Chapter 52: Throwing water away when it is useless, and when it is needed...
Jiang Xueyi had no idea what happened afterwards.
However, Liu Lu said that Director Xie kept them here so that they could write an article about popular science lectures on menstruation knowledge from the publicity department.
This has little to do with Jiang Xueyi, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
Little Baozi can now drink porridge for three meals a day. Jiang Xueyi cooks porridge for him in different ways every day.
White porridge, spinach and egg porridge, mushroom and vegetable porridge, pumpkin and red date porridge...
Little Baozi is a bit picky about food. He can eat up all the porridge he likes, such as pumpkin and red date porridge. But he only wants to drink the porridge he doesn't like, such as mushroom and vegetable porridge, and he doesn't want to eat the vegetables and mushrooms in it at all.
Jiang Xueyi didn't notice it at first, until one day He Chengze saw some uneaten vegetables and mushrooms in Xiaomi's bowl, and then he realized that the little bun secretly threw the vegetables he didn't like to Xiaomi to eat.
While the adults were not paying attention, he picked up the vegetables in the bowl and threw them on the ground with his little tongue.
The two brothers cooperated with each other so well that there was no trace of anything.
So it has never been noticed.
It was because Xiaomi chewed too much on the big bone that day and didn't have time to eat the vegetables that Xiaobaozi threw to it, so He Chengze found it.
Jiang Xueyi was so angry that she asked the little bun, "Why didn't you tell your mother if you didn't like the mushroom and vegetable porridge?"
The little bun pouted in grievance.
Xiaomi: "Woof woof!"
It seems like he is speaking for the little bun.
He Chengze frowned and said, "It's no use being picky about food. When I go to the army, we'll all eat from the same pot. Forget being picky about food. If you're half a minute late, you won't even get to eat steamed buns."
Yan Yan's father concluded: "I don't know how to appreciate my blessings."
"Okay, stop scolding him." Jiang Xueyi said, "It's normal for children to be picky about food."
He Chengze frowned: "How can it be normal? I was not picky about food when I was a child."
"So what about now?" Jiang Xueyi asked. "Everyone has preferences. You have things you like and dislike. For example, you don't eat onions. Last time I made a dish of stir-fried pork and onions, you took out the onions and ate all the pork."
She squinted her eyes and said, "In my opinion, the little bun must have learned his picky eating habits from you, or maybe it's inherited from you. If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked."
He Chengze choked: "Why don't you say that he doesn't learn the good things and learn the bad things."
Jiang Xueyi ignored him and turned to the little bun and said, "If there's a dish you don't like in the future, tell mom. Mom won't force you to eat it. If you don't like it, we can change it. If you can't eat mushroom and vegetable porridge, we can eat cod, pumpkin and millet porridge, okay?"
The little bun smiled with his eyes curved.
He could already say simple words and nodded heavily: "Okay!"
He Chengze: "Don't spoil him too much. What if he develops a picky eating habit, suffers from nutritional imbalance, and develops poorly? What if he develops poor growth?"
Jiang Xueyi sighed and reasoned with him, "Being picky about food is something only the older generation would say." She added, "Because there weren't many nutritious foods back then, there were just millet, brown sugar, malted milk, and the like. Poorer families only had sweet potatoes and pickles. Once you're picky about food, there's not much you can eat, so of course you're malnourished."
She said, "It's different now. There are so many delicious things. Take porridge for example. The two of us make porridge for him in different ways. There are probably more than ten kinds. As long as it can provide nutrition, he won't eat vegetables if he doesn't like them. Eating pumpkin or sweet potato can also provide the same nutrition."
He Chengze thought it made some sense and said stubbornly, "I can't argue with you."
Jiang Xueyi picked up the little bun and kissed his chubby cheeks: "But our little bun doesn't like to eat vegetables. It's not necessarily that he hates vegetables, but maybe he just doesn't like the taste."
"What should we do then?" He Chengze asked.
Jiang Xueyi: "Just wait and see."
At noon, Jiang Xueyi mashed the green vegetables to extract the green juice, mixed it with flour, added shrimp and pork, and made a bowl of wontons for Xiaobaozi.
The little bun had no resistance to the bowl of wontons with green vegetable skins. He waved his little spoon and ate all of them.
Not feeling it was enough, he ordered another bowl.
Seeing him enjoying his meal, Jiang Xueyi smiled and said, "I knew this method would work."
"That's really inspired me." He Chengze said, "Next time, if I come across something that my little baozi doesn't like to eat, I'll mash it into juice and mix it into the dough for him."
Jiang Xueyi looked him up and down.
He Chengze was sweating coldly: "Why are you looking at me?"
Jiang Xueyi: "You don't like onions, right? One day when I have some free time, I'll mash some onions to extract the juice, mix it with the dough, and make you some onion-skin wontons." After a pause, she added, "Dumplings are also fine."
She thought carefully about the feasibility: "The juice from the mashed onion should be transparent and colorless. You shouldn't be able to detect it."
"Come on." He Chengze immediately refused, "I'm not a little kid who's so easy to fool, nor am I Xiaomi who's not picky about anything."
"If you really make onion-skin dumplings, I'll be able to sense something's wrong the moment you put them in my mouth, and I'll spit them out right there."
Jiang Xueyi glared at him and said, "Look, you said the little one was picky about food. But I think you're the pickiest eater in the whole family."
He Chengze touched his nose guiltily: "Okay, I admit it." He added, "I am a bit picky about food, but I have been reformed by the melting pot of the army."
Jiang Xueyi asked: "Then why don't you eat onions?"
He Chengze said confidently: "There was no choice before, but now there is a choice. Of course, I will choose what I like to eat. Why force myself to eat something I don't like?"
"Right, that's the truth." Jiang Xueyi said, "Even adults like us know when to stop eating something we don't like. There's no need to force ourselves to eat."
"Children naturally don't like to eat certain foods. As the saying goes, everyone has preferences. If we adults force them to eat something they don't like, it's like forcing something to be unpalatable. No one will be happy, and it will only make the child's picky eating problem worse."
He Chengze saluted: "I understand. I understand."
Jiang Xueyi glared at him.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, He Chengze went to the army.
Jiang Xueyi is on vacation today. The wontons made with green vegetable skins gave her inspiration. She plans to make a few cans of meat floss and mix it into the bowl for the buns to eat.
The meat floss is salty, crispy and delicious, and children will definitely love it.
Wash the pork hind legs, remove all fat and fascia, and leave only the lean meat.
Put the meat into the pot and stew it, adding onion and ginger to remove the fishy smell.
After the pork is cooked, take it out and drain the water. Break the meat into small pieces first, and then tear it into pork shreds, making sure that each piece is of uniform thickness. It doesn't matter if a few pieces are torn into large pieces occasionally, because you will have to make it into meat floss in the end anyway.
Pour oil into the pan, spread the shredded meat evenly in the pan, stir-fry slowly over low heat, add salt, light soy sauce, sugar and other seasonings, stir-fry continuously to allow the moisture in the shredded meat to slowly evaporate.
After frying for about thirty minutes, the shredded pork becomes more and more fluffy and golden.
Put the fried shredded pork into a winnowing basket and spread it out to cool, and it will become meat floss.
Jiang Xueyi pinched a little meat floss and tasted it. It was salty and delicious with a hint of sweetness. It tasted great.
The little boy saw that she was eating with such relish that he kept clapping his hands in his walker. He also wanted to eat.
Jiang Xueyi smiled and said, "Okay, I'll feed you right away."
The little boy was drooling because of greed. Jiang Xueyi first wiped his saliva with a bib before pinching some meat floss to feed him.
The little bun kept chewing and chewing, showing that he was very satisfied. His big eyes, which were very similar to Jiang Xueyi's, turned into crescents when he smiled.
Jiang Xueyi felt someone pulling her pants. She looked down and saw it was Xiaomi.
Xiaomi looks completely different now than when he first came. His ears are standing up, making the golden color on his ears more noticeable.
Because of good nutrition, its hair is particularly fluffy, and from a distance it looks like a big white ball of hair.
He was much stronger, and when he bit her trouser leg, Jiang Xueyi almost staggered.
Pour some meat floss into the millet bowl: "I know, this is your share."
Xiao Baozi and Xiaomi both like to eat meat floss, so Jiang Xueyi wanted to make more.
However, I don’t have any pork hind legs at home, so I can use meat from other parts of the body, but the taste will be worse.
It is better to have nothing than to have something of poor quality, so Jiang Xueyi did not use other parts of the pork.
Anyway, she is working now and can get a salary. Adding it up with He Chengze's salary, the family of four has two adults, one child and a puppy. The little Baozi is still young and can't eat much, so they still have a lot of money on hand.
There was a fresh hairtail at home, and Jiang Xueyi planned to make fish floss.
The method is similar to pork floss. Remove the skin, bones and thorns of the hairtail fish, leaving only the fresh fish meat, cut it into small pieces, add salt, sugar and other seasonings and stir-fry it into fish floss.
While frying the fish floss, Jiang Xueyi also prepared dinner.
She hadn't eaten cabbage for a long time. This morning when she went to the vegetable market, she specially bought a big round cabbage and prepared to make a dish of hand-shredded cabbage.
She has to cook and can't keep an eye on the little bun all the time.
I was worried that he would run around in his walker and bump into the coffee table or the wall.
I simply tore off two large leaves of cabbage and let the little one tear them to play with.
The little bun immediately fell in love with this game. He grabbed the cabbage with his chubby hands and tore it apart with great joy.
But he was not strong enough and after half a day he could only tear a small hole.
Jiang Xueyi was happy. Fortunately, she didn't rely on him to tear the cabbage, otherwise she would have no cabbage to eat when it got dark.
Seeing that the little bun was tearing the cabbage for fun, Xiaomi was also watching him from the side.
Jiang Xueyi went back to the kitchen to cook with peace of mind.
At exactly four o'clock in the afternoon, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.
Jiang Xueyi was stunned for a moment and went to open the door: "Who is it?"
When the door opened, Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Yaozu were standing outside, along with a shy-looking young soldier in military uniform.
The young soldier saluted Jiang Xueyi: "Hello, sister-in-law."
"Hey, hello." Jiang Xueyi said.
The young soldier said, "These two are your family members, right? They came here looking for someone and accidentally found their way to the military camp." He paused and said, "I'm responsible for sending them here."
"Found the military camp?" Jiang Xueyi raised her eyebrows and looked up and down at Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Yaozu.
Jiang Aiguo looked embarrassed.
He came to find Jiang Xueyi and didn't want her to know.
So I took the address I got from Jiang Daming and took the train to Nanping City.
But Jiang Daming only gave a rough address. They only knew that Jiang Xueyi was in Nanping City, but they didn't know where exactly.
Nanping City is vast and sparsely populated, and it was difficult to find someone to ask for directions.
Jiang Aiguo opened his mouth and said, "Do you know that unit--" Where is the dormitory in the compound?
When they looked at Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Yaozu, who were carrying luggage and looked exhausted, they knew they were looking for someone. Without thinking, they said, "The army, of course I know."
Jiang Yaozu's eyes lit up: "Yes, it's the army."
So by some strange coincidence I ended up in the military camp.
When they arrived at the military camp, the father and son found something wrong, but there were only soldiers coming and going around them, so they didn't dare to ask and could only peek outside.
If you keep peeking in, something bad will happen.
That was a military camp, not someone's courtyard.
Almost as soon as they showed their heads, they were stopped by the sentries and asked if they were spies.
Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Yaozu had never seen such a scene before, and they were so scared that their legs went weak.
He stuttered for a long time and couldn't utter a complete sentence.
People in the military camp didn't think they looked like spies - mainly because even spies weren't so bad or had such poor psychological qualities.
After being threatened and intimidated, Jiang Aiguo and Jiang Yaozu confessed everything.
They came from Xiaohe Village to look for their daughter and sister and to visit relatives.
When asked what his daughter's name was, Jiang Aiguo stammered, "Jiang... Jiang Xueyi..."
In front of these soldiers, he did not act bossy and arrogant as he did in front of Jiang Xueyi. He was as honest as could be, and he wanted to hide his head in his pants.
Coincidentally, among the people who interrogated the father and son of the Jiang family, there was someone who had eaten (robbed) the braised food made by Jiang Xueyi.
After another interrogation about Jiang Xueyi's appearance, everything matched, so they untied the two.
They were left speechless. If you came to visit your relatives, just come to visit them. Why are you peeking outside the military camp? If it happened during a sensitive time, you might have been shot.
After a final round of questioning, body searches, and ID checks, the two were released.
Worried that these two fools had gone to the wrong place again, they found a young soldier to safely take them to the military compound dormitory and even delivered them to their door.
Jiang Aiguo would definitely not tell Jiang Xueyi the whole story.
Not daring to lose face, he said with an embarrassed expression: "Why are you asking so many questions? We came all the way here, and you won't let us in?"
Jiang Xueyi was too lazy to pay attention to him. She politely poured some water for the young soldier and sent him out.
He turned around, closed the door, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Jiang Aiguo looked around the room, at the shiny white walls, and then thought of everything he had seen and heard along the way. He couldn't help but say enviously, "You have quite a good situation."
Jiang Xueyi rolled her eyes and said, "It's not bad." She added, "But it was also earned by Chengze defending his country and risking his life."
"You gave birth to a son?" Jiang Yaozu suddenly said as he looked at the little boy sitting in the walker.
When the little boy saw the two strangers, he was startled and shrank back in his walker.
Xiaomi stood guard in front of him and barked twice, looking very imposing.
Jiang Yaozu frowned and said, "Why do you still keep a dog? It's so noisy."
Jiang Xueyi picked up the little boy and took him back to the crib in the master bedroom, and asked Xiaomi to keep an eye on him again.
After closing the door, he said, "Stop talking nonsense. Why did you come all the way here?"
Jiang Aiguo found a bench to sit on without any hesitation and snorted heavily: "Let me ask you, did Xue Qian come to see you secretly?"
"Yeah." Jiang Xueyi said with a half-smile, "She thinks I've climbed the social ladder by marrying He Chengze, and she wants to follow my example and find a partner who's an officer."
"Have you found it?" Jiang Aiguo asked impatiently.
Jiang Xueyi raised her eyebrows and asked, "What do you think?"
"Alas, I guess my second sister hasn't been found, otherwise she wouldn't have been away from home for so long. I thought she was with you, eldest sister, but now it seems she's gone." Jiang Yaozu sighed, "I should have married her off to the He family a long time ago. They're also soldiers, so they have great conditions."
"That's great." Jiang Xueyi said, "I'll give you a dowry when you marry her, right?"
She despised Jiang Xueqin's character, but Jiang Yaozu, a wimp who depended on his sister for a living, was not a good person either.
Jiang Aiguo scolded him with a fierce look on his face: "How do you talk to your brother?"
Jiang Xueyi stopped talking and looked at him coldly.
Jiang Aiguo paused for a moment, and finally slowly moved his eyes away.
Only now did he realize that his eldest daughter was different from before. He could tell from the attitude of the group of soldiers who imprisoned them and the young soldier who brought them here. They all called her "sister-in-law".
He coughed and softened his tone, "By the way, where's Chengze? Isn't he home?"
It's quite affectionate.
Jiang Xueyi curled her lips: "He doesn't get off work until half past five."
Her patience had run out, and she knocked on the coffee table. "What exactly do you want here? If not, please leave." She added, "When we left, you told me not to come back, and I did. But you, what do you want to do by coming here for no reason?"
Jiang Aiguo remembered what he had said before, his face flushed, and he pretended to be dumb: "Really? When did I say that? I don't remember."
Jiang Yaozu said, "Let's wait until my brother-in-law comes back."
Okay, Jiang Xueyi understood.
The father and son did not have something to do with her, but something to do with He Chengze.
She said coldly: "If you are willing to wait, then wait."
With the father and son around, Jiang Xueyi had no mood to cook.
Gather the fish floss hanging on the dustpan, put it in a glass jar, seal it, and put it in the chest of drawers.
After doing all this, I went back to the master bedroom, closed the door, turned on the electric fan, and played with Xiao Baozi and Xiaomi.
Jiang Aiguo heard the whirring sound of the electric fan in the room and licked his dry lower lip: "I told her that her conditions were good, but she didn't admit it."
He slapped his thigh and said, "These two people are really getting too arrogant. I came all the way here, and they didn't even give me a glass of water."
Jiang Yaozu's temper is much better than his father's. The main reason is that no matter what, Jiang Aiguo is still Jiang Xueyi's biological father, and they have such a blood relationship. He is just Jiang Xueyi's half-brother, and their relationship is a little distant. Now in front of her, he doesn't dare to speak loudly.
He took the initiative to go to the kitchen to get a kettle and a cup to pour water: "It's okay, Dad, I'll pour it for you."
Jiang Aiguo took the cup, drank it all, and said with relief: "My son is still the best."
No wonder people say that raising children can prevent old age.
At 5:40, there was a sound of a key being pushed into the hole outside the door.
As soon as He Chengze opened the door, he saw Jiang Aiguo and his son Jiang Yao sitting in the living room.
When the father and son saw him, they stood up at the same time.
Jiang Aiguo said awkwardly: "Chengze, you're back."
He Chengze raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
As soon as the master bedroom door opened, Jiang Xueyi came out holding the little bun, followed by Xiaomi: "You're back, what are you holding in your hand?"
He Chengze took the little bun, kissed him, and handed the large and small bags in his hand to Jiang Xueyi: "Here, I asked my comrades in Shanghai to buy them for you. They are the most popular bragi over there, as well as the snow cream you often use, and the chrysanthemum crystals that the little bun likes to drink."
"I specially asked someone to bring me two cans of this chrysanthemum crystal. The weather is hot now, and chrysanthemum crystal can reduce internal heat and detoxify. I'll make a cup for the little one whenever I have time."
"Okay." Jiang Xueyi put everything in the cabinet and saw a tear on his vest, probably from training. "After you take a shower, take off your clothes and I'll sew it up for you."
The couple talked as if no one was around.
Jiang Aiguo was better off, but Jiang Yaozu, who was thin-skinned, had his face flushed red.
Jiang Aiguo coughed and said, "Chengze."
He Chengze turned his head to look at him, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?"
Jiang Aiguo: "What are you talking about? Can't you come if you have nothing to do? After all, we are family. Xueyi is my biological daughter, you are her man, and I am your biological father-in-law. Our two families should interact more often."
"Stop being polite." He Chengze glanced at the fruit peels and melon seed shells on the coffee table. This was definitely not something Jiang Xueyi had taken out. The father and son were not shy. "If you have something to say, just say it."
Jiang Aiguo touched his nose and said, "Well, Chengze, it's like this. A while ago, we had a military recruitment, and Yaozu didn't pass..." He added, "It was mainly because his physical fitness was a little lacking. He didn't pass the three-kilometer run, and he only did fifteen of the required forty sit-ups. And his height wasn't up to standard either..."
He Chengze didn't bother to listen. If he wanted to join the army, running three kilometers was the most basic thing.
Not to mention sit-ups.
You don't even meet these requirements, yet you still want to be a soldier? You'd better be more realistic in your dreams.
Simply interrupt him: "And then?"
Jiang Aiguo simply said it bluntly: "I thought, after all, you are the commander of the regiment and Yaozu's brother-in-law. See if you can find a way to get Yaozu into the army."
Jiang Xueyi was amused by what she heard. Fortunately, the father and son didn't know that He Chengze had been promoted to deputy brigade commander. If they knew, let alone getting Jiang Yaozu into the army, they would probably ask He Chengze to arrange a position like squad leader or company commander for him.
He Chengze refused outright: "Impossible."
Jiang Xueyi nodded in agreement.
She didn't object to Jiang Yaozu joining the army. After the baptism of the army, she could at least get rid of some of Jiang Yaozu's playboy aura, but it was absolutely impossible for him to get in through the back door.
That's military service, not playing house.
You have to go to the battlefield at any time, and you might die on the battlefield.
Jiang Yaozu, who was unable to carry anything and did not even meet the enlistment standards, entered through the back door, causing trouble for the army.
There is no trivial matter on the battlefield. If Jiang Yaozu seeks death and harms himself, it is no big deal, but he should not harm the soldiers who fight for the country and defend their homes and homes.
Jiang Aiguo blew his beard and glared, shouting, "As a regiment leader, this is not a small matter for you." He then said to Jiang Xueyi, "And you, don't you say a good word for your brother?"
"No wonder people say that a daughter who's married off is like spilled water, she's useless!"
Jiang Xueyi raised her eyebrows and sneered, "Yeah, a daughter who's married off is like water that's spilled. Water is—" She had wanted to say it was a recyclable resource, but the father and son probably didn't understand, so she simply changed the wording, "It can be recycled. When it's not useful, just throw it out, and when it's needed, take it back, right?"
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