Hearing the voices in the living room, Jiang Ling looked out and found Shi Qi got up. She smiled and called out:
"Sister Shi, get up."
Shi Qi turned around and greeted Jiang Ling:
"Sister-in-law. I'm sorry to bother you today."
"Hey, what's the trouble? You're just like what Jiang's wife said, too polite.
We are one family, so why would you bother talking about whether it is troublesome or not?"
Jiang Ling waved her hand and went into the kitchen to work. A clear voice came from the kitchen:
"I've already cut the vegetables. Once Captain Gu finishes writing the couplets, we can go to Sister Jiang's house."
Gu Chijin quickly finished writing the Spring Festival couplets. Shi Qi looked at them for a few minutes before realizing that the windows of his house were covered with festive blessing characters.
Out of curiosity, Shi Qi ran outside to take a few looks and discovered that Gu Chijin had actually put up the Spring Festival couplets on his house at some point.
Half an hour later, Gu Chijin and the other three went to Jiang Chen's house with the cut meat and vegetables, along with Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters.
Jiang Chen couldn't lie in bed. Seeing Bai Xiaohua frying meat strips at home, he had to follow her around.
Bai Xiaohua felt sorry for the suffering he had endured during this period. Seeing him steal a piece of freshly-cooked meat and put it in his mouth, he just glared at him and didn't scold him.
Jiang Chen gasped for breath because of the heat from the meat strips. He had been eating bland soup for several days, and what he wanted most was to eat meat in big mouthfuls.
Shi Qi and Jiang Ling called out at the gate of the Jiang family's courtyard. When they heard Bai Xiaohua's happy response, they walked in carrying the dishes.
Bai Xiaohua ran out of the house wiping his hands. Seeing that they had prepared everything, his eyes were filled with tears and he happily greeted:
"Hurry, hurry, come in."
After entering the house, Jiang Ling nodded while holding the dishes, asked her son to go play with Jiang Haoyun, and she and Shi Qi went into the kitchen to help.
Although it is still early, they have not prepared any dishes for the New Year’s Eve dinner, so they need to hurry up.
Gu Chijin felt sorry for Shi Qi and didn't want her to work too hard in the kitchen, so he followed her in to help. Ji Zhang also didn't want his wife to be tired, so at once, five people from three families were busy in the kitchen.
In the end, Shi Qi saw that there was no room in the kitchen, so he kicked the two grown men out of the room and went to help pick vegetables.
Jiang Chen watched his two comrades being kicked out by their wives in the living room and teased them unkindly:
"Look at how you guys behave here. You have to follow your wife around even when cooking.
If you didn’t know, you would have thought you only saw your wives once a month.”
Gu Chijin ignored his foul mouth and kept looking towards the kitchen.
These days, Shi Qi is obviously not as energetic as before, and he is worried.
I always feel that she is exhausted from all the work these days.
After today, I won't let her do any more housework no matter what.
Bai Xiaohua walked over to Shi Qi, glanced at Gu Chijin who was looking towards the kitchen, and smiled secretly with his hands covering his mouth:
"Sister Shi, you still have a way.
Look, Captain Gu can’t bear to take his eyes off you for even half a minute.
It looks like he wants to see you and hide you in his heart.
How come I didn't realize before that Captain Gu was so clingy?"
Shi Qi's cheeks flushed red at Bai Xiaohua's teasing. She turned her head and looked outside, and sure enough, she found that Gu Chijin was looking into the kitchen.
Their eyes met, and Shi Qi looked away as if burned, pretending to be calm:
"No, sister-in-law, you think too much.
We haven't had lunch yet, so Gu Chijin must be hungry."
Seeing her talking nonsense seriously, Bai Xiaohua didn't expose her and nodded seriously:
“It’s possible, it’s possible.
Well then, let’s make a few bowls of noodles first so everyone can fill their stomachs.
Anyway, it’s still early, so there’s no rush for dinner.”
Jiang Ling had been busy all morning and was feeling hungry. After hearing what Bai Xiaohua said, she nodded immediately:
"Let's make some noodles first. I'm hungry too."
The three of them hit it off immediately and filled the empty pot with water and started cooking noodles.
Ji Zhang saw a few people downstairs, so he came in to take a look. He found that there were no leafy vegetables at home, so he went straight to the field outside and picked a big cabbage.
For six people, plus two little ones, Bai Xiaohua generously fried fourteen fried eggs.
Two for adults and one for each child.
Shi Qi looked at the pile of fried eggs and didn't know whether to laugh or cry:
"Sister-in-law, you fried so many eggs, can we finish them?
There are still so many dishes in the evening, if they are left over, it will be wasted."
Bai Xiaohua didn't care at all:
“With three grown men here, I’m afraid it’s not enough.
Don’t worry.”
Jiang Ling washed the cabbage and put it into the pot.
When the noodles and vegetables are cooked, line up the large bowls and start picking the noodles one by one.
Tokisu comes to help.
Two minutes later, each person received a bowl of fried egg noodles.
Sitting at the table, Shi Qi picked up an egg and suddenly felt a pungent smell.
The fried eggs that used to smell delicious smelled a bit strange today.
Looking up, he saw that everyone was eating noodles. Shi Qi frowned, picked up the cabbage with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
The cabbage, freshly pulled from the ground, was crisp and sweet. Shi Qi ate two leaves and felt that the cabbage was even more delicious than eggs.
Seeing that there was still a lot of cabbage in Chi Jin's bowl, Shi Qi put the fried egg on the noodles into his bowl and picked all the cabbage leaves in his bowl into his own bowl.
Gu Chijin raised his eyebrows:
"You can pick any cabbage you like, but you don't have to give me any eggs."
Shi Qi stopped his hand from picking it back and made up an excuse:
"This egg is overcooked. I don't like it. You can eat it with me."
Gu Chijin looked at her intently for a few seconds, and when he found no other problems, he nodded and finished the eggs in the bowl in a few bites.
After finishing the noodles, everyone except Jiang Chen started to get busy again.
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