Chapter 7 Help Me

Wen Ci walked into the kitchen and saw Huo Jingyuan preparing to add water and knead the dough. She glanced around the kitchen, took off the apron from the right side of the door, and slowly said: "Wear this, it's not easy to get dirty."

It is easy to get flour on your body during the kneading process.

Huo Jingyuan's hands were already covered with flour. He looked up at Wen Ci and then raised his arms. The corners of his lips curved up and he said in a low voice, "Help me."

Wen Ci walked around behind Huo Jingyuan. She was wearing an old-fashioned half-sash. She tied the long belt around the man's waist and tied a bow after thinking for a moment.

At this moment, Wen Ci's stomach rumbled at an inopportune time.

She had just jumped into Shichahai this morning and was now extremely hungry.

Wen Ci suggested: "How about I help make the side dishes?"

"Can you go to the cafeteria?" Huo Jingyuan asked.

Wen Ci blinked and understood what Huo Jingyuan meant. Anyway, she also wanted to try the cooking skills of the military canteen in the 1980s.

"Then I'll go get the food."

Wen Ci had just been brought back to the Jiang family and was not familiar with the compound. He could only identify it by the direction of the prepared meals held by other family members.

"Where did this beautiful girl come from?"

"Which relative is it, I guess?"

"This little guy is so handsome!"

Although Wen Ci grew up in the countryside, she inherited her looks from her parents in the Jiang family. She has naturally fair skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is very beautiful.

Wen Ci asked politely, "Which direction is the cafeteria?"

"Daughter-in-law of the Huo family, are you going to the cafeteria to get some food?" Several aunts who had been chatting with Huo Jingyuan earlier came over and asked when they saw Wen Ci holding an empty bowl in his hand.

"Jing Yuan asked me to cook Northwest specialties. I'll go get some food and eat downstairs."

"Xiu'er, do you know this girl?" Liu Fang was the most talkative woman in the compound. When she heard other old sisters say "Huo's daughter-in-law", she asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Which Huo family?"

"Old Chief's Huo!"

Everyone's eyes widened. Everyone in the compound knew that Mr. Huo's family and the Jiang family were engaged, but the daughter of the Jiang family had never shown up in the compound.

When he saw the real person, he couldn't help but praise him: "As the old saying goes, a daughter looks like her father and Minister Jiang is like they were cast in the same mold."

Wen Ci smiled gently and made an excuse: "Aunts, I have to go to the cafeteria to get food first, otherwise the delicious food will be gone soon."

The canteen in the compound prepares similar portions every day, and if you go too late, only leftovers will be left.

Following the aunts' instructions, Wen Ci arrived at the canteen in the military compound. There was a long line at the window, and there were very few young girls in the military compound who came to order food.

Wen Ci attracted a lot of people's attention.

Wen Ci was holding an enamel bowl with delicate and bright red paintings on it. It was obvious at a glance that it was a reward given to cadres by the military unit.

Wen Ci glanced at the words on the small blackboard by the window.

Today’s special: sweet and sour pork ribs and tomato and eggs.

"Why are you here?"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind Wen Ci. Before she could turn around, she heard a low and gnashing threat: "Who asked you to come to the cafeteria?"

Wen Ci rolled his eyes.

She knew who was standing behind her without looking back.

Biological brother Jiang Chen.

Wen Ci replied: "Why can't I come to the cafeteria?"

"You promised!"

Wen Ci recalled that when her original body was taken back to the military compound, she was asked not to go out casually, especially to crowded places like the cafeteria.

"Mind your own business." Wen Ci said in a flat tone.

(End of this chapter)