Chapter 23
When Jing Xian heard Zhao Xiuzhi shouting outside, Shang Nanchen knew that something bad must be going on.
When he heard the word "report", he narrowed his eyes and was about to walk out.
"I'll go, don't go out."
Shang Nanchen didn't want Jing Xian to face all this, so he left the room. Jing Xian couldn't swallow this breath, so she followed him to hear what nonsense Zhao Xiuzhi had to say.
She was standing behind the door and heard everything Zhao Xiuzhi said clearly, so she stood up with a sneer.
Zhao Xiuzhi saw Jing Xian tremble with fear, and when she saw Shang Nanchen standing next to her, she was full of confidence: "I'm too lazy to talk to people like you. Shang Nanchen, I just want to tell you, are you going to handle it yourself? If you don't deal with her, then I will! When the time comes, don't be fired. If you are forced to change your job, don't blame me for not leaving you a way out."
She put her hands on her hips, looking very proud.
"This is a misunderstanding, there is nothing wrong with her. Please don't talk about this again in the future." Shang Nanchen didn't want anyone to misunderstand Jing Xian, so he explained loudly.
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Xiuzhi raised her finger and pointed at his nose and scolded: "Captain Shang, have you been fooled by her sugar-coated bullets? Or have you been deceived by her beauty trap? I doubt your current position..."
“Bang!”
Jing Xian rushed out at such a high speed that no one saw how Jing Xian attacked. They only heard a snap and someone fell to the ground. When they looked again, Xiu Zhi was covering her face. Her cheeks were suddenly swollen and blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth.
After a long while, Zhao Xiuzhi's piercing scream was heard: "You dare to hit me, you little..."
Jing Xian raised her hand again, and Zhao Xiuzhi's cursing stopped abruptly.
He even shrank his neck in fear.
Jing Xian's eyes were scary, looking at her was like looking at a dead person.
Zhao Xiuzhi suspected that Jingxian wanted to kill her.
Jing Xian really wanted to kill her. She almost lost control of her emotions just now, and there was only one thought in her mind: kill her!
She knew very well that this was not the end of the world.
Zhao Xiuzhi is not one of those zombies in the apocalypse. She cannot attack Zhao Xiuzhi, nor can she attack anyone else in this world.
Jingxian told herself to stay calm.
She was shaking with anger, gritting her teeth to prevent herself from getting out of control.
"Zhao Xiuzhi, you can eat whatever you want, but you can say whatever you want. If you think there is something wrong with me, just report it to me. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will smash your mouth. You know I can do it."
Jing Xian looked up at the bustling crowd around her and then retracted her head awkwardly, then saw Ma Shufen. Ma Shufen was a step too slow and could not hide, so she could only bite the bullet and leave the house.
"What's going on? Why did you do that?"
Ma Shufen really didn't want to come out. She had just witnessed Jingxian's brave act of slapping someone away.
Who told her not to go back in time after watching the excitement? She was caught red-handed and could only come over to talk.
Jing Xian knew that those who were watching the excitement had not gone in, and some were even clinging to the back wall of their house to listen for any noise. They were squatting at the base of the back wall, but the breathing was no less loud.
She heard it clearly.
"Comrade Zhao Xiuzhi suspected that she was my spy and planned to report me. I asked her to report and wait until the result of the report came out before speaking. If she wants to spread rumors and cause trouble with her mouth, she should see if I allow her to open her mouth."
Jing Xian deliberately spoke loudly so that all those with ulterior motives could hear it.
Ma Shufen took a deep breath and said, "Oh my God! How dare she say such a thing? This happened in our military region. If this happened outside, wouldn't Comrade Jingxian have been arrested?"
"You want to report me without any basis? You can go ahead. If you succeed, it's your ability. But if you fail..." Jing Xian said nothing. She stared at Zhao Xiuzhi with murderous eyes as if she was looking at a dead person. She snorted coldly and scared Zhao Xiuzhi so much that her face turned pale.
At this time, Wu Zhanfu heard the noise and came out of the yard, and saw Zhao Xiuzhi lying on the ground with her face covered. He also saw Shang Nanchen and his wife standing, and it was obvious that his daughter-in-law was bullied.
He walked angrily in front of Shangnan,
He asked sternly, "Captain Shang, don't go too far. You even dared to hit a woman!"
"I hit him." Jing Xian sneered.
"Are you kidding?"
Wu Zhanfu looked at Jing Xian, who was only about 1.6 meters tall, very white but very thin, and he just couldn't believe that she could beat Zhao Xiuzhi.
He turned around and taunted Shang Nanchen: "I didn't expect that you, the big bosses, would still hide behind the old women. If you have the guts to beat a woman, then you have the guts to admit it, right?"
"He didn't hit her, I did. If you want to cause trouble, I can accompany you." Jing Xian looked down at Zhao Xiuzhi and said coldly, "If you don't believe it, just ask Zhao Xiuzhi who hit her. Besides, other people saw it, so if you don't believe it, you can ask others."
Ma Shufen, the only other person standing outside: "..."
Oh my god!
How could she be so unlucky?
Wu Zhanfu pulled Zhao Xiuzhi up and asked in disbelief, "Did she really hit you?"
Zhao Xiuzhi burst into tears, as if she wanted to vent all her grievances. As Wu Zhanfu asked her, she nodded tremblingly, not daring to look at Jingxian.
Wu Zhanfu opened his mouth in shock, and it took him a while to digest the news.
He questioned Jing Xian: "Why did you hit her when she was fine?"
"You're so rude, you deserve a beating. Is that a problem?" Jing Xian was not afraid at all, and even sneered twice.
Wu Zhanfu also knew that Zhao Xiuzhi was a gossiper, but she didn't have any bad intentions.
Besides, she is my own daughter-in-law. If I don’t protect her, who will?
"Captain Shang, I don't hit women. Your wife hit my wife, and now I'm going to fight you back." After saying that, Wu Zhanfu asked Zhao Xiuzhi to go back, and walked towards the open space next to him, intending to have a fight with Shang Nanchen.
Jing Xian pulled Shang Nanchen's sleeve and said, "Ignore these two idiots!"
Shang Nanchen: “…”
Ma Shufen: “…”
Jing Xian went into the house, and Shang Nanchen followed her in.
Ma Shufen heaved a sigh of relief and ran home. Seeing Zhang Liansheng standing at the door eavesdropping, she walked up to him and pinched him hard on the waist. Zhang Liansheng grimaced in pain, reached out to pull her hand out, and walked back to the yard with his head down.
"Why don't you go out?" As soon as she entered the house, Ma Shufen complained to Zhang Liansheng.
Zhang Liansheng glared at them, but considering that there were children at home, he lowered his voice and said, "How do you want me to leave? Are you trying to stop a fight or to start a fight?"
"You can't let me go out alone, can you?" Ma Shufen got goosebumps all over her body when she thought of the scene just now. "You said, the young wife that the business captain married looked so cute, but he was so bold to do that!"
"It seems he knows some Kung Fu." Zhang Liansheng's eyebrows jumped when he thought of what Zhao Xiuzhi said.
Ma Shufen didn't notice that his expression was not right, and she continued to talk to herself, "Last time, she pushed Zhao Xiuzhi to the ground, and I was so surprised. This time, she just slapped her in the face. You didn't see that Zhao Xiuzhi was slapped to the ground. Her face was bulging, and there was blood at the corner of her mouth. You can see how hard she hit her. It hurts just looking at it!"
"Is your hand so powerful?" Zhang Liansheng asked in surprise.
Ma Shufen said: "That's right. Many old men are not so powerful."
Zhang Liansheng didn't see it, but he heard it.
Zhao Xiuzhi started to cry when she saw Wu Zhanfu coming out, which shows how scared she is of Jing Xian. At first he thought she was scared of Shang Nanchen, but she was scared of Jing Xian.
"What are you thinking about? Didn't you hear me calling you to eat?" Ma Shufen pushed Zhang Liansheng, and Zhang Liansheng came into the room and sat on the kang, waiting for dinner like an old man.
The three boys in the family sat inside, and the only daughter was helping to carry the dishes and serve the food.
next door.
Jing Xian and Shang Nanchen entered the room one after the other, and Jing Xian said, "Report this matter to your leader."
"I'll go now." Shang Nanchen also knew how serious this matter was.
Although it is in the military area, it is not as chaotic as outside. You still have to pay attention to the same things.
At the very least, you will lose your job and your reputation.
In serious cases, you may lose half your life.
"Go ahead, I'll cook and we can eat when you come back later." Jing Xian's mood was affected to some extent.
She lived a good life, she didn't provoke anyone, and she didn't offend anyone, but those people just wanted to pick on her. Can't she just live her own life? Why does she have to compare her life to others'? Does it mean that if others live well, she can live well too?
Jing Xian saw the alive and jumping shrimps, and she took the knife and chopped them one by one and threw them on the chopping board. She picked up the knife and chopped the shrimps into shrimp paste in a short while.
She thought about it, then went to the west room and got out a piece of meat.
Holding two knives in his hands, he started chopping fiercely again.
Tiedan and Fusheng poked their heads out and looked at Jingxian in confusion.
They knew without asking that their mother was not in a good mood.
"Ama" is the old Mongolian way of addressing mothers, usually "Ama" or "Aba". The two little boys learned this from playing with other children. They would occasionally address Jingxian this way, and they felt it was particularly intimate.
The door rang.
Jing Xian walked to the door holding a knife and looked outside.
Seeing Shang Nanchen coming back, she turned around and went back to chop the stuffing. When she took the meat just now, two large green onions were born, and now she had chopped them and placed them in the bowl waiting for use.
She chopped the meat into a paste, put it on a plate, and added seasoning to it.
Start stirring. Stirring meatballs is very particular. Whether a meatball is delicious or not depends on all your effort.
Shang Nanchen came in and saw Jing Xian stirring the food in a very aggressive manner, and asked cautiously, "Do you want to boil water?"
"Light the casserole and pour boiled water into it. Let it boil first." Jing Xian put an egg into the meat stuffing, stirring it evenly and vigorously.
I made a big bowl of potato rice for lunch, which I could have for dinner in the evening.
It's hot in the pot now, just light up the fire and it will be ready.
After Jing Xian finished preparing the stuffing, she went to the west room, took out two large radishes, quickly cut them into pieces with a knife, and placed them in a bowl.
The water in the casserole just happened to boil.
She opened the lid of the clay pot, shaped the meat filling into meatballs and threw them into the clay pot. Soon, the clay pot was filled with dozens of meatballs. Jing Xian took the shrimp paste and dipped her hands in water, shaped them into meatballs and put them into the clay pot.
Finally, she dumped in all the radishes.
Fortunately, the clay pot is big enough, otherwise this pot of meatball soup would not be able to hold it all.
Jing Xian had seen southerners in the end times. The way southerners cook is completely different from northerners. They cook more, in portions. Northerners only cook one portion, which is very filling.
The hot meatballs come out of the pot.
Shang Nanchen used a rag to pad the clay pot and carried it to the kang. On the kang mat was a wooden board that he had found to pad the clay pot.
"Eat."
Jingxian took eight bowls.
Each person has a soup bowl and a rice bowl.
The two children were very happy.
Fusheng ate a meatball and then a shrimp ball, and his eyes narrowed with happiness.
He sneaked up to Jing Xian and whispered, "Mom, I'll still be your son in my next life, and the next life after that, okay?"
"You kid are still relying on me, right?" Jing Xian poked him without using much force, and a smile finally appeared in her eyes.
Fusheng said coquettishly: "I just want to stick to you and be your son forever."
"Well, I'll reluctantly consider it." After Jing Xian finished speaking, Fusheng's face instantly fell.
He looked hurt and said, "Mom, what am I doing wrong? I already know a thousand words. I can add and subtract numbers within a hundred. I can also learn the punishment formula. I can also help you light the fire, and I don't eat much. I can eat one meal at a time like before."
The boy usually spoke slowly, but at this moment he sped up his speech consciously. He was afraid that his mother would not want him and his brother, and if so, he and his brother would become children that no one liked.
He didn't want to be a motherless child.
"Don't you want to eat?
If you don't want to eat, let daddy eat it all. Don't cry when you are hungry at night. You won't grow up and become a dwarf. How can you protect me? "Jing Xian's trick worked very well.
Fusheng immediately sat down obediently and ate his meal honestly.
Tiedan said in a flattering tone, "Mom, these meatballs are the most delicious meatballs I have ever eaten!"
"What kind of meatballs have you eaten before?" Jing Xian swore that she was just asking casually.
Tiedan swallowed the meatball in his mouth and said nonchalantly, "I haven't eaten it, but I saw Sun Baoyu eat it."
Fusheng will answer this question.
He raised his little hand and said loudly, "Sun Baoyu let us smell it and said we would never be able to eat meatballs in our lifetime. Dad, did you really give money to my grandma?"
Shang Nanchen wanted to get up immediately and send a telegram to his ex-wife, asking her to transfer the money to him immediately.
otherwise!!!
"Okay, let's eat quickly." Jing Xian looked at Shang Nanchen and saw that his face was extremely ugly. She was not happy in her heart, but rather felt a little bit disappointed with the lively atmosphere.
The two children ate a lot of meatballs but not much rice.
It’s okay to have leftovers, but it’s best to finish all the dishes.
There was no radish left, but there were still a lot of meatballs left, and all the shrimp balls were eaten up.
The soup was also drunk up completely.
The two children were reciting ancient poems while holding their textbooks, laughing and looking very happy.
Jing Xian thought that she would not have enough time to make shrimp balls tomorrow morning, so she prepared the shrimps and started to chop them. After making the balls, she put them outside. She covered them with a layer of gauze.
"Freeze some and cook a few when you want to eat them." When Jing Xian said this, Shang Nanchen's eyes lit up.
There are a lot of shrimps now.
Why don’t people of this era like to eat seafood?
It was because of the shortage of supplies that people ate too little meat and had no oil in their stomachs. No one liked to eat fish, shrimp, or shellfish. They would rather eat meat than seafood.
So much so that there were too many shrimps.
"Is this in your recipe?" Shang Nanchen asked seriously.
Jing Xian shook her head: "It's not written in there, and this was an accidental project."
“But you can make a lot at one time and freeze it. You can just take it out when you need it.” They got a lot of shrimps and couldn’t finish them.
Shang Nanchen didn't say this to Jing Xian.
Jing Xian didn't ask. Seeing that he wanted the method of making shrimp balls, she didn't refuse: "Then I will write the second half later. If you want the method of making shrimp balls, I can write it for you now, you can use it first."
"Can."
Shang Nanchen was not polite to Jing Xian either.
In fact, the troops were very concerned about the soldiers' diet. They had two meals of rice every week, and almost every meal had steamed bread, sorghum rice porridge, millet rice porridge, and they were all different.
The soldiers were given meat every day.
The meal was quite plentiful, with several dishes and a soup for you to choose from.
Being able to do this under limited conditions has only one purpose, which is to keep the soldiers well fed. I don't know how to describe Jingxian's recipes. Just like what she wrote at the beginning of her book, the soldiers' diet is different from their usual diet, and a more scientific way of preparing meals is needed to improve the quality of the soldiers.
That diet cookbook has become the originator of nutritious meals.
Jingxian made shrimp balls with all the leftover shrimps at home, planning to eat them slowly later.
Anyway, tomorrow is the market day, so she should go there early or let Shang Nanchen go by himself. Then she can buy some shrimps and make them into meatballs, which will be good and can be eaten for a longer time.
Shrimp balls, meat balls, and fish balls are all very simple.
It’s a little bit troublesome to make, but it tastes really good.
Jing Xian wrote down the instructions and handed it to Shang Nanchen.
She asked curiously, "It's not like your army's cooks don't know how to do this. What if they can do it just by asking you? Isn't it unnecessary for you to do this?"
"That would be best."
He just wanted to enrich the warriors' recipes in this cold winter.
busy
It's a busy day and I have to go to work tomorrow.
Jing Xian fell asleep almost as soon as she lay down.
The next morning, she opened her eyes and realized that her sleep quality was much better than when she just came back. She couldn't help but look at the man coming in from outside.
Shang Nanchen was still feeling cold and was caught off guard, so he put his hands under the mattress to warm them up.
He told Jingxian, "I cooked some meatballs and boiled an egg for each of us. The rice was leftovers and potatoes were cooked with rice. I was worried that it wouldn't be enough, so I heated up the cornmeal steamed cake."
"Okay. I'll make more steamed cakes when I'm free. In the future, I can drink soup or cook some millet porridge in the morning and eat the steamed cakes directly, so I don't have to make them again."
Jing Xian is also slowly adapting.
She doesn't know everything.
After living in the apocalypse for more than a decade, she almost forgot how normal people live.
"As you say."
Shang Nanchen also thought it was a good idea. In the future, he would be able to get up and cook in the morning, and he could even do a little at noon.
Jing Xian put on a cotton jacket and shivered from the cold.
Waking up early in the morning is a pain in the ass.
"By the way, before I go to work later, I'll buy some seafood. No matter what it is, let's buy more. If it's fish, put it at home first, and I'll go back to pack it and freeze it. During the New Year, I guess people won't come to sell it. While seafood is abundant now, prepare more and save it for the New Year." Jing Xian has no relatives to go with, but Shang Nanchen should have some.
She asked him, "Are you going to visit relatives during the New Year? Then I'll prepare some seafood to send over."
"No relatives."
Shang Nanchen turned around and poured her some water for washing her face, which made Jing Xian want to ask, "Don't you still have a father?" But she couldn't get the answer.
The rice is cooked.
Shang Nanchen asked the two children to get up.
Even though the two children have become whiter and have some flesh on their faces, they are still very thin and you can hardly see any flesh on their bodies.
Fusheng was sitting on the edge of the kang and yawning, and he almost fell off the kang.
Shang Nanchen frowned, but didn't want to scold him.
"Get down, wash your face and eat. What are you two still dawdling about for?" Jing Xian yelled in the outer room. Fusheng immediately jumped off the kang and ran out happily without even looking at Shang Nanchen.
Shang Nanchen: “…”
Tiedan patted his father's arm and said in a mature tone, "Dad, don't be jealous. It's useless for you to be jealous. We still like my mom more."
“…”
You might as well not say anything.
Shang Nanchen became even more depressed.
Jing Xian has good hearing and almost laughed out loud when she heard this.
She swore that if she laughed out loud, someone would get mad at her.
After breakfast, the whole family got fully armed and went straight to the market.
When they got to the market, they saw Liu Haizhu driving a donkey cart towards them. Jing Xian looked at the things on his cart in surprise, and immediately said happily, "Are you going to sell all these things?"
Liu Haizhu saw Jingxian and said enthusiastically, "Comrade, do you still want to buy seafood? All the seafood here is reserved for you."
Jing Xian went over to take a look and saw that the abalone was really big. The shrimps were also very big.
"How about this, I'll buy all of these, and you follow my husband to deliver them to their home?" Jing Xian estimated that the price was affordable for their family, so she decided to take them all.
Liu Haizhu knew that Jingxian liked this, but he didn't expect that she wanted so much.
“These things are hard to put away.”
"It's okay, I can just freeze it." It's not summer, this is the only thing that's more convenient in winter. "How much is it, you calculate it. Just help me take it home first. I have to go to work, it's almost too late."
After Jing Xian finished speaking, she gave Shang Nanchen twenty yuan and left with the two children.
Some people not far away saw this scene and were talking about it.
One of the women was Chen Dongxia. Chen Dongxia poked Liu Cailan and said, "Did you see that? That loser bought more than last time. Those bad-hearted fishermen are not good people. They take more and more rotten seafood each time. But it's true. Only such a big fool is willing to buy it. No one else would buy this rubbish."
There is no oil at all and it is very hard to eat. Who likes to eat such a rotten thing? "
Liu Cailan said: "She works in a hospital, maybe this thing is really good."
"I can't?"
Chen Dongxia didn't believe it.
Liu Cailan wanted to go to the market to buy some seafood, but she didn't know how to do it, so she had to give up.
On the other side, Shang Nanchen put the seafood away and was called over by the political commissar as soon as he arrived at the unit.
When he walked in and saw several people sitting inside, he was stunned.
"Commissar, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Shang Nanchen looked at the serious-looking people in the office, and his heart skipped a beat. He had a feeling that something was wrong.
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