Chapter 29 Asking Huo Lanci for the answer

Yu Wanqing opened the bag and found that it contained two dead wild boars. "Did you encounter wild boars again?"

Huo Lanci nodded: "I met two little wild boars and killed them all in one go."

He had already cleaned it up before bringing it back.

She pushed the bag back to him and said, "Take it to your place. There will be a lot of people here tomorrow and it won't be good if it gets out. Take it back first."

"Leave one here to stew tomorrow, and leave the other one with me. I'll bring it to you tomorrow night." He took out a bag of money: "Here are 805 yuan, take a look."

Yu Wanqing took it and didn't look at it: "No need to look at it."

He looked at her with a smile: "You trust me so much?"

"Will you cheat me?" Yu Wanqing asked back.

Huo Lanci just smiled, neither saying yes nor no.

On Wednesday morning, my aunt brought over more than ten kilograms of vegetables, and told her to save them for the next day or the day after tomorrow if she couldn't finish them today.

Zhang Hongqi and Guo Hongying both took leave to stay at Yu Wanqing's house to help her prepare meals. They wanted to invite thirty people to dinner, and even if the three of them started working in the morning, it would take a long time.

Guo Hongying can't cook and can only help out.

Yu Wanqing was the chef and had prepared four tables of meals by the time she got off work at noon.

The tables and bowls and chopsticks were all borrowed from the brigade headquarters. In the past, the few tables and dozens of bowls and chopsticks left in the cafeteria were all placed in the brigade headquarters, and anyone who held a banquet would borrow them.

Li Wenzhou and Huo Lanci came together and looked at the dishes on the table. Li Wenzhou looked at Huo Lanci and said, "I've heard from Lu Zhiqing and others that Yu Zhiqing's cooking skills are very good. It's true."

I'm drooling just by looking at it. How delicious must it be when I eat it?

Huo Lanci looked at the dishes on the table: chicken stewed with potatoes, pork rib soup, stir-fried pork belly with beans, two dishes of green vegetables, and eight large steamed buns on the table.

The hare meat was not cooked, probably because she was worried that there would be too many dishes and it would be too eye-catching. Even so, with so many dishes, she must have been busy for a long time.

Except for Gu Xiaoru, all the educated youths in the center came. All the cadres from the brigade headquarters and the cadres from the 10th production team came. No one came empty-handed, but brought something with them.

The guests enjoyed the meal very much.

During the dinner, the team leader said that the harvest season would come soon, so he wanted to find more members to help the remaining three educated youth build the house.

All of this should be completed before the harvest.

Gu Xiaoru did not go back to the educated youth site at noon, but took her food to Aunt Daniu's house for a meal.

She was lighting the fire and Auntie Daniu was cooking. She scooped a soybean-sized amount of pork fat into a large pot, then poured the beans in and stir-fried them.

Because there was no oil and the fire was very high, the beans were a little burnt. Auntie Daniu was used to it and thought this kind of dish was normal.

She looked at the silent Gu Xiaoru, her heart burning with gossip: "Yu Zhiqing invited many people to dinner today, why don't you go?"

Gu Xiaoru's face turned very ugly when she heard this. She lowered her head to look at the fire burning in the stove and said in a choked voice: "They excluded me and targeted me. Yu Zhiqing even beat me. How could they let me go to eat?"

"How could they be so mean?" Niu Erzhuang, who had just walked into the kitchen, looked at Gu Xiaoru and said, "Gu Zhiqing, you should tell the captain about these things. How can you let others bully you all the time?"

Gu Xiaoru listened to the halting Mandarin spoken by Niu Erzhuang and his mother. She could only guess and communicate with them: "I, I don't dare."

"The last time Yu Zhiqing beat me, I went to the team leader and ended up getting criticized and asked to reflect on myself." After saying this, she pretended to be strong and sighed: "I am just such an unpleasant person."

"Auntie, I, I'm coming to your house for dinner, will that be too much trouble for you?"

Auntie Daniu waved her hands and said with a smile, "What's the trouble? You brought food and helped me cook."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xiaoru cursed in her heart: What a greedy old witch. She has to give five cents every time she comes to eat for free, and she pretends to be generous here. It's so disgusting.

"Gu Zhiqing, you can come to my house for dinner every day." When Niu Erzhuang looked at Gu Xiaoru, his eyes were completely undisguised, and he wished he could strip her naked.

Gu Xiaoru shook her head: "If that's the case, Yu Zhiqing and the others will say that I'm lazy and greedy."

Upon hearing this, Niu Erzhuang frowned slightly as he thought of Yu Zhiqing, who was so beautiful that one would feel it was blasphemous to look at her for even a second longer. He never expected that she was beautiful but had such a vicious heart.

He glanced at the petite and lovely Gu Xiaoru, and secretly thought of teaching Yu Zhiqing a lesson so that she would not dare to bully Xiaoru in the future.

Yu Wanqing was busy all day and only had time to look at the things everyone brought in the evening.

She had a good memory and remembered clearly who took what. She wrote them all down and would bring gifts whenever anyone held a banquet in the future.

When he opened the gift from Huo Lanci, he found, in addition to a quilt, an envelope containing fifty yuan.

Yu Wanqing was a little surprised, as this was a very generous gift.

Living alone, she finally had access to her space to take a shower at night. When she was about to go to bed, someone knocked on the door.

She quickly rolled out, opened the door, and saw Huo Lanci coming in carrying a wooden basin with several dozen pounds of pork in it.

"Is this the little wild boar you brought back last night?"

Huo Lanci nodded: "I have already pickled it with salt. If I leave it out in such a hot day, it will stink. I don't know how to preserve it. Do you have any idea?"

Yu Wanqing looked at the pot of meat and felt a little worried. If these little wild boars were hers, she would definitely find a way.

Just leave space.

But this little wild boar was hunted by Huo Lanci. It was so hot without a refrigerator and there was no way to make bacon. How could he prevent the pork from spoiling?

She thought for a while and said, "Fried pork with pork belly."

She did what she said. She instructed Huo Lanci to help light the fire, put the pork in and cook it for ten minutes, then took it out and poked the pork skin a dozen times with a bamboo stick, and then applied honey on it.

Then put it in the frying pan.

Huo Lanci watched her pour all the remaining oil into the big pot, and suddenly felt a little distressed. These days, you can't buy oil just by having money.

Yu Wanqing couldn't help laughing when she saw him like this: "This oil can still be used for cooking."

The two of them worked until after eleven o'clock in the evening, and more than twenty pieces of braised pork were ready.

Huo Lanci said, "I'll keep it here with you. Whenever you finish it, give me some."

Yu Wanqing nodded and did not refuse.

After Huo Lanci left, she moved the braised pork into the space.

Take it out when you want to eat it.

The next day she took four boiled eggs and three steamed buns to work.

When eight o'clock arrived and everyone went back to have breakfast, the two of them hid at the foot of the mountain to eat steamed buns and eggs.

Yu Wanqing brought up the past again: "When are you going to answer my question?"

Huo Lanci glanced at her and asked, "So urgent?"

"Of course." She said seriously: "If you don't tell me, I won't ask next time."

She whispered, "There's more than one good man out there, just find another one."

Huo Lanci paused while peeling his eggs: "If you can't get an answer from me, you're going to look for someone else?"

Yu Wanqing looked at him and said, "Isn't it normal for me to have such thoughts?"

"Do you want to see me get entangled with you?" Yu Wanqing smiled and said, "I am a proud person and I will not get entangled with you."

"So your sharp tongue can't be used on me."

Huo Lanci finished his egg slowly and stood up: "I'll tell you tonight."

Sooner or later she will realize whether her sharp tongue can be used on her.

Don’t worry, there is still a long way to go.