Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Lin Zhengrong received a letter from his hometown

The nearest supply and marketing cooperative to Taohua Village was in the town, which was inconvenient to go to. Moreover, meat coupons were required to buy meat. Although her husband was well-paid, the monthly quota was not enough for Jiang Qiuyue to eat meat every day.

There are wild animals in the mountains, but they have little to do with Jiang Qiuyue. One reason is that she can't catch them, and the other is that the wild animals are state-owned.

As for wild vegetables, it’s okay to taste them fresh, but they have to have a fishy smell!

The world is big, but eating is the most important thing!

How can you keep healthy if you don’t eat well?

Jiang Qiuyue stood against the wall for more than ten minutes to avoid getting a belly. The original owner was so mean to herself that she had a good appearance but she made it look haggard and unkempt.

With nothing to do in the afternoon, Jiang Qiuyue took her two children for a walk in the village. Although Lin Beibei was small, he was familiar with every corner of the village.

"Grandma Niu said there are man-eating tigers in the mountains, so she won't let us kids go in. This small river is where Zhuangzhuang goes fishing, and there's a big river ahead, but I've never been there." As he spoke, Lin Beibei looked around, then whispered in his mother's ear, "But I secretly heard Uncle Niu say there are wild rabbits in the mountains, and they're delicious when stewed!"

The child had never eaten rabbit meat, and just thinking about it made him drool.

Jiang Qiuyue also wanted to eat rabbit meat, and several dishes flashed through her mind quickly - spicy rabbit head, stir-fried rabbit meat, braised rabbit meat...

Rabbits are so cute, you should eat more!

But where to find the rabbit?

Now it is not allowed for private individuals to raise rabbits, and even in the supply and marketing cooperatives, there is no rabbit meat for sale. Only during the Chinese New Year and other festivals will the farms kill rabbits and distribute them to the employees.

Jiang Qiuyue was so hungry that she decided to try her luck at the black market in the city tomorrow since the supply and marketing cooperative didn't sell it. Anyway, she didn't have enough meat coupons and she could buy some pork if she didn't have rabbits.

With an idea for tomorrow's menu in mind, Jiang Qiuyue walked more lightly. When she arrived at the village entrance, she saw a few old ladies sitting and picking water celery, so she went over and sat with them.

She asked the two children to play by themselves, but they refused and squatted down to help the old ladies pick water celery. The old ladies were happy to praise them for being sensible.

Water celery is all wild, and the grandmothers picked it to add to their homes. As soon as Jiang Qiuyue asked where it was picked, Grandma Xu immediately grabbed a handful and gave it to Jiang Qiuyue.

"Qiuyue, why don't you go to work?" Grandma Xu asked while picking vegetables.

Whenever they get together, they always share the latest news they have heard, as a kind of joke.

"Hey, I'm not feeling well. I need to rest for a while." Jiang Qiuyue said.

"If you ask me, you should have stopped being lazy a long time ago. Look at you, you work so hard, but your mother-in-law doesn't seem to care about you." As soon as Grandma Xu finished speaking, another grandma nodded in agreement, "You are the most capable young wife in the village, but your husband is so partial to you. We all have eyes, I advise you to separate as soon as possible, otherwise it will be a thankless job."

"That's not the way it is. No matter how bad the parents-in-law are, we can't divide the family, right?" Some people are still not optimistic about dividing the family.

"This is not the old society anymore. Wang Chunhua and his wife were not Lin Dazhu's biological parents. After they separated... Hey Qiuyue, look at my mouth. Come on, let's not talk about this. I guess you haven't heard that old man Zhang from the next village was having an affair with his daughter-in-law and was caught by his son!"

When talking about the division of the family, Jiang Qiuyue wanted to continue talking about it, but she heard that the father-in-law slept with his daughter-in-law. How interesting it was, "Then what?"

"Of course they did fight. I heard that the fight got so bad that the police came to town. Tsk tsk, how shameless."

"Well, shameless." Jiang Qiuyue cooperated and emphasized her tone.

After chatting with the old ladies for a while, Jiang Qiuyue had a basic understanding of the interpersonal relationships in the village and also heard a lot of gossip.

She planned to come to the village entrance to sit and chat when she had nothing to do in the future. It was such an interesting tea party. As for working in the fields, forget it. She had the money her husband sent back, so she didn't need to work hard to earn work points.

After returning home, Jiang Qiuyue fried some water celery and ate with the two children behind closed doors before the Lin family came back.

The next day, Jiang Qiuyue prepared dinner for the two children and just as she went out, she ran into Wang Youren who came to see her.

I successfully boarded the tractor and arrived at the town, then took a bus to the city.

The city was much bigger than the town, and she found the black market based on what she had heard. She had to pay a five-cent entrance fee to enter, and there weren't many people inside. Some of them covered their faces tightly with scarves, fearing that they would be recognized.

Jiang Qiuyue was also a little nervous. She read novels and was arrested on the black market, but she would be detained. She just wanted to eat something good and didn't want to cause trouble.

She searched for her target quickly and actually found the rabbit seller.

"This is a wild rabbit from the mountains. We caught it yesterday. If you really want it, I'll give you three dollars. How about that?" The aunt opened the bamboo basket, and inside was a half-dead rabbit.

Jiang Qiuyue pouted and shook her head, "It's too thin. It must not have been caught yesterday. Auntie, you have been selling it for many days, right?"

The exposed aunt was not panicked. She originally wanted to fool Jiang Qiuyue so as to raise the price a bit. Seeing that Jiang Qiuyue was a knowledgeable person, she smiled and said, "Wild rabbits are all like this. They look thin, but they taste very strong. I think you look kind, so I'll give you fifty cents off, okay?"

"It's too expensive. This is not my first time here. No one will want to buy it at this price, otherwise I wouldn't have stayed for so many days." Jiang Qiuyue's face was full of disgust. She didn't look at the rabbit any more and turned away.

"Girl, don't go. I'll give you two dollars, okay?" The aunt was anxious. She had caught this wild rabbit five days ago, and it was getting thinner day by day. She had to take risks to sell it every day. She really wanted to get rid of it.

Jiang Qiuyue stopped and said, "One dollar and fifty cents, if it's okay, it's okay, if not, forget it. If my child didn't want to eat it, I wouldn't buy the rabbit. I see there's a meat seller in front, I can buy two kilograms of meat for one dollar and fifty cents."

Bargaining is a psychological warfare. Seeing the aunt frowning, Jiang Qiuyue sighed, "Forget it, I see you don't want to sell, I'll go buy the meat..."

"Okay, 1.5 yuan is 1.5 yuan!" The auntie really didn't want to carry the rabbit back home. She would make a profit no matter how much it sold for. "You are really amazing, you cut the price in half."

After smoothly negotiating the price, Jiang Qiuyue began to speak sweetly, "Auntie, you are still a kind and capable person. Take the money. Next time I see you, I will definitely come to buy from you again."

"Sure." The aunt's son often went to the mountains to get some small things to supplement the family income, and left with a smile.

It was a rare opportunity to go into the city. When she saw a meat stall, she asked the price and found out that meat on the black market was 0.2 yuan more expensive per pound. After counting the money she had left, Jiang Qiuyue only bought two yuan of pork belly.

She only has five dollars left in her hand now. It has to be said that twenty dollars for living expenses is really not enough.

When Jiang Qiuyue got home, it was already afternoon. She deliberately chose the time when the villagers went to the fields to come back so that everyone would not be curious about what was in her basket.

After perming the rabbit and removing the internal organs, cut it into dices slightly larger than the thumb and marinate it with cooking wine and soy sauce for a while.

While Jiang Qiuyue was doing this, she occasionally looked back and said, "That's it. You are really smart. You have learned how to put salt on the meat. Nan Nan, don't touch your eyes. They will sting."

As for children, their hands-on skills must be developed from an early age. She was not using child labor. And the more she exaggerates, the more the two children work, and they all feel a sense of accomplishment.

After the two children rubbed salt on the meat, Jiang Qiuyue took it to the eaves to dry, and then fried the rabbit meat in oil. If there was enough oil, deep-frying would be more fragrant.

After the rabbit meat is fried, heat the oil in a pan again, add some minced garlic and green and red peppers, stir-fry until fragrant, then add the rabbit meat. Pour cooking wine from the side of the pan, and the fragrance will sizzle instantly, then add salt to taste.

A plate of stir-fried rabbit meat was served, followed by a bowl of loofah soup. Lin Beibei ate two bowls of rice, and her belly was full. Lin Nannan also burped, rubbing her belly, but still wanted to eat.

Jiang Qiuyue was also very satisfied with the meal, but the aroma left from the kitchen made Lin Dabao cry for meat again.

After Qian Li finished cooking, she brought the wild vegetable porridge into the room and asked in doubt, "I smelled meat as soon as I entered the kitchen. Where did Jiang Qiuyue get so much meat?"

Without Jiang Qiuyue's living expenses, the Lin family hadn't even had brown rice for the past few days. Lin Sanzhu was very resentful about this, "Sister-in-law has only 20 yuan, isn't it easy for her to eat meat?"

"Even if we have money, the meat coupons are limited." Qian Li still couldn't figure it out, "We haven't eaten meat for a long time. The bacon that mom left was all eaten by Jiang Qiuyue."

Otherwise, when her sister-in-law comes home for the holidays, she can at least get some benefits. Now, every day she smells the fragrance from the kitchen, and she dreams of Jiang Qiuyue cooking.

Wang Chunhua snorted coldly, "She is a rat in a rice warehouse. It's New Year's Eve. Just wait and see. In a few days, the meat coupons will run out and she won't be able to eat meat."

That's what she said, but she also wanted to eat meat. The damn Jiang Qiuyue actually stole her bacon and eggs to eat. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Looking at the wild vegetable porridge in the bowl, she instantly lost her appetite.

With the comparison, the Lin family lost their appetite. They thought that in a few days, when Lin Dazhu received the letter, Jiang Qiuyue's good days would be over.

When the money is sent to Wang Chunhua and Lin Fugui, they can occasionally indulge themselves in a luxurious meal and buy some meat to satisfy their hunger.

As a result, for the next few days, the kitchen was filled with the smell of meat. Qianli was the most miserable. She cooked every day and smelled the aroma of meat, but she only cooked sweet potatoes and potatoes.

At this time in the troop dormitory, Lin Dazhu, oh no, he has changed his name to Lin Zhengrong.

He had just returned from training and was sitting down to drink water when his comrade Chen Guowei came in with a lunch box. "Thank you for covering for me during this Dragon Boat Festival so that I could go back home. This is the marinated pig's trotter my mother made, specially for you. There is also your letter. When I passed by the communication room, the person on duty said there was a letter for you, so I brought it back for you."

Lin Zhengrong thanked his comrades and was surprised to see that the letter was from Jiang Qiuyue. This was the second time Jiang Qiuyue wrote to him after they got married, and there were two letters in total.

The last time, he said he had given birth to twins, and his parents said there were more people in the family and they hoped he would give them more living expenses.

When he opened the first letter and saw that Jiang Qiuyue said that the living expenses were not enough, his first reaction was that his parents asked Jiang Qiuyue to write this letter.

His parents have been partial to him since he was young. Before he got married, his parents asked him to hand over all his salary, saying that they were saving it for him, but in fact, he gave it all to his younger siblings.

It was not until Lin Zhengrong opened the second letter that his brows furrowed more and more tightly. It turned out that it was Jiang Qiuyue who complained to him that her parents abused her and the children.

He knew his parents were partial, so he sent living expenses to Jiang Qiuyue every month, thinking that Jiang Qiuyue could make her own arrangements and that she should be able to live well with money in hand. However, Jiang Qiuyue wrote in a letter that the two children had never eaten meat since they were born.

What is going on?

"Zhengrong, why don't you find some time to go home and visit?" Chen Guowei was so tired after sitting on the train for two days and one night that he just wanted to lie down. "If I remember correctly, you haven't been back for four or five years, right?"

A few days after his wedding, Lin Zhengrong received a secret mission, which was not completed until two months ago.

He was still reading Jiang Qiuyue's letter and casually said "hmm".

"You wanted to go back and tell me that you couldn't take a leave, so I covered for you. You should also go back to see your sister-in-law and children, otherwise the children will not be close to you." Chen Guowei returned home to a warm bed with his wife and children. Now when he recalls it, a happy smile appears on his face.

Lin Zhengrong finished reading the letter, but what was the vanishing cream that Jiang Qiuyue wanted in the letter? "Guo Wei, do you know what vanishing cream is?"

"I know, lesbians use it to apply on their faces. This time when I went home, I brought a bottle for my wife. You don't know how fierce my wife is. Because of that bottle of vanishing cream, she actually brought me footbath water. I was so scared that I thought I had done something wrong." Chen Guowei smiled, "Why are you asking this?"

"I...my wife wants it too." Lin Zhengrong felt a little awkward when saying the word "wife".

"That's easy. Just give a bottle of wine to Old Wu in logistics and he can get it for you." Chen Guowei began to yawn, turned over, and soon began to snort.

This was the first time Jiang Qiuyue asked Lin Zhengrong for something. Lin Zhengrong thought about it and decided that he had to find someone to ask about the contents of the letter first.

As for the vanishing cream, he took money from the drawer and asked Lao Wu to help buy it.