Seeing her mysterious look, Jiang Xun raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "What's the big use? Can you reveal it in advance?"
Ye Li waved his hand: "No, not yet. You will know in a few days."
Since she refused to say it, Jiang Xun did not force her: "Okay, then I will wait a few days to see if you can be of any great use."
"Okay." Ye Li nodded in agreement.
Although he didn't even have a meal this time, Ye Li was very happy.
"Then let's go home?" Jiang Xun asked when he saw that she was in a good mood.
"Let's go buy some meat." Ye Li said, "I got the meat coupons, let's make meat dumplings today."
Jiang Xun paused for a moment and said, "Okay."
Seeing that he was hesitant, Ye Li asked him, "Why? Are you worried about the money? Or do you feel that you married a wife who ruined the family?"
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Jiang Xun said, "That's not the case. We still have a long way to go. I'm just afraid that if we live too comfortably in the beginning, we'll have a hard time in the end."
"No, believe me." Ye Li was confident.
Jiang Xun nodded: "You are the head of the family, everything is up to you."
On the way back, Ye Li went to buy pork.
Pork was 78 cents a pound, and she bought half a pound.
She was lucky today and bought pork belly, which was very good with alternating fat and lean meat. It was great whether it was braised or chopped into stuffing for dumplings.
Eating a meal of braised pork was a luxury these days, and she didn't have many meat coupons, so she could only spend them frugally.
The couple carried the meat back to the compound. It was already noon when they got home. She and Jiang Xun were starving, so they just ate a quick bite to get by. They could only wait until the evening to make dumplings.
In the afternoon, Jiang Xun was reading in the house, and Ye Li went to the kitchen to chop stuffing.
Although the house is divided, the kitchen is inseparable.
It can only be that one family cooks and then the other family does it.
It just so happened that Ye Li was on honeymoon leave these few days, so she took advantage of the fact that the others hadn't come back yet to chop the stuffing and make the dumplings herself.
Ye Li was chopping the meat here with a crunching sound, and the noise could be heard throughout the whole yard.
That's how it is in a slum. It's hard for anyone to hide anything that happens from others.
Even if you fart at home, people outside can hear it, let alone the loud noise of chopping stuffing.
There were only a few people who were not at work at this time, including Aunt Jiang, the Jiang family's next-door neighbor, Mrs. Mei, a bad-tempered old lady in the backyard, and Aunt Li.
Aunt Jiang is a nosy person who loves to gossip and listen to gossip. She is also sarcastic and short-sighted. She can't stand other people's families doing well.
When she heard the sound of chopping stuffing coming from the Jiang family, she opened the door and went to find Ye Li.
Seeing Ye Li chopping meat, she almost popped her eyes out of her sockets: "My dear! Ye Li, you are having a hard time, aren't you? It's only the beginning of the month, and you're already eating meat? This must be half a pound, right?"
Ye Li smiled and said, "Well, to nourish Jiang Xun's body."
"My goodness! Can you two finish it?" Aunt Jiang was drooling just thinking about the meat. "Can you finish so much meat?"
Ye Li found it funny.
This Aunt Jiang not only has shallow eye sockets, but is also famous for her greed.
In the past, whenever she cooked a meal at home, Aunt Jiang would come over after smelling the delicious aroma.
She was very naive at that time. When Aunt Jiang complained to her about how disrespectful her son and daughter-in-law were and how difficult their life was, she softened her heart and shared some food with Aunt Jiang.
She doesn't do that now.
She knew that this auntie was just pretending! She ate her meal and then turned around and told others that she was stupid and didn't know how to live.
"I can eat it." Ye Li said, "I have a big appetite! This little bit of food is not enough for me. Hey, Aunt Jiang, do you have any green onions at home? Lend me two and I'll return them to you later."
Aunt Jiang was originally thinking about getting something for free, but when she heard Ye Li ask to borrow something, she quickly turned around and left: "I don't have anything! It's getting late, and people who work should be back. I have to go back and cook."
Seeing her running away, Ye Li pursed his lips and smiled.
After Ye Li chopped the meat and cut two onions, he prepared the stuffing. It smelled really good.
She simply mixed white flour into a dough, made it into a dough piece, rolled it into skins, and started making dumplings.
It's busy here, and people who are getting off work are going home one after another.
Hu Jingjing is the most active.
The first one to get home from get off work smelled something in the kitchen, so he went in.
Seeing Ye Li making meat dumplings, she was shocked: "Sister-in-law, why...why did you put so much meat in it?"
Ye Li responded indifferently: "Well, more meat will make it more fragrant."
"No... where did you get this meat ticket? Did our mother give it to you secretly?" The first thing Hu Jingjing thought of was that her mother-in-law was partial.
Meat coupons were very precious in those days, and no family was willing to spend them early. Instead, they would save them up and only buy some meat during festivals for the whole family to eat together.
How lucky she is! She is eating meat right after getting married!
Look at the meat in these meat dumplings. Wow, who are you trying to kill with this delicious smell?
"You are wrong." Ye Li glanced at her without stopping his hands. "I got this from my mother's family. It has nothing to do with my mother."
Zhao Xingmei just came back from get off work and heard the noise in the kitchen, so she went in to take a look.
When Hu Jingjing saw her, she immediately said, "Mom! Look at her! She said she wanted to divide the family property to save money for her eldest brother's legs! But it was clearly an excuse. She just wanted to eat alone behind closed doors!"
Zhao Xingmei looked at the plump meat dumplings and felt so distressed: "You are a spendthrift daughter-in-law, are you going to live like this?"
Ye Li smiled and said, "The doctor said Jiang Xun is too thin and malnourished, so I have to give him some supplements."
After a few days, when she had saved enough money, she prepared to contact a doctor to perform surgery on him.
This is a major operation that consumes a lot of energy and blood. If you are weak, it will take a long time to recover.
Eat something good, let Jiang Xun take good care of himself, and take care of himself too.
"You want to eat good food yourself in the name of nourishing his body, right?" Zhao Xingmei said with a straight face.
"No." Jiang Xun lifted the curtain and leaned half of his body out of the room. "The doctor said so. I asked him to buy the meat."
Seeing her son said this, Zhao Xingmei didn't know what to say.
"Okay. You have to spend some money to recuperate. Don't let me spend most of your money on expenses and tickets before the end of the month. If you do, I won't help you."
"Got it." Jiang Xun agreed.
Seeing how protective her elder uncle was of his wife, Hu Jingjing felt a little envious and jealous.
Zhao Xingmei left the kitchen and she followed.
I won't watch it anymore. The more I watch it, the angrier I get.
When people in the compound came back one after another, Ye Li had already cooked dumplings, three bowls of them in total. She added some vinegar, took two cloves of garlic, and brought them back to her room.
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