When the two came back, the soldiers had already unloaded the bricks and red soil and left.
"Wife, I'm sorry to have to bear with you these few days. The bathroom and toilet need to wait until I have a break. I can slowly clean them up. They won't be ready so quickly." Zhao Yilu sounded apologetic.
"What's the big deal? Fan Youcheng has been free recently. Let him come over to help later. Otherwise, he'll be idle anyway. Since you recognize him as your brother, you can't treat him as an outsider. You have to use him when necessary!" Fan Hua said confidently.
Zhao nodded all the way and had no objection to Fan Hua's suggestion. The two of them tiptoed into the house, fearing to wake up the brother and sister who had just fallen asleep.
Zhao Yilu said softly, "Wife, draw the furniture you wanted to make yesterday. I'll take the blueprint to the carpenter and ask him to make it as soon as possible. I'll also return the car to Brother Xie."
Fan Hua nodded, found a piece of paper and started drawing carefully. She also thoughtfully marked all the sizes so that it would be clear at a glance.
Zhao Yilu stuffed the blueprint into his pocket and asked, "Is there anything else you need to buy? I'll bring it back."
Fan Hua thought for a moment and said, "Let's buy some vegetables and meat. Today is the first day of our move. Let's make a delicious meal tonight to celebrate! By the way, do you think it's necessary to invite your leaders and comrades? If necessary, buy more!"
Zhao Yilu thought for a moment and said, "Then let's invite Captain Jiang and the other two company commanders from the same battalion to have a meal together today! I usually interact with them more often."
"Okay, I'll clean up the house in a bit, and when you come back from shopping, I can prepare dinner!"
Zhao Yilu gently kissed Fan Hua's forehead, "Thank you for your hard work, my wife!"
"It's nothing, it's not hard at all! I'm having fun!"
Zhao Yilu looked at Fan Hua's cheerful look, gently pinched his little face, and felt incredibly tender in his heart. How could he marry such a good wife? He was so lucky!
After Zhao Yilu went out, Fan Hua started to put various things in the house away. Aunt Chu was very considerate and helped her. They were busy for most of the afternoon and finally finished everything before dark.
Not long after, Zhao Yilu came into the house carrying large and small bags.
Fan Hua took the food, looked at her watch and urged, "Hurry up and inform the comrades you want to invite today. If it's any later, they will have already eaten!"
Zhao Yilu immediately went to ask for help. Aunt Chu was playing with Yuanyuan and Xiaoxiao in the living room, while Fan Hua was busy in the kitchen.
Aunt Chu heard the noise in the kitchen and came over curiously. Seeing Fan Hua struggling to cut the meat, she couldn't help but said, "Lihua, why don't I cook and you play with Yuanyuan and Xiaoxiao!"
Fan Hua was cutting the meat while smiling and shaking her head. "No, Aunt Chu, you can just accompany the children. Today is the first meal we've treated everyone to since we came all the way here, so it's more appropriate for me to cook, and this way we'll have more face along the way!"
Although Fan Hua was spoiled by her family, she often worked overtime and came home very late because she and her friends opened a design company together. It was inconvenient for her to live in the school. So she rented a house by herself after she started her graduate studies. In her spare time, she also studied food and even knew how to cook a few specialties.
Today, in addition to buying a large piece of pork belly and a chicken, Zhao Yilu also bought some spinach, potatoes and peanuts. Coincidentally, these ingredients are what she is good at making.
Fan Hua decided to use the pork belly to make her signature braised pork dish today, and then cut the chicken into pieces, use part of it to make spicy chicken with potatoes, and use the other part of the chicken breast to make some popcorn chicken. Finally, she would use the oil in the popcorn chicken to fry peanuts and use part of the peanuts to make a nut spinach salad.
For the main course, just leave some chicken and cook it with spinach to make hot noodle soup. Five dishes and a noodle soup are just right for four people!
Fan Hua first boiled a large pot of hot water, and then prepared the ingredients quickly, washing and cutting what needed to be washed. After a while, all the other ingredients were ready. Only the big rooster was still clucking on the ground with its legs tied, and it even had some chicken shit.
Fan Hua looked at it for a while and decided to challenge herself and kill the chicken herself!
In this day and age, the chickens sold in the vegetable market are all live chickens, which you need to kill at home. You can’t buy ready-made chicken nuggets at all.
Fan Hua felt that she would have to eat chicken many times in the future and couldn't always ask others for help, so she wanted to challenge herself to kill the chicken today.
Fan Hua looked at the boiling water in the pot, picked up a kitchen knife, and stared at the rooster in front of her with a determined look as if she wanted to join the party. In her mind, she silently reviewed the formula for killing a chicken that Wang Guifen had told her when she was in Beijing:
[Hold the chicken wings firmly, sharpen the knife and don't show mercy, find the blood vessels under the neck, cut off the blood with the knife, use the hot water to remove the hair at the right temperature, pluck the hair while it's hot, cut open the belly and take out the internal organs, clean it and it's done! ]
After repeating it four or five times, I finally decided to do it...
Fan Hua grabbed the flapping chicken wings with one hand, tilted the chicken at a 45-degree angle, placed a large bowl underneath to collect the chicken blood, and picked up a kitchen knife with the other hand to cut the chicken's neck.
Just as she raised the kitchen knife, Zhao Yilu strode into the kitchen, snatched the kitchen knife and the rooster from Fan Hua without saying a word, wiped the chicken's neck, drained the blood neatly, threw it into a basin, poured hot water, and prepared to pluck the chicken's feathers...
When Fan Hua realized what was happening, she immediately said angrily, "Zhao Yilu, I finally made up my mind to kill a chicken myself, why did you take my chicken away without even saying a word?"
Zhao Yilu quickly plucked the chicken feathers and looked up at her. "With me here, you will never have to do things like killing chickens!"
"What if you get busy or go on a mission and can't help me?"
Although Fan Hua felt that this sentence was very heartwarming, she was still a little unconvinced. She had always been a strong-willed person and did not want to be a delicate dodder. Although she had never done such a thing as killing a chicken, she felt that she could give it a try and she would be able to do it well if she did it a few more times.
"Then you buy some pork first, and I'll make chicken for you when I come back!" Zhao Yilu still insisted.
"What if I just want to eat chicken?" Fan Hua continued to ask.
"Then go to the state-owned restaurant outside and eat whatever you want!"
Fan Hua: "Uh..."
Zhao Yilu's tone softened. "Your hands are for holding pens to draw and write, not for killing chickens and fish. I'm afraid you might accidentally hurt yourself. What if it affects your future drawing and writing? I'll be so heartbroken and blame myself!"
Zhao Yilu put on a wronged look and continued, "Wife, please have pity on me. Can you leave this kind of rough work to me in the future? I am here, and I still ask you to use a knife to kill a chicken. Is this reasonable?!"
Fan Hua burst out laughing, amused by Zhao Yilu's pitiful appearance.
She couldn't say anything to refute, so she had to compromise, "Okay, from now on you will be our exclusive butcher, and I will never kill chickens myself again!"
"Well, killing fish and ducks is not allowed!" Zhao Yilu added firmly.
Fan Hua smiled and squatted down to kiss Zhao Yilu on the face, and said softly: "Okay, I'll listen to you. From now on, this kind of rough work will be left to you!"
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