Yang Haiyan: "That's good. Go and eat it. The noodles are a little mushy. Ah, I'll wait for you outside. When you're done, give me the food and I'll take it back with you." Then, she handed him the basket and took the basket from yesterday.
Qin Fang thought about it, then pulled her up and said, "Come here."
Yang Haiyan lowered her eyes and watched him holding her hand. His rough hand was covered with knots and was very powerful. She smiled unconsciously and was in a good mood.
Qin Fang was a little nervous and didn't pay attention when he pulled her hand. But at this moment, the woman's soft hand was in his hand, and the touch was too obvious. Fortunately, they arrived at their destination soon, which was on a few rocks nearby. Qin Fang immediately let go of her hand: "You sit here and take a rest, I'll eat here, and I'll give it to you when I'm done."
Yang Haiyan: "Okay."
Qin Fang took out a large soup bowl from the basket, and then opened the lid. Seeing two golden poached eggs on it, his appetite was whetted, but he didn't eat it immediately, but asked: "Have you eaten?"
Yang Haiyan: "Yes."
So Qin Fang ate it in big mouthfuls. The delicious soup and sweet cabbage made him feel happy with every bite. He joined the army at the age of 16. He is 20 years old this year. In four years, he has climbed from a soldier to a centurion and has made a lot of efforts. He has endured all the hardships in these efforts by himself, and he never tells his family about this. At this moment, someone cooked and delivered meals for him, and he felt warm in his heart.
Qin Fang ate very quickly, and after a big bowl of noodle soup, he was at least 70% full. He had a big appetite, but he didn't expect this annoying woman to cook so much. "I left a tael of silver for Sister Lu to take care of you. Did Sister Lu give you the silver?"
Yang Haiyan: "I gave it to you when I woke up the day before yesterday. I bought buckets, bowls, chopsticks, tableware, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. for the family, but now I have nothing left." Qin
Fang felt a pain in his heart. Two years ago, he was just a soldier in the service, without a monthly allowance, so he couldn't save money. At the age of 19, he became a centurion and received a monthly allowance of 1 tael of silver. After deducting the money he ate and sent back home, he saved 5 taels of silver in these two years. However, in just three days, 1 tael of silver was gone, which was more painful than cutting his flesh.
But Qin Fang also knew that it was impossible to buy furniture.
Qin Fang: "Well." He stood up and took out a money bag from his arms. He fumbled around in it, and finally gritted his teeth and took out a piece of silver, about 300 coins. "Here." After thinking about it, he realized that his 30 kilograms of food a month was not enough for him, and he had to take out 300 coins every month to buy food. Is 300 coins a month enough for this woman? Gritting his teeth, Qin Fang said, "Spend sparingly. If you don't have enough, ask me again. Also, you've become so thin. Don't just focus on giving me food. You should also eat something good." He felt that he deserved a slap on the face.
Yang Haiyan saw his expression and smiled sweetly, "Thank you, husband. I will spend sparingly."
Qin Fang was not particular about food. As long as he could fill his stomach, he could have simple meals, but he had to fill his stomach. Because only when his stomach was full could he grow well, have strength, and fight. His thinking was very clear. "You don't have to deliver food tomorrow. I'll just eat in the cafeteria."
Yang Haiyan: "I like to deliver food to you. I'm here to deliver food. I feel relieved to see that you are doing well."
Qin Fang: "..." Damn, my heart is beating a little fast. This annoying woman is so good at talking. First, she tricked him into giving her money with food, and now she's tricking his heart again. "It's up to you."
Yang Haiyan: "Okay. Don't forget to eat the snacks in these lunch boxes."
Qin Fang: "Got it." When he was approaching the military camp with the lunch box, he was thinking that he couldn't save money this year, and he was upset. When he entered the tent and saw a box full of pig fat residue, he felt his heart beating again. This woman... left all the delicious food for him. No wonder he was so thin. Next time he comes, he will make up for it.
"It smells so good, Boss Qin, what did your sister-in-law bring you?"
"Boss Qin, don't eat alone."
"Boss Qin..."
"Boss Qin, the brothers are drooling."
"Boss Qin..."
Qin Fang looked at the people who squeezed in the door, those dark smiling faces, and wanted to throw them out.
Yang Haiyan walked on the road with a smile on her face, thinking in her heart: This man is a little cute.
Yang Haiyan returned home and saw someone standing at the door of her house. This person... "Dahua." It was the heroine Yang Dahua.
Yang Dahua was ordinary from head to toe, with ordinary looks and figure, but in fact, she was very smart.
Yang Dahua had just arrived. She was looking for Yang Haiyan. Seeing the door closed, she thought Yang Haiyan was sleeping inside, but she didn't expect that she had just come back from outside: "Miss Haiyan." She called her as she did in the Yang Mansion, politely and without servility.
The original owner was a maidservant by the young lady's side. When ordinary maids saw her, they all called her Miss Haiyan.
Yang Haiyan: "Dahua, don't call me Miss. We are all from the Yang family. We are a family in this unfamiliar place. I am 16 this year. Let's call each other sisters."
Yang Dahua was a little surprised. When Yang Haiyan was with the young lady before, although she didn't bully them, the lower-ranking maids, she looked very arrogant on weekdays. But today... she was particularly kind. Yang Dahua did not refuse: "I am 17 years old, one year older than you." Although Yang Haiyan was the head maid and she was the rough maid before, their men were centurions and now they were of the same status, so she originally planned to call Yang Haiyan by her name, not to embarrass the man. It was just that they just met today, and she wanted to be more polite to Yang Haiyan.
Unexpectedly, Yang Haiyan gave her the step first and was even more polite.
Yang Haiyan: "Then I will call you Sister Dahua, and you can call me Haiyan."
Yang Dahua: "Okay. Haiyan, I was not feeling well a few days ago. I felt better today and heard about your story, so I came to see you." The reason why she was not feeling well was because she had just had her wedding night. There is such a plot in the original novel, but the original owner thought that Yang Dahua was showing off, so he ridiculed Yang Dahua with his status in the Yang Mansion, and the conflict between the two was buried.
Yang Haiyan: "I'm fine. When I left the Yang Mansion before, I brought a medicine for treatment. On the wedding day, my head hurt and my throat hurt, so I took the medicine. I didn't know that the medicine might have been stored for a long time. Not only did it lose its efficacy, but it was also harmful to the body. I suffered so much."
Yang Dahua didn't doubt it. After all, no one would have thought that the original owner would take the medicine deliberately: "Health is still the most important. If you need my help with anything, , you have to tell me, after all, we are here, we know each other."
Yang Haiyan: "Thank you, sister Dahua, for caring about me, come in and sit?"
Yang Dahua: "No, I'm relieved to see that you are okay, you can keep these eggs and cakes to replenish your body." Yang Haiyan
: "No, you have worked hard all the way from the capital, it's important to keep them for your own health. I have the money Qin Fang gave me, I will buy some for my own health."
Seeing that she was determined not to accept the offer, Yang Dahua did not force her: "Then I will go back first, the house still needs to be cleaned up." Everyone was newly married, and the family also needed to buy things, so she also had things to do. After Yang Dahua left, Yang Haiyan took a nap, woke up in the afternoon, went to the market again, bought a piece of tofu and two fish, and spent 14 cents.
The next day
Although each of these rows of family houses has a front yard and a back yard, they are independent. But because they are next to each other, when Yang Haiyan cooks something, the fragrance will drift to the side.
Especially the pig intestines that day, the smell is really overbearing. But everyone knows that Yang Haiyan has "just recovered from a serious illness" and needs to replenish her body, so no one said anything. At this time, she smelled the fragrance of fish head tofu soup again, which was really unbearable.
Yang Haiyan fried the fish before making the tofu soup, so it smelled especially good.
"Is anyone there?"
Yang Haiyan heard a noise outside, so she went out and saw a strange middle-aged woman: "Hello, auntie, who are you?"
The middle-aged woman: "I live next door to you, what are you doing? It smells so good, the children at home are all hungry and clamoring for food."
Yang Haiyan: "...I cooked fish head tofu soup, which I will send to the military camp for my husband to replenish his health. If you like it, I will tell you the recipe, you can try it yourself tomorrow?" She drank porridge and a boiled egg in the morning, and ate light food at night. She ate better at noon. She could make more dishes for lunch and send the extra ones to Qin Fang. It would be a waste if she ate it at night, and she liked to eat fresh meals.
The woman: "You are such an ignorant little girl. You made my child cry. Shouldn't you pay me some compensation?"
Yang Haiyan felt that some people were shameless, so she didn't need to save face for them. But before she could say anything, the voice of Mrs. Lu came from next door: "This face grows in the pants. I thought I could cover it up by pulling up the pants when I didn't need it."
The middle-aged woman's face darkened when she heard it.
Yang Haiyan: "Sister-in-law is right. Shameless people are invincible. Tomorrow I will go to the Qianfu's house or the general's mansion and ask the wife of the Qianfu family and the general's wife if they have to pay for this."
Mrs. Lu: "That's really funny."
The middle-aged woman: "You... Bah, you spendthrift women. You only know how to eat every day and don't know how hard it is for men to make money." After speaking, she hurried away. She thought Yang Haiyan was a new bride who wanted to save face, but she was not afraid of trouble.
Sister Lu came over from next door: "Don't pay attention to her, she is Zhang Baifu's mother. Zhang Baifu's wife gave birth last year, and his mother came to take care of the child. She likes to take advantage of others. I was embarrassed to refuse her the first two times, so I ate it. She wanted more later, so I didn't give her face."
Yang Haiyan didn't expect there would be such a person: "Thank you sister-in-law for reminding me."
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