Sure enough, the foolproof recipe from the next life saved Xiaobai. Ke Meiyu ate the food she had made with relish, saying, "Comrade Qin, you're in for a treat from now on. Look at my cooking, it's just as good as what the chef at the supply and marketing cooperative makes, isn't it?"
While talking, she didn't forget to pick up her chopsticks.
Qin Yuanjiu nodded, "Adding more oil makes it quite delicious."
Ke Meiyu glared at him and muttered under her breath, "An ancient view!"
She came from the apocalypse, and this place was hundreds of years different from her own time. To her, the man in front of her was like an ancient person.
The two of them ate like children, fighting over the food. After they finished eating, Ke Meiyu picked up the bowl of pudding to put it in front of her, but Qin Yuanjiu pulled it back without changing his expression as soon as he picked it up.
“This is the meal you promised to make for me,” he emphasized. “You ate most of the rest, and I’m still not full, so I’ll just have this bowl of steamed egg custard to tide me over.”
Ke Meiyu was taken aback, and asked timidly, "Did I really eat that much?"
"Don't you know how much you're eating?" he asked, raising an eyebrow, before scooping a large spoonful of pudding into his mouth.
The rich and sweet milk flavor, smooth and chewy texture, and the addition of raisins and nuts enrich the taste and cut through the sweetness, making it a dish you'll never tire of!
In these times, it was truly a rare delicacy.
Because of her superpowers, even though she doesn't use them intentionally, Ke Meiyu's keen senses and agile movements constantly drain her energy.
Therefore, she needs to eat a lot of food at every meal to replenish her lost energy.
She was finally able to eat to her heart's content, and her attention was so focused on the food that she didn't even notice how much she had eaten.
She felt guilty for only a minute, and when she looked up to shamelessly continue to mooch more food, the bowl of pudding was already empty...
"Not bad," Qin Yuanjiu wiped his mouth with a handkerchief. "You have such a big appetite, I couldn't compete with you, so I had to replenish my energy with dessert. I still have to go build the house later!"
He got up on his own initiative, handed Ke Meiyu a book, then cleared away the dishes and took them to the yard to wash.
“That’s more like it,” Ke Meiyu chuckled, sitting by the window. She opened the book and was stunned.
She thought Qin Yuanjiu would give her a magazine, newspaper, or classic to pass the time, but she never expected it to be a high school Chinese textbook!
Making a poor student like her read books is tantamount to making her bang her head against a wall.
Closing the book, Ke Meiyu looked at Qin Yuanjiu with guilt and unease.
He's so pitiful to have such a big-eater, uneducated rural wife like himself.
In that era, both educated youth and city dwellers were very proud and wanted a lifelong partner with whom they could achieve a spiritual connection.
I definitely don't meet the requirements.
To make up for it, Ke Meiyu decided to treat Comrade Qin even better and share more of the housework.
"Comrade Ke, you can't bully people like this!" Tang Aiyu came back with a basket on her back. She was furious when she saw Qin Yuanjiu washing dishes on the ground. She went up to Ke Meiyu and argued, "Comrade Qin is such a noble person. How can he wash dishes with the hand that holds a pen?"
"Haven't you heard the saying 'A wise man keeps away from the kitchen'? How can you be so lazy, a woman from the countryside, and you don't do any housework at all!"
Ke Meiyu said in surprise, "Comrade Tang, Comrade Mao said that women hold up half the sky and advocated gender equality. How can you still put the ideas of the ancients into practice?"
"Which law or regulation in the organization states that housework must be done by women? I cook, and Comrade Qin washes the dishes—that's fair. Comrade Qin agreed to it, so who are you standing up for?"
"And another thing, I thought Comrade Tang was very learned, but it seems he's not all that great after all. 'A wise man keeps away from the kitchen' isn't understood that way. You can go back and ask your grandfather. Or, if you have the chance, ask a university literature professor and see what they say!"
Tang Aiyu bit her lip, her eyes reddening, and for a moment she didn't know how to refute him righteously.
Qin Yuanjiu had finished washing the dishes and stood up. He said calmly, "The saying 'A gentleman keeps away from the kitchen' is not meant to be interpreted that way. A gentleman cannot bear to see birds and beasts die, so he always stays away from the kitchen, rather than emphasizing that men cannot do anything in the kitchen."
Ke Meiyu raised her chin slightly and smiled smugly: "See, see, even my Comrade Qin has spoken up."
Tang Aiyu looked at this one and that one, and had to admit that, setting aside family background and education, these two were a good match in every other way. At least, Ke Meiyu was beautiful enough and had a lively personality, which was irresistible to any man.
She stomped her foot, covered her mouth, and ran back into the house, slamming the door shut.
"A meal," Qin Yuanjiu said, putting the bowls and chopsticks into the basket.
"What meal?" Ke Meiyu climbed off the kang (a heated brick bed), put the book on the table, and saw a stack of high school books against the wall, with thick notebooks on top!
"Comrade Qin, you still study in your spare time?" She felt a little guilty. "Well, Yunyue said that if you marry her, she can persuade her father to give you a spot in a worker-peasant-soldier university."
Did I ruin your plans?
It's only 1974 this year, three years before the college entrance examination was reinstated. Qin Yuanjiu will be 23 years old then, and going to university for another four years will really be considered advanced age.
After all, the worker-peasant-soldier system only lasted two years. Although the academic qualifications of workers-peasant-soldier students were not as good as those of regular college students, they were still quite sought after before the resumption of the college entrance examination. Various regions were vying for outstanding graduates.
Look at that little woman, her head is almost drooping to her shoulders.
Qin Yuanjiu raised his hand slightly, his eyes narrowed as he gently pinched her chin, his thumb lightly tracing her skin: "You're overthinking it. If I'm going to marry a wife anyway, I'd rather marry someone pleasing to the eye. As for university, the spots that Luofeng Village gets are too ordinary; I wouldn't even consider them."
Ke Meiyu slapped him across the face, baring her teeth: "Just talk, why are you resorting to tampering!"
He chuckled and placed his hand in front of her, revealing a glistening grain of rice: "Comrade Ke, I've discovered that you're beautiful, and your thoughts are beautiful too!"
Ke Meiyu's face immediately turned bright red. She picked up the basket, bumped into him, and rushed out.
Even in the howling wind, she could clearly hear his arrogant laughter!
There was also a very soft remark: "I'll help you get revenge, you owe me a meal..."
Back home, Ke Meiyu calmed down and began to think about how to help the Li family overcome the crisis caused by the rumors. In fact, the best way to refute the rumors was to let the facts speak for themselves.
If Sister-in-law Li gets pregnant, all the problems will be solved!
Then she helps Comrade Xiao Li find a good partner, and then she gets 1,000 peace points.
Ke Meiyu flipped through various notebooks, booklets, and jade slips in the space. There were many methods for having children, but they had to be appropriate for the specific symptoms.
Is it due to a cold uterus, difficulty conceiving due to a retroverted uterus, or blocked fallopian tubes?
We'll have to wait until she meets the person and gets to know them properly before we can proceed.
Remembering the meal she owed again, Ke Meiyu took half a bowl of spiritual spring water from her spatial storage and placed it on the table, intending to water her vegetable garden. She wanted to test the water's effects and was also worried that the garden wouldn't withstand her neglect...
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