Chapter 120 The System's Ramblings
Before the heavy snow blocked the mountain pass, Gu Zuozuo saw Meng Tian and Qi Meng off on the train. She glanced at the gloomy sky and thought that there would be a blizzard tonight. Fortunately, the two of them left in time.
“Gu Zhiqing, my family got some sugarcane, I brought you two to try.”
The woman with her head wrapped in a cloth took out a bundle of sugarcane tied with rope from the basket she was carrying and placed it on the table, looking at her with gratitude and tenderness in her eyes.
"Try it and see if it's good. This is a local specialty that my husband bought when he went out to deliver glass. I heard it's very sweet."
Gu Zuozuo smiled, her eyes crinkling; she remembered this aunt.
She was initially skeptical when the decision was made to open a glass factory here.
Later I learned that there was a type of soil on the back mountain that was very suitable for making glass, so I decided to open a glass factory.
The aunt's husband was injured while carrying soil at that time, and his arm was almost ruined.
This was nothing short of a disaster for their family, as they all depended on the man's meager salary from driving.
"Gu Zhiqing, are you spending the New Year alone again this year? Why don't you come to my house on New Year's Eve? I haven't had a chance to thank you yet after you cured my husband's arm. It's a promise, you must come!"
After saying that, without giving Gu Zuozuo a chance to refuse, he waved his hand, lifted the curtain, and went out.
Gu Zuozuo chuckled, looked at the bundle of sugarcane on the table, and wondered how to eat it.
"Gu Zhiqing! My mother sent me to deliver soybean paste to you!"
Before she even arrived at the door, her voice preceded her as Liu Ximei strode in.
The most famous and delicious soybean paste in the village belongs to Liu Ximei's mother-in-law, who sends Gu Zuozuo a jar of soybean paste every year without fail.
Why are you the only one at the clinic?
Liu Ximei stamped her feet. The cold wind outside reddened the tip of her nose, and even her thick scarf couldn't stop the north wind from ravaging her.
"Well, judging from the weather, there will probably be a blizzard tonight, and there won't be any patients coming, so let Liang and Wu go back to their educated youth settlement."
Liu Ximei put down the basket in her hand and took out the items one by one.
"This is freshly made soybean paste this year, this is pickled cabbage, this is kimchi, and this is jam. My mother-in-law used the recipe you gave her to make jam from all the fruit that Qiu'er couldn't finish this autumn. And let me tell you, it tastes really good!"
A large jar of clear glass was filled with orange jam, and you could smell a strong, sweet fruity aroma as soon as you opened it.
“You’ve been in the countryside for so many years, and you still haven’t learned how to cook. As soon as Qi and Meng left, my mother-in-law started worrying about how you would eat by yourself. She came to call you, but you refused to come to my house to eat…”
Gu Zuozuo rested her chin on her hand, listening to her rambling on with a smile.
"Oh, right, these are rabbit fur insoles that my sister-in-law made for you. She's still in her postpartum period, so she asked me to bring them over."
Liu Ximei's sister-in-law is the wife of the eldest son of the brigade leader, Duan Jianhua.
She had a difficult childbirth with her first child, and after being rescued, she would come over every few days to bring her things.
The day before yesterday it was bananas and mangoes, which are rare in the north; yesterday it was seafood and shrimp; and today it's rabbit fur insoles.
Although she had all these things, it was the sentiment that mattered.
As the family was talking, the system that had been dormant in Gu Zuozuo's mind for several days started to crackle and pop. The system that had been missing for several days had finally returned.
[Host! I'm back!]
When the familiar voice echoed joyfully in her mind again, a smile returned to Gu Zuozuo's long-lost eyes.
It had been with me for several years, and now that I've suddenly lost contact with it for several days, I find myself missing it terribly.
"Why did it take so long?"
[Host, I didn't mean to. I went to the Time and Space Division to investigate that useless underdog's rise to power system for you.]
It just didn't expect that it would encounter that perverted boss of the Time and Space Division, and be captured by him and used as free labor for several days to fix the system vulnerabilities.
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