Lin Qingqing came back from the Third Company's kitchen and started cooking. Today's dishes include salted large intestines, vegetables, and soup. She chose green vegetables and loofah soup.
The sweet potato rice was cooked in a clay pot, and water was heated in the iron pot. Lin Qingqing cut another plate of salty large intestines and said, "Lu Cheng, I'll go to Xiuyao's house and bring them a plate of salty large intestines."
Lu Cheng: "Got it." He spent an afternoon to build a squat toilet and partition off the shower room. Now he is making the water tank for the squat toilet. The squat toilet tank is made of wood. After the tank is built, the water is manually drained and the water can be directly flushed into the squat toilet. Of course, there is no need to worry about the water tank leaking, because the water in the tank is used up as soon as it is filled.
I have to say that this squat toilet is really good. Even if Lu Haici, who was five years old, goes to the toilet by himself, he doesn't have to worry about falling into the toilet. Not only that, Lu Cheng also opened a small hole on the side of the squat toilet to use as a window for ventilation.
Lin Qingqing came to Yu Xiuyao's house: "Sister-in-law."
"Hey." Yu Xiuyao was cooking, "Cooking inside."
Lin Qingqing walked into the kitchen. These small courtyards were all arranged in the same way. "Sister-in-law, I made some halogens myself and brought them to you to try." Yu
Xiuyao took a look and found that it was halogenated pork intestines. It looked like halogenated meat. When Lin Qingqing took it out, she smelled the halogen. After all, it was still warm from the pot, so the taste was still quite strong. "You can make halogens, that's amazing." Making halogens is also a skill.
Lin smiled lightly: "It's not good, sister-in-law, please don't complain. Also, the taste is a bit strong, I thought it would last longer, and when it's time to cook, I can add some salt to adjust the taste."
"That's right, in this weather, only strong-smelling food can last longer." Yu Xiuyao understood. "By the way, wait a minute..." Yu Xiuyao took a big soup bowl into the house, and when she came out, there were three eggs in the big soup bowl, "Here, you guys take it and try it."
"This is..." Lin's eyes lit up, "Salted duck eggs?" Her grandmother was an expert in making pickled food, but she didn't know how to pickle salted duck eggs.
Yu Xiuyao said, "I learned this from my mother. I exchanged some duck eggs in the countryside before, and they were pickled just a few days ago."
Lin Qingqing thought for a while and said, "Sister-in-law, can you sell me a few pounds of these salted duck eggs?" Salted duck eggs are durable and can be cooked in many ways. There happened to be pumpkins at home, so I could make a salted egg yolk pumpkin tomorrow, so Lin Qingqing was very tempted.
"This... just take it if you want to eat it. What are you selling?" Yu Xiuyao was naturally embarrassed to accept the money, "Besides, I don't have that much."
"That won't work. I won't be polite to you if it's one or two, but I don't have the face to ask for more than a pound." Lin Qingqing said.
"This... I don't know how much it costs per pound." Yu Xiuyao did have a lot of salted duck eggs, and she kept them for their longevity. When she ran out of oil at home, she would take some salted duck eggs to replenish the oil .
If it were raw duck eggs, they would cost the same as raw eggs, 50 cents per pound, but salted duck eggs require a lot of ingredients.
Lin Qingqing said, "Why not one dollar per pound?" In fact, even if Lin Qingqing wanted to offer a higher price, she knew Yu Xiuyao would not take it, so she only said one dollar.
However, even though she said one yuan per pound, Yu Xiuyao refused: "No, no, it's too expensive. How about this, you give me 60 cents." 50 cents per pound, plus 10 cents for materials, no matter how much the materials cost, it's 10 cents anyway.
Lin Qingqing felt that she was taking advantage of the 60 cents, but Yu Xiuyao would not take any higher price at this moment, so she decided to remember Yu Xiuyao's friendship first. "Then I'll listen to my sister-in-law."
Seeing that she agreed, Yu Xiuyao also breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'll get it." After a while, Yu Xiuyao took out nine salted duck eggs. In fact, a pound of salted duck eggs is more than eight, but Yu Xiuyao couldn't let Lin Qingqing lose, so she gave nine.
Lin Qingqing took the salted duck eggs: "Sister-in-law, don't supply and marketing cooperatives buy eggs now? Haven't you thought about buying your salted duck eggs from the supply and marketing cooperatives?"
"This... I really haven't thought about it." Yu Xiuyao was a little embarrassed. However, after hearing what Lin Qingqing said, she felt that it was a way to make money. She came from the countryside and had no education. Fortunately, she married Lao Qin early, otherwise she would not be worthy of Lao Qin's success. Lao Qin became successful and brought them mother and son to the army. Although he had a salary of 140 yuan a month, the expenses of their family of four were all included in his salary, and the monthly expenses were not small. In addition, Lao Qin had to take 20 yuan from his salary to his hometown every month. Yu Xiuyao had no objection to the money, because if she didn't take it back, she couldn't come to join the army. Fortunately, after her parents-in-law received 20 yuan a month, they never caused them any trouble.
Seeing Yu Xiuyao like this, Lin Qingqing knew that she was a little tempted, and she said, "Then sister-in-law, give it a try. We can buy it from the supply and marketing cooperative, which is also allowed by national policy."
Yu Xiuyao: "But I'm a little embarrassed to go to the supply and marketing cooperative."
Lin Qingqing said, "What's the matter, I'll go with you tomorrow. I'm going to the carpenter's house tomorrow, and then we'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative together." Whatever, she would also go to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask if she could consign salt. Otherwise, if she really gets 15 yuan a month, how long will it take her to save it before she can pay it back to Lu Cheng? The sewing machine and the bicycle cost 330 yuan.
"That's fine." With someone to accompany her, Yu Xiuyao certainly had no objection, and she felt that Lin Qingqing convinced her. Perhaps it was because she saw Lin Qingqing dealing with Zhang Hongping and Yang Mailian that she was unexpectedly confident in Lin Qingqing. "But there is one more thing. Pickling salted duck eggs requires white wine and salt. If the supply and marketing cooperative purchases salted duck eggs, I can't buy so much wine and salt. Besides, it's not easy to buy so many duck eggs."
Lin Qingqing thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go back tonight and think about it. I'll come to my sister-in-law tomorrow and we'll discuss it. In fact, sister-in-law, I also want to send salt to the supply and marketing cooperative to make some money." Speaking of this, she was a little embarrassed.
Yu Xiuyao finally understood why she was so positive about this matter, but she was still very happy: "That's great, let's think about it together." Because she was embarrassed at first, and now Lin Qingqing has this idea, what is there for her to be embarrassed about?
Lin Qingqing: "Then I'll come tomorrow."
Lin Qingqing took eight salted duck eggs back. There must be salted duck egg food factories in this era, but at the same time, salted duck eggs must not be popular. At least in the memory of this body, I have never eaten salted duck eggs. If Yu Xiuyao's salted duck eggs can have a way, her salt taste can also be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative... Thinking of this, Lin Qingqing was in a good mood.
Even though the money the supply and marketing cooperative gave her was small, she was happy and felt more at ease.
Lin Qingqing returned home and saw Lu Cheng standing at the kitchen door, looking in her direction.
"You're back." Seeing Lin Qingqing, Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, "The water in the pot is already boiling, I put the hot water in the kettle, I didn't know when you would be back, so I added cold water to the pot." He usually doesn't talk much, and even if he does, he won't talk so long. This person will only play with him when facing his son, and his personality is usually a bit dull.
Lin Qingqing: "I chatted with Sister Xiuyao for a while, which took some time. It doesn't matter if you put the water down, you can drink it as cold water later. By the way, Lu Cheng, I want to tell you something." I had to tell Lu Cheng about the salty things, we should respect each other.
Lu Cheng: "What's the matter?"
Lin Qingqing said: "Can't we ordinary people's eggs be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative for purchase? Do you think the brine I make can also be taken to the supply and marketing cooperative for purchase? And this... this is the salted duck eggs made by Sister Xiuyao, do you think this is feasible?"
Lu Cheng said: "No. You don't have the pig intestines needed to make brine, and your sister-in-law doesn't have the duck eggs needed to make salted duck eggs. If it's a small amount for yourself, then there is no problem, but the supply and marketing cooperative will definitely need a large quantity, then we don't have it."
Lin Qingqing: "We also know this problem, so I thought of a way."
Lu Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Tell me about it." He didn't expect that Lin Qingqing had already thought of a way.
Lin Qingqing said: "So, let the supply and marketing cooperative provide the materials, and then give the materials to us, and we use them to make it ourselves? It is equivalent to the supply and marketing cooperative providing the materials and we providing the technology."
Lu Cheng thought: "That's possible, we can give it a try." Although the family has enough money to spend, he agrees with Lin Qingqing's interest. Everyone has their own ideals and can fight for them.
Lin Qingqing: "Then I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative with Sister Xiuyao tomorrow to talk about it."
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When Lu Haici came back, the family had dinner happily, with halogenated pork intestines, stir-fried vegetables, and loofah soup. After dinner, Lin Qingqing took Lu Haici for a walk to digest the food, and went to Qin's house by the way to tell Yu Xiuyao about her ideas, and Lu Cheng naturally stayed at home to wash the dishes.
It was already an hour after leaving Yu Xiuyao's house.
Lin Qingqing and Lu Haici returned home and prepared to take a bath.
Lin Qingqing: "Lu Haici, take off your clothes and take a bath."
"Hey." Lu Haici responded and began to take off his clothes swiftly.
"I'll wash him." Lu Cheng came back with two buckets of water and heard Lin Qingqing's words, "The small room has been partitioned, and I'm fine."
Lin Qingqing heard it, does that mean he has to go to bed early from now on?
"No, no, no..." Before Lin Qingqing could think about it, Lu Haici loudly rejected his father, "Dad bathing will hurt my back."
Lu Chengcai couldn't help his personality: "You are already five years old, and other five-year-olds bathe themselves." He used to bathe Lu Haici, because usually when he was on a mission, Lu Haici would be alone, so when he came back, he would get together with his son more often and bathe him. I didn't expect him to be so delicate now.
"No." Lu Haici objected, "Ji Yang is also five years old, and his mother bathed him too." Don't think he doesn't know, he can see it standing in the yard.
Five-year-old children are "shameless" and often take off their clothes to bathe in the yard.
Lu Cheng: "Your mother is already very tired from cooking, and if you let her take a bath, she will be even more tired."
Hearing that his mother would be tired, Lu Haici did not want to trouble her anymore, and he lowered his head in silence.
"Then let's do this..." Lin Qingqing said, "In the future, let Dad wash Haici's bath, and if he needs to wash his hair, let me wash it, okay?" Lin Qingqing did not object to Lu Cheng's education of his son, but he could not hurt the child's heart all of a sudden. Giving the child a little hope might lead to better results.
In fact, this is the case. When he heard that his mother would wash his hair in the future, Lu Haici's gloomy mood disappeared and he happily agreed: "Okay, I'll listen to my mother. But Dad, you have to be gentle, you're too strong."
"You're the only one who has too many things to do." Lu Cheng wanted to be even stronger.
Lu Cheng took Lu Haici to take a bath in the yard, while Lin Qingqing went to the small room to take a bath by herself. However, when she saw the bathroom that had been separated in the small room, Lin Qingqing was stunned for a moment, because Lu Cheng designed it very well. When taking a bath, you don't have to worry about water flowing all over the floor. He raised the bathroom a bit, and then there were walls on both sides, and the front was blocked with cement bricks. Whether it was left or right or front, the water would not flow out.
More importantly, there was a hole in the floor of the bathroom, which was used to drain water.
Lin Qingqing took a quick shower, put on her underwear, then her pajama shorts, and then her double suspenders. It was a pity that her home clothes were not ready yet, otherwise it would be convenient to put on some home clothes, but now, she had to wear clothes outside.
Lin Qingqing also picked out a set of old clothes that she had washed and dried a few days ago to wear.
After taking a shower, Lin Qingqing did not rush out, but washed her underwear inside. Since Lu Cheng washed her underwear yesterday morning, she washed her underwear after taking a shower last night, and today as well.
When Lin Qingqing finished washing and went out, she saw Lu Haici was still washing. Lin Qingqing went to the empty room to dry her underwear first, and then took it out tomorrow morning. Then she returned to bed, and she was going to "fall asleep" before Lu Cheng went to bed.
Lu Cheng carried Lu Haici, who had just taken a shower and dried himself, to the bed and saw Lin Qingqing lying there straight. She was still wearing her training suit, covered with a thin blanket, and her back was facing them. Lu Cheng said to Lu Haici, "Your mother is tired today, don't bother her later, just go to sleep by yourself." Lu Cheng was quite in favor of his son sleeping here. In fact, Lin Qingqing didn't know that if it was only Lu Cheng and Lin Qingqing in the room, Lu Cheng would also be nervous.
He still remembered that on the wedding day, Lin Qingqing wanted to spend the bridal chamber, but he refused on the grounds that he was in a hurry. If Lu Haici wasn't here now, and Lin Qingqing suddenly wanted to have a wedding night again, would he agree... or would he agree... Now that there's a small light bulb, Lu Cheng doesn't have to think too much.
When Lu Haici heard what his father said, he said obediently: "Don't worry, Dad, I won't disturb Mom."
Lu Cheng still believed his son: "Then you go to sleep first, Dad will be back after taking a shower."
"Yeah."
As soon as Lu Cheng left the room, Lin Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief. She was so damn nervous. Lin Qingqing didn't dare to move, for fear that Lu Haici would find out that she was pretending to sleep and then expose her.
Lu Cheng took a quick shower, and he came back in less than half an hour. The room was still the same as when he left. Lin Qingqing was still sleeping with her back to him, and Lu Haici was staring at the ceiling with his eyes closed. Seeing Lu Cheng coming, Lu Haici snorted: "Dad, you have to be gentle and don't wake up Mom." He pretended to be serious.
"Yeah." Lu Cheng responded and then got on the bed.
As soon as he got on the bed, there was an obvious creaking sound from the bed. It's not that the quality of the bed is bad, but it's a wooden bed, and it will make such a sound when people sit down.
Fortunately, this single bed is one meter wide, and now two beds are put together, which is two meters wide. Even if there are three of them sleeping on the bed, it is still very spacious. However, after Lu Cheng lay down, Lin Qingqing dared not move even more, and he even breathed carefully.
The more nervous Lin Qingqing was, the more she couldn't sleep. She was counting sheep in her mind, but the more she counted, the more awake she became.
She didn't know how long it had been before she heard Lu Cheng's soft snoring. She gradually relaxed because Lu Cheng had fallen asleep. Thank God.
To be honest, Lin Qingqing didn't like men who snore. But Lu Cheng's snoring was acceptable. It was a very light snoring, similar to the sound of breathing, but a little heavier. He was probably too tired. He had been on a mission for half a month, and then he was busy renovating the small house until midnight, and then got up early in the morning. Even God would be tired.
The next day
Lin Qingqing woke up after the whistle sounded, at 6:30. Maybe she had adapted to this time in the past few days. Because there were no programs at the end of the year, she went to bed early at night and got up early the next day. But after she got up, she didn't see Lu Cheng again.
Thinking of what Lu Cheng said, that they had to gather within fifteen minutes after the wake-up call at 6:30, and then come back for dinner at 8 o'clock, she wondered, what delicious food should I make in the morning?
Arriving in the kitchen, Lin Qingqing looked at the things in the kitchen, and there was the leftover cornmeal from the day before yesterday. Because she didn't use it up in breakfast yesterday, she decided to make fried bean paste noodles, and there happened to be bean paste at home.
The ingredients were limited, so the fried bean paste noodles in the morning only had bean paste, cucumber shreds, carrot shreds, and poached eggs, but the soul bean paste was enough.
Lin Qingqing washed up first, and then went back to the kitchen to make noodles first. She didn't have the strength to make long round noodles, so she made knife-cut noodles, one by one, but she would cut them a little thinner. In fact, the noodles cut with a knife are still very chewy.
By the time she finished cutting the noodles, it was already past seven o'clock, and she put both pots on the fire. Put water in the clay pot to boil the noodles, and stir-fry the fermented black bean paste in the iron pot.
Before frying the fermented black bean paste, season it first. She used a spoon to scoop out three spoons of fermented black bean paste. The fermented black bean paste for fried noodles tastes better when it is slightly sweet, and this fermented black bean paste is not very sweet, so she added half a spoon of sugar, and then a spoon of cooking wine. Cooking wine is the wine that everyone brought when they came to dinner the day before yesterday. It is the kind of wine that you drink, but it can also be used as cooking wine.
Then heat the oil in the pot, add some green onions and stir-fry, then add the seasoned fermented black bean paste and stir-fry over low heat until the fermented black bean paste releases oil.
Then, she put the noodles in the bowl, and then put cucumber shreds and carrot shreds on top, and then covered it with bean paste.
Looking at the time again, it was 7:40, and they still needed protein to replenish their bodies, so she made three poached eggs. Unlike some adults who only remember to replenish their children, Lin Qingqing felt that she and Lu Cheng both needed to replenish their bodies.
Training ground
The soldiers gathered at 6:45, trained until 7:45, and then rested for 15 minutes, and dispersed at 8 o'clock. There was a meal time in the middle of an hour, of course, not just for them to eat. They could not eat immediately after training, and they could not train immediately after eating, so this hour and a half was also for them to rest.
Of course, the soldiers do not only train every day. In addition to training, they also have lectures, which are lectures on various battlefields and lectures on facing various assault situations. Otherwise, if they do not understand plans and strategies, then no matter how good their physical fitness is, it will be useless.
Lu Cheng does not train with the soldiers. This is the business of the company below. At Lu Cheng's level, decision-making is more important than fighting. However, Lu Cheng still trains every morning, training with several battalion commanders and regiment commanders. According to them, they can't be inferior to the new recruits.
At this moment, Lu Cheng was sitting on the ground to rest. He looked at the time and got up at eight o'clock.
Seeing Lu Cheng stand up, the others also stood up. One of them said, "Old Lu, I heard that there are brown sugar steamed buns in the cafeteria today. We have to hurry to the cafeteria to grab them, otherwise they will be gone."
The one who spoke was also the deputy commander Qiu of the independent regiment. Lu Cheng's independent regiment has a commander, two deputy commanders, a chief of staff, and two deputy chiefs of staff.
Lu Cheng: "I'm not going. I'm going home to eat."
"People who have married are different." The deputy chief of staff joked, "I heard that Xiao Lu's wife is a good cook. No wonder Xiao Lu kept looking at the time today."
Among these people, Lu Cheng is the youngest. Because the deputy regiment commander and Lu Cheng were of the same rank, he called Lu Cheng "Old Lu". However, the chief regiment commander and the deputy chief of staff were much older than Lu Cheng and had watched Lu Cheng rise through the ranks, so they got used to calling him "Little Lu".
It was the first time that Lu Cheng discussed Lin Qingqing with a man. He was not used to it yet, but he said truthfully: "She is indeed a good cook, so she will go to work in the third company's kitchen tomorrow."
"Oh, that's not bad." The Chief of Staff said, "Xiao Lu is absolutely right. Cooks with good skills should be recommended to their own regiments, not to the big canteen. If you push them to the big canteen, won't it be a bargain for others?" Some officers above the battalion level like to eat in the big canteen, but because the independent regiment is not under the jurisdiction of the division or brigade, the officers of the independent regiment also like to eat in the company.
The commander said: "Why don't we go to the Third Company's kitchen for lunch tomorrow at noon?"
Deputy Commander Qiu: "Why not go tomorrow morning?" The commander
said: "You don't understand. What can you eat in the morning? If you want to eat well, you must go at noon."
Lu Cheng ignored the discussion of these people. He had already walked away. He was very hungry.
The Chief of Staff: "Look at Xiao Lu's anxious look. It's right to go to the Third Company's kitchen for lunch tomorrow at noon."
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