Other foods that are beneficial to wound healing include baby pigeons, black fish, sea bass, crucian carp, raw fish, kelp, black fungus, etc. These things are stored in the space. Because Feng Qingxue likes to eat fish, she bought a lot of fish and shrimp. When they were alive and kicking, she asked someone to simply prepare them and then put them in the space. They can be kept fresh and cooked directly, but it is not convenient to take them out and there is no way to explain their source.
However, before coming to see Lu Jiang, she handed the rice, flour, red dates, longans and other things she brought to the kitchen, and asked the cook to cook a pot of red date and longan porridge for Lu Jiang alone, and make a few pancakes, and ask him to come and get them in the evening.
As I said, supplies were scarce and the canteen only arranged two meals, lunch and afternoon.
The cook was originally free, and when he heard that the meal was for the injured soldiers and that Feng Qingxue brought her own food, the canteen's food stock would not be used, so he agreed without saying a word.
Feng Qingxue chatted with Lu Jiang for a while, then went to the cafeteria to get her food and paid two cents for her work.
The two side dishes were served in two aluminum lunch boxes. The flatbreads could be placed on a tray, but the porridge could not be served. The cook said directly: "Sister, you can leave 50 cents here and take the pot away. Bring the pot back after you finish eating!"
"Well, thank you, Master."
Feng Qingxue deposited fifty cents and returned to the ward with the food on a tray.
"Sister-in-law is back? Then I won't disturb you." Niu Yibao had just finished serving Lu Jiang, touched his head and smiled innocently, and was about to leave. Ouyang Zijin had told them before leaving that they must not be disturbed.
Feng Qingxue put the tray on the bedside table and asked hurriedly, "Wait, Comrade Niu, where is your lunch box?"
Niu Yibao was stunned and didn't understand what she meant.
"Go and get your lunch box, quick. I asked the cook to prepare a lot of food, which is too much for the two of us to finish. It's so hot that if we leave it out overnight, it will definitely go bad in the morning."
"How can this be so embarrassing, sister-in-law? You cook something special for the captain, how can I eat with you?"
"What do you mean by special cooking? It's just three meals a day. You train hard all the time, so you should eat something good to replenish your body. I brought the food with me and asked the cook to help me cook. I made enough for three people. Go get your lunch box."
Niu Yibao didn't move. No one understood the value of food better than Niu Yibao, a man who joined the army because he was too poor to have enough food.
Although he didn't know what was in the pot, the sweet fragrance penetrated into his nostrils, like ants biting his heart.
Seeing Feng Qingxue frowning, Lu Jiang felt extremely distressed, but he couldn't get out of bed to smooth out her frown, so he said, "Niu Yibao, stand at attention, turn around, and take the lunch box immediately. This is an order!"
"Yes!" Niu Yibao acted reflexively. When he came in with the lunch box, he was stunned and a little at a loss.
Feng Qingxue couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw this. She scooped a few spoonfuls of porridge into his lunch box, handed him two pancakes as big as an adult's face, and pointed at the food in the lunch box on the bedside table. "You sit here and eat. You don't have to be polite when we're family. When you've finished the porridge, you can get more. We've cooked a whole pot, so it's enough. I'll feed your Captain Lu first!"
Niu Yibao's eyes were a little moist, and he whispered, "Thank you, sister-in-law!"
However, when Feng Qingxue was feeding Lu Jiang, he did not pick up his chopsticks until Lu Jiang finished eating and the porridge was almost cold. When Feng Qingxue started to pick up his chopsticks, he slurped the porridge and ate the noodles, accompanied by the stir-fried black fungus and cold seaweed in the lunch box.
Never before had a meal tasted so sweet and delicious to him.