Chapter 5 005 There are guests
As an old mother lying sick in bed, she didn't know how long she would live. How could she stop the gossips in the village from throwing such dirty water on her daughter, saying that her daughter was a vixen and the reincarnation of a jinx?
I can only hold on for dear life, otherwise these children will be too pitiful. Without their father, they might soon lose their mother too.
An Xin watched as her mother quickly fell into a state of self-sadness and quickly changed the subject.
"Mom, the barefoot doctor in the village told you to lie down and rest as much as possible. I'm going to go outside to find Xiao Huzi from next door and ask him to call his brothers and sisters back. I'll go cook dinner now because we have a guest coming later."
"We're going to have guests at our house later?"
Chen Hongyan's sick face was full of surprise. Their house has never had many guests, especially since Anxin's father passed away.
Because he is poor, and he is an orphan and a widow. Who would bother to mess with such a poor relative?
Even Anxin's uncle avoided them, because he was afraid that Chen Hongyan's mother would pester them to borrow food and money.
But Chen Hongyan was a strong person. Even though she was bedridden and her family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet, she never complained about her poverty to anyone in the village, nor did she borrow food from anyone.
An Xin just responded nonchalantly.
"Yeah, my friend is coming over later."
After saying that, An Xin picked up a hard buckwheat shell pillow on the bed, smoothed it out, and helped Chen Hongyan lie down.
After Chen Hongyan lay down, she asked mechanically.
"Is Dongmei coming over?"
An Xin felt that except Dongmei, everyone else in the village looked down on her because she was unlucky and refused to make friends with her.
Apart from Dongmei, Chen Hongyan couldn't think of anyone else who could come to their house at this time.
The only person An Xin couldn't tell about her old mother's words was Bai Yichen, so she could only answer her mother perfunctorily.
"Oh, you'll know when someone comes."
People like Bai Yichen, who had a public job, originally had no connection with poor peasants like them.
Who would have thought? What happened? That guy might be here soon.
She had to go out and boil some water, otherwise Bai Yichen would bring people over and there would be no drinking water at home.
Thinking of this, An Xin hurried out of the room and went to the next door house to find Xiao Huzi. She asked him to go to the field to look for his younger brother and sister-in-law and ask them to come back quickly.
After Bai Yichen came, she talked about her lifelong event. Although her brothers and sisters were young, they were relieved and hoped that her whole family knew that she would be getting married soon.
After explaining everything, An Xin came to the stone road at the door and looked around. The path leading to her home was quiet.
"I don't know when Bai Yichen will come."
Anxin looked at the slowly rising sun. It was almost time for lunch, so she walked straight into the kitchen.
When she came to the kitchen and everything in it came into view, An Xin couldn't help but let out a breath of cold air.
"Oh my god, this is not a kitchen. The things in the kitchen are cleaner than her face."
There was not a single leftover on the table, on the chopping board, or in the rice cooker. The rice jar and the flour jar were leaning crookedly against the corner, equally empty.
An Xin walked over and found that there was nothing in the rice jar as expected, but there was vaguely half a spoonful of noodles in the noodle jar.
An Xin held the noodle spoon in her hand and couldn't help but sigh.
"Oh my god, this journey through time is too miserable. I can't even afford food and clothing after traveling through time."
No matter how you cook it, half a spoonful of noodles is not enough to feed the whole family, right? Anxin looked at the small half spoonful of noodles in the bowl in distress. Judging from the color, it should be cornmeal. She wondered how to cook this meal.
Then I heard a mechanical sound in my mind.
"Host, there's me too!"
An Xin slapped her thigh suddenly and said excitedly.
"Yes, I almost forgot. We also have a portable warehouse. I will go in and see what's in the warehouse."
If there is food, at least we can get through this meal first.
With just a thought, An Xin arrived at the portable warehouse, only to see that the warehouse was full of shelves, and the shelves were filled with all kinds of items.
An Xin looked at them one by one, and saw rice, noodles, meat, oil, various daily necessities, fruits and meat on the shelves. The most exaggerated thing is that there are even clothes, fabrics, and shoes.
In the outermost corner, there are sickles, hoes, and even a small tiller.
An Xin took a quick walk around and was surprised to find that this warehouse had everything, even various cosmetics imported from abroad.
Finally, I summarized it with peace of mind.
"This warehouse has everything you want, except what you can't think of."
However, these things can only be kept in the warehouse for now and cannot be taken out for use for the time being as they are too conspicuous.
Even if we have to take some, we can only take out some rice and grain to solve the problem of food and clothing for the Lao An family first.
Later, she would have to find a reason to take things out of the warehouse.
Thinking of this, An Xin went to the shelf where rice and flour were stored and took out some flour, some rice, and a little corn flour. She then went to the meat section and took out some meat and some vegetables.
Finally, An Xin stood in front of all kinds of brightly colored fruits, stretched out her hand, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't dare to take the fruit.
There is no doubt that these fruits are all high-end and high-quality fruits. In the poor and trashy 1980s, if you took out this kind of fruits, it would undoubtedly expose the suspicion that you have a portable warehouse.
But food would not reveal one's identity so quickly. Anyway, her family is now full of elderly, weak, women and children. Her mother has been lying in bed for a long time, and her younger brothers and sisters are still so young. How could they figure out where the food came from? It's good to have something to eat.
In the original owner's memory, she and her sisters had suffered from hunger since her father died.
Thinking about it in his mind, An Xin mixed the cornmeal and white flour he took out from the space together to make multi-grain steamed buns, and deliberately added a little white sugar. He also made white rice porridge. In order not to arouse everyone's suspicion, he added a lot of large corn kernels to the white rice porridge.
Thinking that there would be guests at home later, I stir-fried some celery and minced meat, deliberately putting the least amount of minced meat in it, made some fennel fried eggs, fried peanuts, stir-fried vegetables, and boiled some Chinese cabbage soup. I didn't dare to cook any more dishes.
After all, these days, being able to set up a table full of dishes like this is already the greatest asset they can offer to settle down.
When the food was placed on the table, the unique aroma of the food wafted in the air. I stood in the house, carefully placing the dishes and chopsticks, when I heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
"Come in"
An Xin quickly put down the bowl and chopsticks in her hands and strode out to greet him.
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