again.
After all, as the bride's family and sister's family, they have not prepared any dowry and have not yet paid any money.
Su Yongsheng, holding his lively and active second child, sat in the corner of the crowd, listening to the laughter around him and feeling that they were laughing at him all the time.
His trained face was so dark that his original color could not be seen. For the first time, Su Yongsheng began to doubt himself for having sacrificed his own future and insisted on marrying Qin Qing.
He was on a mission outside, and before leaving he asked Qin Qing to take good care of his younger sister. The window of his younger sister's room was broken by the eldest boy, so wind was blowing in.
It was unknown how long the quilt had been used. Not only was it not as soft as the one in his and Qin Qing's room, it was also thin.
She was so good that she even took away the down jacket given by the team leader's wife. My younger sister had a high fever and it was my sister-in-law in the courtyard who found her.
He couldn't imagine what would happen to his reputation and future, and how the people in the team would view him if his younger sister really died of a high fever.
Now, Qin Qing has returned to her parents' home, taking the family's money with him. He doesn't even have enough money to buy a bed or quilt.
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Others didn't know that Su Yongsheng had so many thoughts in his mind. They only knew that he was relaxed and happy today. Everyone was chatting and drinking a little wine, and they were having a good time.
Soon, Director Zhao gave a speech and Aunt Li asked everyone to serve the dishes.
There is braised chicken in a hot pot, which is a spicy dish, just right for the current weather.
Some vegetables were added in, cooked till soft and tasty.
The Dongpo pork elbow was stewed till soft and tender. Each person had a pair of chopsticks and no one had time to try the third bite.
Because of the food tasting two days ago, everyone agreed that Shi Yanning's cooking skills were among the best in the compound.
Therefore, they were assigned five dishes. Because there were so many people, Shi Yanning got up early in the morning to get busy.
"Why are you up so early?"
Huo Chenzhou glanced at the sky outside. It was only five o'clock.
"...Did I wake you up?" Shi Yanning thought that her movements were very gentle, but she didn't expect that she still woke the man up.
"I'm responsible for the five dishes for lunch today, so I have to clean up and go prepare them now."
"Five dishes? So many?" Huo Chenzhou glanced at his wife's small body. He couldn't believe it when he thought that his wife had to prepare five dishes, and they were enough for the people in the entire camp.
"Sister-in-law Li personally ordered this. When everyone was tasting the food, they all made dishes. They thought mine tasted good, so they asked me to make five. Why are you looking at me like that? The sisters-in-law will help me."
"Then I'll get up too. I'll go with you and help you."
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Shi Yanning: "Really? Aren't you going to go with Tao Xiaobo to welcome the bride?"
"I'm not single, let other people in the team do it, I'll just take care of my wife."
Huo Chenzhou got up, quickly tidied himself up, and also sorted out Shi Yanning's clothes.
It just so happened that the only preparation last night was to slaughter and feather some chickens and ducks in advance.
She needed to kill a fish this morning, but she didn't dare to do it. She originally wanted to ask her sister-in-law to help in the canteen. But now that there was a ready-made helper, Shi Yanning naturally would not let it go.
Aunt Zhou had someone send the fish over yesterday. Shi Yanning pointed to the large water tank and said, "All the fish in here need to be killed. It's best to fillet the fish meat."
Shi Yanning thought about it and decided that in addition to fish head soup, he could also have whole fish fillets.
"You can just braise or steam the whole thing, why make yourself so tired?"
Huo Chenzhou muttered a few words, but his hands moved skillfully. He scooped up a fish from the water tank. The fish, which was originally slippery in the water, was now very well-behaved in Huo Chenzhou's hands and could not move.
Huo Chenzhou raised his knife and knocked it unconscious with the back of the knife, then started throwing the knife.
His movements were very fast, which he had practiced before. When they were young, the men of the Huo family often went fishing. Huo Chenzhou learned this skill from Grandpa Huo.
When Li Xiumin arrived, she saw Shi Yanning already cutting the "toothpick meat". She then glanced at the large basin beside her, which was full of fish meat and fish bones. She knew without asking, "Is this the result of Captain Huo's hard work?"
Li Xiumin recalled that it was the same when she and her husband were newly married, one person handled the ingredients and the other cooked.
"Um."
Sister Li listened and couldn't help but "tsk tsk" and said, "After looking at your Captain Huo, I looked at my husband and found that he really doesn't know how to be gentle with women. My husband and I were just married, and you two are so clingy."
"Hahahaha, Sister Li, are you saying that Director Zhao didn't take good care of you?"
The few of them were all familiar with each other and told dirty jokes without any restraint.
Huo Chenzhou retreated naturally. After all, the kitchen was full of women, and it was not good for him to be the only man in the kitchen.
Huo Chenzhou picked up the fish, picked up a full basin and went outside. His movements were still very skillful.
"Okay, let's get moving quickly. We all have a mission. Our men don't care about us and come to help, so we have to be self-reliant!"
Sister Li's words immediately made Shi Yanning blush.
"Ningning, let me help you." Zhou Pingping's cooking skills were average, but she came to help prepare the ingredients very naturally.
"Okay, peel the garlic."
Zhou Pingping moved a small stool and listened to everyone talking, occasionally joining in the conversation.
Zhou Pingping is an unmarried lesbian, so everyone stopped making dirty jokes and started talking about other things.
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