After seeing Sun Fang off and Ye Qing going to cook, Nannan had already run out to play with Sun Fang's Huzi.
Qin Ye felt sorry for her busying around, so he asked her to go to the cafeteria to get food. Ye Qing glared at him fiercely: "Do you have any money left? You owe so much that you're starving, and you only have two dollars left. Why don't you save it?"
"Take a break!"
Qin Ye was not angry after being scolded. He reached out and touched his head. For the first time, he felt like the master of the house.
He had never had any concept of money before. After receiving his allowance, he couldn't spend the rest except for sending 25 yuan to Ye Qing. Who would have thought that in order to make a living he would have to consider whether it is cheaper to eat in the cafeteria or cook for himself?
Ye Qing worked very efficiently. She beat two eggs, fried them in oil, poured in hot water, and then boiled the cabbage. She saw that there was a small piece of tofu, so she cut it into pieces and threw it into the pot.
The steamed buns are heated in the big pot. When the cabbage is stewed, the steamed buns are also heated. Each person has a steaming hot bowl. Although simple, it is nutritious.
This kind of homemade vegetable soup is the most challenging to cook. The cabbage stewed by Ye Qing is sweet and delicious, and the aroma of fried eggs and tofu makes people's appetite grow.
It was the first time that Qin Ye ate cabbage cooked this way, and he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Hmm! I didn't expect cabbage to be so delicious! Wife, who did you learn this skill from?"
Ye Qing choked.
This is the way of eating in modern rural areas. This was in 1977, when even an egg was a precious item, and it is highly likely that this way of eating did not exist.
I can't let anything slip!
So, she made up a story: "I found an old newspaper at the train station and was planning to spread it on the floor for my daughter to sit on. Suddenly I saw this strange recipe and wrote it down. I didn't expect it to taste so good!"
Qin Ye didn't know whether it was true or not, but whatever Ye Qing said was what he believed. He was not a picky eater, so it was good enough for him to have something to eat.
Just Nannan...
He looked at his daughter who was eating happily, and put all the eggs in his bowl into her bowl.
Nannan looked up at him and said, "Dad, you should eat too! Mommy's cooking is so delicious! The eggs are fragrant too."
The smile on Qin Ye's face grew visibly: "Eat quickly, Nannan, Daddy doesn't like eggs."
Nannan tilted her head and thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out why her father didn't like eating eggs. Eggs are obviously delicious!
In the afternoon, Ye Qing asked Qin Ye to look after her daughter at home, and she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some salt and vegetables, and to see if she could still buy some meat.
Meat and eggs are scarce supplies these days and can usually only be bought in the morning. However, the military family compound is far away from the town and sometimes the supplies are delivered at noon. So, you can try your luck in the afternoon.
Ye Qing was lucky. Even though the pork was gone, there were still two pig leg bones left.
At this time, people lack oil in their stomachs and prefer to eat fatty meat, let alone big bones. Even if lean meat is not as expensive as fat, no one is interested in bones.
Ye Qing spent fifty cents to buy two large bones with meat on them, and also bought some salt.
But there were no more green vegetables left, only some cabbages and radishes. Sun Fang had just delivered these, so Ye Qing had no shortage of them.
The saleswoman was a middle-aged woman in her thirties, also a military wife in the compound, named Liu Jia. Seeing that Ye Qing looked unfamiliar, she asked, "Are you new to the army? I have never seen you before."
Ye Qing nodded: "Yes! I am Qin Ye's family member, and I just arrived not long ago."
The woman suddenly ran out from the counter: "Captain Qin is your husband? Haha, no wonder I haven't seen you before! I heard that Captain Qin's rural wife came to join the army, but I didn't expect... Tsk tsk."
Ye Qing had seen this expression before. She didn't know what people said about her before she came. It was probably because they said she was old and ugly. Anyway, everyone who saw her now looked unbelievable.
"Captain Qin's family, what are you buying these bones for? They don't taste good!" Zhang Minxia was very enthusiastic, but when she learned of Ye Qing's identity, she quickly stopped her from buying the big bones.
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