"Comrade, you were the one who started making braised meat and you made the decisions. Now that you're refusing to hand over the recipe, can I interpret that as you trying to suppress others and highlight yourself?"
"The boss said..."
Jianshu is really annoyed by the fiancée his family arranged for him, Li Qiang. Not only is her name awful, but she's also arrogant, rude, and brainless.
The Jian family is a well-known scholarly family in the area. Does he really want to marry a woman whose head is on the sole of her foot?
He tried to pull Li Qiang behind him with one hand, to stop this brainless woman who was being played for a fool from saying more, and then stepped forward to face Ruan Xianxian himself.
But before he could finish speaking, Jian Shu's body suddenly lifted into the air, and then, with a splash, fell into the large pot that the two of them were embracing.
Beside her was Ruan Xianxian, who had thrown the person into the pot and hadn't even had time to retract her hand. Her lips curled into a smile that looked anything but normal.
He brandished the large iron shovel again, addressing everyone with the words: "Want to learn the recipe? Isn't that easy?"
"I've heard that the Hu people of our ancestors' time used to eat 'two-legged sheep'. If you want to learn, I'm willing to teach you. Today I'll teach you how to cook 'two-legged sheep'. Listen up!"
Xiaxia, add water! Zhaodi, start a fire!
—Splash! A large pot of dirty water used for washing vegetables was poured into the pot, soaking JianShu from head to toe. He angrily tried to stand up, but suddenly vomited.
Ruan Xianxian raised her eyebrows: "Pregnant?"
Actually, the water had been used to treat the fish, making it extremely fishy. It also contained fish scales and internal organs, and it was currently hanging on JianShu's head. He scooped it out and put it in front of him, and he didn't feel nauseous at all!
At first, everyone thought it was a joke, until the fire under the stove was actually lit. The woman, whose face looked like a demon when she laughed, picked up the pot lid and pressed it hard against the pot.
When the JianShu team struggled and cried out but could not break free, some of them finally panicked.
"Comrade Ruan! We really don't know how to make that braised meat. We sincerely came to learn from you. If you don't want to teach us, fine. There's no need to cause a death."
"That's right, release Jian Zhiqing quickly, her burns are very serious."
"You guys should say less," Chen Zhaodi whispered to the others, having somehow slipped to the other side of the room.
“This female comrade in our educated youth settlement really has a mental illness. The brigade leader has confirmed the diagnosis report. She can kill people when she has an episode and she won’t be shot.”
Ruan Xianxian was clearly smiling, but the corners of her mouth were getting wider and wider. Someone swallowed hard and backed away, about to turn around and run away, when Mu Xia grabbed him and pulled him back.
The bottom of the pot was a raging fire, inside which was a truly terrified Jian Shu screaming and howling incessantly, accompanied by Ruan Xianxian next to him with a grin that almost reached her ears...
Some people couldn't help but recall what their elders had said: "Don't go to the river at midnight, or you might encounter something unclean."
One of the girls almost burst into tears, saying, "We're not going to study anymore, we're not going to study anymore."
Ruan Xianxian loosened her grip on the pot lid slightly, turned around with a look of suspicion, and asked the tearful girl:
"Not going to study anymore? What about your work then?" Her tone suddenly turned sinister. "Do you want the soldiers to go hungry?"
"Hiccup!" Faced with Ruan Xianxian's half-smiling expression, the girl hiccuped in fright, then quickly came up with a plan:
"We...we can ask the cooks or the head cook, is that alright?"
"Heh! Isn't that quite sensible?" She lifted the pot lid, revealing a JianShu (a Chinese blogging platform) filled with tears and snot, her tone gentle:
"Why does your brain keep acting up? When it does, you should probably scald it with boiling water."
Jian Shu scrambled out of the pot, only to be helped up by two other educated youths from the same village. Her face was filled with fear. "You, you are a devil! I'm going to report you to the leaders for intentional harm!"
After saying that, he pushed through the crowd and ran out.
The others followed suit.
When Political Commissar Wu and his men came to confront him, he looked up and almost blinded himself – this guy was taking a bath in a pot!
Her two companions served her like little maids, asking if the heat was right. The rest of the kitchen staff huddled together, trembling.
He paced back and forth in the tent, pinching his brow, his voice filled with gritted teeth: "Ruan, Xian, Xian! What are you doing? Stewing yourself in an iron pot?"
Ruan Xianxian patted the water with both hands, her tone as innocent as could be, "Taking a bath! Can't the political commissar see something so obvious?"
"Not only did I wash myself, but I also helped a comrade, you know! The one behind you."
Seeing that Wu Fangkai was really getting angry, she shrank back and cautiously probed, "How about I wash it later?"
Wu Fangkai laughed angrily, "Get out here!"
Having served as a political commissar for decades, he had driven away the worst of the worst and infiltrated enemy camps. Looking at Ruan Xianxian, who was sitting obediently on a small stool with her pants wet but her shirt clean, he was momentarily at a loss as to what to do with her.
He took off his coat and threw it on her lap. "Tell me! What happened? A group of people ran up to me and said you were going to eat people."
"Boss! She threw me into the big pot, which constitutes..."
Jian Shu, whose expression had improved somewhat, saw his boss take off his coat and cover Ruan Xianxian with it, afraid that she would catch a cold and get sick. This was clearly a case of favoritism, and he stood up to speak out indignantly.
But he was interrupted sharply halfway through his sentence, "Shut up! Did you ask me to speak? Don't you know you need to ask permission before you open your mouth?"
"Report!" Ruan Xianxian's eyes darted around, and she timidly raised her small hand. Wu Fangkai was satisfied with her pragmatism and nodded, "Go ahead."
Ruan Xianxian then recounted the entire story of how this group of people came to cause trouble, and how she threw the leader into a large pot to "wash his brain."
Of course, giving her the right to speak inevitably leads to embellishment and exaggeration.
"Are you trying to downplay the issue? Are you trying to wash me clean? You want to boil me alive!" Meeting Wu Fangkai's sudden, sharp gaze, Jian Shu weakly added, "Report!"
After the other person nodded, her eyes reddened, and she continued, "We were all educated youth helping out in various kitchens. We received orders at noon to prepare braised meat in the evening."
Without a recipe, we decided to learn from Ruan Zhiqing. We didn't expect her to be here...
Wu Fangkai raised an eyebrow, indicating that Ruan Xianxian was trying to argue. She slightly pursed her lips, sneezed a little, and her tone was as helpless as could be:
"Does having the formula mean I'm breaking a cardinal rule? You're infertile yourself, but just because you see the couple next door getting pregnant, does that mean you can just reach out and take their baby away?"
This analogy isn't quite right, but... it seems to make some sense.
Everyone suddenly looked at Jian Shu, who was said to be infertile and was about to take away the neighbor's child.
Jian Shu's face turned bright red, veins bulged on his neck, and his fists clenched so tightly they cracked, but he couldn't find a word to refute her.
After stammering for a while, he finally managed to say, "Then you shouldn't have thrown me into the pot and said you were going to boil me alive!"
Ruan Xianxian's pretty face showed increasing helplessness, her eyes seeming to care for a mentally challenged person.
"You know I was just saying that."
"You believe me so much? It's time to tell you the truth, son. I am your father."
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