Chapter 69 Braised Spare Ribs

Jiang Cuihua obviously didn't believe her words. She didn't know what she was thinking. She said in horror: "You little bitch, you didn't go to that kind of place!"

Liu Yinyin didn't plan to hide it anymore and comforted her, "Mom, that place is not a dangerous place, it's not that scary. People in the city are buying things there. As long as you are careful, no one will care."

Jiang Cuihua didn't care about those things. She just knew that her daughter had made a mistake, so she advised earnestly: "Yinyin, you said you have enough food and clothes now, there is no need to take the risk to buy things in such a place."

There are many families in the village whose conditions are not even half as good as the young lady's family, but they still live their lives as usual. The poor have their own way of living, and as long as they don't make any mistakes, it's fine.

Liu Yinyin didn't know her mother was so conscious, so she laughed and said, "I am just worried. The weather is so abnormal this year. If the autumn harvest is bad, won't we be hungry in the future?"

The weather this year was indeed very abnormal. Jiang Cuihua sighed as she thought about it, but...

Jiang Cuihua was almost diverted from the topic. She quickly reacted and said angrily, "This has nothing to do with you. Your son-in-law eats commodity food and gets a salary. How can he starve you?"

Liu Yinyin waved her hands: "That's him. Am I not a rural resident myself? I have to rely on the food distributed by the village for food."

Nowadays, even if rural people marry city dwellers, they cannot transfer their household registration to the city and eat commercial food unless they have a job or a house.

Not only that, Gu Yanyan will also have a rural household registration like her in the future.

Jiang Cuihua said angrily, "Can't we still use the food coupons to buy food?"

Liu Yinyin sighed, "How much food coupons does Gu Cheng have in a month? It's not enough for Yanyan and I to eat."

Gu Yanyan will soon be six months old and is almost ready to eat complementary food.

If there is not enough food in the future, we will have to find a way to buy it.

Jiang Cuihua seemed to understand and stopped objecting strongly, but she didn't agree either. She argued, "Then spend the money to buy work points in the village."

In the village, you can spend money to buy work points, and with work points you can get food. Although we eat from a big pot now, the canteen also distributes food according to your work points.

The two of them went around in circles and returned to the starting point. Liu Yinyin decided to buy food and stockpile it because she was worried that the autumn harvest in the village would be poor and she would not be able to get any food.

Liu Yinyin also advised Jiang Cuihua: "Mom, the weather this year is unusual. I... am a little worried. We should make some preparations early."

You can buy food and meat on the black market without a ticket, and the price is quite expensive, but not much more. If a natural disaster really happens, food will be extremely expensive and you won’t be able to afford it.

After all, Liu Yinyin's ultimate goal was to get Jiang Cuihua to stock up more food, otherwise why would she bother saying all this?

Jiang Cuihua was a little moved, but only a little. She thought for a while and said, "It's not that serious yet. Let's wait and see. You too, don't mess around. My son-in-law has a decent job. Don't let this affect him."

Liu Yinyin stopped trying to persuade him: "...Okay, I'll go back and ask your son-in-law and see what he says."

Jiang Cuihua was about to go back after dinner, so Liu Yinyin packed two kilograms of flour, a bag of brown sugar, and cut half of the pork ribs for her.

Liu Yinyin muttered, "Give Dad and the others some nourishment."

How can you survive without some food in your stomach after working so much every day?

Jiang Cuihua refused to accept it.

Liu Yinyin said, "Mom, these things are your reward for helping me take care of the children. This way, my two sisters-in-law won't have any complaints."

Otherwise, if Jiang Cuihua came over often to help her take care of the children, even if Mrs. Liu didn't say anything, they would have some opinions in their hearts.

Jiang Cuihua's absence meant that all the housework had to be done by the two of them, and over time, dissatisfaction would definitely arise.

Therefore, Liu Yinyin would often ask Jiang Cuihua to bring some things back, firstly to show filial piety to the two elders, and secondly to avoid any rift between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Liu Yinyin often said, "I've said it before, Mom, if you can help me take care of the kids, I will definitely pay you."

If hiring a nanny was not prohibited nowadays, Liu Yinyin would have hired someone to help her take care of her children long ago.

Jiang Cuihua still didn't agree, only saying that she would come over often to check on the things, but she accepted them after all.

Liu Yinyin took a nap after dinner.

After class in the afternoon, as usual, I picked up some wild vegetables and started cooking.

She soaked a handful of dried wild mushrooms beforehand.

Liu Yinyin used a pound of spare ribs to make a braised dish with mushrooms.

The aroma of the spare ribs completely permeates the mushrooms. The mushrooms are fragrant and delicious when you bite them, and are no worse than meat.

I also steamed half a pot of white rice in a clay pot.

Liu Yinyin now prefers to eat rice because it is easy to cook. She has a clay pot at home and can cook rice after just washing it.

Unlike flour, you have to knead the dough and make it rise, which is time-consuming and laborious.

As soon as Gu Cheng returned home, he smelled the aroma of meat and carried his chubby son into the kitchen.

I originally thought that Liu Yinyin stewed another pheasant, but I didn’t expect that she cooked pork ribs today.

Gu Cheng was surprised and asked, "Where did the meat come from?"

"Of course I bought it in the county town." Liu Yinyin said.

Her family was the only one in the village that could eat meat from time to time. Fortunately, they lived in a remote place, otherwise other people would have come to ask about them.

Gu Chengcheng asked, "Where did you buy it?"

Liu Yinyin: “…”

Well, I have to explain it again.

Apart from the matter of smuggling things out of the system, Liu Yinyin explained everything else to him in detail this time, especially the matter concerning Brother Li.

Liu Yinyin looked at him and asked, "I heard that buying things from him is quite reliable. Is it okay for me to do this? Will it affect you?"

In fact, she was a little unsure whether to follow Brother Li's path to get some food.

On the one hand, she thought that with Brother Li as a cover, it would be easier for her to smuggle supplies out of the system in the future, without having to find all kinds of excuses every time.

On the other hand, she didn't know whether her actions would have any impact on Gu Cheng.

Well, although it was quite satisfying to smuggle supplies out of the system, she was more concerned about Gu Cheng's future.

Gu Cheng didn't say no, he just said to her: "I understand, I'll ask someone later, if there's no problem, you can go if you want."

Liu Yinyin was overjoyed when she heard this: "It has no effect on you?"

"It's okay." Gu Cheng said nonchalantly, "It's not like he did anything bad like murder or arson. It won't have any impact on me."

Hearing him say this, Liu Yinyin felt relieved. In fact, she didn't buy anything from Brother Li today.

The reason why I entrusted this matter to Gu was that I wanted him to help me find out whether Brother Li was trustworthy or not.

If it works, she will be able to buy food and meat regularly in the future.